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Been a while, my snacks~
Not sure if I'm coming back yet, but if I am, I'd like to start by opening an "asks."
Ask me anything vore-related and I'll happily answer!
As a side note, remember to check my FA - I post there far more regularly than here!
Sorry I accidentally set the spawn coordinates as the inside of my stomach
"Down. Down. Down. Where things like you go and don't come back." Tam being an a-hole, but she's fine. He'll just spit her out later. Spoilered for v/ore. No h/orny comments, I don't consider this s/exual.
I miss the days when, no matter how slow your internet was, if you paused any video and let it buffer long enough, you could watch it uninterrupted
If you use Firefox, you can go to the about:config page, search for "media.mediasource.enabled" and double click on it to set it to false. After you restart Firefox, all youtube videos will load entirely even when paused! This also affects other streaming websites :)
There's more to do actually, now
go to About:config find media.mediasource.enabled and toggle it to false find media.cache_readahead_limit and change it to 9999 find media.cache_resume_threshold and change it to 9999
additionally if you'd prefer mp4 to webm
also in about:config, find: media.encoder.webm.enabled media.mediasource.webm.audio.enabled media.mediasource.webm.enabled media.webm.enabled and toggle them all to false
note! this will limit video to 1080p
and use https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/dont-accept-webp/ to kill WebP Fuck Google
We jailbreaking browsers now lmao
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What's your favorite creature from any video game world?
Feed your dashboard by answering my question, blogger.
That one's hard. I recently got into portal, so the personality cores are a recent favorite. Any game that has nice dragons in it also gets honorable mention.
A mildly niche one would have to be any sort of pattern ant. I love tinkering with starting conditions and seeing how the ants survive and grow.
Their little brains are so simple, but overlay their instincts on a patterned environment and you get a natural "moire" pattern!
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If you could choose a game to live in, what would it be?
Feed your dashboard by answering my question, blogger.
Another riddle from the tiny sphinx? How mischievous !
Modded minecraft feels like a cheat answer, since it can emulate almost any other game a la sandbox. Plus I get to be a dragon.
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What video game can you not complete without cheat codes?
Feed your dashboard by answering my question, blogger.
The digitized version of the riddle game with Gollum.
Now, what have I gots in my pocketses?
Being serious, though, minecraft. Keepinventory is mandatory!
Big Dragon Lady whos pretending to be a plane. I had the idea of some Aliens or smth attempting to conquer Earth and incorrectly thinking planes were the dominant species, so their infiltration creature is based off that.
Don't worry she's got a backup plan
The sad thing about more granular note display is that it could work! It could be a useful feature! It might be interesting to see the different permutations a post takes as it circulates. Instead they've decided to do it in a way that fundamentally changes the way the site works, and not for the better.
A lot of people have compared this to the porn ban. I think it's worse. That was mandated by external forces- phone app stores, in large part. Maybe it could have been done responsibly (say, age-gating posts with NSFW content, or only blocking that content in the apps, or only putting the Allow NSFW toggle on the website), but it wasn't. It proved to be extremely disruptive and it wasn't even very effective! Most of a decade later and it feels like the site is more infested with porn bots than ever, while ordinary posters get content flagged or deleted erroneously all the time!
Remember a while back when they removed the ability to use a post's link to go to that point in the poster's timeline? You know- click on a post made, say, 2 days ago and it would take you to that blog as it was 2 days ago? That was a useful feature! It provided helpful context- you could see what the poster had done just before that, which was often relevant. Then a change was made so that it just shows you the post in isolation. Not helpful! Why was it taken away? No idea. If a justification for this was ever put out, I'd love to hear it. (Same goes for a workaround- if there is one I would love to know.) It doesn't seem like something that would have been problematic and warranted removal. Removing it did make the site just a bit harder to use, though. Now if I want that context I have to scroll all the way back to it manually or via blog Archive- if that's even enabled.
That change- removing "timeline hopping" or "post/reblog context," whatever you might call it- was annoying, but it didn't break the way Tumblr works at a fundamental level. This new change does.
Normally I'd counsel everyone to put up with the new change and see how it does. Maybe future tweaks could make it work better. I do not believe so in this case. This isn't like moving the position of buttons on a post or changing the background color. This is going to negatively affect the user experience in profound ways. Community discussion is going to be much more atomized. Posters won't know what's going on with their post once it leaves their orbit.
Personally, I enjoy sifting through Notes on a post to find interesting comments. That's how I've found a lot of the blogs I follow. That's going away now, or at least getting a lot harder.
The way the porn ban was implemented was frankly disastrous, but at least it wasn't an unforced error. The new Note changes certainly feel like one. This change should be scrapped and taken back to the drawing board. Maybe some of the new features are worth incorporating- but good God, not like this!
I've been on here since 2010, and I'll be first to admit that while staff have made some questionable decisions in the past, they've also made plenty of good ones! In many ways the site and the app are much more pleasant to use than they used to be.
@staff @changes Please, I am begging you here, listen to the users on this one. For many of us, myself included, this is one of the last places online that still feels like home. Maybe that makes us seem entitled, but it also means we care. I want to keep this as my home on the Web because of the sense of community and shared experience. Please, don't take that away.
Since you asked for asks (ask matryoshka doll) have you read To Sleep in a Sea of Stars? What would you think of a dragon that got bonded with the Xeno/Soft Blade/Idealis/Seed/Fractal Resonant?
Haven't read it, thus I can't answer this. Sorry :(
I did read it, so excuse me for jumping in :3
I think it would go kinda like a rider bond, except that the idealis is not that chatty as a rider. Also, since the permanent physical bonding, they wouldn't even get separated, so.
Soft Blade: why don't you use me for fights :(
Dragon: I have teeth and talons for that, and I'm not willing to give up that feeling. Also, everyone thinks me to be a Shade because of you, so shut up and turn the page.
(Soft Blade is perfect for dragon to handle a book yay)
Thank you for your answer! Nicely done - I think this is better than what I was trying to come up with XD
LMFAO OF COURSE YOU'RE A TRANSPHOBIC PROLIFE CHRISTIAN NUT. OF FUCKING COURSE. YOUR LIKES ARE PUBLIC YOU FUCKING WEIRDO
I know my likes are public. Unlike your anonymous hatemail.
ouuh brother
generative AI literally makes me feel like a boomer. people start talking about how it can be good to help you brainstorm ideas and i’m like oh you’re letting a computer do the hard work and thinking for you???
There are many difficult things that were replaced with technology, and it wasn't a bad thing. Washing machine replaces washing clothes by hand. Nothing wrong with that. Spinning wheel replaces drop spindle. Nothing wrong with that.
Generative AI replaces thinking. The ability to think for yourself will always be important. People that want to control and oppress you want to limit your ability to think for yourself as much as possible, but continuing to practice it allows you to resist them.
"This tool replaces thinking," is a technology problem we (humans) have faced before. It's a snark that I've seen pro-AI contenders take as well: I bet these same people would have complained about calculators! And books!
Well. They did, at the time.
We have records from centuries -- even millennia back -- of scholars at the time complaining that these new-fangled "books" were turning their students lazy; why, they can barely recite any poems in their entirety any more! And there are people still alive today who remember life before widely available calculators, and some of them complained -- then and now -- that bringing them into schools dealt a ruinous blow to math education, and now these young people don't even know how to use a slide-rule.
And the thing is:
They weren't wrong.
The human brain can, when called on, perform incredible feats of memorization. Bards and skalds of old could memorize and recite poems and epics that were thousands of lines long. This is a skill that is largely lost to most of the population. It's not needed any more, and so it is not practiced.
There is a definite generational gap, between the people who were trained on slide-rules and reckoning and the generation that was taught on calculators. There came a year, when that first generation grew up and entered the workforce, when you suddenly started encountering grown adults who could not do math -- not even the very basic arithmetic needed to count down from one hundred. I would go into a shop, buy an item for sixteen dollars, give the cashier a twenty and a one because I want a fiver back, and have them stare at the money in incomprehension -- what do? They don't know how to subtract sixteen from twenty-one. They don't know how to calculate a fifteen-percent tip. They did not exercise the parts of their brain that handle this, because they always had a calculator to do it for them.
Nowadays, newer point-of-sale machines compensate for this; they will automatically calculate and dispense the change, no subtraction necessary on the part of the operator. Nowadays everyone carries a phone, and every phone carries a calculator, so if you need to do these calculations, the tool is right there. As more and more transactions go electronic and card, and cash fades further and further out of daily life, these situations happen less and less; it's not a problem that most people can't do math (until it is.)
The people who complained that these tools-that-replace-thinking would reduce the ability of the broad population to exercise these cognitive skills weren't wrong. It's simply that, as the pace of life changed, the environment changed so that in day-to-day life these skills were largely unnecessary.
So.
Isn't this, ChatGPT and Generative AI, just the latest in a long series of tool-replaces-thought that has, broadly, worked out well for us? What's different about this?
Well, two things are different.
1) In the previous instances of tool-replaces-thinking, the cognitive skill that it replaced was a discrete and, on a day-to-day basis, unnecessary outlay of energy. Most people don't need to memorize thousands of lines of poetry, or anything else for that matter. Most people don't need to do more than cursory levels of math on a day to day basis.
This, however, is different. The cognitive skill that is being obsoleted here is more than "how to write essay" or "identify what is the capital of Rhode Island." It encompasses the entire field of being able to generate new thoughts; of being able to consider and analyze new information; of being able to follow logical trains to their conclusions; of being able to order your thoughts to construct rational arguments; or indeed of being able to express yourself in any structured way. These cognitive tools are not occasional use; they are every day, all the time.
2) In the previous instances of tool-replaces-thinking, the tool was good at what it did.
Calculators may have replaced reckoning, but calculators are also pretty good at what they do. The calculator will, as long as you give the right input, give the right answer. ChatGPT cannot be relied on to do this. ChatGPT will tell you, confidently and unhesitantly and dangerously, that 2+2=5, and it will not care that it is wrong.
Books may have replaced memorization, and books certainly could be wrong; but a fact, once in a book, is pretty stable and steady. There is not a risk that the Guy Who Owns All The Encylopedias might wake up one day and decide -- to pick a purely hypothetical example -- that the Gulf of Mexico is called something else, and suddenly all the encyclopedias say that.
Generative AI fails on both these counts. It fails on every count. It's inaccurate, it's unethical, it's unreliable, it's wrong.
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I remember some time ago seeing someone say (it was a video about medieval footwear, actually) that "humans have a great energy-saving system: if we can be lazy about something, we are."
This is not a ethical judgment about humans; this is how life works. Animals -- including humans -- will not do something the hard way if they can do it the easy way; this basic principle of conservation of resources is universal and morally neutral. Cognition is biologically expensive, and though our environment is not what it once was, every person still goes through every day choosing what is valuable enough to expend resources on and what is not.
Because of this, I don't know if there is any solution, here. I think pushing back against the downhill flush of the-easy-way-out is a battle both uphill and against the tide.
So I'll just close with this warning, instead:
Generative AI is a tool that cannot be trusted. Do not use it to replace thought.
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