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mm_ wrote on May 21, 2019 at 9:45 PM

Reply to comment by mm_ in I wrote a thing [Fictional news article. Hellworld. Maybe vaguely cyberpunk?] by voxpoplar

idk if its super related but one of my fav short stories is Chiang's Hell Is The Absence Of God which sort of explores a world where angels and stuff obviously exist but alongside the problem of evil (and I remember there being a funny kind of bureaucratic angle but cant remember if its super prominent).

mm_ wrote on May 21, 2019 at 9:42 PM

Reply to I wrote a thing [Fictional news article. Hellworld. Maybe vaguely cyberpunk?] by voxpoplar

love this!

mm_ wrote on May 11, 2019 at 12:04 AM

Reply to do you think the band "The Killers" picked their name as a deliberate reference to the best ever death metal band out of denton, or is it just a coincidence? by Dogmantra

ive thought about this too, and i think those other names are taken now too

mm_ OP wrote on May 8, 2019 at 4:45 AM

Reply to Talk to Transformer - online version of that new incredible ai predictive text GPT-2 by mm_

Prompt: Sonic looked up at the mystic ruins.

Completion: "They've gotta be something very special. They're beautiful, right? Something with magic to it."

Sonic stared back, a silent expression on his face. "But they've got these... oddities that make them... strange. Where are they from, I don't know. Is there something about them that drives them to do things they don't want to do?"

"Not really," the black dragon replied. "Just that the stories of these beings often do."

"They do that to make them seem more dangerous," another dragon said. "Which drives some of the magic they create deeper."

"It's not about the power, Sonic," the first said softly. "It's about the spirit. The source of it. What does that feel like to you?"

"I think it's weird to be able to feel it for anything except myself, but that's how it feels." The other dragon continued, "So we'd just been told, so many times—that no