Shiro Sylvie

Some of us have been advocating this going back since chatGPT launched. It also has other benefits: correcting someone else's work is actually a really good way to learn something yourself.

women will go to a hangout with a guy and things will be going well until the girl casually mentions she finished this book and he'll go home and start posting stuff like "Our future is ruined because of wokeness and women with fake degrees" meanwhile the girl went home to play video games with a bunch of weird discord transsexuals and she named her character "beegirl" and she keeps saying stuff like "i'm beegirl" and the discord transsexuals ask what kind of bee and she talks about carpenter bees for 10 minutes and everyone loves it and learns a lot

Reason: it's still very sweet, and while I like that personally, I think we can get a lil bit more ABV out of it while maintaining the flavor

Fuck it, we add another yeast packet (and another bag of candy)

Making candy broth, as one does

Whoa it's almost like this entire cultural movement is based on fake bullshit at every level and our leaders should stop letting fucking social media dictate policy

I'm gonna be real here I don't think we need to be paying this much attention to a 25-person startup

y'know, if tech companies weren't so fired up to call every single thing "AI" it would be a lot easier to distinguish "ML spam filter that is well-sandboxed and tuned on your emails" from "giant context and IP-eroding foundation model that makes people paranoid and unhappy"

The average filmgoer/gamer has always been somewhat incurious and inattentive but the internet brought art to so, so many more people and thus added infinitely more voices to the chorus - including people who otherwise wouldn't have engaged with specific films and games. This in itself was not bad, but when it came time to make more money to offset the increasing cost of everything, studios slowly began optimizing their output for this newly discovered Average Consumer. Through this they realize that a not-insignificant amount of people either watch movies passively (on a second screen or while browsing their phone or while playing a game or whatever) or struggle to follow basic plot beats, so they coach their creatives to account for this. You then get exposition, quips and similar devices being used not because they're desired so much as they are needed for someone to, hypothetically, understand the entire plot while playing FTL: Faster Than Light on their main monitor. The concurrent problem that eventually becomes intertwined is that a generation who learned about devices and computers and games ended up rushing into having kids (as 20-somethings often do) and, remembering their fond childhood memories of sitting in front of a TV or Xbox all day when they were 7-9, begin offloading entertainment to devices... Starting at ages 1-3. This leads to an uncomfortable knock-on effect where kids who struggle to focus on things like family gatherings, friend hangouts, school, etc grow up into adults with either outright or pseudo-ADHD that makes them easily distracted and prone to focusing on other things. These adults grow up to become the target demographics of franchises that otherwise weren't targeted at kids, so a plague that initially started in children's TV (turning it into baby sensory videos) eventually made its way to adulthood. The key problem here isn't attention span, though, it's the inability to Play. Stripped of sandboxes or play pens or bouncy balls …

a commenter asked me why everything has so much nauseating exposition these days and i unfortunately wrote too much.

Some superior wizard-school series you can easily replace HP with:

🧙 Witch Hat Atelier
🧙 Little Witch Academia
🧙 The Worst Witch
🧙‍♀️ The Owl House
🧙 Mashle: Magic & Muscles
🧙‍♀️ Wizard of Earthsea (le Guin)
🧙 The School for Good & Evil (Soman Chainani)

Shadowbringers > Endwalker/Dawntrail (for different reasons) > Heavensward/Stormblood >>>>>>>> ARR look I've tried to do it again on alts and I just can't, there are very good bits but overall it's just such a slog

I really like this new hairstyle

Checking in with Offbrand Sephiroth

A screenshot from Final Fantasy XIV. Emet-Selch holds his greatsword with an overlay of the chat box with the text "im a sprout that has legend on main but k :)"

A screenshot from Final Fantasy XIV. Venat holds her whm cane with Hythlodaeus laughing in the background. An overlay of the chat box reads "well legand up me better dps"

This has been living in my head rent free since I saw it on r/talesfromDF #FFXIV #KattMeme

actuallychloehayes › millennials 20h serious question for the millennials... my older cousin said she used to 'burn' cds for her crush. like... with ? was that a ritual? did it work? you guys were literally practicing witchcraft just to get a text back. i'm scared of y'all. Q 2.9K

My favorite piece of content today.

What is. Any of this. It started with white people in bad wigs and now there's sharks in sneakers and AI coffee cups

Yall help I fell down a weird rabbit hole

House votes on dumbass resolution condemning socialism, meanwhile the DSA's Lisan al-Gaib rolls the truculent child brain president like a pair of socks

ENSHITTIFICATION NEWS ALERT

Yesterday, Google Maps took me to a sponsored result instead of to the location I needed to go for a meeting.

First I tapped the location I needed to go, as shown in my calendar. I was going to Universal City, which I didn't really know how to get to.

Pleaaaaaaaase I wanna get shot of the bad site for once and for all 🙏

The sexual tension between me and this listing whose price I've been watching slowly go down til it reaches a number I'm willing to pay

Oh shit I gotta get ingredients for my mom's pumpkin soup

helllll yeah gamers we revived the fermentation, I'll probably try to properly liquify and chuck in another bag of candy just to see if I can give it a bit more food

A male Anna’s hummingbird at the door. So nosy! 🤣

Earlier today, I was notified that someone was at my door.

This is who it was:

I drew over this to be my partner's sona

Honestly Treasure Planet is probably one of my favorite animated movies of all time. I need to movie night it again sometime