Sammy J.

The ask box is always open.

[pumpkan]

Me: waiting for any form of public transport

Rain: starts

Some deep dark part of my brain that never forgot the first night vale episode: 👀🕐🚌🌧🌧🕐🕐🚌🌧

[lesspopped]

please wear sunscreen!!! I've seen "fuck the beauty industrial complex" posts about complicated skincare regimens and am 100% with them except sometimes they mention sunscreen and no. no. absolutely not. sunscreen is a wonderful supportive friend who wants to keep you safe, and you should let her do it. throw out all your other cosmetics and skincare products if you want, but keep your sunscreen. and if you're not wearing sunscreen, start wearing it!!!! this is not about terror of aging, this is not about every tiny imperfection our fucked-up culture has made you feel insecure about, this is about protecting yourself from skin cancer. wear the damn sunscreen.

[bandtshirt]

do y’all remember before direct messages tumblr had a dumbass ask limit of 10 per hour and communication was impossible until they introduced dumbass fan mail and we were basically sending telegraphs back in forth trying to communicate those were…dark times

Do y'all remember when they finally gave us direct messages and instead of doing it normally, they gave it to a few people at a time and we had to infect each other with it like a virus

[piedude]

[abandonrun]

remember when any post with more than like 6 people talking was unreadably smushed except for the last few additions remember when any post of over 500 characters became a link back to op’s blog readmore style remember when video and audio posts had about a 10% chance of working when you click play

[curseofsisyphus]

As a recent user I love finding out shit like this from older users. What the fuck guys???? Why were you USING IT AT ALL?!??

[dono-harm-totonystark]

believe it or not, we liked that more

[thefloralpeach]

its worth noting that immediately after these updates that made everything better, we were all angry about it

[woundedheartwithin]

I love the idea of Majima playing baseball in high school. Like I imagine he wasn’t particularly interested in fielding and couldn’t catch for shit, but he was a first class slugger and sent the ball into orbit every time he stepped up to the plate, so his coach just said, “fuck it, he can just be the designated hitter.” And he just became this total specialist, a natural switch hitter with almost preternatural senses and nearly flawless control, able to foul off balls ad infinitum until the pitcher’s so frustrated and tired he accidentally sets Majima up for a home run that damn near breaks the sound barrier as it sails out of the park, across the street, and through a window 20 stories from the ground floor of a neighboring high rise. And the coach would always put him in with the bases loaded, making sure the three players in the lineup ahead of him were super consistent in being able to get on base and then just let him loose. And nobody expects this tall, lanky-ass, scrawny kid to be an absolute monster at the plate, so they’re all moving up like they expect noodle arms and no coordination, jaws hitting the ground when he bats like a goddamn pro and glaring daggers at him as he walks the bases like a peacock

And like maybe he could have gone pro if he hadn’t gotten mixed up in yakuza shit, but family problems and a bad home life drove him to drop out of school and slink into the shadows to escape it, and he left any and all baseball prospects behind. But damn if his opponents don’t feel all that potential if they dare to fight him when he’s got a bat in his hands

[elumish]

I honestly think Gen-Z and younger simply does not understand how recent widespread smartphone adoption is.

I am not that old, and I didn't have a smartphone until probably late high school. For most of my life, many if not most people were not walking around with a magic internet machine in their pocket that they pulled out and used constantly for everything.

[sandumilfshous]

reblog if you remember having to ration your text messages and accidentally opening the internet on your phone was the end of the world

[2022dirt]

Things worn down by people.

[groupthinker]

this is unironically one of the most beautiful photo sets i've ever seen

[animentality]

[kiwiiibee]

I don't usually reblog, but I think it's important to share this: the article that the original tweet was based off of was intentionally misleading about Larian's use of AI and, if you saw the full transcripts, has the interviewer Jason Schreier baiting Swen Vincke (Larian CEO) into getting an answer about Larian's use of AI he wanted. Not the truth, but to frame Swen and Larian as a whole in a bad light.

In short, Larian did use a small fraction of AI in their early development as placeholder content/in whiteboxing. HOWEVER!! This was at a time when AI was this new, cool piece of tech that we believed would actually have some value - to quote Vincke, the studio wanted to cash in on this "golden egg." Game developers, especially indie ones, are always keeping an eye on trends and new tools to use to further improve game development. We, the general population, know now how harmful AI is to society and the environment as a whole, and studios like Larian aren't stupid, they know this too. They never fired anyone or replaced anyone with AI, only using it experimentally to see what the deal with AI was and if it had value to them.

Also, not to mention, Larian is a family owned company. They value their employees and fan base more than any fancy new tech - these guys bought a whole ass art firm to support artists. Vincke, in his interview with Schreier, was doing his best to highlight the impact actual creative people have in developing games within Larian. Schreier was trying to bait him into saying the exact kind of thing that got people on the Larian hate train.

Also also, Jason Schreier is notorious for attacking game studios in his interviews. Just look at any of his other interviews with game studios like Larian, where he's constantly trying to twist the answers he's getting from his interviewees to suit his own interests. He doesn't care about the damage he caused, clearly - he only posted the interview transcripts between him and Vincke AFTER seeing the backlash caused by his interview to avoid getting sued.

I'm not defending the use of AI, period. As an artist myself, I'm vehemently against it. But, as a fan of BG3 and as someone who doesn't take the words of anyone at face value, whether it be random internet strangers, hostile journalists, or people in my real life, I personally took the time to check the validity of this original tweet.

TL;DR: The original tweet was quoted from an article between Jason Schreier and Swen Vincke, Larian's CEO. Schreier intentionally set up this interview to frame Vincke/Larian as pro-AI, when in fact they only used AI as an experimental tool when it first started trending. Media literacy is dead, nuance doesn't exist online, and you guys don't hate journalists enough.

The information I'm referring to came from the video linked in post, which further explains the situation with the aforementioned interview transcripts included.

[durbikins]

getting paid to say home for two weeks and play Doom and Animal Crossing

[durbikins]

Five years later, this reads like someone’s dying note in a survival horror game.

[newtonpermetersquare]

Magnets: I want to commit diamagnetic

[squided]

how did I never once think to use tape fuck

[rubykgrant]

one time as a kid I forcefully shoved two magnets together, and these were the strong magnets my dad used in his shop to pick-up missing little metal bits, and I held them really tightly in the palm of my hand, went up to this one kid who legit said things like “I think black cats are bad, they should be drowned” and drew crosses on the notebooks of kids if she found out they didn’t go to church, I told her “Hey. I’m a witch. If you don’t stop trying to hurt animals and picking on kids, I’ll use my magic to throw you into the sky”, and when she dared to doubt my powers I told her that I had two “rocks” in my hand that I could send across the playground, then I opened my hand the the magnets shot off in two different directions (we were over in a spot that was empty, so no other kids were around, nobody got hurt), one of them stuck to a drainpipe and the other stuck to a fence. This kid SCREAMED, and ran to the office, and I guess had her mom pick her up from school, and then she wasn’t there for a couple of days, finally her mom called my house and claimed I had “traumatized her daughter by performing a terrifying magic trick”, and when my parents asked what I did I just said “I showed her a magnet and she flipped out. She’s not gonna be happy when she finds out about gravity, either”. eventually this kid came back to school and always made a point to come up to me and say “Hey, my mom told me not to talk to you!”, and would just be like “Good job, you already screwed that up”

[iliveinmyblanket]

Holy shit

[trapny]

Oh my god this is so fucking funny

[seasonofhorror]

THE NIGHTMARE BEFORE CHRISTMAS

1993, dir. Henry Selick

[noknowshame]

I’m watching Splash (1984) which is a romcom about a guy who falls in love with a mermaid, and when she chooses a human name she chooses Madison and guy says “that’s not a real name, but alright” which seems to imply that Madison was not a name until at least the 80’s and all girls named Madison are actually named after the mermaid. thought you should know

[brbeth]

I think...you might be right

[brownheadedcowbird]

what the fuck

[uglydbzmerch]

I had to look at this thing with my own eyes and now so do you

(We have a winner at last in the race to find the absolute ugliest Piccolo mask. It’s this. Definitely this. Thank you @lordsmaf)

[bababansco]

truly the game ever!!

[only-cat-memes]

[pangur-and-grim]

it is my experience that people with dermal implants and eyeball tattoos and 34 visible piercings are the sweetest people you'll ever meet and will cry if they see a pigeon with a broken wing. it is also my experience that clean-cut people in polo shirts with perfect smiles will vote against your rights and say the most disgusting things imaginable once they think you're out of earshot.

[nuka-rockit]

[totally-a-wizard]

For those who haven't played this game, or who have but never got this dialog, this is from a quest about how a sweet lovely old woman sold another woman and her soon to be born child into a lifetime of brutal slavery to a fascist state because this sweet old lady didn't like the woman's attitude.

[ouchlord-vivaldi]

[poreyneel]

let's fight