Idiot Cube

1 hour ago, Huff said:

sorry I could probably appreciate the work put into this if I sat down and watched it but all I can think of is that one video about how stupid dramatic tf2 SFMs are

Don't tell me you didn't cry when Scout's mom turned into the sun and said "Ya done did good, kid."

I don't even have the energy for slight anticipation anymore. I'm expecting nothing until proven otherwise.

48 minutes ago, hugthebed2 said:

i will try but I am slightly worried now because the highest chance to get ghost trick spoiled is NOW (and when the game releases)

All the more reason to PLAY IT NOW BEFORE ANYONE CAN SPOIL IT FOR YOU QUICK GOGOGOGOGO!!!

Hey look there I am!

I'd probably post there more if everyone else did, but I guess that's the bystander effect in action. 

My workplace gradually started using Teams over the last three years, and then phased out Skype entirely, so Teams is an overwhelmingly positive experience for me.

A Hood in Slime?

13 hours ago, Moby said:

 

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What the fuck IS this? WHY did I make this? @Idiot Cube WHAT THE HELL IS THIS?

Don't look at me dude, I don't know anything about Cox or why you'd associate me with him.

Maybe you were planning to put it in that one thread where everyone was making weird drawings of me. 

I've got a friend who loves churning out AI art for D&D portraits. If he gives it a really long-winded description with lots of details, it can turn out several dozen images that more or less fit the concept, some of which don't have weird limbs or fucked up faces. But it works fine for a tiny image on Roll20 that just needs to passably resemble a dwarven archer or a light-themed human cleric.

Like Gyo said, the algorithm has to work with the data it's been trained on. And it has no idea how to make something new from two unrelated concepts. It not only lacks the creativity to imagine what Chef Kawasaki's supple, egg-shaped body would look like under that apron, it also lacks the intelligence to understand that it needs to do that.

The dirty secret of machine learning is that it's just letting the program fiddle with its own values, basically at random, until it produces desirable results. It doesn't know how it got the results we like, and adjusting any of the values manually probably won't result in any useful changes. There won't be a "Kawasaki cup size" value, for example.
 

Basically, I think the human artists don't have anything to worry about. Our brains, as slow and fallible as they are, can still do things that are simply unthinkable for a computer.

4 minutes ago, Doopliss2008 said:

Kinda related, but I was playing runescape when some dude said they were loud explosions near his neighborhood and was panicking, turns out it was the start of the invasion of ukraine.

That dude needs to buy a gf now more than ever!

Maybe the minimum weight for being considred "morbidly obese" became a lot higher in the immediate-future.

Ena EX

Obviously the group took a break from adventuring to ride Fantasy Splash Mountain at Fantasy Disneyland! (Not to be confused with Fantasyland, a park within the non-fantasy Disneyland.)

Had a dream where I "woke up" in the middle of downtown, half-naked, while my manager stood over me and nonchalantly told me about the office lunch party coming up.

Then it transitioned to me being at home, where Snoop Dogg was going door-to-door trying to sell random shitty merch and his new album. I was mildly annoyed and trying to politely get rid of him, because I had just noticed my kitchen was on fire.

These are like dreams people have in movies, just the most basic form of "weird" the writers could come up with. 4/10.

Groovy, man.

So why was the spaceman challenging those schoolkids to a game of basketball at the beginning?

14 hours ago, John Caveson said:

Now this, this is pure art right here.

The most amazing thing about it is that it was made in Source Fucking FIlmmaker. Someone get this madman a real 3D animation software so we can see his true power!

I'm not even a car guy and I got sentimental over giving up my first car, a '99 chevy cavalier. My parents handed it down to me when I started college, and I ended up using it for several years. But eventually the maintenance costs became unjustifiably high, and I decided to donate it before it could fall apart with me inside it.

This is probably hard to understand for those of you who live in real first-world countries with decent public transportation, but for us Americans, your first car is your first taste of independence. Especially if you live in the suburbs of a sprawling city like mine, and everything important is at least 10 miles (16.0934 km (16,0934 if you're one of those weirdos who uses a comma for decimals)) away from your house. 

By the way, don't donate your old cars if you want to be sure they'll be put to good use. Less than a month after the cavalier was towed away, I was given notice that it was parked illegally and about to be impounded. Whoever got it clearly didn't need it that badly. 

9 hours ago, A 1970 Corvette said:

They could be you! They could be me! They could even be

right behind you

I get so many spam callers that I don't even bother answering anymore if I don't recognize the number. This is what we have voicemail for.

that's roof.

For 2007, VR tech and games that are actually kinda good. (Actually I'd just show Half-Life Alyx and pretend it's the current industry standard.)

For 1992, the ability to summon, through the internet, almost any kind of porn you could ever want.

My resolution is to not make any resolutions.

Ah, shit.

Alternatively: Happy exactly one week after the winter solstice!

The Earth has once again begun to inch its way closer to the Sun. It'll probably stop before it gets too close for life to survive on the surface, but who really knows?

I can. Maybe the results become visible after the poll is closed?

Also, I propose the rest of us put our differences aside to take down the tuturu coalition.