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Despite my bitching about the Ch3 secret boss, I loved both Ch3 and Ch4. I think Ch4 has my absolute favorite secret boss as well.

Really excited for ch5.

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Thinking about how in Gideon's narration she employs 206 anatomical names for bones but Harrow doesn't know the difference between a hilt and a pommel. Something something cavaliers being expected to respect/understand/integrate into necromancy while necromancers are not expected to do the same for caveliership. Is this anything.

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things ianthe has said that i feel gregory house would also say:

"should we hold hands in girlish solidarity?"

"alas. i have a bad personality and a stupefying deficit of attention."

"why, your fist is so big, and my butthole is so small."

"what can i say, i love a little gall on gall"

"i tried and therefore no one should criticize me"

"[why did you get into this business] ultimate power and posters of my face"

"some people will do anything to get... a head"

"i didn't think this was the time for dirty talk but i can roll with it. choke me daddy"

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i'm watching a Deltarune LP in Japanese and found out that Tenna has a cute quirk where he ends a lot of his sentences with でしょう ("deshou") but he combines it with SHOW in English ("でSHOW" or "deSHOW")

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Long story short: Eilistraee initially didn't accept men into Her clergy (something something apples and trees). This began to change in the 1370s DR. But a requirement for full acceptance into the clergy for male followers was to undergo the Changedance, essentially a ritual of Trans Your Gender, to spend some time in the body of a woman to "better understand" their goddess or something.

This practice was phased out eventually. Thought I got the date wrong. I assumed the practice was dropped around the time Eilistraee subsumed Her brother's portfolio and followers. It supposedly was fully discontinued by the time of Her resurrection in the 1480s (aka during 5e).

Tldr: Eilistraee used to forcefemme her male priests. Only for a bit, though. (Unless they wanted it to last longer)

Love it when there's one boy in the friend group, forcefemming her becomes like a fun little group project with the besties

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Love it when there's one boy in the friend group, forcefemming her becomes like a fun little group project with the besties

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Worst part of popular left wing AI discourse online is that there's absolutely a need for a robust leftist opposition to use of cognitive automation without social dispensation to displaced human workers. The lack of any prior measures to facilitate a transition to having fewer humans in the workplace (UBI, more public control over industrial infrastructure, etc) is a disaster we are sleepwalking into - one that could lock the majority of our society's wealth further into the hands of authoritarian oligarchs who retain control of industry through last century private ownership models, while no longer needing to rely on us to operate their property.

But now we're seemingly not going to have the opposition we so desperately need, because everyone involved in the anti-AI conversation has pretty thoroughly discredited themselves and their movement by harbouring unconstrained reactionary nonsense, blatant falsehoods and woo. Instead of talking about who owns and benefits from cognitive automation, people are:

Demanding impossibilities like uninventing a now readily accessible technology

Trying to ascribe implicit moral value to said technology instead of the who is using it and how

Siding with corporations on copyright law in the name of "defending small artists"

Repeating obvious and embarrassing technical misconceptions and erroneous pop-sci about machine learning in order to justify their preferred philosophy

Invoking neo-spiritual conservative woo about the specialness of the human soul to try to incoherently discredit a machine that can quite obviously perform certain tasks just as well if not better than they can

Misrepresent numbers about energy use and environmental cost in an absurd double standard (all modern infrastructure is reliant on data centers to a similar level of impact, including your favourite fandom social media and online video games!) to build a narrative AI is some sort of malevolent spirit that damages our reality when it is called upon

It's a level of reactionary ignorance that has completely discredited any popular opposition to industrial AI rollout because it falls apart as soon as you dig deeper than a snappy social media post, or a misguided pro-copyright screed from an insecure web artist (who decries a machine laying eyes on their freely posted work while simultaneously charging commission for fan-art of corporate IPs... I'm sure that will absolutely resolve in their favour).

It would be funny how much people are fucking themselves over with all this, except I'm being fucked over to, and as a result am really quite mad about the situation. We need UBI, we need to liberate abundance from corporate greed, what we don't need is viral posts about putting distortion filters on anime fan-art to ward off the evil mechanical eye, pointless boycotts of platforms because they are perceived to have let the evil machines taint them, or petitions to further criminalize the creation of derivative works.

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by far the funniest thing about reading fanfiction as a political professional is that I can always tell exactly who has and hasn't been to a fundraiser or gala based on how they write them

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Deltarune chapter 4 spoilers

Gerson is probably my favorite crystal boss so far and it isn't even close.

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You guys just have to trust me on this one and click here okay?

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aaauu he looks like he grew his hair out and put it in a little bun in the new patch art...

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I love it when my players notice the hints I am leaving for them

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This is the /an/ post that keeps on giving.

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I had dinner and grinded it out. This is... far an beyond the hardest fight I've done in the series and I do Not want to redo it lmao.

Back at beating my face against the wall w the Ch3 superboss.

Is there a strategy to this thing beyond "have revivemints and if you dont: fuck you"?

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I am not having fun.

Back at beating my face against the wall w the Ch3 superboss.

Is there a strategy to this thing beyond "have revivemints and if you dont: fuck you"?

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WHOA!!!!! i love my friends' ocs