So let’s talk about our comic star. Chris presents himself as a genius; he undercuts this assessment every time he opens his mouth. He’s particularly adept at ruining existing things by attempting to “plus” them, such as his self-serving takes on Battle Monopoly or Double Badminton. ...
There was nothing tangible that the eye could grasp--only an uncanny suggestion of life where it seemed that there should be no life, for living things seemed out of place in this weird, dead city of the long-dead past. View in context BY a route obscure and lonely, Haunted by ill an...
I tested ChatGPT’s morals and things escalated quickly Dec 16, 20223 CommentsShare I asked the AI illustrator craiyon.com “Are you sentient?” Its cagey reply was the pantheistic picture above. So I was eager to see how ChatGPT would reply to the question. I also wanted to test its...
If the movie can’t fully commit to its horror, it possibly overcommits to the impulse toward gross-out comedy. In the anything-for-a-joke spirit, we get poles rammed up keisters, we get once of the worst-executed bar fights in cinema history, and most importantly, we get Noddy’s T...
The problem with having a theory is that it may be loaded with cognitive biases. So one of the problems of explaining why people believe weird things is that we have things, on a simple level, and then I'll go to more serious ones. Like, we have a tendency to see faces. ...
Seeing people sporting these on the beach is a lot like David Lynch is shooting an episode of American Horror Story…with the exception that this is real.Nothing quite like checking out a woman from behind on the beach only to have her turn around sporting one of these things on her face...
Weird Things Live: Hunting the Night CreeperfromAndrew MayneonVimeo. Last Monday night in front of a live internet audience we set out to solve the mystery of the Night Creeper. Ghost? Frogman? Or something else? Although we’re pretty sure we figured it out, we haven’t definitively prove...
In medieval times, some people wore badges on their hats to commemorate pilgrimages, and sometimes those badges had what we might call adult shapes. Whether the 14th-century pilgrims were just collecting, trying to ward off the plague, or had the obvious thought on their minds (as any reader...
我在我的肩膀能感觉负担。我知道什么我应该做。[translate] a就那么相信我啊,就不怕我是个男的吗? That believed I, did not fear I am male?[translate] aThen weird things started to happen, 然后古怪的事开始发生,[translate]
Building up your vocabulary can take a while, but it's as simple as learning one new word every few days and then taking advantage of opportunities to use it.