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My latest essay is a strange one. I talk about Elliot Davis' Journey of 1000 ZIPs, Adira Slattery's Feedback, Tom Walker's GTA playthroughs, and Strange Scaffold's Clickholding.

What do they all have in common?

Suffering.

Transcript here.

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i love being married to a straight guy. this morning we were parallel chilling and i glance at his computer and he's watching a drill fight tournament. as in, guys attaching drills to the same rod and turning them on until one breaks. to find the strongest drill. jose noticed me staring and rolled out of the way so i could see the screen. he knew every drill brand and told me their quality and price. i watched the whole thing without comment. the violence was enchanting. i never would have found this. he's a vector to an entirely alien, often beautiful, world.

[monsterfactoryfanfic]

My latest essay is a strange one. I talk about Elliot Davis' Journey of 1000 ZIPs, Adira Slattery's Feedback, Tom Walker's GTA playthroughs, and Strange Scaffold's Clickholding.

What do they all have in common?

Suffering.

Transcript here.

[monsterfactoryfanfic]

My latest essay is a strange one. I talk about Elliot Davis' Journey of 1000 ZIPs, Adira Slattery's Feedback, Tom Walker's GTA playthroughs, and Strange Scaffold's Clickholding.

What do they all have in common?

Suffering.

Transcript here.

[monsterfactoryfanfic]

My latest essay is a strange one. I talk about Elliot Davis' Journey of 1000 ZIPs, Adira Slattery's Feedback, Tom Walker's GTA playthroughs, and Strange Scaffold's Clickholding.

What do they all have in common?

Suffering.

Transcript here.

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call me Fan Service the way I glup her shitto

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call me Fan Service the way I glup her shitto

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call me Fan Service the way I glup her shitto

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The Four Sacred Artistic Motives:

-what if this bad thing was good instead

-how about Make-Believe Land can have whatever I want

-would that be fucked up or what

-I think that shit's hot

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devastating news for the discourse poster: “media literacy” in the modern age includes the ability to identify which posts are bait

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not interested in getting involved in the rest of this discussion, for the most part, but to me this is a GREAT piece of advice that many people these days don't seem to be getting or understanding.

not everyone you meet or interact with is your friend, the requirements and expectations for respectful behaviour between friends is not the same as between strangers.

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the part of school I liked the most, the part I got anything out of, was reading. and to this day, in my video essays, I find the most interesting part of my process is accumulating various texts and trying to pull some read or theme or idea out of them--because, as OP writes, "this is a skill I want to have."

i hope that the work people who do not use AI text generators/LLMs do in the next decade or so helps others realize there is value in sitting down and hacking away at a keyboard, or combing through PDFs to find the nugget of an idea.

That's the shit LLMs will never be able to do. They CANNOT be interested in the work.

it's so fucking frustrating to be in college and know everyone uses chatgpt and to be tempted by it constantly while also knowing intellectually that it doesn't work and it's a bad idea. like, i hang out in the library a lot, and i see people using chatgpt on assignments almost every day. and i know it isn't a good way to learn, because it's not really "artificial intelligence" so much as it is an auto text generator. and it gives you wrong information or badly worded sentences all the time. but every week i stare down assignments i don't want to do and i think man. if only i could type this prompt into a text generator and have it done in 10 minutes flat. and i know it wouldn't work. it wouldn't synthesize information from the text the way professors want, it wouldn't know how to answer questions, it just spits out vaguely related words for a couple paragraphs. but knowing my classmates get their work done in 10 minutes flat with it while i fight every ounce of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder in my body is infuriating.

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Jesus holding Megamind (my ultimate blorbo)

Today, Jesus is holding:

Megamind from Megamind

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in the figure of “just a little guy, just a little birthday boy” is the image of 21st century ethics. everyone is constantly trying to like position themselves as uniquely non-agentic, to defer or deny what power they have or can have over others, to self-absolve by adopting an affect of ignorance or victimhood or perpetual adolescence that can be transmuted into moral righteousness

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More Riverlands thoughts

So as I slowly work on more Riverlands Stuff (hexcrawl, rule conversions, etc), general survey - which of the original Riverlands backgrounds (excluding the Empire and Further Afield backgrounds for right this second), would you want to see expanded into a full Archetype (basically a class in my Ostrichmonkey Hack ruleset). Not all of them necessarily would work as archetypes, but I'm interested to see which ones might resonate with people.

Basically based entirely on vibes, pick your favorite, but feel free to ask for more info on any in the notes.