Organized Chaos

Musings about life, music, gaming, and fractals. Probably. They preferred, he acceptable. Over 18. FFXIV blog is roses-and-grimoires.

[depsidase]

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

I'm reading Blindsight and Peter Watts' take on vampires is insane actually

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

Sure they were real but went extinct and we found their DNA and resurrected the species to capitalise on their extreme intelligence for corporate interests. Sure their natural ability to go into stasis for long periods of time as part of their hunting and survival strategies is great for genetically engineering hybrid humans so they can be put into stasis for extremely long-distance space travel. Sure they're stopped by crucifixes because a flaw in their fuckign. Multidimensional hyperanalytical predator thought processes makes their minds bluescreen when they try to comprehend right angles. Why not.

[unfortunate-beetle-and-friends]

I was on board until the right angles. XD

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

The right angles are the best part

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

#vampires stopped by sugar cubes#wait... doors are fucking right angles#vampires would be fucking useless in modern society#my math notebook could destroy them

They have to take mind-dampening drugs to go out in public. In the lab they're kept in oblong rooms where the lighting is designed to not create right angled shadows. It's a whole big thing and probably a big part of why they went extinct, humans fucking love making rectangles.

[tedcruzisthezodiackiller]

[your-weekly-ish-pod]

SILENTIUM

SILENTIUM is a solo-narrator horror fiction podcast following Vatican linguist Father Tommaso Lanza as he investigates deaths for the Custodia Ultimae Vocis, a secret Church institution studying an impossible language that manifests at the moment of death.

This podcast made my horror enthusiast's little heart thump with joy when I first heard it. The way it does eldritch horror by mixing it with catholic and body horror is simply delicious. The mystery behind this otherworldly 2000 years old language, and what this institution is hiding, is intriguing, and the episodic stories are even better.

Episode three has to be my personal favourite: A small girl in a convent is believed to be a saint after a halo appears around her head. Except the halo isn't made of celestial light, but of something far more tangible and horrific.

SILENTIUM is currently airing and usually releases episodes monthly.

[vethyourhalflingmother]

my biology professor has such a chaotic energy about him, last week i went to his office hours and somehow we ended up on the topic of gay marriage:

he said that when he lived in texas they changed the law to define marriage as “between a man and a woman in a house of religious worship with the intention to have children” so he filed his taxes as single and when they called him up like “you filed married last year” he was like “you changed the law, i was married by a judge in a courthouse and i have no intention of having kids” and they told him “you know who that law was for” and i guess he hung up on them and did not, in fact, pay taxes as a married man that year

[fromwolfsandgods]

Chaotic good

[swordshapedleaves]

NO! This is Lawful Good! He is following the LAW! Chaotic doesn’t just mean cheeky!

[dragkingandreweldritch]

this is like how Sweden stopped classifying homosexuality as an illness because people started a campaign of calling in gay to work

malicious compliance is one of the best tools in the arsenal of civil rights activism

[dracogotgame]

Always reblog for malicious compliance

[findingfeather]

sometimes following the letter of the law works even better than ignoring it.

[ltleflrt]

In Utah the new book banning laws apply to the bible, and there’s already someone petitioning to get it removed from schools and libraries.

[hulking-godless-child-beast]

I hope no English teacher ever puts up with “banning pronouns” for even a moment

[gehayi]

Update: The Utah book ban has, in fact, resulted in the Bible being banned in elementary and middle schools in Davis County, and high schoolers now only have limited access to the King James Version, due to “vulgarity and violence.” 

Now the Book of Mormon is under consideration for a ban as well. The parent who complained said that it was very violent.

[what-even-is-thiss]

Health classes really ought to teach people what the beginning stages of addiction are like because a lot of people don’t realize they’re addicted to something until they’re years deep into it.

[what-even-is-thiss]

Signs you might be getting addicted to something:

If you go without it you feel unwell in a way that you never usually feel unwell. Sweating, tired, sleepy, headaches, irritable, depressed, etc. For example when I was in opium withdrawal I got incredibly depressed in a way that I’ve never been before or since. When you quit caffeine you might get super bad headaches even if you never usually get any headaches.

Thoughts of it regularly bother you and the thoughts go away once you’ve taken it but only temporarily. Unlike with a food craving which usually stays away once you’ve satisfied it or distracted yourself from it.

You find yourself rationalizing with yourself why you should break your own rules about how much you can take and how often. For example you might only let yourself drink alcohol every four days but start thinking that three days is actually close enough to four days, right? Especially if this happens regularly.

You’re using it so often that you feel the need to lie about how much you use because other people might think it’s concerning

If the substance or activity is nearby it’s genuinely difficult to not consume it or participate in it in a way that’s really frustrating.

You feel bad when you’re not on it and your brain tells you “if you just take the thing you wouldn’t feel this way”

You can only feel “whole” or “normal” when you’re on a substance even though it’s a recreational drug

And if you read this and think you might be addicted to something, don’t panic and don’t feel ashamed. Realizing you’re addicted to something isn’t a failure. It’s more information about your health that you can use to manage your condition, whether you want to get rid of your addiction or not.

[asteroidtroglodyte]

You can’t Abstain your way to a Better World.

[asteroidtroglodyte]

The Burger still gets made, even if you go Vegan. If you don’t buy it, it just winds up in the trash. If you want to do something meaningful about waste, you need legislation: It must become a crime to waste food in those ways.

If you care about Animal Cruelty in Factory Farms, you need to get legislation passed. It must become a crime to mistreat animals in those ways, and when malfeasances occurs, the onus of responsibility for those crimes must fall upon wealthy shoulders. That, also, requires legislation. It requires regulations, and regulators.

The largest source of Microplastics is wear and tear on automobile tires. It doesn’t matter what brand of shampoo you buy. It doesn’t matter which company you support with your dollar. The issue of Public Transit is too large-scale to be handled at anything less than the municipal level.

It’s not enough to just not participate in society

If you want the world to Change, you must leverage the mechanisms of political power.

You need Government.

[asteroidtroglodyte]

STOP PROPOSING INDIVIDUAL SOLUTIONS TO COLLECTIVE PROBLEMS

[melongifts]

Hey anyone notice how google translate is being pretty liberal with their translations as of late? Takin some real liberties to infer tone.

[melongifts]

ask and ye shall receive: When I write in Japanese I usually also throw it in google translate to double check that I'm not using the wrong kanji by mistake, and two years ago it gave me very dry and literal translations.

I was doing it today and noticed it had a pretty strong voice added to the output

For reference, to give a dry translation I would put: Lately I'm into in Hanafuda. Nobody seems to know anything about it here, so they probably wouldn't understand my brilliant jokes. I guess you guys will never be able to understand "Mister November and the Scary Cave".

I have a fluent friend who is able to check my work for me and give me tips on hitting the correct tone (I was going for a comically casual feeling), so I'm confident that I'm expressing the feeling I'm intending. While Google is also hitting the same emotion, I really don't like knowing that it's assigning tone in the first place.

To check if it was editorializing based on informal grammatical choices, I formal'd up the writing to be more polite and remove any non-standard vocabulary.

I'm just like... what is anyone who is translating what I'm thinking into their own language going to think when a translation app decides that it knows my intended tone? When online communication is already so complicated and nuanced? I'm a non-native so I'm spending ages agonizing over 117 characters, but when I'm chatting in English I'm not being so deliberate. How likely is it that tools that 'naturalize' are going to make choices that don't reflect reality and lead to insulting misunderstandings? I spoke with an English learner just yesterday who thought they were being bullied (they were not, the commenter in question was just excitedly infodumping about sociology) because something was lost in translation, and I wonder if it's because of tools making choices like this. I'm just a luddite I don't trust stuff like this. stinks of ai asking me if it can rerwrite my email in a more quirky style.

[melongifts]

What do you mean I'm just using the browser versi-

I AM SO SICK OF DEFAULT AI!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[jockoppressor]

Spin the wheel. Tomorrow, you wake up in this country with, however implausible, a passport for both it and your home country. How do you feel?

This is awful; I’m booking a trip home immediately.

I really don’t like this; I’ll stick it out briefly, but I’m heading home soon.

This isn’t great; I’d rather be back home, but I’ll manage until I can get back.

Being here isn’t better or worse than being in my home country.

This is pretty nice; I’ll stay a little while, but go home eventually.

I love it here; I’ll be staying a long while before I go home.

This is amazing; it’ll be a long time before I go home, and I may stay here.

Voting ended onApr 20

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[transfaguette]

mostly I don't fault anyone for skirting jury duty because they truly do less than the bare minimum to compensate you for your time & transportation & circumstances and it's annoying as fuck. but it is also a big "put up or shut up" moment for your actual dedication to justice and care for your community. it's literally the government saying to you "hey come watch this trial and make sure our legal system is functioning justly and fairly."

[hacash]

someone at the marketing department had a little too much fun with this

[villainessbian]

a challenger

[anxietyproblem]

[disappointingcabbage]

Having both ADHD and autism has made me develop a shitload of hyperfixations that became special interests. Anyway I made a list of almost all of them as one liners

Horror Podcasts

Archiving job ASMR (gone wrong) (gone spooky)

Civil service ASMR (gone wrong) (gone spooky) (into the multiverse)

John Doe and the Sad Pathetic Wet Cat of A Man: The horror podcast you didn’t expect to become a musical

The weirdest radio station you’ll ever listen to

The all-American toxic yuri road trip

Dracula Daily got an audiobook in podcast format!

Carmilla got a Dracula Daily style audiobook in podcast format!

Video Games

This mountain unlocks Double Jump and self acceptance unlocks Triple Jump: a trans allegory

Plot twist: the moth IS the Lamp

Plot twist: Grandma’s got issues and the void won’t help

The Blocks that shaped my childhood

I fell in a hole and now I have to save the world with the power of friendship

I don’t know if the power of friendship is enough to save the world this time, guys

In space, no one can hear you sob from this heart-wrenching bittersweet lore *banjo noises* *harmonica noises* *oboe noises* *drums* *alien piano noises* *whistling* *eerie elk noises*

I’m just a little guy in a Big Forest

I’m just a little guy in a Big Forest 2: where’s my owl sister?

Solving puzzles while being roasted by a robot

Solving puzzles while being roasted by a robot 2: Now With More Puzzles AND More Robots!

What if the aliens were fish?

What if the aliens were Arctic fish?

Why is the ocean Blood?

Oh hey this game PointCrow is playing has a really cool art sty- JONATHAN SIMS????

Crab Game with the funniest accessibility feature I’ve ever seen

Who knew making lines out of blocks was goated with the sauce?

Books

Hey why does this house have an extra room in this movie that doesn’t exist?

Quincy Morris: Vampire Hunter

The OG lesbian vampire story 💜

The Greek gods owe child support

The Egyptian gods sure do love possessing people

The Roman gods owe child support

The Norse gods owe child suport

Apollo finally pays his child support

Stop sending children to war because Sandwich said so: a tale in five books

Stop sending children into the arena: a tale in three books (plus two prequels)

This 13-floor London apartment building is fucked up and haunted

The prospective princess to revolutionary scholar pipeline

Movies

This cool Swedish cult can get you out of your toxic relationship with just nine human sacrifices!

Why are there sex aliens in a mansion in Texas?

Why is the movie so much better than the board game?

They were never skeletons, were they?

Damn, these vampires are really desperate for blues music

The most wholesome idiots you’ll ever see travel through time

A lesbian horror trilogy set in 3 different time periods? Sign me the fuck up!

Oh my God, Regina, you can’t just walk in front of a bus

Silence! I’ve made my decision. Bring back the dinosaurs.

Maybe the giant floating allegory for nuclear weapons in the sky should stay hidden

Apparently the local forest spirit provides free babysitting services! Yippee!!

My son’s best friend may be a magic fish but at least he has a friend his age

Maybe we wouldn’t be killing the planet if nature fought back.

These bathhouse spirits really need to unionize

YouTube/TV Series

Sonic but Funnier

The haunted house of drag

That one Really Big drag reality competition show. You know the one.

Saving the world with the power of friendship and also throwing rocks at people and also wind blasting people and also throwing water at people and also fire blasting people and also-

Saving the world with the power of friendship and also dragons

Saving the world with the power of lesbians

Mark and Ethan’s Excellent Adventure

Plays/Musicals

Fuck Capitalism, Become Trees

Trying to fit in as a lesbian alien is super fucking hard

Fuck you Dad, I’m running away to the woods because you banished my cousin

Sorry Horatio, I vengeanced too close to the sun and now I can’t make it to date night

Let’s be real, the ending is Friar Laurence’s fault.

Am I making an ass of myself or is it just the fairies in the woods?

So… who’s coming back to life?

Wednesday Addams comes out as straight

Your Honor, he deserved It

Your Honor, her perm is intact and therefore her lies are not

Fuck Around and Find Out: Fairy Tale Edition

Don’t ask what’s in the pies

Child laborers unionize: The Musical

The Greek gods owe child support: The Musical

I said wait for me, why’d you ruin it?

Racism and classism ruined the love story and the Gods actually felt bad about it

Unpopular opinion: The musical is better than the movie (Green Edition)

Saving the family business with the power of drag

We’re poor artists in New York City in the middle of the AIDS epidemic, of course we can’t make rent!

Hey maybe sex ed is a good idea, actually (ft. some Absolute Bangers)

A British murder mystery: Now with Clowns! And an absurdly small cast!

Oscar Wilde, you glorious bastard, you’re right. It is important to be Ernest.

Working on Broadway can be a nightmare sometimes. Let’s tap dance about it!

The Greek muses can roller skate?

This fandom doesn’t realize that you can sympathize with a character’s backstory and also acknowledge that he’s a creep whose sense of entitlement towards the female lead literally drives the whole plot forward: a musical by Andrew Lloyd Webber

Love, Death, and Sand Worms

Tall Tales and Terminal Cancer

It’s not easy being green in Oz

Unpopular Opinion: The musical is better than the movie: edgy high school satire edition

On Wednesdays We Wear Pink: The Musical

Henry VIII sucked. Wish we knew more about his six wives.

Never mix telekinesis and hardcore Christian parenting

Starkid Specifically

The best parody of the worst author’s work

Joey Richter as himself and Joe Walker as his penis: The Musical

The best parody of the worst author’s work: The Sequel?

Bug wants to be human (big mistake)

The best parody of the worst author’s work: The Finale

Fuck IP laws, We’ve got Marvel AND DC characters singing and dancing!

It’s all Jafar’s fault… or is it?

Star Wars interpretive dance battle and pod racing tournament

Dysentery is, like, the least of our wagon party’s concerns.

The Scooby Gang peaked in high school

Live Chorn Reaction

CONSUME THE BLUE GOOP BECOME ONE WITH THE THEATRE KID HIVE MIND

Capitalism kills. Beware Black Friday.

Guns don’t kill people, vengeful zombies kill people! Your gun cannot stop him.

What if you put Labyrinth style puppets into Cinderella?

[disappointingcabbage]

I have no idea what fandoms/pieces of media these are but they sound cool please elaborate

[yeomanrand]

Happily. :)

The first one is a horror movie, Late Night with the Devil starring David Dastalmachian as a 70s late night TV show host one Halloween night on his last chance to finally take the #1 spot from Johnny Carson. I do have to caveat this one with the note that I did not know at the time I saw it that some of the station interstitial were made with AI.

The second is The Usual Suspects, and honestly the less I tell you about it the better. It has the proverbial star-studded cast (including a very young Giancarlo Esposito) and is kind of a heist movie and kind of a thriller and very much a story about stories.

I also recommend "no, seriously, my dad had a religious epiphany one night after his bowling trophy told him who he was and how to detect demons" with Bill Paxton, Matthew McConaughey, and the late Powers Boothe. Or, alternately, "you only thought you knew how sinister 'Time is on my Side' by the Stones could be" starring Denzel Washington and John Goodman.

[twilightofthesandwiches]

Congratulations! You have been Isekai’d to the Pokemon World and you are now a Pokemon Trainer! Spin here! to find out your new Trainer Class!

How do you feel about your result?

HELL YEAH THIS IS SO COOL AND SO PERFECT FOR ME

I’m not sure if it really fits me…. But it is REALLY GREAT

This is awesome!

It’s pretty cool!!

It’s nice, I guess

I feel totally indifferent about it

This has a lot of positives and a lot of negatives, not sure how I feel…

…Eh…

Could be worse, I guess?

This is perfect for me (derogatory)

This SUCKS, but… at least it’s better than NOT being a Pokemon Trainer, right?

THIS IS TERRIBLE THIS IS ACTUALLY WORSE THAN NOT BEING A POKEMON TRAINER

Voting ended onFeb 7

[mysral]

[herssian]

i don't want all my characters to share the same ideals but all my video game protagonists always end up compassionate on some level or another because this is how i play every first playthrough. which wouldn't be a problem in the least if i didn't also refuse to not make different choices in following playthroughs. this isn't an actual problem. i understand i CHOOSE not to play differently. i am cognizant of the fact i am the maker of my own doom and no force is stopping me from rolling a different character. i'm willfully playing 25% of any rpg every single time. i am fiscally and video gamely stupid. do you see

[polarity-disturbed]

I just watched a video about students getting their papers falsely flagged for using AI, even when they didn’t, and the advice was things like, “Leave in incorrect grammar,” “If you’re quoting something, don’t copy and paste it, type it out manually because it leaves a metadata trail that you used the copy/paste function and that's a flag,” “Write in the cloud so there’s a version history,” and the one that really got me, “if you find you write in a manner that can sounds too robotic or professional and it gets flagged, go to the writing center so a writing tutor can help you sound more humanly flawed,” and like what the actual fuck.

Like I get that is practical advice, but people should not have to fucking do that. They should not have to train themselves around not sounding like AI, when AI only sounds like that BECAUSE it was trained on them.

I spent so much of my life learning how to write, I shouldn't have to unlearn that because some computer algorithm learned from me.

[capricorn-0mnikorn]

I also don't like "Write in the cloud," because I don't want my words, and my thoughts, to be subject to the whims of Amazon or Google.

Also, ...doesn't that leave your work vulnerable to being scraped by A.I.?

[capricorn-0mnikorn]

Further thoughts upon waking, this morning:

I'd rather hand write my papers in crayon and hand those in, instead of jumping through hoops deliberately writing poorly in order to prove my humanity.

That brings back memories of writing all my papers by hand, in my early high school days (before personal computers were common)

And that brings back memories of penmanship classes in elementary school.

And that's got me wondering if penmanship will be a rediscovered ard.

[capricorn-0mnikorn]

Quoted tag:

#there's disability reasons why bringing back hand writing shouldn't be universal

True. I was exempt from writing in cursive (actually told to only print) in 3rd grade, because my handwriting was so illegible.

I'm not saying that should be the solution, only speculating that it might one of the solutions pursued. The alternative is getting rid of generative a.i.. And I know from experience that "Business Interests" are quick to put imaginary future profits ahead of real, present day, accessibility needs.