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Joe Clay @17cupsofcoffee.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

just posted a new cover on youtube for the first time in like a year the umineko brainworms are still in full effect www.youtube.com/watch?v=30ai...

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Golden Nocturne | Umineko Cover | 17cupsofcoffee

YouTube video by 17cupsofcoffee

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 13/09/2026

[reporter doing nothing other than quoting CEOs] this is the most important time doing this Job….wow. Covering the fast paced world of technology is difficult

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daryl "rupert pumpkin" b 🏳️‍⚧️ @hypercubexl.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

GDT's reddit AMA spitting fire www.reddit.com/r/movies/com...

reddit comment:

Hello! Did you intend the ending of Pan’s labyrinth to be real or in Ofelia’s mind?

Guillermo Del Toro's reply:

My interpretation, and it's exclusively mine, is that it's real.

Because there's two things. One is what people call “The Shining Question.” The Shining Question is, Who opens the door for Jack to get out of the fridge? And Ofelia is in an attic with a guard outside her door, and she draws the door with the magic chalk, and she shows up in the labyrinth. So, the only way she could have gone into the labyrinth is the magic chalk. And the flower is real at the end. The flower that blooms in the dead tree. And the reason I think it’s real is because—and this is why I'm in favor of the human factor in art—I think that art does transform the world. You know?

Think about it for a second. One of the goals, with all this movement, is to make you believe that art is vulgar. That art is nothing special, and anybody can do art. That is like me telling you that I'm faster at running than Usain Bolt but I “run” in my motorcycle. Well, that's not the same. That’s not the same at all.

Art is important, and they want you to believe it isn't. It's part of the idea of control. The goal is not to have artificial intelligence. The goal is to foster natural stupidity. The goal is to foster you not looking for answers, and to trust yourself entirely to an engine. Look at the way we are dipping our toes into these things. We are starting to ask the machine, Is this true? For now, there's a correlation between reality and what the answers of the machine are. For now. But soon, we won't even investigate further. We will be told it's true. And if the machine is in the hands of somebody who should not be trusted, then your reality has been completely and utterly fucked. Because your intelligence ends at the question. You don't seek the answer. It's given to you.

Q: You recently mentioned that AI creates 'semi-compelling screensavers' and that you'd 'rather die' than use it. As a filmmaker who relies heavily on practical effects and creature design, what do you think is the biggest thing lost when a computer generates an image instead of a human hand?

GDT:

The three quarters of the process that gave you the chance to think of the idea that people don't think about without that process. Meaning, AI can get you to the middle really fast, but there's a dialectic with the process that gets you to that top 10%. I'll give you an example with the Pale Man.

We sculpted it as an old man, with a face. And then I said, Let's take out the face. This happened because I saw a photo of a manta ray and the poster for Don Coscarelli’s Phantasm. That combination, which happened at two different times during a week or a month, are not permutations that are chemically part of an equation. They are alchemy. And then I said, Take out the face, and then I said, Let's put the eyes on the hands. This triangulation happens because I spent a month or two months living with the idea of this creature. And it's not linear.

AI is like a super-fast engine that makes semi-sentient permutations of things that are already done. Creation is things that have never been done. Coming to exist.

And the second thing is the loss of the apprenticeship that one has as an artist. You're never a master; you're always an apprentice. This is a kinship I have with, for example, Chris Nolan. When he showed me The Odyssey, there’s a scene when Matt Damon is floating in the stormy ocean and I asked him—because we were talking about practical effects, and how great it is and that we both always use a maquette or a model—and I asked him, How did you do it? He said, “We put him in a storm in the ocean.”

And you're gonna find that 30% of a great image occurs accidentally. You know, either a drop of water hits the lens, or the camera shakes. I remember when in 1993, '94, Jim…

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Joe Clay @17cupsofcoffee.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

this opens with perhaps the funniest 'recommended reading' list I have ever seen

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william_ leonard @williamleonard.net · 11/08/2026

anyone done this yet? i hope so. hope they impale me with a stake #umineko

BEATRICE: "SAA, battler!! your theories are as DOOMED as your ATTENTION SPAN..... once i unleash my RED CLICKBAIT ARROWS of TRUTH!!"
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RED TRUTH: "LOCKED ROOM?"

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Joe Clay @17cupsofcoffee.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

My haul from the #FanfestWOLExchange sticker trade at #FFXIVFanfest! Absolutely crazy how many people turned out, I could have printed double and it still wouldn't have been enough... Drop me an @ if you spot your sticker! (also yes I did have to stand on a chair for this photo lmao)

An absolutely insane number of stickers from Fanfest covering an entire sofa

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Miami Mike @leather-peach.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Speaking of the odyssey this is the best post anyone's ever made about it

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nige 'dear ratboy' @niall.codes · 20/06/2026

That's enough Death of the Author. It's time for Death of the Audience. Start running fools

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Joe Clay @17cupsofcoffee.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

evergreen post: bsky.app/profile/head...

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Trinket @trinketbirdy.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

Read 'em and weep

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absolute horses @jcoglan.com · 27/05/2026

"My view is that generating code wholesale with a frontier LLM, then sticking your own name and copyright notice on it, is a massive slap in the face and should be treated with contempt" -- moral.net.au/writing/2026...

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Making the Plagiarism Machine Write Code Still Counts as Plagiarism

I have been struggling to put into words my frustration with the open source community in failing to meet the present moment. In case you've missed the last three years: AI labs have strip-mined the i...

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Joe Clay @17cupsofcoffee.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

Rare Joe lore: I *completely* fucked up my A level exams, to the point where I had to either repeat a year or give up on going to university I ended up dropping out and doing an IT apprenticeship instead, which has somehow turned into a 10+ year career as a software engineer

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Topher Florence @topherflorence.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

a movie that is functionally a hyper compressed, slightly more expensive season of a television show that is half kinda cute and half terrible whose legacy is forever marred by a right wing dipshit co-star based on a 20th century fox intellectual property? close enough, welcome back Serenity

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MrCheeze @mrcheeze.github.io · 01/03/2025

Do you ever think about the fact that the designers of General Midi were tasked with coming up with the 128 most important instruments in the world, and one of the answers they came up with was "Goblins"

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Ricki☕🪄 @rickihirsch.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

This segment was already perfect but then I thought "Should it be set to Laura Palmer's theme?"

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j’ce @jcesrbino.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

ff14 bosses love to say shit like “i will consume this entire world in fire and ash, none shall be able to stop me” and then cast a raidwide followed by a tankbuster

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Timothy @landbeforetim.myatproto.social · 01/05/2026

Bring back the ancient knowledge

Things you read on a blog might make you angry. They might upset you. Stop visiting that blog. Don't waste your time posting comments. Move on and find a new blog. There are so many fun blogs on the Internet. You'll easily find a better one.
There is always another fun new blog to read online.

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mads 🐼 @smadseli.northsky.social · 26/04/2026

My polite and effective way of saying this is this screenshot and a heavy handed but gentle stare at…quite a few of you.

post from tumblr:
I need a polite and effective way to say "hey your heart is truly in the right place and your anger is often righteous but I think sometimes you're getting recreationally mad about things that are frankly not worth the amount of energy you're spending on them, and every time you do this you're driving yourself slightly more insane with nothing to show for it," and then I need a way to broadcast that message through a loudspeaker to roughly 30,000 people at once, and THEN I need a time machine to send that message to my past self lol. and maybe a second time machine in case past me tries to be clever and sabotage the version of me who comes through the first Time Machine

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sunset visitor 斜陽過客 | Prove You're Human - Wishlist Now! @sunsetvisitor.studio · 18/04/2026

While you wait to Prove You're Human... Our debut game, 1000xRESIST, is on sale. Get it now on Steam at 40% off ⬇️

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Hex @hexcat.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

Happy 20 years of Neil banging out the tunes 🐀🎶🎉

Neil banging out the tunes April 13, 2006

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Joe Clay @17cupsofcoffee.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

you know what *really* makes me want to tune in to the next episode of a wrestling show? two seperate promos saying "have you notice our booking is dogshit"

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vic-or-squeak!! ᓚᘏᕐᐷ @gizmouse.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

pretty anime boy: this is it.. this is the final battle! lotus juice track in the background: they think im he-man, shit man, i don't know man, whatever man, james bond shit double zero seven i got the master plan

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headfallsoff @headfallsoff.com · 27/02/2026

THIS IS WHAT SAM ALTMAN WANTS TO TAKE FROM YOU

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Joe Clay @17cupsofcoffee.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

It is extremely funny/depressing that every single video game company is run by this guy

Disco Stu pointing at a graph of disco record sales from 73-76: "If these trends continue... ayyy"

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Spooky Blaylock 🎃🕷️ @velodus.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

Burnout 3 is underrated as one of the very, very best games of all time because you can show Burnout 3 footage to people two decades later and their reaction will still be "hell yeah, this rules. I wanna play this right now."

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Douglas Reyes-CeroÑ @dreyesceron.bsky.social · 15/02/2026

At 9:18, 3rd period of the Finland-Switzerland women's ice hockey QF game, the ice crew came to clean the ice during a pause What follows is the funniest use of the slo-mo alternate angle tech I've seen them use during these Olympics of one of the crew members falling

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Joe Clay @17cupsofcoffee.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

Paranormasight 1 was an absolute gem of a VN that Square Enix sort of just threw out the door with no fanfare whatsover - I am extremely psyched that they've remembered it existed

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✨chipzel @chipzel.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

you: [stressing for days to send the perfect single email] billionaires: hi, . w=en r we mee&ting to do iLlegiL stuff , . ?

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Joe Clay @17cupsofcoffee.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

every time one of these super serious anime cutscenes suddenly mentions Chip and Dale it is like being punched in the face

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Joe Clay @17cupsofcoffee.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

it's /exactly/ the same as how AI art companies act as if drawing is some magical ability that people are born with, which the rest of us mortals could never aspire to rather than what it really is: a skill that you can learn with time and patience

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