The cuddly Corner

My little place on the Internet for Games, Food and other Stuff I like. Mostly Games I think :D My Avatar is my Commander Shepard Keyra, drawn by the wonderful @erubadhriell

[pyrrhiccomedy]

we're heading towards some record setting humidity this summer so JUST A REMINDER that if you're in any way prone to migraines, this weather is great at triggering them! Be EXTREMELY diligent about staying hydrated if you're going out, EVEN TO AN AIR CONDITIONED SPACE, and ESPECIALLY if you are drinking any alcohol at all! even a single glass of wine or a cocktail! You will feel fine for an hour or two but then you will NOT FEEL FINE. If you have a headache that isn't responding to painkillers and it gets noticeably worse when you move or change elevations (sitting to standing, not like, going to the mountains) then drink a full glass of water and go lie down in a cool, quiet, dark room until it passes! DO NOT LOOK AT A SCREEN UNTIL THE DANGER HAS PASSED. I know you're bored but it could be so much worse!

[pyrrhiccomedy]

I see this is going around again! Happy Migraine Season everybody! Remember to keep a damp washcloth in your freezer so that if you feel the migraine coming on you can lay down and press it against your forehead and temples to give yourself a better chance of ducking it before it's too late!

[literary-potato]

Also a reminder that for some folks, big changes in air pressure can also be a migraine trigger. So if you’re in an area that, like mine, is having a lot of really wild temperature swings (ie multiple very hot days that end abruptly with storms at which point it cools down a lot), might be a good idea to have your migraine remedies locked and loaded, because with migraines the sooner you intervene, the more likely it is you’ll avert the worst symptoms (and will need less medication to do so).

[transmascmarypoppins]

why is this post completely broken in every way imaginable

[cecilsrandomeverything]

Broken notes… deactivated account… removed image….

Finally, we have them all.

[spacefinch]

In addition: OP’s name is just… gone. No “[insert username]-deactivated[insert a bunch of numbers]” as is the standard for deactivated blogs.

Just the world “deactivated.” Look upon their post, ye mighty, and despair.

[chatblancofficial]

It’ll be almost impossible to find this post unless it wanders across your dash.

[black-quadrant]

Reblog this triple-dead post for something good to happen to you this week.

[writingdose]

***not my own screenshot***

AO3 saying they will not be banning AI-generated works on their platform

I agree with them and I respect them for this. no, I am not a fan of AI-generated fics, but as I’ve said many times before in the past:

AO3 was built with the “complete anti censorship” stance. them banning AI-generated works would be them going against their own core values of “no censorship”. and “no censorship” means nothing is censored. and that includes works you dislike for ethical or whatever reasons.

as of now, most (I believe) of creators who use AI to write for them properly tag their works as “AI-generated”. so you can safely filter these works out if you don’t wish to consume them. but I have no doubt the majority (if not all) of them will stop tagging their works as AI if AO3 actually bans AI works, which means these AI works will be untagged. you can never know for sure if the fic you read is AI or not, since they aren’t properly tagged anymore.

whether or not you like it, AI is getting better and more human-like, meaning it’s getting harder to spot when a fic is AI.

speculation, witch hunts, wrongful accusations and harassment harm real writers, as well as writing community as a whole, as much as AI does, if not more.

it’s impossible for AO3 to effectively ban and remove “only AI-generated works” without innocent human-made works getting wrongly marked as AI and deleted in the process. so if AO3 were to ban AI-generated works, it would mean

there was a chance of a human-made work getting wrongly marked as AI and taken down

there was a chance of an AI-generated work being wrongly accepted as human-made

fandom drama could and would cause innocent writers to get their human-made works falsely reported as AI

human-made fics that “upset people”, in terms of contents, could and almost certainly would be reported as AI, because there were people who “found the fics inappropriate/disgusting and wanted them taken down” — and the only way they could do that was by falsely reporting these fics as AI

AO3 volunteers would have to decide which works were AI “based on vibes alone”. and not only was it impossible for them to always make the correct judgement, there simply weren’t enough volunteers and time for every single work that was reported as AI to be thoroughly read by a human volunteer

no, “AI detector” is unreliable and the machine itself is also AI — it’s known to have incorrectly marked human-made works as AI and AI-generated works as human-made.

TL;DR — no matter how much you hate AI-generated fics, banning them would do more harm than good.

[importantcatpics]

[amionna]

Malithra Mizzrym

[leysendris]

[lllchiaroscurolll]

Ardreyth Mizzrym

Outfit: Ondefleur Dress: Ensemble by BerrySemifreddo/ Nexus Mods

[thexgrayxlady]

So like, rather than being deleted, EDI traps the Eva Core AI into like the Normandy’s roomba or some shit. And she keeps trying to carry out her duty to infiltrate Cerberus’ enemies, but she’s like a roomba. She keeps performing incredibly ineffectual sabotage like not dusting the lower decks or leaving crumbs on the floor or polishing the floor too well so that someone slips. She keeps trying to kill the Virmire survivor, but it’s like bumping them in the ankle when they’re close to a railing. 

[lllchiaroscurolll]

[gatheringbones]

tbh a lot of my advice boils down to “hey you know that terrible horrible looming thing you’re doing your best to avoid and distract and escape as much as possible but no matter what you do it just keeps looming and looming and ruining your life”

“just, fuckign, run straight at it screaming.”

[quasarkisses]

i needed this as a background

[spectrexviiii]

[anna-antoshchenkova]

I did something

[stackslip]

possibly the funniest thing is that ashley/kaidan on horizon are like 100% right to be suspicious of shepard and to be freaked the fuck out that their old dead commander is back to life on a ship owned by a human supremacist group who has committed multiple atrocious crimes in the previous games that they were witnesses to, but since shepard is your player character and can't be wrong + their writing is so..... subpar, the fandom has found them unforgivable for this ever since

[deutsche-bahn]

Ich bin immer begeistert wenn in irgend'nem Buch oder einer Doku gesagt wird, dass jemand "nach [...] eilte". Auch wenn eigentlich eine flotte Kutschfahrt usw. gemeint ist, muss ich mir immer vorstellen wie der Kurfürst von Schlagmichtot querfeldein losgesprintet ist. Und der Hofstaat hinterher. Nette Vorstellung.

[importantcatpics]

[lllchiaroscurolll]

XULLRAE MIZZRYM

YATHTALLAR

Xullrae Mizzrym was born to House T’Sarran in Ched Nasad in 1018 DR and later taken into House Mizzrym under Minaste’s patronage. As Yathtallar, she serves Lolth with ambition, discipline, and a sharp instinct for court politics. She is openly loyal to Minaste, though much of that loyalty is tied to the promise of power and advancement. Cold, articulate, and quick to wound with words, Xullrae enjoys reminding lower-ranking males of their place. Beneath her polished devotion lies a dangerous hunger to be seen as more than an adopted priestess from a fallen branch.

[jane-shepard]

the fact that there is an entire dlc that features shepard’s Evil Clone is funny on its own, but the entire point of the dlc being “SHEPARD IS NOTHING WITHOUT HER FRIENDS” makes it hilarious. a catastrophic identity theft scenario was foiled by the power of friendship. the gang got together and brainstormed like the beacons of comradery they are, and they decided to shoot the problem to death and get drunk afterwards. good game guys, let’s hit the showers

[miss-nerd-alert]

And then they throw in absolutely amazing comedy bits like:

We have to break onto our own ship using a toothbrush

“[S]He messed with my hamster, guys. Now it’s personal.”

Clone Shepard saying the iconic “I should go” to Real Shepard, and Shepard asking the others if they really sound like that

Garrus and Zaeed drunkenly booby trapping the apartment during the party

The player’s love interest teasing them about their near-death-experience with “Did you really fall through a fish tank?”

“That’s why I love hanging out with you guys. Why shoot something once when you can shoot it forty-six more times?”

[amalenko]

I'm rewatching clips of my Mshenko Shepard, and something I don't think I think about enough when it comes to Kaidan is the trauma he has from Vyrnnus, his biotic teacher, and how he then grew up to be a biotic teacher himself in ME3. Sure, I don't personally get the impression he's training inexperienced kids (even if they are the "youth" as he says in London,) so it's not the same, but he's still an instructor. He grows from being worried about letting himself use his biotics too much and losing control in ME1 to eventually trusting himself enough to become a teacher like Vyrnnus, and it feels like there's such a thread to pull there about what that means to him. Like, when asked about it, he says he turned it down at first because he prefers to get his hands dirty, but I have to believe there's a part of him that was scared of putting himself in Vyrnnus' place, too. Kaidan was there once, when he defended Rahna from Vyrnnus and "became" a monster like his classmates all thought Vyrnnus was, and I can't see him ever wanting to go through that again.

But at the same time, could he really let someone else do it? Did part of his decision to eventually agree come from the fact that, if he was the teacher, he could make sure no one like Vyrnnus took the job instead? When Kaidan says in the hospital that Anderson insisted it "had to be" him who took the job, Shepard says that, with his history, he was the perfect choice, then Kaidan tells them that most people in the galaxy still see biotics as freaks and says that accepting and embracing their biotics can be what allows someone to find success. The idea of Kaidan wanting to make sure that other biotics had a teacher who encouraged them like that instead of treating them like freaks or like Vyrnnus did is something so important to me.

And also, the fact that he has several comments he makes about his students throughout ME3, about worrying about them and wanting to be sure they're safe, then that they're with him at the end of the game in London…I love it so much. He cares so deeply for them, even just in the way he says they're eager for the fight with that fond laugh he does, and him growing up to be someone who not only teaches younger biotics, but genuinely seems to care about them too? None of Kaidan's students would ever have to look at him with fear or defend themselves against him or protect each other the way he had to protect Rahna. If anything, I think he'd be the sort of teacher they'd go to when they're worried about something else. I don't know, I just love the full circle element of him not only being able to eventually start to really properly heal from Vyrnnus and what happened by allowing himself to loosen up a bit, but also to become for his students what he needed for himself when he was younger.

It also makes me think it'd be nice if it was possible (because it isn't as far as I know considering the mission expires early) to take Kaidan to Grissom Academy to help Jack and her students. It could be a really interesting thing to see him meet someone else who was painted as a monster for defending themself/others with their biotics, then grew up to own that part of themselves anyway. They're so different, but at the same time, it could be an interesting dynamic considering some of the parallels they have.