#collegehumour

[iiitsnotbase]

"You broke her heart, you know.

She always trued to make you proud, and you broke her heart while she did it. I wonder if you ever even cared for her, or about her, or about her skills or talents off the battlefield or away from the spy ground.

She cannot cook, she cannot clean, but she has a dry wit and sense of humour that would have carried at court. People saw her as youthful and innocent before she died for you; She cut out her eye for you and you stood by and let her, she ruined herself for you and you stood by and watched. Did you ever say thank you? Did you ever think for one second that she died broken because of you?

This is not me looking for someone to blame, you think I don't know death? I know death. I have grieved and I have watched and I watched my husband die all alone in a castle and start a war. I have taken on mantles I never wanted to wear twice in my life. The first time it was ripped from my body, the same will not happen the second time, it will not.

She died and it's your fault. She died and you broke her heart moments before."

[nolshru]

what I think is kinda interesting about comedy panel show Game Changer is that there's this prevailing belief that it's very different to other game shows, which is true, but largely just because you've categorised it in a not particularly useful way

like, it's not particularly distinct to other panel shows, aside from being an EXTREMELY good and well made one - not really sure why we're calling it a game show instead of a panel show, aside from Reich referring to it as a game show (which like, yeah, not the best way to assign genre imo)

[belleandkurtbastian]

I love that people put that “Today, we’re learning about pattern. Stripe. Solid. Stripe.” line into their no-context compilations on YouTube.

I was SO EXCITED to learn what the context for it was, because it made no sense with the premise of any of the episodes I hadn’t seen.

SO IT TURNS OUT THERE IS NO CONTEXT! That was LITERALLY the first thing Jess said in the ENTIRE episode.

Your honour, I’m love her.

[spongebobafettywap]

Is it just me or do the 2010 onwards Collegehumour Cast and Community have the same energy?

[symmetriashirts]

This merch is for big bongo babies only (via Cruising Life Sticker by Symmetria Shirts)

[thetisming]

GUYS AMANDA GOODEN (Drew's wife) LIKES DROPOUT

[vimbry]

the fascinating thing about something funny in text is how people will be amused by different deliveries in their head

[islandoforder]

hellooo i see you posting about that dnd group a lot and I'm wondering where do you watch them? i would like to see too lol

hey! dimension 20 as a whole is found on dropout dot com (which is a whole streaming service) but like if you are not currently in the market for a whole new streaming service/you wanna try out the dnd and see how you vibe, a bunch of the seasons (including the v first one which is called fantasy high) can be found on youtube

honestly it is by far and away the streaming service which brings me the most joy, and not just from dimension 20 and all their dnd but from a bunch of the other shows too, and is actually the only one that I pay for myself instead of scrounging off of a family member* but would def rec watching some free stuff to check how you find it before making decisions either way

[thevalleyisjolly]

Rhaegar really looked at Rhaenyra naming one of her sons Aegon when her younger brother and rival to the throne was already named Aegon, went "I can do worse," and then proceeded to name his second son Aegon while already having a son who was also named Aegon. Truly no one does fucked up families like the Targs, Tywin Lannister really had to work overtime in order to overtake them in levels of fucking up your kids doomrot.

[skydoescrime]

hey guys just a fucking reminder that dropout started because collegehumour died off. dropout is built on the ashes of collegehumour and they make BRAND NEW CONTENT which is like extremely high quality with A LOT of shows under their belt. just to point that out cause the watcher move is NOTHING like dropout :)

[notahorseindisguise]

i want dropout <- caveman who would like to subscribe to the streaming service dropout by the company formally known as collegehumour

you want dropout? <- his disappointed caveman mum who thinks he wants to leave Caveman University

roll credits

[txttletale]

Your discussions on AI art have been really interesting and changed my mind on it quite a bit, so thank you for that! I don’t think I’m interested in using it, but I feel much less threatened by it in the same way. That being said, I was wondering, how you felt about AI generated creative writing: not, like AI writing in the context of garbage listicles or academic essays, but like, people who generate short stories and then submit them to contests. Do you think it’s the same sort of situation as AI art? Do you think there’s a difference in ChatGPT vs mid journey? Legitimate curiosity here! I don’t quite have an opinion on this in the same way, and I’ve seen v little from folks about creative writing in particular vs generated academic essays/articles

i think that ai generated writing is also indisputably writing but it is mostly really really fucking awful writing for the same reason that most ai art is not good art -- that the large training sets and low 'temperature' of commercially available/mass market models mean that anything produced will be the most generic version of itself. i also think that narrative writing is very very poorly suited to LLM generation because it generally requires very basic internal logic which LLMs are famously bad at (i imagine you'd have similar problems trying to create something visual like a comic that requires consistent character or location design rather than the singular images that AI art is mostly used for). i think it's going to be a very long time before we see anything good long-form from an LLM, especially because it's just not a priority for the people making them.

ultimately though i think you could absolutely do some really cool stuff with AI generated text if you had a tighter training set and let it get a bit wild with it. i've really enjoyed a lot of AI writing for being funny, especially when it was being done with tools like botnik that involve more human curation but still have the ability to completely blindside you with choices -- i unironically think the botnik collegehumour sketch is funnier than anything human-written on the channel. & i think that means it could reliably be used, with similar levels of curation, to make some stuff that feels alien, or unsettling, or etheral, or horrifying, because those are somewhat adjacent to the surreal humour i think it excels at. i could absolutely see it being used in workflows -- one of my friends told me recently, essentially, "if i'm stuck with writer's block, i ask chatgpt what should happen next, it gives me a horrible idea, and i immediately think 'that's shit, and i can do much better' and start writing again" -- which is both very funny but i think presents a great use case as a 'rubber duck'.

but yea i think that if there's anything good to be found in AI-written fiction or poetry it's not going to come from chatGPT specifically, it's going to come from some locally hosted GPT model trained on a curated set of influences -- and will have to either be kind of incoherent or heavily curated into coherence.

that said the submission of AI-written stories to short story mags & such fucking blows -- not because it's "not writing" but because it's just bad writing that's very very easy to produce (as in, 'just tell chatGPT 'write a short story'-easy) -- which ofc isn't bad in and of itself but means that the already existing phenomenon of people cynically submitting awful garbage to literary mags that doesn't even meet the submission guidelines has been magnified immensely and editors are finding it hard to keep up. i think part of believing that generative writing and art are legitimate mediums is also believing they are and should be treated as though they are separate mediums -- i don't think that there's no skill in these disciplines (like, if someone managed to make writing with chatGPT that wasnt unreadably bad, i would be very fucking impressed!) but they're deeply different skills to the traditional artforms and so imo should be in general judged, presented, published etc. separately.

[dear-ao3]

https://youtu.be/XNjwTXvfXxQ

congrats saph your Delaware post has officially made it to CollegeHumour it's that famous that it's getting mentioned as a staple of people of our age in comedy sketches

add that to things i didnt expect to be on my bingo board for 2023

[umanta]

sorry, sam reich collegehumours actual father is ROBERT REICH THE POLITICAL COMMENTATOR AND FORMER SECRETARY OF LABOUR?????

[fully-functioning-pigeon]

Ever since I watched Total Forgiveness on Dropout I’ve been measuring the CollegeHumour cinematic timeline in Ally Beardsley’s hair colour

[wulfhalls]

What’s up with the trousers and overly pointy shoes??? It’s giving that shitty CollegeHumour skit about jeggings. Rich Dutch merchant’s wife from the 14th Century wanted to cosplay as a peasant in the bedroom. The hair, belt and dress are great though 💕

knights sabatons // ewan mitchell at the hotd premiere 😭