#and it solved none of my problems

[rad-roche]

of all the things i've been wanting to draw for the comic, from the funny silly stuff to the longer, more serious things like lead paint, the one part i've been most looking forward to is the whole winter confrontation in dead man talking, on account of the genre change to a straight up noir, it's handled differently than in the game. nick's talk of exacting justice and doing a good thing is a pretty flimsy pretence and by the time he gets in there he's clearly psyching himself up to kill this guy in cold blood and gets more and more wound-up and frantic until he finally ends up doing it. nick gets to the point where he starts scaring gloria, who's pretty bloodthirsty herself

i actually started drawing it about six months ago, but scrapped the whole thing. i didn't have the chops, and i might still not, but i'm more confident now

it's gonna be so fun to whip out those kinds of expressions visually, i don't think i've ever drawn him like that! ideal situation would be a lot of people dipping out halfway through the comic not because they don't want to read it, but because they can't stand to. i'm going all in bebby

[scribefindegil]

Realizing that my personal catnip when it comes to fanworks is "this is a very canon-typical problem, but none of the characters who could provide canon-typical solutions are available so it falls to someone with zero relevant skills except unlimited stubbornness to figure it out instead."

[foxgirltail]

Yes, microsoft trying to make a "zero-water" data center (https://finance.yahoo.com/news/microsoft-unveils-zero-water-data-170002064.html) is unambiguously a good thing. Obviously any reduction of pollution or water usage is a good thing. No, I don't think that means that ai's usage of water is something to singlehandedly be up in arms about.

By all means, be upset about ai! Just don't only be upset about ai for this or that when basically every other industry on the planet has the same exact problems.

A single cotton t-shirt requires 2700 liters of water, 5 trillion liters of water are used annually for fabric dying, and 20% of all water pollution is from garment production (source: https://www.wri.org/insights/apparel-industrys-environmental-impact-6-graphics)

This medium article (https://medium.com/@notkavi/stop-acting-like-ai-uses-a-lot-of-water-fafea5573c63) compares the numbers cited in the same study as the latest news articles about ai water usage ("Making AI Less 'Thirsty' by Pengfei Li et al https://arxiv.org/pdf/2304.03271) to the water needed to make beef. GPT-3 used as much water to train as it takes to feed 12 usamericans their average annual burger-patty supply. One quarter-pounder uses as much water as 36k GPT-3 queries or 3.6k GPT-4 queries.

Here is a comparison of Microsoft's water usage in 2022 to the water usage of golf courses:

In 2022, Microsoft claimed it used 1.7 billion gallons (6.44 billion liters) of water. Between 2003 and 2005, the golfing industry used approximately 2.08 billion gallons (7.87 billion liters) of water DAILY for course irrigation. (water usage of golf courses has dropped an estimated 29% between 2020 and 2005 - https://www.gcsaa.org/media/news-release/2022-news-releases/2022/07/26/golf-courses-reduce-water-usage-by-29-percent-according-to-national-survey - this still amounts to ~1.48 billion gallons or ~6.74 billion liters daily. 2 days of golf is more than a year of Microsoft's water usage)

Source for golf water use: https://www.usga.org/content/dam/usga/pdf/Water%20Resource%20Center/how-much-water-does-golf-use.pdf

Source for ai water use: https://www.standard.co.uk/news/tech/ai-chatgpt-water-power-usage-b1106592.html

Yes, the world would benefit from less water usage for ai. But when you posit ai as uniquely evil for it's water usage, I have a hard time believing you actually have an issue with the water usage. Instead it seems like you just want a reason to dislike ai.

My goal is for all of these industries, and many more, to severely reduce their water consumption, or to even stop existing as industries at all! Is that yours as well? If so, why doesn't it feel like it.

[amtrak12]

Niles 'conditioned to believe his pleasure ranks last if at all' vs Daphne 'loves touching and being an active participant and seeing her partner enjoying themselves' -- Fight.

[importantandunavoidable]

wordpress is so fucking bad

[bluemoonfantasiesiii]

Alright, who did it?

Who told Wanderer he was allowed to be this cute in the Simulanka event?

((Spoilers in tags))

[b0ylik3r]

my friend made me watch disventure camp season 1 and a bit of dcas

[bacchuschucklefuck]

I am honestly living for your worse manga au. Its actually so fucking cool :D i love the way you draw the action- and the idea of attacking (and being able to attack) a spirit is such a fun idea!

-Death Anon

thanks! doing this idly has been teaching me a Lot about choreographing fight scenes in a comic, which hopefully i won't have to do something serious with any time soon haha. and what it's turned out for this AU is a bunch of people who are really desperate to never be hurt again get locked in an arms race to find a way to hurt other people that won't come around and get them eventually, which does justify the magic i think, but also it does push for the magic to also be completely brutal and the visual behavior of spirits and souls to be the same as, if not worse, than the regular body. tldr all the shit marik pulls in canon (especially the scarab hourglass) owns hard and i want in and also for it to be worse and more direct. i'm glad this has wider appeal than to just me lol. cheers!

[margindoodles2407]

KLAUS BAUDELAIRE MY ABSOLUTE BELOVEDEST GUY

YES.

(my klaus baudelaire rant below the cut for anyone who missed it)

[wumblr]

well well well well well. look in whose favor the exigent circumstances finally sort of are

[pyr0cue]

B-b-but the workload is so bad! We can’t blame people for using chat gpt :(( okay well I will. I think those people suck and are extremely lame.

[funkyness]

what class

it's a "research seminar" or whatever and i have to write a paper about smth but I've never done like an actual research thing before and i feel dumb as hell. it's like everyone has ideas for what to do and it's been 2 weeks and i have nothing idk where to even start w tjis shit

[dodgeaudge]

not even one like minds (2006) abo au

what are we even doing boys

[ilovemagicbeans]

sometimes when im home alone i get frustrated so i just go really loudly "RAH" but very fast to let out the frustration

i accidentally forgot that my mom was still here earlier and did that scaring her and she looked very concerned when she peeked into my room and i was just smiling and doodling lol

[blood-orange-juice]

I keep forgetting (and rediscovering) that gender matters to people. That they do worry about pronouns and looking a certain way and being interacted with in a certain way.

While I simply... don't care? People gendering me is an indication of what kind of game the other person wants to play and I'm very happy to have a heads up.

Why would I want to butcher it by demanding any specific pronouns.

[eldrtchmn]

personal rant incoming