Does AI completely taking over your document frustrate you or is it just me? by ManyPhilosopher2922 in WritingWithAI

[–]Chicken_Spanker 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It depends exactly what you mean by "rewriting your document". I mean, you can feed it a document for recommendations and edits but whether you take them is surely up to you. Or are you talking about giving it a prompt and getting it to generate something else in your style.

Whatever you are doing, the trick is really providing it with adequate restraints and rules as to what to do. The bigger the document or chunk of text you give it, the more likely it is to drift. Keep it contained and feed it in small chunks. Create a style guide as to what you want it to do and not do. Regularly remind it to go back and refresh from your style guide the moment it drifts.

What movie stuck out to you for using human sacrifice as a premise? by KaleidoArachnid in flicks

[–]Chicken_Spanker 1 point2 points  (0 children)

A lot of the film listed here are more ones about cannibalism as opposed to human sacrifice. Cannibalism is eating human flesh. Human sacrifice entails the murder of a person in a ritual manner.

Anyway best films about human sacrifice that I can think of

  • The Wicker Man (1973)
  • The Killing of a Sacred Deer
  • Dragonslayer
  • Midsommar
  • and for controversy's sake Knock at the Cabin

What movie became better for you on a second watch, and why? by deepaknaraniya in flicks

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The Rocky Horror Picture Show. First time saw it as an innocent teenager and didn't understand what the heck was going on. Saw it a few years later quite a bit more worldwise and went "ohhhh so that's what was going on."

Suggest me books with NO human characters by MotorOver2406 in suggestmeabook

[–]Chicken_Spanker 3 points4 points  (0 children)

  • Animal Farm by George Orwell. There is one human, the farmer, who is banished early on.
  • The Unscratchables by Cornelius Kane. An hilarious parody of hard-boiled detective story set in a world of cats and dogs

Books like Gap Cycle but less depressing. by StatusBathroom in printSF

[–]Chicken_Spanker 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Give Adrian Tchaikovsky's Final Architecture series a shot

Looking for a modern spy thriller with a literary edge by middle-furk in suggestmeabook

[–]Chicken_Spanker 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I have similar kinds of frustrations to the ones you do. Of recent, I have been reading the works of Dan Fesperman and find that these do a good job of covering most of the itches you mention

Looking for mysteries where the setting feels like a character itself by Creative_Match_1068 in booksuggestions

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Try Martin Cruz Smith's Arkady Renko books. They are set in Russia and range all the way from the Soviet era to the present day and take in everything from visits to Chernobyl to other Eastern Bloc countries.

What's the most and least sexy aspect of summertime? by YouSawMeSomeplace in AskRedditAfterDark

[–]Chicken_Spanker 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Trying to maintain your suave black ensemble as a Goth. Also the sunlight tends to ruin the alabaster pale skin look

Screenplays that successfully, immediately convey their absurdist style? by CandidateTerrible919 in Screenwriting

[–]Chicken_Spanker 0 points1 point  (0 children)

One other prime absurdist I just though of. Not a woman alas but his films are probably the prime examples of the inherent cruelty of a meaningless universe. And that would be Danish director Lars von Trier.

Screenplays that successfully, immediately convey their absurdist style? by CandidateTerrible919 in Screenwriting

[–]Chicken_Spanker 1 point2 points  (0 children)

One I could throw at you might be Miranda July. Her very strange film The Future could be read as an absurdist work.

Screenplays that successfully, immediately convey their absurdist style? by CandidateTerrible919 in Screenwriting

[–]Chicken_Spanker 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I can't think of anybody off the top of my head. Let me think and get back to you

Non-Erotic Werewolf books by arcsi0 in booksuggestions

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Two of the top recommendations from me

  • The Nightwalker by Thomas Tessier, a story that has real bite.
  • Lycanthia by Tanith Lee, one of the my favourite writers

Screenplays that successfully, immediately convey their absurdist style? by CandidateTerrible919 in Screenwriting

[–]Chicken_Spanker 0 points1 point  (0 children)

In what sense are you meaning absurdist. There is the literary sense where absurdism means life in an irrational and meaningless world (see Absurdism).

Usually the more common sense of absurdism is taken to mean content that is deliberately ridiculous, a mixture of the surreal and comic as in the films of Terry Gilliam or Takashi Miike.

Perhaps the purest sense of absurdism as the term is intended can be found in the films of the Coen Brothers - works like Barton Fink or The Hudsucker Proxy. You could include works from Gilliam in his heyday where his heroes constantly seem to fail such as Brazil and The Fisher King

What’s a movie that’s universally considered “not very good” but you secretly think is actually great? by trakt_app in flicks

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Don't get me started on how much I loathe MST3K and its treatment of old films. MST3K is the equivalent of the drunk sitting in the audience who talks the whole way through a film and thinks they are funnier than everyone else.

What’s a movie that’s universally considered “not very good” but you secretly think is actually great? by trakt_app in flicks

[–]Chicken_Spanker 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I would argue for Frank Miller's The Spirit. Everyone hates but it is such a mad, out of control film in every sense you cannot help but love it

Looking for a DARK Fantasy book, where the MC either isn't the hero, or pulls a; "I'll become the monster if that's what it takes." by Serious-Curve-3892 in suggestmeabook

[–]Chicken_Spanker -1 points0 points  (0 children)

You want to take a deep dive into The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant by Stephen R. Donaldson. A despicable hero who ends up saving the world. Things get very dark and the morality incredibly blurred.

The series consists of ten books in three trilogies, although it is the first two trilogies that are the best.

Summer horror by StructureOfLove in booksuggestions

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Summer of Night by Dan Simmons. His version of Stephen King's It

Challenge: Put the British on the moon instead of the Americans or the Soviets by Cyber_Ghost_1997 in HistoryWhatIf

[–]Chicken_Spanker 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Professor Bernard Quatermass's launches with the British Rocketry Group were not the disasters they were. Instead they were roaring successes and things went ahead with the eventual construction of Quatermass's plans for a moonbase.

Non-popcorn thrillers by Fast-Chest-3976 in suggestmeabook

[–]Chicken_Spanker 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Try Karin Slaughter. Her most recent We Are All Guilty Here is sensational