The Malgorian Blog

I'm just like this, but with EarthBound instead of Chrono Trigger. I am also like this with Chrono Trigger.

The only ones mentioned here that I hadn't at least heard of before are Black Sigil: Blade of the Exiled and I am Setsuna.

As I was watching this, I started thinking "Man, wouldn't it be cool if you could just order a car online and have it delivered to your house without having to deal with any of this shit?" literally about 30 seconds or so before they started saying basically the same thing.

"While Billie Eilish slams non-philanthropic billionaires, this CEO says telling people what to do with their cash is 'invasive' and to 'butt out'"

Anyway, with that infinitesimal bit of catharsis out of the way, I'm just going to go ahead and say it: I'm a fan of Billie Eilish, have been for at least four or five years now, and not just (or even mostly) because of stuff like this.

Here, have a few Charles Cornell videos about Billie Eilish:

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I post this mostly not for the thing itself, which is kind of stupid, but for one of the comments under it.

One of the best descriptions I've seen in a while, not of LLM/AI itself, necessarily, but of people's reactions to/acceptance of LLM/AI, is this:

"So often, the response to AI is 'this isn't useful for [thing I do] because it lacks the human creativity and ingenuity necessary to [do the thing that I do]. But I bet it would be really useful for [thing I don't do or know anything about but wrongfully think is mindless work devoid of creativity].'"

I will elaborate on that a bit. If one says that wholesale use of AI is "okay" for creating large swaths of code (or, indeed, entire, whole-ass programs/applications), because coding is "mindless work devoid of creativity," then that's the equivalent of saying that it's okay to use AI to create large swaths of prose (or, indeed, entire, whole-ass novels), because writing is "mindless work devoid of creativity," or saying that it's okay to use AI to create larges swaths of lines/colors (or, indeed, entire, whole-ass drawings/paintings), because drawing/painting is "mindless work devoid of creativity." The former is just as ridiculous and untrue as the latter two are.

I'm not even saying that you can't use AI or AI-like tools at all for these things. If a webcomic creator, for instance, wants to use a copy/paste tool to reuse backgrounds they've already drawn once, instead of drawing the same thing by hand repeatedly in every panel, that's fine (as long as it wasn't a LLM that generated those backgrounds for them out of whole cloth in the first place). If a writer has a recurring phrase that some character says in their book that they have set up to autocomplete when they start to type it, rather than having to type it out in full every time, that's fine (as long as it wasn't a LLM that generated said character and/or their recurring phrase out of thin air in the first place). I'm just saying treat "AI used for 'coding'" with the same respect/disdain, as the case may be, as you do for "AI used for 'writing'" or "AI used for 'imagery.'" Don't simply dismiss out of hand the "AI used for 'coding'" bit, just because you may not like/understand/do coding work yourself.

As for the article/blurb itself:

No, "AI code is" not "different from AI art and writing." What I don't want is AI code slop in the games, and that comes from outsourcing programming to gen AI. The only actual difference is that AI code slop isn't as readily visible in the end result as the AI "art" and "writing" slop is, but that just makes it actually even worse and more insidious, honestly.

"In a sense [Tim Sweeney] isn't wrong," First of all, Tim Sweeney is fucking wrong, because him saying that Steam should get rid of the AI tag is asinine. I'm in favor of there being more information available to the consumer, personally, not less.

"but is there a difference between using AI for coding compared to creativity?" Second of all, as the comment to which the above comment was replying, in agreement, also said: "Coding is creativity."

A clip where Pat and Woolie dunk on Elon Musk for a quarter of an hour? Okay, I'm in.

Personally, I'd rather have every Elon Musk on Earth be pulped into a fine red mist by a trolley than let even a single random kid get a bit of mud on their clothes. That's not a moral dilemma for me. Easy pull of the handle, every time.

Also, just a small reminder, these are the names of some of the children fathered by Elon Musk, in no particular order:

• X Æ A-Xii
• Exa Dark Sideræl
• Techno Mechanicus
• Strider Sekhar Sirius
• Ebony Dark'ness Dementia Raven Way
• Azure Astra Alice
• Arcadia
• Seldon Lycurgus
• Romulus

Okay, no, one of those is from My Immortal, not one of Musk's kids, but it would absolutely fit the trend, wouldn't it?

A post on John Scalzi's Whatever.

The gist: Someone at the bottom end of the 1% is closer to someone with no money at all than they are to someone at the top end of the 1% who has billions of dollars, yet the person at the bottom end of the 1% is still in the 1%, so too often tries to live like the guy with billions of dollars. The whole thing is simultaneously utterly asinine but also makes sense that idiots with more money than brains would try (and fail) to live like that.

I read the whole post but only watched the video, at 2X speed, until about halfway in, bailing at the start of the shill. The post itself is more humblebragging about how John Scalzi and his family mostly don't do all the stupid shit that 1%ers do.

Just for some context and comparison here, Woolie is the guy who, with Reggie, panned the The Super Mario Bros. Movie trailers because Mario's ass was apparently too flat.

Here's the thing about cosplay. The cosplayer is usually going for a very specific look that is as accurate to the specific thing they're cosplaying as they can possibly make it look. This movie is going to be its own thing (or at least I hope to all the powers that be that it will be that, rather than trying and failing to rehash one of the games), so Link and Zelda can look like whatever. It doesn't really matter that much, as long as they're not just wearing t-shirts and jeans or something. People will be cosplaying whatever they're wearing in this movie soon enough, regardless.

Anyway, I expect the Zelda movie to be just like the Mario movie: inoffensively okay. Probably not super great, but also probably not complete crap, either.