#like what are you talkin about

[zawehzawah]

consider reading this substack article which debunks a lot of claims about the environmental impact of chatgpt https://andymasley.substack.com/p/individual-ai-use-is-not-bad-for

Uh

Whoever this is, they are using really unscientific methods of measurement and even admit that they're just doing napkin math??

so i'm just gonna go with MIT on this one

https://news.mit.edu/2025/explained-generative-ai-environmental-impact-0117

"Scientists have estimated that the power requirements of data centers in North America increased from 2,688 megawatts at the end of 2022 to 5,341 megawatts at the end of 2023, partly driven by the demands of generative AI. Globally, the electricity consumption of data centers rose to 460 terawatts in 2022. This would have made data centers the 11th largest electricity consumer in the world, between the nations of Saudi Arabia (371 terawatts) and France (463 terawatts), according to the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development.

By 2026, the electricity consumption of data centers is expected to approach 1,050 terawatts (which would bump data centers up to fifth place on the global list, between Japan and Russia).

While not all data center computation involves generative AI, the technology has been a major driver of increasing energy demands."

[behaemoth]

Writing is crazy. Emotionally I’ve written 10k so I guessed I was probably really around 5k being generous. Checked the word count. 1500 words.

[cashmoneyyysstuff]

i feel like when people say "katsuki won't change for you" they mean it like, completely and literally. but tbh i really really don't see it like that.

like yeah, he will never change his personality for anybody. he's still him because if you liked him romantically you'd already know what he's like. but he'd most definitely change his behaviour towards you. ofc im not trynna say he's gonna like do a whole 180 and kiss the ground you walk n shit but like..you're still his partner,, does that make sense ?? like it always confuses me when ppl say stuff like " he wont give you any special treatment he'll treat you like he treats everyone" and to me its like..no.., y'know ?😭 like at the end of the day you are still his partner. you're dating and he loves you so why would he treat you like some rando.

at most i see him like being awkward at the beginning of the relationship when its still new cus he doesnt know what to do (lol loser) but i still know he'd very much try. cus thats the thing youre not just a random you're his person. you're his one and he's obv gonna show you that because otherwise whats the point

m not sayin he's perfect, he's gonna mess up at some points maybe be a bit snappy because that's just how he is and you know that, you knew that when you got with him. BUT you still love him and he still very much loves you and he shows you that and he tries to make it up to you because you're different and he CARESSS!!! thats my whole thing!!!

[teatitty]

Hal being so over protective of Barry to the point he canonically prioritises Barry over everyone else and will not think twice about fighting other heroes if he walks in on them fighting Barry is something I think about a lot and not even fics take advantage of this. Because Barry is very much aware of Hal's protective nature and he just lets it happen. There's no way Central and Coast don't think their resident heroes are dating each other. Central and Coast are bestie cities united in hero bl shipping

[puppetmaster13u]

Prompt 239

Y'know what I think would be hilarious for a DP and PJO crossover? Percy & co finally getting to Kronos, straight up ready for anything after they pass through magic and portal of green and-

There's the smell of cookies. Freshly baked cookies, a warm oven, something about it reminding them of home in this strange place of floating gears and ticking clocks.

And there's a long, serpentine tail twisting through the gears, twisting up and down and across in a size that could hides yet reveals just how large this entity is. There's power soaking into every inch of this place, every centimeter nearly sending lightning up their legs with each step.

The ticking is getting stronger, a distant gonging of the hour echoing through a place that should feel cold and empty like the ringing of bells in the end of times.

And suddenly there's a kid- a teen like them, human yet not- with a cookie half in their mouth and hair flickering like the cosmos as they peer down from above them with a frown, eyes brighter than the sun yet darker than the moon.

"Oh great, what did my half-siblings do this Time?"

[broareweabouttoviberightnow]

thinkin tonight about how pony n curly are really 'you ever think the winds tryin to tell us somethin n we forgot how to understand' for 'I just wish you'd stop saying odd shit'

[sp00ky-sh4rk0]

Yeah I’m still fucking side eyeing him over that one scene from the 2019 movie

[shorthaltsjester]

it is quite funny to me as someone who studies philosophy and has had to have the conversations that bh and ludinus have been having many times over and often with people who like ludinus do not have any reading comprehension and truly like. the notion of “this shouldn’t exist” is almost always one that comes up regardless of whether it’s a discussion on the metaphysics of a potential God(s) or divinity, high political powers, or vehicles of systemic oppression. and what anyone who cares about people more than their ideals (even, sometimes, ideals that started out being about people but quickly come to be about the ideals themselves) realizes very quickly in a philosophical discussion about what should and shouldn’t exist is that it does not matter if what you’ve decided ‘shouldn’t’ exist does in fact already exist. like that tends to be the difference between sociopolitical philosophy that actually has teeth and substance in the world — a willingness to engage with the world as it is, not as it should be. because you can have the perfect image of a just and wonderful future world, but if you do not at every step reckon with the unjust world from which you are aiming at that future, you’re doing nothing. ideals are helpful because they aim us toward goals and hopes, but they’re nothing without a reality that grounds them.

and so people like ludinus, who in the real world would play the role of a graduate student with critical thinking skills that make every professor he comes across question how he arrived at his level of study, they don’t have Wrong ideals, there’s obviously plenty of reasons why an exandria without gods might in fact be a better place for mortals (there are also many Many reasons why it would not). but ludinus has also chosen his ideals to weigh heavier than the mortals he claims to uphold them with. i think ashton is also interesting, because i think a lot of their positions have a fun fluctuation between being ideal focused and person focused, where sometimes they’re focused on how unfair life is in a very nihilistic position, and at other times they seem quite clear about how much ideals help no one if they’re not second to the desire to help others. and i think that made their role in the convo with ludinus in 102 especially interesting and irritating (but in a narratively fulfilling way). anyway, truly so fun watching ludinus argue with the amount of fallacies and undeserved confidence of like right wing first year students in an ethics class explaining how actually the ends justify the means and thanos had the right idea actually if it means no more starvation. get a grip old man.

[littlestarbigsky]

i will never EVER shut up about steve and how misrepresented he is in this fandom bc LITERALLYYYYY SHUT UP.

steve comes from a home without a mother and a man who is abusive and violent, and literally pays steve to come back home after kicking him out.

have you ever thought about the fact that he never heard the words 'i love you' from either of his parents, and hearing it thrown about so freely when he is around soda must be so jarring. literally think about the fact that one of the only safe places steve knew growing up was the curtis house and the safety he felt with soda's parents, losing them was probably a devastating blow to him (of course, nothing like darry, soda, and pony but you get the point.)

"but steve is an asshole to pony" INCORRECT. steve grew up being taught that screaming matches and exchanging blows is how families act. pony grew up getting kissed goodnight by every member of his family and being affectionately known as everybody's little brother.

steve giving pony shit all the time is him showing how much he cares.

[walrus150915]

I feel like a lot of people in the fandom tend to forget this, so I'm just here to give a kind, thoughtful reminder :]

Ambrosius Goldenloin in the movie is an East Asian man (Korean-coded), his skin is tan, his eyes are monolid and his nose is big

He's voiced by Eugene Lee Yang - a Korean-American actor who also has Chinese and Japanese heritage. Eugene Lee Yang looks like this:

During the production, when Ambrosius was decided to be East Asian, artists looked up queer East Asian-American men, and based Ambrosius off of them. Ambrosius is literally drawn to look like Eugene Lee Yang

Please draw him as such, thank you

[cashmoneyyysstuff]

the day fanfic writers don't make yn go into shock at the slightest whiff of spice is the day i can finally rest easy

[doomedclockworkdotmp3]

i didnt write my essay for this 👍👍

im so festive with my red and green color combos n whatnot

[dragonroar64]

theres a bedrock edition loading screen tip that says something along the lines of "eat as much as you want, you'll never get full! And you'll never starve" that is high-key haunting to me. wtf do you mean by that minecraft. what do you mean by that. anyways I'm just gonna go through some of bedrock edition's creative mode-exclusive loading screen tips because my heart is telling me they're parkciv evbo coded (postcanon, at least) and I need to talk about it

(all of these tips found courtesy of minecraft.wiki, the only good Minecraft wiki (and it's spectacular y'all should be using it if you aren't))

(also, all of these sections are written with the assumption of parkciv evbo reading them. I know that doesn't make sense because it's java edition and also they're loading screen tips but shhhh lemme have my angst in peace)

(double also, there's an episode in between both seasons that isn't included in the compilation movies. if you haven't watched it, you should, because it's actually really lore relevant! It's called "Minecraft but I discover the HISTORY of PARKOUR CIVILIZATION" and idk why it wasn't in the movies so there's that. it's relevant to this ramble :])

"Bored of gravity? Jump twice to fly!" does this mean, to evbo, "jump twice and you'll never have to jump again"? does this mean to him that he's made it to the top? is it a blessing or a curse to be able to simply stop jumping and just keep going around? would he be sad to know that he is the only one who can experience this? would he be upset to know that this power could've been given to everyone, to the starving and the sick, that jumping doesn't need to matter? or would it feel like cheating to him? would he refuse to fly because he's gotten this far without it?

"Summon mobs in an instant with spawn eggs" food is there at the use of an item. you can have hundreds of cows, chickens, pigs, animals he's never seen or imagined. he was left to starve. his friends were left to starve. the champion, and the parkour god, have the power to feed everyone forever. no one did it before he did. side note, I think that that's how each level can have food without anyone necessarily having to work. but anyways. how angry would you be to find out that your starvation could've been fixed with one item. one simple action. your friends could've been safe if not for the neglect of those above you

skipping straight to what's listed as number 9 on the wiki because the ones in between the last one and this one don't interest me but "You can't die, but villagers can. Use that information... wisely." is simply a horrifying statement in general in my humble opinion. like, you can't die. but everyone else can. everyone else is subject to the horrors of death. everyone else will be gone, someday. the people you love don't live forever, but you do. you will outlive everyone you've ever loved and ever will love and there's nothing you can do about that. horrific possibility and I've seen this concept used before so I know other people have come to this conclusion but still

now, there's another good one but I think I want to come back to that one later, so to number 15 we go I think :) "Who needs tools? Punch your way to success and remove blocks instantly in creative mode." remember how under the evil champion, noobs weren't allowed to break blocks? yeah I bet you do. Evbo would probably remember that too. from being able to break nothing to being able to break through any barrier, any wall. no wall can stop you, cell bars can't keep you in(this also ties into number 14 with the same theme, and 14 is this: "Move through solid objects using spectator mode." I didn't feel like it was enough to talk about by itself so here it is!!), you're free forever. walls are a suggestion. you can go wherever you want and do whatever you want forever and ever and ever and just a few months ago any small privilege or right could be taken from you. no one can stop you anymore.

next up I'm looking at number 17 and also I think in the same vein is number 5, so I'll go over both here really. number 17 is "Get there now with the /tp command." and number 5 is "Try blinking around the map with an ender pearl. Don't get dizzy!" I feel like these two are related for the sake of this post because imagine being able to just go. just leave! get outta here! go wherever you want instantly! you can go an infinite distance in no time at all. you never have to do the parkour to get between layers again. this could've saved lives. this could've protected people. but instead people fall into the void and die. people are hurt. do you think this is where Evbo got the idea for teleporting people back to the parkour temple when they die in the void? do you think Evbo wishes someone set this up before his friends fell to the void?

I don't have a ton to say about number 20 but I do still want to bring it up. "Why not build an underwater base? It's not like you can drown." is one of the messages that are very flippant about things that would usually kill you. "you can't die, so why not try things you never could before?" is how this one reads to me at least. so many more options, so many infinite options, there's so much. you don't even need to breathe anymore, so is anything really a threat to you? everything should be so much less terrifying, but you were still born mortal. that would be pretty hard to get past I think.

similar to that one is number 23, and there are a couple I'll come back to but I'd like to try to keep similar ones near each other. "Have you tried swimming in lava? It's like sinking into a warm bath. Just don't try it in survival mode..." is also a very "you can't die so just do shit" message. this one I added separately, though, because I think the lava aspect is interesting to tie into parkour prison. lava doesn't hurt you anymore, it's warm, it's fine, try it. maybe it'll reassure you that no one else who died there felt pain when dying even though you know that's a lie. maybe you'll feel less bad for surviving where they didn't.

second to last is number 21, "Whatever you can dream, you can build. There's no limit to your resources (in creative mode...)." I feel like this one ties into the way that noobs had basically nothing at all, and that even as you go up the ranks no one has infinite resources except perhaps the champion and the parkour god. as a noob there is nothing you can own, you cannot even pick up blocks, and your food is always raw. you have a house but if you're gone too long they'll sell it for a higher price and you'll never get it back. as a pro sure you can have blocks and your food is cooked but if you don't do your tasks then you die. you starve or you are killed. even as a master you still have to work for things; you may have the most out of any layer but nothing is unlimited. do you think this is why Evbo made food infinitely available on every layer after becoming champion? or at least part of the reason?

the last one I'm covering is number 13. I wanted to save the best for last and y'all are gonna hate me for this one. number 13 is "Eat as much as you want, you'll never get full! And you'll never starve." I think y'all can guess where I'm going with this one. this is also the one that I saw while loading into one of my own minecraft worlds that made me go on this dive! but just. imagine being Evbo and just seeing this. you'll never starve again. you'll never have to, you'll never be able to. but neither will you ever truly be full again. you don't get to. you don't have to starve but you'll never be full. others still starve, others still get full, but you will never do either of those again. freeing and devastating at the same time. just. idk man if I were good at writing fanfic I'd make this a fanfic but alas I am not good at fanfic

tldr because this is a long ass post:I think Evbo as a character would be really fucked up upon learning just how little can hurt him upon becoming a god. I especially think he'd be really angry at just how easy it really was for the previous parkour god to prevent all the suffering he and his friends went through and how little said god actually did. maybe one day I'll read over the other lists of loading screen tips and make headcanons about some of those because there's certainly at least a few that I can have thoughts about

[broareweabouttoviberightnow]

who up thinkin about that scene where ice calls mav dangerous n then when mav gets in his face n answers yeah I am dangerous ice. fuckin. snaps his jaw at him. yeah. just me? yeah no that's fine.

[xxplastic-cubexx]

i’m so glad you brought up that bit in excalibur where magneto’s ideal prison is him getting to be a husband and father again, because it’s so relevant to the idea that the house of m reality isn’t actually everyone’s ideal life, but just wanda’s idea of what everyone’s ideal life would be. all the time i see x-fans condemn magneto for house of m because his ideal world is him becoming exactly like his oppressors, but house of m isn’t actually the life magnus wants! any time magnus gets to become a political leader, he hates it. he hated ruling genosha. he hated ruling krakoa. deep down, he doesn’t want to be superior. he just wants to live in peace with the family he lost.

also, shoutout to magda and anya, who never get to be anything other than magneto’s women in refrigerators. i wish they got to be more important than that. i love it every time we see them in comics, but it’s so rare. and shoutout to magda in particular since she’s been almost completely erased from the narrative by the maximoff retcon. really hope we get a reveal that natalya maximoff was magda all along when we inevitably make wanda and pietro magneto’s mutant children again.

i honestly didnt know excalibur was a predecessor to HoM when i heard about both runs so when i saw that set of panels for the first time it really had me reconsider HoM and the 'ideal reality' bit, im surprised i dont see it mentioned more often

i really wish there were more appearances of mags, magda, and anya; if there are stories focused on them i barely see them talked about... ive heard magda is mags' best-written partner from some but i also very rarely see stories that feature her directly named, so i never get to see her beyond the few fleeting instances i just so happen to catch her. id very much like to see more of her and mags' domestic life....

i think if we find out that natalya was magda all along i'll howl: this family really Can get more complicated contrary to popular belief 💀

[reyreadersblog]

"Team Jameson" "team Grayson" THERE IS LITERALLY NO TEAMS ANYMORE, IT ENDED ABOUT 2 YEARS AGO.