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I was thinking of a pride art challenge people could do with their OCs, because I thought it'd be cute! A queer/trans artist with their creations.
but then I realised that same challenge would be infinitely more funny with folks who have atypical or horror OCs
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
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 :(
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
Thank you for helping with this data collection. Please rb for as big a sample as possible!
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i feel that when interacting with someone regarding TTRPGs, an important metric to figure out is whether they view playing a TTRPG as role playing with conflict and variance mechanics implemented, or rather as an analog game, of which a primary and significant mechanic is playing a role. Now, this is not to say that either of these viewpoints are the "correct" viewpoint to have when discussing TTRPGs, however, they do often result in significantly different and often opposed answers to questions regarding what the role of a TTRPG system is, and how it should be interacted with.
I think a reasonable example of this is answers to a question such as "should you strive to follow the rules of a system whenever possible" Someone from the former camp might reasonably say "No, because it might come at a detriment of the RP that we are trying to do" since, the focus of playing a TTRPG for them is something more akin to lightly structured improv Conversely, someone from the latter camp might just as reasonably say "Yes, because you should try and get a focused experience of the system at play" due to a focus on the it being a game, first and foremost. Now both these people can have just as much fun with a TTRPG system, and can have just as effective interactions with their table, but it is important to note how these viewpoints might clash when discussing what a ttrpg ought to be, how they ought to be interacted with, and also how they might clash when simultaneously interacting within the same table.
^tagged by @soctherapy but the post was getting too long
this isnt a win for me.......
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LESS FUCKING GOOOO
@sunshine-snake @lavendermoon48 @beanzdabean @lotustired @saltedlemoncandies @tabbykai @maedaeeee @yourlocalavian @yosanoschainsaw @iicor @peskybirdonyx @potatodolikeuman and open tagss
.................................................................................................OOOOOOOOHHHHHH FFFUUUCCCKKK!!!!!!!!! Pray for me guys 😭😭😭😭😭😭
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idk how to feel abt this.
happy? distressed? overjoyed? paniced? all of those??
open tags! (who i'm tagging below the cut) :) /nf
T-T
I’m gonna get Jeff the killed aren’t I
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It's a screenshot of someone's drawing. Artist is in the screenshot too
Also yes five Pebbles we can take ibuprofen together (I literally took one today)
We love chronic migraines here yep totalllyyyyy
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Oh god
@gaykirbyfan @kilikesmilktea @sunshine-and-anxiety @aninternetsurfer @averydeadshootingstar + any
I- I don’t know how to feel about this
@astarrel @yerinnieyayy @retrocrayons @floofboistudios @tractormaam @b1gg3stb1gack @gerunchick @candyyanny @ravens-and-rust @sylversteel @furryarts1 @cin-the-moth @pastel-goth-moth @just-a-little-moth @uziartsblog @linkus-b-squinkus @thatlifebloodvessel @unrelentingcheeseburgers-ss13 @cucurbitophobia @purpieslurpie @primitivetalker @thebutterflyoficeandwisteria @goojesters @brazilianmoth @lolza027 @gaykirbyfan @furryarts1 +anyone else!!!!!
FUUUUUUUUCK THEYRE GONNA TURN ME INTO THE VILLAIN OF SO MANY FICS! I DIDNT CHOOSE THIS IM SORRY!
Yeah okay.
Uhhhh
@frickie-rff @homodachii @lordarchfiend @gremints @parasiticalibis @travelingthemultiverse @the-omen-of-tea (I already know yours is going to be some project moon shit) @of-the-eastern-sky @that-one-enby-possum @princefluph @gaydexvocaloid and literally anyone else I forgot existed temporarily
Sooo, @asexualaxolotl meet Tawny and Archfiend’s son Taylor
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DPC and DPL. Dead People’s Clothes and Dead People’s Leather. Their toys, their paintings of half naked, naked, screwing men. The statues. The leather. The sling. The posters. The … all of it. We’d literally Straighten homes. Depending. Some families knew and were fine. Or more ok. But pictures of other guys on phones was the least of it. I have… leather that’s been passed through three or four men who’ve died before getting to me. They’re the heirlooms now, passed down chosen families. Sometimes there were crews. We’d show up as soon as possible, as a unit. We’d hit the bedrooms first. Clear out closets, under beds, bedsides. We’d donate, throw out, take mementos. Pass on. Secret lives and secret, us only treasures. Then we’d leave. For some family’s you never talked about it. They never knew. It was better all around. I have vests, gloves. A belt. Arm bands. Paintings. T-shirts. Photos, undeveloped film that’d I’m still somewhat terrified to try to get developed (lol). We live on in the living rooms of others.
This is. A very important message for the younger generations of queers.
We still have so much father to go, but y'all. Don’t let our past be forgotten.
Transcription: So back in the late 80s and early 90s, when I was 20 and there was another friend dying of AIDS like every three weeks. Yeah, seriously those days were terrible. Young gay men now will just never know what it was like. But when a friend would die we would ALL know exactly what to do. We’d get to their houses as fast as possible (most of us already had a key) and we would know EXACTLY where the smut was, we would know EXACTLY where the stuff they didn’t want their family to find. We would get it and we would destroy it. OR we would keep it for ourselves if it was cool, or we would donate it to…something. I dunno. It’s kind of a messed up memory, but uh, back then we all just had to have each other’s backs and uuh, yeah. This video just reminded me of that.
Random thing for people to consider is that since Laika is the saint of one way trips should Felicette be known as the saint of safe landings since she did make it back to the ground safely
tu LANCES félicette ? tu lances son corps comme la fusée ? oh ! oh ! prison pour les scientifiques ! prison pour les scientifiques pendant Un Mille Ans !
You can understand the French perfectly fine with only context but the English translation I got still had me floored
Big fan of sun motifs in characters not necessarily being about positivity and happiness and how they're so " bright and warm" but instead being about fucking brutal they are.
Radiant. A FORCE of nature that will turn you to ash. That warmth that burns so hot it feels like ice. Piercing yellow and red and white. A character being a Sun because you cannot challenge a Sun without burning alive or taking everything down with them if victorious.
listen i'm not advocating for exotic animals as pets, but i really just feel like cheetahs are probably different
i feel like we need to give them another shot as housebeasts
this is a critter who wants greenies and then to take a nap on the couch next to me, and i KNOW it
cheetah in House perfec t size for put inside! inside very Soft and Comfort cheetah sleep soundly put cheetah in House. Put Cheetah In House. no problems ever in cheetah in ho use because good Happy and Satisfy for human where sleep. House yes a place for a cheetah put cheetah in house can trust cheetah for giveing good love to humans in house. friend cheetah
I mean, as someone who as worked in a zoo, this is fairly true.
Obvious disclaimer that you shouldn't have wild animals as pets.
But like, cheetahs are the only large cats that keepers will do free contact with. Hell, even most small cats don't get free contact. (Because small cats can be VICIOUS. They'll have a baby pallas cat wearing thicker gloves than when handling an owl. Because small cats can just be vicious.)
Like I think the only other cat at our zoo where I've seen free contact with was servals? Because I know they've used servals in shows to demonstrate their natural jumping ability. But I know servals can sometimes have a mean temper as well. Meanwhile they'll do the cheetah run and afterwards put the mic by the cheetahs and it's just like an engine with them purring. It's fascinating to watch when the message in every other large animal is "no free contact because it's dangerous even when they're born in captivity".
Legit if any wild animal could be adapted to a pet it would be cheetahs lmao. Only problem is they can be skittish and very anxious and that's why they're often raised around dogs in zoos to gain confidence.
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last line hit like a mack truck
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👏 let 👏 people 👏 get 👏 sloppy 👏 on 👏 company 👏 time 👏
interesting how they didn’t share this instead where study show that productivity has actually increased, almost as if people tend to do their jobs more efficiently when they’re not miserable
With the world discovering alternative ways to work without human contact, the work from home force is getting a facelift.… Read More »
And both can be true simultaneously…. My BiL was just telling me that he’s so far ahead on his quotas (and his whole unit is) that their manager keeps telling them to slow down a little so he spends like 3 hrs a day on video games and is still ahead.
The ways we could restructure our economy if we were willing to admit that working people to the bone is NOT the most efficient way to do things and isn’t good for people OR companies…
Oh my god it's him! And in one of my favourite now canon civilian jobs for him, fuck yes
Absolute Batman #14
It’s gotta be tough as hell being both Nightwing and an EMT! Howest thine fuck is he managing both?
Fuck it *shitposts on LinkedIn*
16 days to 2015 and I still think I’m in 2012
Does anybody want to know a fun and detailed technical fact about the way Minecraft works that I only know because I spend my spare time pushing Minecraft to its absolute theoretical limits
YES!
I don’t play Minecraft but I do love specific knowledge like this, this sounds interesting
THE COUNCIL HAS SPOKEN AND THE COUNCIL HAS VOTED YES
Okay so. When you launch minecraft, the game stitches every texture in the game including mods and resource packs into a single image called the texture atlas. The size of this atlas increases as you add more new textures. This is what the vanilla minecraft texture atlas looks like:
I've seen people ask the question before "what is the maximum number of mods you can put on Minecraft. " The answer to this is that there is is no maximum - you can add as many mods as you computer can handle. But what DOES have a maximum size is the texture atlas. If you add enough mods, especially mods that add large textures, eventually you will overrun the texture atlas. When you launch the game, it creates a texture atlas and bases the size off how many textures there are. The atlas is only ever as big as it needs to be to fit all of the textures in all of the blocks and items in the game, so the more mods you add, the bigger your atlas needs to be. The absolute maximum size for the Minecraft texture atlas is 16,384x16,384 pixels. That sounds like a lot, but it's actually not THAT hard to overrun. My Minecraft save, the one I refer to as "the abomination" has actually overrun its texture atlas size.
Here's the caveat, though: for some reason, if you have an NVIDIA graphics card, your maximum texture atlas size is doubled. NVIDIA cards - even lower powered ones - have a maximum texture atlas size of 32,768 x 32,768. This is also relevant if you use higher resolution Minecraft textures like 64x64 or 256x256. Using a 256x texture pack, you'll start overrunning the texture atlas as soon as you add basically any mods if you're on a non-Nvidia GPU.
My new laptop has an LED in the power button. Seperate from the LED keyboard, the power button has a small single LED that changes to red and white seemingly at random.
This laptop also has this Fancy Mode called Hybrid Graphics mode. This combines the integrated graphics of the processor with the actual 5070 TI GPU in the laptop and smart-switches between them for different tasks, to save power (as the 50 series cards are extremely power hungry).
So I looked up the LED in the power button, and found out the color changes denote which GPU the device is using. The white LED means it's on the integrated GPU (which is AMD), and red means it's using the actual NVIDIA card. It's fairly smart about this, and when you launch a game, it always switches to the NVIDIA card.
So I launched my Abomination on my new laptop, and I got this:
I googled this and stared at it for a long minute. I've seen this error before caused by broken mods, but the exact same instance launches fine on my desktop I fiddled with it for a bit and couldn't figure out what on earth was causing this. The next time I launched the game I did my best to watch the logs, and caught the word "exceeds" flying by. After searching the log I found the error: requested texture atlas size exceeds allowed size of 16,384x16,384. And then I realized: the LED in my power button has been white this whole time. The "smart switching" in the hybrid graphics tech didn't pick up on minecraft as a "real game," so didn't launch it on the 5070ti - it launched it on the integrated AMD GPU, with the 16,384x16,384 max texture atlas.
I turned off the hybrid graphics, turned on the 5070ti all the time, and the abomination loaded without a single issue.
oh I can elaborate on the abomination later. you all don’t wanna know about the abomination
YES WE DO (<- has heard about the abomination before and will never stop cheerleading about it)
I would like to hear about the abomination, please… I like doing mildly cursed and ill-advised things with computers
See the really funny thing is that any time I’ve so much as vaguely mentioned the abomination on any other platform and provided any info about it people have gotten REALLY mad at me. Do NOT tell the people on Reddit you have a Minecraft modpack that won’t launch with less than 48 GB of Ram allocated they get really mad at you. I’m eepy but I promise to tell everyone about the abomination tomorrow
Some screenshots from The Abomination this fine evening for your viewing pleasure
So, as promised, here’s an explanation of The Abomination and why it is the way it is.
The Abomination started probably 5 or 6 years ago as a custom version of All The Mods 6 on 1.16.5. I started with ATM6 and just kept bolting stuff on, tossing in basically anything that looks vaguely interesting. I have a particular interest in nature/animal mods and furniture mods, so it’s focused on those. I’ve been limping the abomination forwards year by year, generally not moving to a new Minecraft version until all the biggest names have updated. I’ve been on 1.16.5, 1.18.2, and currently living on 1.20.1. It’s gonna take an act of god to get me past 1.20.1 especially as the modding scene has fractured so heavily over NeoForge (XKCD competing standards comic). I’ve used all sorts of crazy methods to maintain *roughly* the same mods since 1.16.5, it’s kind of a ship of Theseus at this point as so many mods from 1.16.5 no longer exist and so many things I had now didn’t exist then, but I’ve honestly tried to keep most of the same stuff.
Minecraft is written in Java, which people who have a better understanding of programming than me routinely point out is just not an amazing language to program a game in. One of the quirks it picked up from being written Java is that it - like one other game I can think of which engages in this insane methodology (✨cities skylines✨) loads *every block in the game into RAM on launch.* To be clear, that’s not every block like every dirt block - anyone who’s played Minecraft will know that whatever wizardry it uses means the performance is unimpacted by the volume of placed blocks - but every UNIQUE block. The more unique blocks you have - if you’ve played and you know what this means, think everything you can see in JEI - into RAM. The more unique blocks, the more RAM you need.
Vanilla Minecraft can run on the potatoest of potato machines, partly because it only has something like 200 or 250 unique blocks (I may be way overshooting that number I’m estimating right now). Every mod you add that adds blocks adds to Minecraft’s ram consumption.
The Abomination started its life with around 300 mods - mostly what was in AMT6 - and I could more or less get it running on 12 gigs of allocated RAM. As it’s grown over the years this number has increased, but the core of the abomination, as massive as it is, will still get off the ground with ~16 gigs allocated without too much trouble.
The primary culprits to the situation in which I currently find myself are two mods which do dynamic asset generation - Every Compat and Paladin’s Furniture. Dynamic generation in Minecraft is a coding trick that mods can pull to procedurally create blocks and assets on launch based on other available blocks. This allows a mod using dynamic generation to, for example, guarantee that a piece of furniture or adds will be available in every wood type, including modded ones, in every hypothetical player’s game by dynamically generating those assets at launch based on every block with the #wood tag and using the already existing textures, instead of the programmer of that mod having to manually create every asset for every wood type they know of which would inevitably leave out someone’s mod somewhere and creates other compatibility problems.
Every Compat generates every imaginable wooden item in the game in every wood type which exists in the game. Paladin’s Furniture does the same - generating a version for every wood, and actually several others - block type in the game of a broad set of furniture pieces. This means that having these two mods present massively increases the number of unique blocks in a pack - a single new wood type creates a full Paladin and Every Compat set, so it creates a couple hundred new blocks every time.
Because I also play with the REST of the utterly obscene situation happening here, including Silent Gear (many, many wood types) Biomes O Plenty & Biomes you’ll go/gone (another ton of wood types), Dynamics, etc etc etc, there are hundreds of wood types in my game. And Every Compat & Paladin’s Furniture dynamically generate sets of several hundred blocks a piece for each of them. The situation rapidly becomes exponential.
The last count I saw my unique block types were in the hundreds of thousands - I think it’s either 200,000 or 600,000, I don’t remember - and my JEI is close to 2,000 pages long. The massive RAM needs are entirely because of this obscene volume of unique blocks. If I remove just those two mods - every Compat and paladin’s furniture - the RAM needs PLUMMET.
The reason this makes everyone so angry is that there’s very strange misconception in a lot of Minecraft technical support communities that no Minecraft save will ever, no matter what you do, need more than 4 GB of ram allocated (already patently false as the newest All The Mods packs don’t launch well with less than 8), that assigning more than that amount of ram is absolutely never necessary, is always stupid and wrong, and will break your game, and that an error that says “you don’t have enough ram assigned” can somehow actually magically mean “you have too much ram assigned” if you have more than 4-6 GB allocated. I have played and tweaked and tested the Abomination at length, and I know for a fact that it needs the amount of ram I feed it because, what do you know, if I give it less it won’t launch and it tells me very clearly that it won’t launch because I have don’t have enough ram allocated, and as soon as I give it what it wants it suddenly starts working again. However, everyone else literally thinks I am either stupid or lying about this, so it is literally impossible for me to troubleshoot, discuss, or seek help for any OTHER problems with this modpack in any public Minecraft space. As soon as they see how much ram is allocated to it they start yelling at me that no Minecraft modpack has ever or will ever need that much ram, that I’ve broken my game by allocating that much ram, and that having that much ram allocated is the cause of it running poorly and I need to assign it 4 GB instead of 40 and it’ll surely run better. I then explain to them that that’s not possible because it literally won’t boot with any less and tells me very clearly that it’s because it doesn’t have enough ram allocated, but somehow “the game continuously tells me that it doesn’t have enough allocated ram until I give it this amount, at which point it stops giving me that error” STILL reads to everyone as “well it must be telling you that because you gave it too much ram and if you just keep giving it less you’ll stop seeing the error that says it doesn’t have enough.” It absolutely baffles me, and it’s entirely down to this weird conception that Minecraft NEVER needs more ram no matter what (this is very common on Reddit) despite that just…not being even sort of true.
There ARE problems with assigning Minecraft massive amounts of Ram due to what Java calls garbage collection, which is a whole other uber-complex can of Minecraft worms, but I have a mile long string of slightly customized Java launch arguments I stole from someone on Reddit that keeps my garbage collection situation under control. But nonetheless it makes people Extremely Angry, so i basically have to simply play it in solitude, troubleshoot it (and its ever growing, extremely plentiful, errors) myself, and explain it in deep detail to anyone who wants to know about it to head off them yelling at me.
I’ll post some more technical details on it tomorrow including my shaders, JVM args, actual mod count, etc, tomorrow.
But I’m gonna post this poll because it’s gonna be fun as hell
You’ve read all of the above. The Abomination WILL NOT launch without 40-44 GB of RAM allocated to its JVM profile. It is absolutely unplayable if you do not have 64 GB of ram in your computer. Bearing that in mind, is there anyone out there with a computer that can actually run this bitch that would like me to upload a ZIP file of the abomination so you can at least try to play it
Yes bring that bitch on
I am not touching that with a 10 foot pole
Clicky clicky button
I can try to yank out the Compat mods mentioned above and try to get it back to 12-16 GB territory as well and upload a version like that if there’s any interest.
That's amazing. Good luck on your abomination, I mean it!
BTW, for anyone wondering: Minecraft being written in Java is why this dual-GPU issue happened.
Whenever I see some anon asking an artist if it's "okay to take inspiration" from their art it makes me want to make some kind of manifesto or billboard or PSA or skywriting campaign to undo whatever damage strange litigious illustrator types inflicted upon the most basic foundations of the creative process. We can't let them get away with this
