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Artificial Intelligence models based on Language Learning Models are going to be here to stay, and they already have practical applications for even the most cynical people on twitter who don't like them: You can feed a pdf of a twitlonger apology / cancelling claim to a GPT-based AI system and have it read it and then summarize it to you to figure out what the drama / allegations are and if there are corroborating points between the allegations and the inevitable defense statement. I'm not saying that you should use AI to write these, but half the time these twitlonger / cancel posts aren't exactly written like the next great novel and aren't worth spending the fifteen minutes to read and try and parse. Let an AI do that so that you can do the things that really matter. I used this for a recent twitter drama situation with a certain VTuber and it was the easiest in-and-out experience of seeing drama, feeding the necessary pdfs into a system and then asking the AI to tell me what the allegations were and if the alleged perpetrator was actually refuting these claims. I was in an out in 5 minutes maximum. If you're bored / curious but you don't want to do too deep of a dive through twitter to parse for some kind of signal, you can use AI to try to filter out noise to some degree, especially when the stakes are really REALLY low from an outsider's perspective. You can't do this and then say "I KNOW EXACTLY WHAT HAPPENED" but this works for a really straightforward tl;dr and it's am already functional tool. Might as well start getting good with it.

And again, I'm not saying AI should be used to generate new ideas, that's what your brain is for, but you can really use it for these low-stakes situations. You can't expect me to spend an hour trying to figure out this random VTuber beef, and I don't want to watch a video that spends 3 minutes of 30 explaining what the twitlongers actually allege, but I'm willing to let an AI try and even if it's wrong, it's not like I really care about being exactly right on a good portion of this stuff. At least the AI can give me like a paragraph that more or less explains the situation and then I can move on with my life.
 
As a beginning writer, I want to slightly debunk the insanely common critique against recent movie franchise revivals about knowing where you’re going being some impossible to fail gospel truth!

It’s easy to say you have an endpoint and work backward from there, but the truth is, it’s not that simple. In the actual writing process of making new scenes, characters develop loads of little nuances and fun quirks that subtly change dynamics and how the story might play out. Think about how actors give off good on-screen chemistry, which is largely independent of a flat outline on a piece of paper. And there’s also the possibility you can plan everything out and it STILL ends up underdeveloped or unsatisfying.

What’s the cure for these problems? A willingness to challenge your own storytelling and make your characters better. And you can only do that by rewriting and seeing potential in seemingly useless first draft ideas.
 
The newish Burger King jingle that they have though went from “that’ll never catch on” to me liking it as a meme to me muting the TV whenever it comes on now

idk if that’s a hot take but I had to say it because of the BK mention

(you rule)
 
War Incarnate said:
Mcdonalds fries are based af
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youtube double ads are fine. i don't notice the difference vs single ads

*they suck for like, music playslists, but i think the primary problem there is multi-minute ads that require skipping
 
Since I'm a massive music nerd now, I'll drop some of my music hot takes
  • Graduation isn't in Kanye's Top 5 albums
  • Random Access Memories > Discovery
  • The Beatles only have two 10/10 albums
  • Kissland is the worst Weeknd album
  • Both "Real Rap" and "Mumble Rap" should coexist, and the people that say "Real Rap is the only good rap" are so corny
  • Dark Side of The Moon is the worst of Pink Floyd's Top 4
  • Prince > MJ
  • 50 Cent is the overrated rapper of all time
  • Evermore and Red >> Everything in else in Taylor Swift's discography
  • Weezer's White album is on the same level as Blue and Pinkerton
  • Minecraft Volume Alpha is a genuinely amazing ambient record
  • Charli XCX > Every other Pop artist right now
  • If you only listen to one genre, your musical opinions generally matter less due to bias + unfamiliarity with other musical topics and genres
 
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BP said:
I liked BDSP why did people hate this game. I don't understand. It felt more alive and was more fun then gen 8. Explain this to me.
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I feel that BDSP shouldn't be my favourite mainline pokemon game on the Switch. It lacks a big draw of previous remakes (bringing new mechanics and mons to an existing region). It has little new content and is based on DP specifically, making it compare disfavorably with Platinum unless you're really into tough AI trainers. It's frustrating to get the Battle Tower rolling because the BP income is still low despite the enemy sets being cranked up.

It shouldn't be my favourite. But it is. Because everything else feels worse. I won't be introducing extra mons to gen 8/9 mechanics in BDSP, but I also won't be doing so in SwSh or SV. BDSP's battle tower is clunky to get into, but its mere existence is beyond what the current games manage. Difficult trainer bosses becomes a huge selling point when there's otherwise a trend towards big single healthbar bosses that I feel the combat system is a worse fit for. It feels like the current games aren't even one step forward, one step back: they're one step back and other sideways towards a different game entirely. It feels terrible that the best I can hope for is that an unambitious dev team forgets to replace what was good.
 
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