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It makes me really sad that some people need to hear this, alas, they do. Contrary to what you see so often in the media (and from the president):
The correlation is between violent crime and poverty.
Not violent crime and race. (Excerpt from How to be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi)
You know, given a. the current popular resurgence of Dungeons & Dragons, and b. the fact that Record of Lodoss War is one of the first mainstream animated serials to be explicitly based on its creator’s D&D campaign, it’s not 100% surprising that the franchise would be revived in some form – but I’ve gotta admit that a retro Metroidvania is not the form I would have predicted.
@dizzyhmuffin replied:
Wait. This is an official thing, and not just a fangame like Luna Nights?
Not only is it official, it’s apparently canon. The game is part of the franchise’s 30th anniversary project, and takes place during a timeskip in Record of Lodoss War: The Pledged Diadem, the yet-to-be-translated novel that was released last August; the game was intended to enter early access in Q4 2019 in order to coordinate with the novel’s publication, but was pushed back to Q1 2020 due to Reasons.
People are seriously gonna posts memes about pensioners giving McDonald’s cashiers grief over corporate policy, then turn around and harass some random artist or programmer on social media for decisions made by the publisher of a game they worked on – there’s just no self-awareness at all, is there?
@bendandsnap-cummerbund replied:
To be charitable, I think most people don’t really understand, and have never bothered to think about, how gamedev studios are structured.
And I’m sure many of the people throwing public tantrums at Wal-Mart honestly believe that the checkout attendant personally sets store policy, too. In neither case does this excuse them!
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Only tik tok video that’s valid
I love how it is all polite history and then that post script
This post just pissed me off..
thor ragnarok fight scene but holding out for a hero is playing
@nyebevans @nathanosblightcallers
This works so well, I am in awe.
“Where are all the gods” right as Thor starts tossing people around
The chorus hits hard at the same time Valkyrie does and her first swing even connects right when the song has what sounds like a sparking sound effect
“He’s gotta be strong” just when Hulk steps in
The small synth flourish timed perfectly with a dramatic Loki hair flip
This is art.
Thor hits the slow-mo of his descent right on the first long trill
“streetwise Hercules” plays when he runs down the bifrost
The drum beat at the beginning timed with the lightning strikibg the tower
Once, I encountered the funny story of an AI image descriptor with a sheep obsession. It had been trained on pictures of fields of sheep. Therefore, it tagged anything in a field as 'sheep', including an empty field, because they work on statistical probability. Therefore, it thinks "ah, a field! there's probably a sheep here." (It's a bit more complicated but basically that.) It also couldn't recognise sheep in places that weren't fields, such as petrol stations or barns. [cont]
Now, the alarming aspect of this story is that the very same technology is probably what tumblr is using to identify porn. Now, if it can’t tell that an empty field is not, in fact, full of sheep, what hope do we have that it can’t tell an empty room isn’t full of writing human forms engaged in passionate coitus?
this really does sound like an episode of black mirror
But wait, it’s even weirder than that!
This is gonna produce some absolutely baffling pornography.
…. oh my fucking god they actually are using open source software. They’re using a fucking one-layer unidirectional bicategory tag-trained neural network. This will never work. Literally, it will never work. There’s just not enough algorithmic complexity to do what they’re asking of it. I bet you I could prove on a mathematical level that this joke of a neural net fundamentally lacks the abstraction necessary to do its job.
This will never get better. Their algorithm will never stop fucking up, it will never actually flag porn reliably and it will always require a massive quantity of human hours to deal with the deluge of mistagged pictures. This isn’t just a case of an insufficiently trained algorithm, it’s just … this is the most basic neural network you can make. It probably hasa a lot of neurons and has loads of training data but like … you can’t just brute force this kind of stuff. One layer of neurons is just Not Enough.
Also, just to make this clear, Tumblr lied. I mean, we already know this, but I mean they liiiieeeeed. All that stuff they promised about what would or would not be censored? That cannot be delivered on with a system this simple. Nude classical sculptures, political protests, male-presenting nipples (really Tumblr?), nude art outside the context of sex, all that? You cannot train a bicategory one-layer neural network to exclude those things. It cannot be done. Tumblr never intended for those things to actually be permitted, they were just lying. Because the system they have cannot actually do what they said it would and never will be able to.
Also, this kind of system is super vulnerable to counter-neural strategies. I bet you before the end of the month someone hooks up their own open source one layer bicategory neural network which puts an imperceptible (to humans) layer of patterned static over arbitrary images, and trains it by having it bot-post static-ed images to Tumblr and reinforcing based on whether the images are labeled nsfw or sfw. Seriously, within a month someone will have an input-output machine which can turn any image ‘sfw’ in Tumblr’s eyes.
This is genuinely pathetic. Like, I have real pity for whoever implemented this, because it’s clear Tumblr doesn’t actually have any engineers with any expertise with machine learning left at all and they foisted the job off on some poor bastard who has no idea what they’re doing and is going to get all kinds of flak for their (perfectly reasonable and predetermined) failure from management.
As has been pointed out before, there are no humans behind this at all. The review process just reruns either the same algorithm or another algorithm, but people have posted screen shots showing obviously SFW pictures that were still deemed NSFW on review, despite the fact that any human, no matter how overworked / tired would have seen that these pictures were not porn.
Vegans of tumblr, listen up. Harvesting agave in the quantities required so you dont have to eat honey is killing mexican long-nosed bats. They feed off the nectar and pollinate the plants. They need the agave. You want to help the environment? Go back to honey. Your liver and thyroid will thank you, as well. Agave is 90% fructose, which can cause a host of issues. Bye.
Beekeeper here! Just wanted to say that the fact that vegans won’t eat honey is very silly. Harvesting honey does not hurt bees. The invention of modern moveable-frame hives means we can remove a selected frame, extract the honey and return it without killing a single bee.
If we destroyed the colony to harvest honey there would be no bees for next year, and beekeepers are incredibly careful to keep their bees healthy and thriving. We take *excess* honey that they don’t need, and it stops the hive from becoming honey-bound, meaning that there’s so much honey the Queen has nowhere to lay eggs. And if the winter is harsher than expected and the remaining honey store runs low, we feed the bees plenty to make sure they survive. We also make sure that pests are controlled, bees are treated for disease, and the hive is weatherproof and in good repair, all things that wild bees struggle with.
Keeping bees in properly managed hives where they don’t starve or die from preventable disease is much better for them than being left to fend for themselves, and they’re far too important to be left alone.
All the fruits and vegetables that vegans *do* eat couldn’t exist without bees, and the hives which pollinate those crops also produce excess honey which the beekeepers can sell to help keep themselves and their hives going.
TLDR: BUY THE HONEY, HELP THE BEES.
For everyone’s information:
The plan for the 17th, when the adult content ban comes in, is to protest.
To do that, we are making as much noise either side of the 17th as possible, and using the site as normal.
On the 17th, dead silence.
People are saying log off but what they really mean is don’t open the site or the app.
But, on the 17th make as much noise as possible on every other platform. Tweet about it and post on facebook and instagram and everywhere else.
What this does is causes a massive dip in ad revenue for one single day. That does not make staff think ‘oh everyone’s gone let’s shut down.’ What it actually makes them think is ‘oh shit people aren’t happy and if people don’t keep using our site we’re out of money and out of jobs.’
A boycott reminds a company that the users (consumers) have the power to make their site (business) worthless with one single coordinated decision.
If you want to join in, here’s what to do:
Do:
Close all open instances of the app and site on all your devices before the 17th
Make posts before and after the 17th on tumblr and other platforms, talking about why this ban is bad
Make posts on other sites during the 17th. Flood the official tumblr staff twitter and facebook with your anger and your opinion
Come back on the 18th and check in
Don’t:
Delete the app from your phone (this doesn’t affect their revenue and since it’s off the store at the moment it’ll be hard to get back)
Delete your account. I mean you can if you want to, but if you keep your account and don’t use it you’re saying to staff that there’s still time to save it. If you delete it’s hard work to come back.
Open the app or website (including specific blogs)
Make any posts (turn down/off your queue and make sure nothing is scheduled)
Go quiet elsewhere. Make it clear that this is just about tumblr, not a mass move away from all social media.
Remember: the execs don’t care about anything but money. Shutting down the site means there’s $0 further income from it. That’s their last possible course of action. If we make it clear we’re not happy, they’ll have to do something or we can do more and more until it becomes too expensive.
Protests take commitment. They’re a defiant action against a business that is doing something wrong. They will try to scare you into not participating, because they’re scared. We hold all the power here, sometimes the execs just need to be reminded of that.
Reblog and spread the word
It seems like that one old “DeviantArt is EEEEEEVUL! All artists beware!”-post from like two years ago is making rounds again, and I’ve been getting tagged to it.
So just for your information, here’s DevArt’s own post about that situation, and here’s the artist in question who’s design got used in the post explaining the case.
Thanks for the concern for my art’s well being, but there’s really no need. That fearmongering reblog about the situation is just reading the legal text in a really provoking way (dA’s user agreement text looks intimidating, I know, but it’s pretty much just because dA needs your explicit permission to use your art in their site = your own gallery/other people’s faves; needs the permission to let dA to edit your art because it needs to do that in order to make thumbnails, and there’s also a clause that lets dA to have those “share on tumblr/facebook/whatever”-buttons next to your art. Yes, it needs you to agree to the site’s basic functions with the user agreement, that’s legal text for you.)
Ugh, looks like THAT post is back again. It’s come into my dashboard twice now since yesterday, and I just know there are people deleting their galleries in mass hysteria again so, ughgghh!
(also note that you can opt out of the “share on tumblr/twitter/facebook/etc.” buttons from your settings, the clause just needs to be in the TOS in case people use it.)
“My body, my choice” only makes sense when someone else’s life isn’t at stake.
Fun fact: If my younger sister was in a car accident and desperately needed a blood transfusion to live, and I was the only person on Earth who could donate blood to save her, and even though donating blood is a relatively easy, safe, and quick procedure no one can force me to give blood. Yes, even to save the life of a fully grown person, it would be ILLEGAL to FORCE me to donate blood if I didn’t want to.
See, we have this concept called “bodily autonomy.” It’s this….cultural notion that a person’s control over their own body is above all important and must not be infringed upon.
Like, we can’t even take LIFE SAVING organs from CORPSES unless the person whose corpse it is gave consent before their death. Even corpses get bodily autonomy.
To tell people that they MUST sacrifice their bodily autonomy for 9 months against their will in an incredibly expensive, invasive, difficult process to save what YOU view as another human life (a debatable claim in the early stages of pregnancy when the VAST majority of abortions are performed) is desperately unethical. You can’t even ask people to sacrifice bodily autonomy to give up organs they aren’t using anymore after they have died.
You’re asking people who can become pregnant to accept less bodily autonomy than we grant to dead bodies.
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But, assuming the mother wasn’t raped, the choice to HAVE a baby and risk sacrificing their “bodily autonomy” is a choice that the mother made. YOu don’t have to have sex with someone. Cases of rape aside, it isn’t ethical to say abortion is justified. The unborn baby has rights, too.
First point: Bodily autonomy can be preserved, even if another life is dependent on it. See again the example about the blood donation.
And here’s another point: When you say that “rape is the exception” you betray something FUNDAMENTALLY BROKEN about your own argument.
Because a fetus produced from sexual assault is biologically NO DIFFERENT than a fetus produced from consensual sex. No difference at all.
If one is alive, so is the other. If one is a person, so is the other. If one has a soul, then so does the other. If one is a little blessing that happened for a reason and must be protected, then so is the other.
When you say that “Rape is the exception” what you betray is this: It isn’t about a life. This isn’t about the little soul sitting inside some person’s womb, because if it was you wouldn’t care about HOW it got there, only that it is a little life that needs protecting.
When you say “rape is the exception” what you say is this: You are treating pregnancy as a punishment. You are PUNISHING people who have had CONSENSUAL SEX but don’t want to go through a pregnancy. People who DARED to have consensual sex without the goal of procreation in mind, and this is their “consequence.”
And that is gross.
^ THIS. This is this this THIS THIS THIS. THIS!!!!!
This is probably the strongest and well worded/supported argument for abortion that I have ever read.
WHY THE FUCK HAS TUMBLR FLAGGED THIS?! i’M FUCKING FURIOUS!!!
Yep, this was flagged for me too. Which is why I’m going to reblog it several time until Tumblr implodes.
REBLOG IF NAZIS OFFEND YOU MORE THAN NIPPLES.
Following The Eye
Eye-Trace For Games
When the camera in a game is done well everything feels just right, everything just flows. It’s the reason why Journey, why Inside, why Mario Kart 8, and just about every Nintendo game feels just as if anyone could play them.
Knowing how to deal with the eye not only helps you make your game more accessible but it also makes it easier to follow in the most hectic of moments.
From: PlayDead’s INSIDE
My goal: Is to explain how to design the game around the eye’s limitations and create experiences that are more comfortable for our users. I will start with the simple yet effective concept of Eye-Tracing.
An example:
From: Mad Max Fury Road
Follow the red circle: We can immediately read where the motorcycle is between shots and we see the barrel on the shotgun, each shot takes less than a second, yet we read every beat, and that’s because the eye is directed so well here.
Eye tracing is an editing technique used to direct where the eyes of a viewer will be across several shots, in other words it’s strategically moving the eyes of your player to a specific point in the screen and using it in different fun ways.
Create an environment in which you know which part of the frame your player is most likely to be looking at, this can be performed a number of ways but I wont get in the details of composition, color theory, photography or animation. I will only talk about the eyes.
Now, how does something from cinema world, a world where everything is scripted, and there’s a cut every 5 seconds or so apply to an interactive medium? Well the answer is simple it does so in a completely different way.
I will jump back and forth between games and movies but this is a game focused article.
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Do Your Eyes Follow?
What does the player see? What do you as a creator want them to see?
Do those 2 align? Can they?
Eyes have a 5 degree central vision, this is where we read books, if our target moves outside of the near-peripheral section of our eyesight the eyes will have to change positions.
TVs tend to hang in the mid peripheral, it feels as if it covers the whole vision but it really doesn’t. Close one eye and make a frame with your hands observe how much your monitor or your TV takes of your vision space.
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My rules are:
Screen Is A Plane Not A Window.
Eyes Are Slow.
Eyes Need A Home.
Up And Down Before Left And Right.
One Thing At A Time.
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The Screen Is A Plane Not A Window
The screen is a flat surface, not a window to another world.
The key word here is Planar space! This is the basis of eye tracing, and designing moving media in a way that is easy to read for people. Even 3D movies need to compose in planar space.
Maintaining the focus in a slowly moving point in planar space makes it easier on the eyes because your eyes have to move way less.
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Eyes need a home
Even when there’s nothing to be seen, the eyes should be directed to a point on the screen.
From:Mario Kart 8
In hectic game-play, having one direct point to return to is imperative as it gives the eyes a simple point to return to as they jump from object to object during the action.
In games like Mario Kart the player doesn’t have to worry where the character is, but where the obstacles are.
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Eyes Are Slow
Continua a leggere
XKCD’s excellent presentation on historical global temperature and anthropogenic global warming.
[After setting your car on fire] “Listen, your car’s temperature has changed before.”
For the “Earth’s climate has changed before” crowd.
Also here’s a link to the “explained” version for added tid-bits, sources and other trivia https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/1732:_Earth_Temperature_Timeline
To my EU followers
(as much as I hate to go political here) - There is an official Polish petition to stop articles 11th and 13th - The same ones I blogged about few months ago. It’s a chance to tell our politicians that we don’t want obligatory automatic content filters on our sites (among other things) and it may be the last chance to protest.
The petition is Polish, but the country is set to “European Union” so maybe its support isn’t restricted to Poles. It’s an official EP petition, so that’s a very direct way to express your opinion - here’s the link: https://petiport.secure.europarl.europa.eu/petitions/en/petition/content/0424%252F2018/html/Petition-No-0424%252F2018-by-P.-Z.-%2528Polish%2529-on-deleting-Article-11-and-Article-13-from-the-draft-Directive-on-Copyright-in-the-Digital-Single-Market?fbclid=IwAR3cwJ-367P4BFnt7bLLvZYo_hLgmCRL1X-mUok_aJwAdlpwdrBKjWkguwE
I don’t know if there are other versions dedicated to specific countries, but I’m sharing this one because I got the link to it. Unfortumately it requires registration, but I think it’s worth a try.
Why these articles should be stopped? https://saveyourinternet.eu/
(there are also links to email forms, open letters etc. at the site above, I recommend checking it out)
If you’re not from EU, consider signal boosting this and other materials you may come across about this issue. It’s a part of our ongoing fight against censorship in the Internet that may soon affect all Europe.
We lost our home in the Camp Fire with only a handful of clothes and our pets on our person currently. We can't stay long where we are at, s
Hey everyone. My fiance @corncolby and I are struggling and we desperately need to find a new home. Every dollar counts! We can’t stay at my sister’s forever… I already feel bad we’re taking up space with our cats. Please share and reblog!
