#cog rants

[cognitiveinequality]

https://www.vice.com/en/article/4a33gj/ai-controlled-drone-goes-rogue-kills-human-operator-in-usaf-simulated-test

um hey, so that's literally the most predictable thing that could go wrong with AI controlling weapons of war and tbh it's pretty fucking concerning that the people in charge of building and testing this shit don't even have the imagination of a C-tier Hollywood screenwriter to think "hmm... what is the most ironic or 'oh nooo our hubris!' way this could backfire...? 🤔"

#AI #dumbfucks #artificial intelligence #meatheads #this is what happens when tech bro dipshits #meet ''Merica Fuck Yeah'' imperial war hawks #cog rants

[paper-lilypie]

lots in common

#these dorks deserve to rant about whatever they want and feel happy and safe and heard #look at them go #they’ve found their happy place (each other) #fnaf #five nights at freddy's #post fire au #moon x reader #sun x reader #art: copper cogs rusted through #fanart

[cathalbravecog]

veep dad comfort art

#veep dad :] #i have Not been well mentally tbh the second im with friends i DIEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE anyways ill be VENTING A TINY BIT HERE #i need excitement in my life but im like #has no social life #oopsies...! #so i thought yknow what would make me happy rn. My Veep Dad #yea thats it #also ive been struggling with motivations to play ttcc and draw so.... #apologies for being in the game less. especially as im in the post game with almost everything done #im usually kinda really goal oriented in games and yeah having no tasks or close friends to play with #im just kinda THERE and getting that initial push to do stuff is very hard #my motivation has just been at an all time zero (again) and it upsets me bc i do wanna do stuff...not bc ohh productivity but bc #i just wanna HAVE FUNNNN #anyways erm.... thanks for listening to my little rant here again. i dont know where else to express this sort of stuff. feels wrong to dum #it on strangers who i know are there for my art but. whatever. yknow #just wish i was more motivated in general but my life is Just Kinda Sad and im an Antisocial Anxious Wreck Dear Cog #senior vice president #sr vp #veep dad #personal tag if i dont wanna main tag.... #doodles #traditional art #guz art #toontown

[ticenchantedtoc]

Identity Crisis

#I hc Cogs as bigender (he/she) #Can you tell I drew this while listening to Will Wood's I/Me/Myself over and over again #I could go on a whole rant about that song and my hcs about Cogsworth's gender but that's its own post #beauty and the beast #batb 1991 #cogsworth #tic enchanted art #probably the roughest sketch I'll ever post

[dungeons-and-dragon-age]

forever mad about how dirty they did aveline from act 2 onward

#thinking way too much abt it rn cus i just finished her quest today #she is important to liam and i enjoy their relationship a lot & also her character in general in the earlier acts #but MAN i hate what they did to her in acts 2 and 3 #laya plays dragon age #feels like there is such a disconnect from her attitude between acts 1 and 2? #or well. maybe not disconnect exactly but even so there is an important shift there and we never even get to see it OR question it #she could have been such a good contribution to the story and the themes by putting her at a crossroads of #do i keep following what i know and become another cog in the system or do i challenge them and break out of it #cus like. in act 1 she is not above going against laws when her own morals (or even just biases) go against them #but is generally still in favor of ''regular'' law and order (which does get challenged by characters sometimes which is nice!) #(sort of) blind loyalty is already a fault of hers and now her loyalty is understandably mostly towards her guards #but then her companion quest is not in fact about herself but about frickin. courting the guy she likes??????? #full on i thought this was a silly quest for levity in an act that has a lot of dark moments #but no it is Her Important Quest TM and not only does she not get with him if you dont do the quest #but her entire attitude and happiness going forward depends on it????? what the hell #also fun fact first time playing act 2 i thought that there was a lot going over my head and like #and some of it did yeah but i also just Assumed that bc the way aveline acted/ the guards actions were presented through her #didnt line up with what actually happened #(& her being so defensive and dismissive didnt line up with the impression i got of her before that) #sorry for the rant im just once again mad about cool characters being screwed over by the writing

[apricotronin]

I’m the world’s biggest SatsuTosh shipper I’m sorry but it’s so underrated and beautiful and angsty

SoH Memes pt 8(?)

ALSO please note that yes I do draw Tosh with curly hair. Ik canonically it’s not but I drew Tosh with curly hair as a joke like 6 years ago and it’s stuck ever since.

#one day imma post my anti-ToshxRonin rant for y’all #okok I’m not ANTI Tosh x ronin I just don’t like how it was executed #like B you’re in love w me?? When all you’ve done so far is chastise me and talk abt how important Satsu’s dream is?? sounds kinda fruity #listen I LOVE Tosh. just not as a romance option #just trust me on this. I’ll be sure to write and post my reasonings as to why satsutosh is the best SoH ship hands down #samurai of hyuga #SoH #choice of games #hosted games #interactive fiction #cog #devon connell #my art #hg #masashi hashimoto #toshio #meme redraw

[pluggedintosaverockandroll]

you know it's exam season because i'm questioning all my life choices

#you know i don't mind going to classes actually but studying and taking exams makes me feel like i'm a cog in a machine #as i got older i started caring less about school actually not because i don't think it's important #but because it makes me feel like a product of capitalism #why did i choose this major? #do i even still like it? #do i want to work in this field later? #like i think that no matter my feelings on my major i'm not gonna change it #bc 1 i already got this far 2 i don't know what else i would wanna do and 3 i couldn't live with the feeling of failure #i just have to make it through another 2 and a half years of uni at least #and right now i just have to make it through the next week and a half #god i want exams to be over #i don't have any motivation anymore and i don't care about the classes i have to study for that much #anyways can you tell that my last exam didn't go well ? #i should be nicer to myself bc it's weekend and i am never that productive for uni in weekend anyway #anyways thanks for coming to my rant #kj post

[twoshotsoffandom]

@paper-lilypie

OKAY! OKAY!! I AM DONE! ALL OF THE IDEAS ARE GONE!

Brainrot temporarily over I did not think it would take this long, take it, take it so I may rest.

Not sure how well it reads but these are not necessarily in order or anything.

#behold! art #copper cogs rusted through #ccrt #oh my god i got it done #do not look at me with the second painting thingy i only drew it for the vibes other than that no thoughts head empty #i wanted to draw wyatt menacing dammit #these all have names in my head but I am most proud of the label 'bearing similarities' for the second comic #also I already said it once but I got smacked with a dodgeball when I designed Wyatt to look like a teddy bear it works so well #with the nickname and all #i think i am done ranting in the tags #tw blood

[transsexualraskolnikov]

this is just a personal rant, but i have this side gig where i write articles for this one slovak website about our country. i write mainly about history, literature, and arts and for the most part, it's super cool. yet there is this fine line i'm always balancing on whenever writing anything history related. slovakia was christianized in its very early days, we're talking 9th/10th century and the people, focused heavily simply on agriculture, had a bit of a hard time accepting this faith as eagerly as anticipated, as is usually the case. they still clung to their pagan faith and the result of that was this weird mix of both christian values and traditions and pagan ones.

and the thing is, whenever i write an article about ye ol' traditions this fact has to be brought up over and over and you can't help but slowly begin to realize how christianity was forced upon the oblivious peasants who did their best to accept it in their own ways because they had no other choice. and that in and out of itself doesn't bother as much as i might have made it out to seem, i mean it's a thing that has been happening for centuries all over the world and is not necessarily unique to christianization.

what is the thing that truly IRKS me is that in this awfully conservative country where people become weirdly nationalist the moment you say even one mildly critical thing towards its history (despite how CLUELESS everybody is in regards to history. like you'd be blown away by how LITTLE people here actually know of anything. everybody just knows that we used to be like... czechoslovakia last century and that's pretty much it) and also everybody claims to be oh so christian (but only when the moment's convenient) so i constantly have to watch my words and toy this line between truly pointing to the bastardization that chirstianization has done to traditional slavic pagan values as well as being like 'but it's cool!!!!! because we got THIS cool tradition out of it!!!! :)))) yay!!!! praise jesus!!!!!!!' just so i get paid and the people in the comments don't lynch me.

and as somebody studying history, it truly does pain me how the truth and reality has to be obscured in order to be made family-friendly and marketable and i know that i'm not saying anything new and ground-breaking here. i guess now that i'm feeling it on my own skin and am actually the one actively contributing to the myth of face-tuning history in order for it to be more easily digestible, i'm suddenly overtaken by the realization of what really goes down in this world.

oh. i've made myself depressed. well, a girl's gotta get paid so i guess i better get to writing about funeral traditions.

#omw to write an article about funeral traditions and vampirism #wow i thought writing this would bring relief to some pent-up frustration i've felt over this but :D the opposite is the truth! #i feel even more shitty now that i have realized that i am an active contributor and cog in the machine of the constant sanitization of #history!!!!!! #i'm going against my own beliefs and values and doing something i have sworn to never do! i'm becoming not only a part of the system but th #system itself! #god i'm spiralling #this article is due today............................... better finish it #personal #history #rant #natali speaks

[tipzyness]

the jujutsushi subreddit has lost its charm, nowadays it's just filled with garbage questions that were asked like 3 years ago already. people come with theories that are just the result of a minute worth of overthinking only to prove their personal powerscales hc. I used to indulge and enjoy spending time there but recently they don't discuss shit, it's on the path of becoming a normie anime only sub.

#rant idk #i swear in 2-3 years back it was such an amazing place #the cog of excellence posts which are still up there are some of the best meta I've read #jjk

[cognitiveinequality]

#mine #just tumblr things #tumblr #please for the love of god #let us appeal reblogs #you guys understand how this site works right?? #you know that sometimes a post #lives long after OP has abandoned or deactivated #this kind of behavior feels borderline kafkaesque #good lord #''this post you like that is clearly flagged by mistake #is dead and invisible to you now forever #and there's NOTHING YOU CAN DO ABOUT IT'' #cog rants

[just-about-nothing]

oh my god fall out boy

#i rant #fall out boy #to articulate what this band means to me. you will first have to start at a lonely thirteen #and then fall in love with the whole deal with patrick stump! #here is this man. a rock star in all these music videos who is just as geeky and pasty as you! wow!!! #then you realize he’s not the one writing the lyrics: pete wentz is & so you fall for him too. his lyrical precision — #i don’t want to be a footnote in someone else’s happiness — encapsulates your youth perfectly #when your parents break up and your childhood house is sold you sing if i can get through this i can do anything #even if it came out a few years too late to be timely advice #then your first love and one of your best friends kill herself and you think shit why am i alive when she is not and it plagues you #and you listen to patrick sing pete’s words ‘i’m a loose cog of a complete machine’ and cry and cry and cry and cry and cry #in loss from chloe to tranquility to independence you’ve kept this band near your chest next to your heart #there’s a part of you that is always the lonely 13 yr old a gap toothed girl not yet jaded discovering and rediscovering this music #GD bless fall out boy. GD bless my thirteen year old self. GD bless me now. GD bless all us fans

[squishybabyy]

please dni if you argue over which toontown server is better /srs

it doesn’t matter if you like corporate clash better than rewritten, at the end of the day, every toontown server is still toontown. we all like the same thing! we should be connected with each other as a whole, not be divided over servers

this especially happens whenever something big happens in ttr. while i was fighting high roller in ttcc today, there was a person who said they could not respect ttr. they said that after i told them to respect preferences after they said the two new cogs are ugly and that ttr is copying ttcc

it’s fine to have preferences but let’s not fuel the server wars please! we still like the same thing as a whole! toontown is toontown!

#like damn god forbid rewritten add fun content and revolutionizing when there are tto devs working on ttr #it’s like ttr isn’t allowed to have new stuff #ttr is actually a continuation from where tto left off and it’s being updated as if tto never closed #if i see anyone try to bring down rewritten im hitting them with the biden blast #i don’t get how can rewritten “’copy”’ corporate clash when it’s literally supposed to be authentic…. #… especially when there are literal original devs of tto working on rewritten #i’m not getting why that person said that ttr is copying #how is ttr copying ttcc? it’s just two new gilf cogs #ttcc and ttr will never be exactly like each other. they just have different stories and mechanics #sorry had to get this outta my head #end of rant #toonblr #random.txt

[maehemthemisfit]

why it takes me so long to answer an ask? im probably giggling, doing research, and daydreaming about it while im typing out a response. I try to deliver the best of the best and the juiciest thoughts i can come up with, so lemme think and fangirl about it first

#there are also times where i dont get enough information to get my cogs rolling #and then theres times where im not feeling the ask #and then some gets drowned by others #and i get sidetracked #me ranting in the tags bc i have like 90 asks in my inbox that im too scared to delete #LOL #ill get to it eventually #not all of them. some of them i just... cant #[✨] mae . • . ° rambles ♡⁠˖

[carelessflower]

craziest post: magnus date alec cause he really want izzy then alec find out

(by then magnus actually in love with him but too bad)

but you have to admit it a really good premise tho~ izzy and magnus has so much share interested

#ask #rant #there actually a story #where alec die in cog #and magnus and izzy get together #to tune out the pain ig

[thisghosts-obsessions-again]

While I'm waiting to reach enough diamonds to spend on RC. Here are some spoiler-ish out of context screenshots of Vampire the Masquerade: Sins of the Sires. It took me four tries but I finally got Gor's decent ending 🫢

I liked how the play changes everytime to foretell the path the story is heading for. My first time coincidentally had Cassandra's story played out and my MC name's happened to be Cassandra too.

#this has the same pathos and greek mythology care as their previous work which i loved #personal rant #spoiler #screenshots #screenshots spoiler #screenshot #interactive fiction #choice of games #cog vampire the masquerade: sins of the sires #cog vtm sins of the sires #it has the same melancholic vibes as theoridou's an odyssey: echoes of war #of an odyssey: echoes of war us still my favorite of their works #i always found cassandra a very tragic figure