Mr Beastify Just Gave Me The Funniest Image Ever From The Best Situation Ever

hold on a fucking second. delaware is a state?? i thought it was a river? or is the river more important than the state? why don't i know this? (i should mention i don't like in america, i'm just confused)

there is delaware (state) and delaware (river) 

both are equally strange

the state is a tiny little cryptid thing

the rive is a monster that spans new york, pennsylvania, new jersey and delaware. also washington crossed it once and that was like kinda a big deal i guess. like crossing the rubicon in rome.

the state tries to me more important with its “im the first state!!!” bs (seriously its even on the fucking license plates) but we all know. its the river.

Here's one for all you Pokémon nerds.

A while back I saw someone ask if it was possible to OHKO a level 100 Pokémon with a level 1 Pokémon. The answer to that was, indeed, yes. There are some incredibly frail pokemon out there with almost non existent defensive stats that even at level 100, pale to other mons at half that level. So I decided to take the question further.

So I posit: is it possible to defeat a level 100 Blissey, the most specially defensive Pokémon to exist, in a single hit from a level 1 special attacker? I grabbed a friend and we got on Showdown to test the idea.

Lo and behold, the fruits of our labor:

Everything done in this replay is completely possible in-game.

You live in a house decorated according to your url. What does it look like

Something I really don't understand about AI companies buying the rights to steal content from social media to feed their data training sets is, well. It's illegal as hell.

That content does not belong to the social media companies to start with. Personal data is a bit nebulous as it is, and some countries have better protection about it than others, but posting a picture on tumblr doesn't mean that Automatic automatically has the right to use, distribute and sell it as it sees fit.

I mean. Official accounts for big companies like Disney use social media for advertising. But posting a picture of Elsa on Twitter doesn't mean they're giving Twitter the right to use and sell that picture. But suddenly Twitter sells the nebulous ability to "scrape content from Twitter for AI training", so now Midjourney owns that picture of Elsa? What's the fucking ruling there?

People own the rights of what they have created even without officially registering it for trademarking (which is expensive as hell, by the way). Social media selling content means that they are selling copyrighted material created by its users- Some of it coming from big companies that have trademarked the shit out of everything, some of it coming from small creators who STILL have the rights to what they've created even without a trademark.

Curently, what you produce through AI generators is not actually copyrighted, since it was not made by a human, but what gets fed into the data training sets is often copyrighted material from unconsenting people. It basically is a copyright laundering scheme.

I do wholeheartedly hope that some regulations will be put in place, and hoping that big companies will, at least, do their best to help this case even if its just to protect their own IPs and property. Given how overprotective have Disney, Nintendo and other big names been about their content, I can't expect they'll be happy having it being sold to Midjourney, OpenAI and other crap for free, without their consent.

I'm a nonsharer kind of???? Like i get a lil uncomfy seeing my f/o shipped with other ppl from the fandom [a lot of his content is shipping so I have a bunch of those tags blocked :3]... But. But seeing doubles makes me all whimsical and joyous. I'm all like "YES!!!! We both love f/o!!! Isnt he so great :DD" and then move on so. Maybe it's cuz they actually have an s/i they can draw him with? Anyways yeah they're very cool.

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it's time for the subinterest cycle again -- this time we're back to the silli blobs game

the ffbf plushies are still amazing i love them -- shame the site's gone :(

The wizard in your party only knows one spell. It’s effective, but even the assassin feels bad about it.

the typa mindset i been on lately

i can't stay humble i'm sorry

it’s concerningly specific and that’s what makes it work

"Go to hell" is basic. "I hope content farm channels take a hold of the characters from your favourite franchise and produce the most horrid youtube kids elsagate content with them" is smart. Its possible. Its terrifying.