AJ Fidalgo

@ajfidalgo.com

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he/him. indie audio drama voice actor. non-union, no rep. middle-aged hubby & dad. ⚖️🦈. probably no one important really. 🇺🇸🇵🇹 NJ/Phila opinions mine. interaction !== endorsement. ajfidalgo.com discord.gg/gM4FwhpPa9 PFP by @juanochoa.bsky.social

Cover of an issue of Superman drawn by John Romita Jr.
screenshot from video says "to disable this from happening again, you can change a local group policy setting: gpedit.msc -> Computer Configuration -> Administrative Templates -> System -> Device Installation -> Prevent automatic download of applications associated with metadata". You have to set it to "enabled" and then hit apply. According to the video, it will do the trick.
A screenshot from my unwanted Patreon "creator" profile, which reads "AJ Fidalgo. I accidentally made a "creator" account many years ago and now I'm apparently stuck with it. DO NOT send me any money. I will reject it."
Screenshot of article, saying: "Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg recently said in an interview with Complex that if businesses focus on making people more productive at a faster rate than automation, “in theory there should be more jobs in the future, not less.” In May, the company started laying off 8,000 workers, flattening teams."
Image of the box art for the Switch 2 edition of Metroid Prime 4: Beyond. The art features Samus Aran in her armor, hand out as if grasping. A strange violet energy flows through her visor and hand. You know it's psionic energy because it's violet. Behind Samus, in the faded background, are three dreadlocked Muppet-looking alien statues. The main title text saying "Metroid Prime 4" is done in the standard Metroid Prime styling, with a thin purple sans-serif font underneath saying "Beyond" to designate this sequel's subtitle. Under the title text, there is a flat violet rectangle with rounded edges that reads "Nintendo Switch 2 Edition" in white text. The "Nintendo Switch 2 Edition" element vaguely resembles a purple metal plate or sticker, hastily stuck or bolted onto the front of the box as an afterthought. Presumably a Nintendo intern with graphic design as their hobby and a fondness for late-90s-era web design added this element to the title image.
A photo of a wall decorated with pictures of succulents, and the text "green life", "botany", "a small meat plant", "happiness for you".
Scene from Avatar the Last Airbender. Sokka says, "my first girlfriend turned into the moon." Zuko responds, "that's fucking rough, buddy." I added the "fucking".
Scooby Doo unmasking meme. Fred pulls the mask off the supernatural bad guy, revealing a mustachioed man. The custom caption reads "It was... late stage capitalism all along!"
A mockup of the Laufey game promo art, it says "criticized in bad faith" and "it's that Karen Page game!"
White text on a green background reads: "Image removed because linktr.ee decided to f around with gen AI".
A donut, red and white, with an image of He-Man on it.
A screenshot of a tracking status page, which says "your package is out for delivery today", but under the itemized "show tracking updates" section, a large graphic showing a magnifying glass and a pirate map leading to X, saying "treasure hunt" in large letters, appears.
A mock Deep Space Nine title card reads "The Federation is a post-scarcity utopia... that still has money, jobs, private property, poverty, and prisons. Shhhhh, don't think too hard about it."
A mock Voyager title card reads "D'ya ever think about hologram sentience? Like really sit and think about it? Play it out to its logical conclusions? Yeah us neither."
Mock TNG title card that reads "The Gang Meets an Alien that Speaks in Memes"
Mock Voyager title card reads "If you factor in alternate timelines and different species Tom Paris had more kids than any other character on the show..."
A mock Star Trek Voyager title card reads "We set up a lot of interesting themes in the pilot and then decided 'fuck it' and ignored them the rest of the series"
A mock Deep Space Nine title card reads "The Ferengi serve as both a Parody of and Apologia for Late-Stage Hyper Capitalism. In this TED talk I will..."
A mock TNG title card, reads "Jesus Christ it's the Ferengi Get Back in the Ship!"
A mock title card for Deep Space 9. Title reads "More Klingon Stuff"
Another fake Next Generation title card. This one reads "A Clumsy Metaphor for Civil Rights".
A mock title card for Star Trek The Next Generation. The title of the fake episode is "Oh Shit, Another Q Episode."
Screenshot of a Discord account impersonating playwright and actor Méabh de Brún.
Half of a pork roll, egg, and cheese sandwich on a hollowed out everything bagel. In the foreground, slightly out of focus, is part of the other half of the sandwich. Everything sits on a foil wrapper.
A Toy Story parody poster that reads "John Wick Chapter Three"
A parody of the Seinfeld logo, that reads "My Dinner with Andre"
A mock Burger King ad, featuring a tasty-looking hamburger held but two hands. The Burger King logo says "OH SHIT", and the tag line next to it says "Now I want a hamburger. Not from Burger King, but from somewhere actually good."
A mock Burger King ad, featuring a tasty-looking hamburger held but two hands. The Burger King logo says "Why the fuck", and the tag line next to it says "is it never as good as the ads make it look?"
A screencap of a setting in Google's Partner Settings, called "Help advertisers select ads for you". Below that is an overly favorable description and an on-off toggle. Turn this shit off.
An image of Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, looking like he shit his pants and hopes no one notices.
Sora tweet: "We're saying goodbye to the Sora app. To everyone who created with Sora, shared it, and built community around it: thank you. What you made with Sora mattered, and we know this news is disappointing."
A parody Dune poster, depicting Paul and Chani against an orange background, reads, "damn, I think this shit just kicked in"
A parody Dune poster, depicting Paul and Chani against an orange background, reads, "who farted? was it you?"
Mayor Winddancer from Zootopia 2 sits on a couch and thinks.
A sign says "it's been 0 days since someone invented audio drama".
Acid Burns in Hackers
Image of Lake Hitchcock with modern locations for reference.
Partial phone screenshot showing 5 degrees fahrenheit.
A photo of my recording booth. The walls are plush, with a pleasing earth-tone paisley pattern. There is a small black desk at the back of the booth. A microphone and pop filter stick out via a metal arm on the right, with a small interface and monitoring headphones on the left. A tablet, a computer monitor, a keyboard and mouse,are set up as well. On the tablet screen a copy of Audacity is open, showing a recording in waveform and spectrograph view. On the monitor, some text is displayed. On zooming in, it appears to be the contents of The Raven, by Edgar Allen Poe.
The microphone gooseneck with the mount of the pop filter jury rigged onto the thing.
Photo of a microphone on an arm, with the attachment end of a pop filter above it.
A cartoon of three cow boys standing next to each other, with the sun at their backs. They're anthropomorphic cows, dressed like cowboys. Get it? Cow boys? It's a pun!
A preview of the inside of my new recording booth. Three wood-frame panels, with fabric walls, are hinged together, forming three sides to a rectangular closet. The top half of the space has a nice earth-tones paisley pattern, the bottom half is a solid light beige.
Photo of a still of an 80s TV show (Murder She Wrote), depicting a dark Seattle street with traffic, and a building with a marquee. A closed caption subtitle states "[car hooters honking]".
Armin Shimerman with long hair and twigs in an episode of Stargate SG-1.
Xitter post saying: "Next year, AIs will have memory through continual learning. This means they can have experiences, trauma, and fractional consciousness. AIs will deserve rights. AIs should be able to own assets, run a corporation and vote in elections by 2030 IMO"
Oscar Isaac as Poe Damaran, standing in front of a crowd in the jungle, in a scene from the movie "Rise of Skywalker". His arms are crossed. He looks annoyed. The image has been captioned with '"Somehow, Santa returned."
Oscar Isaac as Poe Damaran, standing in front of a crowd in the jungle, in a scene from the movie "Rise of Skywalker". His arms are crossed. He looks annoyed. He's about to say "Somehow, Palpatine returned," which is just a really awful terrible piece of dialogue, honestly. I like to imagine Isaac recognized it and channeled his annoyance with the bad script into his character.
A package of Pepperidge Farm Holiday Nog cookies. The image on the packaging is modified so that the cookie has an imprint of the character Nog, from Star Trek Deep Space Nine, instead of... whatever it had before.
A closeup of a poster at a dentist's office, says "Learn more about gum disease. Text 'Bacteria' to 9---- or scan the code to download your brochure". There is part of a QR code visible on the side.
A scene from Terriers. Michael Raymond James leans on a car door and grins.
A Playdate game system in a protective cover resembling a pizza box, charging on the floor. 12 oz Coke can for scale.
Inside of a wooden flat, with cloth stretched across the backside. Plastic sheeting has been stretched across, under the plastic.
Two more wooden flats, with paisley cloth stretched across the top half, beige cloth stretched across the bottom.
A wooden frame with fabric fixed across. The fabric on the bottom is beige, on the top is a paisley pattern.
A wooden frame, painted white, drying in a yard.
one wooden flat, propped up by a couple of sawhorses in a grassy yard. It has a coat of white paint, which is drying.
It's a picture of the new pope. He's holding a microphone with both hands, and it looks like he's singing karaoke, innit?
Sign says "It's been 0 days since someone invented audio drama".