#this is a waste of time

[gaiagangoffical]

do y'all have a fav song from the old ones?

you BETTER appreciate this because i am about to run around the base passing the focus along to everyone !!!

Aloy - Oh. Um. I don’t exactly listen to their music a lot, I generally prefer what we have today. Although, GAIA gave me this playlist once called “Phonk”, and I guess it was ok, so I guess that? Sorry, that’s not really a song..

Erend - HEAVY METAL BANDS, I THINK METALLICA OR SLIPKNOT IS MY FAVOURITE. I ENJOY MASTER OF PUPPETS A LOT, THOUGH. ITS EIGHT MINUTES LONG, SO I GET TO ENJOY IT FOR AGES.

(ooc: i know nothing about heavy metal bands all i have is a friend with a metallica bag whom we call emo all the time)

Varl - i actually quite enjoy the pop genre! i think there was a heavy split between the old ones between people who did and didn’t, but i think they sound cool and upbeat. my favourite has to be this one song called shake it off by this girl called taylor swift!!! i don’t know if she’s still relevant with you guys but i enjoy a lot of her music :) also i listen to classical sometimes from zo!!!

Zo - Generally I listen to calmer music, classical like Varl said. I enjoy Beethoven, but I also switch over to more 80s, 90s, 2000s, and 2020s music sometimes because of Varl. I like Adele - my favourite from her has to be Chasing Pavements, or Easy On Me :) Alva got me into The Lumineers too.

Kotallo - i don’t have a lot of time to listen to music. all i know is mr. sandman. bam bam bam bam bam bam bam bam bam bam bam bam bam oh mr sandman. that one. i think it’s old so i don’t know if you all still know it.

Alva - MY TURN!!!!! i enjoy this one band called the lumineers a LOT. my favourite is ophelia because it reminds me of federa and sometimes it makes me cry. also!! taylor swift!! she was 2000s to 2020s i think so like varl said i’m not sure if you all know her.. but i heard her fans called themselves “swifties” so that’s pretty cool!! me and varl listen to music together a lot we share similar tastes :3 i like the pop genre too!!

Beta - i really enjoy the crane wives i really like the moon will sing or the well also there was this song called lovely and i think billie something was her name and all i can do is see myself in the lyrics so it makes me cry but it also makes me feel really comforted also alva showed me this song called rises the moon and it makes me really calm

Sylens - Classical.

GAIA - My likes are what Elisabet liked. Sometimes, when she was feeling a bit happier, she’d listen to 70s, 80s, 90s, but when she needed to focus or needed something calmer in a solemn mood, she’d put on some classical or generally calm music. I believe her favourite was “Keep On Movin’” by a band called Five. Although, I do enjoy the songs everyone plays around the base, too.

sorry guys sylens was grumpy… it took me like 5 minutes of pestering him to get him to write ONE word!!!!

now i am going to look at some data. sitting down. i’ve been running around the base i need a break.

[leave-me-alone-please]

Why am I so numb?

[otomelavenderhaze]

I guess it's their characters, their company, they get to keep milking it as much as they want, noneless, the game will ever stand by itself like ever?

I'm guessing, hardly, if not why it would be "a new gen" besides, pretend old Lis didn't exist is really such waste of money, such waste of potential to NOT drag old players back and deliver nothing because they promised a new game, no spin offs of old routes. But we didn't say anything about cameos, come on, players, you know you want spend lots of money with the new ap system and get milked for the same surface shit, come onnn.

I am still utterly disgusted.

[unforth]

Y'all I know that when so-called AI generates ridiculous results it's hilarious and I find it as funny as the next guy but I NEED y'all to remember that every single time an AI answer is generated it uses 5x as much energy as a conventional websearch and burns through 10 ml of water. FOR EVERY ANSWER. Each big llm is equal to 300,000 kiligrams of carbon dioxide emissions.

LLMs are killing the environment, and when we generate answers for the lolz we're still contributing to it.

Stop using it. Stop using it for a.n.y.t.h.i.n.g. We need to kill it.

Sources:

[tuxebo]

Can I just say, the debate is so much worse than I expected?

[kedreeva]

There's some dude (derogatory) on FB who is PISSED people are pricing their farm fresh eggs at $2 and $3 a dozen instead of $4+, saying it's "disrespectful" and "undignified" and "I'm trying to feed my kids" like Sir, you are on a Facebook group page bitching about your neighbors egg prices because your pet chickens aren't earning you a living wage and you think it's your neighbors' fault, you do not have a leg to stand on here wrt dignity.

Also half the answers are like "I give them to friends and family free" or "I donate them to food banks" or "I'm making them affordable to folks who might not otherwise be able to get them now that they're so expensive in the store" and "if you think you're going to turn a profit keeping backyard chickens you have been wildly misled" and so on, and so forth, and I'm so living for it.

and I can tell you right now, he did NOT like my answer of "if you're trying to feed your kids, I hear eggs are edible."

[feeshu09]

The only logical option left.

[nowwheresmynut]

he quit the next day

[sayruq]

[carnadelions]

An apt metaphor. I always took you for a dog, Lestat.

[doydoune]

bonus of this comic

[gaiagangoffical]

welcome to the gaia gang !!

we are the gaia gang !! you might have heard of us from, well.. a lot of different ways! like maybe the tenakth rebels, or the oseram in the pub, or maybe you just heard erend’s loud music. (zo heard it too. she still isn’t happy that aloy won’t do anything.)

you can ask us questions!! we will answer!! plain and simple!! although we ARE humans too.. so no icky stuff! i think they called it nsfw. and no threats or anything! friendly reminder that we have a tenakth marshal, “the saviour”, an utaru, a nora, AND an oseram!! i don’t think you wanna mess with us..

(and sylens, i guess.. i wouldn’t say i can do much, and beta.. well. beta is beta. but beta is still cool!!!)

general rules!!

no nsfw questions !!

do not spam the inbox. we are trying to save the world over here!!!

please try to refrain from asking about crushes or anything. but anything that’s real is fine!! (e.e zo and varl, alva and federa)

we hold the right to ignore/delete certain questions if we find them uncomfortable or generally icky.

(ooc: please do not ask anything about deceased people, mainly varl and lance reddick/sylens. everyone is alive for the sake of the blog, and we don’t know what will happen to sylens’ character in the next game, therefore it is safer not to assume anything.)

tags!!

i, alva, am mainly the one who looks after and monitors this blog, however that doesn’t mean i will pass the phone for anyone else to answer your questions!! so do not hesitate to ask anyone else from the gang questions as well :)

if the post is tagged with any of these tags, it means that person answered!!

saviourly duties - aloy

cool man varl - varl (really? i would’ve NEVER guessed..)

forge man - erend

plant and people mom - zo (she wanted JUST plant mom, but then she’d end up on the wrong side of tumblr)

marshalmellow - kotallo (he really wants to try marshmallows guys..)

disaster diviner - alva (me!!)

beta says stuff - beta (she didn’t have any good ideas guys..)

this is a waste of time - sylens (sometimes we can convince him to answer!!)

gaia goddess - gaia herself!!!

(ooc tag is we’re on a break (but not really) when there are questions for me directly!!)

seeee you later!!! :D

(Just so you all know, this was ENTIRELY Alva’s idea. We just kinda got dragged into it. - Aloy)

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[skeletoninthemelonland]

"Got you! Ha ha ha ha ha!"

[spicyraeman]

its just their vibe