Not how any of that works, but good try?

An example of things that authors missed! I just watched a YouTube video looking at the history of instant communication devices in Sci-fi and Fantasy, and also how the author thought to use them in the narrative; contrasting that with how we'd actually use them through our modern understanding. They go on to argue that usage of instant communication is now so ubiquitous to our collective psyche that current sci-fi and fantasy stories can just invent it in basically every setting nowadays. It's actually a really easy thing to cook up if your narrative has any kind of magic system, be it science or standard issue. https://youtu.be/2Pw_7vAK9k8

Are video essays, specifically ones about storytelling, my special interest? Yes, but I hardly see how that's relevant.

(That's an example of lampshading)

We figured out how to install gas lines appropriately. Many "ghosts" were gas inhalation induced hallucinations.

I mean, look at it. It's a goddamn work of art. Does it need a reason?

This is a photoshop job for sure. You can see artifacting on the right side of the shoe, as it transitions to the background, and also the foot inside the croc from the original image it was taken from.

Nah, I curse. Never use slurs. I swore like a sailor as a kid, and then I worked 5 years as a dishwasher. Swears are just intensifiers to me.

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Okay. Thanks for clarifying.

Not breaking the law does not protect you here in the US. She was black, she had reason to fear for her life, and as we hopefully all learned from Renee Good, cops literally never have jurisdiction to fire upon a driver in a vehicle. So this was cold blooded murder, no matter how you fucking slice it.

Lol, same man

Fair enough