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Undertale: You Don’t See Me Mini-Series Comic: New pages weekly, I hope.

To TLDR the issues without ranting about Wuk Lamat. *Insufficient stakes. *New-Cultures mostly lacked conflict. *Pacing was painfully slow. *Scions had no reason to be there. *Story pivot came too late. *Story pivot mirrored prior stories too closely. *Sidelining the MC didn't work. There, that's the most calmly analytical I can get about this topic without devolving into an angry lil fanboy. XD

@xWolfBoi Hopefully. Dawntrail was honestly one of the worst written games I've ever seen and killed my enthusiasm for FFXIV for quite awhile. Mind you, it's been slowly rekindling even before all this but that's still not the sort of reaction an expansion should leave people with.

It was worth it. #FFXIV #FF14

@eldarmark @HMBohemond Yeah, seeing these people booted was a real 'good riddance' moment. Hopefully Japanese companies in general will be more careful about letting crazy-eyed activists onto their teams. I mean, we can always hope. XD

Yup. Fired/forced out, amongst others The pink haired weirdo localizer for FF14 who supposedly was heavily involved with the Dawntrail story -- allegedly, she wrote Wok Lmao, the god awful mary sue author insert The Japanese-American Localization Project Manager in SE JP who bragged about having a "diverse global team" and was behind forcing the JP devs to pre-censor games so he wouldn't have to do it later John Heinecke, the US CPO who bragged about having the ear of the JP CEO and lying to him about how western markets won't buy games with pretty girls or Japanese culture in them A purge all of them and their subordinates around November.

Yeah guess what. Pandering to woke westerners wasn't just a problem with Dawntrail. Squeenix has seen this infect every release to disastrous results. Did we just forget an entire studio was shuttered over it?

@hoshizorarock Heck, it's not like anyone could manage it even worse. Give people a day-pass to go visit the national parks and I'd be all for it! (I'm kidding of course, but I'm not going to pass on an opportunity to make fun of California.)

日本はカルフォルニアをゲットしました。 アメリカ人の皆様、気が変わらないうちに書面にサインをお願いします。

Pardon for being so quiet lately, I've been very busy with things. There's obviously been some spring cleaning of course. Rather than drag this on though, I'll just give you all the bullet-points version. *March was miserable. The effects of my neck injury got so bad that I nearly collapsed in a grocery store at one point, due to numbness induced vertigo. *Since then and basically by accident, I discovered a drug combo that seems to have reduced my symptoms to the point where I can have a mostly normal life again. *This does not mean I'm recovered, and in fact it's looking like surgery will be needed to correct things. But this may keep me comfortable and functional until then. *Because of this, I've jumped into a number of projects. *I've been working on creating Creamsicle flavored pancake syrup, and I think I almost have it down. *I've been doing to preliminary planning for restarting my dormant Undertale fanfic, Long Road. I would've started this already, but I decided I should finish my computer upgrades first. *My computer upgrades have been extensive, but aren't really typical. Mostly they've involved transferring my existing machine to a new case, adding a second GPU, and merging a second computer into the first with a dedicated direct Ethernet line so they can work together on distributed workloads. *I'm close to being finished, shockingly. It's mostly just a bunch of system configuration while I wait for a second riser cable. *No, this is mostly for hobbyist purposes, I don't plan to do anything too crazy with all of this. So yeah, lots of stuff has been going on recently.

To be fair, I'd certainly love to create something that drew inspiration from anime someday. However, on the off chance that happened, I don't think I'd call it anime. Not unless I managed to recruit a lot of people from that part of the world anyway. Fan as I may be, I still couldn't claim to be able to represent the cultural heritage that the term anime would imply. That's fine though, there's no shame in going off to do your own thing.

Naaaah. Bo "Fans" not asking for globalisation, only Tourists do. Anime Fans know that Anime are great because Japanese values and culture differs from our own. That what makes anime appealing, they can tell story. Globalisation is about sterilisation and erasing identity, to making everyone the same, that will destroy Anime like it's destroying Western Animation.

I like Elon Musk, but he's not an economist and is speaking outside his area of expertise on this one. Mind you, most economists aren't entirely sure what's about to happen either. I myself have some theories based on what we saw during the industrial revolution, but we don't really know how well those historical parallels will hold there.

Komrade Elon.

Hmmm, I don't like this proposed application. To be frank, I am a fairly big proponent of AI, but I've never liked these videos that reimagine anime scenes as live action to start with. Putting aside issues of respect, they never look right - and there's a reason for that. When somebody is creating something for others to enjoy, there's a high degree of deliberation behind everything the audience sees. That's lost with neural rendering. What the audience sees is basically the AI's best guess based on the averages created by its training data. Because of that, subtle deliberate details tend to get washed away in the process. There are appropriate and sensible ways to use this technology, but this isn't it, I'm sorry.

Neural rendering filters will soon let you watch in whatever style you want. Or game in whatever style you want.

The problem with these sorts of policies is that they're pretty much fundamentally unworkable on a very basic level. AI can't really do this sort of thing, and that's not going to change anytime soon. The amount of data that would be involved would dwarf anything the came before it, and there's no super computer in the world that could process it at a rate that would be fast enough to make it anywhere remotely workable. Then there's the fact that it's politically unworkable as well. For this to work, pretty every every nation on earth would have to get on board with this, which isn't going to happen. Even if you ignore the fact that many nations actively profit and benefit for not going along with this stuff, there would still be the fact that going along with it would effectively mean handing over their sovereignty to whoever was holding the keys to all this. I'll skip how physics works against this too, because that's getting into some higher concepts and it's late. What I won't skip however is the fact that AI makes this all LESS likely to happen, not more. No really, the idea that AI is the key to all this is something that's pushed by a certain class on conspiracy theorist that are effectively the successors to the uni-bomber, save that they aren't as intelligent. No, this stuff is real, but the people that have been pushing these policies got the ball rolling on them many-many years before AI was anywhere close to a thing. They are trying to integrate it into their plans of course, but it's a fundamental mismatch for what they are trying to do. The biggest advantage the rich and powerful have always had isn't intelligence or raw-wealth, but human resources. Once you reach a point where you can freely hire people to do stuff for you, your capabilities and options absolutely sky-rocket. The people pushing this sort of stuff are good with money or have generational wealth, but overall aren't that intelligent. (they dumb). That hasn't mattered, because they could hire people that weren't as dumb to push their various hair-brained ideas for them. Well, AI pretty much gives everyone-everywhere the exact same ability. It levels the playing field, rather than further tilting it. Also, no the fact that the most powerful models are locked behind data centers does not matter. There are open source models that are 75-80% as good at most tasks that can already be ran locally. Yes, data-center models will always have an advantage, but who cares if the data-centers can spin up a genius digital lawyer when everyone has access to a very good digital. Not only does that largely bridge the gap in capability, the sheer fact that everyone has access to would make hiding behind lawyers an increasingly laughable prospect. The only way these people could actually stop this is by basically breaking everything and trying to stuff the genie back in the bottle. Not only would that probably not work, these people are too dumb to realize that's pretty much their only option. They're too busy trying to ride the cyclone as it were. They're basically trying to amass as much wealth as possible now hoping it'll make up the difference. It won't, but throwing money at problems is what they do.

Everyone will be given a Digital ID or you don't get to use the internet. We need the internet to buy and sell. Currency will be digital. No ID, no banking, no job, no food, no life. That ID will be used to track us elsewhere. What we do. What we buy. Who we talk to. What we say. We will be scored accordingly. AI will take our jobs and micromanage our lives. It will be controlled by corporations and the government. We will own nothing and be happy. Unless we step out of line. Do I have this right?

Depends on how far and how fast it goes. If we're merely talking about a period of high churn while unemployment remains below 10%, then I don't think UBI would be a good idea. It would be highly inflationary, would promote unemployment, and could be easily gamed for political influence. However, if it's closer to 50%, that's a whole other story. Society can support sone individuals who have been displaced from work for a time, but that number is limited. If the number was closer to 50%, that would be well in excess of what society could organically accommodate. Extreme measures would need to be taken simply to keep things functioning. I don't think it'll come to that, personally. We'll see tho.

Universal HIGH INCOME via checks issued by the Federal government is the best way to deal with unemployment caused by AI. AI/robotics will produce goods & services far in excess of the increase in the money supply, so there will not be inflation.

@harukaawake It's not really our business, so you guys knock yourself out. 👍

🇯🇵 Some foreign accounts are telling Japanese people to not revise our constitution and raise an army. Unfortunately for them, Japan is going to have an army and no amount of crying on X will change that.

As I've stated numerous times, this is very much unconstitutional. Not only can the government not place legal barriers against accessing legal information, they especially can't place barriers against accessing what's effectively the modern day printing press. You cannot effectively communicate with others in the modern world with a computer. That alone makes any legal barrier to using one extremely unconstitutional. Any middle schooler should know this, but tech industry money appearantly turns politicians into fools.

A new national law has been introduced to require all Operating Systems to have mandatory Age Verification. House Resolution 8250 : “To require operating system providers to verify the age of any user of an operating system, and for other purposes.” The Federal bill was introduced by Rep. Josh Gottheimer, Democrat from New Jersey. And is co-sponsored by Elise M. Stefanik, Republican from New York. The full text of the bill has not yet been made publicly available (but is expected shortly). congress.gov/bill/119th-con…

@negi1021 I love seeing peoples passions on display like this, it's great! XD

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@Black_D_Gamer1 The problem with digital on consoles is that they're closed platforms ran by companies that don't respect ownership very much. On PC, you can back up the relevant files and restore them later. With consoles, restoring digital titles once the storefront is gone is a lot harder.

Just buy the digital version blud. It ain't that deep. At some point, mostly all games will be digital. The era of popping in a game disc, after pre-ordering it from the store, is long-gone.

Xai will win this easily. Colorado has attempted to compel speech numerous times, and has been repeatedly shot down by the courts each and every time. The Colorado State government is pathetic, and is run by pathetic people. The fact that they repeatedly try the same thing over and over and over hoping for a different outcome, is proof enough of that.

🚨 BREAKING: xAI just sued Colorado over SB 24-205, the nation’s first comprehensive state AI anti-discrimination law. xAI says the law violates the First Amendment by pressuring models like Grok to align with the state’s preferred views on “algorithmic discrimination” rather than truth-seeking. Now the fight moves to federal court.

I looked into this, they're leaning very hard on delayed projects to reach that number. The biggest issue right now is that most power grids are simply maxed out, and adding more capacity in some way takes time. Mind you, I saw this coming. Investors were pretty sure that they could wave money at the problem to make it go away, but they couldn't. Instead they're basically doing things like upgrading older data centers, or renting capacity from Amazon.

Here it comes…

Oh, from what I'm hearing AI coding is now moving into Maturity. That's not to say it's fully mature, just that it's moved well past the realm of tinkering and is now fully useful for real world use. That alone puts it closer to maturity than pretty much anything else we've seen come out of the AI rush. But programming is a big one!

This line from FFmpeg about Antrhopic's Mythos is very ominous. FFmpeg powers all media on the web, Youtube, Netflix, OBS, VLC, etc. A security hole in FFmpeg would be very bad. They are famous for hand tuned, super optimized code. They are famous for rejecting AI slop. And now, they just thanked Anthropic for fixing 2 bugs that Mythos apparently found. They said the code "appear(s) to be written by humans." Appears is the concerning word. Can they just not tell anymore? I am careful about Anthropic marketing hype, which loves to overshoot or build fear in order to sell product. But FFmpeg is a very conservative, very serious coding org on some seriously difficult code. When they can't tell anymore, it makes me wonder if this is it. The chatter I see from VCs and Engineers with access in the week PRIOR to the announcement are also ominous. They knew. ( I don't trust anyone claiming to have access *now* because...well, people will make stuff up now. )

What tons of people on the right aren't getting, is that a ton of Democrat controlled states are pushing the exact same stuff. This is one of those cases where the big tech money is making surface level ideological divides largely meaningless. In other words, this push is showing us exactly who's willing to sell their soul for a nickel. Which is a really depressing thing to see, but at least now we know~!

Democrats are unironically protecting free speech more right now, than the so-called "conservative free speech warriors" & that's a VERY low bar to pass!

@ToonHive Man, I still have the DVD boxed set for this show around here somewhere. Definitely one of those shows that's worth coming back to every now and then.

31 years ago today, ‘Slayers’ premiered.