Westin Lee

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Writer of games shows movies books websites. Nothing is inevitable. linktr.ee/westinlee

The top menu of the user guide for the Lifelike Child. A hero image depicts the consumer product robot boy front facing and in profile, over the words "welcome to your Lifelike Child". Below, the guide is filled with dense user warnings, a return policy, and a table of contents with dozens of entries.
A roped off, empty area of Honest Ed’s lit by a single line of fluorescent tubes and, bizarrely, what looks to be a chandelier hanging from the drop ceiling to roughly chest height over a bunch of weird display islands.
welcome to your Lifelike Child a short user guide-diving game from Westin Lee
“SISKO LETS SOMEONE BORROW A RUNABOUT AND THEY DESTROY IT”
Mystery House-inspired pixel art of a robot boy refusing to let you dress him while your partner sits at their vanity.
The second paragraph and first sentence of the third from an opinion piece by a guy named Stephen Marche in the Guardian. The starred sentence is emphasis mine: Artificial intelligence is here to stay, neither as an apocalypse nor as the solution to all life's problems, but as a disruptive tool. The recent scandal over Shy Girl, the novel by Mia Ballard, was doubly revealing. Hachette cancelled its publication amid claims it was reliant on Al generation (Ballard has said that an acquaintance who edited the self-published version used AI, not her). *But the book was originally self-published. Apparently readers and editors didn't mind until the use of Al was pointed out to them.* The fact that machines can generate meaning in the first place is an existential curiosity. But for writers, and for young writers in particular,
It's the DUNE 3 logo but it says Harvey Birdman: Attorney at Law
Dr. Zeph Boing from the game Blippo+ (who has an enormous cumulonimbus cloud of hair on their head).
A screenshot of ChatGPT's suggestion for use in an email. The suggestions are to turn a friend's food photo into a recipe (don't do this), drafting a simple text to reschedule a meeting (a beyond simple task), creating a photo tutorial for how to make a cup of coffee (solved problem), and help selecting a pair of headphones (solved problem)
A painkiller sits on the Vegas strip’s first ever Tiki Bar while Atticus Finch (Gregory Peck) litigates the trial of a Black man falsely accused of rape in the legendary film adaptation of To Kill a Mockingbird (1962) on the tv above the bar.
It’s the BeetleMoses webcomic “Take the Shot”, where a crying special forces soldier (?) is struggling to shoot the CEO of racism (an adorable chipmunk wearing a cute hat)
The poster art for Big Trouble in Little China by Drew Struzan, featuring Kurt Russell and Kim Cattrall.
A Mel Brooks quote over an image of Mel Brooks: “Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you fall into an open sewer and die.” The image has a typo because it is an AZ quotes image.
Signore Tomato from the Swan Boy Doncarlo Icognito arc, telling Rona's dad he cannot kweet making giallo movies even though Signore Tomato is...uh...genetically engineering actresses? I don't know.
A chart from p48 of Matthew Ball's State of Gaming 2025 deck that shows actual and projected AR/VR headset shipments, where the projected numbers are ridiculous lines shooting up and the actual shipments each year are tiny slivers at the bottom of the graph.
A Helldivers 2 Reddit thread where someone asks what the circular port on the back of the helmets is, and the game director confirms in the thread that the plan was to show a hose disconnecting after a helldive but they had to cut the animation. The next comments celebrate “lore straight from the tap” and theorize that it’s canon that Helldivers hold their breath during planet fall, which is both funny and believable.