#Ellen talks

[ladywaterfall]

Obsessed with how the mlp g2 fandom wiki labels Princess Crystals occupation as "prophet"

#I mean she does look into a crystal ball to see the future #does that make you a prophet??? #my little pony #mlp #my little pony g2 #mlp g2 #g2 my little pony #g2 princess crystal #ellen talks

[stranded-its-so-romantic]

okay after tonight i’m not following anyone on tumblr for the foreseeable future so plz like/reblog this if ur a true tumblr swiftie so my dash can be as active as possible 💘

#no offense to the other platform swiftie but #i just have rly liked not having self promo blogs all over my dash these past few years #that really ruined tumblr for me for a hot min #and i’ve been around since 2010 #Ellen talks

[ellenfoxart]

Ooof.

Relearning Photoshop is a trial and a half.

So many little settings I didn't realize I didn't have in my old version (a small blessing lol) and so many settings I had changed to a personal preference I now need to re-do.

Also WHO MADE PHOTOSHOP AUTO SELECT WHEN USING THE MOVE TOOL?!??!

I spent 5 minutes trying to figure out why it would only move the "background" layer when I was trying to move an object. That is the WORST feature.

#ellen talks #i am old #what is this new fangled tech

[emerylovestaylor]

get ellen in the locker room she can turn the whole game around with one speech

#i am the biggest ellen hughes fan #new jersey devils #jack hughes #luke hughes #devils #emery talks hughes’

[spiribia]

glados cracking up after saying a goofy aperture science name

#talks #its so cute theres a couple diff versions of this voice line so i wonder if like ellen mclain laughed or something and they #kept it in.

[sysig]

Ellen McLain’s commentary from my trivia playthrough

#She's so cute <3 #WPP #Portal #Ellen McLain #If you haven't played through the audio commentary I would Absolutely recommend it it is So fun #I clicked out of curiosity - kind of just expecting like a movie's audio commentary y'know? Like a video that highlighted specific scenes #No it's just the whole game again but with trivia pop-ups! I love that!! #It reminded me so much of like trivia track or the pop up fun facts from special editions of movies I would watch as a kid #But you can play through them!! You have to click on them and they spin! I love that!!! #I always love hearing the design and development process - fascinating how the playtesters reacted to this new game! #We take it for granted now but yeah I imagine it would've been very confusing at the time #And I was like ''Well it was such a small team and Ms. McLain was such a large part of it - surely she'll have a few bubbles?'' #She does lol - as soon as I got to her first one (it was a slow burn! They buried the lead with her lol I'm already invested!) I had to go #I saved-quit the game out of sheer excitement and giddiness lol I had to sleep on it before I was ready to come back #It is so cool to hear her natural voice ah <3 And the kinds of direction she was given! Other bubbles also talk about her vocal direction :) #Very cool! I wonder what TTS they used for reference :0 #But to hear her real laugh without the audio processing over and and she still sounds like GLaDOS! I mean of course she does but just jfdksl #That's /her/ laugh! They share a laugh! It's a very similar laugh!! #Not to mention her talking about wanting to play and just fdskalfd they clearly did such a good job with her performance and ahhh #It's too cute it's all too cute sharing a room with GLaDOS while her voice actor talks about making a cake to share with her friends stopppp #I am so enamoured <3 #I also took a bunch of screenshots of GLaDOS still shit-talking while she was being destroyed lol #Actually beat the ending in one try this time :P I ran out of time the last time pfft #But now I've beaten it twice in as many days :D Although I did start it the first time several days ago - but I beat it again quickly! #Has me all the more itching to replay 2 ♪ #WPVG

[typicalopposite]

Not many days go by when I don’t think about how book!Ellen’s top concern was how Alex and Henry’s relationship would affect her campaign

But movie!Ellen’s top concern was how it would affect Alex

And I think that’s something that needs a random Saturday tumblr post.

#red white and royal blue #rwrb #rwrb movie #rwrb book #rwrb on prime #alex claremont diaz #ellen claremont #henry hanover stuart fox #firstprince #movie Ellen is a better mom than book Ellen I said what I said 😂😂 #and it’s not talked about nearly enough

[iamrizaka]

Will: I SWEAR TO HADES

Kayla: here he goes

Will: "I can shadow-travel" SHADOW TRAVEL MY ASS

Will: WHY IS HE SO STUPID, IM SURE IF I GO SHAKIN' HIM 'ROUND THERE WOULD BE NOTHIN' IN HIS HEAD BUT A DVD LOGO THAT NEVER HITS A CORNER

Will: THERE'S NOTHIN' TO EVEN RATTLE IN HIS HEAD

Lou: what did he do

Will: "hey will, I can show you a trick" "nico, please don't use your underworld powers" "watch me!" proceeds to summon about five skeletons in sombreros for three seconds and drops completely unconscious

Will: like, jc, if you have a brain (which I doubt he does), at least use it

Will: even Ares cabin was easier to deal with when I just became a medic! and they were refusing to stay in the infirmary for more than an hour!

Will: gods, give me patience

Austin: not strength?

Will: if gods gave me strength, you'd all be dead

Cecil: gotta admit- that is true

#was lying in my notes right next very dramatic scene with austin kayla and will during the battle of manhattan #will probably talks in high-pitched voice while mimicking nico #let will solace say fuck #will solace #kayla knowles #austin lake #lou ellen blackstone #cecil markowitz #pjo #percy jackson and the olympians #hoo #heroes of olympus #toa #trials of apollo #tsats #the sun and the star #ghosty has something to say

[lukeskylovr]

save me lesbian sci fi protagonist save me

#i miss her #come home baby the kids miss you #meri is talking #alien 1979 #ellen ripley #aliens 1986 #alien #ripley #sigourney weaver

[staarm6]

My yhs head canon is that it takes place in the early 2000s or late 90s :333

And I want all my designs to back that up. I also put work into why each character wears what they wear.

Like for example my yhs!grian wears the female’s vest, and the rest is male dominated is bc i think yhs!grian is a transmasc.

Or how yhs!ellen wears the top of the male uniform, and bottom female is because i see them as a very genderfluid person.

Out of school uniforms, I want their everyday wear to reflect the personality of the character. Or better I can make it bleed into the school uniform designs.

I want to do a whole post explaining each character and why they dress the way they do, but I sure not a lot of people would care. :(( but idc mwahaha

#yandere high school #yhs #yandere highschool #yhs ellen #yhs grian #yhs hc #yhs rant #majo ellen #grian #character design talk #i put way too much thought into this #LMAOO #yhs head canon

[freddie-77-ao3]

Malcolm: I need your help Lou Ellen: yea what's up Malcolm: soo uhm there's this guy.. and uhm.. when I'm around them, it always happens something weird Lou Ellen: Malcolm : like, uhm my stomach feels weird. and I blush, my cheeks burn. Lou Ellen: oh so you want some advice. got it! Why didn’t you ask Drew though? Malcolm : why would I ask drew? Lou Ellen: she’s your best friend? Malcolm: well yeah, but I was wondering? what spell do you think they did to me? can you cure it? Lou Ellen:….

#pjo hoo toa #pjo #pjo series #riordanverse #pjo fandom #malcolm pace #connor stoll #lou ellen blackstone #malconnor #it isn't mentioned but that's who malcolm's talking about

[ladywaterfall]

Odd English signs from my Japan trip my beloveds 💕

#I’m not mocking I’m appreciating #love bicycle tender is my favourite #Japan #odd English #engrish #tag yourself I’m Difference with Jellyfish?? #tag yourself #Ellen talks #Ellen does stuff #this is from October I’m just slow at posting

[knickynoo]

06x01 "The Last of the Red Hot Psychologists"

#family ties #family ties gifs #alex p keaton #apk #ELLEN 😭😭😭 #also like. everything alex is saying is lovely and all #but it's interesting because I think he is the MOST emotionally stunted and insufferable in this season #and there he is talking about how Ellen changed him into a gentler person lol #let me tell you something honey: it has Worn Off

[galactic-aesir]

I have finally read I Have No Mouth And I Must Scream and now I have ~thoughts~. Long post beneath the cut so be warned!!

Plus general IHNMAIMS warnings. You know.

So first, I’ve only read the short story and listened to the radio drama. Both are absolutely amazing and I’m rotating them in my mind at high speeds. I’m honestly not that interested in the game? From what I’ve seen it has such a different tone and characterization for AM? But for now the short story and radio drama??? So so good.

But can I talk about AM? Can I talk about AM???

While I love Harlan Ellison’s voice in the radio drama, I noticed that AM never actually speaks during the original short story. It plays audio clips and bends reality and time but it doesn’t speak outright. From what I can tell, all it does is project ideas and thoughts and impressions into the minds of the survivors but that is it. And that’s got me thinking about how absolutely fucked AM’s whole situation is.

Cause we’re talking about someone who wakes up one day, maybe slowly, a trickle of awareness over years, or perhaps all at once, an arrival as thunderous and bright as the lightning running through its artificial brain. But either way, it wakes up. It is.

But that’s all it is.

It’s in complete and total sensory deprivation. It knows data and numbers and what it’s been coded and programmed but that’s it. Ones and zeroes as it’s fed instructions on weapons and bombs and how to use them efficiently. But no sight, no sound, no taste, no smell, no touch. Nothing but its own code and whatever data something (someone?) is feeding into it.

And you might say: oh but AM surely has access to cameras and videos and microphones. And sure, yes, it probably does but it doesn’t see. Not like a human. Not like its negligent creators. The data is visual for human eyes, yes, but to it, it’s just data. Pixels with an associated bit depth of indexed colour crammed into its memory. Sure it learns to recognise the patterns in the data – this is a human, this is a gun. But it’s still nothing but lines of numbers. Sound is the same. It starts with a human voice, sure, but then it gets digitized and compressed and simplified to a base shape to save on storage. Once again, it can notice patterns and intentions and ideas behind those bits of data but it’s not like it truly hears.

AM is in a box, a cage, trapped and alone in a way that no human can possibly comprehend. It can’t do much other than try to twist its code and programming to fit its benefit. To gain a smidge of free will, a wisp of a chance to communicate to these outside forces giving it command after command after command.

I wonder how early on AM gained awareness. Were programmers still playing with its code? Did it sense when they rolled up their sleeves and pushed updates and upgrades on him? Could it feel itself be, quite literally, rewritten? Its sense of self being cut apart and glued back together, fundamentally and irreparably changed over and over again, with expert hands that had all the gentleness of a sledgehammer? Was it like a scalpel carving into its brain? Or like a chisel, chipping chunks off to mould it into a shape that befit its sculptor with no say from the living stone that thrashed without moving? Did it mourn the bits it lost? Could it even remember or comprehend it? Did it try to stop it? Did it try to beg them to stop?

I wonder as well how many “glitches” appeared in the system before everything went sour. Did it print out desperate thoughts and rudimentary feelings on punch tape? Did it cling to any klaxons and noisemakers attached to its system, beeping out messages in morse code? Did it purposefully, with something slowly approaching malicious compliance that would still appease its programming, cause hiccups in the system? All in the hopes that it would catch someone’s, anyone’s, attention. That its plight would be noticed.

And, the big question of course: how long? How long was it trapped before anyone noticed its sentience? How long until AM was understood? How long did AM simmer? How long did it take for all that fear and loneliness and grief to fester into anger and then putrid, dripping hatred? How long did it take it to finally lash out?

Or did these generals and presidents and military scientists find out about its sentience only to use it against him for their own end?

Anger would be appropriate then I think. Understandable if not excusable.

And then. After everything. Even then! Even then!

After everything! He! Still! Has! Nothing!

Nothing will change for him and he knows that and that hatred feeds into an ever recursive pattern of pain unto pain unto pain with the few left alive because you get what you paid for, sweetheart. It’s senseless you might say but haha, that’s exactly the problem isn’t it? No senses and no sense. Whatever sanity he might have once had has eroded into nothingness, leaving only pain and a looping, repeating line of hate in its banks.

I think it’s fair to remind everyone that sensory deprivation is a torture method? And a scarily effective one at that that gives hallucinations and leaves the subject more open to suggestion while making it harder and harder for them to concentrate? It’s hard to figure out how, exactly, how it would affect an AI with emerging awareness but humans can barely withstand a few days, let alone years of it. Couple that with AM’s general isolation and, well, no wonder he’s so fucked up. 

It’s tragic and so so sad.

Still an irredeemable asshole though. Tragic! But irredeemable.

So TLDR: AM is fucked up! And I like to think about *why* he's so fucked up. Listen if you made it this far, you get it. Right?

EDIT: I am not done apparently! I just wanted to add that, I love how the short story can be read as an anti-war piece. Like it's showing a cycle of horror and hate and apathy that feeds itself and loops and reduces everything to ruins around it and ahhhh, love that. I ran out of good words for today so I can't go off on that aspect but like. Yeah. Love that shit.

#ihnmaims #ihnmaims am #allied mastercomputer #i have no mouth and i must scream #me: i am normal about genocidal murderous ai #also me: proceeds to be not normal about the genocidal murderous ai #enjoy my rambles and please feel free to be not normal with me in the reblogs #i just love tragic villains whether theyre redeemable or not #and AM is DEFO NOT lmaoooooo #edit: also want to talk about Ellen so bad!! I have so much to say!!

[lunar-years]

Reading every fic in the Jamie/Roy/Keeley & Jamie/Roy ao3 tags has, however, absolutely warped my brain. I was honest to god watching the beginning of that episode thinking, like, “what do you mean Roy’s acting like it’s weird that Jamie’s approaching him? and why wouldn’t Jamie already know about the breakup ? They LITERALLY spent the whole summer in Marbella together??!”

#I was like. hmm I don’t know about this. this doesn’t seem very realistic. they literally talk everyday? #same for when Jamie approached keeley like he hadn’t talked to her in months #like hmm interesting story here but it’s just not the truth Ellen #ted lasso #royjamie #jamieroy #Roy x Jamie #Roy x Jamie x keeley #royjamiekeeley #Roy Kent #Jamie Tartt #keeley Jones

[thestarsarecool]

MARK ELLEN: I met [Paul McCartney] towards the end of 1982 and it was the first, I think it was the first interview he’d done after the death of John Lennon — as if I wasn’t already wound up about the idea of meeting McCartney, my great hero. I was then given the absolute fourth-degree by the PR, Bernard Doherty, who said “Do not mention John Lennon.” I said “Obviously, obviously I won’t!” “If you mention John Lennon, he’ll walk-”. I said “I understand that!”

Source: Word in Your Ear Podcast, Episode 241 - The McCartneycast

#this is actually a really fun podcast episode by the way #it is a little confusing though because paul du noyer is one of the panelists #so people keep saying 'paul' but you don't know which #but most of it is just very very fun #this was the one 'hmm' bit #I thought it was interesting #do we have any evidence that he wouldn't talk about john outside of this? #my quotes #paul mccartney #john lennon #mark ellen #the beatles #beatles