Cyan's Distractions

37 | She/Her | Serena aka Cyan aka Sappy | Sims 2, 3, and 4 (and Final Fantasy XIV) | WCIF friendly, just don't expect me to be fast about answering

[cyazurai]

Hello hello!

I felt it was finally time for me to create a pinned navigation post for my blog.

The Games We Play Legacy Challenge

My newest legacy challenge I've written. It's based on video game genres I found on Steam, and it is 20 generations long, with 40+ subgenres to do alongside each generation. The rules are linked above if you want to check it out.

Soul Crystal Legacy Challenge

The very first legacy I ever wrote. I wrote it back in 2020, but never published it because it felt incomplete. I finally decided to publish it because it feels complete now. It is based on the jobs you can play in Final Fantasy XIV, though you don't need to know that game to play this legacy. If you are interested, the rules are linked above (in the title of the challenge).

Legacy House: A Competition Challenge

This is my newest challenge creation, but by far the easiest one of the ones I've created, so I put it at the top. It is not a legacy, but instead more of a "reality TV-ish" competition challenge to help a simmer decide between sims they want to play with. If you want to check it out, the rules are linked above!

Deadly Apocalypse Challenge

I have created a challenge based around the Ultimate Decades Challenge, but in a post-apocalyptic setting. If you are interested in it, it is linked above!

Anonymously Autonomous Legacy Challenge

Another challenge I have created, this time as an updated version of the I'm Surrounded by Idiots challenge rules, in a way that will hopefully not seem ableist or insulting to anyone. Click above to be taken to the rules!

My YouTube Channel

Located under the link above is my YouTube channel, sappychan, where I post Let’s Plays. Right now I only have a NSB Let’s Play and one episode of an Ultimate Decades Challenge but I may eventually include some other gameplays, and perhaps even some CAS videos.

My Twitch Channel

Located under the link above is my Twitch channel, also called sappychan like my YouTube. I'm a vtuber, so if you are hoping to see a real person streaming, that isn't me. I also primarily stream sims content, but occasionally play other games that I enjoy (or have been looking forward to).

My Simself NSB from the beginning

The above link will take you to the very beginning of my casual Not So Berry, where I used my simself as the founder, even though she’s basically nothing like me except genetics.

The Ward Name Game Legacy from the beginning

The above link will take you to the very beginning of my Name Game legacy, which I started all because I wanted a casual legacy to test out the new infant life stage, and what better way than with a Name Game? It’s a legacy that hasn’t had an updated ruleset in a while, but it doesn’t really need it. If you want to read the rules, they are located here: Name Game Legacy.

The De Witte Princess Legacy from the beginning

The above link will take you to the very beginning of my Princess Legacy, which follows the new rules created by samssims. The founder is Eirlys de Witte, Snow White, and it follows her and her descendants as they go through their fairy tale lives. The rules are located here: Samssims’ Princess Legacy.

Other Things

The Spare Parts Build a City Challenge blog

Going to the link above will take you to my side blog, @sparepartsbacc. I took an extended break from this challenge, but I am back to it because my love for the BACC has been rekindled, and it's just so much more fun when it includes more than just my sims. The rules I follow are located here: BACC ruleset.

A Chronicle of the Joye Family: an Ultimate Decades Challenge

Going to the above link will take you to my side blog, @simsmedievally. I keep it updated similarly to the way I keep my modern legacies, I sometimes take a break, but I almost always end up coming back to it in the end. The rules I follow are located here: Original UDC rules.

My CC

Occasionally, I get the desire to make a recolor of something, or a mod or something. This is where you can find those items.

[papermint-airplane]

The best thing about having OCs is that literally nobody can stop you from putting them in situations.

[janmisali]

oh I know how to make a poll's results look like the letter E watch this

what is the rightmost digit of the number of responses this poll has right now? (it should be visible before you vote.)

0, 1, or 2

3

4 or 5

6

7, 8, or 9

Remaining time: 5 days 7 hours

[stormbreaker101]

I LOVE COLLABORATIVE SOTRYTELLING I LOVE CREATING THINGS TOGETHER I LOVE "YES AND"ING WITH OTHERS I LOVE "NO BUT WHAT ABOUT-"S I LOVE HEARIJG MY FRIENDS' IDEAS I LOVE BOUNDING OFF OF THEM I LOVE ART I LOVE STORIES I LOVE ALL THE DIFFERENT PASSIONS AND SKILLS REQUIRED I LOVE ALL THE DIFFERENT MEDIA IT TAKES I LOVE I LOVE I LOVE

[butchfagminotaur]

the sims will never not be one of the funniest games on the planet

[deykxn]

THIS JUST HAPPENED TO ME

[cherryhatter-deactivated2015072]

KICK THE CAN!

Let’s play the biggest game of kick the can on the internet.

To kick the can, reblog it. I wanna see how long this can go on for.

[visibun]

the oldest reblogs for this post that i can find are from january 2nd of 2013. this can has been getting kicked around tumblr for almost 13½ years now

[drtanner]

And yet somehow this is my first time kicking it!

[softichill]

I loooove ominously giggling when I'm getting my friends into smth new. They ask me a spoilery question and I get to do this

[tieflingkisser]

[cyazurai]

feeling a little berry, might start a paralives version of the berry pastel rainbowcy

[wizardarchetypes]

okay already i desperately need u.s. americans to practice the phrase, "not where i'm from, but maybe in other parts of the u.s."

because it's genuinely insane the things i've heard americans say 'america doesn't have' when it's just factually incorrect.

for some perspective: during my longest move i did by-car in the u.s., i drove ~3,000 miles. That's ~4,800 km. It took nearly 50 hours drive-times alone. Meaning, if I could have driven without stopping once, it would have taken nearly 50 hours. Of course I split that up over several days.

Driving that same distance here, If there's a ferry+road from Rabat (in Morocco) to Kyiv (Ukraine), I could take it and keep on going another several hours.

So you can understand how silly it is for someone from the u.s. to be asked to answer a question on behalf of the entirety of the u.s.—geographically, culturally, etc.

So now that we've said all that, I need you to know that I listened to a guy from Idaho tell an Irish person today, "yeah, we just don't really get snails much in America."

Snails.

[wizardarchetypes]

Next. Even if someone does say, 'not where I'm from,' you might still want to check that out for yourself:

[parakeet]

just saw a 'comments' tab on someones blog you know where the following and likes tabs would be if enabled and it was just showing all the replies theyve made on peoples posts. this is fascinating when did this feature come out

[parakeet]

EMERGENCY - ITS AUTO ENABLED!

if you've made replies on posts there is now a tab on your blog showing every post youve replied to and your reply.

if this is not what you want, either go to your blog and click comments and disable it from there or just go to your individual blogs setting pages. just change it from blue to grey if you dont want everyone to see your replies AND the post you're replying to

PLEASE BE ADVISED that it is set to disabled for blogs that have not made any replies but it will turn ON if you reply with that blog in the future.! i just tested it with my main, which was greyed out but it turned on the moment i left a test reply

figured i'd get the word out bc i have not seen a single mention of this and i'm sure there are plenty of people who maybe comment on things they don't want on display for everyone to see on their blog lol. you can still look at your replies with it toggled off just no one else can, like locking the following and likes list

[becausegoodheroesdeservekidneys]

The real impact of AI at university level that I've watched in real time is how so many students come onto courses now - including Masters level - who straight up don't know how to analyse/evaluate things anymore. They just accept whatever they first read/hear completely uncritically. Every time you point it out you have to coax them into Actually Thinking.

I've spotted a huge decline over the last two years. What's upsetting is how so many of our current third years have declined since their first year. I did a seminar with them the other day, on the topic of the environmental impacts of different diets. One guy told me confidently that there would be no additional agricultural lands if we all went vegetarian.

"Cool," I said. "What's your source for that?"

"I'm sure I read it," he said.

"Fair," said I, "go and look it up. Find an academic source, let's assess it to see if it's robust."

The first thing he did was go to Google, and then read the AI summary.

"That's not a source," I said. "Find me a source."

Five minutes later, he happily tells me that a Guardian article says so, and mentions the World Economic Forum.

"Okay," I said. "Neither of those are academic sources, and the WEF is secondary anyway. Go to Google Scholar, and find a journal article."

Ten minutes later, he tells me he can only find articles that say it's a very complex issue in spite of pop cultural received wisdom, and we don't actually know.

A THIRD YEAR. This man has a dissertation due in THREE MONTHS. This is a skill we taught him in first year, and it's all dribbled out of his ears in the quest for easy summaries from an autocomplete algorithm. And I dearly wish I could say he's an exception, but Jesus Christ, that would be a lie.

I'm currently writing a lecture for the second years for their research methods module, and I normally wouldn't need to do this. But I'm having to re-introduce them to the basic concepts of how to actually analyse findings rather than lazily take whatever they seem to say at face value. I'm trying to find a good paper that had Surprising findings, because I want to show them a research question and a set of results and then get them to speculate and research on why they found something so different, but that's a difficult thing to search for.

Ngh. Yelling at the choir here, I know, but NNNNGH

[ecrivainsolitaire]

I can't be the only one who thinks this isn't a problem with AI, it's a problem with a for-profit college system that pushes inadequate students through in order to extract debt from them while failing to stop the progress of the illiterate. Back in the day you'd be laughing out of 7th grade English if you delivered something like that, let alone a master's degree. These people should have flunked out way before AI was invented, and forced to repeat half the curriculum in order to graduate, and only then be allowed to move on to the next stage. AI has become a scapegoat for all the growing problems the education system had long before its invention; it's the same as blaming phones or Wikipedia. The reason these students shouldn't have a master's isn't because they became stupid overnight in November 15th, 2022; it's because they were already stupid and no one educated it out of them, so the moment they found a shortcut to avoid using their brains they forgot what little they already contained. But just like with phones and Wikipedia, everyone will just blame the new tech and those damn kids on their internet, and absolutely nothing will be done to prevent dangerously ignorant people from eroding the meaning of a university degree because extraction tuition money is more profitable than giving a shit.

[becausegoodheroesdeservekidneys]

No.

This, as I said in the post, is a noticeable and significant problem in the last two years. It is affecting students who were fine three years ago, and now aren't. It is a very specific issue that is affecting very specific skills, including previously very intelligent people

This is already attested in the literature. Meanwhile, the for-profit education system has not changed in the last two years

Additionally, prior to the last 2-3 years, I had failed one student ever, and flagged one student ever for plagiarism. This year we've had to deal with five separate plagiarism cases on the Masters course alone, all of whom admitted to LLM use. Not one of them can analyse information worth a damn; all of them had excellent prior undergrad scores.

This is an LLM problem

[daughterofscotland]

Saw your original post uncredited on FB 😒

Comments were very much agreeing with you.

[becausegoodheroesdeservekidneys]

ON FACEBOOK???

[formerlyluckymanticore]

Reblog if you will never. Ever. Use AI in your writing.

[inthetags]

Reblog and put in the tags if you can remember where you got the shirt you're currently wearing.

[yakumtsaki]

if hugelunatic had just made a fucking fundraiser i guarantee we would have raised the money in like 2 days max bc most of us r old bitches now and EMPLOYED it legit astonishes me that he didnt, idg how u can see smth as community driven as gos as ur personal lil project that goes down when u decide ure done w it

[thevulturesquadron]

text: [ “Some of you have forgotten that only three years ago you were perfectly capable of writing an essay, writing a eulogy, telling a bedtime story to a child, and it should worry you that powerful companies have convinced us we can’t do things we’ve been doing for 5000 years.” ]

[cyazurai]

A collection of cute moments and glitchy moments. Ever and Solene had another child, a boy named Josiah, and they both seem satisfied with two kiddos. The quest Ever has to have a baby never completed, though, despite having two kids, so not sure what's going on with that.

Amalia and Josiah are both children now, though Amalia is almost a preteen. They're good friends so far. Amalia's talent is music, and Josiah's is food.

Oh, and I had to save the painting Solene did of the boy with the cat, because it looked so much like Josiah. Put it over his bed. <3