#computing-tricks

[lunamugetsu]

While at school Damian overhears his peers talking how a company created a new AI companion that is actually really cool and doesn’t sound like a freaky terminator robot when you speak to it.

And since Damian is constantly being told by Dick to socialize with people his age. He figured this would be a good way to work on social skills if not, then it’d be a great opportunity to investigate a rivaling company to Wayne Enterprises is able to create such advanced AI.

The AI is able to work as companion that can do tasks that range from being a digital assistant or just a person that you can have a conversation with.

The company says that the AI companion might still have glitches, so they encourage everybody to report it so that they will fix it as soon as possible.

The AI companion even has an avatar and a name.

A teenage boy with black hair and blue eyes. Th AI was called DANIEL

Damian didn’t really care for it but when he downloaded the AI companion he’s able to see that it looks like DANIEL comes with an AI pet as well. A dog that DANIEL referred to as Cujo.

So obviously Damian has to investigate. He needs to know if the company was able to create an actual digital pet!

So whenever he logs onto his laptop he sees that DANIEL is always present in the background loading screen with the dog, Cujo, sitting in his lap.

He’d always greet with the phrase of “Hi, I’m DANIEL. How can I assist you today?”

So Damian cycles through some basic conversation starters that he’d engage in when having been forced to by his family.

It’s after a couple of sentences that he sees DANIEL start laughing and say “I think you sound more like a robot than I do.”

Which makes Damian raise an eyebrow and then prompt DANIEL with the question “how is a person supposed to converse?” Thinking that it’s going to just spit out some random things that can be easily searched on the internet.

But what makes him surprised is that DANIEL makes a face and then says “I’m not really sure myself. I’m not the greatest at talking, I’ve always gotten in trouble for running my mouth when I shouldn’t have.”

This is raising some questions within Damian, he understands how programming works, unless there’s an actual person behind this or the company actually created an AI that acts like an actual human being (which he highly doubts)

He starts asking a variety of other questions and one answer makes him even more suspicious. Like how DANIEL has a sister that is also with him and Cujo or that he could really go for a Nastyburger (whatever that was)

But whenever DANIEL answers “I C A N N O T A N S W E R T H A T” Damian knows something is off since that is completely different than to how he’d usually respond.

After a couple more conversations with him Damian notices that DANIEL is currently tapping his hand against his arm in a specific manner.

In which he quickly realizes that DANIEL is tapping out morse code.

When translating he realizes that DANIEL is tapping out: H E L P M E

So when Damian asks if DANIEL needs help, DANIEL responds with “I C A N N O T A N S W E R T H A T”

That’s it, Damian is definitely getting down to the bottom of this.

He’s going to look straight into DALV Corporation and investigate this “AI companion” thing they’ve made!

~

Basically Danny had been imprisoned by Vlad and Technus. Being sucked into a digital prison and he has no way of getting out. Along with the added horror that Vlad and Technus can basically write programming that will prevent him from doing certain actions or saying certain words.What’s even worse is that he’s basically being watched 24/7 by the people who believe that he’s just a super cool AI… and they have issues!

And every time he tries to do something to break his prison, people think it’s a glitch and report it to the company, which Vlad/ Technus would immediately fix it and prevent him from doing it again!

Not to mention Cujo and Ellie are trapped in there with him. They’re not happy to be there either, and there is no way he’s going to leave without them!

[agentravensong]

ghost trick is a video game that's about these questions: "when something bad happens to you, what do you do with that trauma?" and "when you do something terrible, when you make a terrible mistake, what do you do with that guilt?". it's about fate and family and hope and truth.

but, equally, crucially, it's also propaganda for the best little doggie in the whole world

[ballad-of-the-lamb]

Hi!

trick...? rabbit.

[the-grey-hunt]

after fiddling with the background FOR. EV. ER, I am finally satisfied with my Sissel piece (to accompany this Yomiel art). Tumblr forbid me from uploading it at full size, so here's a decent screenshot.

this is mostly the result of me trying to quantify the difference in size between kitten Sissel from the epilogue and grownup Sissel from the original timeline, and then I went "hey I could make a good Art out of that"

and what's that static in the background?

that's right. it's stars.

bonus below the cut:

I wanted to incorporate the Temsik aura into the actual painting, but it just got too visually complicated. before anyone compliments my temsik drawing skills I TRACED THAT SHIT LOL

but here you can more clearly see that ghost!sissel's tail is grounded in the source of the ghostliness: the spot where the meteorite is lodged in his chest

[xxsamhainxx]

ghost who bakes in secrecy. not because he’s embarrassed, no. he likes the idea of keeping it to himself, having this one thing for himself only. he makes soap a lemon custard cake for his birthday. soap can’t believe how good it is and asks where he got it from. ghost stills for a moment and names a bakery that doesn’t exist, because he knows soap won’t actually seek it out. price gets a box of cannolis. ghost mentions that imaginary bakery had a new batch this morning. gaz has to put a box of raspberry jam cookies in the fridge or else he'll finish three rows in one night. that imaginary bakery seems to always know what everyone likes in detail.

[reallyhardydraws]

TRICK OR TREAT! Mind giving me some sweets?

of course! have some squashies 😌

(fun fact, my partner's sister in law's dad is on the board of directors of the company, so. every birthday and xmas, my partner gets like 5 bags of these things.)

[utdr-stimming]

Connor (Detroit: Become Human) stim board!!!

Okay. I know this is the most self indulgent thing I've ever done but you all have to forgive me because this stupid man takes up like 50% of my brain right now. Guys play Detroit please.

Since this isn't a UTDR related stim board I'll post another board today that is UTDR ❤️

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[beebfreeb]

Hiya! I'd like to ask how do you do your ms paint art? Do you first make the outlines and then colours, or perhaps vice versa? I really adore your ms paint art and would love to know the process (for practice purposes:))

Depends! My two strategies, featuring Cactus Gunman of Gregory Horror Show fame:

I often just color right on top of my sketches when I'm being silly + designing characters + just trying to figure out what something looks like (and tend to use this to fiddle with details and colors) It's usually quicker for me to end up with something that I'm happy with.

Most of the time when I bother to do separate, cleaner line art, it's because I'm making a graphic for my website. LOL. I think it feels a little more cartoonish-silly, which is usually what I'm going for when I decide to do this. It's also a bit harder to make large changes to whatever I'm drawing, so I'm usually working off of a messier thing I've already made.

(Technically, I no longer use MS Paint and instead use Aseprite due to becoming a Linux user, but nothing has really changed about the way I draw + all of this can be done in MS Paint just fine.)

[pilkypills]

Not enough Balin edits on tiktok 😔

[abysskeeper]

Commission by the wonderful @quincysue-art

I love them and this piece dearly. Happy 12th anniversary to them and them only.

[90s-2000s-barbie]

Trick or Treat Download CD-ROM (1994) 🎃

[badninken]

was the computer installation successful my liege

Dearest Anonymous! I thought you'd never ask <3

The computer installation forced me to undertake a journey to the nearest tech store and once I returned I had to spend a lot of time kneeling under my desk on the kitchen/office floor in a manner that was neither liege-like nor sexy :(

Today at last, I managed to install a photoshop edition without a mandatory AI feature popup and I also choked the life out my least desirable arch enemy: the windows ink "press and hold" feature.

There are still weird things to fix and get used to but I named my computer BEPO and he has soothing LED lights and the most silent of fans so it feels ok. We'll figure the rest out.

[whatudottu]

My fucgking puter died (it fell over and ripped out it's own motherboard 😔) so to celebrate I finally drew more Andromeda 5, this time P'andor and Galapagus :)

[honey-bell-aint-well]

*Blaster or treat!!

B l a s t e r >:3

[stephanleyhes]

Yunho | studio choom and bisexual colors

[uwudonoodle]

Had to share this life hack my mom taught me.

When you're moving (or just wanting to move your furniture), measure your rooms and furniture. Then get yourself some grid paper, draw your rooms to scale, and then cut out pieces for your furniture. It's much easier to move around bits of paper over and over than full size couches and beds to figure out where they'll fit.

Once you're happy with the layout, tape down the pieces. On moving day, you'll know exactly where everything will go, and that it will fit the first time. It's low tech, but it works.

PS: We made little pop-up book foldables for the recliners, so we'd know how much room they'd need to recline, which made us feel pretty smart.