I just finished listening to the audiobook version of Echo Burning, by Lee Child.
I thought I'd read it before, but if I did it must have been a very long time ago, because I didn't remember any of it.
At least it wasn't read by an AI, which usually don't pronounce all of the words and names correctly.
It was, of course, a very well written book, and I enjoyed it tremendously.
🤠

This is a story written by the same guy who made Charlie the Unicorn and Llamas With Hats. It's got his usual sense of humor, though toned down a bit, as well as the morbidity that tends to creep into some of his videos. I'm not quite finished with it yet, but it's pretty interesting so far.

Quote from: Hydra009 on September 21, 2023, 09:32:04 PM

While I think this might be a decently faithful adaptation at best and don't particularly have high hopes, it could be a decent popcorn flick for Halloween. Personally, I think that Afton learned how to cheat death by fusing human souls to inanimate metal, but something went awry.  But that's just a theory, a film theory...

That is literally the game lore. The animatronics are powered by "remnant," which are the memories of the dead that are somehow extracted as a physical material. They can also be possessed by agony. It seems that when someone dies in the FNaF universe, their soul is split into multiple parts, with memories, emotions, and pain being distinct things that can exist independently and possess physical objects to give them sentience. In this way, it's possible for what was one person to possess multiple things, if your agony is injected into one thing and your remnant is injected into something else.

As for the movie, it doesn't look like it would appeal to me. We already have video game canon, meta video game canon that treats the original game canon as at least partial fiction, and book canon, and now it looks like the movie is doing its own thing too. The lore is just a complete mess at this point.

Edit: Well, technically speaking, it's not the soul itself per say, but objects apparently absorb remnant and agony from the people around them. If there's a tragedy somewhere, objects in that location may contain agony that can be extracted. It's implied that this creates the illusion of haunted objects, although the distinction seems pretty superficial. Whether an animatronic is possessed by a soul or remnants of a person's memories, it's still a supernatural thing giving sentience to a physical object.

While I think this might be a decently faithful adaptation at best and don't particularly have high hopes, it could be a decent popcorn flick for Halloween.  Personally, I think that Afton learned how to cheat death by fusing human souls to inanimate metal, but something went awry.  But that's just a theory, a film theory...

Actually, the Church of Him was founded by Howard Groat Littlemead on New Scotland.

Is that what is referred to as a "dad joke"?

Trumper Lin Wood to testify against Donald Trump

Claims that he hasn't "flipped".  I'm sure Mafia Don will be understanding, lol.