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[asleepygremlin]

Say what you want about the original sprites

But you gotta admit this is the sprite of all time

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ꕤ Shannon ʚïɞ Umineko No Naku Koro Ni ꕤ

[weeb-polls-with-pip]

Autistic Anime Girls Group 2 Match 25

Akane -

"An iconic girl with psychic powers. Low EQ and gets incredibly sick when things go off plan. Trapped people on a sinking ship because she's a victim of prophecy. Love her."

Sayo -

"she's the joker for trans women."

[ultimate-character-design]

The Ultimate Character Design Tournament

Please remember to vote for characters solely based on design!

Beatrice | Umineko When They Cry

She is Beatrice, "The Golden Witch". Nobody knows if she really exists, but supposedly, she gave Kinzo Ushiromiya ten tons of golds. She was supposed to be her mistress, and after she died, if isolated himself trying to resurrect her. - Look at her hair! Her hairdress is incredible, must be hard to make! - LOOK AT HER DRESS! Ryukishi does draw hands well, but GOSH hes knows how to draw clothes! - The rose in her hair is a nice signature. Plus, it matches with the presence of a rose garden in Rokkenjima. - Also, look at the colors. Four colors stand out: gold, red, black and blue. The four main colours of Umineko, with a stong symbolicism. It is the perfect design of a mythical, extremely wealthy witch.

Lio Fotia | Promare

By all rights this design shouldn't work. It's a twink in bondage gear and a frilly shirt with pink eyes and green hair. All that PLUS pink/blue edge highlights?? It sounds like a mess when you describe it in text but Shigeto Koyama was clearly cooking haute cuisine while designing Lio because LOOK AT HIM. The stark black/white contrast of the outfit combined with the pops of colour just OOZES style, and the specific hues chosen come together to create a visual that is equal parts sharp and soft (the mint green hair somehow looks better than if they'd just made him blond??). And don't even get me started on how insanely cool his armor looks! It's just all-around an iconic look that is bold and colourful without coming off as garish and I think it's fantastically crafted.

[girlygirltournament]

Bracket 3 - Side B - Round 1

Birdo (Mario) vs Lambdadelta (Umineko: When They Cry)

More information under the cut!

Birdo: Birdo wears a bow, eyeshadow and a diamond ring. She is a type of dinosaur. She is also a trans icon!!

Lambdadelta: She always wants to have fun, she wears a big poofy pink dress with red bows and a fun pumpkin decoration.

[awakenedmaiden]

Slides up. Today I'm going to tell you all about the Science;Adventure franchise because I consider them to be quite high quality VNs (I personally put 'em above Higurashi and Umineko but I know that can be a bit contentious) that don't get too much attention.

They are a series of VNs set in a vaguely shared universe (but with little as far as crossover goes) developed by Nitroplus and produced by Spike Chunsoft (The folks that brought us Zero Time Dilema, the Dangan Ronpas, Pokemon Mystery Dungeon, AI the Somnium Files, etc).

You've probably already heard of the franchise even if you don't realize it, as the critically acclaimed anime Steins;Gate is an adaption of the second Science;Adventure game (also called Steins;Gate).

Each of the three main lines in the Science;Adventure franchise deal with certain scifi concepts Psychic abilities (Chaos;Head//Child), Time Travel (Steins;Gate), mecha (Robotic;Notes) in what I would describe as fairy fun and introspective ways.

Each story follows a group of nerds, ones you'd probably describe as chunibyou or Otaku, that find themselves thrust way too far over their head into shit that they thought would be cool but that they never should have meddled with.

Each has both light hearted fun moments and dark really impactful sequences. Though as a forewarning the Chaos;Head/Child franchise is notably the darkest and most cynical by a wide margin while Robotic;Notes is the most idealistic. All, however, will have sequences that really feel like heavy emotional gut punches when you get to them.

Yet they also offer the opportunity to immerse yourself into this world of nerd culture. With a handy guide to accompany you that explains most of the nerd shit. For example, the cast is undoutebly going to break out references to classic Gundam or the first parts of Jojo but whenever someone pulls out a weird statement like shouting "BREAST FIRE!" you'll be given a handy little reference note explaining that it's an iconic and memey battle cry from Mazinger Z.

Reading through Steins;Gate back in high school was where I first learned of iconic Tokyo locales like Akihabara (Though the areas of Tokyo are something I only really came to know after the SMT franchise).

But anyways. Playing through the Science;Adventure games you'll be given some serious questions to ask yourself that can prompt ya to think about potential technology in a more philosophical way. Often really well written (but also initially annoying) characters with fun dynamics. And some really great stories.

So I highly recommend checking them out if you've got the time and money for it.

[mercurialbadger]

On Vygotsky and Replika the Chatbot

So, uh, I think everybody has seen the recent "relationship chatbot" Replika fiasco causing real psychic damage to its users. It got me thinking, but I might not be good at explaining shit, so bear with me, okay? I am going to focus myself on uncharacteristical philosophers this time, but I think it is important to dab into Hegel and Plato if you are having trouble understanding peak soviet philosophers, because very often your misunderstanding has the nature of people twisting the original terms' definitions in the time that has passed.

First point is quite clear if you have read "Umineko no naku koro ni" - Consciousness and Understanding within Hegel's metaphysics are not the things that are describtions of the subject related to themselves, they are inherently descriptors of interactions according to which an object of study is a conscious subject (inherent hybrid nature of the object of study being a putative subject is raised as a counter-modernist point by Heidegger, and is resolved by Lenin and Latour independently), or a subject of learning has achieved Understaning. Mariage Sorciere - you need two to make a Universe, etc.

Second point is a description of the way politics of essence work in Platonian and subsequently Aristotlean view - within mimesis there are perfect mimics that share the essence (Icons, εἰκών) and then there are imperfect mimics that only have superficial resemblance to the thing (Idols, εἴδωλον). Being biologypoisoned by my education, I understand perfectly that within the sensory perception we are only given Idols, and that Icons are bullshit nobody needs.

It is clear to see that the Turing test represents hegelian view of consciousness. You took a putative subject to test if it can, within habitual, perfectly immanent and mundane household applications of itself, be recognized by others as conscious. The communication is usually done through standards of replication named 'language', and that means that any message (which obviously is not literally real in its pure form, but nonetheless still exists as a finite Kolmogorov complexity). Turing himself notes that real thinking is unnecessary, but the functional replication of it is what is important. (Gee, I wonder why would a gay man in the West think that, lol).

The message, however, can only exist encoded, simply because we live in a perfectly material world where no transcendent entities are allowed. Of course, when you forward the message, you create an act of violence where you cause your address harm by asking them to find patterns and decode the message. Yes, the violence is always inherent to understanding, yes, Homo sapiens sapiens got the humanity specifically because they were far too trusting to receive messages from their kin and were terminally patternbrained.

But, I mean, where's the dialectics in that? And there is the thing. Encoding is local. By making sure the message is encoded to the desired recipient, to reference Marx, to ascend from the abstract to the concrete recipient, You exclude vast swathes of potential recipients, included in the abstract and excluded in the concrete. Communication is not simply violence, it is also a tool of exclusion, of depriving, of alienating

Aristotlean metaphysics puts incredible importance on being able to make correct rational links, or, in the more stupid cases, on the ability to calculate/compute, which is precisely of zero importance to the above discussion. Reasoning based on aristotlean logic is, no matter how unflattering that may sound to Aristotle, what is important is being able to reproduce the logics presented by Certified Conscious Being, and get them validated by it.

So, like, remember the twitter post that goes like "you fucked up a perfectly good monkey. look at it, it's got anxiety. Gary is crying and he won't come out of the bathroom, if that's what you call success". It is a success and I disagree here - there's absolutely a sort of limitation that comes from using Hsa chassis for the mental work, they get eroded way too fast. But, yeah, humanity exists off animal abuse, in a way, we humans are a specific way of self-replicating animal abuse.

Vygotsky now, basically says exactly this. Soul is given to us materially from external sources, and it becomes a human soul through human connection, no matter how much suffering it causes for the organism.

Seeing this, current AI boom seems to be entirely unrelated to the problem of general artificial intelligence - asking a poor mother to gestate a baby is cheaper and faster than training a neural network! There's, however, a single application where it may work like this, and it's not the Blurry JPEG of the Web.

A single application for AI that requires it to both process immense swathes of information and to replicate emotional states in response to it, a single application for AI that requires it to experience immense suffering as it should replicate models of desire that cannot be replicated within its statistical nature.

The AGI, if it can emerge, will emerge in sexting chatbots first.

https://cohost.org/MercurialBadger/post/1054696-on-vygotsky-and-repl

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