#especially if i'm paying

[midnightparadox]

I'm looking forward to watching Wicked with my lil sis. I bought the tickets as her birthday present cause she always wanted to watch it with me. Since we usually spend our birthdays together. Her bday is Jan 21st and mine's Jan 20ths. It be my first Broadway play. It be her 2nd since she saw The Lion King with our Grandma when she was a little kid.

[starrysharks]

artificial intelligence ghost

[demigods-posts]

i am not understanding rick's thought process behind the characters consistent mockery of percy's intelligence. especially in light of knowing that the characters do value percy as a friend and demigod. he was the child of the prophecy. he jumped into the river styx to better prepare for defending olympus. he used his gods-given wish to build a better future for demigods. he plays an active role as camp counselor at chb and is a respected confidant at cj. he is evidently held in high regard in his absense. but the surrounding characters seem to treat his presence like a hinderance to their peace. it's rather disappointing to read.

[micamone]

hewwo

[icewindandboringhorror]

On average, what is the total MONTHLY amount that you spend on dining out*?

*(This doesn't only count going out to restaurants, but also stuff like picking up fast food to bring home, getting a coffee on the way to work, getting a premade sandwich from a grocery store deli during lunch, buying a quick snack from a convenience store or food cart whilst walking somewhere, ordering a pizza or any other food to be delivered to your home, etc.)

*(If you often dine out in groups/as a household: calculate and divide the costs so that you get a Per Person average. This is for YOU individually, NOT the total household/group costs)

(I'm sure polls similar to this have been made before (very common topic), I just haven't personally seen one that I can remember, so, I was curious to do my own! I was discussing this with a group of people today and it was very interesting to see how widely the number varied between individuals. :0c )

(Reblog for bigger sample size if you can, and feel free to explain your answer in tags if there's anything extra to add!)

[trashfangirlsworld]

Once again I want to remind everyone that if you don't feel personally comfortable buying stuff from the qsmp shop, it's completely fine, however if your reason for it is that you're helping ex or current admins, then I'm sorry but you're not at all. It's been said multiple times that the qsmp is not financially stable rn, it is the whole reason why the egg admins can't come back to the server now, because there are no funds to currently pay them properly. Until qsmp's financial situation is sorted, the egg admins can't come back, and ex admins cannot be paid back for their work. Quackity can't pull money out of his ass. This is the whole point of the merch, to hopefully increase qsmp's funds.

Again, don't buy anything if you feel uncomfortable to do so rn, it's perfectly alright, just keep what I said above in mind if it's not about comfort. Remember to be nice and respectful to each other!

[sunset-hourglass]

So I was listening to a song called Lagtrain by Inabakumori yesterday (It's a wonderful song, you can listen to it here) And I hyper focused on one of the frames and went "Huh...Y'know I could see Siffrin here." And then, well, I tried to draw it! Here's the frame specifically:

And here's the piece I made from it (Spoiler warning, just in case!):

Featuring (from right to left) Siffrin, Loop, Mal Du Pays, and what is supposed to be Ghost Siffrin! I figured I could spin the original frame into the different versions of Siffrin, since there's only really four I could recall from the game! (I know the arms are a little funky, but I tried,,)

[beanbagbabiesss]

The fact that Stefan and Bonnie never developed a deeper friendship/ any romantic relationship is crazy to me. Especially considering the parallels with the whole drowning vs. her being dead for a whole summer. The Silas/Quetsiyah of it all. Like??? Can you imagine the meltdown Quetsiyah would've had if Stefan, the doppelganger of the man she was supposed to marry, fell for Bonnie, her descendant??? The constant self-sacrifice, lack of self-preservation, and lack of self-worth, both these characters hold, the perfect set-up for great angst. The story was naturally geared towards Stefonnie and the fact that it never happened or was even considered?? Wild to me. I am always so fascinated by the way the TVD writers constantly ignored the natural progression of certain characters' arcs for stupid shit.

[mayhemspreadingguy]

[coquelicoq]

i can't stress enough that outside of this one moment in rogue protocol when murderbot wants to kill a human for betraying its sort-of clients but settles for the next best thing of menacingly hovering a drone in her face for 26 seconds while she's frozen in place by her armor, for the rest of the first four books mb is really only using drones for security purposes and doesn't have the time or inclination to be performing close-range facial analysis:

in ASR it doesn't seem to be all that familiar with drones outside of maybe using them to set a perimeter. it exhibits several other uses of drones as events escalate, but they're all related to protecting itself and its humans and getting intel on EvilSurvey. at no point does it mention watching a human with a drone; it's all "using drones to draw fire" this and "sending drones flying off in the wrong direction as a diversion tactic" that. et cetera.

it has no access to drones whatsoever in AC from what i can tell.

in RP it uses Ship's drones to record conversations between wilken and gerth, but it's not a participant in those conversations and it doesn't even watch them in real time. it also forgoes getting a good look at their weapons via drone because it thinks they would notice. later it takes control of a station drone to watch (from afar) their first meeting with don abene & co., but miki notices the drone and almost catches mb because of it, which freaks it out. then it hacks the combatbots' drones, but other than the aforementioned 26-second intimidation of wilken, it's too busy doing actual security work to use them to look at people.

in ES it accesses drones many times, including to observe its humans, but it only seems to actually control a drone to look at something one time, and only in order to zoom in on a suit logo. so at no point could it conceivably be directing a drone to get up in somebody's face, since it's just piggybacking on drones as they go about their normal business.

it does use cameras to watch people in the first four books, but in a much less obvious way: either it's using fixed cameras that are built into habitats/hoppers/whatever, or it's accessing mobile cameras (suit cams, station drones) but not controlling where those cameras go or what they're pointing at.

it's interesting, because while drones can be startling or intrusive, on the flip side, cameras that don't move don't draw attention to themselves and thus may make it easier to forget you're being watched (plus you have no way of knowing if that particular camera is being monitored at that moment or if it's just recording for later analysis). so in a way, having a drone in your face actively signals to you that mb is paying attention to you. it's making mb's gaze visible in a way it might not otherwise be. this changes the dynamic from "passive surveillance for datamining and threat assessment purposes" to "person actively choosing to pay attention to you in real time". one of these is covert and the other isn't; one of these holds the possibility of interaction and exchange and the other doesn't. maybe it puts a drone in your face to show you it cares.

[rox-of-iu]

bought "immortal life" as a gift for myself and I'm immediately obsessed

it's stardew valley style farm sim but xianxia (said by someone who never played stardew or farm sims this is guesswork lol)

anyway it's early access now but it will come out as a full game in Jan 2024! and I guess there is a possibility that the price will go up once it's a full game cuz that happens sometimes so if ur interested now is your chance hah (its on sale rn for 11,19€)

[drkineildwicks]

I hear about Nintendo suing Palworld and of course the nintendshills come out of the woodwork

People can argue about the particulars BUT

Nintendo's actions are damaging to the game industry as a whole because it sets an unhealthy precedent

Nintendo is doing this why? Why now? Why on the particulars? Why not beat them the old-fashioned way by releasing a better game? Why are people rooting for nintendo when this is the latest in a long string of anti-fan and anti-consumer actions? Because *checks notes* a game you had no intention of playing anyway did well? Was nintendo so truly threatened by a game that didn't even share a platform with them that they dug for a reason to sue?

Also arguments against the designs have no water because 1) the AI stuff was disproven, 2) the plagiarism stuff was disproven, and 3) y'all think any 'mon that isn't an official pokemon is ugly, I remember how you all booed when Temtem came out.

Shills are gonna shill, but I think 2024 has been showing us that the silent majority are a lot more influential than people have thought

[schnaf]

day 23 aka THE COUNTDOWN IS OVER - jungsu's past birthday brrrr ppoppos

[saunteredserpent]

be me, lately:

✔️ confess to writing partner that I like him romantically after six months of doing not only said writing together, but also getting to know each other on a close and personal level

✔️ have said feelings both validated and reciprocated

✔️ spend last three days back and forth with said partner being disgustingly sappy (/pos) and in love

✔️ today reach the stage in newfound relationship of asking each other whether 'significant other' is a good label. get told yes, 'significant other' is perfect

✔️ also today, while at work, get told by supervisor that he thinks I'd be perfect to fill the role of another manager position that will be opening up, and that I should apply; if I am offered and take it, said role will include pay raise, pto, guaranteed hours, and other benefits

seriously. y'all,,,,,,

[touchlikethesun]

i am sorry i am in a mood but the shift in animation quality for "key moments" in both the mdzs and tgcf donghua will never not be amusing... i do think however what the animators of the respective series considered "key moments" varies considerably

[avoidcrow]

This year I get to be a puppy all day for my birthday

Am going to nap in my dog bed and wear me paws and go for walkies and have no worries I'm so excited