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Count Regal Inkwell
Count Regal Inkwell @ VinesNFluff @pawb.social
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What do you think will the tech bros jump on next?

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  • Yes I most definitely mean the recent hype train from the likes of chatGPT which kickstarted a market bubble.

    .... Because if I were to include all Machine Learning, that'd be silly. We've been using things with machine learning in it for decades now and -- No one cares. It's the best kind of technology in that it is invisible.

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  • Reminder: Your stick figure doodles during math class are worth more than the most gorgeous thing AI has spat out.

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  • I do feel that, unlike Crypto, AI (or, to drop the buzzwords, LLMs and other machine-learning based language processors and parsers) will end up having a place in the world.

    As it is NOW, the AI hype train is definitely an investment bubble and it will definitely explode in a glorious fashion eventually. Taking a lot of people down with it.

    But unlike Crypto, AI does -- It like does things, you know? Even if I personally feel like it's mostly only good for a toy, all my attempts to use it for anything society would deem "valuable" were frustrated, but at least I can RP with it when my friends aren't available. It is a thing that exists and can be used.

    Crypto was funny because it was literally useless. Just an incredibly wasteful techno-fetishistic speculative vehicle with precisely zero shame about being that.

    As for what's next, I think Quantum Computing might be it. That is, assuming the Tech Industry even survives the bubble's burst in its current form. Because everyone in the industry is putting all their eggs including theoretical eggs that haven't even been laid, and in fact there's not even a chicken in this AI hype train. And even with AI becoming part of people's lives, as I predict it indeed will, when the bubble does burst it might end up hitting the reset button on who is truly in charge of things.

    • I would like to find an illustrator for a book I've written. How do I do that without resorting to Reddit or Facebook?

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  • Deviantart, Mastodon (check the #portfolioDay hashtag, it's all artists self-promoting, they do it every few months, and many of them have commissions open), Furaffinity (a lot of people in fA don't JUST draw furries!)

    • Do you use your blinker in a car?

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  • Only sickos don't use their blinkers

    • ./build.sh

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  • Linux looking at other Unixes who are pretending it's not there and saying "Look at me brother"

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  • Doesn't work on me, my car is all banged up and I don't give two shits about it as long as it remains road-legal.

    • What ethical, or legal, ways could someone make themselves or something unmarketable?

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  • Unmarketable?

    Exist as an out-and-out queer person. And don't whitewash it. Talk openly about -- Queer stuff. The stuff you've done with intimate partners, the stuff that turns you on or off, et cetera.

    Basically, be a queer person who acts like the average straight dude. Totally harmless, if rather obnoxious, and corporations won't touch you with a pole the length of the earth's circumference.

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  • It's less that "everything goes to shit at 28" and more that "as you age your body becomes worse and worse at recovering from shit it used to shake off like it was nothing"

    Allergic reactions, pains from being sedentary or from doing exercise wrong or from overwork, drinking and hangovers, obesity, genetic conditions you were always prone to -- Stuff that as a younger person wasn't so much of a problem even if it was there, start being more and more of a problem. And more and more of a danger.

    Breaking a leg as an 18 year old and breaking a leg as a 30 year old are radically different experiences.

    The better you take care of your body, the less bad it is. But well. You're aging.

    • What subreddit are you trying to replace on Lemmy that needs pumping up?

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  • !mlp@pawb.social would make me happy. I know the fandom is in a bit of a slump since Gen 4 ended like 6 years ago and Gen 5 wasn't very good, but I like my horsies. And if the Avatar fandom can survive not just Korra existing but no new shows for 11 years, we could survive MLP's drought.

    A lively Brazilian community would also be pretty nice. There's a whole brazilian instance (lemmy.eco.br iirc) but it's a ghost town.

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  • Is cool :)

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  • Description says "women only trans inclusive"

    ... I'm a he/they queer man, so I shan't say anything. But I might have a look at the place anyway.

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  • Actually.

    .... Yeah, pretty much. I hadn't thought of it, but... Yeah.

    Or at least some batmen. Since every comic hero is really about sixty different characters.

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  • HAH! My friends have been pushing Worm on me for years, and I've been sloooowly making my way through it (though good god that beginning part with all the bullying took me out of the story for 2 years)

    BuuuuuuuUuuuuuuuuuuuuuuut -- Taylor is more of an Antihero Classic. She'd fit right in with so many comic anti-heroes, even if her story is a lot darker due to not having to answer to executives like most comic antiheroes do. Her vibe is too -- Scrappy for what I was longing for. Though she does indeed have the evil superpower, and fights bad guys who are so much worse than her villain-gang friends. She's always desperately struggling for survival and figuring shit out as she goes along.

    What I was fantasizing about is more like "what if Coil was the hero" (since you mentioned Worm...). Not 'the hero of his own story', not 'scheming and doing bad things for the right reasons' (which seems to be what the story is going for tbqh -- But when I fell off last time he was JUST ABOUT to have Taylor and the Undersiders killed), but straight up heroic... While maintaining all his "cultured mafia leader who is infallibly polite, but has a plan to kill everyone in secret, and gives off an aura of absolute control and confidence" vibe.

    Villain Classic. But not a villain.

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  • More like monsters, really. With one exception because one of them has a (very creepy) bond with the main protagonist.

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  • Not sure why people are downvoting you

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  • Warrior princesses (or otherwise 'fighting refined ladies') -- Who aren't tomboys, and are in fact fully feminine coded, but can still kick ass with the best of 'em. (Princess Leia, some iterations of Zelda, Rarity from MLP in a way though she's not a princess, etc.)

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  • One niche I think is severely underserved is like. A good guy who serves straight up classic villain aesthetics. Like someone who's refined, and cunning, always plotting something, and if the setting has superpowers, they got an 'evil' coded power... But their goals are those of a good guy. I don't think I've ever seen a character like that, unless you count Col. Mustang from the Fullmetal Alchemist anime/manga, who ticks at least a few of the boxes.

    (If you know of OTHER characters who fit my description, PLEASE tell me)

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  • EVAs (from evangelion) are sentient. And can be autonomous but -everyone would rather they didn't

    • Holocaust Harris vs JDPon Don

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  • Darling you need to lay off the shrooms