#so practically we need to ask

[elexuscal]

I saw your post about chatgtp and here is a thought i had.

What sre these students also going to do about practical issues if they rely on something like chatgtp?

I don't know if they overly rely on it or not, but chatgtp ain't going to have solutions to the many hurdles life throws your way.

Hm. Well. I think folks who rely on ChatGPT will continue to rely on ChatGPT until it clearly and obviously screws them over.

That might be a big, obvious, well-publicized global incident. We've already had a couple, like that lawyer who lost his license after ChatGPT made up fake cases for her paperwork. It'd have to be something like that, but waaaay bigger scale, something pretty much no one could miss.

But frankly, I suspect it's going to be individual failures that everyone has to have on their own. Ask an LLM on how to fix their car, its advice ends up fucking the car up more, and now they have an expensive bill to make the lesson sink in. Ask ChatGPT to write something difficult for their significant other, and whoops, now you're having a big relationship fight. Ask ChatGPT a health question, end up getting super sick. ETC.

And once a person realises they can't use ChatGPT for everything, then it's not like their brains are irreparably damaged. I've seen a LOT of notes in the last two weeks that are people being like "you're damaging your brain" and like, I think that's a very bold statement to make. Generative AI hasn't been available for very long, so there can't be many studies on the subject to show one way or another. But even if we are, brains are resilient! it can recover from huge major stuff, like drug addiction and depression and brain surgery! it can and will recover from ChatGPT.

so i am not doomer about this, honestly, genuinely. but i do really hope we can nip this stuff in the bud before too many doctors and architects and policy makers and the like have to learn this lesson the hard way, because this does have the capacity to really hurt folks.

Which means we need to fix this problem at the source, and ask the question: why are So Many People using LLMs for their work?

And that's a broad and multi-faceted question and I don't think there's a single simple answer. But when it comes to education? I think a big portion is: overwork.

I remember seeing this scene a couple years after finishing secondary school and it resonated SO much. And my understanding is it's only gotten worse in the 10-ish years since I got my undergrad.

And it's not just the level of work.... It's the level of work where so much of it is pointless, or unnecessary.

On a micro-level, that's assignments created with no real thought about learning outcomes, just there to tick boxes. (Thinking of the time where we were told "we should have" kept diaries for all our extracurriculars 15 months into the two year IB course, and my whole year spent like two hours writing a whole bunch of fake ones retroactively). On the other side of the coin, it might be that assignment is genuinely important for learning that subject matter, but the person doesn't actually care about the subject matter, they just need a diploma, because society has decided a diploma is the magic piece of paper you need to get a job, and cost of living is rising crazily pretty much the world over, so you really Can't care about the sanctity of education or whatever.

When that happens, of course kids (and adults) are gonna start using ChatGPT as a shortcut. And while I'm certain there are some folks who are overusing it to the ridiculous amount, they're probably a minority, and we probably shouldn't overstate the problem.

So, uh. How to get people to stop relying so much on AI?

We need to start fixing education! And to start fixing education, we need to start fixing capitalism itself, because that's what's introducing many of the perverse incentives

Should be easy! No problem!

... by which of course I mean it's a huge problem, and knotty, and I don't know how to tackle it all. Why should I? I'm a rando on the internet. I used to teach, but only for a handful of years, and at mostly a kindergarten level. There are better qualified folks than I to propose education reforms.

But in the short term, I think cutting down a lot on homework, and having most essays and assignments written in-class by hand might be a good start.

[khaoala]

Bibi's favorite KantBison kisses.

[please-read-the-manga]

Hm... the idea of the ghosts of Uchiha continuing to endure beside the mourner who grieves them, even beyond death... Idk, it compels me.

[celtrist]

You mentioned Vaggie trying to dress up Alastor in feminine style a couple of times, would you like to show us an example of such occurence?

(in other words, can we see Alastor in a dress, Vaggie can't be the only one who gets to see him like that)

The sort of outfits and ways she'll get him in said outfits will vary. Vaggie for the most part does genuinely try to find and put him in feminine clothes of his time (so she more than likely has gone to cannibal town for dresses). But she's definitely not opposed to putting him in more, shall we say... skimpy attire. Or things that perhaps don't fit quite right on him.

Other residents have 100% seen him outside his normal attire because of Vaggie. And have perhaps gotten a bit more of a show than Alastor would ever intend for anyone to see (though that's never Vaggie's intention).

[heybiji]

In reference to the last ask you posted! Do you mind going over your tips on role-playing as that active-type character and/or digging up the thread of conversation it seems the original asker was referring to? I'm so interested in your experience role-playing for both prep in possibly joining a game someday and also bc it sounds like such good character creation and general writing advice!!!! I tried checking you blog but didnt turn up anything that touched pn it more (No worries if not though!)

Sorry for this late response!

My advice is make characters that create opportunities for story.

Reacting to a story is fun! Reacting to a character is fun! But if you're always reacting then you're creating opportunity for other characters to react, so sometimes you gotta Act to let the other characters and the story React.

To do this, characters should all want something. And not something vague (like "to be happy"), it should be something more tangible, more specific, and everything else can stem from there. It'll guide your character naturally. It's their Motivation.

More under the cut (or skip to the end for more standard advice)

For example, my dnd character Dandelion wanted more than anything to go home. "Going home" meant a lot of things, yeah it means being happy, it means he wants to be with his family, it means he wants to be loved, it means he wants to feel safe, it means he wants to belong somewhere, but the tangible idea is "go home."

Because I knew this is what he wanted most of all it guided all his actions, and his actions for better or for worse all made sense because of it (and I made it clear that was what he wanted "on-screen" on multiple occasions). So anything that involved the idea of getting home would activate him, and he'd also deeply empathize with anyone and anything else away from home/away from family. Giving him one strong, clear motivation instantly made him an active participant in the story. This made him active with other characters too, any mention of home, any mention of family, any idea of not belonging, it drew him toward them.

(as a DM now this is also what I need more than anything, what's your hook? how can I tempt you? how can I make your character move forward? how can I make your character react? also characters that create opportunity for story take a LOT of work off the DM's shoulders in my experience, it shows you're engaged and it feels less like dragging a cat around on a leash haha like "are you enjoying this? do you want this? i don't know! please give me something!")

my more standard advice?

Be a good listener

Be present (in the moment)

Be curious

Be the biggest fan of all the characters

Put your story on-screen frequently, give people the opportunity to react to it and join in on it (this can be as simple as "my character's body language changes at the mention of 'home')

Create opportunities for the other characters to have their story on-screen (ask them questions! if you know what the character's buttons are and it makes sense in the moment, press them! listen to what they're saying, pay attention to what they're doing, and react to it)

Interact with the world! Interact with each other! And make these things mean something to your character!

Your character should make mistakes. Mistakes create opportunity for everyone.

If there's a genre, or theme, play toward them earnestly.

The more you RP, the better you'll get at it! It's a process and that's okay!

my little tip for knowing whether your character is Active vs Reactive: if the story were a musical, do they have an I Want song? do they have multiple moments for songs within the narrative? have they shared a duet with another character? do their songs change, evolve? songs happen for important moments in a musical so if you're not contributing to important moments, it may mean you're reacting more than you're acting. which is fine if you're playing a game solo and are granted access to the narrative by virtue of being the designated main character, but because RPing is collaborative storytelling, everyone should be doing their part!

[liuisi]

lowkey o-(-( right now

[creatively-cosmic]

fuck with me

fuck with meeee

im trying to do different sprite styles and sizing down full drawings to make a base is so fucking dumb looking. christ. also ace not looking like they havent slept in days feels illegal.

on another topic god seeing other pokepasta blogs interact with each other lately has been so fun. i really wanna do that sometime soon... it certainly wouldnt be canon but i havent gotten to see stuff like that circling around since my time in the daily pokemon community! though maybe its just cus of the blogs that i follow that im seeing it now hajnsljkns

[sparklykat-hideoutenthusiast]

I wish I was tech savvy.

I used to be. I used to know the ins and outs of my phone and computer but then it changed and I never learned the workarounds again.

Also not to mention it's been 3-4 years since I had a computer. I forgot how the damned things worked. I have one now bc this rich guy (named Carl) that my mom's working for at the moment gifted me his old computer.

I'm gonna try and learn more about how it works if I can. I just gotta force my ADHD to cooperate as well...

[a-dragons-journal]

12 for the plural ask game :3

Send us plural asks!

Sorry for the delay!

12: have you drawn anyone in the system? here's a chance to show off that art!

Wei've drawn everybody, as a matter of fact!

Rani (I kind of slide back and forth between fully dragon and fully human in self-image and thus in headspace; I can appear anywhere on that spectrum):

Viridian Caldwell (loosely prefers Caldwell from strangers):

Loretta (mostly stays in human form because that's the one she was born in, but can and sometimes does transform fully in headspace even though she can't yet in-source):

and our newest addition Roshan:

and of course bonus Locke, ft a particularly stupid moment from the VtM game Viridian's a part of:

Followed up a few months later by:

[the-whimsigoth-witch]

Ok, so for the last several months, I’ve been growing increasingly concerned that I’ve been cursed (or hexed or jinxed or something) because when I tell you my partner and I haven’t had ONE (1) normal week since the year started…

Which is weird because at the beginning of the year we did a spiritual cleansing, and I put up my wards that I do (we have also refreshed these between early January and now).

The bad occurrences seem to be targeting both of us, although sometimes it feels as if it’s been targeting me most consistently. Since the beginning of this year, at least once a week without fail we have something huge happen that isn’t just like a small inconvenience that sucks to deal with but we can overall power through, it is like genuinely life changing occurrences happening regularly; important medical care information never being sent causing a huge delay in the ability to receive care, subsequent plague befalls the house which got myself and a family member debilitatingly sick for almost two weeks, the DAY after beginning to recover from this, I got sick AGAIN with another viral infection. I also got diagnosed with an incurable lifelong disability that is quickly breaking my body down.

During all of this time, we have also had various things happen to our home. We have had things break seemingly out of nowhere, a rat is either in our walls or crawling through our vents, and just yesterday evening, I got home from work to see that a pipe burst in our ceiling from our upstairs neighbors not following policy and my entire side of the apartment got completely flooded.

I have asked my decks and tried the matchstick trick and ALL sources are like “💕Girlie you’re fine!! Protections are strong and wards are sturdy💕😘!”

So like? What do I do??? Does anyone know if anything I can do to figure out what this is?? Or how to make the insanity stop? (I am not interested in purchasing anything or any magical services for this; but just as a learning witch, this is a plea for insight/education/thoughts from the community 💕)

[son-of-avraham]

Since you’re really getting into the world of Jewish music, have you heard of chilik frank ? He’s a chossid who does ashkenaz/Klezmer. My absolute fav song from him is a song called ‘Rabi meir omer’ !

Ughh one thing I love about kletzmer is the emphasis on clarinet so many songs have. It makes me want to pick mine back up and play this by ear...

As well, this is how it feels to play clarinet:

[hermitcraftx]

just got a dm abt one of my posts and y'all please don't try and show the hermits (or any minecraft youtuber or content creator for that matter) my posts, i'm uncomfortable with it and don't want any of my posts shown to a cc. if they stumble upon it naturally that's unfortunate but i can live with it since i do maintag a lot (something i REALLY need to stop doing tbh i already know i need to make a tagging system just for my blog that wont clog results) but going out of ur way to show a cc is entirely different and something i am not comfortable with.

no hate to the person at all but even if i wasn't a little silly and weird with it sometimes i wouldn't be comfortable with it, i want my blog to be a purely fandom only space with none of the creators involved <3 please respect this

[maryland-officially]

Mary hon how the FAWK can I be popular and famous like you

from @official-rhode-island

uhmm

dont worry about famous, for one thing

cause gimmick chaos. we created a large scale arc day 1 (rabies arc)

be pestering.

try to get a good circle, support your friends (but do mischief too. annoy them a lot)

do evil acts, go through character arcs

have a simple lore that is funny. shitpost. maybe don't have a dni at first. it makes you look scary

lastly, don't try to be famous

we aren't famous

but we do have a lot of followers, and we're thankful

but now we're not someone to rp with. now we have notifications that no longer bring joy, but we're so attached to. we are 'famous', so people find us scary, i guess. we have less actual interaction now. maybe everyone is tired. we kind of suck at gimmicking after our small break tho so maybe there's that

stay chronically online.

don't cause too much drama

support your friends (and never stop)

gimmick as you want

be free, be cringe

and don't focus on your follower count.

[stratus-and-the-theoi]

Feeling Lady Hestia’s influence in my kitchen today. Have 2 pies in the oven (pumpkin, of course), a roast in the crockpot, spiced hot chocolate on the stove, and potatoes peeled and ready to be turned into mashed potatoes. Feels good to be out of my flare (finally) and in the kitchen again.

[transvampireboyfriend]

while I do appreciate survivors owning their stories when exposing the abuse that takes place in cults, I really wish the mainstream media around it spent more time focusing on how they got out and how they found light and love in the outside world and how it was hard as fuck too. I wish they spent less time rehashing the abuse and more time in the repercussions of that abuse and how they live with trauma.

[cruzadocreacher]

The way current circumstance has me spontaneously learning how to draw blood from horses on my own (very sweet, very well behaved, incredibly patient) horse.