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Adra Pillars in Avowed (Obsidian Entertainment, 2024)

#avowed

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Avowed developed by Obsidian Entertainment

#avowed #pillars of eternity

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ok so apparently in avowed the main character will be a godlike!!!!! it's explained in this here gameplay trailer at 17:38

"(...) for you it's a mystery"

!!!EXCITED!!!

#!!! #and 3rd person gameplay is an option <3 #avowed #pillars of eternity

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i had a dream that time travel was invented and too many people choose to travel back in time to save the titanic from sinking (the question of whether unsinking of the titanic deserved so much attention in the face of human history was the subject of both heavy academic and online discourse), which caused a rift in the space-time-continuum that led to the titanic showing up indiscriminately all over the world’s oceans and sea in various states of sinking.

this caused a lot of issues both in terms of fixing said space-time-continuum and in terms of nautical navigation, and after a long and heavy battle in the international maritime organization it was decided that the bureaucratic burden of dealing with this was to be upon Ireland, much to their dismay. the Irish Government then released an app for all sailors and seafarers so they could report titanic sightings during their journeys, even though they heavily dissuaded you from reporting them given the paperwork it caused.

anyway i woke up with a clear image of the app in my head and needed to recreate it for all of you:

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im sick of unmuting an animal video expecting to hear the sounds that it is very clearly making and being greeted with the shittiest music ive ever heard

enough is enough. no more

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#orchids #flowers

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Didn't see anyone else mentioning this (it's not even posted on their socials yet), but Draw Distance are releasing another game... Vampire: The Masquerade - Reckoning of New York. - It's the final game in the Coteries of New York/Shadows of New York trilogy - It's set in 2024 - You seemingly can play as a Ravnos named Kali or a Caitiff named Pádraic - It features some returning characters, such as Julia Sowinski and a very cozy looking Qadir al-Asmai - There's a demo on Steam already.

#Vampire the Masquerade

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me: i’m just working at a gas station :( im not doing anything w my life :(

my foremothers bc i’m not working in a field or pregnant:

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sometimes you just gotta read something and say “i literally don’t care” aloud and move on

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Helena Janecic – "City Gals" series (2011-2012)

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I’m shy….. even on my own BLOG

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Wonderful series of photographs offering a glimpse into female friendship in Maine, ca. 1898: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/babb-photographs

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instagram: smacmccreanor

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Okay. It's time for an AI rant.

My nephew is 13 years old. Whenever he writes a paper for school, I check it over and fix all of his mistakes for him. He said to me, "Maybe I'll proofread your paper for you in exchange," meaning one of the scholarly articles I write for work. I said, "Cool," and gave him the file. And he said, "Well, this is full of errors! See, you always say you have a lot to correct on my stuff, and look at all the stuff you got wrong!" And I said, surprised, "What? Where?" Because I'm sure there are typos in the draft I sent him, but not, like, that many.

And then he pointed to the screen and said, "Look at all the blue and red lines you have."

And I said, "Yeah, but those are wrong. Like, those are blue and red lines I'm ignoring because the computer is wrong." And then I paused and added, "You know you can't proofread a paper by just looking at the red and blue lines, right?" And he gave me the blankest look, because that clearly is EXACTLY what he thinks. And it became even clearer suddenly why, whenever I correct something on his paper, his immediate reaction is, "It didn't have a blue or red line."

There's a very good reason for that: THAT'S BECAUSE THE COMPUTER ISN'T SMART ENOUGH TO KNOW THAT IT WAS WRONG.

I am so tired of being sold the idea that computers are better than humans and so we should just outsource everything to them, which is clearly the lesson my nephew is absorbing in U.S. middle school. COMPUTERS ARE NOT BETTER THAN HUMANS. Like, maybe they are better at humans at crawling through rubble to find people trapped inside. They are also better at preserving things in a searchable format. Things like that. Very limited circumstances.

I don't want to sound alarmist but everything I hear about people using generative AI freaks me out. It's not just that I'm freaked out by people being like, "I use it to write novels!" (Although I don't see how they do, I have tried to have it write fiction for me and the output was truly terrible.) But I recognize my bias around creative writing and so no one needs to credit my views on artificial writing. But! Other things are alarming, too! "I use it to brainstorm x, y, or z." But...why? Why not just...use your own brain...to...brain...storm? The computer doesn't even have a brain to brainstorm with! And you might be like, "But it comes up with things that my brain would never think of!" So would other people! You could also brainstorm with other people! Or even through Google to see what other people have thought before you (not AI). Please don't belittle the wonder of thinking.

I just feel like the marketing around generative AI boils down to "Wouldn't it be easier not to use your own brain to think about things?" Everyone. No. It would not be. Please just trust me on this. I'm not just an old person who is out of touch with technology or something. I promise. USE YOUR BRAINS. IT WILL BE OKAY.

#ai

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LADY GAGA. ph. Collier Schorr for T Magazine.

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KIM MIN HEE & KIM TAE RI ⬥ The Handmaiden 아가씨 (2016)

#the handmaiden

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Karnstein Ruins - concept art for a project based on Carmilla by Sheridan Le Fanu

#carmilla