K.L. Neidecker

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The Doom Guy in his classic pose: strangely underdressed but licking ass (with some kind of gun not in the game? Whatever. Still classic)
Cover for Alien vs. Predator: Prey, the first in a series of actually quite good novels in the Alien and Predator universes with a badass female protagonist
9 games meme: covers of 9 games in a grid, 3 wide by 3 tall. From top left to bottom right: Doom, Thief the Dark Project, Alternate Reality: the City (Atari computer), Subnautica, Outer Wilds, Tempest 2000 (Atari Jaguar), Fallout (the original DOS one), Daggerfall, Starflight
A screenshot of a fake Scrivener app. I’m not going to paste the text here to avoid giving these people search hits, but the copy, the actual name, all exact knockoffs. I’m pretty sure the app description is literally taken from actual pages on the real Scrivener.
Two aliens staring up at a life-size crucifix with a representation of Jesus hanging from it. One says: "You know what we need to do? We need to get the fuck out of here, that's what we need to do. "
Image from Blade Runner 2049. A child holds a horse toy which they will hide away in the wonderful and totally safe factory they live in, just enjoying childhood immensely.
A sticky note on a cake display which say “marble cake is no longer”. That’s the whole thing. It literally ends there. It’s not like some of the sticky note is behind something and blocks the final word “available” or something. It just says, in total, that marble cake is no longer.
Glitched image, grainy and pixelated. Oscar the Grouch (green, messy garbage-can-living muppet), looking like he’s teaching something to us all behind all the glitches and image errors, with “Neutrality is a form of violence” in pale lavender text at the top.
The new pope looking at what is likely something important: a bible, some kind of holy relic like St. Smeggly’s pickled testicle, maybe a pressed flower. I don’t know. But from the angle of the photo (pope on left seen from the front, hands steepled, looking intently to the front-right at a giant, 3 foot tall, opened book trimmed in white and gold is held open for him), it looks like a big greeting card, maybe one that plays music and has a little cartoon Jesus inside holding a fish juggling around on a paper spring.
Screenshot from the Amiga/DOS era point and click game “Dreamweb”. High res for the time. Mostly blacks and grays and browns. Cyberpunk. A lot of user interface including a giant side view of the protagonist on the left. More than a little Bladerunner inspiration. Shot is of a roadside with an abandoned police car, rain, other cyberpunk staples, top-down, with a cursor the player uses to click around the world shaped like a big old hand. The story is some kind of fever dream where a man kills his way through a number of supposed bad guys who may well be some kind of “horsemen of the apocalypse” based on dreams he has… or perhaps he’s just snapped and whacking people in a murderous rampage. However, I’d like to put this forth as an equally viable way to choose a pope. I mean, hey, why not try something new? Find a guy driven to murder by dreaming about little talking blue energy balls or whatever the hell they were, make him run a gantlet of puzzles and a bit of murder, and *bam!* new pope!
Cover of the old book “Mapping the Atari” which was a sort of road map for the internal memory map of the Atari 8-bit computers. Places you could “peek” and “poke”. Very sexy. Well, for an 80s nerd anyway.
An image of the King of the Cosmos from the Katamari games. He’s the size of a planet, clad in VERY TIGHT purple garb (I mean, like, there are details showing through the tights we all didn’t need to have front-and-center every single cutscene with this guy). Yellow cape. Some kind of headwear which is like a huge paper towel roll covered in colorful geometric shapes and used as a hat but sideways for some reason.
Screenshot of the game Sons of the Forest. A horror game at the top of its genre in just being truly god-damned discomfiting at every turn. Shot is of the inside of one of the cave systems. Blueish-black inky darkness pierced by the flashlight held in the player’s hands. You’d think this would be a relief. But it is not. The flashlight beam reveals a monster in the darkness, one made of twisted human limbs and torsos, pale from lack of sunlight, and quite mean-spirited. The whole damned game is like this. Just strangeness and discomfort punctuated by flailing terrors in the dark. I real “well I’ve played this for a few hours and now feel on edge and paranoid in real life so I better take a break” kind of stuff.
Screenshot from the original isometric Fallout. Deathclaw nest, baby! Isometric view of damaged streets and walls of a post nuclear hellscape (might as well get in the practice now before real life looks like this). Main character decked out in the robotic Brotherhood of Steel armor with two party members to his rear. A deathclaw, a creature that looks like a lizard was mated with Elon Musk’s weird barrel body, is seconds away from owning the crap out of our hero for at least a few punishing rounds because, badass power armor or not, Fallout 1 Deathclaws are brutal.
Screenshot from the Adult Swim fake-sitcom-intro, “Too Many Cooks”. It’s like 30 minutes of slowly devolving madness where the show never starts, but instead continues in the manner of TV sitcoms for decades: smiling people caught unawares smiling at the camera, theme music too on the nose, families eating at a table, etc. etc. etc. until it spirals out of control, becomes something of a horror movie full of frozen characters, fake doors, plywood walls, and a madman on the loose. Image is of said madman. It is an image from the future of what I will look like, sent back to haunt me like a Ghost of Christmas Future. Very reminiscent of my father. Heavyset but healthy-enough build, facial hair scraggly but sort-of trimmed. Beard, long mustache. Hairline about 50% up his scalp but long at the sides (like I said, future me). The grin of someone up to some bad shit, facial expression somewhere between “are you going to eat those fries” and “I slipped a razor blade into one of your shoes, but you have to guess which one TEEHEE”.
Cover art for Thief 2: The Metal Age. Garret, the thief protagonist, is cloaked in shadows looking pretty cool in that pseudo-middle-ages fantasy thief garb, hood and all, holding a bow with a glowing arrow nocked. Plenty of shadow and a background of rusty metal to demonstrate the main conceit of the sequel: the steampunk technology which is being used for nefarious purposes by one of the most amazing antagonists ever. Google “Thief 2 Karas voice” and enjoy.
Cover art for an Atari computer game, Mercenary. Standard 80s box art: bright, perhaps a little exaggerated compared to the product inside, but not too exaggerated. A futuristic pilot (only the top of a helmet and gloved hands visible) flys a craft over a green landscape populated by wireframe buildings.
Meme format image of the “Hide yo kids, hide yo wife” absolute legend, Antoine Dodson Text: Top: “Hide yo couch, hide yo sofa” Bottom: “JD Vance, the couch intruder, is around”
A close-up of mangled AI hand which seems to somehow have a little tiny claw at the end and a thumb-banana mad scientist experiment thing…dreadful
Photo of a sleepy yellow Labrador, sitting up with eyes closed and face wrinkled from his big goofy head being tucked down and to the side in comfort.
A husky/german shepherd covered in snow
Image of a scene from No Country for Old Men where the assassin character strangles a man in order to escape prison. Words over the two faces: "Artists and Writers" over the strangler's face, 'ChatGPT, LLMs, Image "AI"s' over the stranglee's face.
Terry Pratchett, the beloved author of the Discworld series and many other books, had a unique writing process that worked well for him. While every author has their own approach to writing, Pratchett's methods were known to be both disciplined and creative. Here are some key aspects of Terry Pratchett's writing process: 1. Routine: Pratchett was known for his disciplined writing routine. He would often start writing in the morning and continue throughout the day, treating writing like a full-time job. He believed in the importance of showing up every day to write, even if the words weren't flowing. 2. Planning: Pratchett was a meticulous planner. He would often spend a significant amount of time outlining his novels before he started writing. This included developing the plot, creating character profiles, and world-building. He believed that a strong outline provided a solid foundation for his stories. 3. Writing by Hand: Despite the prevalence of computers, Pratchett preferred to write his first drafts by hand. He felt that this method allowed him to connect more deeply with his writing and helped him to focus on the story without distractions. 4. Editing and Revising: Pratchett was known to be a meticulous editor. He would revise his drafts multiple times, refining his prose and tightening the story. He believed in the importance of rewriting and polishing his work to make it the best it could be. 5. Humor and Satire: Pratchett's writing was known for its humor, wit, and satire. He had a keen eye for observation and a sharp sense of humor that he infused into his writing. He was able to tackle serious themes with a light touch, making his stories both entertaining and thought-provoking. Overall, Terry Pratchett's writing process was a combination of discipline, creativity, and meticulous planning. He was dedicated to his craft and worked hard to create the rich and imaginative worlds that have captivated readers around the world.
Cover for the CD of Tool’s 1996 Ænima. As all Tool album art is, it’s pure madness visually but I’ll god-damn try… A bright blinding white square sits at the very center of utter blackness, the dark pierced only by green human eyes. Originally it was packaged with a form of optical chicanery, the kind where an image made of slatted lines of opposing graphics (perhaps an animation, or a dark night and a bright day, etc.) are behind a plastic sheet of ridges which made it so depending on the direction you held the CD case, the eyes would change and move.
Album cover for Nine Inch Nail’s second album, Broken. Kinda just a big old lower-case N over what looks like orange flames or the like but I’m pretty sure it’s some zoomed in, tilted photo of something kind of blurred and colorized to trick the eye.
Cover art for Ark, a video game which in part involves taming and riding dinosaurs. A woman with an assault rifle rides a raptor, a guy with a bow rides a saber-toothed cat, a T-Rex photobombs in the background with an expression of reptilian confusion.
Cover image for the strange, ahead of its time survival horror game Nocturne. Noir based (hat and coat and whole shebang), shadowed main character stands in front of a golden, glowing, creepy castle/bridge arch holding out a cross and a pistol.
Quoth the Wiki: “Jean-Baptiste Emanuel Zorg, or simply Zorg, is the secondary antagonist of the 1997 sci-fi action film The Fifth Element.” I didn’t even know the guy had first names. But there he is in all his strange 90s science fiction glory. Image: Zorg, a character from The Fifth Element, played by Gary Oldman, looking off into the middle distance. Soul patch, strange plastic half-helmet, and uhhhh hair that screams “incel”, topped off by a collar going up so high he can’t even turn his head. It’s gorgeous.
Cover for Starflight, a Sega Genesis/Mega Drive port of a PC game of the same name. A pretty cool ship design, at least I always thought. Cockpit area in the front, semi-spherical, followed by a long core section which holds storage bays, and semi-Enterprise style engine layout but straight to the sides in a horizontal configuration rather than the jaunty angle of the Enterprise nacelles. Of course, in game, the PC DOS version ship is like 24 pixels, and the Genesis version is much better, but the ship on the cover is much cooler than either in-game representation because that’s how things rolled back then!
A long list of “craft” books (craft is quoted with deeply sarcastic quotation marks here) from a quick search on Amazon for “ChatGPT novel”. There’s a lot. Screenshot only shows one screen-worth, but that list just goes on and on if scrolled. All amazingly written, I’m sure, with the careful, loving craft of asking ChatGPT questions and then copy/pasting the word vomit into a word processor. Real “writer in the throws of composition” stuff for sure.
Satan character from the ridiculous and amazing movie “Legend”, played by the always amazing Tim Curry, who actually, for a while, lived in Hell itself to get into character! Well, probably not, but he sure sold the role as if he did. Context: this is me, Lord of Darkness and Ruler of the Legion Unread Emails!
Image of my Gmail icon with a notification badge stating 15.488 unread emails. Yes it’s real. Yes it’s mine. No I shall not repent!
Captain Picard meme, looking stressed and confused much like everyone, really, hand out. Top text “Well?”, bottom text “What is it?!” Meme gleefully stolen from Google image search because, at the core, I’m lazy. But, really, what is the invitation list?
Screenshot of a block list made by @resentment.space, adding me to an unrelated list for “stolen content” in response to their being added to a legit list for abusive behavior towards Neil Gaiman a few months back. Obvious abuse attempt against me in “revenge” I guess.
Image from the movie Naked Lunch, a movie that 100% can mess you up and surely had no effect on my growth as a person at all, absolutely not, all is well and everything is fine. Also, unrelated note, my father let me watch movies that were way out of my age bracket at the time. I almost think he was curious to see “hmm, what will this do to his young brain. Taking notes…”
Lemongrab, a character from the animated show “Adventure Time”, consuming his brother. Yeah. It took me by surprise the first time as well. Adventure Time is something else sometimes.
Screenshot showing blocks gained by being purposely obtuse and hostile. Well done! Shows 8 blocks since one day before this post.
Screenshot from the movie Minority Report with Tom Cruise using the AR style screen with his hands. Either that or he is thinking about that weird shit he did on the Opera show. It’s 50/50, really, as he does look concerned.
YouTube error page for a missing YouTube channel with, for whatever reason, a purple monkey wearing a red had and holding a magnifying glass…look, I don’t understand it either, I’m just describing what’s there.
A page of text from the novel Death Becomes Him: An Age of Steam and Sorcery novel by Patrick Charlton-O'Shea, which I’ll try my best to paste in here…wish me luck: Johnny, with his unusual numerical middle name “OneOneSeven” roller skating in the street and nearly getting hit by a car in the process. Both of his Dads losing their minds in the comments section over how he could have been killed. Sue-Ellen and Billy-Bob, the twins from up the street where he used to live. Their strange family where everyone had two names. Their even stranger great-uncle who used to dress up as a ghost with his friends, with their white robes and pillowcase with eye holes cut out of them dancing around a big “T” on fire. He did have a nice vintage car though, he called it Lee for some reason, that had even been around long enough to be given a military rank. Friends of friends swimming in a pool at the foot of a waterfall in Venezuela. They’d taken the Hyperloop down for an overnight trip. Twenty years ago no-one would have believed that the engineers messing about with underground trains in vacuum tunnels would come to anything. Now Loop travel had made air travel obsolete and sent a certain multi-billionaire to live on Mars. A gaggle of young men dressed to the nines rocking out at a Justine Bieber concert. There was even an embedded video of a tribute she sang with her parents Justin and Miley about her grandfather Billy-Ray. They were both fresh out of rehab and weren’t exactly on their game, but Justine made up for it. So much fun that he couldn’t afford to join. Fun that he doubted he could feel even if he could afford it. It was like his emotions had become dulled, ephemeral. Only the sadness remained. Sadness that smothered and overwhelmed him.
They jumped down and fell. Wilbur had a parachute because he was not invincible, so he could get killed. Harriet was having so much fun. "Whee" she said when they finally landed. The section “Wilbur had a parachute because he was not invincible, so he could get killed.” Is highlighted.
Scene from the movie Dirty Rotten Scoundrels. Steve Martin, whose character is playing a part for a scam, is at an ornate and richly set table donning an eyepatch and holding a trident as the brother Rupert, designed to frighten off a rich heiress after of course his co-conspirator makes off with certain jeweled and cash. It could also just be a candid photo of me after a few too many drinks, if we are being honest.
“Yip” “Nope” Martian character from Sesame street staring at an old black rotary telephone. Because, nope to deep sea critters in general. But oddly, the martians and their strange distended muppet jaws are quite similar to the deep sea critter in question… And I like the martians. They make me laugh. Yet deep sea critters make me sad. Yin and yang, perhaps? Do the deep sea creatures exists to that I may enjoy muppet martians all the more? Or to remind us all that we are one related tree of organisms doomed to live and die on this small blue marble? Meh. Anyway, a cute Martian staring at a phone, and imma go have an existential crisis.
Woman surrounded by mathematical calculations. Or I assume they are mathematical calculations since I’m kind of math-stupid and it just looks like Egyptian hieroglyphics to me.
Scene from The Ballad of Buster Scruggs where a man at the gallows quips “First time?” to another man about to be hung, referencing the fact he had been in that same situation before.
Photo of a Labrador Retriever, alias “Tater”, perched on a mossy rock during a winter walk. A cute little guy, always posing for the camera, and also I thought Labs were chill and why does he make us work so hard oh god he wants attention again send help…
Screenshot of the video game Streets of Rage on the Sega Genesis/MegaDrive.
My unread emails as Negan from the Waking Dead
Gmail icon with a notification about 14,500 unread emails.
Childhood trauma Barney awaits
A man in a tux holds a sewing machine in front of a UPS truck which is crashed in a ditch. No, I’m not trolling you. That’s the image. And yes, I have many like this on my camera roll because I’m a little broken inside and weird trippy images of otherwise normal things out of place makes me feel something. Anything at all. Anyway, thanks for visiting.
A scene from the movie adaptation(I’m, loosely) of Naked Lunch, a novel which really really didn’t need a movie adaptation but which we got and has scared thousands of people since release. Like wow. Amazing. 10/10, would ruin my young psyche again.
Group image of the Golden Girls from the show of the same name.
New York Times headline from 1924: HITLER TAMED BY PRISON.; Released on Parole, He Is Expected to Return to Austria. Just goes to show, the paper of record has always done a real bang-up job.
“That’s bait” moment from the movie Fury Road
Ouroboros symbol
Image from Spotify Wrapped: “Vampire When it comes to your listening, you like to embrace a little... darkness. You listen to emotional, atmospheric music more than most.”
Fox Mulder making a ridiculous face
X-Files “I want to believe” poster: a flying saucer hovering over a treeline