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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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alex (˙𐃷˙) pizza/tacos/bats/dingers 🍕🌮🦇⚾ 🏳️‍🌈🐻 @batsdingersatk.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

I will leave my longtime home this weekend and my dad will enter a nursing home. i will seek more inpatient psych treatment and hopefully transition to respite and supportive housing. My Cashapp name is $/nyratk1 and my Venmo is @/nyratk1 (minus the slashes) for potential expenses when I leave

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soda @sodathewizard.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

stared at browt so much i had a vision

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Chris Person @papapishu.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

Here's a little blog where I got a little in my feelings about Titanfall 2's Gauntlet, CS surfing, STRAFTAT, and the beta for the indie parkour game VHOLUME. aftermath.site/vholume-game...

aftermath.site

The Dream Of Titanfall 2's Gauntlet Is Alive In VHOLUME

Nothing feels quite like Titanfall 2's gauntlet, but the beta for the indie parkour simulator VHOLUME gets close.

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Chris Person @papapishu.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

Here's Kodo [1992]! The first performance of the Taiko drum troupe of the same name transferred from LaserDisc. Enjoy, gamers. archive.org/details/Kodo...

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mu suwi 🩷💛 @musuwi.mom · 14/02/2026

album art redraw #musuwi.art

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The Nightmare Before Chris 🎃 @bwprowl.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

My man took FIRST?!

LazerGrrl Facebook post from Magfest on January 12, 202, featuring multiple players including Luigi Mangione.

"Thanks to everyone that competed in the LazerGrrl tournament at Super MAGFest 2020 (Official)!

Congratulations to our top 2 players who had an EPIC final match! 1st Place (Luigi) and 2nd Place (Shae)! We can't wait to compete with you all more online!"

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JuliNuoFooly @julinofooly.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

IT’S BIG QUAG MONEY BAGS! REPOST THE MONEY QUAGSIRE FOR GOOD TIDINGS AND MANY MONEYS TO COME TO YOU THIS HOLIDAY SEASON AND 2026!!!

Fluffy Quagsire in a santa hat and shittershades and one thousand dollars

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captain bleach @blainecapatch.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

you don't see husbands realizing they forgot their anniversary and searching for a gift and seeing the necklace their wife wanted in a window for $50 and pulling out an empty wallet and moths flying out and then seeing a poster that says "BOXING MATCH FIRST PRIZE $50" and saying "hmmm" much anymore

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Kurt @kaatokunart.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

Racing queen peach!

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Leomard Sportsinterviews @mechagai.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

@kaatokunart.bsky.social Many thanks to these beautiful stickers! I love them so much.

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mistress von toasty @toasty.cx · 19/01/2025

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Leomard Sportsinterviews @mechagai.bsky.social · 29/12/2024

@shauncichacki.bsky.social Found your article on Taiko no Tatsujin and I had to give you a follow. Keep on drumming!

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Leomard Sportsinterviews @mechagai.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

In regards to Taiko no Tatsujin in the US. Also BLine.

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Leomard Sportsinterviews @mechagai.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

Anyone able to get me into IAAPA even if it's just for over day? I would be over the moon to go!

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Leomard Sportsinterviews @mechagai.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

The craziest thing is that @papapishu.bsky.social and @108.bsky.social, who have similar interests and overlapping opinions on a lot of things, but produce very opposite YouTube videos (bite-sized weekly clips vs. VERY LONG FORM deep dives in a specific subject, when its done) live in the same city.

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Ify Nwadiwe @ifycomedy.com · 14/11/2024

Watching the edit, there is an obscene level of joy in my face on this episode of Um, Actually with Brennan on on the couch. I cannot wait for folks to see the new season.

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Leomard Sportsinterviews @mechagai.bsky.social · 11/11/2024

Can't say I've been to Mexico without getting a litre of horchata spooned out of a jug from a street vendor.

A half drank liter cup of horchata sits on a table along with a half eaten quesadilla.

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Leomard Sportsinterviews @mechagai.bsky.social · 10/11/2024

Nothing says "Mexico" more than eating fish tacos Al pastor while sipping on a mezcal cocktail and listening to Tarzan Boy.

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Leomard Sportsinterviews @mechagai.bsky.social · 10/11/2024

Is this considered a concealed carry?

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Leomard Sportsinterviews @mechagai.bsky.social · 07/11/2024

Excuse me?! I don't remember this in the Switch music pass! Obviously the cover can't compare to the late great Olga, but WOW. #TaikoNoTatsujin #PS5 #RhythmFestival #GitS

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Celica @nothingxs.net · 07/11/2024

A few years ago, I wrote a guide on the many methods you can use to ditch Wi-Fi and get on a wired connection, primarily for people interested in fighting games. May it serve you well here, too. Some of it may be outdated. I'll update it eventually. drive.google.com/file/d/1dy0F...

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STEPPING UP YOUR NETPLAY EXPERIENCE.docx

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