Camestros Felapton

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Two-time Hugo Award Finalist Author of Debarkle: a history of the Sad Puppies And The Hugosauriad: an analysis of the Hugo Award via dinosaurs

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Camestros Felapton@camestrosf· 25d

Ahh, sorry guys...the Sad Puppies article has disappeared (at least temporarily). They were so happy when Grokipidea released that, even though it was riddled with basic factual errors.

Grokipedia screenshot saying 'Article not found. This article doesn't exist yet in Grokipedia. Go Home. Search for "Sad Puppies"'

Camestros Felapton@camestrosf· 25d

Had another look this morning, and the site was available but not loading articles:

Screenshot of Grokipedia. A search box is shown with "barack obama" as the search term. Below it in a dark red box is written "Failed to search. Please try again."

Camestros Felapton@camestrosf· 26d

100%. I think you are stating facts there. People forget how the original "Sad Puppy" post framed things as "pulp"[good] v "literati"[bad] with less emphasis on a political divide. Correia also frames his writing as trying to emulate movies & rarely talks about books that influenced him.

"For generations literary critics and college English departments have looked down at pulp novelists and refused to give them awards…" Larry Correia 2013

Camestros Felapton@camestrosf· 28d

Drop something monochromatic

A still from the film The Maltese Falcon showing four characters in 1940s clothes but their heads have been replaced by CGI cat heads

Camestros Felapton@camestrosf· 29d

Well that's canonical right? When the movie studio tried to keep the LOTR franchise going with comedy tie-in spin off movies:

Doctored movie poster based on Abbott & Costello Meet Frankenstein, altered to say "Abbot and Costello meet The Nazgul". Villains from the Lord of the Rings film appear as heads placed over old movie villains Dracula, the Wolfman and Frankenstein's monster.

Camestros Felapton@camestrosf· 29d

Name a non-LOTR character that could resist the One Ring.

Three sheep from the film "The Sheep Detectives" in the grounds of an old English church

Camestros Felapton@camestrosf· Jul 15

Definitely a part of an official Hugo packet. His publishing house is also cited in the bibliography of a (serious) Hugo Award winner as well

Cover picture for Hugo Award 2025 packet: "Camestros Felapton, The Felapton Digest 2024" A large CGI purple cat dominates the picture

Camestros Felapton@camestrosf· Jul 13

Rowling still has this sanctimonious hypocrisy as her pinned post. Up there with Farage as a key figure in making the UK a more contentious and hate-filled place.

Rowling: "If you believe free speech is for you but not your political opponents, you're illiberal.

If no contrary evidence could change your beliefs, you're a fundamentalist.

If you believe the state should punish those with contrary views, you're a totalitarian."

Camestros Felapton@camestrosf· Jul 6

Vikings v Anglo-Saxons: Association Football Map 1: 1888–89 Football League Map 2: 9th century Britain This will be my only comment on football

A map showing the 1888–89 English Football League . Dots showing teams are clustered in the North West of England and parts of the Midlands

A map of 9th century Britain (oddly in French), showing the Danelaw region running up the east of England and into the North West. Wessex is shown running along the south of England but reaching up towards the North West ending near the Mersey.

Camestros Felapton@camestrosf· Jun 30

Unbelievably, the text in the screenshot was written by an actual adult. I'm not sure why China would go to all that effort when Donald Trump is happy to wreck US influence for free.

MAGA blowhard: So with this birthright citizenship decision, if I'm understanding this correctly, it would be perfectly legal for foreign governments to fly their people here to give birth to babies who'd then return to their home country, grow up as good little communists, then come back here to vote for communism when they grow up.

They wouldn't even need that many. A hundred thousand placed across a handful of swing states would allow a foreign government to decide every US presidential election. All it would take is an 18 year commitment to the project by that foreign power.

Hell, just fly the baby back to the home country, and send back whichever loyal operative you want in 18 years as a voting citizen under that ID.

Camestros Felapton@camestrosf· Jun 30

Poster for 1997 film "Mimic" directed by Guillermo del Toro - a monster film involving cockroaches

Camestros Felapton@camestrosf· Jun 21

Rather than fixing the pond, just keep changing the hue of "American flag blue" to match.

Camestros Felapton@camestrosf· May 9

Best film adaptation of The Odyssey. Wrong answers only.

Camestros Felapton@camestrosf· May 4

A 3D rendered image of a weird trophy. A metal head on a wooden base. The top of the head is flat and sitting on the flat part is an old-fashioned canon

Camestros Felapton@camestrosf· Apr 20

I had a long think about that for no good reason and decided that the opposite of Friday is between Tuesday and Monday. Which only makes you more right.

The days of the week arranged around a 7-sided polygon

Camestros Felapton@camestrosf· Mar 31

A pyramid with a dodgy-looking acropolis-like structure on top. Above that is a large statue of a cat's head. On the pyramid in gold letters is spelled "TIM"

Camestros Felapton@camestrosf· Mar 17

Yes, this bit especially

A scene from the The Fly (1986) with the Fly emerging from a pod but its head has been replaced with Tim Allen's head as Santa Clause

Camestros Felapton@camestrosf· Mar 3

Starring Ray Bradbury as Abraham Lincoln

Camestros Felapton@camestrosf· Feb 28

Yes - the conference was a known thing prior to the Epstein files. Part of Epstein's links with AI research. I think the participants should still have been asking why this rich guy wanted them on his island though ojs.aaai.org/aimagazine/i...