#i legit came up with it myself

[bloodpen-to-paper]

Proposal to call the collective series with all the Life titles the “Blank Life” series (as in ___ Life, where the blank is filled out with whatever is inputted for the new season)

#sorry to anyone else who had this idea #i legit came up with it myself #we can share the patent #last life #last life smp #llsmp #third life #third life smp #tlsmp #double life #double life smp #dlsmp

[loki-zen]

the other thing i hate about automatic plagiarism checkers is that plagiarism (the concept) is supposed to be about copying. But it can’t check for copying. It can only check if what you’ve written is similar to what someone else has written - which is going to happen sometimes just by random chance!

especially when you factor in that

a) people are using these on short assignments

b) everybody’s handed-in assignments get added to the pool of stuff to check against

c) teachers are assigning the exact same essay prompts and the same reading materials year-in, year-out….

…some similarity is inevitable! and they do factor this into marking a little but students are going to be even more confused when they did 0 plagiarism but get back reports that say their work is 10% plagiarised and their teacher never explains to them that that literally just means they citied sources from the reading list like they were supposed to.

and it enforces the notion of intellectual property where it isn’t copying that counts - instead, every possible concept and sequence of words in the world has an owner and that owner is whoever gets published with it first. it’s worthless that you came up with something and praiseworthy that that guy did, even though each of you did the exact same thing but he was born 30 years earlier (and got published - one issue with this way of looking at things ofc is that it will tend to enshrine ideas forever as belonging solely to the sort of people who were capable of getting published, and the further back you go the more demographically restricted that set of people is).

#when i was a teenager i had legit angst about how #i ‘couldn’t’ write any of the ideas i came up with #and would never ever get credit for coming up with them all by myself #because when i looked it up i would find that someone i’d never heard of had had that idea before

[chaoticeddie]

snowed all day today 🙃✌️

#i was okay driving to work cause it hadn't started yet #but god. driving home? #I came so close to parking somewhere and asking my parents to come pick me up #I know it probably would have been safer and easier to get on the highway #but after I was in that accident last december where I slid on ice getting on the highway and totaled my car #I just couldn't make myself get on the highway #the side streets were so bad though it really felt like they didn't treat the roads at all #even though we've known it was gonna snow since like tuesday #I wouldn't have gone to work except I had to feed the cats and no one else was gonna be available #anyway #cried the whole way home #and it took me legit an hour and a half to drive what should have taken me MAYBE 25 minutes #and then I got into my apartment's parking lot #and pulled into a parking spot #and got stuck in the snow two feet out of the spot #so my dad and my brother and my sister's boyfriend had to come and push my car those last two feet #and then I had a panic attack when I got inside and now I'm exhausted yay #fun stuff! #I will not be doing this again

[scattered-winter]

woe another tag vent session be upon ye

#one of the girls in my class looks just like her. oh my god. #like im not being dramatic i literally thought it was her in my peripheral vision. #literally almost burst into tears in the middle of the room lmaooooooo #and then for the rest of the day every time i saw someone with her hair color i just saw her. #this shit sucks fr y'all i have never almost cried in public this much #and then i had to drive to pick up some groceries and fuck. #ive never been an anxious driver. i quite enjoy driving actually. #but i literally almost had a panic attack when i first pulled onto the road. i was so fucking anxious the entire time i was behind the whee #someone came up behind me pretty fast and i legit had to pull over to calm down it was so bad #so uh. not gonna be driving for a while lol. gonna kill myself or someone else doing that. #idk. idk i think this has me pretty messed up and i probably will be for a while. idk #my roommates and i finally decorated our living room and it was . fun. we laughed and made jokes and it was fun #but well. predictably i am feeling guilty over having fun now. which sucks ass from every angle #should i probably maybe make an appointment for therapy ???? probably ??????????? #idk. might be good to talk all this out out loud yk. but also i Know i will cry and i dont want to do that. #sigh. anyway. #also predictably i cannot sleep. couldnt last night either. #i might go paint in the living room. i dont know. #anyway if u read this whole rant ily ur earning the veteran's pass to Winter's Breakdown Sessions #winter speaks #personal #grief tag #<- once again if u need to blacklist. will not hold it against anybody i prommy #tw death #tw panic attack

[jiishwa]

mcr was amazing last night. like 13 year old me wouldn’t believe it.

#Gerard was wearing a shirt that said ‘pool boy at the vampire mansion’ and also like short shorts lol #but man what a great experience #and so much like good and lucky stuff happened to me before the show to #like as I was walking around just meeting and talking to people #and there was a moment during welcome to the black parade where I was just thinking to myself #about how like. 12/13 year old me was already going through a lot at that age. #and like all the awful things I put myself through too #and how devestated I was when mcr originally broke up #and I legit remember saying all the way back then like #‘maybe one day they’ll do a reunion tour and maybe I’ll get to go’ #and I feel like. yknow. like maybe me doing this now was sort of like me making up for all the bad things I did to myself back then #all the awful things I told myself and how I convinced myself to let others treat me #im surprised i didn’t cry tho. I mean at least not during this show #this morning looking back on some of my videos tho all the tears came lol #god I’m just so glad I was able to go #literally gonna remember it for the rest of my life #ciaras tag

[tsmerch]

I’ve also seen a lot of people admitting to panic buying yesterday in hopes for boosts. (I saw someone say they bought $400 worth of stuff they didn’t want, in hopes of a boost)

People keep saying “why else would they come out with merch 4 days before tickets go on sale” I don’t want to be a downer, but UMG is a capitalist business, they knew they could make a quick profit

Yeah, it just doesn't really make sense to me to give boosts out for buying holiday merch. Buying the album, or even the singles, makes more sense because it led to a direct accomplishment for Taylor. Also, if you have $400 to spend just in case you get boosts and not because you actually want or like the merch, I think you'd be better off saving your money for tickets. But that's just me. :)

#this thing of people just making stuff up and getting 1k likes on twitter has got to go #don't believe anything you read on there ok? :) #and they came out with merch yesterday so that they would have enough time to ship it before the holidays #i think if they gave boosts for buying merch they would get a LOT of backclash #the singles were so cheap that it wouldn't be outrageous for them to do it for those #anyway! just buy what you like cus you want it not cause it will do something for you!! #i know it's easy to fall into the trap of buying something just because everyone else is or you think it will give you clout #but that's when it's time to take an internet break #also panic buying because things sell out and don't get restocked is legit panic buying and that is the fault of umg #i do understand that and have been guilty of it myself for sure #anyway is that enough tags for you?? :) #ok also one more thing is that i don't like how not transparent the boosts are working this time #that is also a problem imo #they could just tell us what's going on and if there will even be any more #ask #anonymous

[femme-malewife]

I hate working on Black Friday...

#im so. #fucking. #exhausted. #i was by myself the entire shift and i had well over 100 customers #and i had a bunch of shit to clean and put away and like . #my big boss came in and she #DESPITE being the one to tell me to do a bunch of shit this morning #got onto me for not cleaning all of the glass. #i ended up fucking SNAPPING at her #like. legit raising my voice and in a snippyass tone #saying ''i have NOT had the time to get that done. i will get to it when i get to it!'' #she actually backed off #and then a bunch of customers were fucking annoying and irritating #tbh today all in all was busy as fuck and i barely had a second to breathe #and i mean that quite literally i had to pause when i could to use my inhaler it got so bad

[magentagalaxies]

overdid it at my improv show last night and now all i can do is lay in bed having blorbo thoughts

#it was my first time performing live comedy in at least a year and oh my god i didn't realize how much i'd missed it #i love doing behind-the-scenes stuff but something about being onstage with no script and the job of entertaining people #i'm like ah yes this is why i want to be a comedian no matter what #i'd done some virtual improv shows since the pandemic but being in person is so much better #my scene partner could just be like ''hey i'm giving you a piggy back now'' and i'd be like ok no follow up questions #i trust you know what you're doing in this scene enough for me to put my entire weight on you (both metaphorically and literally) #also spontaneously transformed from acting as myself to acting as taffy (one of my recurring improv characters) in like 0.5 seconds #and i didn't even know i was going to be doing taffy at this show (neither did my scene partner they just set me up perfectly) #idk if i've talked about taffy before but i love her she was my first major recurring comedic character #her whole thing is she desperately wants to be part of this wealthy family called the van bortels #and comes up with wild schemes to get there such as living in their vents for the entire pandemic #she also has a husband who's a raccoon that is also nonbinary #i love playing taffy bc she was the first character i ever did that was like. oh people enjoy this. oh people REALLY want to see this. #and when i came home from college the first time we did a scene where there was an imposter-taffy that was another cast member #basically doing their own impression of taffy #and it genuinely made me emotional like wow i made such a distinct character that people are doing their own imitations of her #and it's still unmistakably taffy #anyway maybe i should bring taffy out more. i've been focusing a lot on aubrey lately bc ze's my favorite character i do #but i have at least two other characters i developed in improv over the years that people seem to enjoy #(the third is taytay but i legit haven't played taytay since 2020 so i barely remember what she's like)

[piplupod]

.

#i dont think i have ARFID but i sure do have some sort of ed or ed related thing going on #like. there are two issues that happen #1. i dont want to eat bc that means continuing my existence which is not smth i particularly enjoy (i.e. suicidal ideation) #2. even when i am okay existing i will have issues w eating #bc its either too much work (tedious was a word that came up the other day) or nothing sounds ''right'' #like a food has to be... right in some way for that moment #and sometimes No Food will sound good #or maybe the only food that sounds good and right is like... ice cream but then i have shame around eating dessert food or snack food #so then i dont eat at all fhsdfjkl which... is worse than just having the ice cream RIP #anyways yea i legit just have to like. wait myself out sometimes. bc idk how else to handle it #thats my personal ted talk about food for the day sorry fhdsgjkl im just confused abt it bc it doesnt fit ARFID entirely so :/ #i wish there was a name for it !! i know its probably related to my autism but idk what it is!! #ed mention #pippen needs 2nd breakfast #food and drink

[rabbitclown]

did i say i was done with the console gijinkas for now?

whoops

i have one more (technically not a console but i wanted to include it somehow)

introducing the one of many, shapeshifting, many glowy parts, lives in the xbox family basement

pc

#oc #gijinka #pc #ive been sitting on the idea of making a shapeshifter pc gijinka for a while #then more ideas came like constantly being hooked up to wires #unless in a more portable state (like a laptop) #being one of many #this ALSO breaks my personal rule of limiting myself to the main families i set up #but i put pc in the xbox group simply bc micklesoft and windows #idk how many designs i'll end up making #this one was kind of simple with like rgb elements #the idea being anything that like a legit color could change #any pronouns as well #while the design itself is...pretty simple all things concerned when it comes to gijinkas like this #theres a lot more to it compared to my other gijinkas #original character

[lemontoad-old]

.

#going to vent here bc too heavy stuff to directly relay on my friends but im in the uk so i cant just get a therapist #anyway #i have become. so insanely depressed recently. bc my physical health has been declining and thats also taking a mental toll on me #i dont use depressed lightly. ive been officially diagnosed with clinical depression before and then it was gone for about a year #but boy oh boy its Back #and all my mental problems came back bc my physical health decided to just peace out. and now my mental and physical health are making- #each other worse #physically i have become so tired 24/7 that i just cant do anything other than work (because i need that to live) #and i dont know why! my body just stopped having energy! for months and months now. ive just been working and being in pain and sleeping #<- but also having insomnia so more like laying in bed and watching something to not die of boredom #i dont even work that much anymore. just my contracted hours. and i can see my coworkers handle it fine. they have time and energy to do- #things they want to do and not just live to work. but thats all im doing bc the moment im off the clock im taking my cane out to limp home- #and collapse in bed #i have a doctors appointment on thursday and if they tell me that its just from stress or smth im going to flip #bc no it fucking isnt!! theres no stress in my life other than the fact that my health is giving up #sure yeah my mental health is crap BECAUSE of the fatigue and the pain. not the other way around. so order some tests or i will kill #im already getting myself worked up bc ive been waiting a month and half just for this gp appointment #and i know theres a good chance they are going to wave it off with some stupid excuse instead of actually trying to find out whats wrong #if i dont get medical attention to solve this i might legit just off myself. im barely living as is. work is not living. i want to cry 24/7 #everything hurts so much

[rose-tinted-nostalgia]

.

#I know life is hard and we shouldn't take it personally and we should never expect people to coddle us and blah blah #but really I would like to just survive one day without someone being mean to me #I don't even need a day of people being nice #truly I would just take one completely mundane day where I didn't get cursed out or yelled at or spoken down to #and yes I'm well aware this is partially my fault because one person in particular I surround myself with is trash #but it's not just him #my sister cursed me out and accused me of insulting her because I said I didn't agree with her on something #I didn't even say she was wrong I legit told her her feelings were valid and that it was just hard for me to see it from the same #perspective #and when she got upset i took it all back and said I was wrong and apologized and still she berated me over messenger until I cried because #I didn't know what else to say #and even though I'm sick #I got up and cooked dinner for my family and I cleaned up the whole mess and put it all away but I didn't do the dishes because I was #struggling and had to lay back down #and my mom came out and did not say thanks for dinner or thanks for cleaning up or anything of the sort #she came out rolled her eyes scoffed gestured to the dishes in the sink and said you have a mess here #and then proceeded to complain about how I didn't do the dishes #and that's stupid to let that bother me but I swear it's an every day thing and like I was so proud of myself for getting up and cooking an #cleaning up my mess because I was struggling to get out of bed at all #and still all she can bring up is the negative and no matter what i do it's always like that never a positive note #and for the record my mom lives with me for free taking over my son's bedroom it's not like i left dishes in her house it's my dishes in my #house #and ofc my son's father found a way to yell at me but i don't even count that anymore #and i'm just emotionally drained #and it feels like lately it's just an every day thing and i'm so fucking tired #I can't remember the last time someone said anything kind to me at all and that's not an exaggeration #no one ever says i love you or i'm proud of you or thanks for doing that or this helps alot or you got this or you're good at this #and I just wish someone could see something good in me for once

[dreamingofstarslight]

Man i cant wait for my current lead to step down 🫠

#i speak #childcare chronicles #its not that i dont like her or she doesnt like me #but like if i wasnt assigned to this classroom we would literally never have talked and kept a cool distance #(mind you we share an age group and our classes share a bathroom) #and theres like no trust or camaraderie between us #(the thing thats really getting to me rn is that she told me to make sure that a kids parent signed up for conferences (so i did) #and when he came to them yesterday he was like ‘yea your teacher kinda cornered me so i would sign up’ and she legit did not say anything #abt it. even though she literally told me to?) #like im being so petty but i just really do not care to be in a (another) room where my lead tells me to do something and then acts like i #came up with the idea myself with no input from them #its just ugh

[neckromancy]

Sorry it's not necessarily self ship related, but it's kind-of hilarious that the only time I risked a 'save scum' in BG3 Honour Mode* was when I was not in a life/death scenario, but because I accidentally broke up with Astarion (misclick).

I could have corrupted my save file and lose everything so far, because I had to try to see if I could save the situation.

I ended up only losing an hour of gameplay and saved my relationship. Stressful in the moment, but gave me a chuckle afterwards.

*Honour mode: hardest game mode where you only have 1 save file, closing the game autosaves, and if your party dies it's game over: it's hardcore and what I did should not have been possible

#mirika.txt #I was dating this guy for the 6th time out of my 8 games but apparently breaking up was still not an option. #The two times I did not btw was my first game where I did not long rest enough to have a chance at romance & my game where I played as him. #I was legit sobbing behind my pc and had to mute myself on my livestream. It was crazy. Nobody heard my actual reaction so that's good. #I was livestreaming my Honour Mode cuz if I do a hardcore game mode I won't suffer in silence haha. #Gods this was an event. #When I tried the reset I actually saw 'saving...' in the top left corner and I truly feared terrible things. #By now I did beat Honour Mode. I am proud owner of the golden d20. #But gods that was such a risk. I was so many hours in already. It was a crazy risk for something technically so minor. #Especially because it's not my first time dating him or something. #I mean I guess it was my first time streaming it. Came back to Twitch despite being retired just for this Honour Mode. #Either way... apparently I find breaking up with him as bad as dying and losing my save file cuz honestly... yeah. 🤣 #It's so stupid! I romanced him 5 times before! Why was I like this! ... #Okay I am going to bed now it's 11.30 pm and I am clearly rambling.

[ktempestbradford]

I have been on a Willy Wonkified journey today and I need y'all to come with me

It started so innocently. Scrolling Google News I come across this article on Ars Technica:

At first glance I thought what happened was parents saw AI-generated images of an event their kids were at and became concerned, then realized it was fake. The reality? Oh so much better.

On Saturday, event organizers shut down a Glasgow-based "Willy's Chocolate Experience" after customers complained that the unofficial Wonka-inspired event, which took place in a sparsely decorated venue, did not match the lush AI-generated images listed on its official website.... According to Sky News, police were called to the event, and "advice was given."

Thing is, the people who paid to go were obviously not expecting exactly this:

But I can see how they'd be a bit pissed upon arriving to this:

It gets worse.

"Tempest, how could it possibly--"

source of this video that also includes this charming description:

Made up a villain called The Unknown — 'an evil chocolate maker who lives in the walls'

There is already a meme.

Oh yes, the Wish.com Oompa Loompa:

Who has already done an interview!

As bad (and hilarious) as this all is, I got curious about the company that put on this event. Did they somehow overreach? Did the actors they hired back out at the last minute? (Or after they saw the script...) Oddly enough, it doesn't seem so!

Given what I found when poking around I'm legit surprised there was an event at all. Cuz this outfit seems to be 100% a scam.

The website for this specific event is here and it has many AI generated images on it, as stated. I don't think anyone who bought tickets looked very closely at these images, otherwise they might have been concerned about how much Catgacating their children would be exposed to.

Yes, Catgacating. You know, CATgacating!

I personally don't think anyone should serve exarserdray flavored lollipops in public spaces given how many people are allergic to it. And the sweet teats might not have been age appropriate.

Though the Twilight Tunnel looks pretty cool:

I'm not sure that Dim Tight Twdrding is safe. I've also been warned that Vivue Sounds are in that weird frequency range that makes you poop your pants upon hearing them.

Yes, Virginia, these folks used an AI image generator for everything on the website and used Chat GPT for some of the text! From the FAQ:

Q: I cannot go on the available days. Will you have more dates in the future? A: Should there be capacity when you arrive, then you will be able to enter without any problems. In the event that this is not the case, we may ask you to wait a bit.

Fear not, for this question is asked again a few lines down and the answer makes more sense.

Curious about the events company behind this disaster, I took myself over to the homepage of House of Illuminati and I was not disappointed.

I would 100% trust these people to plan my wedding.

This abomination of a website is a badly edited WordPress blog filled with AI art and just enough blog posts to make the casual viewer think that it's a legit business for about 0.0004 seconds.

Their attention to detail is stunning, from how they left up the default first post every WP blog gets to how they didn't bother changing the name on several images, thus revealing where they came from. Like this one:

With the lovely and compact filename "DALL·E-2024-01-30-09.50.54-Imagine-a-scene-where-fantasy-and-reality-merge-seamlessly.-In-the-foreground-a-grand-interactive-gala-is-taking-place-filled-with-elegant-guests-i.png"

"Concept.png" came from the same AI generator that gets text almost, but not quiiiiiite right:

There are a suspicious number of .webp images in the uploads, which makes me think they either stole them from other sites where AI "art" was uploaded or they didn't want to pay for the hi-res versions of some and just grabbed the preview image.

The real fun came when I noticed this filename: Before-and-After-Eventologists-Transformation-Edgbaston-Cricket-Ground-1024x1024-1.jpg and decided to do a Google image search. Friends, you will be shocked to hear that the image in question, found on this post touting how they can transform a boring warehouse into a fun event space, was stolen from this actual event planner.

Even better, this weirdly grainy image?

From a post that claims to be about the preparations for a "Willy Wonka" experience (we'll get to this in a minute), is not only NOT an actual image of anyone preparing anything for Illuminati's event, it is stolen from a YouTube thumbnail that's been chopped to remove the name of the company that actually made this. Here's the video.

If you actually read the blog posts they're all copypasta or some AI generated crap. To the point where this seems like not a real business at all. There's very specific business information at the bottom, but nothing else seems real.

As I said, I'm kinda surprised they put on an event at all. This has, "And then they ran off with all our money!" written all over it. I'm perplexed.

And also wondering when the copyright lawyers are gonna start calling, because...

This post explicitly says they're putting together a "Willy Wonka’s Chocolate Factory Experience" complete with golden tickets.

Somewhere along the line someone must have wised up, because the actual event was called "Willys Chocolate Experience" (note the lack of apostrophe) and the script they handed to the actors about 10 minutes before they were supposed to "perform" was about a "Willy McDuff" and his chocolate factory.

As I was going through this madness with friends in a chat, one pointed out that it took very little prompting to get the free Chat GPT to spit out an event description and such very similar to all this while avoiding copyrighted phrases. But he couldn't figure out where the McDuff came from since it wasn't the type of thing GPT would usually spit out...

Until he altered the prompt to include it would be happening in Glasgow, Scotland.

You cannot make this stuff up.

But truly, honestly, I do not even understand why they didn't take the money and run. Clearly this was all set up to be a scam. A lazy, AI generated scam.

Everything from the website to the event images to the copy to the "script" to the names of things was either stolen or AI generated (aka stolen). Hell, I'd be looking for some poor Japanese visitor wandering the streets of Glasgow, confused, after being jacked for his mascot costume.

HE LIVES IN THE WALLS, Y'ALL.

#long post #Willy Wonka #Wonka #Willy Wonka Experience #Willy Wonka Experience disaster #Willy's Chocolate Experience #Willys Chocolate Experience #THE UNKNOWN #Wish.com Oompa Loompa #House of Illuminati #AI #ai generated

[dark-academia-slut]

ok, so...

i've had my driver's license since the end of june and i've had some real bad driving anxiety but whenever i would drive my mom or dad would always be with me, because i was terrified of driving by myself, alone.... i just though i couldn't do it

BUT THEN yesterday it was raining and i needed to buy some stuff for baking and i really did not want to use the tram or go by bike

I FUCKING DROVE TO REWE BY MYSELF AND EVEN PARKING WORKED AND I AM SO FUCKING PROUD OF MYSELF FOR THAT!!!!!!

because i really wanted to drive to a party tonight by myself, but didn't feel safe and now i know i can drive without problem and i feel so independent and i just really had wanted to drive alone before my 19th birthday (which is next tuesday) AND I FUCKING DID IT

#yetta rambles #driving anxiety #i am so fucking proud of myself #because i legit had some panic attacks when it came to driving #thankfully not while driving #but before i had to drive #when i was mentally prepping #but i FUCKING DID IT #and i feel so grown up and independent