Xeans, The Soft

A dragon or a wolf. Usually nonbinary 30s give or take Banner Fatalsyndrome PFP Zappbeast

[contemptible-scoundrel]

[aspiring highway bandit voice] oh yes absolutely your decentralized anticiv pastoral utopia with no form of organized or regulated transport of goods sounds incredible

[hotvampireadjacent]

[boccher]

the central conceit of white boy "comedy rap" genres is that they're too racist to recognise that most classic rap is already pretty humorous in many ways, on account of wordplay being fundamental to the form,

[boccher]

and also steeped in pop culture from the very beginning, like the rap scene was already making music about comics and anime and video games you don't need to segregate a new genre for that

[cicero-not-cisero]

Mahjong is less of a game of skill and more of a demonstration of fate. Mahjong is about seeing which of the four players is in the gods' favor, and (more importantly) which of them has the gods' ire

[xeansicemane]

Mechsploitation, thinking about worldbuilding.

So, it's a given in the bulk of the genre that Hounds don't really pretend to be people too well. The human personality is just a convenient interface for the deeper actual self and isn't exactly a functional person on it's own feels like the go-to way to frame it.

But I'm working in a setting where the assumption is the Hounds will be decommissioned and released back into civilian life when the war is over, so there has to be enough person there to do that. So, anyway, I'm having some fun playing with the idea that the neural alterations (The usual "obey Hander violence violence") had a lot of unintended consequences.

Hounds that have piss-poor emotional regulation, the inability to experience and process grief because their own internal mental safeties read it as an unacceptable breakdown cascade. Hounds that know there are illegal thoughts they can't think but they still feel themselves almost thinking them before they hit a mental wall.

I'm just having fun playing around in the /experience/ of all those alterations in my story.

[wizardnuke]

not to be a history fucker on main but the whole mystery of the lost colony of roanoke is so fucking funny

[wizardnuke]

governor of the colony: hey I’m gonna go back to england to get more supplies

115 colonists: okay

governor: ends up spending 3 years in england bc of a naval war with spain or some shit

governor: gets back to the colony to find everyone gone

governer: sees the word “croatoan”, the name of a native american tribe, carved into a post

croatoan tribe: has members and children with blonde hair/blue eyes, pale skin

everyone: what could have happened to the colonists of roanoke

[chotimoti]

[wizardnuke]

hi! op here. I’m fucking hyperventilating

[slunch]

[parkchanwoohoo]

I loved this post just because all the comments flipped between sincere appreciation and mockery of the birds

[dragon-in-a-fez]

One thing I love about Babylon 5 is the idea that humans got out there into space and found out we were actually the least melodramatic motherfuckers in the galaxy.

Like okay, you've got the species whose rulers live their entire lives in a dark room with no furniture to symbolise their commitment. The people who directly equate hair circumference with social class and get super angry if all six of their penises aren't accurately depicted on an action figure. The reptilian marsupials who will force a guy to become the central prophet of a new religion whether he likes it or not. The celestial entities who are so obsessed with being mysterious they pretend they can't breathe normal air and wear fake spacesuits everywhere they go.

Even the minor species are like this. The Roswell grey type guys who literally communicate only in crop circles. The ancient beings who will make you wait four hours for them to answer a phone call and then just say "Zog" and hang up on you. The species that apparently consists solely of ten of the same guy, and every one of them starts every conversation with a comment about how much it sucks having a menial job.

Imagine being the first human to meet any of these. You would have to immediately go back to Earth and sign up for a series of Shakespearean improv workshops.

[lesbianwithchainsaws]

"I asked chatgpt" well I asked this guy in a graveyard and he told me that zydrate comes in a little glass vile. And the little glass vile goes into the gun like a battery. And the zydrate gun goes somewhere against your anatomy. And when the gun goes off, it sparks, and you're ready for surgery

[mxnrique]

HAPPY PRIDE

[contemptible-scoundrel]

my buddy brings her angel girlfriend to the function, I spend the whole time refusing to look at or even acknowledge her existence, because I am a staunch atheist and dont believe in that nonsense. she starts to throw things at my head to get my attention and between volleys of marbles and kitchen utensils I grunt "swamp gas. aurora borealis. probably a weather balloon.youre seeing things"

[contemptible-scoundrel]

another day, I greet my friend at the door, I look over her shoulder and raise an eyebrow, "I see you've brought the electromagnetic phenomena again,"

[ratliker1917]

the fact that pro-monarchy arguments have degenerated, over the past few centuries, from “the king rules by divine right and is accountable to nobody but god”, to “uhm the royals generate a lot of income from tourism” will never stop being extremely funny to me

[ratlicker1917]

the monarchs… bad. but the castles? oh, the castles are positively lush with rats… 👅

[ratliker1917]

Delete this account immediately.

[odyver]

alright I've got to do some quick math to explain attitudes towards AI to my boss.

we're looking to create an AI policy, and when we were talking about this, my boss (older millennial) was genuinely shocked to hear that younger people do not (seem) to view AI positively (a la the recent commencement speakers being booed)

please rb for larger sample size!

Question 1/3

What is your age, and do you feel AI is a net positive or net negative in our lives today?

under 18, AI is a net positive

under 18, AI is a net negative

18-29, AI is a net positive

18-29, AI is a net negative

30-45, AI is a net positive

30-45, AI is a net negative

46-60, AI is a net positive

46-60, AI is a net negative

over 60, AI is a net postive

over 60, AI is a net negative

Remaining time: 2 days 2 hours

[odyver]

Question 2/3

How often do you visit or interact with museums/archives (whether in person or online)?

Frequently (multiple times per month)

Often (multiple times per year)

Occasionally (a couple times per year)

Rarely (once every couple of years)

Never :(

Remaining time: 2 days 2 hours

[odyver]

Question 3/3

If you saw a museum was using AI in exhibits, marketing, research, etc., would you be more or less inclined to visit that museum?

under 18, more inclined

under 18, less inclined

18-29, more inclined

18-29, less inclined

30-45, more inclined

30-45, less inclined

46-60, more inclined

46-60, less inclined

over 60, more inclined

over 60, less inclined

Remaining time: 2 days 2 hours

Thank you for helping with this data collection. Please rb for as big a sample as possible!

🫶

[odyver]

This got more traction than I imagined and has motivated me to make a more thorough survey where I can actually parse the data.

No email is necessary to input to complete the survey. Please also consider sharing this off tumblr with people in your life to get a broader sample, especially people who love history and love museums!

General Sentiment Surrounding AI Usage in Museums and Archives

Please give your thoughts on Generative AI (such as Sora, ChatGPT, Claude, etc.) usage in museums, archives, and other cultural heritage sit

[demilypyro]

best case scenario Digital Circus gets remembered in a similar way as Steven Universe: a show that was Really Fucking Good and had nuanced characters and interesting things to say, but the audience wasn't quite ready for it and it imploded into a discourse ball. four years from now I expect to see lesbians drawing Jax like she's a renaissance muse the same way people still draw Pearl or Lapis

[theplant-system]

I'm not a therian but pls reblog or something if youre an adult therian. I need to find more nonhuman blogs, a lot of people on here who identify as animals are children.

[girlballs-archive]

concept i thought of while watching Steel Battalion videos with my wife:

flooded megastructure exploration game. you are alone in a small submersible craft intended for a crew of 3. each of the three stations (main ship controls/navigation/big external claw arm for cargo) utilize the entire keyboard + numpad + mouse for their control schemes, and each one is a *different* scheme. you get information on the controls via a diegetic manual and just have to remember what does what for each station

there is also an airlock. you periodically need to exit the craft in order to explore sections too big to fit it through, while also managing limited oxygen and battery power for your shitty little headlamp. you are also not buoyant enough to actually *swim* when you're out of the ship, it's more like. super metroid underwater sections type of physics

parts of the structure are alive and are very interested in grisping you when you're not in your ship

[girlballs-archive]

it would be really funny actually if you had to juggle inputs spread across the entire keyboard, contextual mouse stuff, And also you need to have a gamepad plugged in. nightmare input scheme

[xeansicemane]

If the "stuck in a submarine with your friends in a nightmare ocean" sounds like your shit there's a game called Barotrauma that's exactly that.

No nightmare control schemes sadly but if your engineer is motivated enough they could rig the ship like that.