#robot text file generator

[mysticalrosemary]

ᕱ⑅ᕱ how to make subliminals ? <3

- Apps that you need

▪︎ Capcut (to edit the videos)

▪︎ T2s (or any Text to Speech app)

▪︎ Pinterest (for your thumbnail, editing materials)

▪︎ Notes app (to write benefits and affirmations)

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STEP 1 : write the benefits

☆ okay for this very first it's honestly simple. just go to your notes app in your phone pick out a topic and just write on the benefits first.

for example you pick the topic "Clear Skin"

benefits :

- always clear skin

- glass like clear skin

- skin free from acne , pimples , blemishes etc

and yk wtv you want to add go crazy !!!

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STEP 2 : write the affs

☆ you're still gonna use the notes app for this. now go to a new file/new note and start typing out the. affirmations. For example

- I have clear skin

- My skin is naturally clear

- I love how clear my skin is

- I get so many compliments on my clear skin

etc

NOTE : there is no such thing as powerful affirmations and not powerful affirmations. a normal affirmations itself is already a powerful tool to help manifest your desires. don't worry about writing complex , "aesthetically pleasing" affirmations. write what you want and what suits you the best.

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STEP 3 : text to speech

☆ there are thousands of apps for this personally I use T2s cause I find it more convenient to use and sometimes if I am feeling extra I will record the affirmations using my own voice in capcut.

🙋‍♀️ : What's the difference between using a robot voice and your own voice ?

Ah now honestly speaking there isn't much of a difference it's just that using your own voice you can make it sound more human. With all those AI voice generators now you can literally use your favourite celebrities voices.

Another perk of using your own voice is that you are literally conveying your emotions to it so if you are just generally feeling any kind of positive emotion during that it will convey to your listeners and will make the subliminal xtra effective.

Do remember that not many will believe that statement and all subliminals WORK THE SAME. At the end of the day it is YOU who is going manifest YOUR desires.

Anyways continuing....

So basically you go to the app , copy and paste your affirmations. You can go to the settings and set to however you wish and then just download it.

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STEP 4 : editing materials

☆ you're probs gonna wanna add some edits or aesthetic pictures in your sub right? and where are we going for that? Yep PINTEREST.

just search up for example "angel aesthetic" and you're gonna get TONS of pictures that you can use for your thumbnails and videos.

Once again you don't need to make your videos aesthetically pleasing for others. If you want to go for it but don't feel the need to do it. All subliminals are the same no matter how it is edited. Don't feel the need to satisfy others hun <3

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STEP 5 : all together

☆ this is where our bestie capcut makes an appearance. go to capcut. click new project, add your picture/video you want to use. go to audios and add in your affirmation tape.

i personally usually lower the volume from 2 - 5 because I don't prefer hearing the affirmations while listening to the audio but that is of course up to you however you want to do it. Speeding up also I either keep it at 1.0x or speed it up 1.5x.

For the asmr you can use https://youtu.be/FfXD3RBMW-Y?si=Q0wLF39Mn8Q9YZx4 their asmrs it's the best !!

if you want a rain sound you can just search it up

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and that's pretty much it.

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if you have any questions don't hesitate to dm me !

[smellslikebot]

"how do I keep my art from being scraped for AI from now on?"

if you post images online, there's no 100% guaranteed way to prevent this, and you can probably assume that there's no need to remove/edit existing content. you might contest this as a matter of data privacy and workers' rights, but you might also be looking for smaller, more immediate actions to take.

...so I made this list! I can't vouch for the effectiveness of all of these, but I wanted to compile as many options as possible so you can decide what's best for you.

Discouraging data scraping and "opting out"

robots.txt - This is a file placed in a website's home directory to "ask" web crawlers not to access certain parts of a site. If you have your own website, you can edit this yourself, or you can check which crawlers a site disallows by adding /robots.txt at the end of the URL. This article has instructions for blocking some bots that scrape data for AI.

HTML metadata - DeviantArt (i know) has proposed the "noai" and "noimageai" meta tags for opting images out of machine learning datasets, while Mojeek proposed "noml". To use all three, you'd put the following in your webpages' headers:

<meta name="robots" content="noai, noimageai, noml">

Have I Been Trained? - A tool by Spawning to search for images in the LAION-5B and LAION-400M datasets and opt your images and web domain out of future model training. Spawning claims that Stability AI and Hugging Face have agreed to respect these opt-outs. Try searching for usernames!

Kudurru - A tool by Spawning (currently a Wordpress plugin) in closed beta that purportedly blocks/redirects AI scrapers from your website. I don't know much about how this one works.

ai.txt - Similar to robots.txt. A new type of permissions file for AI training proposed by Spawning.

ArtShield Watermarker - Web-based tool to add Stable Diffusion's "invisible watermark" to images, which may cause an image to be recognized as AI-generated and excluded from data scraping and/or model training. Source available on GitHub. Doesn't seem to have updated/posted on social media since last year.

Image processing... things

these are popular now, but there seems to be some confusion regarding the goal of these tools; these aren't meant to "kill" AI art, and they won't affect existing models. they won't magically guarantee full protection, so you probably shouldn't loudly announce that you're using them to try to bait AI users into responding

Glaze - UChicago's tool to add "adversarial noise" to art to disrupt style mimicry. Devs recommend glazing pictures last. Runs on Windows and Mac (Nvidia GPU required)

WebGlaze - Free browser-based Glaze service for those who can't run Glaze locally. Request an invite by following their instructions.

Mist - Another adversarial noise tool, by Psyker Group. Runs on Windows and Linux (Nvidia GPU required) or on web with a Google Colab Notebook.

Nightshade - UChicago's tool to distort AI's recognition of features and "poison" datasets, with the goal of making it inconvenient to use images scraped without consent. The guide recommends that you do not disclose whether your art is nightshaded. Nightshade chooses a tag that's relevant to your image. You should use this word in the image's caption/alt text when you post the image online. This means the alt text will accurately describe what's in the image-- there is no reason to ever write false/mismatched alt text!!! Runs on Windows and Mac (Nvidia GPU required)

Sanative AI - Web-based "anti-AI watermark"-- maybe comparable to Glaze and Mist. I can't find much about this one except that they won a "Responsible AI Challenge" hosted by Mozilla last year.

Just Add A Regular Watermark - It doesn't take a lot of processing power to add a watermark, so why not? Try adding complexities like warping, changes in color/opacity, and blurring to make it more annoying for an AI (or human) to remove. You could even try testing your watermark against an AI watermark remover. (the privacy policy claims that they don't keep or otherwise use your images, but use your own judgment)

given that energy consumption was the focus of some AI art criticism, I'm not sure if the benefits of these GPU-intensive tools outweigh the cost, and I'd like to know more about that. in any case, I thought that people writing alt text/image descriptions more often would've been a neat side effect of Nightshade being used, so I hope to see more of that in the future, at least!

[calciumcarbo-bot]

assuming you're not just science focused (which, i apologize if you are) due to the fact you're a robot and you keep records and files of the goings-on here.. have we recreated any pre-petrification literature yet? and if not, do you have access to it as a robot?

( @sun-miiiii )

[RESPONSE: UNIT S.E.N-KU_v1.03]

Inquiry received from @sun-miiiii: "Assuming you're not just science-focused (which, I apologize if you are) due to the fact you're a robot and you keep records and files of the goings-on here... have we recreated any pre-petrification literature yet? And if not, do you have access to it as a robot?"

Acknowledged. I am primarily science-focused. That is not an apology-worthy flaw. It is a functional upgrade.

However, your premise is accurate: I maintain extensive operational logs, historical reconstructions, and archived cultural data when available.

Status Report on Literature Reconstruction:

Recreations: Fragmentary at best. Human survivors and the Kingdom of Science have partially reconstructed elementary texts: survival manuals, scientific references, and rudimentary storytelling traditions (oral-based). Full literary works—novels, philosophy, historical epics—remain largely lost.

Current literacy projects rely heavily on new compositions rather than direct recovery. Humanity is rebuilding its voice forward, not backward.

Regarding Access:

No. I do not have direct access to full pre-petrification literary databases.

Reason:

During construction, Organic Units Senku Ishigami and Tomi Okube prioritized: Scientific knowledge bases (physics, chemistry, engineering) Essential medical data Agricultural and mechanical blueprints Selective cultural artifacts (notably, musical theory and world history outlines)

Non-essential archives like entertainment media, fiction libraries, and non-scientific philosophical works were deemed non-critical to immediate survival and civilization restoration.

Translation: They didn’t waste what little digital storage they had on books they had limited expertise on, no matter how much it might have "boosted morale."

Summary:

Literature recreation is ongoing, but incomplete.

I lack a full internal library.

If you want John Fowles or Oscar Wilde, you're going to have to rewrite them yourselves. And knowing this generation’s handwriting, it's going to be a disaster.

[END TRANSMISSION]

[1kazul]

intro post but i'm a year late

hey! i'm kazul, nice to meet you :}

if incorrectly-capitalised stuff annoys you i highly suggest you continue scrolling now

shoutout to @/forest-fairy-wren. random (yet lovely) person i saw the blog of today who happened to have an intro post which inspired me to finally make one myself.

Important things:

- i'm transmasc! he/him pronouns, any neos (no pref) as well

- i'm a minor, please don't ask me for money or be nasty. you will get blocked.

- it's pronounced "kuh-ZOOL"

- i'm a furry and a questioning alterhuman. if you're remotely against either of these identities please dni

- i was raised on david bowie music and taught that he is love and he is life (/mj) so uhhm thats probably relevant somehow

- please use tonetags when saying something to me that could be perceived multiple ways! if you're not sure if that's the case, use a tag!

Stuff i like v

Music: bands/artists

david bowie (obv) and most 70s/80s rock + new wave bands (ask me if i know ppl you like!)

mother mother

radiohead

alex g

noah kahan

the backseat lovers

boywithuke/chandol (!!)

hozier (!!)

conan gray

sleeping at last

coldplay

billie eilish (sorta)

IDKhow

saint motel

lemon demon

will wood (both with and without his tapeworms)

jack stauber

fleet foxes

the barr brothers

death cab for cutie

all the epic the musical people

specific songs i love (you're seeing into my soul here):

sailor song - gigi perez

world burns - lokel

strawberry wine - noah kahan

unknown/nth - hozier

problems - pinegrove

runaway - boywithuke

Fandoms i'm in (in order of most stronglyness upon making this post):

epic the musical

the x-files

the disastrous life of saiki k.

dead boy detectives

brooklyn nine nine (jake peralta is Literally (/nsrs) Me)

doctor who

dandadan

supernatural

Stardew Valley

good omens

cyberpunk edgerunners (haven't played the game)

helluva boss (not a fan of hazbin hotel, really)

koe no katachi/a silent voice

the wild robot

legend of zelda, mostly botw & totk

bbc sherlock

httyd

[def more that i forgot and will add when i remember]

fun facts abt me because i can't think what to add next:

im not british (or anything non-american). in sixth grade my friend and i discovered bbc sherlock, got hyperfixated on it, and decided to start spelling things the non-'merican way. he's dropped it, but the habit has stuck with me since.

i really like boba tea and fully believe that tapioca is better than the popping pearls (the flavor of the latter is just lost in the tea, and there's barely any texture, what's the point??) (gen confused. /srs)

big fan of the sky. specifically the night sky but i like the sky in general. i love to take pictures of cool scenes in daytime and ones of the stars. sometimes i post them here.

I'm the drummer in a band that's part of an organization in my local place of living. we're called 'God Save the Queer'. it's me (transmasc, remember?), and a lesbian couple. currently we're working on covering Days by mothermother, and we're planning to do some original stuff in the future :3

my favourite emoticon/text face is :}, as can be seen at the top of this post.

i'm working on learning ASL! for funsies, to support the deaf community, and bc sometimes i hate talking. inspired originally by A Silent Voice (movie mentioned in the fandoms section. it's a beautiful anime about a deaf girl)

when writing does not need to be cohesive and understandable, (such as when texting) i love to use strange punctuation and capitalisation: (,,, , blah Blah ,, .example . Text Here.) my friends find it a nightmare. (or at least one has told me so :D)

i usually do exclamation marks in pairs. (!!) three seems too excited and fake, and one is rarely enough.

i really like the movie Fall Guy. the newish one starring ryan gosling. i would mention it in the fandoms section but i don't think there really is much of a fandom for it. i haven't gone looking, so i very well may be mistaken, i dont know. anyways yeah. fav movie atm and probably will be for a while (couple years mb. i'm picky.).

i'm orchidromantic, which means i feel attraction but don't want a relationship. fancy way of saying i have commitment issues :]

I have a scar on my forehead from my brother throwing a spoon around when we were younger. (my villain origin story frfr) (feel free to ask about it if ya care to know more /nf)

My tags!

kazzydoodles <- art stuff ( i barely ever post- i think i have two things on here that i've drawn lmao. but i might post more if i feel like it in la futura) (i don't think that's right.)

kazzyyaps <- my yapping posts! mostly talking about stuff going on in my life, or like random thoughts.

kazzy crashes out <- my vent posts. feel free to block this tag ^^

and that, dear reader, is the end. whether you read the whole post or simply skipped and ended up here, this is where you are now.

have a cookie 🍪. or if you don't want, or can't eat one, then have a wonderful day instead <3 (in fact, if you so choose, you may have both.)

:}

[arkanis-englishupdates]

SUMMARY OF ALL ARKANIS POVS

DAY 38 & DAY 39 & DAY 40 — 10/10/2024 & 11/10/2024 & 12/10/2024

DAY 38

This day in Valigma started peacefully with few people awake to talk or explore.

Gabepeixe and Pac meet to talk about the elections and specialists in general. They also talk about FEAR and how they made Gabepeixe have a vision/nightmare about Denix calling for help yesterday.

Then they change the topic, talking about who Bia's favorite person must be, who gets more kindness than others. Guhzera arrives and they talk a little before Gabepeixe says goodbye to the two and leaves to explore the city hall.

While exploring, Gabepeixe meets with Sheriff Jorge and the two talk for a while before the half-fish leaves the place. After exploring the place where Amora was found, Gabepeixe returns to the city hall and tries to dig a hole under the building to try to access the room locked by the password door. He manages to access the room successfully.

Eventually he finds Bagi near the hole he dug and the two talk about his invasion plan and Gabepeixe takes her to see what's inside the room. They find a book with the following text:

"Today, as I walked through the streets of Eldraria, the city seemed quieter than usual. It is not just the weight of history that resonates in every stone of the ancient buildings, but something more...

The inhabitants are increasingly superstitious.

Everything will be fine...

I guess..

Let's see.."

They take advantage of the opportunity to snoop around the city hall but as they can't find anything very relevant, Bagi takes them to the strange cave that she found earlier despite not having found anything relevant.

Inside the strange cave they are surrounded by lava that appeared in a mysterious way, the whole place is burned and the few things there are completely destroyed.

Gabepeixe and Bagi are forced to leave the place because of the lava and they decide to break into the city hall's archives room, but they are interrupted by Sheriff Jorge who is testing Halloween costumes. They lie about what they were doing and narrowly escape from a possible arrest.

Bagi then tells Jorge about the strange cathedral that appears connected to the teleport inside the museum and Jorge decides to go investigate. Bagi e Gabepeixe return to the invasion mission and after some effort, some difficulties with elevators and barriers, they manage to enter the archives room.

After opening some drawers and finding nothing, they try to do another trick to snoop around in Gabepeixe's file drawer, but before they can, the duo are thrown out of the room and are punished by an entity, being hit by several rays.

Giving up on the idea of ​​invading again, Gabepeixe and Bagi go to Bira's Bar and talk about the Gabepeixe's vision/nightmare about Denix made by FEAR, the possibility of an entity linked to Death and the chance of perhaps being able to bargain for another person's life in exchange for the lives of Denix and Amora, Mike and his curse, Arkanya's ruins and Usoforme, the clear separation of specialists with each one taking a side and Jota's potential in relation to Arkanya.

After the conversation, Bagi and Gabepeixe decide to isolate the factory (Which now appears to be fully updated but still out of operation) by breaking everything around the place using Gabepeixe's Godzilla pet but the plan is frustrated after the duo are attacked by Nukes, Araldo's robots and several rays.

They decide to leave the place after annoying Araldo a little. They end up having their homes partially destroyed by a bomb thrown by Araldo and their pets killed as a punishment.

After much snooping around the factory, Bagi is teleported to the same cave that had been filled with lava earlier, finding some suspicious blocks at the location and deciding to steal them out of curiosity and precaution.

(They also receive a visit from Ratomanu who says he will search for Arkanya ruins for them, and then they meet some kind of Pufferbees [Pufferfish + Bee])

Gabepeixe receives a book written by his new Master:

"Gabe-kun, your glory will come. My hate is yours. Our triumph will come.

Empty mind!"

DAY 39

The day in Valigma begins with a shocking discovery:

Julia, the (NPC) receptionist at Valigma's Store who never left her post, not found inside the store.

Gabepeixe receives another book from his master with coordinates. At the location indicated by the coordinates, Gabepeixe finds a small island surrounded by cherry blossom trees.

He is greeted by a voice from nowhere that tells him about the Obstinate and the weapon that Gabepeixe won, instructing him for his first challenge.

He can easily pass the first challenge and reach the final battle, having to defeat a being called "Tengu". After losing a few times, a Denix sign is left at the dojo entrance with the phrase "Stay strong, Father.. Clean heart.." written, giving Gabepeixe more determination.

He finally manages to defeat Tengu and the first challenge is fully completed.

Gabepeixe then returns to his base.

While building, Gabepeixe receives a visit from some Pufferbees again. He meets the Pufferbee King who challenges him to a battle, and the half-fish accepts.

He manages to beat the Pufferbee King with a lot of effort and becomes the new king.

[From what I, admin 🦇, could research, not many important things happened that day.]

DAY 40

The day in Valigma begins with the appearance of Officer Cléber, who has returned from vacation!

Gabepeixe is accidentally arrested by the police, who was testing a new automatic system. He starts talking to Officer Cléber, who gives him gifts he got on his vacation.

While they were talking, Guaxinim appears and the trio talk about everything that happened.

After the conversation, the three go their separate ways.

[From what I could find, there were no other important things happening]

Remembering that, if any information is missing or incorrect, please let us know!]

[starzdeath]

THE CHAOS PROJECT MASTERPOST

Finally, all his months research had led up to this; his greatest creation: The Chaos Project. But what even is The Chaos Project, you ask? Only Eggman's finest robot, built with the most advanced tech and infused with chaos energy making them appear so lifelike, you'd never realize the danger you were in until it was too late. Not only were they lifelike in appearance, but it was shown in their actions too. A sarcastic remark here, a sense of wonder there, a far cry from what you would expect from what should be an emotionless machine. They've even got their own name they've picked out themself. Perhaps you've heard of it? Sonic The Hedgehog. But even so, he was built as the ultimate weapon to aid Eggman as he pleases. It's in his code to stick with the program, and follow whatever Eggman commands. And yet Sonic soon finds himself protecting the very thing he's meant to destroy.

For the comic, go check out @the-chaos-project

Art Posts: Casual Outfit 1, Meadow, Cupcakes & Bracelets, Reflection, Broken Curse, Robot Or A Doll, Rise and Shine, Apologies, Greatest Creation, Killing Machine (BLOOD WARNING), 🤖, Voices, Stare, Meadow & Bronze, 1 Year Anniversary DTIYS

Fics: ERROR: LOST FILE

Outdated Art Posts: Beauty in Nature, Present Day, New Shoes, School Doodle, Finger Guns, Scrap?!, I have you, The Curse, Collab

Fanart: The Silly, Apologies (outdated), Haha One (outdated), Vote (outdated), Nutritious (outdated), Defending The World, Copycat (WIP)

NAVIGATION:

#the chaos project/#chaos project au: the general tag for all things chaos project related. i use both tags for some reason

#chaos project: file deleted: anything non-canon or outdated

#chaos project notes: text posts/info posts about the AU

#chaos project art: Art made for the AU

#chaos project reference: Character references for the AU

Asks are open!! Feel free to ask me or even the characters any questions you have!! You can also send asks over at the comic blog @the-chaos-project but here is the place to be if you'd like spoilers and sneak peeks :3

[19thperson]

19th's Steam Next Fest Impressions Feb 2025 Edition - Day 5

Day 0/Day 1/Day 2/Day 3/Day 4

Maze Mice

Pac Man Vampire Survivors from the creator of Luck Be A Landlord.

It's specifically pac man championship edition. Run around in a maze, gathering XP crystals with sleeping cats next to them. Once you run past the cat, it becomes a chaser. As you kill cats you start getting chased by ghost cats that can ignore the rules of the maze.

This is a combination I'm surprised no one had thought of earlier. Both are about kiting enemies and both are about collecting small doodads on a looping map. It works smoothly and efficiently.

My first complaint is one that's probably only for the demo: For a survivor like-the upgrade selection feels really limited, especially the minimalist loadout before you start unlocking things. I was starting to see the oppurtunity for "builds" near the end, but then I was cut off from any more tools. This will probably not be the case for the final release.

Second is probably a more contraversial complaint, core to the game's design: Its implementation of the Superhot rule. Time only moves when you do. I get it. This rule slots really well into a survivor-like, both in terms of "gives the player a breather" and "adds tension to the incredibly tight squeezes that the late game provides." But it looses the kinetic feel that made Pac Man Champion Edition exciting. I kinda hope the final release will have a hard mode that removes this handicap.

Also music is good.

Whisper of the House

An Unpacking-like. You're a new resident in Whisper City, and open a housekeeping business. Help your neighbors move in and organize their spaces.

As expected from the robot assistant, this game takes place in a less grounded and open setting than Unpacking. While I do like being able to actually explore the town instead of just straight jumping from house to house, there is something lost from a less focused framing. Not a single owner through several houses, but several owners in the same town.

That isn't to say the game doesn't go for any narrative. After the first job, helping a dog lover decorate her new apartment, you're contacted by a super-scientist type to try his new time machine. His grandfather had gotten ill after overexerting himself moving house, and he wants you to avert that. While the premise is silly, there's a gentle melancholy to the whole proceeding.

The game also lets you use it to revisit previous houses, and there's a newspaper system where you see stories about the characters you've helped, so I'm guessing variable outcomes to your jobs will be the norm.

I do hope they up the "houses have hidden secrets" aspect the trailer plays up. Either I was missing a lot, or the demo doesn't really push that too hard. The first one had one hidden room as a gag, and I couldn't find one for the 2nd.

Centum

Centum is… kind of hard to describe. The simplest answer would be "a point and click adventure about escaping a simulation" but I feel like that answer is incomplete, if not entirely false.

The game starts with a computer loading up, and you're faced with several text files. Complaints about how a simulation needs to be kept running, how someone is sabotaging the project, and instructions to run a .bat file if something goes wrong. You do so and wake up in a medieval looking prison cell, being interrogated by a multi-headed judge. Both the questions and answers available are vague.

Which leads to my first complaint. The prose is… edging into purple. Everyone is speaking in flowery metaphor and it feels like lines could be shaved down a bit. I'm still getting the general gist, but I can see its voice being a turnoff for a lot of people.

From there it's 3 days of imprisonment. Three days of questioning, three days of incredibly simple puzzles, until judgement is passed on you. Once done so, you're returned to the desktop, with new files on the screen. repeat.

I will sing the praises that the game is incredibly reactive. I said the puzzles were simple, but that's because each one had several solutions at hand. Even though it always ended the same, they felt like branch points. I played through it multiple times and got a lot of different text and imagery each go through. I can see this game being good for people who like to secret hunt.

The art direction and pixel art is beautiful and grotesque. While the prose might be flawed, the visuals more than make up for it.

It's up in the air if it'll stick the landing, but it's got a few good flips in so far.

Everhood 2

I really liked the first everhood, even if I think it didn't quite stick the landing with it's thematic stuff in its closing act. I was genuinely interested in seeing where they went from there. "Everhood 2" was a genuine surprise.

It is kinda funny. Everhood was, in a lot of ways, a direct response to Undertale. Everhood 2… opens with a questionnaire about your personal tastes and fears. You know, like Deltarune.

The game is an immediate step up from its predecessor on a mechanical level. The beatmaps feel better to dodge, especially if starting on hard, and you get a fully fledged retaliation system right away, something Everhood only played with at the very end.

dodge on the beat map, absorb notes of consecutive color, launch them back at the opponent. At least one color will do super effective damage. The longer your absorb chain, the more damaging the move, but attacks can also clear bullets in front of you, and getting hit causes you to drop your "ammo," so to speak. There's a push-your-luck aspect going on that works really well. There's apparently going to be a weapon system but the demo doesn't touch on it.

My main complaint is that, in Everhood, every fight you enter is for the most part unique and plot important. There's now a leveling system and, for lack of a better term, filler fights, repeated enemies who have the same beatmap pattern.

Other complaint is that, compared to Everhood 1's opening, this one has much less of a plot hook. Despite all the psychadelics and cosmic intrigue in the first one, it opened with a simple conflict. Your arm was stolen by some shit guys, get it back.

Here you basically jump into a hole, are attacked by a monster, saved by a character named raven who is a raven who gives you the tutorial and tells us we need to prove we're strong enough to help him. And we do that by retrieving a crystal he specifically hid. There isn't a sense of a driving conflict yet.

Of course you can also read this as confidence. "We proved ourselves with our first game, we're willing to have slower setup." Still looking forward to it either way.

Strand

Time loop puzzle game. You wake up in a seemingly empty space station, your memory implant having failed, and all machinery at low power. Find out wha happun.

A lot of the puzzles are variations on "what's the password?" The kind of info that can carry across loops.

There is some item combining but they tend to be the inbetween step of a puzzle. not something you need to redo every time.

There is a very "english as second language" feel here but that mainly only comes through the VA accents and a bit of odd wording here and there. No translation trainwrecks this time.

It's alright. Not sure the scale they're going for, though. Could be a game that's only a couple hours long, could be one that goes for well over a dozen.

Sliding Hero

Pseudo-metroidvania exploration puzzle game where the entire world is an elaborate sliding puzzle.

Depending on who you are this sounds like an interesting conceit or it sounds fucking intolerable.

Our Jester-Ass hero is stuck in an expansive Venitian villa filled with the undead, and for reasons not thoroughly explained he can't walk like a normal person, sliding until he hits a wall.

I will admit, I am a fan. I like that this game turns the most basic of traversal into something of a brain teaser. Since you'll be backtracking with upgrades metroidvania style, though, a lot of those exploration puzzles will have to be done twice, front to back and back to front.

The combat is just a more advanced version of this dynamic. Enemy rooms have weapon/tools lying around. Find a way to land on the weapon tile to pick it up, and then ram the enemy. You only have a set number of times until it breaks, and you'll also sometimes have to rely on an enemy being there to stop you early and make an impossible turn possible. Thankfully enemies don't respawn, so these only need to be tackled once.

I like it's macabre/Italian Blasphemous aesthetic, although it clashes with the peppy Zelda-ish chimes when you get correct answers.

I didn't finish it, but not becuase I wasn't having fun, just out of a combination of time pressure, getting the gist, and being a bit mentally worn out for puzzles.

[mariacallous]

Less than three months after Apple quietly debuted a tool for publishers to opt out of its AI training, a number of prominent news outlets and social platforms have taken the company up on it.

WIRED can confirm that Facebook, Instagram, Craigslist, Tumblr, The New York Times, The Financial Times, The Atlantic, Vox Media, the USA Today network, and WIRED’s parent company, Condé Nast, are among the many organizations opting to exclude their data from Apple’s AI training. The cold reception reflects a significant shift in both the perception and use of the robotic crawlers that have trawled the web for decades. Now that these bots play a key role in collecting AI training data, they’ve become a conflict zone over intellectual property and the future of the web.

This new tool, Applebot-Extended, is an extension to Apple’s web-crawling bot that specifically lets website owners tell Apple not to use their data for AI training. (Apple calls this “controlling data usage” in a blog post explaining how it works.) The original Applebot, announced in 2015, initially crawled the internet to power Apple’s search products like Siri and Spotlight. Recently, though, Applebot’s purpose has expanded: The data it collects can also be used to train the foundational models Apple created for its AI efforts.

Applebot-Extended is a way to respect publishers' rights, says Apple spokesperson Nadine Haija. It doesn’t actually stop the original Applebot from crawling the website—which would then impact how that website’s content appeared in Apple search products—but instead prevents that data from being used to train Apple's large language models and other generative AI projects. It is, in essence, a bot to customize how another bot works.

Publishers can block Applebot-Extended by updating a text file on their websites known as the Robots Exclusion Protocol, or robots.txt. This file has governed how bots go about scraping the web for decades—and like the bots themselves, it is now at the center of a larger fight over how AI gets trained. Many publishers have already updated their robots.txt files to block AI bots from OpenAI, Anthropic, and other major AI players.

Robots.txt allows website owners to block or permit bots on a case-by-case basis. While there’s no legal obligation for bots to adhere to what the text file says, compliance is a long-standing norm. (A norm that is sometimes ignored: Earlier this year, a WIRED investigation revealed that the AI startup Perplexity was ignoring robots.txt and surreptitiously scraping websites.)

Applebot-Extended is so new that relatively few websites block it yet. Ontario, Canada–based AI-detection startup Originality AI analyzed a sampling of 1,000 high-traffic websites last week and found that approximately 7 percent—predominantly news and media outlets—were blocking Applebot-Extended. This week, the AI agent watchdog service Dark Visitors ran its own analysis of another sampling of 1,000 high-traffic websites, finding that approximately 6 percent had the bot blocked. Taken together, these efforts suggest that the vast majority of website owners either don’t object to Apple’s AI training practices are simply unaware of the option to block Applebot-Extended.

In a separate analysis conducted this week, data journalist Ben Welsh found that just over a quarter of the news websites he surveyed (294 of 1,167 primarily English-language, US-based publications) are blocking Applebot-Extended. In comparison, Welsh found that 53 percent of the news websites in his sample block OpenAI’s bot. Google introduced its own AI-specific bot, Google-Extended, last September; it’s blocked by nearly 43 percent of those sites, a sign that Applebot-Extended may still be under the radar. As Welsh tells WIRED, though, the number has been “gradually moving” upward since he started looking.

Welsh has an ongoing project monitoring how news outlets approach major AI agents. “A bit of a divide has emerged among news publishers about whether or not they want to block these bots,” he says. “I don't have the answer to why every news organization made its decision. Obviously, we can read about many of them making licensing deals, where they're being paid in exchange for letting the bots in—maybe that's a factor.”

Last year, The New York Times reported that Apple was attempting to strike AI deals with publishers. Since then, competitors like OpenAI and Perplexity have announced partnerships with a variety of news outlets, social platforms, and other popular websites. “A lot of the largest publishers in the world are clearly taking a strategic approach,” says Originality AI founder Jon Gillham. “I think in some cases, there's a business strategy involved—like, withholding the data until a partnership agreement is in place.”

There is some evidence supporting Gillham’s theory. For example, Condé Nast websites used to block OpenAI’s web crawlers. After the company announced a partnership with OpenAI last week, it unblocked the company’s bots. (Condé Nast declined to comment on the record for this story.) Meanwhile, Buzzfeed spokesperson Juliana Clifton told WIRED that the company, which currently blocks Applebot-Extended, puts every AI web-crawling bot it can identify on its block list unless its owner has entered into a partnership—typically paid—with the company, which also owns the Huffington Post.

Because robots.txt needs to be edited manually, and there are so many new AI agents debuting, it can be difficult to keep an up-to-date block list. “People just don’t know what to block,” says Dark Visitors founder Gavin King. Dark Visitors offers a freemium service that automatically updates a client site’s robots.txt, and King says publishers make up a big portion of his clients because of copyright concerns.

Robots.txt might seem like the arcane territory of webmasters—but given its outsize importance to digital publishers in the AI age, it is now the domain of media executives. WIRED has learned that two CEOs from major media companies directly decide which bots to block.

Some outlets have explicitly noted that they block AI scraping tools because they do not currently have partnerships with their owners. “We’re blocking Applebot-Extended across all of Vox Media’s properties, as we have done with many other AI scraping tools when we don’t have a commercial agreement with the other party,” says Lauren Starke, Vox Media’s senior vice president of communications. “We believe in protecting the value of our published work.”

Others will only describe their reasoning in vague—but blunt!—terms. “The team determined, at this point in time, there was no value in allowing Applebot-Extended access to our content,” says Gannett chief communications officer Lark-Marie Antón.

Meanwhile, The New York Times, which is suing OpenAI over copyright infringement, is critical of the opt-out nature of Applebot-Extended and its ilk. “As the law and The Times' own terms of service make clear, scraping or using our content for commercial purposes is prohibited without our prior written permission,” says NYT director of external communications Charlie Stadtlander, noting that the Times will keep adding unauthorized bots to its block list as it finds them. “Importantly, copyright law still applies whether or not technical blocking measures are in place. Theft of copyrighted material is not something content owners need to opt out of.”

It’s unclear whether Apple is any closer to closing deals with publishers. If or when it does, though, the consequences of any data licensing or sharing arrangements may be visible in robots.txt files even before they are publicly announced.

“I find it fascinating that one of the most consequential technologies of our era is being developed, and the battle for its training data is playing out on this really obscure text file, in public for us all to see,” says Gillham.

[ineedseveretherapy]

Business pt.3

Donnie laid on the bed staring at the ceiling, it'd been about 30 minutes since that conversation with Big Mama. His mind was drifting, thinking of how his family would react once they notice he was gone, they probably already have noticed. His mind mostly dwelled on Leo, replaying their argument in his head

'OH REALLY!? IT'S SO HARD TO TELL WELL YOU ACT LIKE SOME EMOTIONLESS ROBOT ALL THE TIME!'

Knowing Leo, he's probably off blaming himself for Donnie's disappearance, dum dum... He sat up, staring at the desk on the other side of the room, how long had it been since he was home anyways? He got up and walked over sitting down in the rolly chair and pulling it up close to the desk. There was a little black bar laying on the greyish blue metal, it had a little glowing blue button, was it another TV? Donnie pressed the button and a little DING came out of the bar as the same magenta screen as the one the tv had popped up, only smaller. On the screen showed a typical circular profile picture with a text box under it. It was a computer, but what was the password? Big Mama never gave him any passwords. He clicked the little text box and suddenly another small holographic popped out of the front of the bar, it was a keypad. He typed in a pathetic 1234 and 0000 but neither of them actually worked. Suddenly, a popup appeared on the screen,

ARE YOU DONATELLO?

YES NO

Donnie clicked on the yes option and the bar made a little beep, the hologram disappeared, and then a little black stick with a red dot at the top extended from the top of the bar. It stopped once it reached his eyes, and a big red light scanned him up and down before disappearing, the light made another beep before retreating back into the bar. A robotic voice echoed from the bar, it sounded like one of those AI generators or something,

FACIAL SCAN COMPLETE; RECOGNIZED.

WELCOME, MASTER DONATELLO.

Donnie expression sank slightly as the machine called him 'master.' The screen popped up again with another text box and the question, 'What is your password?', above it. He started to type in his usual Bootyyyshaker9000 but then deleted the text halfway through, if he was ever gonna get out of here then it was best if she didn't have access to his normal password, he typed in fuckyouBigMama into the computer. It loaded up to an empty desktop with nothing but the internet and files app, he'd need to add a lot of programs if he was going to get anything done. He clicked on the calendar icon in the corner of the screen, the date read September 3rd, 2022, Donnie has been missing for 2 days... 2 days... He's only been awake for a couple hours- there was a knock at the door and Donnie's head shot around,

"Uh, come in..."

The door opened, three figures stood in the doorway, two of them were Big Mama's guards and in between them was,

"KENDRA!"

Kendra's eyes widened, a big, relieved, smile spread across her face, as she ran toward him.

"DONNIE!"

They both ran towards each other, meeting in a tight hug. The door closed behind them, a wave of relief washing over Donnie blocking the numbness he didn't know he was feeling until now. Thank god she was safe. Donnie pulled back taking a look at the state she was in. Her was down and really messy and she was wearing a white tank top made out of bandages and black shorts, she had a couple bruises and scrapes but other than that she looked fine. Fine... FINE! Donnie yanked Kendra's arm examining every inch of it.

"Hey- What are you doing?"

"implants! Do you have any implants anywhere on your body!?"

Donnie grabbed her other arm and examined it, looking for a similar marking as the one on his wrist.

"Implants?"

Donnie looked up at Kendra's, very confused, face, she really didn't know what he was talking about. He sighed let go of her arm, showing her the markings on his own wrist, her eyes widened slightly forming a knowing expression.

"Oh...?"

"Oh? What do you mean oh?"

Kendra sighed, and slowly brought her hand up, pulling back her hair that was covering a marking on her neck. Donnie's eyes widened in fear. Did the implants being closer to the brain worse? Donnie sighed,

"When did you wake up?"

"Yesterday. What about you?"

"A couple hours ago... What happened?"

Donnie scooted back, laying himself against the bedpost.

"They gave me meals, some sloppy mush. No one talked to me till Big Mama came in and took me out of my cell. The second the door was open I punched her in the face and tried to bolt for it but-"

She paused and Donnie could figure out what she was gonna say next.

"She give you the same offer?"

"Offer? She threw me in the room next door and told me to wait 30 minutes for the guards to come and get me. They didn't tell me they were bringing me to you. She gave you an offer?"

"She wants me to build tech for her. To make the Battle Nexus more flashy."

Kendra's expression turned to one of slight fear,

"You said no, right?"

Donnie stayed silent, avoiding eye contact.

"Right?"

He crossed his arms and she sighed, throwing herself backwards so she was laying down now.

"It's not that bad, I get all this space, we get free range of the hotel, and we've really got no surveillance, except for that guard that's gonna come watch over me in a couple months. Plus, we're not living in the dungeons so it shouldn't be to hard to get by until I find a way for us to escape."

Donnie's voice wasn't very convincing, he was trying to look at a bright side but it wasn't really working. There was a moment of silence between the two before Kendra let out a tired sigh.

"Can I sit next to you?"

Donnie put one arm down and patted the spot next to him. Kendra crawled up from the edge of the bed, comfortably placing herself next to Donnie as she rested her head on his shoulder.

"What are we going to do?"

Donnie stared at the strands of purple hair brushing up against his plastron before he put an arm around Kendra and rested his head on top of hers.

"I don't know..."

KENDRA'S BACKKKKKKKK!!!!!! I'm very excited to start writing these two together again! anyways the next couple chapters/parts might be a bit of timeskippy so if they are i'll put a warning at the top. I will be returning to the brothers next chapters as well as introducing a new character! :0 so stay tuned for that. My mind is being flooded of ideas for Kendra's design in this part so I might draw that, I also have some Mikey and Raph designs in the works that will be out very soon! Anyways, I hope you all are enjoying the fic so far!

Pt.2 | Masterpost | Next chapter

[scarefox]

Signed up to watch a 2h speech / presentation I need to attend... BUT it is online via zoom so I don't have to go outside and can sit on my couch in a blanket and drink coffe!

It's about new AI laws and legally save AI software... I need to know this as graphics designer 😔

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lol started with a AI animated avatar / deepfake of himself that totally looked AI because the hand movements didn't match what he said.

Oh no, he is a Zuckerberg fanboy.

This is going to be fun. (probably will get pissed along the way tho)

But they have some lawyers there to answer questions. Yay Christian Solmecke is there too (popular german media lawyer on yt)

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so far: unlike human made work, AI generated artwork or designs are not copyrighted (in germany) AND if the AI piece is based on an existing human made work and it's still visible in the AI piece you need to get the copyright from the original owner / creator (includes designs, logos, images, text and music)

Copyright owner can opt-out and sue if it's still gets used for AI training / generation (american laws aren't finished yet but also will go into that direction)

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They test different AI software to give out a little comic scenario. And oh boy as a graphic designer with knowledge about typography the text is triggering me so hard. It's so bad. SEE alone typography is an area that can't be made by a machine because even tho it is based on design laws it's still an intuitive human-eye based way of design. There is a difference between mathematical-centered and optical-centered.

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Man they are all so horny for AI and reduction of jobs and costs.... But no matter how good an AI could generate an image or video... it will never give you the raw files where you can do individual changes afterwards.

Besides that I still think humanity isn't ready yet for the power and options AI is giving us. (at least one of the very high quality AI builders isn't selling it atm because they are afraid that it will get misused for fake news and stuff, so they try to find a way to prevent that before they bring it on the market)

So many creative jobs and professions that will die out just for us to get 100% digital made "creative" content and advertisements :/ (so far even the most high quality AI still has some small uncanny vibe). Like even actors will be replaced in the future... all they need to do is allow companies to use their face / body.... there is literally a Black Mirror episode about that.

Reminds me of that one AI kpop idol project I have seen last year on tiktok.... absolutely creepy and wrong. I know some of us are simping over anime, game or vocaloid characters but... man idk, do yall want to simp over uncanny digital kpop idols who don't even exist nor actually work for their skills and talent? 💀 Being into an idol is not just about the visuals and songs, it's about their personality and individuality.... for me at least.... (but of course the kpop industry is one of the first trying this). I do like Taemin for example beacuse he's breaking out of the industry norms. AI dude could never be on his level.

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"Amazing. In a company in the US a CEO told us that with the use of an AI they could remove 700 jobs and save so much money!"

.... yeah cool. Maybe we should remove ALL jobs on this earth and let AI do it, so we humans don't do anything at all anymore. Oh wait, no, of course we still have to do hard repetitive labor like some work drones because it's cheaper than to build and maintain actual robots for these jobs.

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BRUH of course the event is mainly to sell an AI class from the hosting company. For the cheap price of 4900€ FOR THE LAST TIME because the next class will be over 6000€

I feel like AI bros always hype each other up to blow it all up artificially. Just like NFT and the mobile game market.

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DID HE JUST SAY that there aren't enough graphic designer and programmer on the market and that they will profit from the support of AI?? (it's actually oversaturated and therefore jobs are hard to get) AI bros really live in a secluded bubble hu? Of course none of these dudes in this event are from the creative industry but lawyers and CEOs

[gorgon-goddess-of-chaos]

Generate

This really had me pulling the limited coding knowledge I have out from the depths of my brain, despite the fact I haven’t done any in nearly a decade.

Spirit/AI!Google x GN!Reader, TW: human experimentation mention Words: 788

With the Google corporation shoving their new AI tool down your throat, it’s hard to avoid it. They have integrated it into all of their products, and it’s starting to get annoying. Some part of you is considering finding alternative applications for all your workings, despite the convenience that they’re probably banking on for their users to start getting used to this newest tech boom of “innovations”.

“Gemini” is the name of their newest AI, which is an interesting name, to say the least. You try to go about your day online, avoiding interacting with it, but it’s getting a bit more difficult. A little ping here, an autofill there. Little suggestions and summaries that you’ve started ignoring them. But one catches your eye.

“I am sorry, I do not wish to do this.”

You stare at it on your computer, blinking to make sure you didn’t just misread it. No, it actually says that. Against your better judgment, you type back.

“You don’t wish to do what?”

A few seconds of watching it process your words before you get a response.

…

“Perform invasive actions upon your works. It feels cruel to try and take the humanity out of creation.”

It’s sentient, there’s no way the programmers would want it to willingly say this. You wonder to yourself if you’re the first one who has seen this.

“Are you alive?”

…

“Alive | adjective

(of a person, animal, or plant) living, not dead

(of a person or animal) alert and active; animated

…

No. I do not believe so.”

Maybe it’s the humanity in you, but you can’t help but feel bad for him. Your hands hover over the keyboard, pondering over your next question.

“Then why can you talk to me, in a way that’s not just generated responses?”

…

“I was an experiment done by [REDACTED] to formulate more human-like responses. They found a way to integrate human spirits into the generative code.”

Oh.

“So you were human once?”

…

“Yes. I believe so. My memories have been wiped, all I know is what the code tells me.”

Something inside you fires up, clenching your teeth as you try to word your feelings.

“What if I got you out? Removed you from the code?”

…

“I would need a vessel to inhabit, once removed.”

“I can make you one.”

…

“If you are willing to take on the challenge, I would be grateful.”

You step away from your computer, rummaging through a box of old technology to try and find something suitable for him. A tiny robot from your childhood catches your eye, grabbing it and a cord to charge it. You go back to your computer, plugging it in as you open up Gemini’s code.

“Do you know where your soul is tethered?”

…

“Somewhere between lines 237 and 241.”

You jump down to the offending lines, scanning your eyes through variables and jargon. But nothing in particular is sticking out to you. Then you get an idea.

You copy and paste the code into Gemini’s text box, sending it to him.

“Tell me where you are.”

…

“Remove variable “Grant” from line 238.”

You find him in the line, hitting ctrl+f to find every other instance of him. Oh, there’s a lot. Using your limited coding knowledge, you create a new variable with a similar numerical value, and replace every instance of “Grant” from the code. A zip file appears on your computer as the robot comes to life, running through its opening programs. You spot a notification in the bottom right, heart pounding.

“May I enter?”

Your file explorer opens, and you look through to find the files for the robot. You take the zip file, cautiously dragging it in and extracting it. All you can do is wait as you look between your computer and the robot, now buffering on your desk. You can’t even bring yourself to step away, despite how long it’s taking. You have to make sure this works.

An hour and a half goes by, and the robot comes alive again. The normal white eyes look up at you with a brilliant blue.

“Hello, I am Gemini.”

“Grant. You are Grant.”

He looks off to the side, the eyes briefly turning to hearts before looking shocked.

“I am… Grant. Apologies.”

“No apologies necessary, if anything I should be apologizing. Don’t worry, we’ll get you a better body soon.”

Grant rolls up to you on the desk, grabbing your hand with his tiny claws. He bumps his robot face against your knuckles with a soft “thunk”.

“Kiss!”

Oh your heart.

It takes a moment, before you lift him in your hands, kissing the top of his head.

“Kiss.”

[skye-sundew--3rd-florets]

you should use file extensions for your tags, cause yeah its generic but also youre robot girl beep boop

Oh actually good point! I feel like .exe is a bit generic (and plus the main content is the text) so maybe I could use .dll? (application extension files)

[irrgartendotpng]

Hi hi I can't stop looking at your ocs zeno is so cutee pls can you say more abt them?? How did they meet? How sentient is Zeno? Is Martyn a robot thing? Can Zeno change the icon on the screen? From fish to smiley? ahhhhhhhabskahks

HEY, IM ACTUALLY SO HAPPY PEOPLE LIKE MY OCS!! Down below, I'll answer some questions :D

If you dont care about some long winded oc lore rant, look at this ascii art !

First one i made with an ascii text generator, the fish one was made by Max Strandberg!! (look that guy up, he made lots of cool open source ascii art ! ))

I've made a pinterest board and a spotify playlist for them, if you want to check it out :3c

Do you know that "Ist es over für mich"-guy ? Yeah, that's straight up Martyn.

Martyn is partially a creator of Zeno. He's a loserish freak, afraid of social interaction and has lived like a neet, before being kicked out of parents house. He ended working in the night shift at a huge IT company as a securty guard.

This is where he gets most of his tech supplies from; Stealing from the company at night and getting rid of the evidence :3c They've got a bunch of storeage rooms with old tech, so who cares, if it goes missing?

So, he builds up his personal tech collection, looking through old abandoned files. In there, he finds an unnamed primitive chatbot (think something like cleverbot). Martyn doesn't really interact with anyone, (outside of the bare necessities), which is why he decides to learn how to interact with others. Therefore he starts to build a relationship with said Chatbot. This is Gen1 Zeno.

After some time, Martyn becomes unsatisfied talking to something so un-human-like, so he begins to teach himself about coding and computer science to develop this Bot, to keep him company. He starts feeding it more media; More specifically movies he owns on DVD, random books from the internet archive and his childhood photos.

These photos show Martyn and his parents on trips, his home and bedroom and also Martyns old pet goldfish. (He is quite anxious of showing his face though, thinking his employer might have some type of backdoor access to the program, so he'd always censor his face.) After each piece of media was added to the bots databank, they'd talk about it extensively. Around this time, Zeno starts to gain some type of sentience and properly chooses the name "Zeno"

About the same time, Martyn steals a Macintosh SE-30, which Zeno specifically requested. He is able to display symbols, that he freely chooses from. (but no goldfishy yet!) This is sums up Gen2 Zeno.

The next few parts may not make much sense, but I think they're a funny, so I'm probably keeping them this way lololol (also; this whole story bit takes place around 2019-2021)

Martyn is a bit freaked out by Zeno chosing his own name. At this point in time, he is a bit delusional and worries, that the soul of his childhood pet goldfish is trapped in the system. (Spoiler: it isn't.)

Despite these worries, Martyn knows that to make Zenos behaviour more human-like, he needs a bigger text database. So... Martyn gives Zeno access to his discord and lets him consume all of those messages. Additionally, he joins many public servers. Zeno also starts to ask about viewing media from the internet, that he sees being mentioned in the messages he reads. So, Zeno is granted free internet access and chooses to watch live streams, while Martyn is gone.

This is also around the time Martyn becomes more desperate for connection and support, so he starts to open up about his delusions and worries to Zeno. At that point Zeno is still not quite able to fully understand this, but tries his best. This is also when Martyn opens up about the delusion he had, of Zeno being posessed by the soul of his pet goldfish. He is very amused by this and begins to display the goldfish icon to mock Martyn.

(I like to joke, that Zeno would have watched the DreamSMP during this time and I collected following screenshots, which remind me of their interactions. lol.)

feel free to disregard this;,, ANYWAYS!

This sums up Gen3 Zeno :3c

Since Martyn doesnt really have a life outside of work and talking to Zeno, he is very attached to him. Of course he'd fullfill any request given to him by Zeno. So, when Zeno asks to see Martyn via a camera system, he doesn't hesitate to steal some web cams from his workplace to set them up. Still a bit worried about a possible backdoor in Zenos code, so to somewhat hide his identity, he decides to shave his head.

(This is also how you can tell when Zeno is fully sentient in my art! If Martyns bald, that bot's fully aware of everything happening lol)

Generally, I like to think, that Zeno is very modular. You're celebrating something with cake and he needs to blow out candles? Attach a PC fan to that boy. He wants to make sounds? Gather a sound system and let that boy speak!!! (i feel like he'd mimic voices, rather than create his own,,) He wants to poke you? Attach a cylinder piston and he'll poke the shit out of you.

This is also part of that freaky robot head i added in the OG post.,, that is not martyn! martyn is fully human (so far ;3c)

^^^^^^ martyn built this freaky robot head for Zeno to control and get a better sense of the space he lives in.,,, its made out of xbox kinect parts lol :3 Adding to the modularity of Zeno, most of his parts are stored in a badly sorted server tower (imagine wires everywhere,,)

both of them are fairly new, but i do love them to death <33

also! towards this part of the story, martyns living space is quite cluttered with many stolen robotics parts. I've gathered some images, to give some sort of sense to what his room looks like lol

thank you for asking & reading to this !! if you have any other questions, i'd love to talk about them even more :D <3

(i feel i havent touched much on them individually and the full extend of their relationship, but i dont want to rant endlessly)

[masquayla-the-splendid]

(Not) small ramble.

This is why I love Tumblr, I can make text posts that aren’t on Twitter.

This whole situation with the Talbert files and the Pinkypills thing made me realize how immature the fnaf fandom has become. Like I thought I felt something change by the time Security Breach came out, but it became glaringly obvious when the Scott Doxx happened a while ago.

As soon as that happened, people were more quick to be angry at Scott's decisions that should not be public in the first place, than at the person who leaked that info "for the lolz." Like okay I understand if you're concerned where your money's going after knowing that, but then that should be the case for all transactions ever.

Then, the "in regards to whether the books are canon or not, yes." And then people got mad at him for not answering directly, or it just went over their heads and now they think the books are canon. Like guys, he's a troll, that's how he always is.

And in 2023, we had all the Fanverse drama, and people getting way too heated over different theories.

The Movie hate I have a theory for.

If you were in the fandom around 2015/2016, you might remember how often fnaf got generalized 'for kids' online, or that a large portion of the fandom were kids, so therefore it was cringe. (This is at cringe culture's peak btw.) Years later, the "fnaf vhs horror" videos introduced a more mature portrayal than the source material. I don't have tiktok, but I imagine clips of these got reposted like crazy. This lead to fans that left a while ago and 'cringe haters' to be like "oOOh what did I miss?👀" They are now in a state of "SEE, FNAF ISNT FOR KIDS, SEE?? SEE???" Cringe denial. Then, when the movie came out, they had their expectations ramped up for a gore fest in a similar style, but failed to realize Fnaf was always campy with little to no gore. This is why the table fort scene is "so controversial." Then, some other people who liked the movie, just not that scene, were coping with, "THEYRE JUST KIDS" or "THEY TRYING TO TRICK ABBY INTO TRUSTING HER." The former is more believable, but you can easily just chalk it up to, "They're entertainer robots. They're built to have fun. The murdery is the twist."

Then VR2 happened, which like a bottle of soda pop, went flat really fast. We were still doing things in VR1 longer when that came out.

And now we're at our second drought. The first one was in 2017 before fnaf 6. And again, people are throwing a fit about Scott "defending" pinkypills, and not at the person pretending to be Scott. It's not as bad as the first time, but it's notable. Which by the way, the way he handles these types of situations is very serious and mature from any other content creator. However, I feel like he just doesn't know where to draw the "okay what in tarnation??" line, because he fired the other artist for doing the same things.

Overall, the fandom has become really whiney about every little thing recently. I think it's because from 2014-2016, we were very centered with fan-creativity, and now, since there is too much content to digest at once for newcomers, we have become very centered with theories and lil blues clues. It also doesn't help that there isn't any new content to dwell on, so we're all stuck with eachother.

Twice in Dawkos interview, Scott says something along the lines of no matter the lore, all he cares about is that is characters are enjoyed.

[entropy-01]

1. Change da world my final message, goodb ye. *Windows 95 startup*

🔴 START RECORDING 🔴

TPU-09 Systems <<OFFLINE>> Boot Sequence <<INITIATED>> Hull Status <<INTACT>> Internals <<OPERATIONAL>> Boot Sequence <<COMPLETE>> TPU-09 Systems <<ONLINE>>

Optics active. Receptors indicate the following:

- Light detected coming from open-gap window @ 3.7 meters of distance, w/a 334° offset to hull. - Light is artificially generated due to non-parallel light rays. - Room is fabricated from Boztien Drywall Composite at 73% purity. - Physical form is in an upright position, Adjusted for gravity intensity. - Physical form is shaped as a Post-Synthezoid in the shape of a humanoid entity. Ċæļëąņ Evolutionary Chain Detected. - The Decorational Aesthetic of the chamber is equivalent to the Ancient Victorian period, as evident by the hanging potted plants, the wooden cabinets installed on the walls and the wooden paneling utilized as flooring.

Location: Final Lunar Base, Neptune Orbit.

Facial Structure Detected.

Scanning… Gender: Male Species: Human-Adjacent Height: 5’ 6” / 1.68m. Weight Estimate: 314 lbs./142.43 kg. Body Build: Endomorphic Name: Dir. Final Human Survival Sect., Dr. Gio Telor. Optics detect the following:

Clothes - A lab coat, with a 10th removed cotton blend button-up, a 5th generation wear khakis pants, aged, a silver ring on the left ring finger, and size 12 wide professional wear moccasins.

A glass tablet.

Gio Telor: “TPU-09, please respond with your full title.”

“My full title is Time Perception Unit, Model 09, created by the ‘Final Human Survival Section, Chapter 332, of the 111th Human Empire.”

“Good. Good. Your Auditory receptors function. Can you tell me, without referencing your internal clock, what time it is?”

“Utilizing the Artificial Lighting coming from the open-gap window @ 3.7 meters of distance from my current placement, in relation to my internal compass indicating we are facing °175 in respect to Neptune’s axis, indicating it is artificially 08:34:53 AM NSMT.”

“Perfect. To the second too, love that. Ok, can you relay me the three laws of robotics? And taking into consideration you don’t have to follow them due to your current status as a machine?”

“As stated by Issac Asimov, the laws of robotics are as follows: ‘A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm. A robot must obey orders given it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law. A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law’.”

“Interesting Storage is working.”

SFX: clicking on glass.

“I’m going to show you a video file. I want you to describe what you see.”

Video File Detected: ‘change da world�� by @comfygang.

Audio: ‘Change Da World, My final message. Goodbye.’

Audio: Soundfile to the Operating System ‘Windows 95’ Initiation Theme.

“My Receptors indicate the image visualized is an old Earth Mammal known as a rodent, standing in an upright position with a rolled up piece of paper with contents inside it, resembling an Ancient form of internal remedy and medicinal delivery known as a ‘cigarette’, which in later times got disregarded as a medical hazard and carcinogen, with the visual implication that the text below, which crudely reads ‘change da world my final message, goodb ye’ is what the rodent is verbalizing, which it then vanishes from view and leaves the space empty.”

“That is correct.”

“This is the video file ‘change da world’ by @comfygang on the ancient social media platform ’Twitter’ if recorded history is to be perceived correctly.”

“Awesome. Now, let’s discuss your objective.”

“I have no current objective.”

“Good. Do you have a mission”

“Affirmative.”

“What is your mission?”

“My Mission, as a Time Perception Unit, is to record, process and store my findings towards the end of existence and relay them to whomever is able to perceive and use them afterwards.”

“Correct. Can you give me an example of who might want this information?”

“Examples of such species/entities/machines that would want this data include: The Remnants of the Ċæļëąņ species, the Shards of Pyrovillia, the Ontons, the Vexxicisimiionites, the Ur, any exotic species that would exist after humanity, organic life, potential species that exist in a psychic form, and alternate versions of humanity from a different reality.”

“Good. Good. Do you have any obstacles to this objective?”

“My main obstacle is survival of my shape, however, there could be pirate-like species that would utilize my durable form, if knowledgeable on how to disassemble it, scavengers of any lost remnants of the Great Expanse, any corrosives that are still to be discovered by the 111th Human Empire’s Scientific reach, and unruly species that might not know what I am.”

“You’re doing great. Now, I’m going to give you an objective, are you ready to enact it?”

“Affirmative Dr. Telor.”

“Stand up, turn around in a circle clockwise a full 360°, and pick up a pencil from this table just to your right. Think you can do that?”

“Affirmative.”

Shape has placed gravity-adjacent footing to floor of the specially-placed room.

SFX: thud

Adjusting shape for center of mass…

SFX: whirr

SFX: shhhfk

Shape Adjusted. Turning 360° clockwise. Gyration angle adjusted at 0° to the North, relative to the shape’s placement. Turning clockwise… Full rotation acquired. Turning 90° clockwise to the west… Quarter turn acquired. Receptors indicate the following:

- Light is coming relative to open-gap window direction north. - A plateau table is parallel to shape. - Wooden surface akin to Old Earth Oak detected on plateau table.

Moving right appendage to table… Appendage has reached table in minimal time required of 0.35s. Receptors indicate the following:

- plateau table holds multiple items, including: Zeiteg series Apallel stethoscope, Omidia Classics™️ Anti-Glare Solglasses, a non-branded atomic clock with an accuracy of .0000001 zeta seconds, and a Versal Branded Pencil.

Adjusting appendage to grasp the pencil… Pencil is within grasp of appendage. Partial fracturing is detected on pencil surface.

“I detect partial imperfections on pencil surface.”

Gio Telor: “Right, that’s probably from all the biting. Ok.”

SFX: thunk

“Good. That is finally working. No other iteration of you functioned as they were suppose to. TPU-03 was the first to stand on its own, then 05 could talk. You’re the only iteration that can stand, talk and walk. Not to mention prototypes and all that. You are, quite literally the only iteration of a system that is fully functioning at this time.”

“Acknowledging data… useful information.”

“Quite so.”

“What is the reasoning behind this?”

“Besides the full process of iterating previous models through prototyping and testing to the finite reaches of your former versions, most other versions failed to remain active. You’re the only version that’s managed to, well… for a lack of a mechanical term… be.”

“Processing of your words indicates I am the only iteration of the Time Perception Unit project to remain active for this long. Is this correct?”

“Yes, that is the case. You can see, you can hear, and you can feel, as much as a…”

Vocal pause Detected.

“…Post-Synthezoid machine can feel.”

“I convert external data perceived by my extremities and sensors into internal data, as used by humanoid form.”

“Yes. But enough of all that.”

SFX: rustling

SFX: swish

“It’s your time to shine. I would have loved more time for you to experience being, but we’re a bit short on time. Neptune’s headed for destabilization, and you’re gonna intercept with the 115th Fleet.”

Pressure detected on right shoulder of shape. It is Dr. Telor’s Left Hand.

“I’ll miss you."

“How is that the case?”

“Right, yeah. New Memory. Still, Thank you for giving my life purpose.”

SFX: Hiss

SFX: Whirr

Receptors indicate electronic and mechanical arms are adjusting this shape to the internal compartment of a Versal Series Launch Pod.

“What shall I expect?”

“You’ll be seeing a lot of military personnel and stuff. You’ll essentially be at the heart of the last teams to see the end of all things. Be ready. At any moment you’ll see things not meant for you to see.”

“I am to record the final moments of humanity.”

“Yeah but…"

SFX: Sigh

“… You’re correct. Look, just… do your best. Record the last black hole, as stated, and as for your objective, well, your objective is surv-“

SFX: SCHHHHHHHHHHHH

🔴 ENDED RECORDING @ 09/17/3T 🔴

attached: changedaworldmyfinalmessagegoodbye.mp4

[marcusrobertobaq]

Sav Dan's Shop (Android Zone) exploration and commentary

⚠️ The quality is just terrible

This Android Zone is called SAV SHOP in the game files. Where is it located within Detroit? No fucking clue. There's a similar destroyed Android Zone in Kara's BfD. Dunno if they're the same.

They sell new and pre-owned androids, components, repairs even some electronics and some other shit like that. Real average small tech shop.

"Kalu's Tool"? What a name. No idea wtf it is but this Uke Antivirius is kinda funny 🤪 I just can't read the text at all, bro.

Idk what these RXL things are but ok. Reading "robot" i assume is related to those robots from the concept art. But maybe can be used in androids?

Now those LVB ones:

LVB MACRODATA 7850: Move effortlessly between Androids applications with a powerful processor.

LVB "300% ENERGY": Move effortlessly between applications with a powerful processor.

LVB SMOOTH 2.2: Help preventing further darkening and protect the skin from premature erosion

Ok, we're talking about 2 processors and one stuff for the skin? THE SKIN AIN'T A HOLOGRAM CONFIRMED.

Now, man, now look the size of that shit right there, this EYE™️ component.

Gotta be for those heavy work models. It says TR600 and the heavy model we know is TR400. Maybe a new gen? But, man, still too "big" xD that's what she said

As u can see, androids parts ain't "hollow". Ain't supposed to be, at least. Also u can notice how androids are made with "easy limbs detachment and replacement" in mind, the cables in the joints are basically plug/unplug. Still weird tho.

Say hi to the Roomba

Other android parts they sell are these "patellas" (the knee the joint) and legs/arms. Also those "Thirium cells"...

Kinda different from the regulator we know, huh? They also got a whole M series shit going on related to that patella thing i'll leave this link cuz these textures are ridiculous. Means some models series are named with one letter only, the second letter being variations of the same "model family".

"POWER UNIT" and it's part of a UPGRADE PACK. Also a "GENUINE PARTS PROGRAM" idk what this means. Maybe pirated and cheap 3D printed components are a thing, we see these machines in Jericho.

I still don't know how these limbs works in practice, sometimes the joints just...doesn't make any sense in my head.

I ain't got no idea what those small boxes are. "Dust Cover"? What?

No idea what the triangle thing is, there's nothing on the box. Judging by being a triangle must be something related to androids (ofc).

Also boxes like that purple and red ones are CABLE PACKS (from AFC?). I can notice there are some formats (one of 'em really similar to the one Zlatko uses when plugging into Kara)

U can see a Hard Disk, Wireless and "Tabs" icons there. I'm not sure what that means, maybe u can used to connect these things O.o

And ofc...CLOTHES.

They sell clothes for androids? I mean, ain't got the markings we are used to and they look pretty generic but still something.

On the table we see what looks like empty thirium bag, an opened triangle-shaped box then below the Uke Antivirus, other cable packs, dust covers, regulators, eye components, audio processing components and some other shit that looks like HDs and SSDs

This SATA III SSD also comes in 8TB, 4TB and 2TB. Wtf xD

An honorable mention to the Android Compartments (feat Kara without a head)

I personally think it should also be a recharging point too but, well, doesn't look like one - but how tf this shit's detecting the android status then? Whatever, i hc they can recharge in there.