Tristan Gray

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🏳️‍🌈 author and activist in 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Software engineer, TTRPG GM, and author of dark fantasy books (he/they) 💜💗💙 https://tgraywrites.carrd.co/

Criticism of crash depiction The film was widely criticized for its use of Mardenborough's crash at the NĂźrburgring Nordschleife as a narrative element. This segment faithfully re-enacted a March 2015 crash during which his Nissan GT-R Nismo became airborne at the notorious Flugplatz turn and cartwheeled over the fence into spectators.[58] One spectator was killed almost immediately and others were taken to the hospital with serious and severe injuries.[58][59] This crash was depicted in Gran Turismo as a traumatic event for Mardenborough that impacted his racing performance during his debut at the 24 Hours of Le Mans. The film combines two real races into one event: Jann's debut in LMP2 at Le Mans racing a Zytek Z11SN-Nissan for Greaves Motorsport happened roughly two years before the crash (the team finished 3rd, as depicted in the film); his debut in LMP1 at Le Mans racing a GT-R LM Nismo for Nissan Motorsports came roughly 3 months after the crash (the team did not finish due to a car failure in the 23rd hour).[60][61][62] The use of a dead spectator to enhance the plot was negatively received by critics, with the film being labeled as "tasteless" and "reprehensible".[63][56][42]
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RED MEAT - MAX CANNON Here's the deal in a nutshell, folks. It's probably not what you'll want to hear, but I'm going to give it to you straight. All of you here in sales are going to be replaced over the next two days with a biologically-engineered, sentient jelly. Is this some kind of joke? I wish it was, Glenn. But this came directly from corporate last night.. So, are we going to be transferred to another division or something? No, you'll stay right here. You see, we're going to have to allow the 'jelly' to slowly consume each one of you, so that it can absorb your knowledge and personality.
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Call of the Black Wing imagined as a Netflix preview images with The Witcher, Wolfwalkers, The Outpost, and Castlevania as "More like this" entries
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Batman "Weapon Of The Enemy" Meme
In a 2012 Science Channel special about “Firefly,” series writer and executive producer Tim Minnear explained She had this magic syringe. She would take this drug. And if she were, for instance, raped, the rapist would die a horrible death. The story was that she gets kidnapped by Reavers and when Mal finally got to the ship to save her from the Reavers, he gets on the Reaver ship and all the Reavers are dead. Which would suggest a kind of really bad assault. At the end of the episode, he comes in after she's been horribly brutalized, and he comes in and he gets down on his knee, and he takes her hand. And he treats her like a lady. And that's the kind of stuff that we wanted to do. It was very dark. And this was actually the first story that Joss pitched to me when he asked me to come work on the show. He said, 'These are the kind of stories we're going to do.' However, at another point, Inara was going to be slowly dying (Baccarin confirmed as much at a panel), so I imagine that is what Whedon ultimately intended the syringe to be revealed to be, although that plot also was never resolved.
The Narrator - In every direction there is a path and a cabin. And not just a cabin. The cabin. An infinite fractal of paths and cabins desperately trying to draw you back to where you need to be.
26m ago 15.10 BST Blackstone caps withdrawals from flagship private credit fund There are worrying signs in the private credit market today. Blackstone has restricted withdrawals from its flagship private credit fund for the first time, after redemption requests surged to $4.5bn in the second quarter of the year. Blackstone is limiting redemptions to just 5% of its net assets, after allowing 7.9% to be redeemed in the last quarter. Such a restriction is allowed under the fund’s rules; Blackstone points out that this “structure is a fundamental feature, with investors exchanging some liquidity at times for long-term outperformance”. Without it, it could be forced into a fire sale of its assets if too many investors tried to cash out at the same time. The AI industry accounted for more than a third of private credit deals in 2025, data released last month shows.
53m ago 14.41 BST Nasdaq falls 1% as chip stocks drop Technology shares prices are falling at the start of trading in New York, after chip giant Broadcom failed to impress Wall Street last night. The Nasdaq share index has dropped by 1.08% in early trading, as the recent strong rally in tech stocks hits a hurdle. This is not a great backdrop for SpaceX’s plans for the largest stock market flotation ever, announced last night. Broadcom are leading the Nasdaq fallers, down 14.3% as its latest outlook for AI sales missed forecasts. Last night, Broadcom estimated AI chip sales for the third quarter of its financial year would be $16bn, below analysts’ estimates of $17.2bn. Other chip companies’ shares have fallen too, with semiconductor designer ARM down 6.2%, and chipmaker AMD down 5.8%. The AI-led equity rally is showing signs of fatigue, says Bob Savage, head of markets macro strategy at BNY, adding: Broadcom’s weaker-than-expected AI revenue outlook has triggered profit-taking across semiconductor and tech stocks, raising questions about the sustainability of valuations and leadership within the AI theme.
This is not what art is, this is not what friendship is and it definitely -- isn't video game development. The games industry can be bad, but not this bad. Leave the vampire castle, talk to your fellow artists, reconnect to yourselves and what you believe in before this madness swallows --4 up ten years of your life. Like it has mine.
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Columnists Manivannan 'pile-on' misses the most important question It was entirely predictable voters would be aghast to learn non-citizens can now become MSPs Scottish Green MSPs Lorna Slater, Q Manivannan and Maggie Chapman Scottish Green MSPs Lorna Slater, Q Manivannan and Maggie Chapman | PA Jenny Lindsay By Jenny Lindsay
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97.4% of survey say that writing being written by a human is very important
@blacksunbkrvw on twitter with 135k followings and 157k followers
Black Sun "the place your book doesn't exist yet"
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About Me: Video Games The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt Favorite Game Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Best Story Journey Favorite Art Style The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time Biggest Personal Impact Horizon Zero Dawn Best Combat Middle-earth: Shadow of War Overhated Ori and the Blind Forest Underrated Assassin's Creed Origins Overrated Final Fantasy X Needs a Remake Ori and the Will of the Wisps Criminally Overlooked God of War Favorite Protagonist The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask Favorite Antagonist A Plague Tale: Requiem Best Soundtrack Among Us Best Multiplayer Hades Not Usually My Thing, But... Total War: Warhammer III Turn My Brain Off Helldivers 2 Best With Friends Star Wars: Episode I - Podrace Challenge Game Best Retro Game The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time Nostalgic Childhood Game Far: Lone Sails Game Everyone Should Play
"I don't know who Kanye West is" "What do you mean you don't know who he is?" "Don't tell me what I don't know!"
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Use of AI I plan to use AI-generated content in my project. What parts of your project will use AI generated content? Please be as specific as possible. We have made use of AI generated artworks and audio so far, as well as AI code review and suggestions. We plan to eventually replace AI generated art and music with those produced by hired artists. Do you have the consent of owners of the works that were (or will be) used to produce the AI generated portion of your projects? Please explain. None of the AI content was based on artwork from other artists.
"I think you and me are kind of on the same wavelength there when it comes to fiction writing," Weir replied. "I never put any politics or messaging in any of my stories at all. There’s no deeper meaning; there isn’t even any symbolism, even non-political. There's just no symbolism at all. My books are just purely to entertain." "They’re human stories," Jordan shot back. "Yeah, you don’t have to worry about the message," Weir declared, comically emphasizing the word "message" in an apparent shot at the movie industry.
"For me, it’s a great example of what you can do now with movies," he began. "If you’re faithful to the source material and you don’t insult the intelligence of your audience, and give them something really interesting to grapple with, [and don't,] dare I say it, try and shove, like, crappy identity politics into it, you end up with a ... good movie at the end.
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JK Rowling has openly said she uses the profits of Harry Potter to fund anti-trans hatred. If you support that effort by watching the TV show, let alone publicly declaring you're doing so, you're no friend of mine
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If we look at AI from that perspective and say, “AI is here and it’s reducing the number of people who need to traffic to my current experiences,” that’s one way to look at it. There will be some creators that look at it that way. I would hope we look at it the other way and say, “Some of these platforms are going to give you a way to participate, are going to give you a way to take your expertise and put it in front of people in a way that actually helps them in a different way than you could connect in the past.”
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41,218 words The Caged God I By Tristan Gray
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Funded in 12 hours!
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For transparency, I used speech-to-text to capture my words and generative AI to clean up grammar and structure. I needed an efficient way to get my thoughts down quickly so I could move into the work of manually editing and refining this text. I went through it multiple times, revising language, examples, and arguments until the final version fully matched my vision. This was done intentionally to demonstrate how AI can function as a communication tool for business purposes. This letter isn’t a work of art or artistic creation.
Mark Sewards launching a GenAI version of himself
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Coming 2026 Call of the Black Wing Kickstarter Sign up 1st Dec 2025
"Like a villain" friendship bracelet
Kickstarter page by Tristan Gray saying Watch this space, coming soon!
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AUTUMN PANELS Video Games as Inspiration for Sci Fi and Fantasy Authors Willow Woods, Will Soulsby-McCreath, T.M. Faulkner, L.L. MacRae, C. K. Andersson Saturday 25th – 6pm Writers Block Stage British and Irish Folk Maura McHugh, Pete Cox, Rhiannon A Grist Thursday 30th – 6pm Balmoral Panel Room 1 The Board Games Panel Sarah Cole, Ivan Caric, Alan Laird Friday 31st – 6pm Edinburgh Panel Room 3
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Non comic usage The verse form is not solely comic. Lord Byron's "The Destruction of Sennacherib" is in anapestic tetrameter. Eminem's hit song "The Way I Am" uses the meter for all parts of the song except the chorus. In non-comic works, it is likely that anapestic tetrameter will be used in a less regular manner, with caesuras and other meters breaking up the driving regularity of the beat such as in the case of Edgar Allan Poe's Annabel Lee. Anapestic tetrameter is generally used in the parode (entrance ode) of classical Greek tragedy.[5]
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Polari is part of the LGBTQ+ writing and reading community and for fifteen years, trans, gender non-conforming and non-binary people have been part of that community - at our events, on our judging panels, on our long and short lists and among our prize winners. This commitment to inclusion remains unchanged. Polari is not and has never been a trans exclusionary organisation. These are not our values and we condemn all forms of transphobia. What was supposed to be a celebration of exceptional LGBTQ+ literature has been overshadowed by hurt and anger, which has been painful and distressing for all concerned and we apologize to everyone who has been affected. Many discussions have been undertaken over the last two weeks -with authors, judges, stakeholders, and funders - about the impacts and ramifications of the longlisting of John Boyne's novel and how we can learn from this experience and move forwards. We have decided as a result to pause the prize this year while we increase representation of trans and gender non-conforming judges on the panels for all the awards and undertake a governance and management review to include our aims and values and work to better support everyone within our LGBTQ+ Polari community. We have already secured strong representation for next year, which we will build on. We will also explore discussions about the tensions between the claims of freedom of expression and the need to create inclusive and supportive spaces in a world hostile to our trans community members and our community at large. We extend our heartfelt apologies to everyone affected this year, for the disappointment and despair this has caused. We acknowledge the ongoing support of the Polari community, everyone we have consulted, and our hugely supportive partners. We are a tiny operation that has run on goodwill and small pots of funding and sponsorship for 15 years and will endeavour to find a way forwards in good faith.