Cringe is dead, long live cringe!

💕(she/her) freshly minted girlypop💕

[thegneurshk]

don't care + under my blankie + cuddling my blahaj

[woahmaaan]

Kikuri had a wild night out!

[tadpole-art]

Landscaping

[argumate]

During the preview period I encountered a pretty obscure bug: the model was interrupting me to laugh at things I said, which weren't even intended as jokes! It felt rude and condescending - I reported it to OpenAI and as far as I can tell they made some tweaks and it's now less likely to happen.

lol what if ChatGPT just finds us that ridiculous

[argumate]

wait that's funny! you son of a bitch that's a legit joke!

[amberouppy]

[pinklocksoflove]

[transgenderer]

were all born screaming, and the rest is voice training

[qqchurch]

[lesbianboyfriend]

[ID: tweet reading “that’s a great idea for a story. But have you considered they should all be girls?” /end ID]

[machine-saint]

i guess the thing is that when people talk about how e.g. cheating in college doesn't actually matter, there's this implicit assumption that the credentials are worthless. like nobody would say "yeah it's nbd if my airplane pilot bribed their test instructor to let them skip the test, do what you need to do to survive under capitalism" because there's an obvious sense in which a bad pilot will kill you. and obviously not all degrees are safety critical but like, it rarely feels like the conversation about e.g. AI usage on homework gets into that level of nuance?

[machine-saint]

like okay: kids buying fake drivers licenses get beer is very different from kids buying fake drivers licenses and actually driving with them, right? but if you treat the two as the same thing you're going to get very confused.

[scribefindegil]

I'm still thinking about the guy who saw me realize my wheelchair wouldn't fit in the elevator because he (also a wheelchair user) was already inside it and immediately quipped, "This elevator ain't accessible enough for the both of us."

[charl0ttan]

horses cant scratch themselves but humans cant go fast. we support this legandary partnership

[druggonaut]

Wrong! Humans irrelevant and obsolete now

[charl0ttan]

agnostic horse: we just dont know where scratch posts come from

[keatxu]

abandonware should be public domain. force companies to actively support and provide products if they don't wanna lose the rights to them

[omikronsoul]

Game companies hate emulation, but none of them seem to understand that a lot of us would just buy ROMs from them directly if we could. I don't want a fifth remake of Final Fantasy IV, I want to pay five bucks for the 3MB file you already made bank with thirty years ago. Nobody who wants to play something for the purpose of retro gaming is going to consider a $40 remake as the alternative option, and we're certainly not going to let the original dissappear. They're crying about opportunity cost for a product they're not even selling.

[justletmeremember]

op i know you're probably talking about like, video games, etc, but this is also critical for research science - my lab has so much abandonware, either because the company's out of business, or the company decided to not maintain it, and it's a fucking nightmare. we have two windows 95 computers that are CRITICAL for performing experiments/data analysis because the software needed is abandonware. one of the main roles for a guy in my lab is to maintain these little dinosaurs because if they go out, we lose access to ~20 years of raw data for research. part of why is that these companies also make their own file types, and make it difficult-to-impossible to convert those file types without their specific software. by habit, i convert all research files to more generic versions (txt, pdf, tif, etc) so that i minimize risk of losing my shit, but some stuff can't be converted.

for example, we have a microscope that is perfectly functional, good microscope, but its software is abandonware because the company refused to maintain it. the company is still in business, still makes essentially the exact same software, but they made all of the old tech incompatible with new software to force people to buy the new microscope tech. it would cost a quarter million dollars to replace this microscope. this perfectly good microscope.

so like, i know a lot of people look at the original post here and go "well op just wants old video games to play" (which is valid! games companies should not be able to push shit to abandonware and then close it off) but also this is critical for like. biomedical research. if y'all had any idea how much basic infrastructure built on science relies on shit that is technically abandonware, you would probably be horrified.

[jollysunflora]

#there is so much abandonware just...out there being used and carefully maintained#because nothing quite replicates the functionality

[evilwizard]

okay, everyone who presses the red button survives regardless, everyone who presses the blue button dies if the blue button count is below 50%, and everyone survives if the majority press the blue button

which button do you press

Red 🔴

Blue 🔵

Remaining time: 2 days 18 hours

[evilwizard]

aaaaand, new scenario:

A third button has been added. everyone who presses the red button survives regardless, but if a majority press the red button, everyone else dies. If a majority of people press the blue button, everyone survives—except for anyone who presses the green button. Everyone who presses the green button gets a crisp 1 dollar bill

which button do you press

red 🔴

blue 🔵

green 🟢

Remaining time: 2 days 18 hours

[namelessexistence]

I don't want people who voted green to die, but I had to choose blue again, since we're not told what happens if majority votes green. The first one said that everyone survives if the majority votes blue, but the second poll doesn't say the same thing about green. I'm forced to assume that this question is being asked by a evil trickster deity that is maliciously hiding the information of what happens if the majority votes green.

[namelessexistence]

Knew it

[evilwizard]

i never said that

[unknought]

Higgledy piggledy, turning and turning as gyres are widening, centers unheld,

things fall apart and there’s anarchy everywhere; falcons fly freely and can’t be compelled.

Dimming the tide there is blood in the water and everywhere customs of innocence drowned.

Held by the worst is a fervent intensity; lacking conviction the best run aground.

Surely there must be some kind of apocalypse; surely epiphany must be at hand!

Visions unbidden from Spiritus Mundi of something awakening out on the sand:

Head of a man with a leonine frame and a pitiless gaze that’s as blank as the sun;

sleep became nightmare by passage of centuries long before eons of slumber were done.

Higgledy piggledy, beast of antiquity, imminent, just as the prophecies warn,

shambling slowly but revelatorily, slouching towards Bethlehem, there to be born.

[goodieprocter]

can we please see the eridian cat mentioned in the crotch vibration comic

I am so glad you asked!

[mewvore]

*shaking head* lets stop pretending okay. none of you really understand her like I do. *starts drawing her nine months pregnant*

[mewvore]

[punkrock-bottom]

If you stay up late to hang out with friends I don’t think you should have to be tired in the morning. I think it should be a freebie