Which is all fine and dandy, until you realise that it does copywriters, and people looking for that bracket of stuff, out of a job. Which, y’know, is ideal for big corpos and grifters, terrible for everyone else.
Not to mention, just like it’s inbred cousins Crypto and NFTs, consuming so much in terms of energy and water (cooling, polution, etc etc)
theres no good use for chatgpt or anything of its ilk. sorry but when you see the actual scale of damage the energy consumption needed for these things can do it should make someone think twice about using it full stop
Apply a pinch of salt, as its ‘only’ a projection… But when I looked into it before replying more in depth, one of the current projections was that all the Gen Slop and LLM stuff, by 2026, would consume the yearly equivelant of the entirety of Japan. In energy. Like… just let that sink in. An entire nation functioning so that human beings can survive daily life, and that much energy is being consumed so that people can-
Yeah. I can’t finish that, because I’ll get irate and I don’t want to seem like I’m laying into anyone here.
But the stuff is genuinely enough to make me start believing in souls, because I’ve now had to see the Total Absence instead…
I was always against it but seeing the toll its taking on my own country’s power grid, on the countryside that needs to be leveled to make way for MORE generators for this slop would have radicalized me violently if i wasn’t a more level-headed person.
those souls were traded for book summaries. and that is a gross thought.
I appreciate fiction and those who create it, but the like of Tolkien and Le Guinn and others haven’t been formative pillars when I was growing up.
Sir Terry Pratchett was, though. I will freely admit my moral compass has been more than a little influenced by Discworld and Sir Terry’s own musings and quirky nature. “People as things. That’s where evil starts, young man.” Like… damn is that ever etched into my brain?
I’m fairly confident in believing Sir Terry (and yes, he’s one of those people, along with Sir David Attenborough, whose contributions to not just one field but the Good Of Humanity in my book makes the title deserved and meaningful) would have considered Gen Slop as An Embuggerance.
i’m back. what did i miss
elenthas did you finish metaphor
there’s scientific and general research related LLM use cases, about the only thing I’m okay with here
but those are also not available to the public at all
did you remember the milk?
Yeah, was really good.
Did you also think it was weird that they made Junah be the flirty one when their true form was a chibi child.
Either way, Eupha best girl. 2024 is the year of three eyed sheltered princesses with magical insight powers and a strong purple colour in their palette. It’s a niche, but she’s owning it.
Thought it was funny that there were like…6 epilogues. You kept thinking it was done and then nope, here’s another cutscene!
The Mage Academy and Rella’s plotline definitely felt like cut content. If they do a Royal edition it feels almost guaranteed that they’re going to add that as a new dungeon. Speaking of, felt criminal that the epilogue outfits for the party were almost universally cooler than their main gameplay ones. Ripped off a bit there.
I don’t think Metaphor knocks Rebirth off it’s 2024 GOTY slot for me, but it was still really solid.
… I’ll be right back.
Yes. Super weird. I also wonder how an entire race managed to keep that shtick up for so long with only vague rumours about it.
Correct and true. I would die for her.
Hits you with the Return of the King fade to black several times.
I fully went there expecting it to be a dungeon given how much it was talked about, so yeah I think you’re right. Although to be entirely honest I just wasn’t feeling a dungeon right at that particular moment so I’m kind of glad it didn’t end up being one.
It did need something though.
Personally felt a bit peeved that the outifts didn’t change at all for the duration, I really liked in Persona 5 (not sure if it was just a royal thing) that Joker and the crew would change up their outfits depending on the season.
Same thought I came to as well. Rebirth was still my personal GOTY.
remember the mozzarella too!!
we dodged a lot of bullets with travelling. the day after we left flights were cancelled all over the country because of deep fog, which we’d struggled with on the middle of the night drive to the airport. also we weren’t sure we were going to be able to fly because of my oldest daughters chicken pox
on the way back over the weekend a lot of UK airports were facing cancellations and delays because of snow, but not the one we were flying to. also my youngest daughter then had chicken pox so there was risk of denial again there
the cards were stacked against us, but i always win
When is your time with the chicken pox?
I did my time many years ago.
My oldest daughter is so lucky, she never gets ill or injured really. Her chicken pox was so mild it was barely noticeable, she only had a couple of spots and they didn’t bother her at all.
Meanwhile my youngest who has had several hospital and GP trips over her short 3 years of life, has spots absolutely everywhere and also had an infection in her lip because of one of them.
God gives his hardest battles to his strongest warriors. I fear how powerful she will become.
Mine was like your eldest but I also got everyone else in my class sick with it.
Sending best health wishes to the minimito nr 2
I don’t remember much of mine to be honest, just that it was itchy.
Still, at least they’ve both had it now.
The portal room, where I’ve also seen Lintian at least four times. You’ve also briefly met an alt of mine in conversation.
I’ve met a few other forum people around the world - of warcraft - and some even announced as much when we met since I couldn’t know them otherwise.
The malevolent gargoyle with tabby markings really needs to stop making out with plastic
finally comes for one of the French Fash family.
One down, one to go… Wish the UK would get some fresh air too.
Edit:
Also, destroy all androids…
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cly74mpy8klo
you’ll pry 2B from my cold dead hands
she’s the exception
okay her and sophia i refuse to demonise my smartphone daughter