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Mikayla | 26 | she/they | asexual | demiromantic Please ask me about my Pathfinder character

[odyver]

alright I've got to do some quick math to explain attitudes towards AI to my boss.

we're looking to create an AI policy, and when we were talking about this, my boss (older millennial) was genuinely shocked to hear that younger people do not (seem) to view AI positively (a la the recent commencement speakers being booed)

please rb for larger sample size!

Question 1/3

What is your age, and do you feel AI is a net positive or net negative in our lives today?

under 18, AI is a net positive

under 18, AI is a net negative

18-29, AI is a net positive

18-29, AI is a net negative

30-45, AI is a net positive

30-45, AI is a net negative

46-60, AI is a net positive

46-60, AI is a net negative

over 60, AI is a net postive

over 60, AI is a net negative

Remaining time: 6 days 6 hours

[odyver]

Question 2/3

How often do you visit or interact with museums/archives (whether in person or online)?

Frequently (multiple times per month)

Often (multiple times per year)

Occasionally (a couple times per year)

Rarely (once every couple of years)

Never :(

Remaining time: 6 days 6 hours

[odyver]

Question 3/3

If you saw a museum was using AI in exhibits, marketing, research, etc., would you be more or less inclined to visit that museum?

under 18, more inclined

under 18, less inclined

18-29, more inclined

18-29, less inclined

30-45, more inclined

30-45, less inclined

46-60, more inclined

46-60, less inclined

over 60, more inclined

over 60, less inclined

Remaining time: 6 days 6 hours

Thank you for helping with this data collection. Please rb for as big a sample as possible!

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[acecritter]

I’ve been rereading the Throne of Glass series and as I’m nearing the end of Heir of Fire I’m already tensing. Obviously I know what happens but I haven’t read this book in over a decade. I remember the visceral feeling of dread as Dorian and Chaol’s final chapters ended and I’m not looking forward to reliving that. Even though this time I don’t have to wait a year to see what happens.

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Possible choir hot take: Water Night is my least favorite Eric Whitacre piece that I’ve sung. It’s a cool song to listen to, but as a singer it’s so boring. 90% of it, regardless of what part you are singing, is just singing the same note over and over. Yes I understand the irony of me saying this as a S1 when that’s just the life of altos. Trust me, I sang alto for half of high school. I understand. I think Whitacre has better pieces than Cluster Chords the Song.

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God, I’m going to be so stressed out this week. My boss and team manager are on a business trip overseas which means I’m in charge of my department while they’re away. So on top of my normal workload, I have to make sure the entire team’s work queue is set up each morning, make sure that the operations steps after my area have work, continuing to train our new team member, and make sure everyone stays on task. Our new team member is especially prone to losing focus and kind of getting everyone else off task. To the point that if he doesn’t pull his shit together this week he might be done. He’s a nice guy but there are so many little things about him that add up to drive me up the wall that I’m low-key hoping he does something to justify me relaying that to my boss.

[acecritter]

So excited, I think I just found another one of my unicorns for diamond painting. I’ve been trying to complete the ChrissaBug zodiac collection from Diamond Art Club(which is hard to do since by the time I got into the hobby all but two had been archived). I bought Sagittarius when it originally came out then caught Leo in a destash about a month ago. The last one of my must-haves from this collection is Virgo, which I never see in destash groups. Until tonight. I reached out and the seller is going to send the invoice tomorrow so hopefully in a few weeks I can officially add it to my collection.

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Well make that two ChrissaBug Zodiac kits added to my stash. Literally two hours after I paid for Virgo, I saw a brand new listing for Pisces. Impulse won that battle because these kits rarely pop up in destash groups. So in the last month I’ve bought 13 new to me kits. Granted I used gift cards for some, but it’s not even necessarily the money aspect. I’m just starting to run out of space in my room. I need to take a break from destash groups for a minute. Because on the off chance that another archived kit pops up that I’ve been looking for, I do not trust myself to let it pass by.

[acecritter]

So excited, I think I just found another one of my unicorns for diamond painting. I’ve been trying to complete the ChrissaBug zodiac collection from Diamond Art Club(which is hard to do since by the time I got into the hobby all but two had been archived). I bought Sagittarius when it originally came out then caught Leo in a destash about a month ago. The last one of my must-haves from this collection is Virgo, which I never see in destash groups. Until tonight. I reached out and the seller is going to send the invoice tomorrow so hopefully in a few weeks I can officially add it to my collection.

[acecritter]

I feel like such an asshole right now. There is a new person in my department at work. He is a very nice guy, but he is the exact type of AuDHD person that I can only stand to be around for short amounts of time. He has no self awareness and is constantly stimming in ways that are minor but very distracting for me. And since our team manager is often busy with other things right now I’ve been stuck with him shadowing over my shoulder. So I have to constantly hear finger popping and him tapping his fingers on his water bottle. Both of these are very triggering for my misophonia to the point that by the end of the day I’m exhausted just from tensing every time he makes noise. I had to ask him to stop popping his joints and while he’s gotten better he still subconsciously does it quite often. And I feel like if I ask him to stop tapping as well I’ll be an asshole. Because I get it. I stim and I often worry if I’m being annoying. And if he wasn’t shadowing me I’d probably be fine because I can just put headphones in and tune him out. But when he shadows I have to explain my process for our work.

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My choir director wasn’t at rehearsal tonight because he’s touring with his high school choir right now. And the sub he got for rehearsal was my old director from community college(The same one where the choir nearly fell apart for various reasons).

I don’t have as much of an issue with him as other former students do, but I hate the way he runs rehearsals. He’s like a train barreling through everything and expecting the choir to meet him where he is instead of meeting the choir at their level. Which works well for some choirs(mostly professional ones) but not a community choir with members of varying musical abilities. Not to mention it was the first rehearsal with new music since we just finished Mozart’s Requiem. And he expected us to be able to sing the German in Beethoven’s 9th.

[acecritter]

It’s the end of an era. My first ever TTRPG campaign is officially finished and the book closes for Quezira. Now she turns her attention to the bureaucratic nightmare that is establishing a new branch of house Lyrandar. She’ll definitely be asking Aaren for a lot of help. And of course Esravesh, but she still doesn’t fully trust her. Mostly out of childhood trauma. Hopefully she can finally heal in that regard. Now I turn my attention towards the Myth-Speaker campaign we’re starting.

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I’m rereading Shadow and Bone since I got the itch after finishing Six of Crows. I just got to the point where Alina runs into Mal at the palace and I forgot how much of an asshole he is. Like I knew I didn’t like him but I haven’t read this series in over a decade, not to mention the Netflix series making him slightly better. But I truly do not understand why Leigh Bardugo thought people would enjoy him as a love interest. I was always a Nikolai girl, and while I know he ends up with someone else in his duology I’ll always yearn for what could have been. At least they end up together in the show, even though it ends on a cliffhanger.

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It’s hard to believe, but next week my Eberron campaign starts its final combat. What started as a 5e campaign I stumbled across on Reddit has grown into an amazing PF2E adventure and an amazing group of friends. Playing as Quezira has truly helped me grow into the person that I am today and it’s bittersweet that it’s ending now but I can’t wait to start the next campaign.

[acecritter]

So I just finished Six of Crows for the first time. I read the Grisha trilogy when it first came out but by the time SoC was published I was in a massive reading slump. And I never got around to it until now. It’s fantastic and I highly recommend it to anyone that hasn’t read it, even if you didn’t like the original trilogy. I listened to it on audiobook which was excellent but it took me out when I realized I know two of the voice actors other work. One of them is more well known than the other: Jay Snyder and Roger Clark. Roger Clark is most famous for voicing Arthur Morgan in RDR2 and he narrates the one Pekka chapter in the book. Jay Snyder however… he narrates the Matthias chapters and I kept thinking he sounded really familiar. So I looked it up and he’s the voice of Yugi Muto/Yami Yugi in Yu-Gi-Oh! and Entei/Spencer Hale in the third Pokémon movie.

[acecritter]

I really do love having a doctor that listens to me when I say I’m ace, I’ve never been sexually active and never plan to be. I went in for a physical today and they were going to do a pap, when I explained the above they completely understood. No trying to pressure me, which is what my last PCP tried. Even though my gynecologist told me I was fine with just getting swabbed every few years.

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Seeing Lindsey Vonn qualify for the Olympics this year makes my 7-year old self so happy. I don’t know if I’ve ever posted about this, but my cousin was a coach for the US women’s ski team in 2006 in Turin. He was Julia Mancuso and Lindsey’s coach and those two were my idols as a little girl that loved to ski.

My cousin passed away last year but I know that if there is an afterlife he’s watching and is cheering her on.

[acecritter]

So I finished Lord of Chaos and here are my thoughts:

Overall I enjoyed the book. I’d probably rank it second in terms of enjoyment behind The Shadow Rising. I still stand by my post from a few days ago where I think the biggest thing that holds this series back is the pacing. I know it’s meant to be slow paced but for the love of god every time something huge happens(Nynaeve’s discovery and Egwene’s arc were the big ones in this book) the POVs almost immediately pivot to a character that has nothing to do with them and quite frankly could probably have their povs removed(*cough* whitecloaks). It’s like being in the lead in a car race only to suddenly slam on the brakes and just sit there letting everyone else pass you.

As of now my ranking of the series is as follows:

1. The Shadow Rising

2. Lord of Chaos

3. The Fires of Heaven

4. The Dragon Reborn

5. The Eye of the World

6. The Great Hunt

[acecritter]

Wheel of Time is such an endlessly frustrating series. For the most part I have been enjoying it more but every time it starts to become fast paced and things actually happen, the next chapter immediately grinds the story to a halt.

Spoilers for Lord of Chaos

I’ve just reached the point where Nynaeve has healed Loghain, Siuan, and Leane. It’s great and I was really getting into the story. Then one of the next chapters is Children of the Light bullshit. It’s so frustrating and the pacing/momentum is by far the weakest aspect of this series. Which sucks when it’s 14 books that could have their own zip codes. The series would be ten times better if Robert Jordan’s editor made him remove all of the unnecessary POV chapters. Especially for characters that have 1-2 chapters for the entire series.

[acecritter]

TFW you get so petty about a reply on a comment you made over a month ago that you spend 20 minutes researching something just to respond back and prove a point.