age of calamity is so funny. when you get a new playable character, you get a little mini quest with enemies so you can get comfortable with playing as said character and getting used to the combos and whatnot. the enemies are usually a moblin or two, lizalfos, bokoblins, the usual
but with sooga, his whole training quest is like. a silver lynel. a black hinox. multiple moblins
he is canonically very strong and is kohgas right hand and crazy skilled in sword fighting etc etc. the fact that they were like “mmm yes let’s make his training the most difficult bc it’s accurate to his character”
PLUS. the title is something like “soogas daily drills” or something which made me laugh. like yes sooga goes out every day and just fights a lynel and some hinoxs for fun to train up. sounds about right
46 notes
·
View notes
youre gonna regret that in like 130 chapters
2 notes
·
View notes
Sonnet: *mildly explains that while his sonnet girlfriend doesn’t fit his society’s beauty standards, he still loves her just the way she is and thinks she is just as good than the other totally fake blonde-blue-eyed sonnet girlfriends*
These clowns: what a ROAST, lmao, is this supposed to be romantic???? typical dead white male. AITA-time whoop
4 notes
·
View notes
nightshade is basically useless https://www.tumblr.com/billclintonsbeefarm/740236576484999168/even-if-you-dont-like-generative-models-this
I'm not a developer, but the creators of Nightshade do address some of this post's concerns in their FAQ. Obviously it's not a magic bullet to prevent AI image scraping, and obviously there's an arms race between AI developers and artists attempting to disrupt their data pools. But personally, I think it's an interesting project and is accessible to most people to try. Giving up on it at this stage seems really premature.
But if it's caption data that's truly valuable, Tumblr is an ... interesting ... place to be scraping it from. For one thing, users tend to get pretty creative with both image descriptions and tags. For another, I hope whichever bot scrapes my blog enjoys the many bird photos I have described as "Cheese." Genuinely curious if Tumblr data is actually valuable or if it's garbage.
That said, I find it pretty ironic that the OP of the post you linked seems to think nightshade and glaze specifically are an unreasonable waste of electricity. Both are software. Your personal computer's graphics card is doing the work, not an entire data center, so if your computer was going to be on anyway, the cost is a drop in the bucket compared to what AI generators are consuming.
Training a large language model like GPT-3, for example, is estimated to use just under 1,300 megawatt hours (MWh) of electricity; about as much power as consumed annually by 130 US homes. To put that in context, streaming an hour of Netflix requires around 0.8 kWh (0.0008 MWh) of electricity. That means you’d have to watch 1,625,000 hours to consume the same amount of power it takes to train GPT-3. (source)
So, no, I don't think Nightshade or Glaze are useless just because they aren't going to immediately topple every AI image generator. There's not really much downside for the artists interested in using them so I hope they continue development.
973 notes
·
View notes
me going from "i should wait until home compatibility is updated to buy ScarVio" to "i should wait until Pokemon Bank goes free so i can transfer over some rare pokémon in special balls and stuff" to "i should wait until Pokemon inevitably releases bundled complete editions with whatever DLC they're going to have for ScarVio"
1 note
·
View note
More than 130 people, including Gloria Steinem, and organizations in the field of women’s rights advocacy and domestic violence and sexual assault awareness have signed an open letter to support Amber Heard, who lost a defamation suit this year brought by her ex-husband, Johnny Depp, for an op-ed in which she said she was a “public figure representing domestic abuse.”
The letter, which was exclusively shared with NBC News ahead of its public release Wednesday, was signed by groups like the National Organization for Women, the National Women’s Law Center, Equality Now and the Women’s March Foundation. It was written by a group of people who identify as domestic violence survivors and supporters of Heard.
1K notes
·
View notes
Skulduggery Pleasant Realisation
So there I was, going around for years picturing Skulduggery Pleasant as looking 30-something when he died, because he was married with a kid and already part of an elite black-ops unit
But then I started rereading the series again and realised that Skulduggery was about 130 years old
Remembering how China told Valkyrie it would take about 200 years for her to look 25
This fucker was going around fighting a whole war looking like a 22-23 year old guy and that suddenly explains so much about the Dead Men, like they were basically just a group of college friends
I don't know how to feel about this, feel free to correct my math if I'm wrong
53 notes
·
View notes