🌩️STRANGECLOUD

I took an IQ test for a psychiatric evaluation once and my favorite bit is to say "130 IQ btw" every time I do something patently stupid

It really is baffling to me that people readily invite tech like this into their lives and go as far as hyping up stuff without bothering to investigate any of it even a little bit. Uncritical acceptance of platforms and systems is the biggest enabler of tech-based oppression imo

LLM output after I asked it to explain one of my posts. It's mostly coherent

LLM output after I tampered with the parameters. It's near-illegible nonsense

For instance, this is running on my own hardware. The Silicon Valley bros who want to build AGI frame this as a matter of size (big model = smarter). This is dumb for a number of reasons but it also hides everything else that goes into making outputs coherent. I've changed one variable here

Anyone who wants to argue for LLMs being "conscious" really needs to try and run one of these things locally. You'll get to see how the sausage is made through context limits, system prompts and the transformer parameters, stuff that is deliberately hidden to obfuscate how this stuff works

No holding hands either

Anyway, all my characters are canonically made of antimatter. Which means that no, you can't boink them

This is good

If you find yourself thinking in more jaded and cynical ways as you get older, you need to understand that every adult who's ever done you a kindness when you were young had these same feelings and more. 'Magic' doesn't just happen, it's a choice

This is the best post I've ever seen on the internet. It's so far beyond insane that you can't even block stuff like this, you gotta keep it around to look at and remind yourself you weren't hallucinating when you saw it

New rule is you're not allowed to use the term 'Gaslighting' if you can't articulate the etymology of it

I've been burned pretty bad before because 'backspace' sits just above 'enter'. Someone needs to sort this out

Linux bros out here completely failing at the basic rhetorical task of evangelizing the OS/kernel. FOSS philosophy? Digital freedom? Performance gains? Who gives a shit, the best thing about Linux is that updating your system doesn't brick your workstation for most of the day

Just found cobwebs in my wardrobe. Now there's two ways to look at this: 1) They've been there so long that the spider is already dead and gone or 2) I'm about to throw away a lot of clothes

"Can you believe you're turning 30 next year??"

Yeah man, I sure can. I get stabbing eyeball pain if I eat hotdog sausages now. My back hurts and I have a full beard

Before and after of a specific bout of changes to one of my documents. The former reads "Why music, though? You could have done anything. Sports, painting..."; The latter reads the same, with an added "Basket weaving"

Using Git on Obsidian to keep track of my writing is very cool. It's neat having essentially a whole timeline of my progress. Also it's very funny when the commit looks like this

Here's the thing, you can still do mixels and transform if you just keep it to a consistent internal resolution. That's how old PS1/N64 2D games used to do it. This is more an engine/pipeline problem than it is an art one

Good game to play before going to bed. It's exhausting

Am I being advertised to? You know I don't have any money, right

Repost if you're a doomed doomer

I think the reason I love Phideaux Xavier's music so much is that this dude is just vibing. Bro makes TV shows for a living and some of the best contemporary prog/art rock with a band full of his childhood friends. Every song in 313 was composed in one day. This is the platonic ideal of art to me

No you see, if I stay awake for 42 hours I'm gonna enter the state of sleep deprivation where I start hallucinating that I'm not actually tired. The hat man won't know what hit him

TTRPGs are cool in the sense that you can solve any problem in any way you can imagine. For example, I play a character who is tall, solving the problem of being short irl

Genuine question, are antivax folks also as terrified of cars as I am? Cause the risk of sudden and irreversible damage to your health from driving is absurd compared to anything a flu shot can do to you

Tired of Nissin putting corn in the seafood cup noodles. Corn is not seafood. Corn is americafood

I always figured the point of Souls being hard was to sustain the multiplayer. You run into a brick wall on some boss or area and you either ask for help or ruin someone's day on the PVP. It incentivizes online play while also being a small behavioral experiment in a controlled environment

The problem here is that it assumes linux users bother to go outside

After years of being psyop'd into thinking DS2 isn't worth playing it was super weird to see people genuinely start claiming it's the best game in the series to the point that I bought it just to see what the fuck is going on. The Souls fanbase is psychotic

"Hi. I'm IRA, or IRENE if you're feeling brave. I'm an independent multi-instrumentalist producing under the name 'IRA OF IRON'. I'm here to have a chat with Mike about my dead dad."

Yeah that makes sense. Fallout as a whole has historically been weird/unrealized games on top of a really compelling setting and visual identity which has mostly carried it along. Even as someone who enjoys FNV I can admit most of the DLC isn't very good or well integrated into the rest of it

I'm curious what you'd think of Ulysses's dialogue in New Vegas. Chris Avellone wrote him as well and everything he says sounds like Planescape Torment but even more incoherent