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how do ppl post playlists on here nowadays? just a Spotify link? I miss the 8track heyday

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Declan would never have found out his therapist was using ChatGPT had it not been for a technical mishap. The connection was patchy during one of their online sessions, so Declan suggested they turn off their video feeds. Instead, his therapist began inadvertently sharing his screen.

“Suddenly, I was watching him use ChatGPT,” says Declan, 31, who lives in Los Angeles. “He was taking what I was saying and putting it into ChatGPT, and then summarizing or cherry-picking answers.”

Declan was so shocked he didn’t say anything, and for the rest of the session he was privy to a real-time stream of ChatGPT analysis rippling across his therapist’s screen. The session became even more surreal when Declan began echoing ChatGPT in his own responses, preempting his therapist. 

“I became the best patient ever,” he says, “because ChatGPT would be like, ‘Well, do you consider that your way of thinking might be a little too black and white?’ And I would be like, ‘Huh, you know, I think my way of thinking might be too black and white,’ and [my therapist would] be like, ‘Exactly.’ I’m sure it was his dream session.”

Among the questions racing through Declan’s mind was, “Is this legal?” When Declan raised the incident with his therapist at the next session—“It was super awkward, like a weird breakup”—the therapist cried. He explained he had felt they’d hit a wall and had begun looking for answers elsewhere.“I was still charged for that session,” Declan says, laughing.

omg that's so funny, all the worry about patients therapising themselves with ChatGPT when a real human therapist can do it for them 😂

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Losing my mind over this crumb we got

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ok ive been very sedentary this last week and in the last 10 minutes my body couldn't take it anymore so im just dancing and vibing right now

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god i love kh ladies and they deserve so much better smh

[click for hq rip]

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idk what it is about kids these days that makes them so funny but in any case my friend just told us about how her younger sister babysits for a 7 and 9 yr old and one day they said they wanted to play “bus drivers” and they made wheels and everything but then the game was just being bus drivers at a union meeting discussing their problems

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I had a dream that I went to heaven and heaven had its own heaven-exclusive tv shows that were written and produced there in heaven and they showed me the most popular show in heaven and it was this really beautiful drama and, at the end of the episode, the credits said “Created by Mike Ehrmantraut” and they were like “oh yeah. fictional characters who die in earth media go to real heaven” and I’m like “sure but mike did some pretty fucked up stuff, wouldn’t he go to hell?” and they’re like “no, all the fucked up things he did were fictional. people only get judged for the real things they do and the only thing mike really did was bring joy to millions of viewers” and i think that’s beautiful

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Gummy Shark!

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Hello people who read physical books. There are photos below of some books from my shelf. No, they are not new. One of my friends saw RotK over my shoulder when we were on FT. She had a strong opinion. Nothing you say will change her mind but screw it: Time for a ludicrous poll.

the hardbacks are slightly better but not immune. the good reference art books are significantly worse. and plenty of books on my shelf are nearly mint. but these are the ones under discussion. Most of those options are things I've heard before

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two of them

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From @ok4ru 's very important discussion here

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Rating official depictions of Zexion's hair

(I'm using his gallery page on khwiki as a sort of checklist. there are definitely some missing but it doesn't matter because I hit image limit)

This image is gonna represent normal ps2 model Zexion. This is Zexion/10. I can't really talk about what I like or hate because this is just him. It's normal. Something about the way this image was scanned makes it looks like his eyes are red from crying or something. GBA CoM sullen Zexion with crossed arms render you will always mean more to me than the Days render that's everywhere. But that's not what we're here to talk about

Nomura concept art: 8/10. It all just works much better in drawings like this. The back looks good, though the front is kind of a mess of lines. What the hell is Zexion's problem. The way it's colored light on top and dark at the bottom is really fascinating because it doesn't look like he dyed it, it's just... like that somehow. I really like the strands of hair that go straight back just above his ear, whenever I try to draw it, it looks like I drew a barrette instead.

GBA CoM: 10/10. IT'S PEAK. It's so easy to break into simplified shapes...! And also the way his hair sticks out in the back (more like Xehanort) instead of going down (like kh1 Riku) is really cute. Too bad this is like the only time his hair does that in the games and it works.

GBA CoM talk sprite: 7/10. His hair was so complicated he has stray pixels. Sad! I like how it's kind of an almost lavender color? Same color as the ones used for the sliver on his coat. I just feel like the small CoM sprite worked because they had to do away with lots of the details but this they tried to fit as much as possible and there aren't enough pixels for it. His hair is doing So Much.

GBA CoM journal portrait: ...4/10. The back of his hair should be either flat or convex, but this is concave, curving in, which makes it look kinda like a weird bob on the right. And also the ends of his hair line up almost perfectly with the shadow on the neck and then lead directly to the chin which makes it all look more unusual.

GBA Reverse Rebirth credits: 1/10. I dislike this image for more than one reason (WHY IS HE SO SATURATED??) but this one really proves that this man was meant to be viewed at a 3/4 angle and nothing else. Bonus Re:CoM version of the same scene because looking at them both next to each other is funny

kh2/CoM Nomura art: 8/10. So here's the thing. I really like this one... but it's not accurate at all. You can tell he had to think really hard to figure out how to depict him from the obscured side, and you can also tell when people reference this specific image when they try to draw Zexion from this angle because the hair makes the same shapes. The reason it doesn't have a lower score is because his hair does the thing I mentioned earlier about it sticking out in the back which I have undue love for

358/2 Days battle sprite: 7/10. the battle sprites in this game are all clearly based directly off of Nomura's initial drawings of all of them. I like what that does for the coloring of his hair, but the shading of it gets a little busy. Despite there being too many blue eyes in kh and me usually depicting Zexion’s eyes as a muted grayish myself, his eye being a single vibrant blue-purple pixel in so many of these brings me joy

358/2 Days party member sprite: 10/10. Smaller version of the battle sprite, which is the smaller version of the Nomura art. Ironically, this one reads much better than most of the Org's party sprites. My tier list on that goes: S: Lexaeus A: Zexion, Luxord, Xemnas B: Axel, Marluxia, Saix C: Larxene, Xigbar, Demyx, Xion D: Xaldin Oh this does NOT work this small: Roxas, Vexen

358/2 Days talk sprite: Zexion/10 but why does his hair change shape when he opens his mouth are you seeing this

358/2 Days: oh yeah beaby

CoM/Days mangas: 8/10. Kind of a mixed bag but that’s just what happens when you have to draw them all individually, of course some will be a little wonky. They're mostly real good. I think the ones in Days are more on model but he only shows up in like… a small handful of panels. CoM manga got silly with off model characters all the time anyway. Points docked because his hair is not that dark!!! But also points added back because. yuuup. this specific panel of it sticking up in the back

Imo all the best manga Zexion’s are in the guilt trip Destiny Islands sequence

CoM novel: 5/10. Bad news. There's something off about his hair doing that "coming from a single sprout" thing instead of having the worst part known to man. Too much of it goes straight down instead of going all over, I think. Also his hair is not navy blue

358/2 Days manga art: 7/10. Better understanding of Zexion's hair when viewed from this angle than the Nomura art but not very flattering. His hair as blue as Aqua's

kh2 Amano art: 9/10. THIS is a Zexion facing slightly right

BBS Ienzo: 9/10. Lovely. Like a breath of fresh air. The part is neat. It's easy to draw. Thank you.

Union Cross: 10/10. It's still messy, but the lineless style works perfectly for this. It's complex, yet simplified. This is probably the ideal reference image for what I like to draw. The long strand clipping behind his coat hood is too funny for me to dock points

Unreal Engine Ienzo: 7/10. Making his hair texture more realistic makes its style look weirder, but I think it looks better when he faces straight forward than his old model did. It makes the gradient of the concept art more obvious and the lavender of the GBA CoM sprite seems to be there too, which is nice. Hey did you notice that while the pixel art Zexions have bright blue eyes that lean a little purple, all his other ingame renders/sprites are more cerulean? What's up with that

20th anniversary Ienzo: 10/10. There's something about it. His hair has all the things that make it his (including those fuckass strands that go back over his ear) but it almost looks... normal? More normal than most others? Maybe it's because it doesn't get as long in the front as in most ingame depictions. Maybe this is just the most flattering angle for his hair to be viewed. Oh wait his part is normal instead of being a mess. 9/10 sorry

I'm running out of pics allowed on this post. We can only choose really really important ones.

Kh3 manga Ienzo: uhhh 7/10. Amano's done this for so long that the style has gotten much more on model but unfortunately rendering each piece of his hair in a style with no shading like this is a little busy. It's the right tone now though!

Kh3 novel Ienzo: 9/10. Amano is so daring to keep drawing him facing sort of to the right. He gets better at it every time, too. He might legitimately be the most skilled person in the world at drawing Zexion/Ienzo from this angle.

Organization XIII orchestra: 10/10 what did I just say!! I just really like this one a lot. It's neat how much of his face is obscured but you can still read his facial expression.

Tamogotchi: 0/10. he does not fit.

Merry Christmas 2022: 10/10. Precious. This is as close as he can get to a smile. Also it's maybe cheating for me to rank this one because BBS Ienzo's hair situation isn't nearly as... well you've seen the rest of the post

Okay that's 30 images and my post is done I hope you enjoyed

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is this a safe space. if we’re talking about animated movies where a group has to sing together in perfect harmony to save people using magical voice powers, I think Trolls 3 did it way better than Kpop Demon Hunters

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kh theory: luxu and the MoM are the same person – part 2.8

hi. hello. it's me. posting again after a thousand years just because i'm off my meds and the voices in my head are back. i've been refamiliarizing myself with an old ritual of mine, i.e. watching all of xigbar's cutscenes multiple times a day and taking a million screenshots, and i felt like pointing out some eerie similarities between our beloved xig/luxu and MoMmy dearest... just to support my luxu is MoM theory (and because i'm experiencing KH withdrawals. again.)

opening with this nice screenshot of a line that i had totally forgotten about where the MoM textually says what i made a point of "joking" about in my theory post (love that about him). still one of the most compelling arguments for me... why else would he play favorites so blatantly?

if nothing else, i'm writing this to one day come back and say "I WAS RIGHT" (and if im wrong, well, it will still prove just how much i care). evolution has given me pattern seeking brain just for this.

their similarities in body language are particularly egregious in kh3re:mind cutscenes, i don't know why i haven't noticed it sooner. suspicious, considering whatever we get from xigbar in re:mind is shown to us with the knowledge he's luxu – something that makes those cutscenes even more worthy of scrutiny.

and the cutscenes from xigbar's first appearance in kh2, when he's still hooded? straight up fuck me up bro. because if xigbar's cutscenes in re:mind are the first in which we are supposed to know he's luxu (and therefore think about the MoM in the back of our minds), the MoM's cutscenes in re:mind are the first in which we're specifically supposed to think about luxu, about xigbar. i don't think it's a coincidence that there are so many visual similarities between them in that scene with YMX, it's like it's meant to echo the first time we see xigbar (trying to guide sora... just as the MoM is trying to guide YMX). and i love those kh2 hooded xigbar scenes because, just like the MoM, he's so much more expressive with his hands when his face is hidden, for the obvious reason that he has to communicate without facial expressions to help – isn't it such a coincidence?

the pointing finger one is a classic and i'm sure it's been noticed a hundred times already, but what about the perfect overlap between them saying "bingo!" (both in english and japanese) and also the topic of conversation being basically the same: MoM explaining to luxu how the book of prophecies' paradox work, and xigbar explaining to sora how time travel works... only possible because a past version of you already existed there! ("it's too perfect...")

this one straight up scares me lol, especially because it's framed the SAME way?

and mind you, luxu has not seen the MoM in god knows how long. aside from the "bingo" line, that was addressed to luxu directly, most of the MoM's outlandish gestures or verbal quirks are shown to other characters. luxu has been around how many years? wearing different faces, living different lives? sure, he remembers the MoM – that's quite literally the only reason the MoM is able to talk to YMX and be in quadratum at all – but it feels more like he's grown into the MoM, he's become (like) him, more than (just) being influenced by him.

i will probably add more when i have the chance (xigbar does some of these gestures in DDD and BBS too, as braig, but this post is already too long and i could do this all day), but i also would like to point out a few things in the cutscene with MoM and YMX in re:mind that make me sus:

first off, the way the camera slowly pans to MoM as YMX talks about people repeating the cycle that makes the darkness within them grow... sounds familiar? that's because it's the MoM's plan as revealed by the end of khux: the foretellers need to feel horrible shit like all your friends dying and seeing the world end to know what darkness truly is, to become vessels for 7 of the 13 darknesses the MoM is trying to destroy. which is also what xehanort has been doing for all the saga, trapped in this cycle of reincarnation, each time a different version of himself becoming stronger and stronger just to harvest more darkness and open kingdom hearts... i don't think it's a stretch to imply that MoM might be doing the same with luxu, feeding him(self) to the cycle for the same reason.

this line is very interesting, because it's basically what the MoM says to luxu. just sit back and watch, don't do anything! and what does luxu do instead? he acts – and the MoM, who never misses a beat, knew him so well that he's counting on it (see: khux finale). so he uses the same tactic with YMX, reverse psychologizing him into action, by offering the (boring) option to just be a bystander. and we all know how that went.

then YMX talks about feeling like he's being "guided" by an invisible hand, and that he's supposed to wear the black coat – this is all to make us think about luxu, the predestined one, the one who cannot escape his fate even if he wanted to, in order not to create time paradoxes. and then the MoM says he'll never take his own coat off, and sorry but i can't help but think about how we literally never see luxu/xigbar without it, unless he's posing as someone else (bragi, braig). we could pretty safely say brain at the end of khux is luxu just because he's wearing the signature coat (and removes the hood, another signature luxu move).

honestly i could keep going, saying how much the case of ira scene in back cover echoes xigbar's scene in olympus (and that was the scene that made me think about them being the same person in the first place, MoM's gestuality is unmistakably xigbar-ish there), but instead i wanna close with a couple of little gems...

as the YMX / MoM scene in re:mind comes to a close, we hear MoM's voice saying he's a lost master, and then the motto, may your heart be your guiding key. fade to black, 75 years later. close up of old master xehanort's face, in the same place he was 75 years before, in front of the same fucking rock. and whose voice we hear now? xigbar's. standing in the same spot the MoM was last seen in, asking the old man if he minds sharing whatever he's thinking about (what a coincidence that xehanort's thinking about the MoM!)

and before this, YMX asked MoM: "who are you really?" which is... the same exact word for word question luxord asks xigbar/luxu, and to rub salt into the wound, both cutscenes are in re:mind, and as i've explained, this time their similarities are absolutely intentional.

last thing, but remember how in my theory (read it spread it make me famous) i pointed out the animal effigy on the No Name? we all know by now the foretellers' masks are based on the animals associated with the seven deadly sins, and we also know xehanort and the No Name are associated with goats – but xigbar/luxu has been associated with goats in canon too, both with luxord's scene in re:mind and xigbar's own retelling of it in his character file.

the riddle is a reference to a japanese children song (yagisan yuubin), in which two goats, one white, one black, keep sending each other letters that none of them reads because they eat the letter as soon as it's delivered to them, and then they send another, asking what was written in the previous one. it's a song that goes on forever, in an endless cycle, an endless loop.

luxord asks xigbar: what if the black goat doesn't send the letter but hides it, and he asks the white goat to go look for it? we know xigbar tasked luxord with looking for the black box, and so luxord is the white goat, xigbar is the black goat who hid the black box – but is it such a stretch to think MoM could be the black goat too? hiding the true purpose of his mission to luxu the white goat but entrusting him with it nonetheless, making him search and search for an answer that will probably never come (poor luxu).

this is just to reinforce the goat association, that is still there anyway by virtue of the No Name – which is actually a horned lion (a GOAT horned lion) as explained in the DDD ultimania and referenced in my old theory, with all the fun stuff about chimeras, the seven deadly sins, the goat being a symbol of lust and the lion being a symbol of pride, etc etc.

last thing and then i'll fuck off for another thousand years but i wanna re:mind (lol) you guys and myself about this: written on the black box, X-SUPER. the only missing sin ("don't tell me i don't count...") among the foretellers is pride, superbia - the Master of Master.

but why X-SUPER? where are the letters B, I, A? oh wait... they're in every single fucking one of luxu's vessels huh. and coincidentally I and A are also the letters missing from luxuria, plus the R. put them together, we get B, R, I, A, which the letters all luxu's vessels share BRAIn, BRAgI, BRAIg, xIgBAR... i don't know what it means, but, like. it is kingdom hearts we're talking about. the traitor was luxu because he bore the sigil and the sigil is the X in his name (fun way for the MoM to track him btw). xehanort is the anagram of no heart. nomura called it BBS because of some coding crap. it's not above nomura to pull stuff like this. and if it turns out to be some GCAT homestuck bullshit linked to brain being the virus in the program i'm calling the cops and seriously i will stop now but lord english is the MoM doc scratch is luxu khux ended with the union leaders traversing the fourth wall and xigbar + the box + the No Name are jujus

i'll just follow the master's wise words and trust what i see... (which is: a lot of damning evidence. or maybe i'm just insane)

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