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rockdwarftv · 1 month

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So, you wanna play a Pokémon TTRPG

But you don't have the time to manage 1K entries in a book? Well, I'm working on the thing for you! PokéD6.

Now that I've show you my character sheet concept, let me break down some of the things on it. The biggest thing anyone will notice right away is the lack any numbered stats. This system converts existing BSTs (Base Stat Totals) into a 6 point grade. Above, each black diamond (✦) represents one point of that stat's grade. And any pre-existing pokemon can have it's BST quickly converted by simply dividing any given stat's total by 36 and rounding up, to a max of 6! Each grade also has an associated number of dice, which are always equal to the grade itself, and an associated modifier. A stat's modifier is equal to it's grade plus it's IVs. IVs, represented by the hollow diamonds (✧), have also been simplified down into a single dice roll per stat. So, whenever you capture a new pokemon, roll 6d6. Like with stat grades, each diamond represents the IVs value. IVs cap out at 3.

But, you may find yourself asking, what do Stat Dice and Stat Modifiers even do?

Currently, they're for combat! While the attack itself determines how much damage it can do, the pokemon's stats determine if the attack hits, it's minimum damage, how hard they are to hit, and even how much they can reduce the damage! When attacking, say with a Physical Move, the attacking pokemon rolls 1d6 + their ATK Modifiers against the defending pokemon's DEF Modifier + 3. If the attack hits, roll the move's Power and add any bonuses given. Such as Same Type Attack Bonus (STAB) or type effectiveness. The defending pokemon rolls their DEF Dice, subtracting their result from the Power roll.

Power has now been converted into d6s, to find a pre-existing move's Power divide it's power by 25 and round up! With the exception of very high damaging moves, most moves deal 1d6 to 6d6 damage.

So a move like Tackle deals 2d6 damage.

I could go on, but for now I want to leave this here and just see what people think! I've enjoyed working on it and am pretty close to being able to do a simple beta of it. So, have a copy of the pdf and lemme know what you think!

EDIT (4/20/24): Yo what if I just suddenly dropped even more rules in this post? Yea? Yea! So here's how trainers work!

Trainers are divided into four Careers; Field Researcher, League Challenger, Contest Coordinator and Pokemon Breeder! These careers determine starting gear, recommend a set of skills (more on those later!!!), and determine how the player can make money. Field Researchers are basically the intern equivalent of a Professor's Aide! They go out, encounter as many new pokemon as possible, and get paid a weekly salary! They can even earn bonuses for finding odd pokemon, such as ones with unusual movesets~! League Challengers are pokemon trainers like in the games! Beat gyms, get badges, take on the champion. Easy as! They get paid based on the trainers they defeat, which can be picked up at a PokeCenter or just given to them immediately. Contest Coordinators focus on training pokemon for Gen 3 style'd Contests! They make money by winning contests, with each rank paying out higher rewards! And lastly, Pokemon Breeders! Like the name says, they make their money by breeding and raising pokemon at the requests of the Pokemon League or other trainers. The more specific the request, the more money they earn for it!

Trainers also have skills! These work a lot like Stat Grades, but they don't have an associated modifier. When making a trainer, a player picks 6 skills out of 12. Players then have 18 points to distribute however they want into those 6 skills, up to a maximum of 5. The other skills are left at 1. The skills available are: Archeology, Cheering, Climbing, Cooking, Fishing, Foraging, Knowledge, Nursing, Riding, Sneaking, Spotting and Swimming!

I'm currently working on reformatting the doc so enjoy the new tidbits for now! See you again when I've finished the doc!

#indie ttrpg #ttrpg design #ttrpg #pokemon #d6 #d&d #pathfinder #transrights #lgbtqia+#queer #asexual

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musicalchaos07 · 1 month

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🥳 Will Byers 53rd BDay ficlet 🥳

Will can hear his husband rummaging through the hallway closet as pulls his jacket on. He wonders what he could possibly be searching for. Both of their umbrellas are by the door, he already gave him the new Princess Peach game as a birthday present this morning and he’s already wearing his jacket. Will checks his watch again, they’ve got seven minutes before they miss the train.

“Mike come on we're going to be late” Will calls.

“I'm looking for betrayal at the house on the hill, have you seen it?” Mike yells back.

“You seriously think Nancy's going to play board games?” he laughs.

“Well, it is her favorite brother-in-law’s birthday,” Mike argues.

Will is about to defend Holly’s husband but there’s a crash from the hallway before he can.

“Are you-”

“Found It”

Mike meets him in the foyer, wide grin spread on his face and a stack of board games in his hands. Will smiles in spite of himself.

“Besides, Jonathan and Matty definitely will ” He declares before giving Will a quick kiss.

“I thought Matty couldn't make it?” Will asks.

“No, Sammy can't. Midterms. Geez old man keep track of your kids” Mike teases, packing the games into a bag.

“Haha very funny”

“Don’t worry no matter how old you get I'll still love you” he promises with another kiss.

“Remind me again why they can't come to dinner here?” Will sighs, and he swears Mike’s smile fades for the briefest second.

“When in the last twenty years have those two ever come to Brooklyn?” Mike complains with an eyeroll

“They used to for the kids birthdays” Will reminds

“And we were pushing our luck then, Babe” He contends.

“I'm just saying we could stay in, get pizza, crush you in Mario Kart” Will shrugs checking his pocket for his keys one last time.

“If that's really what you want I can text the group chat” Mike offers quietly.

When he turns around, he can tell that Mike doesn’t love the idea and he tries not to feel too guilty about not wanting to go into Manhattan in the rain.

“But Nancy already picked up your cake” Mike entices

Ok, so maybe he’s been thinking about a double chocolate all week but he’s sure they have the ingredients in the kitchen.

“And Jonathan's making lasagna” Mike coaxes.

And sure, no one can replicate Karen’s lasagna recipe like his brother can but pizza is fine.

“Let me guess, Matt’s already there?” Will questions hesitantly, not wanting the answer.

“Yea, but he's spending the weekend. So that's not a big deal” Mike shrugs, and Will’s surprised that he’s coming around.

“Jordan did fly in from L.A. though” Mike admits.

“Just for my birthday???”

“It's a family thing you know how she is with family things and you're her favorite uncle” Mike grins.

“Bull”

“Look, whatever you wanna do it’s fine. We just better decide before it starts pouring” Mike encourages.

Will can tell he’s not telling the full truth. He’s not sure why their niece would fly in for such an unremarkable birthday. But, he would feel a little bad if she wasted the trip. Not to mention that changing the plans means Matt drove into Manhattan from Burlington for no reason. And as much as he wants to stay in he’d feel way too guilty about doing that to his kid.

“Let’s go” he resigns.

Half an hour, one horrible subway ride, and a short walk in the rain later they're standing on the porch in Greenwich Village and Mike is frantically texting.

“Just ring the bell” Will admonishes right as the front door swings open.

“Hey Buddy, happy birthday” Jonathan greets with a hug. Practically pulling them into the house.

They quickly take off their coats and shoes.

“After you birthday boy” Mike insists cheekily and Will rolls his eyes but leads the way up the stairs.

When they reach the kitchen, the lights are completely out and before he can say anything someone flips a switch illuminating the room. Noisemakers and shouts of ‘surprise’ fill the room. He barely registers that Sam is there before El excitedly pulls him into a hug and Dustin, Lucas and Max quickly follow suit. He tries to ignore the tears forming in the corners of his eyes.

“What are you guys doing here?” Will beams with only a couple sniffles.

“We heard there was a party” Lucas jokes.

Before Will can joke back about coming all the way from Chicago for some cake. Matty and Dylan start a spirited, if off-key, rendition of Happy Birthday with his fire-hazard of a cake in hand.

“You going to be able to get all those” Jonathan teases from behind his camera as Will takes a deep breath to blow them out.

Somehow, he gets all fifty-three candles in one go and Nancy swiftly takes the cake away to cut slices at the kitchen table with Jordan. Sammy crosses the room and gives him a tight hug. Will doesn’t even think to chastise him for not being at school.

“I can’t believe you did all this” Will smiles.

“Yea well, it’s not everyday you turn fifty-three” Mike jokes as he places a birthday hat on Will’s head and hands another one to Sam.

He chases down Matt to give him a matching one and Jonathan takes their picture. The four of them must look ridiculous but he’s so happy to be with their family he doesn’t care too much.For the tiniest second, Will worries that there’s no way he’s going to be able to match this surprise for Mike’s birthday. But Mike tenderly squeezes his shoulder and the feeling is gone just as quickly as it came.

“What’d you wish for?” Mike asks once Jonathan finishes his photoshoot.

“Nothing, I don’t need anything else, this is perfect. Thank you” Will admits quietly, trying not to get over-emotional.

“It’s nothing really, just a couple phone calls” Mike shrugs.

“I’m impressed you kept the secret” Will commends.

“The things we do for love” he responds, dramatically.

“I love you” Will responds leaning in for a kiss.

“But I’m still gonna crush you at Mario Kart” he taunts and Mike laughs.

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nerves-nebula · 10 months

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You may have already answered this: how does Draxum fit into their lives? He helps the turtles with the mystic worm so hes okay with them living with splinter, but does he actually know whats going on like would he care at all? He looks like the kind who would either be protective and help them out when theyre older or just pretend it isnt happening but idk

yea i think i did but here's the gist:

Draxum doesn't really know whats going on with Splinter and he doesn't really think about it as long as his Potential Warriors dont DIE and are being properly trained. he's not intentionally neglectful, he just doesn't really think about how they're being raised past being relieved that he's not the one who has to take care of them. He's generally unaware of the abuse and is uninterested in their personal lives until they're older.

he's one of those people who isn't good with kids and kind of waits until they're older to get to know them because of that. like he doesn't know how to converse with them as children so he's just like, a guy who shows up and tells them stuff and makes sure they're coming along well in their training and then leaves.

he knows splinter is probably a shit dad but he doesn't really consider how bad it must be for the turtles. once they're older and have unlocked their hamato ninpo, he's more interested in forming a relationship with them, which is hard because they all largely feel abandoned by him.

the one who first really throws himself into becoming a defender of the Hidden City the way Draxum wanted is Leo, and that's mostly because Leo needs to redirect his "you're going to save the world" destiny energy somehow. He needs to feel loved and powerful and he wants to be a good person, so he becomes a sort of superhero/yokai guardian figure.

whICH means that Leo spends the most time with Draxum in the future, as opposed to when they were kids when donnie would spend the most time with Draxum learning alchemy & magic shit. Sometimes it gets awkward and Draxum kind of realizes how much he fucked up by not helping to raise them heff, but otherwise he's not super involved with the turtles lives unless something big happens (like Donnie's attempted suicide, or a Big Fight happens he needs to be a part of)

he tries more to be a part of their lives when they're older though.

#nnstuff #ask #baron draxum #teenage mutant neglected turtles

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justarandomlambblog · 5 days

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Working on some concepts for Narinder's Living World realm, the forest beyond the Gateway. Sleeping Hollow won the poll which I am happy about bc that was my vote too

Totally not taking advantage of this to play around with building a unique culture <- anthropology major

Just a note that I don't think I made very clear in my notes on the page, Narinder was chained Below in his own temple, and it was witnessed in front of many of his most loyal followers. The Bishops blocked off the entire region, rather than trying to take it over as if they were heretics (call it sentimentality, call it not wanting to deal with it, whichever you prefer), and in doing so have isolated the region from the rest of the world. So while the rest of the world begins to fall apart bc the Bishops are kinda going mad at this point and are trying to hold onto their authority/the Old Faith so hard that they are actively driving it away from what it used to be- so ironically, Sleeping Hollow is the only region that truly remains as the Old Faith once was, having been untouched by outsiders for centuries.

I wanted to make a concept for the temple but I'm undecided on what it should look like. All I know is the people of Sleeping Hollow have left it be, being the place their master was betrayed. Narinder's scythe still lies on the floor where he was finally defeated :)

Transcription below the cut bc my handwriting is shit, numbered for your reading convenience. Anything in [brackets] are add-ons after the fact-

(1) Sleeping Hollow is primarily an oak forest, with large towering oak trees. They're ancient.

(2) Graveyards are surrounded by oaks, but only weeping willows grow inside the graveyard clearing

(3) A thousand years isolated from the rest of the world has allowed the people to build larger villages w/out fear of heretics destroying them [aka they're proper villages/towns rather than just camps]

(4) People of Sleeping Hollow build up a lot [multi-story homes], and live in communal homes [often multiple families will live in one large home]

(5) The graves [in the graveyards] are mannered, organized & sprawling, unlike other regions. They are well kept.

(6) The Hollow is surrounded by wrought-iron fences & it is forbidden to enter. The only way in or out is in the Gateway and the Temple Warp Pad

(7) The people of Sleeping Hollow, primarily felines and canines, are peaceful, but trained for hunting/defending.

They dress like people did in the height of the Old Faith [long robes, jewelry, etc], and are devoted to their chained master still

Ironically, due to the other four Bishops' cruelty and desperation to uphold the Old Faith & their rein, Sleeping Hollow now bears the most resemblance to the world that used to be

(7b) *Cats originate from this region. Cats found in other regions are the descendants of those who left before the Bishops blocked Sleeping Hollow off

(8) Makeup, usually black ink for the eyes [eyeliner yea] and lips, and random spots. [alternatives, mostly for dark-furred creatures, include white ink]

(9) Lantern Festival every year to honor the dead, Festival Outfits!! <3

(10) Crowns are not worn, but married folk wear forehead jewelry

Ears are pierced as a coming of age, and each piercing means something (usually for family) [i.e. they might get a piercing for their parents and siblings, a new piercing for each child they have, etc]

(11) Priests paint an eye on their foreheads & wear cloaks over their clothes. ONLY priests are permitted the painted eye. [exception: anyone declared a saint can, as well, but they're usually priests already so-]

(12) Every graveyard [and often the villages as well] has this statue for "protection" [the way many graveyards have angel statues], all [of the statues] in other regions were destroyed [it used to be all graveyards in the Old Faith had them, since all paths lead to Death].

#cult of the lamb #why am I making a concept for this? well see it will come into play in a few of my fics #the moment I noticed those doorways in the Gateway I have been thinking about this #ofc Narinder would have a realm for his living followers. you can't expect them to live in the Afterlife #and he must have had somewhere to go when he wasn't there #I like to think the warp stone could take them directly to the temple so they don't have to get into the Gateway the Mystic is blocking #but only the Bishops themselves and their Witnesses can activate a temple warp stone from outside #anyway adventure fic where Narinder rediscovers his ancient culture and Yellow Cat begins to learn theirs- cats are from Sleeping Hollow

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destiny-smasher · 1 month

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Here's an excerpt from Chapter 5 of my Nemona x Penny fanfic,

Super Effective on a Single Brick Brain

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“Aww~” Nemona cooed her appreciation. Penny didn't always think to offer stuff like that, so Nemona was grateful to be pleasantly surprised in this case. She felt compelled to reach out, grab Penny's opposing arm, and squeeze her friend against her side affectionately. “Thanks, bestie, that's really sweet of you!”

Penny she sure looked bashful at the gesture, in a good way (probably?).

“Aheh, 'B-Bestie'... ?” Penny puffed a laugh that Nemona didn't understand how to read.

And suddenly, after this recent incident, Nemona was strangely self-aware and nervous about whether she was reading Penny correctly or not.

“Wh-... Like, yea, 'Bestie', you-... ” Nemona cleared her throat, one hand on her elbow, the other tugging at a stray lock of her ponytail. “We've really been hanging out a lot lately, and... -”

“I thought a certain Champion was your 'Bestie?'” Penny theorized, flashing Nemona a raised brow. But it came with a smile. And Nemona felt sure enough she understood Penny's body language to at least tell that Penny was happy to have been associated with the title. But then that playfulness waned a little, and Penny added, “Your 'Rival for Life' and everything... right?”

Something about Penny's expression, the way her hands were fidgeting together, and the tone of her voice... Was she jealous? But, that didn't make any sense – Penny didn't have a specific interest in Pokémon battling, she only did it for practical reasons, like self-defense and stuff. Why would she be jealous of Nemona's Rival? “I mean,” Penny added, when Nemona non-responsive, “I know how excited you get about seeing them. It's been that way since the beginning, eh? So... I'd think they're your Bestie...” 'Noooo, I don't like this! I don't like seeing her sad like this! She's underselling herself again.'

“I-... I can have multiple 'Besties,'” Nemona defended, but found herself spitting out the additional, “but, like, you have spent way more time with me these days...” She nudged her hip against Penny's side as she did so. And again like that Bide move - storing its energy before smacking you upside the head - Nemona was coming to the realization of this fact as she said the words aloud. Two years or so back, when they'd first become Amigas Oficiales, they only ever hung out when it was with Nemona's Rival. And then, slowly, they'd start hanging out here and there, just the two of them, always because Nemona would pine for someone familiar, who understood her and her, well, quirks. By the time Nemona graduated, she realized Penny had been one of the top people she wanted there to witness it, right alongside her Rival, her family, and even Arven. By the summer they'd just experienced, though, they were hanging out practically every day, especially on the weekends.

Nemona had spent way more time with Penny, in total, than she ever had with her Rival. Confronted with this realization was throwing her for a loop – she'd always been so certain that battling was the end-all-be-all, the pinnacle of what any kind of relationship could be for her. But Penny was making her question that seemingly ultimate truth, and it was kind of frightening...

“And you,” Penny retorted, stiffly bumping her hip into Nemona's thigh, “have been spending way less time battling Pokémon these days...”

“H-Have I? You think?” Nemona tapped at her cheek sheepishly as she wondered if that was really true. Was she slipping? Losing her edge? Abandoning battling, her number one love?

She had been dedicating a lot of time to training, exercise... Going out on hikes and some camping trips, always... with Penny... The past summer in particular really had seen a huge spike in the time they'd spent together, huh? And when she was hanging out with Penny, Nemona had less reasons to be battling Pokémon, since Penny wasn't specifically into that. She'd still spectate and all when Nemona would inevitably lock eyes with a passersby – because, of course you knew what happened when Nemona's gaze met a strangers out on the road... (Battles, jeje.)

You can read the full fic over here. (will be updating every week for the next while until it's finished!)

#pokemon #nemopen #nemona #penny #pokemon nemona #pokemon penny #yuri #wlw #Pokemon sv #pokemon scarvi #fanfic #fanfiction #pokeshipping #pokemon scarlet and violet

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northwest-cryptid · 5 months

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the problem i think with ai isn't that its good as a tool, its that the "tool" suddenly became replace jobs that society already views as worthless. Authors and artists already have to fight for pay worth the time and effort they put in (the recent wga and sag-aftra strikes) and ai tech bros coming in basically saying "you don't need them just use this handy tool that stelas their work without paying them or acknowledging their work in any way."

again not saying doesnt have a place, just that i wouldn't be surprised that a lot of people are going to get angry about anything that can be seen as defending it rn

The problem I have with people isn't their anger towards it; trust me I understand that anger. However my issue is that they don't bother to understand what AI really is. They want to talk like they do, they come out here saying statements that are simply inherently false and it gets passed around as truth.

The biggest reason I believe is because it's comforting to "know" that AI isn't capable of doing convincing work then they don't need to worry about it. If they believe they can identify it they believe they can avoid it.

A big issue I have is when AI is used to generate images that get pushed on basically "news" websites that generate; for lack of a better term, actual fake news. Which yea I know the term "fake news" is unfortunately associated with a certain someone.

However ESPECIALLY during a time like this I really want people to be educated on just what AI CAN and cannot do. But specifically what it CAN do. Like I always hear people go off about "AI can't do hands, if they have more than 5 fingers it's a clear give away!" That USED to be true, but as AI constantly advances that's just not the case anymore.

Even the most casual user will have access to plugins like OpenPose which can work with something like ControlNet to create some images most people likely wouldn't identify as AI at first glance.

OpenPose is actually really cool on a technical level as it's able to identify everything from body positioning to even facial and hand recognition:

However this, like anything; can be used for bad/wrong reasons as well as it can be used for harmless/good/fun reasons.

I totally understand what you're saying, I just think that if people are so against AI they need to take the time to stop throwing elementary school level insults at the people who are offering to teach them what they need to look out for; and actually try to pay attention so they can identify AI.

If you're scared of it, and you don't want bad people to get away with using it in bad ways; then PLEASE do yourself, and everyone else a favor and actually take the time to understand it.

A lot of the words being thrown around are really vague, the reblog that sparked a lot of this kinda "got me" because of it's wording. People just believe this without thinking about it:

I'm leaving the username out because I don't want to in any way seemingly "attack" the person, I just want to talk about what they're saying here.

"[so much] Overwatch content is just porn" sure, I have actually done adult animation to pay the bills before and I know just how popular OW is in that market. So I assume there's a lot of drawn porn as well as animated. However, let's take a quick second and think about this... You really think the MAJORITY of that porn is about dicks? Let's be real, if it's going to generate any form of NSFW anything from association of OW with Porn it's likely going to be boobs. Yet we don't see that, we also don't see that sort of anatomy being used for the two characters shown in the image. That just doesn't add up.

Likewise "The AI" which AI? There's a ton, and depending on the model/checkpoint and various lora they're using the weights can change a LOT. But let's assume they mean some website's AI, which as far as I'm aware are not some hivemind so they don't all have the same training; but let's just assume they mean NovelAI as that seems to be a popular one. So we have "The AI" that learns from "The Internet" again that's just... not how that goes. That's like saying you found an image "on Google" a lot of AI will use specific websites; that's how it knows "what" is in the image, those key words have to come from somewhere, so websites that specifically use a tagging system are great for AI to learn off because otherwise you have to manually teach it what each image represents.

As a quick note I do not in any way shape or form condone the actions of training an AI on material that you did not create, be it photography/art/whatever. If you don't have the permission to use it, then the acquisition of it and the training using it as material; is inherently unethical and yes, stealing.

Okay so back to what I was saying; just like how the porn they're talking about is typically congregated to specific websites; "The AI" also uses specific websites for their training, and I will be the first to admit that since I don't know which AI we're discussing I don't know which "internet" it's trained with. However I know that NovelAI uses a lot of "Booru" websites; likely because of their tagging system. I know this because if you use StableDiffusion (which is the most commonly available free AI on "the market") from way back in the day, prior to the much more streamlined 1.5 system, you'd find that the main training file being passed around for NovelAI specifically mentioned "Booru" in it's titling system, at least for the generation of anime imagery.

So while I do not know exactly what websites were used here, these statements are just egregiously vague. "The AI" learns from "The Internet" where "The porn" is. Okay that last part is kind of a joke because we do actually know roughly what "the porn" in question is. But even then, we really don't. We're just grouping all OW porn into "you know there's porn on the internet?! AND THE AI LEARNS FROM IT!" Which is a statement a lot of people, who don't really understand all of this; can latch onto and believe. I mean it makes sense, and the thing is it's TECHNICALLY true! However that's sort of like saying "I got Groceries from The Store, where you know; the food is." Alright are we talking Walmart? Whole Foods? What Groceries did you get?!

Now the way AI is trained also drastically can change results, in the comment they say the AI thinks that because the AI sees a lot of porn when looking up OW that it thinks a Penis is normal for OW and associates the two. That sort of "association based learning" isn't really how that works though, at least not commonly. I really do not believe that this was the case for a lot of reasons, ranging from the fact that the object positioning tells me the prompts given and even the overall image don't depict that section as being organic; so it's unlikely it would think to make a dick there. However let's say it was trying to make a dildo, even though again it's uncommon that there'd be enough dildo art specifically of OW that it would somehow learn that the "OW" tag should generate a dildo. It would technically be possible but not very plausible.

See if I'm trying to train an AI to identify "a man with red hair" I would use a system of target and control. Basically the defining thing here is "red hair" but not necessarily "a man" right? So I want my AI to know what "a man" looks like, but more specifically I want it to understand that the outlier has "red hair" this way when I tell the AI I need an image where a person has red hair, it understands what red hair "looks like" if this makes any sense. The typical ratio I've seen used is a 1 to 10 ratio. Meaning for every 1 image of a man with red hair that I identify to the AI as "a man with red hair" I need to include 10 images of "a man" and those images should not contain red hair. Now if we assume that it can scan hundreds of images without user input there's literally nothing stopping that ratio from being 1 to 100 or even 1 to 1000 which would mean that my AI has a REALLY good understanding of what "red hair" is, or more specifically, what a man without red hair looks like; therefore it's not likely to create red hair unless I tell it to.

Why does that matter? Because here's the thing, even if the AI did just generally scan a bunch of images of "Overwatch" it's going to identify common outliers, like how any image containing NSFW material is going to have that material in the tags. So let's say the AI has identified 100 images of OW art, and in let's say 25 - 50 of those images there is a dildo / penis specifically. Well it's going to identify the tag of Dildo/Penis and if I do not include that word specifically in my prompt it will understand (more often than not) that I'm looking to create a generation that does not include that material, but pulls from the other listed traits it finds in OW art. By that same logic however we should also see generic sexualized anatomy, we should see boobs as well as dildos, and yet; generally speaking we kinda don't, so I REALLY don't think that's the case here.

And yet people believe that comment on a whim, maybe they believe the source poster to be a credible individual; I haven't heard of them myself so I don't know if maybe they're some authority figure. If they are I would love for them to, you know; back up the claims with actual less vague information.

Yes, I do mean that; because if they could tell me which AI, if they could tell me what websites it specifically is trained on; then we have that information. Information makes us a lot more aware of how AI is progressing and how we can identify it even when people put effort into hiding that something may be AI. It widens our arsenal against AI and I think that's a lot more important than simply saying "AI stupid AI bad!"

So much about this is just "off" and I'm genuinely saddened by the general response that flooded my inbox, and let this be known;

I'm not saddened by the words people sling my way, I have heard worse. I fucked up a lot in my past, I did a lot of things I regret; and I've heard it all. I've been getting death threats since I was 16, I have had people deadname me trying to get some kind of reaction from me. Trust me when I say that elementary school kid shit doesn't hurt even my insanely thin skin.

No, I'm sad because people don't care as much as they claim to when it comes to this sort of thing. They don't actually care about staying safe from misinformation that could potentially spread from AI. They don't care about actually putting some kind of end, if such a thing is possible; to art theft due to AI. They don't care about educating themselves about AI. They just see the two letters and immediately go into a blind rage, throwing whatever petty insults they can and likely blocking me before they'll ever see my response.

It feels hopeless, it feels like a lost cause. Why should I bother to educate people, why should I bother to care?

And okay, listen to me here please, I know I've said a lot and I don't care if you want to skip over everything else in this post but PLEASE I am actually begging you to read this and understand this next part, I know we're the "how dare you say we piss on the poor" website but PLEASE.

I am an artist, I understand why people look down on AI. However, you're never NEVER going to convince a tech bro, or anyone going down the wrong path; that you are in the right when you throw petty insults at them.

I know you think people can't be convinced to begin with, but I want you to understand something, I used to be a horrible person and had it not been for a very good friend of mine telling me not to listen to the anons telling me to kill myself, telling me I'm a waste of oxygen, or that I didn't deserve to be born; if it hadn't been for this one person telling me that those people are assholes but that I DID screw up.

I'd have never given it a second thought, because who is going to give you the time of day when everyone on the other side says "yea they're all just going to yell at you and hate on you and shit." Who's going to think you're right, when you literally only prove the wrong people to be correct?!

If we sling insults and throw a fit over anyone ever doing something we're not happy with, instead of attempting a civil conversation on the matter; no not a debate, a CONVERSATION. Talking, not arguing, not debating, not manipulating or some shit. Just TALKING.

If we don't do that, we're never going to actually see change, because all it's going to do is make those tech bros look like they know you inside and out already, and it's going to convince some poor individual, maybe a child; who picked up AI because they were curious; that yea you're just an asshole and they shouldn't listen to you and what you have to say.

Thanks for coming to my TED talk, and thank you to the Anon who sent this for being chill, you're a real one.

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toastess-with-the-mostess · 2 months

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Let's Rewind! Toast Watches Voltron: Defender of The Universe (1984)

Season 1, Episode 37: Lotor's New Hitman Season 1, Episode 38: Raid of the Red Berets

Episode 37: Lotor's New Hitman

Doom pilot training session? These aren't the ships I'm used to seeing with Doom

"[They're] not as good as I was when I was training at the academy!" "Uh yes sire" Oh Lotor absolutely failed every class and just threatened his teachers with death if they didn't pass him, no wonder he can't do shit

Are they actually told to kill each other in these sessions? One of the students is taking down everyone else, I feel like you wouldn't want to kill the rest of the squad that could measure up to him but okay

Uhh maybe the instructor is right in not letting some dude who listens to no authority try to take over a planet for you, this is gonna go real bad for doom really quick

"it must be the fastest robeast ever built and it must be red! I only fly red ships" he's gonna steal red lion isn't he

"my magic can easily turn the color to red, but I don't do windows" LMAO well at least haggar has boundaries I guess

Is this robeast not actually a robeast, looks like this dude is just piloting a mech with very little black magic involved

damn barely hits the ground and immediately starts causing devastation, when was the last time we got a robeast that actually committed war crimes for the Drule empire?

Wow no fanfare or anything this time around, just straight to the lions this time, top tier episode already

oh man some kid was actually under some debris, this is getting pretty serious for dotu

is yellow lion supposed to be the fastest lion? Hunk is chasing the mech after saying he was faster I'm so used to the fastest lion being red, I wonder what else fans changed to fit with their beliefs

plot bunny, how the fuck did pidge and lance make it to the other side of the tunnel when hunk is already pushing max in the middle of it yea I think the change people made with red and green being the faster lions makes the most sense here

early voltron formation, its only mid-episode too

I wonder how fast voltron can go, Keith said they were hitting mach 9 as voltron but do we ever hear how fast the lions push it? Would voltron even be faster ?

Aaand now green lion has a wound on the shoulder

Keith: Pidge talk to me! Are you hurt? Pidge: I'd be hurt if you didn't ask I love them so much

the team really is falling for this guy's traps every time huh, faltering on their training I see

is lion head attack their fastest attack or were they just banking on him not being able to dodge all of them

oh god Lotor you literally had such a good change to get rid of voltron and you RETREATED? You deserve to get your ass kicked every time

back to Arus and back to hazing the castle to make fun of the slow ass pilots

second voltron formation of the dayyy honestly I'm used to the VF episode that is so similar to this, but they used a cadet to solve their issue so how the hell are they gonna beat this guy without one

Oh I guess mach 10 is the fastest they can go as voltron

Chozzerai bridge? No that's over like an ocean or fat ass lake or something

good plan maybe? I think it is at least, setting out hovering mines that their mech can definitely outmaneuver but voltron probably can't and then slowly setting them off as they get close to him

earth wind and water, sounds like a pretty cool band name lol

ANOTHER VOLTRON FORMATION? WOW WEP WAS SAVING MONEY THIS EPISODE

oh so their plan is the same but with mach 10 speed, alright I guess? If that's all you got then whatever

omg they actually got him before blazing sword and everything

"maybe he'll land safely and come back again! There you see! He's going to land on planet gloom! That's one of ours! ... oh I'm afraid he didn't make a very good landing..." LMAOO WHY IS THAT WHOLE DIALOGUE SO FUNNY

/episode end

Episode 38: Raid of the Red Berets

Gonna be honest this sounds like an episode aimed at making fun of the French specifically LMAO

"can you and Haggar think of nothing to defeat that one little planet out in space?" Zarkon you literally fought that planet for a WHILE before Lotor came along, I don't think you can speak for shit

Disappointed father™️

well if their other fucked up science experiments are quaking in their boots even before these robeasts (not really) were introduced then I guess they're formidable

oh they're NOT robeasts, they're just regular robots that are getting transported to Arus BY the robeast okay okay

does the castle not have planetary alert systems or something?? Like they've gotta have satellites that alert when something is entering Arusian atmosphere

holy shit are these robots committing war crimes?? They're literally breaking into homes and killing civilians like that's not unheard of, but that's wild that they'd show that in dotu even if they play it off as the lights getting turned off

why do the pilots wave in their lions when the people below them can't even see LMAO

"It's a nice and safe feelings seeing those lions on patrol" robots immediately jump out of the ground and attack a caravan of people absolutely jinxed it sinvos

"something terrible must've scared them away!" omg they were actually slaughtered in that caravan and that's why they're not showing it

scare tactics,, is that what they're censoring the murder spree of civilians to in this episode? Wild

oh so being attacked on the regular with literal monstrosities isn't enough to make the Arusians want to crucify Allura but apparently the "scare tactics" that doom is doing to them is enough to freak them out and try to kill one of their only hopes of survival? Cool cool cool

Coran what, you said you didn't get any descriptions of the attackers, but now you know they're robots and have red berets? Plot bunny

if crowds were that easy to disperse, things would be changed so quickly my god

not a bad idea encasing at least one lion in something super solid, obvs Keith is getting out of this, but it would be smart to do that mid-fight also ironic because black camouflages as a statue instead of having a den

what kind of design is THAT for a robeast it looks like a dragon but bug like? Idk but still cool

why send all the lions to blast Keith with fire when only lance can actually do that?? Gotta make them useful I guess but distracting the robeast IS useful

Keith's free after being thrown straight into the robeast and now voltron can form pretty effective way to get rid of the rock enclosure I guess

this robeast encloses itself in bullet bill cosplay LMAO

man we're seeing a lot of lion head attack recently, wonder why

blazing sword formed, robeast down, Lotor getting belittled, everything is right in the universe

OH THE ROBOTS DID A SUICIDE BARRAGE AGAINST BLACK TO STICK HIM IN STONE NO WONDER THEY'RE GONE THE REST OF THE EPISODE

"men fight hardest when they're defending freedom" interesting, any other word and that would've been super political y'know ignoring that they're fighting an oppressive government lol

/episode end

#voltron #voltron defender of the universe #voltron dotu #80s voltron #let's rewind!#toast talks #wow more dotu episodes #this wont be a regular occurance lol

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Their is just something about CGH that makes her seem so arrogant. Maybe cause she’s overlooked so much during awards or rankings she got a chip on her shoulder, idk but based on past comments online and this she just rubs me the wrong way.

Also I think it’s easiest for players of Ada’s status to walk away and then comeback to the national team. She has endorsements, plays for Lyon with high salary and is a known star. Where as others can’t just say okay yea the conditions aren’t great but I’ll pass on the national team checks, or don’t know if they would ever get picked again and a dream of theirs to go to euro or wc. So I can def see the egos of these players when they come and go as they please. And yea maybe they are great but being a great players doesn’t mean the team is going to be great. When you have all these other camps and stuff and you’re working with a set of players you can’t always just put in a star and expect the same. Not saying you can’t ever but I can see why other factors can add into it all and coaches choices. I think it’s clear they have locker room issues cause this is 2 coaches not getting what they should out of this squad. And I know nothing about the coaches to discuss other things regarding them except the W-L-D record.

Weirdly I also find Ella maser and SBG to be a bit annoying and arrogant. I’m not defending Lyon at all with the pregnancy stuff but I also thought some of her comments were iffy. Like how Lyon said okay we can trial this with the nanny or whatever it was and she was upset they said trial and not definite. But I don’t see anything wrong with that when it’s a new situation. And can argue the history of women sports/pregnancy etc but the current matter of fact is that it is a new thing and anything new is always going to have a learning curve. The rest of the issues with holding pay etc yea fuck them. I mention them only cause P is such good friends with them and could be the most arrogant person and is not at all. Always so humble. Anyways this is my sitting on the train rant for the day :)

We do love a good rant on here. I definitely agree I think Ada was in a very privileged position when she decides to leave the national team because the profile she already had and with that the income she could do that whereas other national team players in Norway realistically wouldn't have been able to do that at the time that she did. There's definitely not just one single issue with this team you there has to be multiple they've continued on from when Martin left to where we are now both on and off pitch and some of them are fixable but it doesn't seem like they're going to be fixed anytime soon

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I spent. a truly appalling amount of time on a verse I will probably never use again. Anyway headcanons under the cut awsecawdedrf

So I was thinking about an obligatory "flim and flam are related to the apples" verse, so I dug up an old idea for it and got a lil too in depth with it zscdvawf.

So basically the framing device of this au in my head is that the apples (main ones) deliver special zap apples to a pretty distant branch of the family (they're related through granny smiths aunt essentially) because the distant fam (I'm gonna call them the redloves) wants to make special desserts to celebrate them all being together for the first time in a long time, specifically the sons are visiting which never happens

The apples just vibe with the family helping them make these special desserts while apple bloom goes into town for something. While Apple Bloom is around guess who she spots, the boys, looking deeply deeply unenthused. She kinda assumes whatever scheme they were doing had already been foiled, but she thinks it's notable enough to go tell AJ.

She can barely get a word in edgewise with AJ as the aunt, Apple Leaves, is running her mouth off endlessly about weird embarrassing details about "Red and Goldie" - the sons who are visiting. Mainly about how they hate coming home and she has literally no idea why. Before Applebloom can tell everyone about who she saw in town, guess who's at the door.

Golden Delicious and Red Delicious - Flim and Flam

Let's get into relations. So as indicated, Auntie Apple Leaves is not the mother of the family, she's the aunt - but she is the main matriarch of the gaggle. Bushel is her son, the little boy next to him is his son, Buck. Then there's Flim and Flam with their respective family names, then their older sister pink lady and her daughter little Redlove. Finally there's their father, Oregon Trail, and late mother Redlove.

Basically, Redlove passed away when Flim, Flam, and Lady were youngish, definately old enough to remember her and the aftermath quite clearly, but not old enough to be super mature about it (so like 10 and 14 respectively I'd say). She was a very sweet mare who always supported her children, an overall comforting presence to contrast the brick wall that was their father. Oregon Trail was a rail pony, he pulled trains before the relatively new invention of engine power. He was extremely absent, he was never home for long but when he was he was sleeping.

Trail couldn't just give up his job when his wife passed, so the kids moved in with Redlove's sister Apple Leaves (okay that's her canon name but,, come on. I'm gonna pretend her name is Ambrosia Apple Leaves but that's beside the point) and her son Bushel.

Flim, Flam, and Lady were cityfolk compared to their relatives. Even the relatively small train stop settlement they lived in was bustling compared to the smattering of houses separated by acres of orchard Auntie and Bushel called home. Lady adjusted fine, she liked being alone and making herself useful but flim and flam... didn't.

Flim and Flam may just be the scrawniest apples to set hooves to equestria. It wasn't really their fault, they were twins which are already small, and unicorns to boot. They really got hit with every recessive gene in the apple gene pool, and they would absolutely feel the ramifications of that.

They would be simply unfit for orchard work, even if they wanted to do it (which they did not). They were too little to buck trees, they didn't have the attention span to sort, and them in the kitchen was a harbinger or disaster. Together, they had many talents, just not useful ones.

Flam's talent was engineering. He had always been curious about the inner workings of household machines and how to make them work better, and he was especially interested in the trains his dad worked with. Into his teen years he started to find them inefficient, and (never knowing when to shut up) argued with his dad pretty often over how much easier everything would be if ponies would just accept steam, or electric, or magic power over horse power - this predictably caused a rift between them.

Flim was more on the creative side. He had a lot of big ideas he was happy to wax on about (if anyone would actually want to hear them) but was overall more of a planner than a doer. He also took a lot of pride in his showmanship and appearance, he tried very, very hard to look 'respectable'. His worst fear was to come off as a simple country bumpkin, but this did not go over well in the country.

One common gene Flim and Flam DID inherit was macromagenisia (very creative yea yea), a fairly common disorder where a pony produces an unusual amount of magic, leading to enhanced abilities but also uncontrollable outbursts. Instead of making them stronger and more in tune with the earth like other apples, if just have them more powerful unicorn magic. Too bad there were no unicorns around to teach them nor to control it.

In there first years on the farm, the boys would do anything to make themselves useful. This usually came in the form of trying to apply their inventing talents to daily tasks - which almost always ended in disaster. Eventually things devolved into a mutual hatred of the situation from both the boys and the family.

Though Auntie always at least attempted to be sweet with the boys, even if she wasn't very good at it, Bushel did not in the slightest. He didn't hate the boys per say, but he certainly went out of his way to give them hell more often than not. He came up with the nicknames "Spiffy and Sparky" which unfortunately caught on with the few other children in the area, which was a thorn in the brothers side until they moved out.

Flim and Flam didn't really know why Bushel didn't like them. Bushel didn't even know why Bushel didn't like them. I guess it was mostly about the tiny sliver of reputation Bushel had with the other kids around, that he was the big manly tough guy everyone wanted to be. His image was somewhat hampered by having to drag the town weirdos around with him everywhere, and being related to them certainly didn't help. He just didn't appreciate their ~ alternative ~ talents, and to be honest, they made no attempt to be kind to him.

The only pony Flim and Flam even kind of enjoyed was their older sister, Pink Lady. She was kind of everything they wanted to be, deep down. She was smart and adaptable - she knew how to make the best out of every situation. Lady was an optimistic, but a realistic one. She put off an heir of maturity, like she was truly above it all. She didn't indulge them any more then the rest of the family did, but she was always quick to defend them one way or another. She was the only member of the family they even attempted to keep contact with after they left, though it was tough being penpals with travelers.

As the boys grew up the farm became more and more grating. The one thing they couldn't stand was routine, and 8 years of it had them on the brink of a breakdown. All they wanted was adventure, literally anything to shake things up. So when they turned 18, they skipped town. They're first act of freedom was changing their names, they simply wanted to become someone new.

The very few times the twins visited the family was to meet their niece and nephew. They actually get along with kids quite well, and despite not liking their family, they had a soft spot for welcoming new members.

Karma manifests in funny ways, because rather than be like his father, Buck is surprisingly like Flim and Flam. He doesnt particularly like farm life, and is overall pretty meek and nerdy, to Bushel's dismay.

Okay so I'm super tired and this is so long, I'm ending the post. yall get the gyst.

#not even tagging this #its five in the morning #why did i make this #EDIT: OH JEEZE ARE PEOPLE READING THIS #I WAS LITERALLY ABOUT TO DELETE BC I REALISED I SAID ESSENTIALLY NOTHING THE WHOLE TIME AECFVAEDRVT #I GUESS I'LL KEEP IT UP THEN???

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DQ11 NCT 127 Theme Songs Explanations part 2

I know there's only like 2 people in this fandom but I like to finish what I start so here is the part 2 of my DQ11 Party Members NCT 127 Theme Songs Explanations (SPOILERS)

Sylv: Sticker

Lyric(s) I associate with Sylvando: "I make you shine brighter"(he's a literal performer, plus wherever he goes he makes people be the best version of themselves), "forget about the troubling world" (him wanting to bring smiles and happiness to Erdrea), "roll up to the party" (we can infer Sylv's a party animal lol)

Other reasons for association: I DON'T UNDERSTAND WHY STICKER GETS SO MUCH HATE I MEAN I UNDERSTAND IT'S A LITTLE WEIRD BUT THAT'S LITERALLY NCT 127'S THING THAT'S WHAT THEY'RE KNOWN FOR- anyways I'm gonna defend Sticker here cause I honestly think it's a banger plus my reasoning for giving it to Sylv. First off, idk if it's just me but Sticker kinda has a Hispanic sound to it (this coming from a Puerto Rican), which is perfect cause Sylv is depicted as Spanish. Another reason I associate this song with him is because of the sort of sly, playful mood of the song, plus its whole theme being about love, a theme very relevant to Sylv.

Jade: Kick It

Lyric(s) I associate with Jade: "and I'm gonna kick it like Bruce Lee" (Jade being a martial artist), "knock down one by one, blows away, there's no mercy, ruthless" (I think we can all agree Jade hits HARD on the battlefield), "knock yesterday's me down and shout out to me no more trauma" (she refers to her old self as stupid and weak, but now she's stronger)

Other reasons for association: Kick It's theme is literally martial arts, and Jade is a martial artist so aha. Also, in the song, the boys are using the theme of martial arts to talk about how they're going to become stronger versions of themselves, which is something Jade does too.

Rab: Superhuman

Lyric(s) I associate with Rab: "break up people's standards" (he may be old but he's got lots of tricks up his sleeves), "reveal and wake up my true self" (mainly the whole part where he's training with Grand Master Pang and unlocks his true potential)

Other reasons for association: The retro, techno sort of old school vibe of this song goes really well with Rab, plus the cool little electronic sounds make me think of his spells and abilities. I really like the part in the game where we learn about his connection with Pang and he learns more about his abilities, and I think the lyrics to Superhuman match that same feeling of enlightenment and power.

Hendrik: Simon Says

Lyric(s) I associate with Hendrik: "simon says we're a real vibe killer" (ok so Hendrik is the most serious party member so he could be considered a vibe killer BUT I mostly associate this lyric with how tough and steadfast he is and how he takes his responsibilities seriously) (credits to nakojjang)

Other reasons for association: when I heard this song for the first time I thought the instrumental was weird, but after listening to it various times I understood the cool vibe they were going for, it makes me think of Hendrik in the sense that I feel it's a "shit's about to go down" sort of sound. I interpret the song as NCT telling the industry they're going to dominate, but also that they want to help other groups dominate, so that's my main reasoning for associating it with Hendrik, cause he's a beast on the battlefield but he also helps the hero fulfill his role as the Luminary. Also, the funny association is based on how Hendrik is a loyal little lapdog and does whatever someone tells him to do, and well in Simon Says you have to do whatever Simon says so yea lol

#dq11 #why is it so long😭#lol i finally got this done *wipes brow*#let's see which K Pop group is next #stay tuned 🤪

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