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Educational Technologist and Instructional Designer. Specializing in gamification but not in creepy crypto-bro way I swear. Coming at you live from the fairy bower. Opinions are mine and correct. He/Him.
Hazbin is a gem and I think people will eventually come around, but right now it's very easy to bounce off the admittedly cringey, messy surface layer because there's a superior (in my opinion) alternative with broader appeal that's taking up all the oxygen in the room.
I think Hazbin is suffering from the fact that KPop Demon Hunters came out at roughly the same time and was also an indie animated musical about exactly the same themes but PG and, frankly, better.
Dang, it's almost like both shows might be about the idea that people are flawed and fucked up but also still fundamentally decent if you give them a chance.
Certainly has the high CHA ability stat to be a successful sorcerer, so yeah, plausible.
I know this wasn't the point, but just for scale:
CHA 1 - spider, sentient fungus, Stephen Miller
CHA 5 - donkey, JD Vance
CHA 10 - average human
CHA 20 - normal human max, famous bard, lesser angel/demon
CHA 30 - legendary human sorcerer, greater angel/demon, elder dragon
CHA ?? - Zohran
Dishwasher broke during the height of the pandemic supply chain breakdown - can confirm.
Love that series and can't wait for What Fucks Severely
Devil's advocate, I am also uncharacteristically without my wedding ring today because last night I was wrist-deep in a large dish of Buffalo chicken cheese dip for normal reasons, and I just forgot to put it back on again when I left the house this morning.
Reference librarians - which is the role that a hypothetical 'good' LLM for learning would most closely resemble - are explicitly trained on how to send users off to work independently as soon as they've gotten going with some appropriate starting resources.
I bet if Rowling tried her hand at a fresh YA series she'd have similar success. Ditto if James just went back to unapologetically derivative smut - just write the X-rated alternative take on The Hunger Games, E.L!
I interpret this as a failure to understand their original audiences. Rowling's first book was really engaging for awkward tweens, as was James's first book for fan forum perverts. Neither has subsequently written anything targeting that original audience.
Who (miraculously, barely) has two thumbs and a similar experience working at a sawmill as a teen?
A shocking number of people who receive medicaid don't realize that's what they have, because it's called something else or managed through an exchange or whatever in their state.
And it should go without saying that no student/intern will ever benefit from having their own student/intern.
I'm settling on the position that using an LLM is like throwing a team of student workers/interns at the problem. There ARE people and projects who can benefit from that kind of brute force approach to helping. But there are WAY MORE that will just get bogged down in misguided nonsense.
"Splitting logs with a chainsaw" is a great metaphor for the amount of inefficient overkill that LLMs bring every problem in order to achieve an end product that is good enough at best.
It was a three-man team that took the Grok hardpoint that day, and two of us were just there to guard the poet.Whistler was a sonnet slinger fresh from the Guatemalan meter wars, still waking up with the taste of a bloody metonym on his tongue.
Wow! Jesse Welles performed his song “Join ICE” on the Colbert Show last night. 🏆
Hazbin Hotel manages to be simultaneously more mature (in multiple senses) and VASTLY more immature than KPop Demon Hunters, and it's not worth signing up for Prime just on its own. But if you have a way to watch it anyway, try to look past the glompcore surface aesthetic and give it a shot.
Yes, it has an INTENSE amount of theater-kid-discovering-Tumblr-fursonas-for-the-first-time energy. But once you embrace the cringe, there is a really earnest and raw exploration underneath of what it means to be a fucked-up person in a fucked-up world trying to make things better anyway.
KPop Demon Hunters is obviously this year's standout work of art about hope and perseverance while living under constant assault from the forces of darkness, but I have to say that Hazbin Hotel is also worth a watch if you've been dragging your feet on that one.
Every "Hunger Games" title sounds like a Celestial Seasonings blend from Castlevania.
The extremely low-effort photoshop job in the lead picture is what really makes it.
"Look, things happen. And what happens at Camp Crystal Lake should stay at Camp Crystal Lake. We can’t hold everyone accountable for every little thing they’ve ever done."
Literally last night we were discussing a freshman comp syllabus that doesn't allow for rewrites on the major papers!
Both my spouse and I wind up reviewing a lot of syllabi in the course of our jobs, and the proportion that have shit like this, don't add grades up to 100%, or that get discarded entirely to just do final assessment based on vibes is nightmarish.
When I look outside at night and I'm tired enough to stop rationalizing things away I absolutely see goblins cavorting at the tree line.
LLMs will always help you to do the thing HARDER, but not necessarily better, faster, or stronger.
