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Commentary on science fiction, fantasy, internet culture and roleplaying games.

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Children’s media is its own universe, where YouTube sits at the center—but gaming platforms are closing in.

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People have flocked to Bluesky and Threads. But the new platforms risk repeating a pattern that has caused social media giants to turn against their own users.

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Titles like AI Dungeon are already using generative AI to generate in-game content. Nobody knows who owns it.

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NASA+ will be a "no subscription required" streaming service for viewing rocket launches and NASA science, with app integration coming later this year.

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The latest example of Hollywood’s stupidity comes from Paramount Pictures’ CEO Brian Robbins , who has revealed a new animation strategy for the studio. That strategy specifically does not involve creating original stories and films. Seriously, their plan is to completely ignore anything original

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Saying “The vibes are off” no longer cuts it, if it ever really did. Twitter is broken/has been broken/was broken/perhaps has always been broken, but more people than before seem to be draped in mo…

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More than just a meme, the joint release of Barbie and Oppenheimer, aka Barbenheimer, tells a story about mid-20th century America and its dominance through atomic weapons, capitalist culture, and patriarchy.

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The creators that made the original live-play Dungeons and Dragons show a blockbuster are back to share its magic and bring its platform to new and diverse creators.

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So, meeting some fun history and SFF concepts, those are our goals, plus some mitfreude, and the vorfreude of knowing that, forever after reading this, you’ll get more richness out of every time so…

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After the box office success of Greta Gerwig’s Barbie, it’s no surprise that Mattel wants to bring more toy-fueled projects to Hollywood.

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A #Barbie with Down Syndrome? How can this make our #DnD games better? #DownSyndrome

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GlobalComix has raised more than $6 million in a new round of funding, and has some ambitious plans for the company - b…

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'Fionna and Cake' showrunner Adam Muto answers our pressing questions about the upcoming miniseries.

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Many in Hollywood hoped the re-upped Disney CEO, long considered the corporate leader most in tune with talent, would emerge as a levelheaded mediator who could end the labor impasse. And then he spoke his mind.

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Babylon 5 creator J. Michael Straczynski is collaborating with Dark Horse Comics to create original stories across multiple genres. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Dark Horse President Mike Ri…

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Dungeon Masters Guild joins its sibling third-party TTRPG sites Roll20 and DriveThruRPG against AI-Generated text and images.

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The Christopher Nolan movie Oppenheimer is about the horror of subjectivity coinciding with the rise of quantum physics and the atomic bomb.

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Meta, Microsoft, and hundreds more own a trademark on the name. Hell, Musk can’t even take down Twitter’s old sign without cops getting involved.

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The DDOS Panel at Readercon expressed caution and reassurance, while circling the heart of what Story is, and whether AI could ever do it well. By Melanie Stormm: On Saturday, July 15, 2023, a panel of SFF editors, writers, and experts convened to discuss the current situation and approaches used to address the waves of

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Barbie and Oppenheimer (Barbenheimer) are both about ideas made real, but they arrive at different conclusions about the danger of it.

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The proliferation of child abuse material is a problem that plagues both the centralized and decentralized web.

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Is the new Barbie film feminist? A video essay by Ada Černoša and Verity Ritchie

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Duncan Crabtree-Ireland joined NAVA members on a panel at San Diego Comic-Con to discuss AI in the entertainment industry.

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