#God this is such shitty programming...

[pumpkinpaix]

library school is an unethical scam and I am 100% serious about that

[quietwingsinthesky]

no one ever fucking talk to me about the leviathan dlc and its implications. even thinking about it made me mad again. how do you create a story about artificial intelligence that is a direct consequence of its creator’s hubris (thinking that they, unlike more “primitive” species, could create robots to fix their problems that WOULDN’T rebel and kill them. only for the robots to rebel and kill them.) and also a reflection of their beliefs uninterrogated: that there is no possibility for peace between artificial and organic life, that it must all be extinguished for the sake of “peace”. how do you have a story where one of the main (paywalled. dlc.) squad members is the remnants of an empire that conquered and controlled other species in the same way the leviathans did, and met the exact same fate because their imperial power was an illusion created by the reapers to make them weaker, to make them easier to exterminate. how do you make a story about these cycles, about how the council IS repeating these cycles, they just do it in a “kinder” way, a way with a veneer of democracy while still holding the same kind of power the protheans did over their empire, taking the same corrupted seat and continuing to rule their even after they find out, in mass effect 1, that it was a time bomb of extinction. how do you write all of that. how do you write the geth/quarian conflict and give us an ending that proves that peace and reconciliation is not only possible, but the best option. and then. star child. and you can’t even fucking argue with him that his ideology is bullshit.

[breakintomyhead]

[paranormeow7]

“ai art” is such a dumb name bc artificial intelligence makes me think of like. hal 9000 when all ai art and programs are are like. boring prompt driven theft machines. it’s not an intelligence it’s an algorithm lol. what’s “intelligent” about scraping other peoples artwork off the internet and smashing together some Frankenstein “artwork” that can’t even utilize the pattern seeking monkey brain us humans intuitively use, same with writing and proofreading etc

[annaofaza]

The walk of determination as Wolfwood steels himself to do his duty.

Vash slumped over, alone, then raising his head to look at Wolfwood.

Them staring at each other: Vash, weary but maybe hopeful to talk and reconcile, and Wolfwood, still flustered from his confrontation with Chapel.

Wolfwood drinking Vash in. So angry he has to do this. So scared. So saddened but he has to do this. To protect the orphanage. To protect himself.

Wolfwood looking down, away, rejecting him, Vash visibly startled and hurt with that short little gasp.

Wolfwood walking right past him, head turned firmly away, with the KNIVES tomb-like stele and the town washed in sunset in the background.

Fucking poetic. (And the perfect opportunity to kiss)

[simantopia]

FOR REAL?! HOW?!!?!?

srsly speaking! i dunno why woohoo was removed from the game. it's not like the game wasn't afraid to be raunchy, and it's successor, TS2C, had woohoo in it.

there was also this object that is also scrapped from the game. it has animation and can even be interacted with. it appears in the prima guide even though it's not actually in the game. (i was only able to access it through debug cheats) makes me wonder why this, and woohoo was scrapped? especially when both seem to be near completion? (if the woohoo thing is true & you can reenable it)

marriage also might've been planned for the game, too. which it's kinda weird that marriage is not a thing in it? i feel it'd be kinda similar to how you can get an urb to "join your crew" and have the ability to switch over to them -- the only difference is that you're both in love & your married partner would follow you around.

my only guess as to why these were scrapped was because they were nearing a deadline, and even though these are near completion -- they weren't quite ready, and they just didn't have enough time before game release to fix them. urbz went through some development hell. (fun fact: it was supposed to have been released before The Sims 1 Console, and Bustin' Out)

anyway i gotta see if i can enable woohoo in the game... for reasons... :)

[takamoris]

I hate being at work so much it is unreal

[parin-gurumin]

oh its fine !!

here you go: homestuck.giovanh.com/#/

with https://

in front of it !

TYSM!!!!

[i-lived-bitch-beatdown]

Losers Tributes

It is with great saddness that I finally announce the losers of the Sudden Death round. Thank you to everyone who submitted characters, and hopefully this little tribute to those who are fallen but nor forgotten will help to soften the sting. And I hope you stick around as we - finally - begin to get into the bracket-proper!

quick note that I finished making this video three and a half hours ago but apparently this glorified slideshow was too much and took that long to upload

Full list of characters under the cut.

Juliet Capulet Skoodge Connor (DBH) Batman Shiro The Masked Man Helmut Fullbear Lestat Monster High Franchise Okuyasu Nijimura Robert Downey Jr's career Zane Aria Fiora Godzilla Looks to the Moon Obito Uchiha Tecna C! Wilbur Soot Kenny McCormick Majima Goro Santa Paws Choptail Leonard Church Gypceros Marcus (DBH) Mista Smurfette Will Byers Cobb Avery Frankie Stein Indou HIkaru Jasnah Kholin Jaylen Hotdogfingers Jean Grey Queen Scarlet Shen Qingqiu Gordon Freeman Cure Passion Echo Kite Morgana Sniper Superman Corypheus Foggy Nelson (Comic) Norman Promised Neverland Randall Ascot Sherlock Holmes BBC Starscream Tron Wen Ning Yuji ItadoriBrian Thomas Bruno Bucciarati Jack Manifold Laios Naegi Makoto Sooga Vergil Cassandra de Rolo Fawful The Mayor Afterall Kaladin Stormblessed Lysandre Benjen Stark Cancer Cell Thancred Toji Zero Almond Basim Bruce Banner Gabriel Geth Myotismon Sabo Scam Likely Keiji Shinoji Killian Jones Luke (Tales Of) Maxwell Mona Simpson Ahmad Byakuran Forge Laphicet Leif Zeno Julian Chase Mr. 2. Bon Clay Rivulet Rohan Kishibe Battler Ushiromiya Beelzemon Bender Palamedus Sextus Rakushen Yuri (Tales Of) Antauri En (Dorohedoro) Owen Carvour Skullduggery Pleasant Tenkuuji Takeru Eli Shane Harumi Juro Izumi Mata Nui Mikaela Kyakuya Owen Harper Pina Beastars Rumplestiltskin Akaboshi Bisco Avan Monkey D. Luffy Nedrick Zeno yae Galvus Guy Gardner Kabande Kusaka Sugimoto Astel Leda Daemon Spade Eunie Pell (One Piece) Sara Lance Shaxs Superbi Squalo Kaburagi Obey Me MC Osamu Kashiwagi Pillar Men Serge Vyland Ro'meave Hak Yatonokami Nayuta Rokuro Yamkagshi Sophi Foster and Dex Dizznee Tailgate Tsukasa Okino Kevin Yamagata Rea Van Grants Youko Player Tora Olafsdotter Jugglus Juggler

[rhymaes]

a narcissist's worst fear really is being away from you because after cutting her out, im in. genuine speechless awe by the sheer amount of Incredbily Important things I let her just. deadass steal from me. like. i cannot believe. she took the literary theory i invented & portrayed it. so so fucking poorly in the last essay of her first phd course & pretended she . came up with it. and that the poet she focused on. was her favorite. but he's. mine. she didnt even like him lmaoooo it's genuinly that she is so fucking mentally unwell but i will never ever ever be in the same room as her ever again & she can get fucked & keep preying on queer women who she fucking hates i guess because the only thing she hates more than losing attention, is not being victimized by it & there's no possible way for her to turn this on me to anyone (because she. has been telling people about me & making fun of me being a lesbian even tho she kept getting me drunk & trying to fuck me so like, whatever i guess) because i've given her nothing in writing & she looks crazy and clingy which she. fucking is. society if i could control the directions of cars with my mind.....

[airenyah]

should i just. study theater- film- und medienwissenschaft

[arolesbianism]

So I may or may not have spent a good chunk of my day trying to learn how to look into onis code and while I may not have yet succeeded I will likely keep fucking around with shit tomorrow and if I manage to succeed it'll spell great doom for my sanity as oni becomes the interest I've officially poured the most effort into analyzing

[breakintomyhead]

quick drawing of jormungandr

i havent posted art in a while so here is the biggest boi

[hey-scully-itsme]

had something of A Day™, thank god my roommate and i were behind on dishes so i could clean them and feel like i'd accomplished something

[goldendirk]

i’m so sorry, but what kind of masters program would allow a poll on a social media microblogging website so be used in a thesis... this is sloppy research that wouldn’t be accepted as anything of substance.

clown shit. not even middle school kids are allowed to do this for their training wheels scientific research in here... not to out myself as knowing how academia works, but like, you need much more demographic questions for this to be a relevant questionnaire and you need to actively search for a demographic spread that will encompass more than just “users of X website”...

[genuineformality]

I would argue, as someone who has worked with a lot of entry level college grads and interns over the last fifteen years, that the overall level of computer literacy of the younger generation is less than my generation (millennial - and I’m on the far older side of that one).

This is not a statement that the younger generation is in any way stupid.

It is, however, a statement that the way we interact with computers is more of a curated design experience than it was when I was growing up and in my early career. In my (entirely anecdotal) observation of a whole slew of 18-25 year olds over the last decade has been that there is overall less knowledge about how the computer box actually works, which leads to a lot of frustration when it does not work the way they think it should, and less willingness? Ability? Knowledge? to troubleshoot problems when they occur.

I have spent a lot of my professional hours training young adults in PC 101 and software and hardware troubleshooting and what I’ve found is that some people (regardless of age) are extremely good at intuitively understanding the computer box and some people just are not. And again, this isn’t a value statement: there is no judgement (except where it affects their ability to do the job effectively), but it is something I see a lot and I’m seeing it more and more as my employees and interns are getting further away from me in age.

I don’t see a lot of value in framing this as one generation being better or worse than others, but I don’t think it’s inaccurate to observe that there is a generational divide in computer education that has resulted in some kids coming into the workforce with subpar computer skills.

why is the newest tumblr thing "teenagers don't know how to use pc and interwebs all they know is app and phone" like every teenager knows how to use the internet. and the reason less and less people have pcs is the fact that pcs are expensive as hell, so people are more likely to get phone which have both internet capability and calling, instead of getting another more expensive device that only has one of those things. the only people I know who have pcs are rich people, because guess what- They're Expensive. obviously pcs aren't going the way of the dodo or anything but you have to understand that the use of less of them is not because the new generation is braindead and stupid, but because of financial reasons and technological advances. besides, why blame the children, who are most likely not the ones buying the technology?