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Penny Arcade - Comic - Michael Crichton’s Twitter
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Penny Arcade - Comic - Michael Crichton’s Twitter
Videogaming-related online strip by Mike Krahulik and Jerry Holkins. Includes news and commentary.
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Also, Gabe's right. Twitter is terrible for humanity.
I use Twitter, but only for news. I follow pretty much official things only, and I never read the comments. It's healthier that way. No need for all that negativity.
And this is the problem, just quoting the example, not trying to pick on you directly. If you need news, pay for a newspaper. I pay a few cents a day to access the New York Times online, and specifically STOPPED getting my news from a social media platform. Not only has the quality of the news and breadth of stories increased exponentially, me going to work pissed off because something pushed my buttons on social media has decreased to near 0.
People can talk about how terrible and destructive these things are. But unless they stop using the platform, it persists.
Well. I guess I should have specified. I use Twitter for news, but specifically for video game news. Anymore, announcements and things usually hit official Twitter pages long before they get uploaded to websites.
I don't use Twitter for like news news.
Yes: the history of "Gabe's" tweets.
Absolutely delicious.
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The guy who thinks Morrissey is 0.9% good must be sweating bullets.
Twitter is, to use the parlance of our times, butt.
1. It's a locked down/private account
2. I don't tweet anything myself
3. I only use it to follow a few interests, mostly tech/programming stuff (and none of the toxic masculinity/alt-right bullshit that surrounds a lot of it)
I am thinking of ditching Facebook. I really only talk to like 5 people on it.
Heck, I unfollow friends if they prove to be completely incapable of shutting the hell up about politics for 5 minutes (regardless of their particular political leanings), so why would I endlessly tolerate it from famous people and strangers on Twitter?
-Tycho Brahe
-Did I misspell something? If I make a spelling mistake, the entire world will think less of me for it.
-Did someone else tweet this already? Probably not, since I pretty much only tweet my own art, but I still worry that someone somewhere may have tweeted something that's too much like what I'm about to tweet.
-Have I tweeted too much already? I don't want to 'spam' twitter. (I tweet once every 2-3 days).
-Did I tag it correctly? Are the tags in the right order?(!!?!!?) Are there too many tags? Are they the right tags? If I use the wrong tags, the entire world will think less of me for it.
-50% of the time at this point: You're doing it wrong. Shut it all down. Delete everything you've written. Then start over again.
So, Twitter might be bad in different ways for different people.
See also: Facebook
Then I found out it wasn't about that and was pleasantly surprised.
Then I thought maybe I could check to see if Michael Crichton actually had a twitter account, because it's probably a goldmine of crazy.
But no. No, I will stay blissfully uninformed.
http://newnations.bandcamp.com
I'm pretty sure it's a joke about the kind of books Michael Crichton writes
Just so I know, did you find out along the way that Michael Crichton has been dead for 11 years?
Ok I'm also getting old.
Edit: Should probably add that I quite like a number of Crichton's books, just, y'know, he also became a bit of a crank.
http://newnations.bandcamp.com
Yeah same I liked his early stuff but he went off the deep end in his later years. Just like David Mamet.
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Sometimes they don't go off the deep end so much as you finally realize, "Ohhhhh, you actually have a small, bitter, soul, don't you?"
e.g. Orson Scott Card
There is that, but with Crichton's earlier books I at least didn't pick up on the dumb conservative bias he'd later let the freak flag fly on. Like his climate change denial book.
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Add Stephen King to the list too. I love his early work, but not so much the stuff from the last couple decades. I think this just happens with many authors as they gain larger audiences. In the beginning, they're just out to tell a good story, but eventually they throw more and more of their own opinions into it, or they want to make all kinds of grand messages about the world. Meaningful messages in literature aren't necessarily a bad thing, but some authors I read just for a good story.
-Tycho Brahe
Getting an old, successful author is pretty much a guarantee for a certain amount of ideology shining through.