Wednesday, November 11, 2026

The Nvidia scandal would make a very good Frasier episode (Nvidia joke roundup)

getting into a complicated frasier-style farce situation when your wife, your employee girlfriend, and your foreign spy girlfriend are all at the same party and you have to keep changing leather jackets

— BYCTOM (@byctom.bsky.social) November 11, 2026 at 2:42 PM


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An update on the Australian adopted by Bears fans



















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Fun article about the production of Hallmark's Christmas movies

Alexandra Petri for The Atlantic:

Three different types of fake snow in a single day of filming! That is what I’m here to study: how to make something so expertly fake that it feels real.

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Have you seen Found a Homeless Billionaire Husband for Christmas on ReelShort, a platform for “microdramas”? The 71 episodes are each less than two minutes long; this microdrama is not even trying to have realistic fake snow. 

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Hallmark, despite the available technology, is still something made by humans for humans. The snow may be fake, but at least the fake snow is real. 

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in 2006, we got The Christmas Card. This is the Hallmark Christmas blueprint...she loves this town, and her job at the family lumber mill, more than anything—a fact that is lost on her absentee city-slicker boyfriend, Paul, an international wine broker in a tiny sports car. But, fortunately, Faith has sent a Christmas card to a soldier named Cody, stationed in Afghanistan, and Cody is so charmed by the card that when he gets a break from fighting the War on Terror, he visits her town. He then saves Faith’s dad from an out-of-control speeding car and starts helping at the lumber business. He also picks her up in a sleigh—with her favorite blanket. Wine Broker Paul does not stand a chance. There’s an exquisite scene where Paul spends two hours in the woods yelling into his cellphone about wine while, behind him, Cody takes down Christmas trees with a chainsaw.

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Princess Mononoke jacket

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Tuesday, November 10, 2026

I enjoyed these posts about the online larp "Transmission"

First, a review by a participant. 
It's set during the Great Storm of 1987. You're a group of 30-somethings, all old university friends, all getting back together for a reunion in a country house in Norfolk. Then the power goes out. You're isolated, in the dark, no way to contact anyone else. And then the TV turns itself on. And there's Teletext on the screen. And then things start to get weird
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The main sign that it was working, though, was that, even though I was sitting in my deskchair at home, the same one I'm sitting in now to write this blog post and do some emails... I was holding myself differently than I usually do. I was clutching my hands together. I was rubbing my face. I had my shoulders tense, up by my ears[2]. The emotion, the character, the situation, these things were held in the body.
And an article by the creator/operator:
The rest of the decisions I make during the show are judgements on the basis of what’s happened so far, what options I have available (between the more-pages-than-can-reasonably-be-played-through, my programmed automations and what I can change manually on the fly), the tone of play so far, any themes that have emerged, and my best judgement given that the game does have a strict time duration, spanning 11pm to midnight.
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Sometimes how it comes out in a game will depend on early cues from players – for instance (and it almost feels dangerous to admit this!) what counts as a ‘right’ answer to some of the quiz questions can vary for different groups. 
...who also posted an interesting list of influences. And these:


Having some fun trying to make live video capture look like a pixelated animation ATM...

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— Chloe Mashiter (@chloemashiter.bsky.social) November 10, 2026 at 9:44 AM


I don't know why I find just the blinking creepier but I do

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— Chloe Mashiter (@chloemashiter.bsky.social) November 10, 2026 at 9:45 AM
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New video game Humble Bundle celebrating Chinese gaming

$15 for six games. 

Also, one day left for the scifi bundle, which includes Marathon.
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