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祝日 / Permanent Vacation
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if i look back, i am lost
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[freezeframe]
You may be wondering how I got into this situation. That's good. Keep wondering. If you pay close attention to the rest of this movie and employ your critical thinking skills, you may find that the answer unfolds as it goes along. Sometimes it's good not to know yet, and to wonder. Sometimes that's the entire point.
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I'm so addicted to deleting posts. not even controversial ones, just like anything. I'll briefly post an anecdote or my opinion of a movie, think about it for a few minutes, and then go NOPE no one needs to see that! this post too, I'll probably delete it before you can reply. just watch.
You can replace [ACTIVITY YOU ENJOY] with [SCROLLING] but watch out. This sucks bad 👍
Some things about this post since getting quite a few notes:
1. If you see this post, highly recommend taking it as an opportunity to set a timer for 15 minutes and switch over to ACTIVITY YOU ENJOY. if after those 15 minutes, you want to go back to scrolling, that's okay!
2. Huge shout out to this popping up in my notifs often, bc I do go back to activity.
3. I think there are times where scrolling is fine. Right now, for example, I'm being connected to a machine for two hours to donate plasma and platelets. Yes this is a brag but it is also a time where scrolling is one of the few things I can do. (Though I will probably also read or watch something on phone lol)
hmmm, this seems to be some kind of curse breaking spell… be free ye reader
The European Union already forced Apple to abandon its proprietary charging port and adopt USB-C across its entire iPhone lineup. It just did something bigger. A new EU mandate requires every smartphone sold in Europe including Apple devices to feature a battery that can be replaced by the user without specialist tools, without voiding a warranty, and without sending the device to a manufacturer approved service center. Batteries must maintain a minimum capacity threshold after a set number of charge cycles and replacement parts must remain available for up to ten years after a model goes on sale.
The consumer electronics industry built its current business model around batteries that degrade, cannot be replaced at home, and create a natural upgrade cycle every two to three years. The EU just legislated that model out of existence in the world's largest regulatory market.
Apple, Samsung, and every other manufacturer now faces a choice between redesigning their devices for the European market or accepting that their current hardware architecture is no longer legally sellable there.
Given that no company walks away from European consumers voluntarily the phones are going to change and once they change for Europe the rest of the world will ask why theirs still do not.
"oh, yeah, there's this fuckoff huge city that crawls around the slopes of gehenna" okay... are you going to elaborate on that, forgotten realms wiki? can i get a single crumb of lore, pretty please? oh--no, just an offhand mention? well okay then. i mean like. okay i guess. okay
There's apparently not a ton of material about it -- this snippet from the Manual of the Planes, 3rd. Edition is the most I was able to dig up, if you're still interested.
Planes of Conflict didn't seem to talk about it either, although it's got a fair general description of Gehenna otherwise.
I see we’ve reached the “blame your failures on communist subterfuge” phase of the AI business plan
The AI business plan, for reference:
1. Promise everything.
2. Piss off everyone.
3. Deliver nothing.
4. Blame asians?
Man, I've been hating on ai for free! Where do I sign up for Chinese funding?
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Honestly I've had French people complain about how French youtubers are just mediocre assholes making money being the biggest fish in a tiny pond, but seeing how the whole cast of JDG embraced AI I'm never changing my mind on this.
There's something to be said about English speaking people expecting their cultural issues to instantly translate overseas, and I actually think these expectations are putting off a lot of in this case French people from like... keeping up with foreign news. But it is also just profoundly upsetting seeing in real time how my countrymen are just NOT keeping up with the discourse surrounding AI as a whole. Most of what I see in reaction to and in defense of that kind of behavior is "oh but it's not GENERATIVE AI it's just a bunch of filters" "oh it's generative AI but it was done in a rush at the end of production with an impossibly short deadline so it's not like we would have found an artist for that anyway" "oh but it's to generate music for our ad segment, nobody wants to do that so it's not putting anyone out of business" which is not at all covering the breadth of issues with AI. We've hit a point in the economy where loans to fund the construction of data centers have dried up a year ago in the United States, and most of the ones that broke ground are laying in state unfinished because the construction companies were not paid -because the AI bubble may not end up popping but it's certainly deflating like a wet fart- AND YET in France you're just now hearing in the news about elected officials coming up with financial incentives for new data centers. Not only is it bad for all the usual reasons, but French people should care about this even more because GOD DAMN WE LOOK LIKE COMPLETE FUCKING DUMBASSES. DUUR LET'S INVEST IN THE INSOLVENT TECH ALREADY ON THE WAY OUT CAUSE WE CAN'T BE FUCKED TO READ ENGLISH SPEAKING NEWS. DE GAULLE WAS RIGHT ENGLISH PEOPLE ARE WITCHES. And now apparently during a guided tour of the D-Day museum in Normandy, JDG, a French youtuber, asked Claude about the exhibit while the tour guide was standing right in front of him.
So if you're French, and you don't know yet, AI art is kind of obvious in its stealing from creators, but you have to understand it does the same thing with just text based answers to queries, or anything it does really. That's just how a large language model works, it needs a large database to approximate what looks like an answer to your question, based on averages. It doesn't stop being an illegal theft machine just because you're working with too short a deadline to hire an actual artist, it doesn't stop being a theft machine just because you assume nobody would take that job. In these situations either manage your project better or buy clip art/stock music, something that's been available for decades and should be a known quantity to any creator. Those LLMs have been let loose on the internet to scrap literally anything not bolted to the walls, meaning any interaction with any publicly available LLM right now is based on stolen data, no ifs not buts not excuses. Using AI is enabling theft and plagiarism. Furthermore and more importantly, the infrastructure required to power those LLMs, for picture or text or whatever generation, is a massively wasteful, hugely extensive amount of servers and data centers that heat up like motherfuckers and consume more water and power than most countries do to function, and are linked to several health issues due to air, water and noise pollution. So they destroy the environment on a local scale but also a global one with how much power they consume.
As an artist I don't say this lightly, but the copyright issue is fucking peanuts compared to the environmental damage. AI is gonna do irreparable harm to the creative industry sure, but that is to some degree mitigated by how the entire business model of publicly available AI models is completely unable to turn a profit; meanwhile the damage done by any data center will linger and compound, and it will probably stay in service to fulfill whatever business model tech bros will find for this junk tech, probably mass surveillance and guiding Israeli missiles. Cause yes it's doing that too.
So do not normalize AI, do not stay silent when you see it used, and do not for a second buy those half baked excuses from youtubers using it. Nevermind the borderline pathologic level of stupidity from a grown ass adult asking an AI right in front of a person trained to give the information he's looking for, there is never a time where normalizing AI is worth whatever you're doing. Just delay the release of your fucking video. Buy stock music. Anything else. We've survived so far without AI, if you suddenly NEED it now that's just a lie you made up because you're lazy.
When I was a teenager every single household was expected to have a PC and it was the only way anyone wanted to be on the internet and do internet stuff. I'm almost afraid to ask this now.
do you own and use your own computer that is not a phone
yes
no
Okay, fiiiiine. We can do Brutalist Neo-Gothic for the next dungeon theme – on one condition: for every giant inscrutable concrete human face you add, I get to add a giant inscrutable concrete human ass.
...Fine, but they better be actually inscrutable. I was able to scrute the human asses you put in our last dungeon with relative ease.
@gagedeliveryboy replied:
An Incredible Journey into the inscrutable concrete insides of a Concrete Giant as a mega dungeon full of various Russian/Slavic pastiche characters. Stalinist Kobolds eternally at war with Bolshevik ratfolk and Cossack dwarves that ride giant blind geckos. Ratsputin is there
In a statement that mourned “the extinguishing of one of the league’s oldest and most infernal lights,” the Washington Wizards announced Tuesday that the organization’s founding wizard, Osric the Baleful, had died at age 682, bringing to an end a centuries-long career in necromancy, prophecy, and NBA ownership.
Osric’s 1997 acquisition of the team then known as the Bullets is said to have taken place after an omen from the entrails of a hanged usurer convinced him that possession of a middling sports franchise would grant him an inexhaustible river of mortal anguish on which to float into eternity. Osric emerged from his crypt during a lightning storm and presented the team’s owners with a yellowed parchment granting him “full dominion over basketball in the District of Columbia, together with all courts, revenues, and towering gamesmen, who are hereby subject to permanent indentureship.” Before the owners could protest, the wizard had already turned them into wooden pestles.
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Queer-Friendly Indie Tabletop RPG #137: This world has no patriarchy or gender inequality, yet somehow evolved exactly the same cultural institutions as every other generically medieval fantasy milieu.
Me: And we're not gonna delve into that even a little bit, huh?
Queer-Friendly Indie Tabletop RPG #137: Here's 5000 words exploring the implications of undead skeletons being fully integrated members of society.
Me: Okay, now you're just fucking with me.
#“now go off into the world and kill 'tribes' of bandits and goblins without moral compunctions” (via @bombussyaffinis)
To be fair, sometimes it's more along the lines of "our goblins have exactly the same stereotypical traits and propensities as their Dungeons & Dragons counterparts, but the text awkwardly tries to spin those as virtues".
(My personal favourite is "yes, our goblins do break into people's houses and take everything that isn't nailed down, but they're not thieves, they're just immutably genetically programmed to be absolute socialists and are literally incapable of grasping the concepts of privacy or personal possessions no matter how it's explained to them".)
Since everyone knows how well it went over when Dragonlance tried that same line with the kender.
why can rockstar games institutionalise you for life like nikita kruschev for being autistic
He didn't steal 10 million dollars. They made that number up as a loss, they never fucking had it. Rockstar has spent more than a billion fucking dollars on GTA VI and will likely make billions more when it gets released.
Uber is a fucking shell game of a company designed to leech investor capital and output bootleg cabs.
Nvidia posted a profit in 2023 of $4.37 billion. This is like someone stealing less than a penny from me.
And they lock this kid in a prison hospital for LIFE?
Capitalism is disgusting.
Nobody should buy GTA til they free Arion Kurtaj
What with GTA VI going up for pre-order i'd just like to remind everyone that rockstar conspired with the UK government to lock an 18-year-old away for life for hacking them.
A HANDY CHART FOR THOSE OF YOU WONDERING WHAT THE FUCK IS UP WITH THESE. NOTE THAT THESE ARE ALL THE INFORMAL AND YOU IS THE FORMAL SO LIKE YOU WOULD ALWAYS ADDRESS YOUR SUPERIOR/ OLDER PERSON/ SOCIAL BETTER WITH YOU BUT WITH YOUR BUDS YOU CAN USE THESE.
I’m not sure I knew the thy/thine distinction. Thanks for this!
THINE IS ALSO GRAMMATICALLY EQUIVALENT TO YOURS.
“It is yours” and “It is thine” differ only in their level of formality.
Regarding the your/yours and thy/thine comparison, I tend to think of them as the second-person "translations" of my/mine.
This is my house <--> this is thy house <--> this is your house.
This house is mine <--> this house is thine <--> this house is yours.
Not every post can be a 10/10, but never underestimate the power of belabouring a 4/10 bit.
If you do it 10 times, it turns into a 4 bit.
If you do it 20 times, it turns into an 8 bit, and then you can cash in on the nostalgia factor.
If you do it five times, it turns into a 2 bit, which you can cash in for a shave and a haircut
If you do it two times, it turns into a 8/10 bit, which isn't a lot, but it's weird that you've done it twice.
The Legend of Zelda — A Terrible Fate
goodnight goblins. goodnight ghouls. goodnight screaming tomes and scrolls. goodnight floating glowing eye. goodnight my dear homunculi. goodnight imps and spectral wraiths. goodnight false god that feeds on faith. goodnight bony skeletons. goodnight inert collapsing sun. goodnight monster made of mud. goodnight vampires drinking blood. i wish you all good evil-night. and please do let the bed bugs bite
@monstrousagonies
I had to try reading this aloud. - L
