#but still

[reaiiygoodusername]

I’m anti-phan but not in the way where I think they aren’t together, just in the way that I’m upset because they are

[operationandre]

thinking about how the last thing eric saw was alex pointing a gun at him. alex—his best friend, the person he was in love with, his partner in crime—decided to stop his life mid sentence. whether or not alex thought he was doing the right thing doesn’t matter. eric’s last moments, even if just for a split second, were filled with fear as he stared down the barrel of the weapon alex was holding.

[mvmnbnv]

Both of them deserve the fattest apology from jinx

[spacemothes]

Okay small confession time

I was big into Ninjago when I was younger

and by big i mean BIG

that stuff was my bread and butter.

I remember when I got to the end of the show only to find out they left it on a cliffhanger

that absolutely ruined little me. And I refused to watch the reboot because I felt so betrayed.

Honestly looking back on it was kinda petty not gonna lie.

Anyways, all this to say

feeling nostalgic, probably gonna re-watch the Ninjago series again, might actually give the reboot a chance if I have the time

[pseudophan]

i was talking to my irls the other night over dnp and my friend he was explaining how he was actually shocked when they came out and was still shocked to find out they are together bc he was like 'the thing that got me was they had their own bedrooms' which is so mental bc me n my friend were like DEEP in the trenches in 2015 arguing about this shit online like it was baffling that u could be that oblivious to things ? ygm?

hilarious to me how even their most rudimentary attempts at seeming less gay worked so well on some people. separate bedrooms? for sure just friends, no chance there could be anything more going on

[jemichiart]

Here is a silly doodle that only one person will understand. xD

But the rest of you can just enjoy Maxwell being too tall to hide under a bush hat

[blasphannie]

we shipped everyone. we had to be right about some of them. turns out it was dan and phil lol

[polin-erospsyche]

So anyone else thinking about the fact that it is Penelope Bridgerton written on the cast of characters for season 4? Because I have been on a regular basis and honestly I’m not functioning very well

[kindaasrikal]

Technically, the Green ninja is destiny’s chosen one to be Garmadon’s baby sitter. Or Ninjago’s babysitter, or the Overlord.

Edit: Ninjago and everything in it is technically the Fsm’s child so like doesn’t that just mean Lloyd is a glorified babysitter stuck in the same situation as ‘Hey, Jessie!’ From Disney channel with the parents leaving their kids for like years with a babysitter?

At least Jessie got paid. All Lloyd got was trauma and death. And glowy green hands but that’s beside the point.

[mylittlesecrethaven]

Just Found Out Jamil's Afraid Of Bugs. Kinda Cool We Share That In Common, But Kinda Weird That A Guy Who Lives In A Literal Desert Is Afraid Of Bugs

[legend-as-old-as-time]

I've gotten a plot bunny that in stories / AUs where Mata Nui's awake, one of the topics he's no-nonsense / strict about is people blaming themselves / others for their mistakes. This is partly inspired by discussions with @mothnem about the Great Cataclysm.

The Toa Metru could have made less mistakes? Yes, they could have. Also: Mata Nui was already sick and very late in chosing them. He'd been sick for decades at this point, slowly weakening. Teridax already controlled Metru Nui in secret, had the remaining Toa Mangai killed except for Lhikan, and captured hundreds of matoran.

There were no toa left to guide the Toa Metru after Nidhiki and Krekka captured Lhikan.

This left the work maintaining the city = the Core Processor undone and less places that could syphon off the power overload. The Toa Metru had no idea that he would put Mata Nui into a coma - there was no information about that -, nor that he even could. They had little to no chance to stop him, powerful as he was.

Except for very few, nobody knew that this work kept Mata Nui's body alive. Or that Metru Nui was part of his brain. Nobody had anything to cure the virus putting him to sleep.

There's also no telling if the GSR would still have failed on the way to Bara Magna, stranded in space- or crashed onto the planet even if they had stopped the power overload.

Things were long in motion before the Toa Metru ever came to be as a team. They were not at fault for the Cataclysm, the damages wrought to their former home, or his coma. Agonizing / feeling guilty over it doesn't help anybody.

Edit: And others blaming the Toa Metru doesn't help, either.

I have ideas for the Toa Nuva, Toa Mahri, and Toa Hagah, too, but less concrete.

@crystaltoa

@magicalgirlmascot

@randomwriteronline

@mothnem

[muxas-world]

I mean great sprint martin fumble it still hate them

[chuckecheeses]

So much color and tone variation just in the simple and humble domestic shorthair black kitty…

[lumsel]

chinese room 2

So there’s this guy, right? He sits in a room by himself, with a computer and a keyboard full of Chinese characters. He doesn’t know Chinese, though, in fact he doesn’t even realise that Chinese is a language. He just thinks it’s a bunch of odd symbols. Anyway, the computer prints out a paragraph of Chinese, and he thinks, whoa, cool shapes. And then a message is displayed on the computer monitor: which character comes next?

This guy has no idea how the hell he’s meant to know that, so he just presses a random character on the keyboard. And then the computer goes BZZZT, wrong! The correct character was THIS one, and it flashes a character on the screen. And the guy thinks, augh, dammit! I hope I get it right next time. And sure enough, computer prints out another paragraph of Chinese, and then it asks the guy, what comes next?

He guesses again, and he gets it wrong again, and he goes augh again, and this carries on for a while. But eventually, he presses the button and it goes DING! You got it right this time! And he is so happy, you have no idea. This is the best day of his life. He is going to do everything in his power to make that machine go DING again. So he starts paying attention. He looks at the paragraph of Chinese printed out by the machine, and cross-compares it against all the other paragraphs he’s gotten. And, recall, this guy doesn’t even know that this is a language, it’s just a sequence of weird symbols to him. But it’s a sequence that forms patterns. He notices that if a particular symbol is displayed, then the next symbol is more likely to be this one. He notices some symbols are more common in general. Bit by bit, he starts to draw statistical inferences about the symbols, he analyses the printouts every way he can, he writes extensive notes to himself on how to recognise the patterns.

Over time, his guesses begin to get more and more accurate. He hears those lovely DING sounds that indicate his prediction was correct more and more often, and he manages to use that to condition his instincts better and better, picking up on cues consciously and subconsciously to get better and better at pressing the right button on the keyboard. Eventually, his accuracy is like 70% or something -- pretty damn good for a guy who doesn’t even know Chinese is a language.

* * *

One day, something odd happens.

He gets a printout, the machine asks what character comes next, and he presses a button on the keyboard and-- silence. No sound at all. Instead, the machine prints out the exact same sequence again, but with one small change. The character he input on the keyboard has been added to the end of the sequence.

Which character comes next?

This weirds the guy out, but he thinks, well. This is clearly a test of my prediction abilities. So I’m not going to treat this printout any differently to any other printout made by the machine -- shit, I’ll pretend that last printout I got? Never even happened. I’m just going to keep acting like this is a normal day on the job, and I’m going to predict the next symbol in this sequence as if it was one of the thousands of printouts I’ve seen before. And that’s what he does! He presses what symbol comes next, and then another printout comes out with that symbol added to the end, and then he presses what he thinks will be the next symbol in that sequence. And then, eventually, he thinks, “hm. I don’t think there’s any symbol after this one. I think this is the end of the sequence.” And so he presses the “END” button on his keyboard, and sits back, satisfied.

Unbeknownst to him, the sequence of characters he input wasn’t just some meaningless string of symbols. See, the printouts he was getting, they were all always grammatically correct Chinese. And that first printout he’d gotten that day in particular? It was a question: “How do I open a door.” The string of characters he had just input, what he had determined to be the most likely string of symbols to come next, formed a comprehensible response that read, “You turn the handle and push”.

* * *

One day you decide to visit this guy’s office. You’ve heard he’s learning Chinese, and for whatever reason you decide to test his progress. So you ask him, “Hey, which character means dog?”

He looks at you like you’ve got two heads. You may as well have asked him which of his shoes means “dog”, or which of the hairs on the back of his arm. There’s no connection in his mind at all between language and his little symbol prediction game, indeed, he thinks of it as an advanced form of mathematics rather than anything to do with linguistics. He hadn’t even conceived of the idea that what he was doing could be considered a kind of communication any more than algebra is. He says to you, “Buddy, they’re just funny symbols. No need to get all philosophical about it.”

Suddenly, another printout comes out of the machine. He stares at it, puzzles over it, but you can tell he doesn’t know what it says. You do, though. You’re fluent in the language. You can see that it says the words, “Do you actually speak Chinese, or are you just a guy in a room doing statistics and shit?”

The guy leans over to you, and says confidently, “I know it looks like a jumble of completely random characters. But it’s actually a very sophisticated mathematical sequence,” and then he presses a button on the keyboard. And another, and another, and another, and slowly but surely he composes a sequence of characters that, unbeknownst to him, reads “Yes, I know Chinese fluently! If I didn’t I would not be able to speak with you.”

That is how ChatGPT works.

[arguablysomaya]

this picture is pretty funny because bruce is destroying slade but my guy ur expensive ass home is this only thing keeping u from being in the exact same position 😭

[may12324]

Karlach Cliffgate- fire of my heart