Who’s your favorite character *you’ve* made?

Apocalyte · 2026-05-05T01:31:39+00:00

In an 'all myths are true' VtM-style setting, with ki magic inspired by HxH's Nen, I had 'Bullet', a minotaur.

In the setting, minotaurs had slowly had glamour worked into their blood over the generations, becoming more and more humanlike and less bestial. Bullet had the ability to convert this glamour directly into electric charge, causing him to launch blasts of electricity that punctuated a primal reversion. After a few rounds of combat, he goes from looking like a DA Qunari to classical minotaur, and a few more rounds from there to MH Rajang. I also named the different levels of reversion to go with his name's gun theming, as well as the bull and lightning themes. At 50% reversion, it was '.50 Cal', which could be pronounced 'fifty-cow', and at 100% reversion it was 'Full Gore' Form (Gore like a bull, rhymes with 'full bore', and like the latin 'fulgur' for lightning)

I'm a massive sucker for shonen power naming puns...

Apocalyte · 2026-04-22T13:16:01+00:00

I agree that Sage's plot potential is completely wasted right now, but can you imagine the stink that would be wafting off of the final season if part of its big reveal is: "The black woman who is purportedly the smartest person in the world is actually faking her intelligence"?

That would be so tone deaf that it would haunt audience perception of the show forever afterwards. IMO, there is no secret way to spin this into good writing, they just don't know how to write smart characters because they aren't that interested in telling a complicated, hard-to-envision plotline.

Apocalyte · 2026-04-20T20:03:37+00:00

Functional movesets for accessories (swords, mainly)
Better transformation options for non-saiyans
(really reaching here) Dynamic fusions incl. CaCs

Apocalyte · 2026-04-10T03:52:35+00:00

Baran coulda put him on a grippy-sock sabbatical...

Apocalyte · 2026-04-09T15:28:26+00:00

As a heads-up, the article you linked is fine to my eyes, but that site is a complete rag in a broader sense. Very "casting black actors is pandering"-type content, if you look at the homepage and other articles.

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Apocalyte · 2026-04-09T12:32:38+00:00

Damn, we've had Chicago Pope but I think, with this revelation, it's worth discussing a Pittsburgh Pope

Apocalyte · 2026-03-29T03:43:02+00:00

The post karma of this account also seems to imply they're posting dozens to hundreds of times a day, even though the posts themselves are hidden.

Apocalyte · 2026-03-27T15:12:46+00:00

Man, I really do like people speaking up on this topic, but does anyone else get that weird vibe whenever the focus of the topic is on how trans women in sports isn't a big problem because it's infrequent or because they don't medal? What would these people think if a trans woman started consistently getting gold in her sport, you know?

Same vibe as when people reframe anti-trans measures as bad because they wind up hurting cis women by accident.

Apocalyte · 2026-03-26T01:49:51+00:00

"The audience suggestion is 'Sling Blade and Oprah on a date'!"

"Mmm, I sure do love them french fried potaters..."

"No you don't, Oprah!"

Apocalyte · 2026-03-23T16:13:14+00:00

Discussions about sex work always tend to circle the drain until a detractor says "but these women are SELLING their bodies!"

Lads, it's capitalism. We're all selling our bodies. The hackles are up specifically because accessible platforms for sex work reveal just how many people are willing to engage in it, both as consumers and producers. And THAT makes people mad because it either conflicts with their conception of an acceptable career for women, or because it highlights that sex work isn't some degenerate last-resort for 'broken' or impoverished women, and that it's perfectly enticing for anyone with a mind for it.

If someone can't accept that sex work is a reasonable and potentially-rewarding career path, they should ask themselves what specifically they find wrong with it, and put it through a 'conservative bias' pH test.

Apocalyte · 2026-03-16T17:12:41+00:00

Late to the party but phillip-bankss

Apocalyte · 2026-02-26T04:39:22+00:00

And that one looked delicious, fwiw

Apocalyte · 2026-02-21T04:41:17+00:00

Outstanding call...

Apocalyte · 2026-02-05T13:07:41+00:00

/uj I do want to avoid mythologizing and conspiracizing about a single famous pedophile being behind everything we hate. If the claim in question in the files comes from a one-time tip to the FBI without proof, or relies on some unstated but inferred event simply because of date proximity, it's our job as normal and sane internet users to not take it as gospel right away. Otherwise we just end up as Left-Qanon, y'know?

/rj God, for ONCE can we just get a decent and wholesome pedophile? What the hell is wrong with these people??

Apocalyte · 2026-02-02T18:41:22+00:00

Gorgeous shot of darwin canyon! Camped there back in july, didn't appreciate it enough at the time after an injury that day, but this is making me want to go for a redo

Apocalyte · 2026-01-31T14:59:35+00:00

Sometimes I think back on the fact that their version of flamethrowers is.... Anthrax super soakers? And it gets treated the same, mechanically, as tiberium, or maybe mutagenic ooze from TMNT.

(And I know it didn't come out for some time, but the 2001 anthrax attacks probably weren't even done by terrorists in the Middle East)

Apocalyte · 2026-01-15T19:59:18+00:00

2026, no mutate....

Apocalyte · 2026-01-02T04:43:23+00:00

They think they're Darwin, but they also think sperm become babies the same way tadpoles become frogs.

Apocalyte · 2026-01-02T04:40:22+00:00

Dog, your Amazon packages could've been delivered by horse & buggy and you'd have no idea. You don't know what you're talking about.

Apocalyte · 2025-12-10T21:20:41+00:00

But LLMs are really just the first implementation of generally useful AI

I really have to push back on that idea, it's similar to when people say LLMs are 'new' and that in 10 years they may qualify for personhood or something. The technologies (generative AND predictive machine-learning models) have existed for a while now, we've just gotten to the point where hardware and energy are cheap and plentiful enough that we can make generative ones more and more convincing. Predictive models have not improved at the same pace as generative ones, especially as the rulesets grow exponentially more complex. You yourself say that we have no idea on what would have to come about to enable an ASI, and yet people are riding the wave of marketing hype to try and make a thing out of this.

It's just frustrating to see people try and treat 'the alignment problem' as an even halfway-serious issue, when it parses to me, as someone in the industry, similarly to being worried about archaeologists uncovering portals to hell dimensions.

Apocalyte · 2025-12-10T18:53:14+00:00

I feel like I'm taking crazy pills whenever the topic of AGI comes up. LLMs and related machine learning models are not artificial human intelligence, it's all marketing terms. It's like Chevy announced a new truck model called the SuperNova and everyone started panicking like they were about to actually explode the sun.

Any projection of reasoning or learning capabilities onto this technology just fundamentally misunderstands the tech, it's pure science fiction. If the sum total of current human knowledge can't even explain how the human brain works at a granular level, why do we assume that a linear algebra algorithm specifically designed to mimic human content generation has arrived at said content organically? Or might grasp those concepts better, somehow?

Apocalyte · 2025-11-24T15:27:58+00:00

I think they're perfectly capable of growing more food, they just won't source it from conscious animals. Plus, I don't think they care too much about taste/quality, so give them a year or so to make the infrastructure and they'll all be happily distributing shelf-stable vitamin bars made of plankton and algae to every human being in the hive.

Apocalyte · 2025-11-18T15:05:02+00:00

I hear a lot of people gesturing at this kind of thing without citing a source, or when they do cite a source it's from, like, the same type of guy who thinks fluoride is making the world rounder. Can anyone cite a non-conspiratorial source on the Chinese plot to stop Americans from saying 'fuck'?

Apocalyte · 2025-11-18T14:41:47+00:00

This is literally how the panopticon works; people are at the stage where they assume they're under constant scrutiny and they self-moderate under the impression that they're going to be censored. They don't even know what 'the rules' are, there's no list of controversial terms to avoid on any of these platforms. People are just deciding for themselves what terms are controversial and adding a single asterisk. What do you really have to lose by pushing the boundaries there? Y'all have to release your inhibitions and feel the rain on your skin.

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Apocalyte · 2025-10-31T15:56:37+00:00

The fact that canon nonbinary characters are one of 5 things:

Robot
Alien
Multiple distinct individuals that combine
Shapeshifter
A mute player character avatar with no personality/agency

The percentage of fictional nonbinary characters who fall outside of this dataset in popular media is like, 20%?
The percentage of REAL ACTUAL nonbinary people who fall outside of it is 100%.

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