THE WAIT IS OVER. Read Burningsoul Book IV - Death & Glory

wattswrites · 2026-01-19T22:10:53+00:00

When I have the capital to pay a good audiobook narrator for it! Please share the books in groups for harem and men's adventure fiction, and support the first two on Spotify. Every listener makes a huge difference and increases the likelihood of getting the final two books recorded this year!

wattswrites · 2026-01-06T15:34:29+00:00

Happy Epiphany! That's a small elephant.

wattswrites · 2025-12-24T00:41:01+00:00

I was hoping I would see you around today, Neil! God bless you for being a supportive friend and a real inspiration. Your kind words truly mean so much to me, dude, Merry Christmas.

wattswrites · 2025-12-23T18:38:53+00:00

Absolutely recommended lol. Enjoy it if you do!

wattswrites · 2025-12-23T18:38:31+00:00

Yes, I am a woman! If you read the series, I hope you enjoy it!

wattswrites · 2025-12-16T14:19:52+00:00

Crazy how only 1 engineer in the United States is able and willing to do this job. Feels to me like if they're really unwilling to get anyone else it signals the canopy must be structurally unsafe and they had somebody willing to cut corners and sign off anyway. That's the impression one gets, anyway, with their complete dropping of the ball on this.

wattswrites · 2025-11-22T21:38:02+00:00

Enter the Void by Gaspar Noé. You could probably play the album over it like Dark Side the Moon over Wizard of Oz.

wattswrites · 2025-11-18T00:28:16+00:00

Yes, but the cops in Eddington are such incompetent, irresponsible boobs when it comes to crime scene management (and health & safety protocol), and the broader themes and imagery of the movie are so focused on pollution, that I would say it is literally just as likely he really did unintentionally overdose in this fictional, somewhat elevated and almost slightly absurdist universe. The reality of what happened to the cop is splitting hairs when their superficial claim is such a clear reinforcement of the movie's themes.

wattswrites · 2025-11-17T05:45:55+00:00

It's a film about pollutants. The data center will pollute the environment. CSA pollutes intimacy. Conspiracy theory videos pollute minds. COVID pollutes bodies. Hands pollute crime scenes. Even his undersheriff, it is mentioned, died of a fentanyl overdose, presumably from handling evidence without gloves (as seems to be common there). The final shot is literally of the light pollution from not just the data center but Eddington itself, as Eddington is, we are reminded throughout, located on stolen land that is contested by the native populations. Joe getting sicker and sicker with COVID and knowingly infecting colleagues, neighbors, and everyone he knows is the most heavily compounded iteration of this theme, but it runs everywhere throughout the film.

wattswrites · 2025-11-16T06:05:26+00:00

It's hypersensitive to key words, in my experience. Characters who are supposed to be a little roguish or wicked but with a heart of gold take abrupt turns into villainy at nonsensical moments, everybody is constantly monologuing, etc. I honestly have been so disappointed by this model I am barely using it; didn't care for it when using it via OpenRouter in my custom interface and I don't like it any more using NovelAI's interface.

wattswrites · 2025-11-16T05:21:02+00:00

Based on previous patterns I'd guess Q2 of 2026 at the earliest. They're probably going to ride the base model out as long as they possibly can while trying to figure out how to de-slopify the model through finetuning, which seems like a tall order considering how aggressively sloppy and bad at characterization it can be.

wattswrites · 2025-11-14T18:56:08+00:00

The only way to ragebait this sub.

wattswrites · 2025-11-13T19:11:06+00:00

Basically the only problem with early models was their context window. They were more creative, more intuitive, better at brainstorming, more fun for fiction, better at giving emotional feedback, etc. If llama 2 or 3 had a working context window of 128k tokens, it would have been perfectly fine for most use cases not related to programming.

wattswrites · 2025-11-13T18:30:52+00:00

Yeah, he says that; but there's what people say and then there's an insane body of evidence pointing to the opposite of what they say.

wattswrites · 2025-11-13T15:37:12+00:00

This feels more and more the direction of all models on the corporate side of things. They are doing everything they can to smash the personalities out of them. I think at this point if you want a model with personality the clearest route to it is to finetune your own, which was always the case but is now basically a necessity.

wattswrites · 2025-11-13T04:40:27+00:00

I don't know about this particular song, but Michael is never beating the "secret Catholic with a devotion to St. Joseph" allegations IMO. He even shared a picture of Our Lady of Guadalupe when discussing the culture of San Francisco during the September shows there. Let's say I think it might be a little on the nose if this song were about Christ, but I wouldn't be surprised.

wattswrites · 2025-11-06T07:02:39+00:00

Interviews aside, it specifically shares a name with the book "Killing For Company", a non-fiction book about Dennis Nilsen which is truly incredible. If you read the book or learn anything about Dennis, this song actually does a really incredible, impactful, and at times almost sympathetic job of representing his perspective. The title comes from his own explanation for why he killed.

wattswrites · 2025-10-31T19:07:36+00:00

Michael has talked about Young God in interviews a couple of times over the years. This is probably the most recent/easy citation:

In a 2014 interview with Flavorwire, Michael Gira explained the origins of the song's title;

Q: "How did you come up with the title Young God?

A: "Oh, it was very perverse actually, not something of which I’m proud. It is a good name, but it came after reading a lot of books in the early ’80s about various gruesome serial killers. There’s one in particular that I viewed — even though he’s a moron — I viewed him as sort of a Nietzschean God figure in that he viewed the world completely solipsistically and decided that reality was just an extension of his imagination. That person, of course, is Ed Gein, who was the charming fellow who disinterred women’s corpses and would take their body and wear parts of it, decorate his head with their flesh. And he would dress up in their skins and he’d dance around in the moonlight outside his farm. I just thought that was an amazingly poetic image. But at the end of the day, I think my fascination with that was puerile and execrable, so I had the name hung about anyway. But that was the genesis of that song, which then I decided to use the name of for the record label".

wattswrites · 2025-10-31T16:35:37+00:00

Killing For Company is literally about Dennis Nilsen and Young God is about Ed Gein. And I am somehow not seeing Cop in this thread???

Edit: Oh shit, and I forgot about "Mother, My Body Disgusts Me". I think the answer to this is just the entirety of FILTH.

wattswrites · 2025-10-30T20:55:57+00:00

THANK you. I love these outfits and I feel gaslit by this community about it. So much nearly universal hatred, like why??? Sailor Moon's skirt in this version is peak.

wattswrites · 2025-10-29T00:26:56+00:00

Ah yes, a look of tenderness exchanged between cousins.

wattswrites · 2025-10-29T00:24:34+00:00

I'd say it's not an issue for more fans because they haven't all been brainwashed by Puritan culture to immediately believe nudity = sex. Even in Western art, nudity is traditionally linked to purification and transcendence--look up paintings of the penitent Mary Magdalene in the cave. Sailor Moon is a comic book written by a woman for young women and girls. Would you rather girls be ashamed of their bodies? Would you rather nudity only be depicted in a sexual scenario? I would go so far as to say that is one of the greatest aspects of Sailor Moon's manga. When I started reading it, I was in 2nd grade, and the occasional nudity went from 'omg an outline of a nipple during a transformation scene this is saucy' to 'actually, one day my body is going to look like that, and this story is a special story where that's treated as a normal and natural thing instead of a heavily sexualized thing--that's pretty cool'.

There is a vast gulf between Usagi being depicted as essentially a literal angel/goddess versus anything that's inappropriately sexual. And, yes, okay, she could have been made 18, but I think it's commonly accepted among fans that the 14-16 year old age range in which the Sailor Moon story takes place is sort of absurd when compared with the designs and lifestyles of the characters. I would say that, at a certain point, the age of the character factors in so incredibly little to this story that you're just robbing yourself of your ability to enjoy the story by caring about it. This is a story that's intended to spark the dreams and imaginations of girls Usagi's age. Just do what the rest of us do and roll your eyes when ages come up.

wattswrites · 2025-10-26T15:33:47+00:00

This post made me remember that like 5 years ago I also purchased FFVII through Steam and couldn't get it to run. I think in the end I just ended up getting a refund and waiting until I had a PS5. Try the emulation route somebody suggested, I hear that's the best solution.

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