My MFW (My Face When) When

He/Him, Token cishet white guy, Aspiring writer, Very far left, Nope further than that, Keep going, That looks about right, Probably procrastinating right now so feel free to yell at me about it

[my-mfw-when]

Bringing this account back from the dead after a year

hi

I'm an aspiring writer/content creator that wants to get off my ass real fuckin bad, and this is about as good a time to start as I'll ever find.

I'm gonna be participating in NaNoWriMo and keeping updates on it going through the month, hopefully beyond if I can actually manage a month of consistent work.

Besides that, I also play a shit ton of video games, most notably Street Fighter, which I'll be streaming a lot of on Twitch going forward as well, find me at My_MFW_When. Long-term I'd like to start competing, but that's a long-ass term to say the least.

And then expect intermittent shitposts about whatever other media I get obsessed with that day in between all that

[nikrei]

I keep seeing people use this image as a reaction to people's original posts:

Which I think is really incorrect, because with an original post they haven't come up to ur window, u've come up to their window.

So I made this, as a more accurate reaction for original posts:

[cannibalchicken]

[ratbastard69420]

Pov: last thing a ruffian sees after I am forced to resort to the cannon mounted on the top of the stairs

[evilwizard]

I do want to say, my views on AI “art” have changed somewhat. It was wrong of me to claim that it’s not wrong to use it in shitposts… there definitely is some degree of something problematic there.

Personally I feel like it’s one of those problems that’s best solved via lawmaking—specifically, AI generations shouldn’t be copywrite-able, and AI companies should be fined for art theft and “plagiarism”… even though it’s not directly plagiarism in the current legal sense. We definitely need ethical philosophers and lawmakers to spend some time defining exactly what is going on here.

But for civilians, using AI art is bad in the same nebulous sense that buying clothes from H&M or ordering stuff on Amazon is bad… it’s a very spread out, far away kind of badness, which makes it hard to quantify. And there’s no denying that in certain contexts, when applied in certain ways (with actual editing and artistic skill), AI can be a really interesting tool for artists and writers. Which again runs into the copywrite-ability thing. How much distance must be placed between the artist and the AI-generated inspiration in order to allow the artist to say “this work is fully mine?”

I can’t claim to know the answers to these issues. But I will say two things:

Ignoring AI shit isn’t going to make it go away. Our tumblr philosophy is wildly unpopular in the real world and most other places on the internet, and those who do start using AI are unfortunately gonna have a big leg up on those who don’t, especially as it gets better and better at avoiding human detection.

Treating AI as a fundamental, ontological evil is going to prevent us from having these deep conversations which are necessary for us—as a part of society—to figure out the ways to censure AI that are actually helpful to artists. We need strong unions making permanent deals now, we need laws in place that regulate AI use and the replacement of humans, and we need to get this technology out of the hands of huge megacorporations who want nothing more than to profit off our suffering.

I’ve seen the research. I knew AI was going to big years ago, and right now I know that it’s just going to get bigger. Nearly every job is in danger. We need to interact with this issue—sooner rather than later—or we risk losing all of our futures. And unfortunately, just as with many other things under capitalism, for the time being I think we have to allow some concessions. The issue is not 100% black or white. Certainly a dark, stormy grey of some sort.

But please don’t attack middle-aged cat-owners playing around with AI filters. Start a dialogue about the spectrum of morality present in every use of AI—from the good (recognizing cancer cells years in advance, finding awesome new metamaterials) to the bad (megacorporations replacing workers and stealing from artists) to the kinda ambiguous (shitposts, app filter that makes your dog look like a 16th century British royal for some reason).

And if you disagree with me, please don’t be hateful about it. I fully recognize that my current views might be wrong. I’m not a paragon of moral philosophy or anything. I’m just doing my best to live my life in a way that improves the world instead of detracting from it. That’s all any of us can do, in my opinion.

[cryptotheism]

Listen dude, I knew we went on that magical adventure to nutritionland. We learned a lot from president cauliflower. But I'm gonna be real dude, I think nutritionland is an ethnostate.

[cryptotheism]

[sottopressione1]

[zoevulpez]

I am SO glad the Goncharov meme happened before image generating ai you don't even know

[snapscube]

Favorite "non-main" Sonic song? Like, ones that are just a level theme or regular boss theme?

studiopolis act 1

[makeupafgplayer]

fighting game player who thinks Super Mario 64 should be balanced so that Mario can't kill Bowser off of 3 command grabs

[radiofreederry]

[wilwheaton]

[cryptotheism]

Fun fact I learned today: Wikipedia has a list of people who married their first cousins. It is divided into two sections: European Royalty, and Non-European royalty.

They are the same size.

[make-a-fighting-game-player]

Mortal Kombat player that throws the match if they get hit by a move a normal person couldn't survive.

[wardenapproaches]

Daily checklist of affirmations:

Nothing wrong with me

Nothing wrong with me

Nothing wrong with me

Nothing wrong with me

[caaaterpillar]

[bellybuttonblue2]

[my-mfw-when]

NaNoWriMo, Day 4 Update

Unsurprisingly, I'm behind schedule.

After an unsalvageably bad false start on day one and not having the chance to write anything on day two, I finally have something I'm happy with.

Sitting at just shy of 500 words.

Out of the 5000 I need.

But I'm not about to drop out, especially not this early on. Even if my word count isn't up to snuff, I'm confident I have something good enough to get into a flow with. And even if I don't have much to measure right now, putting it on the page is only half the work.

I'm using this half as an excuse to do some boots-on-the-ground worldbuilding for my other projects, and what little I do have planned has given me loads to work with in the future.

Not gonna lie, I only remembered this challenge existed on the first when I opened Tumblr on a whim, so the plot part of it is very barebones at the moment. "Woman looking for job in new city, urban fantasy hijinx ensue" is about as specific as I've managed thus far, but I at least have a good idea of how she gets deeper and deeper into the secret world.

My idea is essentially that the world is physically a lot bigger than it appears because people are hard wired not to take note of stuff outside of their social circles, and so there's a ton of unoccupied space that people will naturally pass through without noticing, and that it's really easy for the stuff that's not human to move into. Really simple premise, but I consider that a good thing, especially for continuous development like I'm trying.

Putting the MC on a job hunt is also a really clean way to have her deliberately take the plunge without having to drop random superpowers or a pack of demons on her head, I think. That very real and pressing incentive to go to new places has good synergy with the natural curiosity she needs to push the plot forward herself.

As for my writing style, I'm definitely seeing holes in it, how could I not, but pushing past the perfectionism is another huge reason I'm doing this. I can't afford to agonize over my word choice in the first draft with a deadline as tight as this.

I'm not gonna be able to get a ton of work done on it tonight, unfortunately, work is in an hour and I had a lot to do earlier, but I'm confident I'll get faster day by day the longer this goes for.

Advice is always appreciated, feel free to ask me more about whatever.

Wish me luck.