#Mr Clippy
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No- wait! It’s Clippy and Pac-Man’s baby! Look:
LOOK 👀
#new tumblr icon#tumblr icon#last one#i’ll stop now#no more tumblr for me tonight#mr clippy#pack man#tumblr updates#tumblr
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You know its going to be a day...
when 🎅&🤶 , the Grinch, 'Chippy' the Elf on the Shelf, and the school mascot 'Clippy the Plane,' ALL appear at school.
#santa claus#mrs claus#the grinch#elf on the shelf#Clippy the Plane#airplanes#character meet and greet#school#christmas#holidays#adorable
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Song 5: No Rules! by Windows95Man
This is exactly what I was expecting, This is so on brand for him. This is his vibe so perfectly. No notes.
Okay, more in depth now. It's very very catchy. It's kind of old school. It's not too deep but all the more entertaining.
The one thing I had no expectations for was the vocalists and the actual vocal performance. I knew the guy was more of a voice actor, but I wasn't sure where his strengths in singing would actually be. Safe to say, pleasantly surpriced. His higher pitched voice and the high notes fit the song very well. And hopefully he can deliver that live too.
The music video is maybe slightly less weird than I would have expected. Having seen the kinds of visuals Mr Windows brings live, this was not too extravagant, though slightly more elaborate. Still, makes me very interested to see what he's gonna bring to the live stage. (Disappointed to see no Clippy in the mv, though I guess they have to draw the line somewhere on ip rights). Speaking of the live performance, those dancers in the mv are an A+ addition. I wanna see them on stage. This is gonna kill it.
Yeah, that about sums it up. Not much to add. That is a masterpiece if I've ever seen one.
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The Vagueness of an idea for a modern AU based on my Links:
Ages (these are literally the same as in regular Margin Canon):
Paladin: 19
Dawnbringer: 18
Engineer: 18
Forger: 18
Orpheus: 17
Luminary: 17
Fractal: 17
Odysseus: 16
Genesis: 16
Graffiti: 15
Awakener: 12
Familial Relationships:
All the boys grew up in the same neighborhood and that's how they know each other; their community was very tight-knit and so they- along with their Zeldas- grew up together and have all been friends from a very young age. But a few of the boys are more closely related:
Odysseus and Graffiti are brothers, and Genesis is their cousin
Ravio is Graffiti's best friend and they happen to share a birthday
Engineer and Awakener are NOT related but people outside of the group tend to think they are because they look very similar
Awakener (and Aryll), Orpheus, and Paladin are all adopted brothers (and sister in Aryll's case). They live with Grandma (AKA Mrs MacIrvine- it means "Son of Green Water" and is the last name I picked for Awakener and his family since my interpretation of the Great Sea is very influenced by Scotland), who is Awakener and Aryll's biological grandmother. (Paladin and Orpheus were foster children she was taking care of for many years, and when Awakener and Aryll's parents died and she took custody of them, she was like, "Eh, why not officially adopt all of them". At the time, Paladin was 11, Orpheus was 9, Awakener was 4, and Aryll was a newborn)
Transportation:
Paladin can drive, is the designated driver, and runs the group carpool out of his big blue 15-passenger van
Dawnbringer can drive, is the backup driver, and drives his family's ranch's beat-up, rusty pick up truck. How and why it still drives is a mystery and a miracle.
Forger can drive, is the backup-backup driver, and owns a little red Volkswagen Beetle, which he loves very much. No one else can drive it because he won't let them. It also smells very nice because he is addicted to those little clippy Febreze car things.
Engineer can drive but is not often asked to on account of his disregard for any and all traffic laws and speed limits. He does have a car, though: a strange, monster hybrid-car he built himself during his free time Niko and Alfonzo's mechanic shop.
Luminary can, in theory, drive (i.e. he has a license) but does not have a car. He doesn't like driving very much.
Orpheus could, in theory, drive, but he doesn't have a license. This is for two reasons: first of all, both Paladin and Grandma can drive, as can most of his friends, so if he needs to go somewhere far far away he can just ask one of them. Secondly, while he's not extreme about it, he is the most environmentally-minded of the boys and prefers to ride his bike to cut down on carbon emissions.
Fractal has his permit but not his license, as does Odysseus.
Genesis is eligible for his permit but hasn't gone in to get it yet.
Graffiti and Awakener are too young to drive.
Relationships/Relationships to their Respective Zeldas:
Paladin and Valkyrie, who is a little under a year older, have been dating since Junior Year of high school and love each other very much. He plans to propose when he turns 21.
Dawnbringer is good friends with Eos. However, he is still processing that his girlfriend of 3 years, Midna (who was also a close friend of Eos) moved to another city far away about a year prior and, because she didn't want a long-distance relationship to fall apart, thought it better for them to break up.
Engineer is so so in love with Phantasma (who likes him back just as much) but hasn't yet officially started dating her.
Forger and Goddess have been a thing since they were like. 10. and have been officially dating since Sophomore Year of high school. Everyone agrees they are the cutest thing ever.
Orpheus's romantic life is... complicated. He's been inseparable friends with Sonata ever since he moved in with Mrs MacIrvine, and has had a crush on her for many years, but is also slightly attracted to his good friend Malon. He hasn't figured it out yet. But he will, don't worry. Just... give him some time.
Luminary and Sunshine used to not get along, for several reasons that I haven't fully fleshed out yet, but she immediately warmed up to him after he got himself beat up and nearly killed by a gang (the Yiga Clan) while trying to stop them from harassing her as she was walking home from school one day. They've been joined at the hip ever since, even two years later, and she clearly has a thing for him. He's pretty sure he likes her back, but needs to figure out his complicated relationship with his childhood friend Mipha first.
Fractal has been besties with Radiance since they were practically babies. Even during his mental health crisis a few years back, she was always by his side taking care of him. He hasn't yet officially asked her out, but at this point it's a matter of when, not if.
Odysseus and Visionary are in a similar situation to Dawnbringer and Eos, however, tragically, the girl who previously held Odysseus's affections (Marin) didn't just move away, she died in a terrible accident. He's still mourning her and Visionary doesn't want to be insensitve.
Genesis and Dawn have been so so close since they were 10. They have been dating for a little over a year, as they officially started a relationship at 15. Things got a little complicated for a while when Dawn's sister Somnia entertained a brief crush on Genesis, but that ended up resolving itself with no ill-feelings between anyone.
Graffiti has a small but blossoming crush on Iconography, but would never admit it. He's too busy helping Ravio and his girl troubles with Hilda.
Awakener is best friends with Tetra and has a massive crush on her, but will deny it until he's blue in the face. Tetra knows, however, and finds it hilarious, but never picks on him about it. She's still trying to process her feelings about him as well.
A Fun Little Mini-Trivia Tidbit I Wrote
Once, on a weekend trip to Death Mountain National Park, the boys made the mistake of passing the Aux. Here are their music choices, ranked:
Luminary: Vine Audio. Everyone loves this and quotes it in unison, but Paladin had to ban it on account of the number of times he almost crashed the van from laughing so hard he lost focus on the road.
Odysseus: Classical music of all genres. His favorite composer is Tchaikovsky. No one really understands his love for it, but they all appreciate it.
Fractal: Depends on his mood (aka which Color is fronting). Generalizations are Indie Rock, Classic Rock, Video Game Scores, Screamo Metal, and/or Early 2000s Emo and/or Scene Music (shadow). Everyone can appreciate at least one genre, so it's always a safe bet to let Fractal pick the music.
Engineer: Podcasts, usually about Mechanical Engineering or the Industrial Revolution. While it might not be the first choice, the others like it because they're good to nap to.
Forger: Indie Pop, usually love songs. Orpheus finds this sweet, and the rest of them simply tolerate it.
Genesis: Everything under the umbrella of "80s Music". Everyone is indifferent.
Graffiti: Punk. He gives punk-y vibes in this AU, okay. Everyone is indifferent except Paladin, who can't stand it.
Dawnbringer: Country. Everyone but Graffiti dreads it.
Paladin: Silence. The others find it insufferable, but there are two options that are even worse...
Orpheus: He prefers not to listen to music, but rather to attempt to play it on his Ocarina. Notice I say attempt. Everyone- and I do mean everyone- DREADS this.
Awakener: Sea Shanties, full volume, bass boosted, and singing along. Though his singing voice is quite good, when you have been on the road for 3 hours and just want some peace and quiet, this is a horrible combination of factors, and Paladin even went so far as to angrily snap that he'd rather listen to Orpheus play the Ocarina than another round of "Roll Northumbria".
@whyoneartheven @ladye-zelda @uniquevoidflowers
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The Dark is Getting Darker in The City
part one
It's getting later now in this big, cramped city and I'm awake and on the case. I haven't got a bedtime, which is bad news for the ne'er-do-wells and would-be meanies prowling these damp, cramped streets.
I've got my light pink thermos of dark, creamy coffee in my right hand and my left in my pocket, holding my pocket knife gently.
A tall, worried fiancee named Aurora Hildebrandt wants me to track down his second in a triad and I'll do my damndest, because I've been paid properly and that's all that matters.
Like any hard-boiled private dick, I have access to certain resources in the tightly-packed dirty laundry hamper that is this great big city. My shoes splash in the shallow puddles which gather on the pebbled street, making an echoing clippy-cloppy noise. I've pulled the collar of my coat up around my face and retrieved my well-worn hat from the waste bin. I look the part, now to get some answers.
The bell above the doorway into Sal's Gentry rings out a melodious tintinnabulation as I enter the small grocery store on the corners of 139th and Gasoline avenue. Ribbons the black cat winks at me from his perch atop a stack of pop cases. I give him a quick scritch behind the ears and wind my way to the service counter, past shelves of cans and bags filled with various brick-a-brack.
"Yes?" Sal asks distractedly, not even bothering to look up from the rifle magazine in her tattooed hands.
"Jack and Jill went up the hill to fetch a pail of water." I say gruffly before taking a sip of steaming coffee from my thermos. This got her attention.
"Jack fell down and broke his crown and Jill swore revenge on the bastard that pushed him." She replies, folding closed her manuscript and looking up at me. "Detective, what brings you in here on a rainy night like this, all dark and whatnot?"
"Evening, Salisbury. I've been recently visited by a certain someone looking for a different certain someone. Thought maybe you had some information."
Sal smiled a small, thing grin. "That is-incredibly vague. Can you be any more specific?"
"Let's just say that star-crossed lovers get lonely even when we can't see the stars in the night sky."
"Okay, sure. That's very poetic, but there are like, 12 million people in this city without counting the tourists. I'm going to need a name or something to go on. Really."
"It starts with an A."
"Are you kidding? Geez-ok...Astor Pangolin?"
"Is that a real person?"
"I don't know! They could be! Come on, you have got to give me something here!"
"He's fond of the color red."
"The Rouge Moron?"
"That doesn't start with an A."
Sal scowled aggressively and slapped me full across the face on my left cheek.
"Aurora Hildebrandt." I say coolly, taking another handsome sip of my delicious coffee.
"Ah, little Mr. lost his fiancee and wants to be able to make his wedding work on time? I suppose I could have guessed that, given enough time."
"Slapping me seems mean now in hindsight, doesn't-"
"His fiancee is Klevin Morose, the theoretical electrical engineer, did he tell you that?"
The name sounded familiar but I couldn't put my finger on exactly why. "Is Klevin theoretical or the engineering?"
"As far as we know Klevin is real, but the work they were doing was pretty out there. Wild, inventive stuff having to do with neutrons and plutrons and something called a groupon. Here, Thyme did a whole puff piece on them." she said handing me a magazine from two months ago.
The cover was a bit smudged with chocolate fingerprints, but the main photo was legible enough. Klevin appeared to be some kind of wunderkind in the theoretical electrician scene. The main photo displayed them wearing a lab coat with their arms crossed in front of them like a super hero. Their piercing blue eyes were distorted by the thick lenses of their glasses. Their shock white hair was parted on the side and swept behind one ear, revealing a single pearl earring. Their smirk of confidence revealed what I read as a certain self-assured egotism.
"Thanks Sal." I burped, laying down a few chips on the counter in payment.
"Any time, you obscure little wank." she laughed, returning her attention to the firearms in her catalogue.
Stepping out into the dripping exterior, I thumbed through the magazine's wrinkled pages to the interview with Klevin.
"The thrust and details of your work is shrouded in a veil of secrecy, Dr. Morose, but surely there's something you can tantalize our readership with?" the interviewer asked in italics.
"Even if I was allowed to disclose the main thread of my work, which I am not obliged to do, I'm afraid you wouldn't find it edifying in the least unless you're familiar with experimental electrical theory, something I highly doubt that you are. I don't mean it as an insult, but a statement of simple fact. Am I wrong?" Klevin responded. I could almost hear their pompousness through the page.
Skimming the rest of the article one thing stood out to me as plain as day. It wasn't an item of interest so much as it was an unmistakable absence. Nowhere did Klevin mention being affianced to Aurora, or their third person.
Evidently I was in a privileged caste of the few who knew Klevin and Aurora were engaged.
"Interesting." I muttered to myself before the window beside me shattered into a cloud of glass shards.
The gunshot rang out half a second later as I threw myself to the ground, covering my head and showered by the remains of the window.
Another shot echoed just after a nearby streetlamp exploded into a halo of sparks. I crawled towards a nearby vehicle, keeping my body as close to the Earth as possible, dragging myself through the puddles and trash of the street.
"Keep your nose out of places it doesn't belong!" an anonymous voice shouted from an unknown location.
Just as I managed to roll behind the car, the front door of Sal's Gentry slammed open and a hail of shotgun fire erupted from inside, aimed nowhere in particular but effective nonetheless.
"Keep your bullets to your goddamn self you kurwa shit!" Sal screamed, unleashing hellish fire from her firearm again and again. Windows, doors, lights and dead trees blew up in riotous fashion as she leveled the neighborhood in a sweeping arc.
All I could do was shield myself from the flying detritus, pulling my hat over my eyes and praying.
After what felt like forever, when the last shell bounced on the ground near my head, all was quiet. I slowly peered out from the small pile of spent ammunition and debris that had collected around me to see Sal fuming and scanning her surroundings, steam rising off her skin like the smoke billowing from the snout of her gun.
"You ok?" she asked without looking at me.
"I guess?" I answered, slowly dragging myself to my feet, glass and wood chips tumbling off of me.
After a minute or two spent surveilling the carnage, Sal slung her shotgun over one shoulder and turned to frown at me.
"Whatever you've got yourself into, looks like it's heavier than normal."
I nodded, shaking a small tree branch from my ear. This case was already turning out to be more interesting than I preferred.
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i came out to the family room to find mr bloomy with my fuzzy pink hair clippy on top of his head cause he didn’t want his wet hair in his eyes
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Clippy doodles I made at school cuz I was tired and forgot what I was gonna draw
(Name blacked out to protect privacy)
Expressions with Mr. On Break Forever (Clippy) are great.
Clippy is a masterpiece (in meme terms, according to many)
#clippit#clippy#microsoft#microsoft windows#microsoft clippy#office 97#office 97 clippy#office assistant
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what in the hell is that clippy looking microsoft word bonzi buddy assistant looking abomination
they call him "mr. voice" and he's like the avatar the director of SGS (their treasure hunting organization) speaks through bc he's sus as hell and doesn't want his identity to be known even to his own employees...? or something like that.
though why anyone would choose the world's goofiest paperclip looking mf to be their vtubersona is a mystery unto itself.
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Guys I figured out who it reminds me of 👀
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listen here
The cross dresser
I do in fact remember Clippy — what a time
It’s probably easier to beat yourself up than beat up someone else, y’know
with the little French thing
Lmao Trixie spelling Hytes wrong
Ohhh very interesting — Trixie said she thinks on Canadian tv 90% of the cast/crew has to be Canadian to get tax breaks so that explains a lot with the judges panel
This guy not knowing Katya has a last name 😂
We’re both named Brian
Hmm this is the first time I’ve heard Trixie tell this version of how she picked her drag name (going on last minute in drag for the first time in Rocky Horror Picture Show & the character’s name was Trixie) but I get not wanting to go into more detail with strangers
I had a parakeet named Bird — I genuinely love these greatest hits coming up in this
Wait Trixie also had a bike stolen?
When I’m judging Queen of the Universe I have a lot of downtime
Michelle & Vanessa are coming back to judge — I’m v curious who the fourth judge will be
It’s gonna show more penis — absolutely professional answer lol
Trixie, a runner, injuring her foot by falling out of her trailer in her Gucci slides seems very on brand if we’re being honest
I love that Trixie feels like running helps regulate her life between the running itself & the time outdoors
Again, I named a bird Bird once
I absolutely agree that watching YouTube content I think it’s best when people are open & honest about any struggles
People also can sense your relationship based on who’s filming you
Letting someone film you is an extremely high level of intimacy
The shock over how many pairs of tights Trixie wears in drag lol It’s Mrs. Doubtfire
Lmfao one of Trixie’s band members thinking Trixie’s veneers are DENTURES
[deleted rant about Trixie talking about wanting to open more motels & bars]
A lyric video? Oh. Oh. Nick means the White Rabbit music video (tbh it did give lyric video more than music video)
Trixie gets canceled like once a month
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Team cruel info :
“Were just here for fun and chaos. We dont rlly like team y, but were bored and need some action so i guess well join death alignment. No applications please.”
Current characters :
- frostie (frostmoth - she / they - founder)
-mamoo (mamoswine - she / they)
-barri (mr rime - any - cofounder)
-roseanna (jynx - any, but mainly feminine - former founder)
-snowstorm (vanniluxe - she / they)
-yukimenoko (froslass - she / her)
-razor (weavile - she / they)
-bree (hatterene - she / he)
-astral (gothitelle - she / he)
-lanculus (reuniclus - he / they)
-snow (glaceon - she / he)
-sun (espeon - he / him)
-tundra (auroras - she / he)
-gallop (galarian rapidash - he / they)
-clippy (metagross - he / it)
-todoseruga (walrein - she / they)
-yessan (indeedee - he / they)
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Part II, Day 23
AI and the tools we used to use.
On a regular day back in college, I walked into the computer lab where we worked on all of our electronic media projects. I’m pretty sure it was my Multimedia Authoring class, a semester before they offered DVD Authoring. (I signed up for that, too, but they didn’t get enough interest; I was out of luck on that one.)
One of my classmates had a simple website up on his browser; I saw it over his shoulder: Google. I was nerdy enough to know that it was a number, 10100. But I also learned that it was a search engine that day.
Before that, I was a Yahoo user. That homepage was so cluttered that Google seemed like a breath of fresh air. The tools I used were about to change forever.
In the photo, you’ll see two things that were changed forever by technology, too: a typewriter (obvious) and a corn husker (much less obvious).
The typewriter was my uncle’s, and the husker was a gift from my grandpa, who at one point used it to husk field corn by hand. I’ve used both of them at one point or another, though I personally have more use for the typewriter today.
This week, I spent some time using Chat GPT-4 in preparation for some of my upcoming interviews. It works great for that—collecting background information, parsing job descriptions, even becoming a practice partner for the deeper and more complex hypothetical questions. Keeps me on my toes.
I use it regularly, enough to make the subscription worth it. At one point, you could even find t-shirts I co-created with AI in my short-lived online t-shirt store. (I even registered a tax ID for it.)
I used Google to find out more info about the husker today, and came across a newspaper article from 1969. The journalist spoke with the business owner behind this scary-looking farm relic, Byron Raidt. He was a little salty, because by 1969, no one needed to husk corn by hand. Machines did it, and did it very well. And they had been doing it well for over 20 years.
Mr. Raidt said, "When a man husked corn by hand, he wore out everything from his shoes on up. Now he does it by machine. They call that progress."
He goes on to say, "Now the man that digs ditches wears a white shirt and pushes a button. It hurts business."
Why not bring these things together and ask Chat GPT-4 about the Raidt Make brand corn husker? The first paragraph was fine, giving some context. The next was a disaster, going into detail about a specific eBay auction. The third and final paragraph was okay, too.
We’ve all been chatting about where AI takes us next, especially those of us that work with words and language.
Personally, it’s my thesaurus, my Microsoft Clippy for formatting, my old-fashioned Google for high-level context gathering. It does fine. It’ll get better. And I plan on getting better right along with it.
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Crossover Pairing Tags
Here are the tags for searching and blocking purposes.
Disclaimer: I may have missed some. Not all of the pairings tagged I am interested in or support but have mentioned or touched on at least once.
ROMANTIC/SEXUAL
★ Clark Kent/Steve Rogers - #SuperCap
★ Legolas/Spock - #SpaceElf
★ Mr Clippy/Vision - #Vippy
PLANTONIC
★ Clark Kent & Steve Rogers - #Steve & Clark
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i fucking love how mr nobodys design has streamlined so much that hes not even like. the shadows of a humans Body hes just . A clippy/shape
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The human interface
For those of you old enough, or unfortunate enough, to have used early versions of the Microsoft office suite, you will probably remember the Mr Clippy office assistant. This feature, first introduced in Office 97, popped up uninvited from the bottom right-hand side of your computer screen every time you typed the word 'Dear' at the beginning of a document, with the prompt "it looks like you are writing a letter, would you like help with that?".
Mr Clippy, turned on by default in early versions of Office, was almost universally derided by users of the software and could go down in history as one of machine learning's first big fails.
So, why was the cheery Mr Clippy so hated? Clearly the folks at Microsoft, at the forefront of consumer software development, were not stupid, and the idea that an automated assistant could help with day to day office tasks is not necessarily a bad idea. Indeed, later incarnations of automated assistants, the best ones at least, operate seamlessly in the background and provide a demonstrable increase in work efficiency. Consider predictive text. There are many examples, some very funny, of where predictive text has gone spectacularly wrong, but in the majority of cases where it doesn't fail, it goes unnoticed. It just becomes part of our normal work flow.
At this point, we need a distinction between error and failure. Mr Clippy failed because it was obtrusive and poorly designed, not necessarily because it was in error; that is, it could make the right suggestion, but chances are you already know that you are writing a letter. Predictive text has a high error rate, that is, it often gets the prediction wrong, but it does not fail largely because of the way it is designed to fail: unobtrusively.
The design of any system that has a tightly coupled human interface, to use systems engineering speak, is difficult. Human behavior, like the natural world in general, is not something we can always predict. Expression recognition systems, natural language processing, and gesture recognition technology, amongst other things, all open up new ways of human-machine interaction, and this has important applications for the machine learning specialist.
Whenever we are designing a system that requires human input, we need to anticipate the possible ways, not just the intended ways, a human will interact with the system. In essence, what we are trying to do with these systems is to instil in them some understanding of the broad panorama of human experience.
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