Up In My Tower, Casting Spells

Local wizard, wandering the world, wishing for willpower and wise winds

[phantomrose96]

wow this scene in my head is great. once i write all 50,000 words to get there then you'll understand too

[miraclemaya]

dress up is one of the most important pillars of gameplay that is often ignored by game developers to disasterous results

[rylandgraces]

there’s a friday ass vibe about this wednesday boys keep your wits about you

[theee-wizard]

I'm so beautifully in love with him so much

[aetherdotnet]

HEEHEE youre sooooo gay

[theee-wizard]

<|:3333

[theee-wizard]

I'm so beautifully in love with him so much

[paranormal-taters]

"i feel besquintled", said no one ever. because that's not a word.

[paranormal-taters]

okay nevermind it IS a word now and this is exactly what it means.

[paranormal-taters]

EVERYONE SHUT UP AND LOOK AT THIS NEW AND BETTER WORD

[dragongirlsweetie]

the nice thing about slimegirls is that's it's sort of an auxiliary girltype. like you could be basically any other type of girl and also a slimegirl and it would work perfect easy. you should try it. you should be a slime girl

[dragongirlsweetie]

*zaps you with a slime ray*

[dragongirlsweetie]

step 1: pick up dragongirl

step 2: put her in your mouth

step 3: chew

[dragongirlsweetie]

DON'T do this.

[i-am-a-fish]

stretching feels so so so so good I just did it and it was so good. I might indulge myself with another stretch and quite soon

[vaguely-human-i-swear]

My fish started stretching!

[i-am-a-fish]

FISH STRETCHING GIF

[aevios]

Having ADHD is so fun because sometimes youre looking for something that you use regularly and definitely put away in a smart and reasonable place and you have absolutely 0 hope of remembering where and finding it. And then other times ur like "hmm I need a some kind of small pointed object. I feel like i remember seeing a paperclip under the left couch cushion a month ago, i wonder if its still there" and it is

[aevios]

"wait but if u saw the paperclip why would u just leave it there?" its the adhd. Also if i had put it away then i wouldnt have been able to find it a month later when i needed it. So. Checkmate neurotypicals.

[oakenroots]

Problem is when the ADHD catalogue is out of date, when you go to check under the couch cushion for that paperclip and it ISNT there, sometimes your brain will just give you a montage of false memories of everywhere you've ever seen a paper clip, like this

[aniseandspearmint]

yeah yeah the paperclip montage, we've all seen it

[smileytiger28]

[ID: a montage of a paper clip in a bunch of different locations around a house. end ID]

[desolationlesbian]

you should try crossdressing more. both because it's fun and because seeing the different ways clothes are manufactured by gender will give you 50 new reasons to be pissed off. become radicalized against misogyny by flannel quality

[caprisunsport-deactivated202010]

hate this site

[relishboi]

come sit down next to me idiot

[caprisunsport-deactivated202010]

i will sit next to you at any time ms green

[relishboi]

sit next to me right now. 

[caprisunsport-deactivated202010]

i am, im sitting next to you right now

[relishboi]

now listen to me young man, i am talking directly into your ear now. i need you to do me a favor. you will do this for me. i need you to go to gamestop, and i need you to ask the bastard working the counter if they have bambi on the ps2. if you come back empty handed youll be in big trouble mister. you will never see the light of day.

[sproutrage]

what it's like every time I open procreate

[punkitt-is-here]

i had a fucking blast playing buckball this year at EFNW but i kept getting misgendered by the refs so next year im going all in on making it as obvious as possible

[punkitt-is-here]

actually i need everyone who misgenders me to look stupid as fuck we're going whole hog on this bitch

[mikufanclub]

[anti-parent]

teamwork makes the dream work. and dreamwork. makes shrek

[anti-parent]

fantastic. i love it. i posted this after my wife said it yesterday and as i was doing it i was like "this can't be an original thought. as soon as i hit post someone's going to say 'you stole this from a tweet from 2014' and i'll say 'no, i stole it from my beautiful wife.'"

[redstonedust]

for the record im not technially 100% anti-AI, in the sense that its a broad category of tech being lumped under one umbrella term so it feels over-zealous to say i hate all of it all the time forever. but i also think trying to discuss what it actually IS good for is difficult right now when i cant take one step without something trying to convince me to use chatgpt to summarize my life and speed up my hobbies and turn my friends into chatbots and optimize my life into oblivion. i am certain there is nuance to the topic but can we stop cramming the square peg into the round hole before you start trying to sell me on the legitimate benefits of the square peg. please.

[ralfmaximus]

Neural Nets have existed for decades and are genuinely useful. It's a form of AI that recognizes patterns, and can do stuff like identify cancer cells, tell whether an egg is fertilized or not, detect fraud, and optimize routes.

Those are Expert Systems, tuned to do exactly one thing. If you (say) ask a medical expert system a question about financial law, it's useless. The autopilot that flies a 787 has no idea how to drive a truck on the freeway. A Coulter Counter is excellent at identifying lymphocytes in a blood sample but can't predict the next card in a blackjack game.

And so on.

The problem with so-called generalized AI (AGI) is that we don't have that yet. It doesn't exist. It MIGHT some day, but AGI has been "10 years away" since the 1980s. The goals keep moving as we learn more about how people and machines process data.

But the current crop of AI techbros have been selling generative Large Language Model AI (LLM) as AGI because generative systems do a good job of faking it. There's no actual thought going on, merely the illusion of thought via predicting the next word in a sentence accurately.

If you let a human toddler listen to 800 hours of YouTube car influencer videos, that toddler might end up sounding like a car influencer. They'd parrot horsepower numbers and 0 to 60 times, mention EV range and MSRP numbers.

But they wouldn't understand any of it.

That's ChatGPT.

And yeah, it's worse than useless because it doesn't even know when it's lying or hallucinating. It just babbles convincingly until you stop it.

But for techbros to make money selling that as "AI"? It's the perfect scam, especially if you don't understand how it works.

I fucking hate it.