The grades came out for my second essay and the teacher said that six people in class were failed for using AI or copying work. That's one third of the class! How do people still fall for this AI crap?
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Well, from my personal observation, people don't fall into using AI to cheat on their assignments because they're gullible or stupid. They do it because it's easy, because the assignment isn't a priority in their lives, because they haven't been convinced that it should be a priority in their lives. It is my personal conviction that the AI plague in schools speaks to a lot of deep-rooted, fundamental issues with the way our society thinks about and structures education.
I think one problem is that schools they don't teach students well on what they're supposed to learn, or even whether it would be actually important to them.
But because grades are important to them to get into a good college/university, they would have to get these grades by any means necessary, which can include AI. Not to mention that schools are limited in what they're teaching would end up limiting the student's knowledge and choices on what they wanna be rather than the set choices that schools and universities provide, even if said students aren't interested in it.
If they were studying for something that they liked, they wouldn't have to use AI and think critically for themselves.
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New record because I know you were all waiting for this: friend of a friend had 18 bridesmaids in her wedding. I didn’t believe it until I saw the screenshot of the Instagram post
Man... am I tired of the same rhetoric about modern pokemon games. being repeated over and over again. It's like EVERY TIME, the conversation in a discord server shifts to pokemon the same three things are said!ZA BAD! GAMEFREAK LAZY LOL MULTIBILLION DOLLAR FRANCHISE, 1000 million soldiers dead!!
WINDOWS!
this release cycle reminds me of why I hate the pokemon fanbase
WINDOWS!
this release cycle reminds me of why I hate the pokemon fanbase
pokemon fans love to repeat the same points over and over again with each release, only to keep buying and playing the games. if you hate modern pokemon so much, surely you wouldve disengaged with it by this point. for the record, i understand and sympathize with the haters, since there are a lot of issues, but like, every mainline mons game is at worst a 6/10 tbh, so idk why people act like modern stuff are dogshit games
jfc i dont think i have 18 friends let alone 18 potential bridesfolx
perhaps it is time to find a new therapist
Heres my take on the east coast, having lived in 4 of the east coast states and traveled through all of them
New England should all be 1, they root for the same sports teams (except for the very southern corner of CT, they are NY sports fans) and all identify as New Englanders culturally.
If you wanted to break it up then NH and MA should be together, the majority of their populations is in and around the Boston metro area. They also share an Ivy league rivalry of Harvard v Dartmouth. Lots of people travel between northern MA and southern NH. Not much travel between Maine and NH because its so sparsely populated in that boarder area.
VT shares a very small boarder with MA, and their centers of population are far apart, VT is more like north east NY, but I would keep all New England together.
MD and VA should be together, both blue states whose largest populations are in the DC-Baltimore metro area. Both have lots of commuting and travel into DC and the DMV region. I'd keep Delaware with them too.
Northern NC and Southern VA are sparely populated, not a lot of travel between. Overall VA doesnt feel like the real south, NC definitely does. VA is firmly a blue state now, NC is purple but more red than blue. So I'd break them up.
The Carolinas share a lot in common and should be together. Parts of SC are part of the Charlotte metro, so lots of cross board travel in that area. Myrtle Beach SC is a popular destination for people in NC to travel to when going to the beach. Both red states. SC and NC have both attracted a lot of retirees from up north because of low taxes, mild winters, and lots of golf courses. Other parts of the south (except FL) attract less northerners, no one from up north wants to move or even visit to Mississippi or Alabama, but they will go to the Carolinas.
LA could fit in with the deep south of GA, MS, AL since they share a lot of college rivalries and are similar culturally especially southern MS and AL around the gulf coast.
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The (recent) fanmade Gen5 animated sprites on Showdown look off-putting. They are distracting to see while watching replays, and they fall into the uncanny valley with smooth movements to a blocky sprite. I'd rather have non-animated sprites over them.
I checked the original Gen5 sprites to see if it wasn't bias towards the artstyle (I prefer the 3D models), and they still looked good as I remembered them. Some of them looked a bit off like Starmie or Gliscor, but nothing compared to like Gholdengo or Chien-Pao.
I think they have two problems I generally noticed:
- They move too much: Gen5 sprites have "idle" and "action" animations. I'll focus on the "idle" part because that's where the issues are apparent. The original sprites keep their pose the same (either doing a small "bounce" or floating around), so all of their outlines stay still. In the fanmade ones, Pokemons move their entire body and changes their entire pixel outlines. There's no easy place for the eye to rest. A part of this is using rotational movement, which is very hard in pixel art. These movements also feel unnecessarily important; you don't actually need to know what the sprite is doing beyond what Pokemon it is.
- They're too slow: These seems contradictory with above, but more accurately they don't feel snappy. There's just too much frames in between the keyframes. The animations feel unnaturally smooth for a pixel style. This is apparent in effects like flames or smoke, where the original ones flicker between like 3 frames (which looks better for this), while the fanmade ones have animated them more. These also make the "action" animations feel kind of weak compared to the original sprites, as well as making the outline problem worse. When all of the pixels are moving, its harder to parse out the actual movement of the Pokemon.
As I was looking at sprites, I think the earlier fanmade animations for gen8 Pokemons looked and fit in much better (like Corviknight and Hatterene) (although Hatterene's animation is too slow). Of the new ones, I think Great Tusk and Iron Valiant are animated pretty well, although I do wish they were more snappy.
I think it generally comes down to needing keyframes to guide the animation, and understanding the limitations of the artstyle.
I checked the original Gen5 sprites to see if it wasn't bias towards the artstyle (I prefer the 3D models), and they still looked good as I remembered them. Some of them looked a bit off like Starmie or Gliscor, but nothing compared to like Gholdengo or Chien-Pao.
I think they have two problems I generally noticed:
- They move too much: Gen5 sprites have "idle" and "action" animations. I'll focus on the "idle" part because that's where the issues are apparent. The original sprites keep their pose the same (either doing a small "bounce" or floating around), so all of their outlines stay still. In the fanmade ones, Pokemons move their entire body and changes their entire pixel outlines. There's no easy place for the eye to rest. A part of this is using rotational movement, which is very hard in pixel art. These movements also feel unnecessarily important; you don't actually need to know what the sprite is doing beyond what Pokemon it is.
- They're too slow: These seems contradictory with above, but more accurately they don't feel snappy. There's just too much frames in between the keyframes. The animations feel unnaturally smooth for a pixel style. This is apparent in effects like flames or smoke, where the original ones flicker between like 3 frames (which looks better for this), while the fanmade ones have animated them more. These also make the "action" animations feel kind of weak compared to the original sprites, as well as making the outline problem worse. When all of the pixels are moving, its harder to parse out the actual movement of the Pokemon.
As I was looking at sprites, I think the earlier fanmade animations for gen8 Pokemons looked and fit in much better (like Corviknight and Hatterene) (although Hatterene's animation is too slow). Of the new ones, I think Great Tusk and Iron Valiant are animated pretty well, although I do wish they were more snappy.
I think it generally comes down to needing keyframes to guide the animation, and understanding the limitations of the artstyle.
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