#ice cold take

[jozor-johai]

it doesn't even need to be said at this point but it was such cold butchery of the source material to put Blue Darth Maul into the tv show and make half of the plot and conflict about How To Kill This Guy

#i know this is such old news #ice cold take #but what the hell #jozor thoughts #asoiaf memes #show mention #game of thrones #asoiaf

[flannelepicurean]

Okay, homies, have I got a story for you! 😂😂😂

So, li'l while back, I ordered myself some new loungewear to get me through some tough times, including some pajama pants with the print pictured here.

My four-year-old, who has been informed, and has finally accepted, that he is a Baby Goku, but doesn't yet understand what "chibi" is, saw my pajamas and went, "THAT'S BABY GOKU! I'M BABY GOKU!" and I was like, "Correct, young man." He then made some inquiries about the two other fellows, having not seen Dragon Ball Z, on account of he's four years old, and I do not want him imitating that behavior, because he ain't got but maybe half a lick of sense on a good day, and 0% accurate estimation of danger.

With no knowledge of the source material--and I really wanna emphasize this--he went on to inform me of the following:

THAT'S BABY VEGETA. VEGETA IS VERY FIERCE!!!

BABY PICCOLO IS SERIOUS.

VEGETA GETS MAD. HE YELLS A LOT.

I then tried to explain Vegeta's character arc to my four-year-old in an age-appropriate way. Which kinda went like, "Uh...yeah...well...uh. When he first shows up and meets everybody, Vegeta's...a bully. And he wants to fight. But...he...learns...better? And they solve some problems together, and after a while, he's their friend???" Which resulted in:

THAT'S BABY GOKU. HE'S MY FRIEND. HES MY BEST FRIEND!

PURPLE PICKLES IS GOOD. AND GREEN...GREEN PICKLES ARE VERY GOOD FOR YOU!

And I was like, "Ya darn right, homie. That's what's up." 😂😂😂

Because HE'S NOT WRONG!!! THAT'S AN EXTREMELY 💯 TAKE!!! And I'm adopting "Purple Pickles" as my headcanon for Piccolo's online handle for his troll accounts that he uses to troll Vegeta, who is an absolute Boomer On The Internet, on the internet.

I freakin' love kids, man.

#kids #parenting #small children #my irl kid #dbz #dragon ball z #goku #vegeta #piccolo #baby goku #accurate #character interpretation #clocked those character traits immediately #lol #bout had their backstories intuited #my boy #purple pickles tho #purple pickles #ice cold take #he's not wrong #kids say the funniest things

[gold-talks-alot]

If you don't love the source material, you don't deserve to adapt it

#velma #also a bunch of stuff #nina has spoken #ice cold take

[yusuke-of-valla]

Chris Pratt’s Mario voice continues to suck

#ice cold take

[icecoldtakes]

Everyone deserves adequate food, water, housing, and healthcare until or unless they commit an unforgivable crime. These are basic human rights and the people who work in these industries should be paid by the government, not the people.

#human rights #free healthcare #ice cold take

[obsob]

bedtime story with my love !!

#mine #cats #oooooooooogh im so cold....bath time bath time :3 ! #i hope everyone is hvaing a good week i am now DONE with work !!!!! hehe !!!!!!!!!! #i might not do any drawing for a little while . maybe just felt tips #also. cannnot for the life of me decide what 2 read...am like 30% way thro assassins fate but Um its . a little intense so im taking a brea #idk what im in the mood for....something....fun... but isnt bad #i feel like all 'light' books r bad. maybe i will just reread the goblin emperor. as i always do when all else fails #also. am going ice skating tomorrow i am SO excited . i hvent been in so so long its so exciting !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! #mwah. hve good evening :3

[cicadashelling]

I love the fan art of the locked tomb. So much beautiful art. BUT. GIDEON SPENT SO MUCH TIME WORKING OUT WHEN SHE WAS BORED IN THE FIRST BOOK, SHE IS NOT A JOD DAMN TWINK. BIG MUSCLES OR GTFO.

#tlt trilogy #gideon the ninth #gideon nav #cold take #ice cold take #Gideon could lift me my mom and my dead father in his casket over her head

[mushroomjawn]

#ice cold take #freezerburned

[deerspherestudios]

Can we get a picture of Alma?💕 I love them so much💜💜💜

They do their best to be the ultimate all-nighter study buddy when you need it!!👻❤️

#lift your spirits vn #alma ask #doodles #alma jumpscare!! #ignore the fact they can physically hold the coins #they're just possessing the coins one by one and making them float TRUST #you take them and they're cold as ice but the gesture warms ur heart so its ok <3

[ohhgingersnaps]

I'm seeing some frustration over fandom creatives expressing anger or distress over people feeding their work into ChatGPT. I'm not responding to OP directly because I don't want to derail their post (their intent was to provide perspective on how these models actually work, and reduce undue panic, which is all coming from a good place!), but reassurances that the addition of our work will have a negligible impact on the model (which is true at this point) does kind of miss the point? Speaking for myself, my distress is less about the practical ramifications of feeding my fic into ChatGPT, and more about the principle of someone taking my work and deliberately adding it to the dataset.

Like, I fully realize that my work is a drop in the bucket of ChatGPT's several-billion-token training set! It will not make a demonstrable practical difference in the output of the model! That doesn't change the fact that I do not want my work to be part of the set of data that the ChatGPT devs use for training.

According to their FAQ, ChatGPT can and will use user input to train itself. The terms and conditions explicitly state that they save your chats to help train and improve their models. (You can opt-out, but sharing is the default.) So if you're feeding a fic into ChatGPT, unless you've explicitly opted out, you are handing it to the ChatGPT team and giving them permission to use it for training, whether or not that was your intent.

Now, will one fic make a demonstrable difference in the output of the model? No! But as the person who spent a year and a handful of months laboring over my fic, it makes a difference to me whether my fic, specifically, is being used in the dataset. If authors are allowed to have a problem with the ChatGPT devs for scraping millions of fics without permission, they're also allowed to have a problem with folks handing their individual fics over via the chat interface.

I do want to add that if you've done this to a fic, please don't take this as me being upset with you personally! Folks are still learning new information and puzzling out what "good" vs. "bad" use is, from an ethical standpoint. (Heck, my own perspective on this is deeply based on my own subjective feelings!) And we certainly shouldn't act like one person feeding a fic into ChatGPT has the same practical negative impact, on a broad societal scale, as a team using a web crawler to scrape five billion pieces of artwork for Stable Diffusion.

The point is that fundamentally, an ethical dataset should be obtained with the consent of those providing the data. Just because it's normalized for our data to be scraped without consent doesn't make it ethical, and this is why ChatGPT gives users the option to not share data— there is actually a standardized way (robots.txt) for website servers to set policies for how bots/crawlers can interact with them, for exactly this reason— and I think fandom artists and authors are well within their rights to express a desire for opting out to be the socially-respected default within the fandom community.

#maybe this is an ice cold take but i've been meaning to go off about datasets for a while so here we are i guess #i can respect what op's frustrations were and what they were trying to get at! but also i do not want my fic in chatgpt's dataset #regardless of whether it will make a practical difference #and again i don't think the people doing this are necessarily bad actors or having a huge negative social impact #chatgpt #chat gpt #ai #fandom #negative #(possibly! i'm trying not to be!! especially because this is very feelings-based and there are many things i am not considering) #the model may not demonstrably change because of your fic. but it does have your fic now and that does matter maybe idk

[junuve]

writing chell as a woman who has problems that are not of Aperture origin really makes the chelldos work for me, ngl. like, we all know what the fuck is wrong with GLaDOS, but chell??? well, i gave her some Issues™️, and its perfect (to me)

and it's not like i had to conjure up the possibility out of thin air. like... why the hell would someone so damned determined to keep moving forward go down into Aperture, a place that clearly is designed to Kill People, and sign up for testing? she literally didn't respond to the question of "will anyone miss you or come looking for you when you're gone"?! and then to not say a DAMN thing during everything that occurs in p1/2?!? who does that...? Someone with a past.

#portal #portal 2 #GLaDOS #chelldos #chell portal #portal chell #p2 chell #i love my “extremely alarming prior history” chell sm... sorry to chelldos fans im new here ik yall have a rich history #but anyway i like the Concept. uncharted territory for me sorry if this is an ice cold take...

[cinamun]

Are you dating? | Next

#ts4 #indya #black simblr #i have no comment other than the gifs might take a minute to load #I'll see y'all in the replies #with a fresh pan of lemon pepper wings #and ice cold Ghettosas™ #ts4 story #sims 4 story #simblr #ch24

[noodlesarecheese]

Full disclosure I'm a couple episodes behind in WWW, so I'm not 100% on every thing that's being discoursed about, but I've seen enough that I just want to remind people/beg people to remember:

You are watching The Nuance Show, DMed by Mr. Philosophical Nuance and played by Notable Lovers of Nuance.

#I've just seen some real ice cold takes that seemingly want to strip all nuance out of wbn and like...my guy...it's The Nuance Show #worlds beyond number #might delete later this isn't that spicy but it's spicier than I normally get #I'm just so tired. #Also some of y'all have nerves of steel posting some of the shit you do knowing full well that Aabriya Herself lives here #discourse #wbn discourse #I don't think this is really discourse but it's about the discourse soooooo tagging it

[sneaky-ramen]

btvs really said “sex is the most transcendent happiness a man can have and the worst thing that can happen to a girl” and it would have been way cooler if they hadn’t

#buffy summers #buffy the vampire slayer #btvs #ice cold take besties

[yikesola]

In “dnp react to every pinof #2” when Phil looks at pinof6 phil and says “I feel like this guy is me, d’you know what I mean? I don’t feel like I’m not totally relating anymore” he’s talking about 2014 Phil, a Phil who was 27 years old.

Later, in “dnp react to every pinof #3” Dan looks at pinof10 and says “You know when you were saying, you say pinof6 and you were like ‘that’s me!’ This is me!” He’s talking about 2018 Dan, a Dan who was also 27 years old!

Now I’m not wholly certain what to conclude with this, that their brains had stopped cooking and therefore they as current adults were able to recognize it, or that they’re once again true companions through life, or something else entirely, but it’s certainly interesting

#me talking #dnp #you’ll have to forgive this ice cold take #but I’m months behind and only watched the video yesterday 🥰

[see-arcane]

After reading and watching several adaptations, I have come to the conclusion that Quincey gets much more respect than Jonathan. Yes he appears much less, but he gets his heroic sacrifice when he does instead of getting bastardised. Three times I have seen him be the one who kills Dracula without Jonathan. In two of those he has the kukri.

Also idk if vampire Quincey is underappreciated, there is a novel all about him.

And in this one Jonathan is revealed to have been a cowardly cheater all along.

You know. Sometimes I think I might be going too overindulgent with my Harker Horrors and lavishing of attention on my favorite special little haunted gothic heroine lad.

And then I get lovely reminders like these that not only am I not being indulgent, I have to actively burn every daydream of an inhibition I have as a writer to unfuck 126 years' worth of doing the whole cast dirty, but Jonathan Harker the absolute worst.

#in all ways but physical I am ripping the Harkers out of the hands of the directors and writers #who came before me #setting those hands on fire #and running into the sunset of self-gratifying undiluted literary junk food #if people get to wipe their rancid ice-cold take Barely Skimmed the Wikipedia (of the Movie) fanfiction of these characters on the world #I get to do whatever I damn well please #jonathan harker #I will torment the hell out of you buddy #but I refuse to gut your character while I do it #dracula #my writing #adaptation #spinoff #bastardization