FlurryShy

www.twitch.tv/flurryshy
trying out Nightingale~

Drawing of a woman's hands holding out Eggbug (Cohost's Mascot). Text reads "Wherever you go, take the cosiness with you"

Drew this when #Cohost shutdown, but reposting again in honour of the one year anniversary. Still miss that webbed site so much.

Happy TekDay, y’all.

Let's go on this trip together~
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D:
HAPPY BIRTHMAS! 🎉🍰

This is MEE 1000 PERCENT

Need some maintenance on that rocket~?
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awww

definitely gonna join the cake-rating~ 💚

This is so true

New mic, who dis?
let's kill some hostile machines... again
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which game is it?

New mic, who dis?
it's been a while... not sure I like the mic setup yet... anyway... let's kill some hostile machines...
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A collage image of a piebald cat sitting upright looking up and to the left in one image with second image of the cat featuring the cat with large eyes and its mouth pursed in a sort of grimace with the text "it's hard to exist", on a blue-black background

NEVER give anyone you do not trust a key that is active in your Steam account.

Besides that it's already pretty shady that I got that as a comment on my latest (really old) screenshot...

Got messaged some time ago that you shouldn't post your purchase history as that could be used to get into your Steam account, cause it can be used to "verify" you.
that's not how that works. You'll need receipts / keys you have activated...

*This* is more like how you get your account stolen.

wait... what? they didn't accept you as affiliate?

- Mute button.

Back in those days I bought mostly physical... so my first purchases were way past when I created my Steam account...

also yes, I refunded L4D 1 because the German version was horribly censored... good thing it was fairly easy back then to get someone to gift you an uncensored copy.

why is the customers loss / issue that Humble didn't buy enough keys?
it doesn't matter if I want to use them or not, I have bought them. I am entitled to those games, right?
I could not find anything in their ToS or the humble choice page that says otherwise.

I get that licensing might be an issue.
But once the sale of those bundles / choice has passed they KNOW how many keys they need.
It's frustrating and possibly even deceptive that games would only be provided "if keys are still available within the licensing" and restocked with "best efforts".

Some games have a "must be redeemed before" date. If they don't restock before that? Well too bad. You might get a (imho) laughable store credit.

Here are the funny thing:
It would cost me SIX times as much at the cheapest sale prices those games have ever been.
Or ELEVEN times as much at current MSRP / sale prices on steam.
Those games are also still sold on the humble store, but due to "licensing" cannot be used for humble choice.

🧵PSA - always redeem your @humblebundle.com bundles / choice IMMEDIATELY.

I was going through my list of unredeemed keys and 37 have been "temporarily exhausted" - some for YEARS now.
4 of them restocked.
Support told me they can't provide 7 anymore and gave me $11 store credit...

Generative Al is being marketed as a tool designed to reduce or eliminate the need for developed, cognitive skillsets. It uses the work of others to simulate human output, except that it lacks grasp of nuance, contains grievous errors, and ultimately serves the goal of human beings being neurologically weaker due to the promise of the machine being better equipped than the humans using it would ever exert the effort to be. The people that use generative Al for art have no interest in being an artist; they simply want product to consume and forget about when the next piece of product goes by their eyes. The people that use generative Al to make music have no interest in being a musician; they simply want a machine to make them something to listen to until they get bored and want the machine to make some other disposable slop for them to pass the time with. The people that use generative Al to write things for them have no interest in writing. The people that use generative Al to find factoids have no interest in actual facts. The people that use generative Al to socialize have no interest in actual socialization. In every case, they've handed over the cognitive load of developing a necessary, creative human skillset to a machine that promises to ease the sweat equity cost of struggle. Using generative Al is like asking a machine to lift weights on your behalf and then calling yourself a bodybuilder when it's done with the reps. You build nothing in terms of muscle, you are not stronger, you are not faster, you are not in better shape. You're just deluding yourself while experiencing a slow decline due to self-inflicted atrophy.

re: generative AI

I have finally fully and accurately explained my problem with how it’s marketed and used.

And now, you can use it, too.

Art credits:
AzyoMecha
RustyRuu
Tokkot
(had to cut parts of that one in the previous post... for reasons...)

Art in this post is from Jax (softpaws_6)

Hey there~
I'm FlurryShy, but most people just call me Flurry.
Just a mint-chocolate(chip) cat~
Name is derived from Flurry (synonym from nervous) and Shy (well... shy) - so "NervouslyShy" as I have been fighting with social anxiety.
No, not related to Fluttershy.

I got mad about AI so I made this comic about The Fucking Point of it all (1/7)