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Sometimes I reblog problematic posts by complete accident. I apologize for that, but please tell me the post and why it was problematic instead of assuming the worst.
Sometimes I may see nothing problematic and it may be a you problem. In that case, feel free to block. In the off chance that it was indeed problematic and contains views I do not hold or even oppose, I'll apologize, delete it, and thank you for notifying.
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Wow Summer Game Fest and the Xbox Showcase were really night and day
SGF was just full of uninspired realism slop, just the most huge budget boring passionless games with that same awful style. Nobody cared about making these games and that's why they just use the same usual realism. There was a few good things (Cuphead) but it was just a sad showcase of how little game devs care anymore
And then the Xbox Showcase shoves that junk outta the way and goes "PERSONA 6, PERSONA 4 REVIVAL, SPYRO 4, CASSETTE BEASTS 2, VIVARIUM THIS REALLY PRETTY STUDIO GHIBLI STYLED GAME, CASTLEVANIA," and a good chunk of more stuff. It was incredible.
SGF completely burnt me out and had me feeling such dread for modern games and then that Xbox Showcase was so full of passion and whimsy. I love when game devs actually care about their games and so they give them actual art direction instead of realism. Really needed this reminder video games are so good they just need to not be realistic
“omg you’re just blogging for attention”
and you’re blogging??? for gold? Women? Immortality?
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ok i absolutely need to know what accents u all have pls reblog and tell me or comment or whatever I must know
Imagine that everywhere in the mechanical engineering world suddenly got infatuated with lasers.
Lasers have a lot of uses! Measuring things, heating things, cutting things, entertaining cats, particle physics. Lasers are pretty cool. Very versatile, very useful, potential to be very powerful.
Someone shows up one day and says "I have developed a never before seen technology! I call it a Death Star."
And it's a 3.4mW laser. Well no, we haven't seen this exact size of laser much since that's not really standard, but that's a bit of a misnomer, and I wouldn't call it new -
"HOLY SHIT GUYS! This Death Star is so entertaining! My cat loves it and it has such a nice color!" The Death Star becomes a viral novelty, and is mildly entertaining, as laser pointers often are.
Somehow, seemingly overnight, this leads to mania. "Lets stick lasers in EVERYTHING! The public loves them!"
More companies make 3.4mW lasers to jump on the bandwagon. Everyone that makes anything vaguely mechanical starts sticking lasers into their designs.
Everyone is calling them Death Stars. Any time there is a "Death Star innovation", it is just that they made a bigger laser.
Ford's next truck comes out and it has "Death Star integrated headlights", where they have just stuck giant lasers in place of their previously functional headlights.
An electric toothbrush is now "Powered by Death Stars" and shoots a laser at the tooth its cleaning. You think that maybe this could have actual applications as a sanitizing device if you're being generous, but when you actually look at the product, its laser has no purpose but to point at the tooth and drain the battery.
Mechanical products across the board get noticeably worse as everyone starts stuffing lasers in places where lasers have no right to be.
The lamp business gets in on it. "Here's a Death Star powered lamp!" These guys haven't even tried to stick a laser in their damn lamps. They've just started calling their light bulbs Death Stars and hoped you bought it before you could tell the difference. You at least appreciate that they haven't ruined their lamp about it.
Death Stars are lauded as the solution to all the world's problems. If it's not working, you should stick a laser in it! That'll fix it, everyone says. Once in a blue moon, it's even true! Weather prediction is really good now. But most things are garbage. Like "Death Star powered washing machines". What the fuck does that even mean?
Meanwhile, since all functioning mechanisms are being replaced with lasers, problems start showing up. All mirrors now cost $1000+ dollars, because the whole supply is being used up to make more lasers. The earth heats up, because everyone's blasting lasers at everything. People keep going blind, on account of all the lasers.
You, in fact, study optical mechanics. You know what a laser is, and how it works, and that it was invented many years before any of this nonsense actually started. People keep asking you about Death Stars, since surely you must know so much about them.
You explain that this is not really what lasers are for, except you have to call them Death Stars now, and that they're causing a lot of harm, so you don't like them much.
"Oh, but they're still such new tech!" they reply. "They'll figure out how to make Death Stars that don't burn your eyes out soon, and then it won't be an issue anymore!"
Somewhere, deep and buried, you remember lasers being used in particle accelerators, or in telescopes, or in laser cutters, or funny cat videos. They are, in fact, still interesting. Still cool.
But by this point they have replaced roads with "Death Star Powered Pathways", which are just laser pointers propped up on tooth picks pointing vaguely through the forests.
And you think you are going mad.
And they are still just FUCKING LASERS.
This post is about AI.
Of course it is, and I knew since paragraph 3 because I feel the same way. I love neural networks. I love the complicated and ingenious algorithms behind them, I love all their little flavors, I love how they are sometimes perfect on paper and then suddenly fail out of nowhere. I was studying this stuff before chat interfaces to LLMs were a thing, before executives were pumping their company value and reputation to get fat dividends and buy a bigger yacht.
I miss how we could talk about this stuff without being called "pro-something" or "anti-something", I miss when this was not all about PROFIT PROFIT PROFIT and more about the wonder and the unknown and the very real and sensible ways neural networks (and other less energy-intensive algorithms) can actually do lots of GOOD to humankind. What we're seeing is the same script over and over and over again, as it has been since the times of Reagan and Thatcher: the richest on Earth take the fattest paycheck, and us common people pay for the externalities. Climate change, the subprime mortgage crisis, car-centric urbanism, social networks, and now this.
All the wonderful scientists who ever worked on "artificial intelligence" deserve much better than this. We all deserve better than this.
Very generally speaking, when you see a black man in a piece of media, be it tv show, movie, video game, etc. there’s something you often see a lot of writers do. To go against the stereotype of black men (and black people in general) being dumb and lazy, you’ll see this black male character being smart and an achiever. 
The Black Nerd. A common character type, the nerd will always be very interested in all things nerdy: science, video games, mathematics, etc. In an continued effort to combat stereotypes, the Black Nerd will be lack athleticism, probably being asthmatic (the nerdiest of conditions). The Black Nerd will dress smartly, suspenders and bow ties. They’ll always talk smart too, using proper English with complex words.
Now, I don’t have a problem with a black character being a nerd, indeed black people are a people; we aren’t all the same and we all have varying personalities. The problem I have is that too often we see a distinct disconnect between Blackness and the Black Nerd. The Black Nerd doesn’t listen to hip hop or rap, only classical music. The Black Nerd only has white friends, the only other black characters are into not nerdy stuff. The Black Nerd never ever uses AAVE at any time in any context.
And again I must say that Black people, not being a monolith, there are no hard fast rules to being Black. I’m more than sure there are Black people like what I’ve described above, I’m not saying it’s impossible; what I’m getting at is that the only Black Nerd we see. There are Black Nerds that play basketball, that bump Kendrick Lamar, and use AAVE since it’s an ever changing dialect. I’m just saying there’s no one way of being a nerd and no one way of being Black.
Well @dumbey, seems we’re in similar boats
This ain’t about him, this is about Black/Asian solidarity. Focus.
I like in rpgs where if you don’t romance two of the characters they start romancing each other instead. You think you’re the only fish in the sea
This but actually, I’m even frustrated when they don’t do it. Like in Baldur’s Gate III where every single companion is a great character and a fantastic romantic option but beyond the snarky comment about them flirting with another party member, they never interact with someone who isn’t you. The only counter exemple I can think of is Lae’zel and Astarion having sex during the party if you didn’t chose any of them but it’s never referenced again beyond the conversation with them in the morning.
I want to pair Shadowheart and Lae’zel. I want to force Minthara and Gale to be fiercely in love. I want to contrast Astarion’s fear of intimacy and Karlach’s touch starvation so bad… also Wyll deserves to get pegged by a bear.
Let me play with them like dolls, Larian!
Female Dwarves - With or without beards?
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Child Dwarves - With or without beards?
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Baby Dwarves - With or without beards?
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They shed their baby beards to make room for their adult beards. Like with baby teeth.
