Boobs Move. I get what you mean but boobs are not static and move with the rest of the body. It's not inherently sexual
ok but there's a difference between realistic jiggle physics, enough that it's noticeable and they don't look stiff, and whateverr Lara Croft ass fuckery was going on in SA2 where they didn't stop moving for several seconds after you turned the camera
i dont know how to express how i genuinly hope sonic stuff doesn't mass change rouge's design
i think female characters should be allowed to have boobs, actually.
people have them. she's never been sexualized in canon for it. she literally just has them, keep it that way
aight but can we draw the line at jiggle physics
cause SA2 definitely had those and I would not be sad if my little TVY7 show didn't
listen I say this with patience bc some people may genuinely have not thought about this before but if you firmly say “AI art is terribly unethical and steals from artists” (which is correct) but then turn around and use voice AIs to generate songs/voice lines that sound like your favourite voice actors or singers……………………………………that is also AI art and it is also terribly unethical
just a few examples of voice actors making their stance clear for all the ppl who are trying to disagree w me
Okay, but where do we draw the line? Are YouTube Poops harmless fun but the second a neural network is involved (regardless of how crappy it sounds) it becomes Evil™? Is it only evil if the thing being said is particularly heinous? Is it okay if the audio quality is bad enough and it's blindingly obvious it wasn't the actual VA that said it? Is any use of someone's voice without their consent Evil? If so, where does that leave YTPs? Do I need to track down every voice actor in a movie and seek their permission before making my silly little edit where their character says naughty words?
What about "Demo finds Spy's fursona"? That was made with AI, and I'm pretty sure it wasn't run past the original voice actors before being published. By any definition in this post, then, it should not have been made. Are we saying that's the case? If not, how can we say that without being hypocritical? We can't give it an exception by virtue of being hilarious.
What if I take an existing voice line (something the VA said, pulled straight from the source without changing it at all) and take it out of context so it sounds suggestive? Is that still bad? If so, how do we solve that? Who decides what use is acceptable? Do we ask the VA for permission every time their line is used? That seems awfully tedious, both for the VAs and the content creators. Do we disallow any use of anything a VA has said outside of its original context and original medium? I think that seems a bit extreme, and it seems that at least one of the VAs quoted above (Bryson Baugus) agrees.
If we took this argument to its logical conclusion, fan content would be illegal. Clearly nobody wants that. Where do we draw the line?
I love this man so much
I KNOW RIGHT???????
who would possibly have guessed that the best autistic rep ever conceived by mankind would be wrapped up in a tiny free indie game on itch.io?
well, apart from like 90% of this site's userbase?
I’M SORRY, THE CAR WINKS??????? BEFORE IT PULLS THAT TURN AND LEAVES????
*wiggles foot*
*bounces leg*
*shakes ass*
*taps fingers*
*flaps arms to stim*
how do you infinite scroller webcomic people DO IT
its so funny to me that people on twitter n tiktok are like "ok but porns still banned on tumblr so at least we're better then them" as if they dont have to typ3 w0rd$ I1k3 th!$ to get around their censors
y34h, 4t l34st on th1s s1t3 you c4n t3ll th4t th3 p3rson h4s 4 p4rt1cul4r, mor3 4nnoy1ng r34son to typ3 l1k3 th1s
i want to you to eat deodorant
I hate that I know how to read this with basically no trouble.
0|-| D0n7 u VVur33, 1 |<4|\| 83 3\/n m0@|2 UnRiid48L3. 3y3 6Ru u9 4wn |_337$p3@|< m3h53LpH
this took me like three minutes to parse, but i managed it.
"Oh dont u wuree, i kan be evn moar unriidable. eye gru up awn leetspeak mehselph"
"Oh don't you worry, I can be even more unreadable. I grew up on leetspeak myself."
Gosh, that was agonizing. I'm honestly impressed. How do you do it? How do you come up with something that mutilated but still just barely intelligible? |-| for H, |\| for N, and \/ for V are all understandable, but what sort of sick twisted mind does it take to come up with |2 for R? Not to mention mixing multiple different substitutions of the same letter (@ and 4 both representing A, $ and 5 both being S) in the same block of text to make it that much harder to decode. If you'd put multiple letters on the same substitution (like Homestuck 8 being both "b" and "ate") on top of everything else I think I would've failed.
No hate btw. I'm genuinely impressed both with you for coming up with something this difficult to parse while still being possible and with myself for managing to parse it.
And a little tempted by the powers of the dark side.
As I said, I grew up on leetspeak. I saw plenty of people having fun in IRC, in Runescape, in now long-dead forum boards, and of course in fanfic comments, and one of my favorite webcomics at the time was Megatokyo, where, well... here's the ninth ever strip:
Additionally, around that time, txt msgs wr th way 2 go. hard lim on # of chars, nd u pay /txt sent. So I'm also well-practiced in knowing how to expand, contract, and replace indeevihdyewull letrs and saundz.
And that's even without getting into my interest in linguistics. I was enraptured for days when I first learned about the existence of Cockney rhyming slang and thieves' cants.
Anyway, I'll leave you with this XKCD comic and the sudden realization that I've started all four of these paragraphs with the same letter.
its so funny to me that people on twitter n tiktok are like "ok but porns still banned on tumblr so at least we're better then them" as if they dont have to typ3 w0rd$ I1k3 th!$ to get around their censors
y34h, 4t l34st on th1s s1t3 you c4n t3ll th4t th3 p3rson h4s 4 p4rt1cul4r, mor3 4nnoy1ng r34son to typ3 l1k3 th1s
i want to you to eat deodorant
I hate that I know how to read this with basically no trouble.
0|-| D0n7 u VVur33, 1 |<4|\| 83 3\/n m0@|2 UnRiid48L3. 3y3 6Ru u9 4wn |_337$p3@|< m3h53LpH
this took me like three minutes to parse, but i managed it.
"Oh dont u wuree, i kan be evn moar unriidable. eye gru up awn leetspeak mehselph"
"Oh don't you worry, I can be even more unreadable. I grew up on leetspeak myself."
Gosh, that was agonizing. I'm honestly impressed. How do you do it? How do you come up with something that mutilated but still just barely intelligible? |-| for H, |\| for N, and \/ for V are all understandable, but what sort of sick twisted mind does it take to come up with |2 for R? Not to mention mixing multiple different substitutions of the same letter (@ and 4 both representing A, $ and 5 both being S) in the same block of text to make it that much harder to decode. If you'd put multiple letters on the same substitution (like Homestuck 8 being both "b" and "ate") on top of everything else I think I would've failed.
No hate btw. I'm genuinely impressed both with you for coming up with something this difficult to parse while still being possible and with myself for managing to parse it.
And a little tempted by the powers of the dark side.
Alright. I gotta try this at least once.
|-|@Y3, 7|┑!$ !5|\|7 4|<700411Y 7|┑@ |-|/\┍D! 1 7|-|1┍┑|< / |╯00D 937 j005┬ 70 7|-|15 50|2t 0F 3D0m
writing that somehow took more brainpower than reading what @dzamie wrote. the spacing got weird when i broke out the unicode box drawings so i put 3 spaces between words to make it more obvious
good luck guys. first person to decode that gets $5, go
"Hey, this isn't actually that hard! I think I could get used to this sort of freedom."
Unicode's always tricky to use, especially because it's not always universally implemented across devices. I tend to stick to ASCII, partly for guaranteed implementation, but admittedly more because I don't need to mess with inserting characters; it's all here on my normal keyboard.
well that was disappointingly fast. what's your PayPal
There's a surprising degree of art to this though. It's not as easy as people make it look. There's effort and choices and creativity that go into these. Never in a million years would I have guessed that leetspeak could be an art form but here we are
its so funny to me that people on twitter n tiktok are like "ok but porns still banned on tumblr so at least we're better then them" as if they dont have to typ3 w0rd$ I1k3 th!$ to get around their censors
y34h, 4t l34st on th1s s1t3 you c4n t3ll th4t th3 p3rson h4s 4 p4rt1cul4r, mor3 4nnoy1ng r34son to typ3 l1k3 th1s
i want to you to eat deodorant
I hate that I know how to read this with basically no trouble.
0|-| D0n7 u VVur33, 1 |<4|\| 83 3\/n m0@|2 UnRiid48L3. 3y3 6Ru u9 4wn |_337$p3@|< m3h53LpH
this took me like three minutes to parse, but i managed it.
"Oh dont u wuree, i kan be evn moar unriidable. eye gru up awn leetspeak mehselph"
"Oh don't you worry, I can be even more unreadable. I grew up on leetspeak myself."
Gosh, that was agonizing. I'm honestly impressed. How do you do it? How do you come up with something that mutilated but still just barely intelligible? |-| for H, |\| for N, and \/ for V are all understandable, but what sort of sick twisted mind does it take to come up with |2 for R? Not to mention mixing multiple different substitutions of the same letter (@ and 4 both representing A, $ and 5 both being S) in the same block of text to make it that much harder to decode. If you'd put multiple letters on the same substitution (like Homestuck 8 being both "b" and "ate") on top of everything else I think I would've failed.
No hate btw. I'm genuinely impressed both with you for coming up with something this difficult to parse while still being possible and with myself for managing to parse it.
And a little tempted by the powers of the dark side.
Alright. I gotta try this at least once.
|-|@Y3, 7|┑!$ !5|\|7 4|<700411Y 7|┑@ |-|/\┍D! 1 7|-|1┍┑|< / |╯00D 937 j005┬ 70 7|-|15 50|2t 0F 3D0m
writing that somehow took more brainpower than reading what @dzamie wrote. the spacing got weird when i broke out the unicode box drawings so i put 3 spaces between words to make it more obvious
good luck guys. first person to decode that gets $5, go
its so funny to me that people on twitter n tiktok are like "ok but porns still banned on tumblr so at least we're better then them" as if they dont have to typ3 w0rd$ I1k3 th!$ to get around their censors
y34h, 4t l34st on th1s s1t3 you c4n t3ll th4t th3 p3rson h4s 4 p4rt1cul4r, mor3 4nnoy1ng r34son to typ3 l1k3 th1s
i want to you to eat deodorant
I hate that I know how to read this with basically no trouble.
0|-| D0n7 u VVur33, 1 |<4|\| 83 3\/n m0@|2 UnRiid48L3. 3y3 6Ru u9 4wn |_337$p3@|< m3h53LpH
this took me like three minutes to parse, but i managed it.
"Oh dont u wuree, i kan be evn moar unriidable. eye gru up awn leetspeak mehselph"
"Oh don't you worry, I can be even more unreadable. I grew up on leetspeak myself."
Gosh, that was agonizing. I'm honestly impressed. How do you do it? How do you come up with something that mutilated but still just barely intelligible? |-| for H, |\| for N, and \/ for V are all understandable, but what sort of sick twisted mind does it take to come up with |2 for R? Not to mention mixing multiple different substitutions of the same letter (@ and 4 both representing A, $ and 5 both being S) in the same block of text to make it that much harder to decode. If you'd put multiple letters on the same substitution (like Homestuck 8 being both "b" and "ate") on top of everything else I think I would've failed.
No hate btw. I'm genuinely impressed both with you for coming up with something this difficult to parse while still being possible and with myself for managing to parse it.
And a little tempted by the powers of the dark side.
“Wolves are a keystone species and important to the environment. They control the population of deer and keep the herds healthy by hunting the sick, weak, and elderly.”
why is “keeping the herds healthy” a good thing in this context? because you want to hunt only healthy deer yourself, so let the wolves eat the sick and old ones?
like I’m fine with saying that animals only exist because we allow them to and we shape their lives for our personal benefit but I probably wouldn’t base that argument on it being good for them.
Nah man, deer would overpopulate and eat the entire environment without wolves. And I do mean that. Without wolves to control the population, rivers literally dry up and forests can’t grow. The deer would starve to death.
so the problem solves itself!
silver-birds said: @argumate yes, at the cost of many other lives, essentially destroying that ecosystem. The wolves eat the deer, keeping them in low numbers so they don’t do actual harm to their environment.
there are ten times as many humans in the United States as deer; hell there are almost ten times as many cars as deer, doing far more harm to their environment and destroying ecosystems and species with abandon, yet my repeated suggestions to cull the American population by feeding them to wolves fall on deaf ears!
and of course controlling the population can't be done by eating merely the sick, weak, and elderly, it requires eating the mothers and the children, so that whole "health of the herd" thing is obviously not the whole story.
"we use deer and wolves as tools to shape the environment in ways that suit our personal needs, they have no moral weight in our system of ethics" would be a more honest summary.
love to push back against pro-wolf propaganda put out by Big Wolf
i want to refute this but i'm honestly not sure what you're even trying to argue for
Gamer moment
true gamers are equal opportunity haters
I used an enby pride flag in league (which gives you a little flag trail behind your character) and someone said to me:
"What are your pronouns so I can insult you properly"
if your argument against sonic (or anyone else) having low empathy is "yeah but he helps people :)" have you considered shutting the fuck up
replace "safeguards" with "empathy"
i don't need empathy to know that helping people is the right thing to do and to do it for no other reason than that
in the context of this webcomic (which is called Freeefall and which is the best sci-fi media I've ever laid hands on), florence is a genetically modified red wolf who has full human consciousness and also (since she is an AI) a set of safeguards preventing her from harming humans or allowing humans to come to harm and forcing her to obey direct orders given by qualified personnel. a major plot point of the comic is that she has found ways around these safeguards and has chosen to protect humans anyway.
freefall is, almost in its entirety, one big philosophical statement challenging the notion that once AI gets the chance it's only a matter of time before it rises up and kills us all. with a slap dash of real-world science and a healthy side order of jokes. after that arc concluded it moved on to talking about the philosophy of communism vs capitalism but for about 90% of the archive it's basically just about
and honestly mark stanley is so right. i think that is really cool and florence is my #1 blorbo but that's beside the point.
tangent over. as i said at the beginning i think that the same arguments challenging the idea that robots/AI need safeguards to be ethical also apply to the idea that people need empathy to be ethical. just bc i don't feel someone else's pain or necessarily understand why they feel the way that they do does not stop me from knowing that the right thing to do is to help them out w/ it and proceeding to do that without being asked to
no writing workshop can help you improve your writing as much as this screenshot can
The best way to remedy this that I’ve found is not to just swap out the word “said” for a different word, but to punctuate sentences with describing the actions of characters as they’re saying it, or describing how they’re saying it:
“That’s alright. What’s your name?” I asked.
“My name’s Harry Potter, although most people call me Vampire these days.” He grumbled.
I sat more upright. “Why?” I looked at him, pretending to be stupid.
“Because I love the taste of human blood.” I could tell by the way he mouthed the words he was trying to show his fangs while he talked. It just made the words sound stupid.
“Well, I’m a vampire.” I said, unimpressed.
“Really?” He seemed surprised.
“Yeah.” I said. I flicked my hair with my hands, reflexively. It made me seem more “cool”.
I tend to think it’s both a lot more fun to write, less tedious to read, and you can get across a lot more personality this way. As opposed to getting so desperate for new words to use your characters start to ejaculate whatever they’re saying
me when i reblog my mutuals flop posts
i'm just looking at the filesize
bro wrote down every word the teacher said plus all the gestures they did as they said it
do you have any idea how much text can fit in 32MB? and word docs are compressed???? i mean ik there's stuff in them besides the raw text (formatting data etc) which is stored as xml (which is probably the least efficient data encoding format known to man) but still
