#Yes its that stupid

[hideousocean]

Hi art tumblr. In a dream, I saw the stupidest art meme ever, so of course I had to bring it into the real world.

[sophiebaybey]

Not to preach to the choir but I wonder if people generally realize that AI models like ChatGPT aren't, like, sifting through documented information when you ask it particular questions. If you ask it a question, it's not sifting through relevant documentation to find your answer, it is using an intensely inefficient method of guesswork that has just gone through so many repeated cycles that it usually, sometimes, can say the right thing when prompted. It is effectively a program that simulates monkeys on a typewriter at a mass scale until it finds sets of words that the user says "yes, that's right" to enough times. I feel like if it was explained in this less flattering way to investors it wouldn't be nearly as funded as it is lmao. It is objectively an extremely impressive technology given what it has managed to accomplish with such a roundabout and brain-dead method of getting there, but it's also a roundabout, brain-dead method of getting there. It is inefficient, pure and simple.

[lotus-pear]

get loved, fucking idiot

[cthulhum]

does anyone realize how crazy it is to have the actor of a mostly headcanoned queer ship say the fans were never crazy and they were right all along after 10+ years of everyone just absolutely going nuts over the said queerbaited ship

[heshmmity]

theyre flirting! faggots

[keylimeart]

Erik, his husband and his husband's cat

[k0mmari]

Hello! I love Locked and Loaded unironicly! I'm having brain rot about your Shen Yuan being silly.

Imagining Shen Yuan stuck with like a telepath or dream demon trying to get secrets out of his mind. Idk if he actually has any secrets they want but he would totally pull a "Im not trapped in here with you, youre trapped in here with me!" Then start blasting Abba. 20-60 hours of Dancing Queen on loop is just as damaging as a bullet.

Idea so good and stupid I had to expand this into a very messy comic

Also I think he should maximize the damage and take advantage that it’s in his mind and his knowledge of Eletronics and blast The Disappearance of Hatsune Miku. Enjoy.

[dukeofthomas]

I find the fact that the confrontation at the end of UTRH is often summarized as Jason asking Bruce to kill the Joker for him fascinating.

Because that's not what happened.

Jason holds a gun up to Joker's head, gives Bruce another, and tells him that if Bruce doesn't do something (shoot Jason), he will kill Joker.

Jason doesn't give the gun to Bruce so that he would shoot Joker. He isn't expecting Bruce to pull the trigger on the clown. He's asking Bruce to do nothing. To be inactive. Because that will still be a choice, and despite having done nothing, everybody clearly agrees that Bruce would still, at least in part, be responsible for Joker's death.

...And to me, this moment is a kind of- microcosm, of the rest of Jason's point. Because after being captured and carted off to Arkham, the villain will escape again, and will kill more people. The only way to truly prevent that from happening would be to kill them; Bruce refuses to do so, and I respect his right to choose such a thing for himself, but it is still a choice, and if we agree that Bruce's inaction during the confrontation would leave him at least partly responsible for the Joker's death, then we must also agree that his inaction in permanently preventing the Rogues from killing more people means he is also, partly, responsible for all of those deaths.

[jedi-starbird]

Obi-Wan: oh? who's this?

Cody, who's been carting around an orange cat he found sleeping in Obi-Wan’s discarded robe all day, and assumed that his general had been transformed due to standard Force Bullshit™️: ...no one. apparently.

[avicinda]

If you are a non spending player (f2p) in Infinity Nikki, here is why you should care that the 5 star is 11 pieces and leading to a boycott:

Spending players, especially whales, are how YOU get to be f2p.

Because if a gacha game alienates their whales, it proceeds extremely quickly to "f2p can barely do anything at all" as the game slides faster and faster to pay to win to make up for losing their whales. Then f2p players leave. Then the game hits End of Service because no one is playing and paying for it anyway. No more Infinity Nikki for anyone. Infinity Nikki is not "too big to fail," it's big enough to withstand losing a lot of people, but the lower the revenue falls, the faster shit hits the fan for f2p.

You know why the game has been so generous with free outfits and pieces every month so far? Because that was the honeymoon period. They were trying to hook us in, and more importantly, they want happy whales who feel like they're getting their money's worth so they will keep spending.

We are now in the "fuck around and find out" phase of a gacha's lifetime, much earlier than I'd hoped. This is the part of the gacha timeframe where the devs increase monetization and things like the spending meter that I call Gacha Bullshit. This is when they test the waters and see how far they can get away with things.

11 pieces is an increase of pity by 20 pulls. No sane gacha game would do this unless they were testing the players' reaction. If you play any other gachas with a set pity, think very hard about how increasing those pities by 20 pulls would feel.

Mira Crown is a decent chunk of free pulls and diamonds for all players every month. Changing from every 14 days to once a month was the test. Conceding and changing it to twice a month is "we hear you, but we don't really want to listen, so shut up already."

If whales don't push back NOW against the increasing Gacha Bullshit, the devs start to add more, and, slowly, choke out the parts of the game that are f2p. This has happened before. This is why there's a "stupid" boycott! It's not "just" discourse.

You want your game to stay playable and fun for f2p? Then stop sneering at the very people who pay so you can play it f2p in the first place.

(This is not a defense of spending practices in predatory games, but it's the reality we live in that whales exist who want to spend money on things that make them happy.)

[grotesquevi]

“i want fluff!!!” “why is everything smut!!!” “i’m so done with everyone being horny!!!”

write it your fucking self then. i’m so tired of this discourse of “i want fluff but i wont engage enough to let the author know i love their work” so if you dont reblog, dont comment on authors work when you like the story or just give a single like and move on,,,

fucking dont. open docs and write the damn fluff yourself what are you waiting for.

[manticorecure]

goodnight, sweet prince

[insertsomthinawesome]

I want to kidnap all the Chrysos Heirs and take them on silly little adventures where we all get to do stupid friend stuff and also they get to be cozy and vibe.

[enden-k]

obsessed w characters that are introduced/come off as inconspicuous/lazy/relaxed/etc but you know/learn theyre actually dangerous and deadly as hell

[astarfromsomewhere]

Mitosis

Live parent/creator reaction

[kogglyuffs]

is he stupid