#but still :(

[vangh17a]

pspspsps you guys want to vote for Swanatello and @tangledinink so badly over here

#my art #swanatello #i got carried away sob #but still #augh #swannie was so much fun to draw

[tunguszka20]

Odysseus: I lost my mentor—

Athena: Nah, I just dumped your ass.

#like idk he's talking about athena as if she died #like he mentions her on the same page witn polites and his mom #and i mean i can totally understand why #but still #i find it funny so i had to point out #epic the musical #odysseus #athena #epic athena #epic odysseus #odysseus and athena #epic the underworld saga #monster

[pastellbg]

The best bachelor boys

#Stardew valley #sdv #sdv sam #sdv Sebastian #sdv shane #sdv elliot #sdv alex #sdv harvey #art #original art #digital art #artists on tumblr #fanart #Man group photos are hard to draw #Also i had to make this image smaller #it was like 5000 x 5300 or smth #and it physically pained me #ik making the canvas bigger wouldn’t work out #but still #Also this image took ten minutes to load #before I could post it #My internet is slow

[tea-kettlezz]

Tbh while I respect and understand ppl disliking certain vessels esp ones like Razor, Nightmare, and Tower (and a couple more) who are just straight up cruel, I just can't hate any of them. It doesn't feel right. Even Vessels I don't like all that much personally, I can't bring myself to feel anything worse than tolerating them but appreciating their narrative role

And when thinking about it more, I think I feel this way bc WE make her into what she is. She's only cruel bc of us. She's only distrustful bc of us. She becomes terrible bc WE made her like that. It seems kinda unfair to me personally to hate her when I'm the exact reason she's so fucked up and awful like that in the first place. When what she becomes is what she is thought to be

I feel like Shifty herself is the only Princess this doesn't apply to (though this is based off the assumption she has more control over what form she takes and what she becomes than her vessels do)

Debated posting in the tags but I need to see if this is just a me thing or if anyone else feels this way about the vessels

#slay the princess #do NOT take this as me saying you cant dislike any of the vessels #i mean #im side-eyeing you IMMENSELY if you hate the princess as a whole ngl #or hate most vessels #but still #hate them if you want i cant control you only silently judge you #i should probably also clarify that hating vessels for trauma related reasons is an entirely different can of worms and very understandable

[hastalahamon]

anyhow

i support kenta's rights

and kenta's wrongs

#pit babe the series #pit babe the series 2 #that's a weird joke to crack about a human trafficker #he was coerced #sure #but still #he's just a baby

[rubixcubi]

Why am I just now noticing he had eyeshadow on

#anything for the camera ig #i know it’s stage/screen makeup #but still #the golden banana hammock #mark hamill

[charredcheddar]

I know everyone was crying about Polites but i feel the need to mention that I cannot listen to Open Arms without having emotions about his death so the reprise absolutely destroyed me.

#epic the musical #the underworld saga #I knew it was coming #but still #i was not prepared

[unknownfacelessfanfictions]

Shout out to that asshole that is the reason why I only fall in love with the weird alien characters.

#only joking #love you darling #but still #star trek #x men #x men comics #x men movies #x men 97 #x men the animated series #nightcrawler #kurt wagner

[ghostscrown]

Btw I just love the platonic physical affection between the ninjas we've been seeing. Like how they hug each other and shoulder pats and hold hands for comfort etc. It's just so nice seeing very close platonic affection like that in a cartoon.

#the reunion hugs??? #cole holding nya's hand wjen he was about to leave??? #nya holding lloyd's hand when he was having a panic attack too?? or comforting him in the forest when he was having visions??? #and all of the other very close hugs??? #between all of them basically #they hug so often #shoulder pat everytime they get the chance #so much platonic physical affection in this arc #it makes so much sense since they've been all in this mess together since they were teens/kids #but still #my heart #my heart guys #ninjago #lego ninjago #dragons rising #ninjago dragons rising #ninjago spoilers #kind of

[fujobritta]

britta haters are so annoying . i dont care if you think shes a bitch shes still probably a better person than you are

#shui talks #community nbc #britta perry #like i get where it comes from #but still #she means well most of the time like leave her alone #shes just a girl trying her damndest ... #or whatever the word is . personally i dont care enough

[thepunkmuppet]

randomly getting into one band of a specific genre when I already have such mixed music taste is so wack. because let’s be real I probably would really like pierce the veil, the used, fob, paramore, etc, as well as more of the rock and pop punk type of genres. that is kind of how music works, similar sound waves give you similar feelings, crazy concept. but MAN the hyperfixation is so strong and so specific that I honestly just want more. just give me more of mcr. that’s it that’s my new favourite genre

plus like I’m sure all these other bands are nice but guys they literally don’t even have gerard way :(

#also getting big into mcr was a COMMITMENT #a good fun one that I’m still enjoying #but still #IDK IF I CAN BE THAT INSUFFERABLE AGAIN IT’S HARD WORK #mcr #my chem #my chemical romance #my chemical fucking romance #gerard way #ray toro #mikey way #frank iero #emo #emo music

[woodsyrain56]

Just finished Rhythm of War and basically,

But also made me realize Brandon Sanderson really is my favorite writer of all time. I’ll put these under the cut for spoilers but I ALMOST CRIED AT WORK BECAUSE OF THIS MAN!!

“Journey before Destination you bastard” made me almost yell out loud, GOD I LOVE NAVANI

The scene with older Tien and Kaladin stabbed my soul I swear

Teft :((

Navani using science and doing so much stuff in general…storms omg

Taravangian is gonna make everything so much worse and tbh I can’t wait to see where that leads

MAYA TALKED I LOVE HER YOUR HONOR TELL THOSE BOZOS OFF

Shallan finally letting herself get those memories back and letting veil go also almost made me cry but in a good way, I’m so happy for her

Wit/Hoid was actually, afraid?!? AND ODIUM TOOK SOME OF HIS MEMORIES?!

I know I’m just kinda rambling but just, I am so glad I found this series and can’t wait for stormlight 5.

#I am so in love with this series man #made me cry like a baby #in my head cause I was at work #but still #cosmere #brandon sanderson #stormlight spoilers #stormlight archive #row spoilers

[chuckecheeses]

So much color and tone variation just in the simple and humble domestic shorthair black kitty…

#the brown is from being out in the sun she is faded like old t shirt and the silver is probably bc she’s older #but still #dizzy

[lumsel]

chinese room 2

So there’s this guy, right? He sits in a room by himself, with a computer and a keyboard full of Chinese characters. He doesn’t know Chinese, though, in fact he doesn’t even realise that Chinese is a language. He just thinks it’s a bunch of odd symbols. Anyway, the computer prints out a paragraph of Chinese, and he thinks, whoa, cool shapes. And then a message is displayed on the computer monitor: which character comes next?

This guy has no idea how the hell he’s meant to know that, so he just presses a random character on the keyboard. And then the computer goes BZZZT, wrong! The correct character was THIS one, and it flashes a character on the screen. And the guy thinks, augh, dammit! I hope I get it right next time. And sure enough, computer prints out another paragraph of Chinese, and then it asks the guy, what comes next?

He guesses again, and he gets it wrong again, and he goes augh again, and this carries on for a while. But eventually, he presses the button and it goes DING! You got it right this time! And he is so happy, you have no idea. This is the best day of his life. He is going to do everything in his power to make that machine go DING again. So he starts paying attention. He looks at the paragraph of Chinese printed out by the machine, and cross-compares it against all the other paragraphs he’s gotten. And, recall, this guy doesn’t even know that this is a language, it’s just a sequence of weird symbols to him. But it’s a sequence that forms patterns. He notices that if a particular symbol is displayed, then the next symbol is more likely to be this one. He notices some symbols are more common in general. Bit by bit, he starts to draw statistical inferences about the symbols, he analyses the printouts every way he can, he writes extensive notes to himself on how to recognise the patterns.

Over time, his guesses begin to get more and more accurate. He hears those lovely DING sounds that indicate his prediction was correct more and more often, and he manages to use that to condition his instincts better and better, picking up on cues consciously and subconsciously to get better and better at pressing the right button on the keyboard. Eventually, his accuracy is like 70% or something -- pretty damn good for a guy who doesn’t even know Chinese is a language.

* * *

One day, something odd happens.

He gets a printout, the machine asks what character comes next, and he presses a button on the keyboard and-- silence. No sound at all. Instead, the machine prints out the exact same sequence again, but with one small change. The character he input on the keyboard has been added to the end of the sequence.

Which character comes next?

This weirds the guy out, but he thinks, well. This is clearly a test of my prediction abilities. So I’m not going to treat this printout any differently to any other printout made by the machine -- shit, I’ll pretend that last printout I got? Never even happened. I’m just going to keep acting like this is a normal day on the job, and I’m going to predict the next symbol in this sequence as if it was one of the thousands of printouts I’ve seen before. And that’s what he does! He presses what symbol comes next, and then another printout comes out with that symbol added to the end, and then he presses what he thinks will be the next symbol in that sequence. And then, eventually, he thinks, “hm. I don’t think there’s any symbol after this one. I think this is the end of the sequence.” And so he presses the “END” button on his keyboard, and sits back, satisfied.

Unbeknownst to him, the sequence of characters he input wasn’t just some meaningless string of symbols. See, the printouts he was getting, they were all always grammatically correct Chinese. And that first printout he’d gotten that day in particular? It was a question: “How do I open a door.” The string of characters he had just input, what he had determined to be the most likely string of symbols to come next, formed a comprehensible response that read, “You turn the handle and push”.

* * *

One day you decide to visit this guy’s office. You’ve heard he’s learning Chinese, and for whatever reason you decide to test his progress. So you ask him, “Hey, which character means dog?”

He looks at you like you’ve got two heads. You may as well have asked him which of his shoes means “dog”, or which of the hairs on the back of his arm. There’s no connection in his mind at all between language and his little symbol prediction game, indeed, he thinks of it as an advanced form of mathematics rather than anything to do with linguistics. He hadn’t even conceived of the idea that what he was doing could be considered a kind of communication any more than algebra is. He says to you, “Buddy, they’re just funny symbols. No need to get all philosophical about it.”

Suddenly, another printout comes out of the machine. He stares at it, puzzles over it, but you can tell he doesn’t know what it says. You do, though. You’re fluent in the language. You can see that it says the words, “Do you actually speak Chinese, or are you just a guy in a room doing statistics and shit?”

The guy leans over to you, and says confidently, “I know it looks like a jumble of completely random characters. But it’s actually a very sophisticated mathematical sequence,” and then he presses a button on the keyboard. And another, and another, and another, and slowly but surely he composes a sequence of characters that, unbeknownst to him, reads “Yes, I know Chinese fluently! If I didn’t I would not be able to speak with you.”

That is how ChatGPT works.

#txt #ai shit #it’s not a perfect analogy #chatgpt doesn't think the symbols have no meaning #rather it doesn't think at all #all it does is the maths #but still #effortpost

[may12324]

Karlach Cliffgate- fire of my heart

#i love her so much! #baldur's gate 3 #karlach cliffgate #karlach #bg3 #baldurs gate #my art #baldurs gate 3 #i hand drew all that infernal script #its what her tattoos say #well i drew it in pen #but still #it looks so fancy i lvoe it

[amnestyliketaz]

in honor of the nimona movie (it’s so good i’m gonna scream and cry for the next million years) i must share my favorite nimona art ever

drawn by ND stevenson ofc and posted on twitter a few years ago i believe

do i even have to SAY anything? the shark, it’s not rocket surgery, baby nimona, the DOMESTICITY of it all im gonna explode

UPDATE!!!! GAY DADS AU THREAD https://twitter.com/gingerhazing/status/1676058949504892928?s=46

#anyways stream nimona #and buy the book #and read it #god. #i’ve been here for a year and a half welcome everyone #so glad i’m finally getting some nimona CONTENT #nimona #nimona movie #nd stevenson #ballister blackheart #ballister boldheart #my only question is why did they change his last name #i mean i get it #but still #ambrosius goldenloin #just found out this is called the gay dads au by nd #what if i scream and cry #amnesty original #gay dads au