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Sorry yall, we've tried nothing and we're all out of ideas

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I have some news for members of the united states armed forces who feel like they are pawns in a political game and their assignments being unnecessary.

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It has the advantage of being released close enough to the Lilo and Stitch remake to ride the high of "at least we're not THAT bad, right guys??"

Hearing the httyd live action having more recognition, making more money and having better scores than the original is honestly breaking my entire heart and ppl defend this shit I am livid fr 💀😭

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today's bug thing is this giant beetle sculpture!

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Would anyone be interested if I put together a post on how to write a scientist/engineer/techy/smart-guy type character? What would y'all want to know?

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You should be watching Scavenger's Reign rn.

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Surprised it took this long

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This is something I've tried to beat into people's heads whenever they tell me they "just use AI for this one little thing" That is one little thing you're not learning from and it's usually the basis for everything else you're doing. "I wanna make a game but don't know coding so I made ChatGPT write the code for me" Cool, so you're proudly admitting you learned absolutely nothing about how your game works, meaning when anything goes wrong you'll have no idea how to find the problem or what to do about it, and can't even ask the original writer because they don't exist. If you go to some tech forum and find some post that does the thing you're trying to do, even if you just copy+paste you're still likely going to glean *something* from the forum. At the very least, you've learned how to find help, and if you need further help you can just...ask the people involved because they're probably still around doing the same thing. The old scolding of "if you put as much effort into learning as you put into cheating you'd have passed anyway" implies *effort* Effort is good actually. Begging everyone to stop willingly handing their higher functions to the Hallucinating Plagiarism Machines (TM).

Whenever I think about students using AI, I think about an essay I did in high school. Now see, we were reading The Grapes of Wrath, and I just couldn't do it. I got 25 pages in and my brain refused to read any more. I hated it. And its not like I hate the classics, I loved English class and I loved reading. I had even enjoyed Of Mice and Men, which I had read for fun. For some reason though, I absolutely could NOT read The Grapes of Wrath.

And it turned out I also couldn't watch the movie. I fell asleep in class both days we were watching it.

This, of course, meant I had to cheat on my essay.

And I got an A.

The essay was to compare the book and the movie and discuss the changes and how that affected the story.

Well it turned out Sparknotes had an entire section devoted to comparing and contrasting the book and the movie. Using that, and flipping to pages mentioned in Sparknotes to read sections of the book, I was able to bullshit an A paper.

But see the thing is, that this kind of 'cheating' still takes skills, you still learn things.

I had to know how to find the information I needed, I needed to be able to comprehend what sparknotes was saying and the analysis they did, I needed to know how to USE the information I read there to write an essay, I needed to know how to make sure none of it was marked as plagerized. I had to form an opinion on the sparknotes analysis so I could express my own opinions in the essay.

Was it cheating? Yeah, I didn't read the book or watch the movie. I used Sparknotes. It was a lot less work than if I had read the book and watched the movie and done it all myself.

The thing is though, I still had to use my fucking brain. Being able to bullshit an essay like that is a skill in and of itself that is useful. I exercised important skills, and even if it wasnt the intended way I still learned.

ChatGTP and other AI do not give that experience to people, people have to do nothing and gain nothing from it.

Using AI is absolutely different from other ways students have cheated in the past, and I stand by my opinion that its making students dumber, more helpless, and less capable.

However you feel about higher education, I think its undeniable that students using chatgtp is to their detriment. And by extension a detriment to anyone they work with or anyone who has to rely on them for something.

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The other night husband and I were watching a documentary about the yeti where they were doing DNA analysis of samples of supposed yeti fur, and every one of them came back as bears.

Anyway, the next night we watched a thing about some pig man who is supposed to live in Vermont. People said it had claws and a pig nose but walked upright like a man. Now, I happen to know that sideshows used to shave bears and present them as pig men. So every piece of evidence they gave of this monster sounds to me like a bear with mange.

So now the running joke in our house is that everything is bears. Aliens? Bears. Loch Ness monster? Bear. Every cryptozoological mystery is just a very crafty bear.

Bears. They’re everywhere. Be wary. Anyone or anything could be a bear.

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Missed opportunity to make Chuck the glasses tbh

game of DATE EVERYTHING is out and im honored to see the TINGLEVERSE mentioned. still have not heard from the developer but my offer stands: let me know if you want chuck tingle to voice an object. anyway buckaroos are having a great time playing so go check it out THIS PROVES LOVE

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Hand sculpted in @monsterclayusa , cast in urethane , painted with acrylic, felt feathers with glow in the dark eyes on the fabric strips.

Vision is through the reflective visor eyes. This finished version of my Gryphon mask has been themed with a tribute to the @compulsiongames South Of Midnight concept artwork by @rael.lyra ( @dariendhester made this brilliant suggestion 😄) The reveal for this character in the story was such a surprise and delight for me! What a game! This original piece will be available this Friday at 2pm PST at the sh op link in my profile.

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It's very #problematic of me I'm sure but if they must do either I really desperately prefer authors coming up with fancy always-italicized elven words for being gay or trans than having preindustrial warrior aristocrats and barely-socialized monsters have a vocabulary that casually includes 'demisexual' and 'enby'.

This is only slightly a principled stance (queernorm fantasy worlds are very obviously not trying to have any sort of realistic political economy of gender, which I only slightly judge them for), mostly just painful aesthetic mismatch.

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