Philip Harris

@solitarymindset.com

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Game Director and writer. By day, I develop video games. By night, I write urban fantasy and horror novels and screenplays. He/him. Co-chair of Greater Vancouver Chapter of HWA. All opinions my own. http://www.solitarymindset.com

Movie posters and ratings for Serpico (4 stars), Regression (2.5 stars), Georgetown (3.5 stars) and Backrooms (3 stars).
A photograph of a watercolour painting. The painting is of a blue brain on a yellow background with the words NO AI ONLY BRAIN printed over the top.
A cat curled up tight against someone's leg. He's mostly white with ginger patches on his head, back, leg and tail.
A screenshot from a video game called The Killing Stone. It shows two language selection options. One sets the game's text to Modern English, the other in Period English.
A stack of red, green and black Clairefontaine notebooks on a white countertop.
Inside pages of Lost Souls by Poppy Z Brite. The book's signed by the author and includes a sketch of two of the characters from the book - Nothing and Zillah.
A grey pelican standing on an upside down white canoe which is itself standing on a wooden dock. Taken in False Creek, Vancouver, BC, Canada - 18th March 2026
A screenshot from the ZX Spectrum game Headbanger's Heaven. It shows a thief carrying a money bag trying to dodge falling hammers.
A one star Amazon UK review for the book Glitch Mitchell and the Unseen Planet from December 2017. It's just one word. Crap. No full stop.
Two prints and three stickers. The design is of a no parking sign that has been modified to say No AI Anytime.
Accordingly, in an attempt to reduce the budget, Burgess has earmarked AI for use in localization support and QA, as well as animating some of the Renaissance-style paintings found in hell. That said, he's far from a true AI believer. "I'm not waving the flag of AI by any stretch, because I've seen some awful outputs from some of my own work," he says. "I would never allow AI to write any dialogue, ever." Instead, it's all about getting that budget down to a level potential funders might accept. Burgess reckons that without any AI use, he would be having to ask for around $1.8 million, rather than $1.5 million. But there are limits to how far he's willing to go. "I'm not going to sell my soul and be like, 'Yeah, I'll do it by myself, let me prompt this whole game into existence'. No, I want to work with really talented people and make something cool. But if integrating it in a way that doesn't affect creativity, but helps to save a little bit of money and gets the game out there to people, and gives us a chance to make something cool and memorable, and then make something else after that – it's something I have to factor in."
An advert for a "Torborher DvD Player/Camping Shower." The image in the advert looks like some kind of portable DVD player.
Movie posters of the last four films I watched. A House of Dynamite (3 stars), The Glass Castle (4 stars), But I'm a Cheerleader (3 and a half stars), and Blood Simple (4 and a half stars)
The 4K ultra HD version of Richard Stanley's Dust Devil. Peaches in Maryland in a duster and a cowboy hat standing on a highway.
A cat curled up asleep in a fluffy cat basket. His right leg is sticking out of the basket. He's mostly white with a striped ginger and white tail and a ginger patch on his back and head.
The box of the Storyfold Wildwoods board game showing a ghostly girl and her ghostly bear in front of a scary looking forest. Plus a box with some custom dice and a bag of deluxe pieces.
A white cat with ginger patches on his nose and ears. He's asleep with his paws tucked up.
A copy of Jeremy C. Shipp's book, Familiar. The cover shows an open mouth with lips made of muscle and teeth made of fingers and a tongue made of intestines. In the back of the mouth, there's an eye.
The poster for the Formula 1 movie. Start time is 12pm. Three minutes from this post.
A receipt for a fast food meal. The order number is 666.
Perlo - A close up of the head of white cat with a smudge of ginger on his nose and a ginger stripey patch by his ear. He's asleep but his little pink tongue is sticking out of the side of his mouth.
A mostly white cat with a little ginger patch on his back, another near his ear and a ginger and white stripy tail. He's curled up on a gray blanket with his back legs sticking out. He's also purring.
I white cat lying on his back on a grey sofa. His legs are sticking out and he's sound asleep. Probably because he spent the evening harassing me for food even though his bowl was full.
Two Bluesky posts. The first is a picture of a cartoon fox overlaid with the words die die die die die die die die. The second is Gemini's response which is... Thanks for sharing the video! I'll do my best to understand and respond appropriately given the context. Let me know if you have any specific questions about it!
A white cat with a ginger tail curled up on the top of a gray sofa. His head is tucked underneath his paws.
A white and ginger cat asleep on the back of a grey sofa. His front paws are splayed either side of the sofa back.
A photo of three boardgames. Dice Throne Season 1 and 2 and Isle of Cats Duel.
A photograph of the Spires End: Rangitaki card game with its expansion and playmat.
A photo of the box set of the Twin Peaks TV show.
A screenshot showing my most recent activity on Letterboxd. The films are The Godfather Parts 1 and 2, Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga, and Mad Max Fury Road.
A mostly white cat with orange patches on his head. Curled up in a fluffy grey cat bed. Bed is on a striped red, blue and cream rug.
Movie posters for Million Dollar Baby, It's What's Inside, Role Play, and Lisa Frankenstein.
A photo of BC Place sports stadium with a giant friendship bracelet attached to the side. The bracelet says Taylor Swift The Eras Tour.
A screenshot from a phone showing lots of photos of the same mostly white but with a bit of ginger cat.
A screenshot from YouTube Music showing the song, The Beat by Mimi Bloo. There has been 1 play of the track.
The cover for a book, Pod Fifteen by Philip Harris. It's a dark and gloomy image featuring an angular science fiction life support pod. The title Pod Fifteen is in the middle of the image but the O is a woman's face illuminated by a spotlight above it.
Perlo, a mostly white cat with two ginger splotches on his back and ears and a stripey ginger tail. He's sitting with his back to the camera in the corner of a grey sofa, staring directly into the corner.
Movie poster for the film Hellraiser. Shows an angry man with nails in his head holding a black and gold puzzle box .
A very cute white cat with a few patches of orange on his head and a stripey tail. He's lying on his back in a cat bed, legs splayed.
A very cute white cat with a few patches of orange on his head and ears. He's looking very inquisitively out of a cupboard.
A white cat with ginger splotches lying on a striped rug. There is a large red cloth play cube on his back. He's staring at a toy fish.
The cover for Clive Barker's book, Cabal. It's a spooky face made of what might be clouds over what might be a sunset. Or maybe hell breaking open.
Movie poster for The Crow showing a man's face in goth makeup.
A screenshot from Microsoft Word warning me that including the words "Dicks and Assholes" in my novel might be offensive to my readers. The Assholes bit is highlighted so I guess it's that it's worried about.
An Alien: Romulus movie poster. Red with a face hugger attacking someone.
A mostly white cat with a ginger ear and eye splotch lying on his side reaching one paw towards the camera. He's very sleepy.
A white cat with a ginger tail and ginger splotches on his head. He's sitting on an office chair. The chair I'm supposed to be working in.
A photo of a condo living room, looking towards two large windows. The blinds are down. There is a clearly visible outline of a cat sitting on the window ledge behind one of the blinds. He's not supposed to be there. He does it a lot.
A very cute white cat with a few patches of orange reclining on a desk.
A white cat with a few patches of orange asleep on the back of a sofa.
A white cat with a few patches of orange leaning against and exercise box while he looks out of a window.
A very cute white cat with a few patches of orange. He's curled up on his back in a cat bed.
A very cute white cat with a few patches of orange on his ears. He's looking out of a cupboard.
A screenshot of an interaction with the copilot AI. The question is How many Rs are there in strawberry? Copilot responds with The word “strawberry” contains two 'R’s. If you’re looking for a fun way to remember it, here’s a little rhyme: In the word for the fruit that’s red and merry, Count the 'R’s and you will find, there are exactly two to bind. One at the start and one near the end, In “strawberry,” two 'R’s are a fruity friend!
A bowling scoreboard show 0 points
A webcam image showing a kitten playroom. There's the blurry face of a black kitten very close to the camera.