it bothers me how much historical armor in modern productions are just muted colors. black dye was extremely expensive back in the day, get these dour victorian fashions out of my ancient and medieval portrayals.

Also, when reporters start talking about the chatbots this way, it is imperative to remind them they are basically asking a toaster for comment. They should be a lot more embarrassed about this than they currently are. “Grok told CNN…” no it didn’t. You typed stuff into an unreliable calculator.

The way the press is treating chatbots, like they have agency and they “know” things all of a sudden, crossed the line recently from dumb and obsequious to something else entirely. Treating them as alive and making conscious decisions is an almost religious belief. It won’t age well.

new year new post

Some thoughts on my time at GAMURS, the post-games media world, and the legacy we leave for the next generation

I'm live, lab rats! I'm playing more Hollow Knight: Silksong on my Twitch channel below! www.twitch.tv/docvivileandra #vtuber #envtuber #vsky #vtuberswithdisabilities #vtlive #goinglive

Hey, lab rats! My little break is over, and I'm returning to streaming with some more Hollow Knight: Silksong, tonight at 6:00 PM CST! www.twitch.tv/docvivileandra #vtuber #envtuber #vsky #vtuberswithdisabilities

The mental model our society's rulers appear to have of LLMs is "little man in a box who knows to always do as he's told, as a good peasant should" and that explains basically everything regarding the way they react to AI

Through the looking glass on this. Grok is not a sentient entity, does not "understand" what occurred (or anything else), and thus cannot be quoted or explain what happened

The Tau would be villains in a really optimistic sci-fi setting where the heroes are all about democracy and political freedom, but actually they're not all that dark compared to the standard of "most sci-fi"

sometimes people say that in any other sci-fi setting the tau would be the bad guys but “high tech assimilationist empire dominated by a single species spreading a post scarcity utopia with zero political freedom run by the military” exactly describes the federation from star trek

Trobbio is probably Silksong's funniest boss A clip from the Hollow Knight: Silksong streams! #vtuber #envtuber #vsky #vtuberswithdisabilities #vtuberclips #vclips

This is just complete gibberish lmao

there are endless headlines about "grok apologizes" or "grok says it will be fixed" after it generated CSAM using pictures of minors and zero headlines about "grok being shut down" or "musk and xAI in big legal trouble" and I think something fundamental has broken here

Honestly they’ve just built up a cargo cult idea of what this place was. They were saying that back when it was a full on free fire zone where one group of maladjusted millennials was taking out another. People played this site like it was Crusader Kings

tapping the sign again #art

Remember folks, we're in a game of chicken with the AI slop peddlers! They're desperately trying to propagandize you into accepting it so their idiot bubble doesn't burst. You don't need a theft machine that kills the planet, but the slop peddlers need you. Stare them down and laugh when it bursts.

I posted a thread talking about laser weapons again, so let me post a more general one explaining laser weapon "damage modes" so to speak: In short, there are several different things a high-energy laser can do to the target, depending on peak pulse power - it's not as simple as just heating it up.

I think I've mentioned this before, but Warhammer 40k: Darktide is actually the closest to a realistic portrayal of (far-future) pulse laser weaponry I've seen in a video game, in terms of how it looks and sounds? The loud CRACK and the bright flash of the beam, etc.

taxpayer money going to a kiddie porn generator should be a gigantic scandal, like one of the biggest scandals of our lifetimes

so before we got better ways to chemically synthesize estradiol, we used estrogen extracted from the urine of pregnant horses. everyone knows this. famous drug "premarin" stood for PREgnant MARe urINe. this isn't news. my question is, how did this go down in the umamusume universe

In this in-depth interview Billie Jean Sweeney — a former editor at The New York Times — details how the paper shifted towards openly promoting anti-trans hatred, why this was directed from the very top, how some staff pushed back and the immense damage done by the NYT legitimizing bigotry.

Happy New Year, lab rats! Let's hope this year goes better than the last one, huh?

You know, given our present literacy crisis, I wonder how many of the gamers insisting every game should have voice acting simply cannot read

Rocks

his final message…

Attacking a data center like it’s The Bastille, everyone fleeing with a bushels of RAM to desolder and resolder the chips. One peasant coded guy with a wheelbarrow of SFP+ modules. Manifesting this for 2026.

What

[cherrypicking scenes to define genre the way people do with Ghibli movies] The Godfather is "cozy."

I have been trolled EXPERTLY TROLLED.

Last day of the worst year of my entire life

#RogueTrader #wh40k

Those late-game missions you take in BATTLETECH just to fill out budget shortfalls where the enemy poses no serious threat to you are really, really funny. #vtuber #envtuber #vsky #vtuberswithdisabilities

Stream schedule for the first week of 2026! Taking a few days off to recover from the stress of December, will be back on Friday! Twitch: twitch.tv/docvivileandra Discord: discord.gg/eHhdje7dv4 #vtuber #envtuber #vsky #vtuberswithdisabilities

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Someone made Bone Hurting Juice real

A petty thing that just...drives me insane? Weebs who don't understand how translation works. Who prefer stilted, awkward, unpoetic and garbage dogshit because it's """accurate""" Just...it makes me so fucking mad, I hate them

My best art from 2025! #2025年自分が選ぶ今年の4枚

I need a way to turn off seeing reposts from a specific person you follow because too many of y'all bitches are into vore

nounslop

Realizing I wanna hang out online with friends rn but don't currently have a convenient space to organize such without incl. random acquaintances and strangers

Sampson had such a foul attitude lol Wouldn't let anyone other than me near him and mostly just preferred to be left alone, was aggressive to other rabbits, fussing when pet or brushed But he was there during some of the darkest chapters of my life and I may not have been here if not for him

So, um, I figured I might as well share this. Since I was a teenager, I had a pet rabbit named Sampson. I didn't post pictures like I did for Fig because he mostly kept to himself, but I still loved him That paragraph is in the past tense because he passed away yesterday.

No lie I feel like a ton of people come in with this mentality.

Arguments that any technology "can't be put back in the bottle" are always the stupidest thing I've ever heard We put asbestos back in the bottle We put lead paint back in the bottle We put leaded gas back in the bottle Why can't we put AI back in as well? Just demolish the data centers!

I don't want gen AI in my browser. I don't want gen AI in my PC. I don't want gen AI in my art. I don't want gen AI in my games. I don't want gen AI in my music. I don't want gen AI in my movies. I don't want gen AI in my books. I don't want gen AI in my cart. I don't want gen AI in my LIFE.

I've seen some plural VTubers who just switch models when a different alter fronts and I think they should instead take inspiration from @terrible.moe and have a model with multiple heads because that's cool as fuck

Kehaar......

puppytide