FF14 players have been told to hear, feel, and think since day 1, yet somehow hate Dawntrail because it expects you to do exactly that

I'm convinced Mythbusters needs a reboot. Misinformation or mythinformation if you will, is at an all time high. We NEED the show that promotes critical thinking to come back. It doesn't need the same cast, in fact I think it would be better with some fresh faces. Imagine all the good it would do if you could just show your crazy uncle the Mythbusters reboot episode that debunks his anti-vaxx conspiracy in an easily digestible and entertaining format.

I initially read "Mythbusters needs a robot" and thought "seems reasonable let's see where theyre going with this"

ur future nurse is using chapgpt to glide thru school u better take care of urself

Yep. This is terrifying. I’ve caught nursing majors, engineering majors, architecture majors relying on ChatGPT to do their homework. These are people who need to know their field well to ensure people don’t die and they’re letting a glorified algorithm cheat them through school. It’s so dangerous

hey. hi. I work in academia. and there are a lot of student-age folks on this site.

don't do this. don't use genAI. even if your professors give you permission. even if they ask for it or suggest it. if they do anything short of directly requiring it (and I weep, because I've already seen assignments that require it) don't touch that crap. if they do require it, stick it to them. be as maliciously compliant as possible. be a nightmare.

I know it might sound easier right now -- just plug in your assignment and get the answers. you don't care about this class anyway, it's not for your major, you don't see the value of the assignment.

but for your own sake, for the sake of your education and mind, and for the sake of the future world we want to have: learn the stuff. you are not as stupid as the corporate bizzaro kings who want to rule the world think you are, so don't give them reasons to believe it.

and odds are good genAI is gonna give you corrupted info anyway -- more and moreso as the machines cannibalize themselves.

just don't do it. not even "I just do it for XYZ--" no. stop. there is no valid use of generative AI, and even using it for memes or lolz feeds the system and directly feeds the pockets of the people who want to replace you anyway.

Rage reblogging this. Yesterday i got into an argument with one of my college friends who is using chatGPT to do all her work. We're psychology students. The whole group chat laughed my arguments off as if they didn't matter because "she's an artist, of course she's anti-AI" and i had to deal with it. This is a warning. If your therapist graduated in 2023/2024, ask about their opinions on chatGPT. They might lie to you if you ask "did you use it to graduate" directly, but try to make jokes about it and play it cool. If they're into it, DROP OFF. FIND A NEW ONE. Do not trust your brain to someone who didn't bother to use theirs.

[Image ID: Screencap from unspecified website in dark mode. Text reads:

"After that that stupid thing from Bezos and Musk about how a trillion humans would mean a thousand Mozarts, it got me thinking.

We clearly must have Mozarts today, and at least a couple of them probably got the same upbringing he did to nurture their skill and talent, and we would therefore have:

I can only conclude that the modern-day Mozart is Weird Al Yankovic.

I will not be taking questions."

Followed by: a portrait of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and a photograph of Weird Al Yankovic, in similar 3/4 poses with similar eyebrow-raised and smiling expressions. End ID.]

i think a lot of people who have never done music do not understand how absolutely implausible weird al's skill level is. you can say "so many musicians can do at least one of his songs, obviously", and yes, they can, but they couldn't do all of them. you have people who studied ten or twenty years to be able to do something genuinely incredible, and they've specialized and focused and developed the ability to produce a particular kind of thing, and they do it really well, and then this guy comes along and says "welp, time for a new album", picks ten of them, and duplicates their shtick well enough to be clearly recognizable.

this man produced a piece of music which an experienced listener can hear and say "oh, that's Frank Zappa". how? not even Frank Zappa sounds like Frank Zappa!

Is weird Al doing different shit now? Bc if he was writing pastiches this would be true, but all I'm really familiar with is the stuff where he just rewrites the lyrics to an existing song, or does a polka cover of it.

Weird Al's "style parodies", or original compositions explicitly in the style of a particular artist or band, are approximately as numerous as his actual song parodies. Generally the Regular Parodies get all the attention, they're the big money spinners, but his style parodies are both numerous and legendary.

Dare to Be Stupid, the title track off the album of the same name, is probably the big one that people would know - a more Devo song than actual Devo, and that's according to Devo themselves.

An incomplete list of other ones that rule, actually, are:

This lists all Weird Al's known style parodies. There are a LOT.

appalachia is devastated. towns i loved, towns i visited all the time, are gone. not damaged, GONE. they are leveled to the ground. there is nothing left but rubble and ruin. people are dead. appalachia is poor to begin with and relies on tourism for a lot of its income, and multiple of those tourist locations are just...gone.

my town is okay, but it's flooded and wrecked. trees are blocking all but one way out of our neighborhood. power lines are hanging limp in the roads. we've been without power for over 24 hours and will continue to be without power for likely another 24+. disabled people and poor people are GOING to die from this. gods save appalachia.

it's always a hit or miss with appalachian charities. a lot are just evangelism with no action behind what they do. i suggest looking into them before donating.

operation airdrop

nc community foundation

mountain projects

homeward bound

manna food bank

adding some additional photos from the other side of the mountains here in northeast tennessee. there has been genuinely catastrophic flooding in many areas and billions of dollars of damage across NETN and WNC. we are not built to withstand this. 33 people are currently missing in unicoi county alone

to those of you reblogging this, thank you. i have not seen one negative comment about appalachia and i cannot put into words what that means as someone who has lived here for their entire life. we are used to being mocked, scorned, and dismissed, to being the butt of classist jokes, and y'all aren't doing that. thank you. so much.

Hey. Hey Appalachia. We love you. We are with you. We would fling our bodies and chainsaws into the mess if we could but we can't so instead we're flinging whatever cash we can spare to the orgs who will find the gas for the chainsaws and the food and water and clothing and first aid.

We love you. We are with you.

Yeah

Is it a relief for your WoL not to be recognised as "The Warrior of Light" in Tural, and to be considered just another adventurer again?

I'm curious. Reblog this if you know how to cook

I don’t even care if it’s macaroni, ramen or those little bowls you stick in the microwave. Please, I need reassurance that most of the population on tumblr WOULDN’T STARVE TO DEATH if their parents couldn’t fix them food or they couldn’t go out to eat. 

hey fellow americans. can you answer me two questions i’m curious about something. did your parents or other mentors show you how to make ojos de dios/god’s eyes as a kid and are you latine or not

Every time Dawntrail introduces a new proper noun I'm hoping to god that a character will mention it in a voiced cutscene

I just want to know if I'm reading it correctly in my head PLEASE

I love that 90% of the War Room operations are

Cullen: our soldiers will do it!

Leliana: our spies will do it!

Josephine, taking a massive toke: Some shitty noble in the area cheated on his wife AND his secret wife with his secret girlfriend’s mother, he’ll fucking do it if he knows what’s good for him

wait do you guys actually carry purses/bags everywhere you go i really need to know

The thing is, those Manic Pixie Dream Girl movies aren't unrealistic because that kind of thing never happens in real life. They're unrealistic because they never show the epilogue five years later, where the Sadboy Protagonist is posting on reddit going "help, my girlfriend has cool unique hobbies and it's embarrassing me."

I don't know how this comes as a shock to some people, but if you're dating a girl with a bug collection, you're going to be dating a girl who proudly shows dead bugs to your mom.

unhinged, btw, that bioware has to keep assuring people that the game is still dark and gritty because the cinematic trailer was kind of flashy and the art style has changed. for dragon age. the game that was doing "marvel dialogue" before the mcu even really existed (iron man came out in 08, dao came out in 09). the game with a species of hairless pig rabbits, one of which is named schmooples. the game with swooping is bad. the game where you could solve a sidequest about a pining elf boy by fucking the girl he's pining for. we're really gonna pretend this game series never had a significant amount of silliness and humor? fenris tells varric he likes to dance through the empty rooms in danarius' manor. hawke has an entire personality archetype that can be summed up as "shitposter." we're really going to pretend dragon age (the series where people can walk in on you and bull having kinky sex) is all dark and mature and has never had light or silly moments as a major part of its formula. insane

Stop putting Varric in everything, let my man retire to run a minor criminal empire and write smut like the maker intended 😭

i play ffxiv to live out my wildest fantasies. Like being able to travel and see my friends, and being able to walk to get things, and being a catgirl, and being able to have my own place to live, and being able to decorate said place to live, and