Right? LLMs are trained on the work of humans. LLMs are not long-winded and wordy due to some quirk of their training. Writing and language are always changing but modern writing is generally concise and simplistic to a fault compared to historical English.
Gameboy Advance SP. First Gameboy with built in backlight. RIP to yours.
Not so much what I want done with my corpse but what I’d like to do with my life; die on Mars.* Even if it means lithobraking into Olympus Mons due to a miscommunication about imperial and metric units.
However, I have a few other ideas as well.
Most epic; funeral pyre boat.
Most metal; feed my corpse into a woodchipper and use the viscera for fertilizer.
Most likely; buried a bit shallow under a young sapling.
*: Excellent album by the Callous Daoboys
Yknow I’ve been trying to decide what GB/A era game to replay and Oracles might be it. VERY fond memories of those games; I had Ages, my brother had Seasons. The animal companions are silly and cute and the level and puzzle design was superb.
I’ve played modern LoZ and had fun with the open world style, but majorly prefer the more linear, curated style of the earlier games.
Sheer momentum. You think the people at the top are bad? Remember how many low-/mid-level employees they shitcanned? Most haven’t and won’t be replaced. Even if a position is refilled, the lost institutional knowledge will take decades to rebuild.
I reserve ‘cunt’ and ‘dumb bitch’ as especially strong, disrespectful expletives to call a woman.
When I say “Fuck that dumb bitch TERF cunt JK Rowling” it carries the hurt and ire of a broken childhood love of Harry Potter. The series itself was incredibly important to me and provided a world I could escape to when the real world was overwhelming. The hate and bigotry that cunt has shown breaks my heart and sullies too many childhood memories to describe.
I was deeply inspired to pursue engineering after watching the first Falcon 9 boosters land themselves. I was enamored by the idea of using my little blip in humanity’s timeline to assist our expansion to another planet. I wanted to contribute to something important, something that turned many brilliant minds towards an achievement that would eventually benefit the entirety of mankind.
I even hopped on the Tesla train; I recognized the existential threat that carbon emissions bore as well as the damaging, restrictive nature of building a society that scorns public transportation and promotes individual car ownership.
I didn’t worship Elon so much as admired the causes he was advancing. That admiration withered over the years but my dream of contributing to the colonization of Mars helped me push through the ten years it took to earn my four year engineering degree. As details of his derangement came out, as he acquired twitter and more overtly spread his billionaire propaganda, that dream started to fade. The fascist salutes at Trump’s inauguration crushed those dreams and ground them into a dust too fine to even attempt a rebuild.
My jaded ass still wants to benefit humanity so I’ve set my eyes on climate science, even as the country I was born in denies the havoc and damage our relentless consumption has wrought. Not just denial, but outright derision and contempt for the future of our world. Thus I hope to take my dreams elsewhere, hoping to find a culture with a clearer view of the consequences we must face and the changes we must make to preserve our planet.
https://othersbynoone.bandcamp.com/album/book-i-dr-breacher
https://othersbynoone.bandcamp.com/album/book-ii-where-stories-come-from
Primo theater nerd progessive rock sprinkled with metal. My taste heavily leans towards exceptional instrumentation and harsh vocals, but this band’s vocalist blew me away. It is immediately obvious that he was the lead in one to several of his high school’s musicals and likely went on to study and train in a conservatory or university program. His delivery is nuanced and theatrical without going overboard.
The instrumentation is stellar with an arrangement that accentuates and complements the vocals without fighting for space. Impressively, the combined runtime beats out Between the Buried and Me’s Parallax 1&2 by 6 minutes. Like Parallax, the Breacher saga has enough variety in composition that the 2+ hours isn’t a slog but an enjoyable journey that doesn’t overstay it’s welcome.
FFO: Native Construct, Coheed and Cambria, Ludo’s Broken Bride EP, BTBAM-like zaniness
Overall? Between the Buried and Me
By genre?
Black Metal - White Ward (Slavs Ukraini!), Ihsahn
Death - First Fragment, Ulcerate
Instrumental - Animals as Leaders, CHON
(Post-)Hardcore - The Fall of Troy
Progressive (that isn’t BTBAM) - Protest the Hero, Ne Obliviscaris