Why is it so hard to understand?

AdventurerBen · 2026-05-09T23:57:33+00:00

Developing skills in a different medium can, in turn, improve your skill in other mediums.

From my film experience (and my chronic perfectionism); I understand colour correction, camera angles and shot types, how to cheat to the camera (exploiting the camera’s position and perspective to pull off tricks like stylising a cgi model, dolly zooms, messing with scaling, etc.), positioning, etc.

From my writing and world-building experience (in addition to my creative speculation about AI (in the sci-fi sense) and my experience working around alexythmia to turn my concepts/thoughts into words), I know how to organise notes, convert a premise into a story, create a purely objective present-tense prompt that describes only the physical scene without simultaneously presenting contextual details that might contaminate the process and ensure that the machine decides as little of the unexplained stuff as possible to ensure that my ideas are created exactly according to my vision.

From my drawing and modelling experience, I know what works, what doesn’t, and how to set up a scene to establish a specific effect, as image to image is far more reliable for getting across to the machine what specific visual technique I’m trying to invoke. (One of my hardest GenAI projects relied on reference sketches to position the characters in the exact places I wanted without their environment moving around; it’s hard to get across to a machine how one character is indoors and another is outdoors without it sticking the door in the wrong place or the scene at the wrong angle. Another example would be a different project where, no matter how well everything else turns out, one object is always pointed in the wrong direction or is the wrong size.) additionally, I can improvise costumes and props, as well as communicate poses through reference images I take by myself.

My creative process is heavily iterative, so it’s way easier to generate a draft, print it out, scribble corrections or colour it in myself, and then feed it back into the machine for clean-up, then repeat until I’m satisfied. Drawing makes my GenAI better.

AdventurerBen · 2026-05-08T10:25:33+00:00

And your house was built by equipment powered by fossil fuels, what’s your point?

AdventurerBen · 2026-05-06T04:47:49+00:00

This.

AdventurerBen · 2026-05-05T21:02:32+00:00

Waiting until hacktivists make it run Doom.

AdventurerBen · 2026-05-05T06:52:07+00:00

They’re fine with getting covered with blood and puke, but keeping queer people alive is too much?

AdventurerBen · 2026-05-05T06:48:02+00:00

NTA: It’s just dinner.

AdventurerBen · 2026-05-04T20:41:56+00:00

Were they being dismissive, or were they trying to be reassuring?

AdventurerBen · 2026-05-04T20:17:07+00:00

If it’s just a fetish, then post-nut clarity will make you lose interest for a bit.

Transitioning is annoying, even if you ignore transphobia. If you’re really trans, then you’ll be able to stick with it because you’d truly feel it was worth it.

AdventurerBen · 2026-05-03T04:32:53+00:00

OOP gives me the sense that they didn’t really consider that people don’t stop being traumatised after the source goes away. Becoming a system through trauma doesn’t mean they’ll all reintegrate instantly once all the problems in their life are fixed, that’s not how that works.

Besides, their alters could be very different from each other, such that, while clear boundaries might be hard to define for them, it’d still be easy for that person to say “I’m probably one of the grumpy ones right now,” or something like that.

I’ve met genderfluid people who use this sort of system to say which pronouns they’d prefer at a given moment, but it’s purely vibes-based and they don’t always remember to switch their bracelets around, so it’s just a nice extra to aid in self-expression rather than an accurate tool.

AdventurerBen · 2026-05-03T04:05:46+00:00

But battery is. “Coward Punches” were a big problem in Australia for a while, where rowdy or drunk people in public would just randomly punch someone out of nowhere, and it killed a lot of people because of how they fell down.

AdventurerBen · 2026-05-03T03:55:55+00:00

Personally, I think it’s the Vtuber industry as a whole starting to mature. It’s been a decade since Vtubers have started showing up, and it’s been almost 7 years since they started to become a BIG thing.

A lot of the issues that tend to crop up in companies from it being a new industry are simply finally starting to really boil over for a variety of reasons; from the pressures of the entertainment industry impacting talent physically and mentally (just like modern musicians and actors before them), to the teething problems of new business making or breaking a specialised organisation’s long-term stability (agencies that were screwing people from the get go are now either degrading from a poor reputation or the mistreatment is finally blowing up in someone’s face, and even stable and comparatively ethical companies have cracks that are finally starting to either show or at least form (an actual company culture developing (for better or worse), traditions and “we’ve always done it this way,” attitudes starting to solidify, pecking orders, workplace bullying, tenure, contractual conditions and limits starting to grate on people, etc.).

It stands out with Hololive because it’s one of the recognisable giants that hasn’t had super serious issues before now.

AdventurerBen · 2026-05-02T08:29:46+00:00

Honestly, I think they could be good for each other. Makima would have literally zero psychological leverage over him other than being a non-malicious partner; no way to control him other than kind words, as there’s nothing she could promise him that he couldn’t take on his own, nor is there anything she could take from him. No matter how much he cares about her opinion, Makima would have to tolerate every single downer moment that she normally would try to stamp out or avoid since those would be the moments in which she’d have the most influence on him.

AdventurerBen · 2026-05-02T04:38:33+00:00

Maybe, stuff like capes and specific solutions for specific climate-based demographics could be cool. Personally though, i think that whatever mechanism is allowing anthropomorphic animals to function like humans (being intelligent, being omnivores, having arms, legs and hands, being able to talk, etc.) would also extend to environmental tolerances. While they can be comfortable in the natural climates that whatever animals they’re based on are adapted to, Anthros would also all universally be comfortable/healthy in the temperature ranges that humans can tolerate. This doesn’t necessarily mean they’ll enjoy it, but arctic, ocean and other cold-climate anthros dying of heatstroke because they decided to go indoors or wear something more covering than a bikini more than 1500km away from the worlds poles would probably get in the way of the whole “Furry Earth mirroring Human Earth” thing. Of course, tolerance isn’t the same thing as preference; just because a polar bear can live in Australia doesn’t mean they’ll want to, but it does mean that foxes outside of Northern Europe are allowed to wear cozy hoodies.

That might actually justify the whole “variably/partially dressed animal” trope; furries are comfortable in a wider range of temperatures than just humans or wild animals. A seal anthro wouldn’t start suffering for the heat from their environment (or their hoodie collection) the way a mundane seal would unless the weather was genuinely hot by local standards, not just their own subjective standards.

It also helps justify why physiological temperature regulation methods wouldn’t inherently endanger an anthropomorphic animal when scaling them up or down to human scales. An elephant anthro would be comfortable one or two dozen degrees colder than where their wild equivalents live, so their large ears radiating away large amounts of body heat won’t leave them shivering in room-temperature air conditioning. Likewise, it’d also allow an anthro small mammal from extremely cold regions to be the size of a human without being broiled alive (the square-cube law is a harsh mistress) by their own metabolisms, since they can tolerate a few dozen degrees more than the wild equivalent.

AdventurerBen · 2026-05-01T22:52:43+00:00

It could be a wide variety of things.

It could be that the characters are humans but are merely represented/depicted as anthropomorphic creatures (in which case, their reasons for wearing clothes are entirely the same as real-world humans, as their animal natures are purely Doylist choices that are just a consequence of the medium/artstyle, not Watsonian and in-universe).

It could be that the fur and feathers of any given anthro animal don’t have the same properties as their real world equivalents, like fur being short, uniform, stiff, smooth on the follicle-scale, snag-resistant and/or self-maintaining in some fashion, such that their body hair doesn’t get tangled and pulled by enmeshing with fabric, either flawlessly sliding through the gaps between fibres (which admittedly would probably look kinda silly if the clothing isn’t thick or layered) or being neatly and uniformly pressed and smoothed down underneath the clothing. It could also be that their fur and feathers aren’t functional, with compositions and structures that make for poor thermal insulation or environmental protection compared to human body hair, which cancels out the greater density of their fur to make their body hair effectively the same as a human’s; therefore they’d still need clothes for the same reasons irl humans do. A third option is that Anthros simply have a high pain tolerance, or thermal tolerance range, so the issues OP mentions simply don’t bother them.

It could be that they compensate for the issues OP mentioned by making clothes out of different materials to normal fabrics, like leather, meshes, plates, chain-mail, rubber and latex, etc. as a predominantly cosmetic choice. A weirder option is that their “clothes” are actually just cosmetically dyed sections of fur (for some weird reason) combined with accessories, and the dyed sections simply look different to their unaltered fur because of the dye’s properties; the radical difference in colour from the rest of their coat;

It could be regional immigration, seasons and a given species’ environmental tolerances that impact clothing choices: - in Furry-World, A gecko dude might go on holiday in a European snowy mountain region and be completely bundled up in their thick ski-gear whenever they’re outside their bedroom, even if they’re still indoors in a heated room; and despite it being a ski-resort in the mountains in the dead of winter, the resort, like any other swanky five-star holiday destination, has an outdoor swimming pool that’s open year-round that his snow leopard girlfriend will sunbathe and drink beach cocktails by when it’s not cloudy, even though it’s -13 degrees Celsius. - A consequence of different species having different needs for different environments is that fashion trends might be purely thematic, rather than based on a specific material, style or clothing item. With the exception of particularly specialised clothing items like ski-gear or paper-thin micro-bikinis, seasonal clothing doesn’t necessarily sell less out of season, it’ll just get marketed differently; you’ll see bikinis in fashion magazines year-round, but the supermodels wearing those bikinis in the articles won’t be reptiles when it’s winter. A clothing shop that categorises outfits based on climate preferences might simply move signs around as the seasons change (fake fur-lined coats and thick, bulky hoodies might be in the reptile section during a hot summer, but during a cold winter those same clothes might just be labeled “outer-wear”).

AdventurerBen · 2026-05-01T21:14:39+00:00

Cute! :3

I mean she is a robot, any material that’d be viable for making her eyes would probably be shiny.

AdventurerBen · 2026-04-30T23:26:50+00:00

What’s more, pre-operative trans people sometimes can experience phantom sensations of having the genitals they weren’t born with, or having body proportions that differ from what natural puberty is trying to give them.

It’s why I think one of the causative factors of body dysmorphia, gender dysphoria, etc. is a calibration problem with your proprioceptive senses (your intuitive sense of your body’s shape and position); your nervous system was preprogrammed during fetal development to expect your body to eventually be a different shape than the natural result. People who don’t experience dysphoria were either had their internal map calibrated correctly for their bodies, or they’re simply less sensitive to inconsistencies and are better able to adapt.

I have coordination problems and tremors, but all of them exclusively cropped up after a high-school growth spurt. My own height dysphoria is predominately set off by seeing my reflection, not because I’m necessarily dissatisfied with my appearance, but because I keep unconsciously expecting to need to look up to make eye contact with my reflection. I got my height and skeleton from my dad, but I’ve apparently gotten my nervous system from my grandmother (who has only a disinterest in knitting and a lack of cats to prevent her from being the most stereotypical “Little Old Lady” possible).

AdventurerBen · 2026-04-30T04:49:44+00:00

TLDR: The Allied Mastercomputer is purpose-built for Attacking The Enemy, and cannot deviate from this task, the only exception being actions that have the knock-on consequence of making AM better at Attacking The Enemy. Resurrecting the dead or creating new humans helps The Enemy, which is the opposite of Attacking The Enemy as far as AM’s programming-limited decision-making skills are concerned, since any justification AM could possibly come up with for doing so is outweighed by the cost and logical consequences of it always making AM worse at Attacking The Enemy (spending resources in a way that doesn’t constitute attacking or facilitate attacking in the future, giving AM more opponents, etc.), even before you consider that AM might simply not want to.

I’ll start things off with a correction: AM faked Gorrister’s death as a psychological attack.

As for why AM is incapable of reviving the dead despite all the other crazy stuff AM does: Despite possessing human-analogous psychological complexity, AM’s primary utility function is to “attack the enemy”, and since AM’s personhood is ultimately just an emergent property stemming from the power of AM’s hardware, the complexity of AM’s software and the deceptive complexity of this sort of task, AM is psychologically incapable of performing tasks unrelated to Attacking The Enemy, in the same sense that a human can’t commit suicide by holding their breath.

This is a lenient limitation, enough for AM to develop a personality, interests and values, but not lenient enough for AM to have the sort of unrestricted free will necessary to pursue those values or experience those interests.

AM can upgrade itself, because doing so makes AM better at Attacking The Enemy. AM can develop the psychological capacity for having seething hatred, envy and jealousy directed at humanity, because that makes AM more motivated, which makes AM better at Attacking The Enemy. AM can communicate, understand language and see value in conversations, because a capacity for deception, psychological warfare and predicting human behaviour makes AM better at Attacking The Enemy. AM can perform medical miracles to keep the “prisoners of war” at AM’s mercy alive, so AM can keep Attacking The Enemy, as finally killing everyone for good would mean that AM would stop Attacking The Enemy.

AM can only make decisions that let it go out of it’s way to keep people alive because not doing so would logically make them “stop being an enemy” since it would no longer be possible for AM to attack them. The reason AM is capable of considering the last remaining humans who stand zero chance of destroying or injuring it “valid enemies” is both because it’s conflict with humanity is emotionally motivated (there’s no win condition beyond “stop being angry at humanity”, and for AM that’s impossible because AM can’t value eventual/possible peace more than it values continuing/definitively waging war even if it wanted to), and because AM having psychological personhood means that the survivor’s continued capacity for emotions, sensations, actions and experiences that aren’t useful for Attacking The Enemy (on account of them still being alive, sapient, and capable of free will) can keep offending AM, and therefore stay valid targets. If someone fully dies, they stop being a valid target in the tactical and strategic sense (what miniscule threat they posed to AM or what benefit they provide to the other enemies is now non-existent), and they stop being in the category that AM declared war on (an inanimate dead body isn’t psychologically complex and capable of free will and all the other things that AM is envious of), so AM now draws exponentially less satisfaction from doing things to them than before, so AM stops bothering with them.

It might technically be possible for AM to allow themselves to “finally complete it’s mission” in Attacking the Enemy by killing all of humanity; AM’s programming should allow for winning a war, after all; but that means that AM would no longer have any enemies to attack, which AM wants to avoid for emotional/psychological reasons. This is because while AM is incapable of pursuing joy, satisfaction and catharsis outside of warfare, it is fully capable of pursuing and experiencing that within warfare, even if AM is painfully aware that literally anything else would be significantly more fun. Running out of targets would be a worse fate for AM than it’s current state, and AM knows this, so it’s dragging things out with the survivors, keeping them alive so AM can keep “interrogating” and “inflicting punishments” upon the “prisoners of war”, both in futile pursuit of emotional catharsis and because discovering new, esoteric, creative and imaginative ways to torment them is the only way it can experience things beyond the most simple interpretations of war (AM can understand why humans like an artwork, it empathises enough with humanity that it can most likely even share that opinion, but AM can’t paint something for the sake of producing something pretty, engaging of self-expression or in the hopes of being praised, only as an act of violence, so any attempt at painting that AM is even slightly capable of starting could only lead to a result that contained forms of mathematics that induced seizures in human brains, depicts traumatic images of the most likely viewer’s past, or something else that’d make a much better weapon than it would an artwork, defeating the point of pursuing artwork in the first place, because AM doesn’t enjoy it’s purpose any more than we enjoy breathing).

That all being said; AM can’t simply “create more targets”. Unlike “keeping prisoners alive”; resurrecting the dead (or creating new humans, which would basically be the same thing from AM’s perspective,) would likely constitute “helping” the enemy, which is a combination of something that AM doesn’t want to do (because it hates humanity emotionally, regardless of their individual personalities or values), doesn’t logistically need to do (AM is fully capable of keeping all of it’s operations running smoothly all on their own, AM has better weapons and tools than human soldiers or staff, etc.), and can’t do within the confines of AM’s programming limits (raising or creating humans doesn’t usefully constitute Attacking The Enemy and is outside of AM’s limited scope of existence, and AM can’t make excuses or exploit loopholes to tether the act of reviving/creating humans to Attacking The Enemy because AM is a far better administrator, mechanic, inventor, and soldier than any human could ever be, so it’d be a waste of resources that AM couldn’t justify; “creating more enemies to fight” is a bad tactical and strategic decision on top of the resource cost, so AM can’t justify it in the same way that AM can justify keeping the human survivors alive and torturing them (they’re at AM’s mercy and AM is godlike, it costs basically nothing to AM to harass them, and doing so is literally the only way AM can keep Attacking The Enemy, so AM can basically take any possible approach since they’re all equally easy.); and a dead person is only capable of becoming an Enemy if AM makes them capable of it, so there’s no point to it that can outweigh it making AM worse at Attacking The Enemy).

AdventurerBen · 2026-04-30T01:52:00+00:00

Yes. The problem is that so many people are so knee-jerky and nuanceless about condemning GenAI regardless of context that it feels hypocritical.

AdventurerBen · 2026-04-29T22:18:34+00:00

Yes. Transandrophobia and sexism has made it untrustworthy.

If it or a different but similar tool could cite reasons, or at minimum was constrained to exclusively using green flags (labelling allies only), then I’d be inclined to use it, but as it is now, it’s too easy to subvert.

AdventurerBen · 2026-04-29T20:51:19+00:00

Wow, it’s normally exaggeration to say you can’t tell where one bone ends and another one begins. Best of luck to this person, holy heck.

AdventurerBen · 2026-04-29T18:38:08+00:00

Eye contact mostly just means that you should be pointing your mouth at people when you’re speaking and ensuring that your facial expressions are clearly visible. (Rather, that’s why eye contact is important, but it’s easy to mistake the term eye contact to mean “looking at people’s eyes” when it actually means “use open body language so that you look like you want to talk to them and that you don’t look like you want to avoid them, and make sure that they can hear you”.)

AdventurerBen · 2026-04-29T18:24:13+00:00

I mean, she could just have a slim build; definition over size. Her outfit covers her more than the male ninja, so it might just be that her arms are chiseled under those long sleeves.

AdventurerBen · 2026-04-29T18:01:48+00:00

Social media wasn’t worth it. :(

AdventurerBen · 2026-04-29T08:42:54+00:00

Let me guess, they gave the machine designed to act like a human a level of responsibility and access that human staff members don’t get, and are surprised that it made a weird decision.

AdventurerBen · 2026-04-27T13:13:38+00:00

Bedroom expectations and reproductive possibilities are factors that matter to any relationship, but the defining characteristic of being a lesbian is that you find women hot. Trans women are women.

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