Rhambling Too Much

@pichupal on Twitter and Pillowfort. A mix of Nintendo, Tales, Inazuma Eleven, Persona, Fire Emblem and everything else that I enjoy. Mostly reblogs. Feel free to mention if you want me to tag something. 18+, but almost never post NSFW here.

[pallisia]

old tales of symphonia comic for a zine. it was drawn pretty quickly, but i'm still fond of it, so i slapped a color gradient on it just now.

i streamed like an hour of symphonia 2 a while ago and it was fun to laugh at, but the original still has such a precious place in my heart.

[hiamigoman]

[icarus-suraki]

Happy Easter.

[sharkface]

They are already selling data to midjourney, and it's very likely your work is already being used to train their models because you have to OPT OUT of this, not opt in. Very scummy of them to roll this out unannounced.

[writterings]

here's some instructions for anyone who doesn't know how to opt out:

login in on desktop, it's not available on mobile yet

click "Account"

click on your blog

go to "Blog Settings"

go to "Visibility"

Scroll down to the bottom option

turn the toggle ON, not off

you will have to do this individually for each sideblog you have too, no way to do it for each account in one go

[jv]

What is this about the tumblr staff wanting to sell art data to midjourney?

An ex-colleague of mine mentioned yesterday that there may be contacts between Automattic and midjourney in that direction, but nothing is public yet and I don't have any more info. They probably won't have anything specific to share either, since they left the company weeks ago too. That being said:

I have no reason to doubt my ex-coworker word, they are a trustworthy person.

Tumblr's CEO has been absurdly enthusiastic (comically, even) about AI, and is a big fan of LLMs and 'AI' companies.

A deal with midjourney could solve tumblr financial issues (not the same company, but openAi is paying up to 5 million/year to news companies to use their content as training data... tumblr generates several orders of magnitude more content than any newspaper or any media company and it only would need a 20 to 30 million per year deal to be profitable)

So I don't have any extra info yet, but I'm keeping my ears open.

[jv]

And I just got confirmation from a second ex-colleague that a deal with midjourney has been brewing since months ago. Not any extra details, just that's a real thing.

Shit, I don't see any way for this to happen that doesn't make it an apocalyptic event the size of the porn ban. Fuck.

[jv]

Shit. This may be pure chance and coincidence, and it's not he is in a position to be able to talk about anything, but seeing prominent staff members announcing they are moving their original photography out of tumblr just two weeks ago seems a pretty significant cue of shit to be about to hit the fan.

[salora-rainriver]

Just tested. It’s possible to swap out pictures on already-published posts. So in that case, a solution:

Nightshade your photo posts now.

Even if you don’t post your own art anymore, go back to your old stuff and watermark it.

Do it ASAP, before the deal goes through and the scraping begins.

This will not only protect your art, but has the opportunity to fuck over this deal on a pretty large scale. The more of these posts that are glazed or poisoned, the less valuable this deal becomes for tumblr and midjourney.

Share this with everyone. And i do mean everyone.

[datcravat]

[datcravat]

Just went through all the tags and couldn't find a single spoiler. good job team

[datcravat]

[datcravat]

Just went through all the tags and couldn't find a single spoiler. good job team

[laziloo]

I participated in a Tales of Symphonia secret santa! This piece is for @darkhymns-fic and they wanted something with either Dirk or Colloyd, so I went with both. As to what exactly is going on here, I’ll leave that to the viewer’s imagination haha

[st-hedge]

It doesn’t feel like winter until I’ve drawn link in a big ol green coat

[mewnia]

I know nothing about Eternia except that I have loved Meredy from the moment I saw her <3

[orangesapphiire-deactivated2024]

what if.. ponytail

[st-hedge]

Ah ganondorf am I rite *walks head first into a wall*

[czesca]

ao3 wrapped

-> you read 2,690,420 words, none of which are in the bible

-> your preferred genre is an abomination

-> you found one writer and read everything they've ever written...

-> ...only to find out they're into some weird shit.

-> and now you are too. congratulations!

-> the data we've collected has shocked us to our very core and we wish we hadn't done it. we won't see you next year. please seek professional mental support

[samzippo]

i love kingdom hearts

[commiemartyrshighschool]

???

[katihicks]

I was bored so I drew buff Ike

[miskiart]

smrpg remake absolutely rules, I've gotten more joy out of it than I ever could have imagined

[raptorcivilization]

Random fact: They did a study on courtship and mating behavior of American alligators at the St. Augustine Alligator Farm in the early 1980's. This study revealed that, among other things, the majority of alligator sex is gay

[raptorcivilization]

Male/male 1 is when the larger male gator topped, male/male 2 is when the smaller male topped

[werewolf-girlfriend]

[tiredandjaded]

average ao3 "sort by categories" result

[jv]

Fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck google with a 10 feet pole.

Seriously, fuck them. They are breaking the internet BADLY.

Everyone needs to get out of Chrome ASAP. Use duck duck go or any other alternative too.

YouTube Says New 5-Second Video Load Delay Is Supposed to Punish Ad Blockers, Not Firefox Users

Firefox users are reporting an 'artificial' load time on YouTube videos. YouTube says it's part of a plan to make people who use adblockers

[fangirltothefullest]

Jokes on them too, we know how to be petty bitches in reaponse to this. Sit through the fucking 5 second delay and continue to use adblock AND Firefox to spite them.

[forget-about-me2]

They realise that 5 seconds of waiting is still better than waiting for, what is it now, 30+ seconds of unskippable ads right?

[shadowmoth]

Friendly reminder that you can add this to your ublock block list to get rid of the five second delay on firefox:

www.youtube.com##+js(nano-stb, resolve(1), 5000, 0.001)

[aethericfist]

huh sounds illegal what google is doing. I hope the EU sues them again.