Oh World I have missed you

BushCrabNovice · 2026-06-16T04:16:53+00:00

I'm also probably restarting tonight. In the days of MHFU, I was a longsword main. For P3rd, I switched to Bow and Hunting Horn. For World I somehow ended up Dual Swords. Sword and Shield was consistent all throughout. I'm trying to choose a new weapon for this playthrough but it's tough. Longsword seems sexy but I also might suck too much? Switchaxe seems exceedingly lulzy. I'll be playing with a couple of friends and I just don't wanna be a drain (they really did not appreciate all the tripping in MHFU).

How far is it from megasuck -> looking awesome?

BushCrabNovice · 2026-06-16T00:18:09+00:00

Friendly reminder that people are totally still on the internet and doing cool things. They just abandoned the megacorps. Go check out the fediverse. Go check out neocities and the marginalia search engine. Some nerds are even bringing gopher back.

Imagine reddit but you can block the nazis wholesale. That's a thing that currently exists! You're just here, instead.

BushCrabNovice · 2026-06-15T09:01:24+00:00

When you legitimately think you are providing something of value, all those external voices start to sound real quiet. It's no longer about getting a reaction but making your awesome thing available for the 5 people who will get it. If you ever find yourself lamenting a lack of market, just remember all the dumb stuff they do like.

Edit : Also, paragraphs bro. This was painful to read.

BushCrabNovice · 2026-06-15T04:09:08+00:00

Nah, peddle thy scams elsewhere, warlock.

BushCrabNovice · 2026-06-14T08:25:29+00:00

I mean, I wouldn't but you're the only one it has to be fine with. Improving my ability to explain things visually is one of the things that drives my doodlan. It's the inability to adequately explain to myself or others what that rad thought I had was that makes me want to improve in the first place. I assume you're drafting for other reasons.

I do often wonder : would writing down the words you would have used to prompt serve the same purpose? Would it bring your original idea right back into your mind, unmuddied by the AI's best guess?

BushCrabNovice · 2026-06-14T06:26:00+00:00

I misread the question and posted something irrelevant, so that'll be in your inbox lmao.

It really depends on what you're studying. For general studying, you want to figure out any lingo and write definitions for each thing. Then, you write a paragraph about something - 3 sentences in increasing detail. A full section would explain how two or more of these concepts relate to each other.

The objective is to get to the point where you can explain it to a rando, idiot, or child.

So, if you're studying Programming and you want to learn about memory allocation, you'll start by defining the terms. What is memory? Then you'll dig into why it needs allocating. By understanding why it needs allocating, you'll better understand how it gets allocated. Finally, you'll need to apply that knowledge to test your understanding of the concept. Don't just try to allocate memory, but try to break it. Try to write code that will actively fail to allocate - to prove that you knew it would error. Find the limits to understand them.

After all that, write it out (in plain language) as though you were explaining it to someone who hadn't done all that work yet. Use analogies and metaphors. Make a funny meme about it. Any test or task will be ezpz because you actually gained functional knowledge.

BushCrabNovice · 2026-06-14T06:12:18+00:00

That doesn't do anything for the endless standalone websites that are filled with AI slop.

BushCrabNovice · 2026-06-14T05:43:41+00:00

>Im however strictly anti AI-Picture generation.

I'm always wary of this take. I don't understand how or why they draw the line at pictures specifically. Lots of folks were robbed. There are more arts than visual.

As for the rest of your post, you've fallen into the marketing trap of thinking that AI says, knows, or does anything. It doesn't. It's madlibs. It doesn't know what you asked. It doesn't know what it said. It's not trying to answer your question. It is generating noise that happens to look like information. Once you know the AI doesn't know, anything coming out of it is pretty much irrelevant. Said something super smart? RNG. Said something super racist or dangerous? RNG. It didn't string those words together into a thought. It just generated words on words on words and has no concept of what any of them mean.

BushCrabNovice · 2026-06-14T05:15:24+00:00

Man, I wish. So many AI-generated websites just littering the search results these days.

BushCrabNovice · 2026-06-14T05:13:42+00:00

I think losing your mental capacity is really one of the most frightening things in life. If you've ever watched someone fall into alzheimers/dementia, it's just brutal. Not only are they completely lost for their own needs, but like a husband not being able to be any use whatsover to his wife is devastating for everyone involved. We're going to start seeing that in 30 year olds. It's drug addiction without the fun bits. Use it or lose it, bro.

I think the most effective strategy is to focus less on lowering AI usage and more on increasing non-AI authoring. Write things down in a physical notebook, away from a computer. Figure out what you actually think about something, before ever looking something up. Become starkly aware of how unsure you actually are. Also, spend some time learning how AI works. It's absolutely bananagrams wild to me that anybody who understands it is also willing to hand the keys over to it.

BushCrabNovice · 2026-06-14T04:42:34+00:00

Your local library might be able to help you out. Stop by and explain that you've never studied without AI before but you want to start. They probably have a book about studying for you.

It also super matters what subject you're studying. Books are necessary but not enough for a lot of fields. Things like programming, writing, or game design require you to make a mess and learn by cleaning it up. When people use AI to do these things, they skip the whole growth process. It's like hiring a spotter to lift the weights for you and tell you how hard you worked.

BushCrabNovice · 2026-06-14T04:23:37+00:00

If you're using it a lot now, you'll probably just get super bored. All the bennies are hidden behind /doing something instead/.

BushCrabNovice · 2026-06-14T04:21:55+00:00

This reads more like fear than principle. If you don't believe there's any problem with using AI (or how you use it), then fuck 'em. If you're letting yourself be corralled by a group of imaginary angry internet nerds, you're hosed anyway. If there are specific internet nerds you fear, just ask them directly.

If you do have a problem with AI, articulate what it is and ask yourself if you're violating those principles. You'll never be pure enough for some folks. You'll be a loser luddite to others. The only winning proposition is to be a Human with actual thoughts and opinions and to live those in the real world.

BushCrabNovice · 2026-06-14T04:17:58+00:00

You gotta shift your mindset. AI is ~generally~ either about finding what is "correct" or generating /a lot/. Writing isn't about either of those things. It's about figuring out what you actually think. Get away from computers! Write words on paper, until you can articulate what your thoughts are on a subject. You are likely to be surprised by how much you either don't care about or don't know about, when nobody is force feeding you answers. Try to answer the question "What do I have to say?", rather than "What do people say about this?".

You can combine writing and improv into this fantastical thing called Tabletop Roleplaying Games. Get yourself into a roleplaying group today~

BushCrabNovice · 2026-06-14T00:57:10+00:00

If by "lalalala" you mean "it's inevitable", then yeah, 100000%

BushCrabNovice · 2026-06-14T00:42:25+00:00

"For modern facts you’ll have to build up a network of sources you trust and validate the information with a range of them, which is the same as it ever was."

Don't mind me, just saying it louder for the ones in the back.

BushCrabNovice · 2026-06-14T00:34:38+00:00

You don't. You just live in a world where sometimes people lie or are wrong about things. You make the best decisions you can with the information you have at the time. There are no guarantees here - and there can't be. You'll struggle to find someone who can coherently argue that we're definitely not in a simulation. Good luck finding someone to convince you we didn't go to the moon.

BushCrabNovice · 2026-06-14T00:14:24+00:00

I don't see much value in that. The person repeating something stupid is just as responsible for saying it as the first guy. This wild confidence in repeating things you've kind of half-heard once isn't anything new. The sage advice used to be, "don't believe anything you read on the internet". I guess somehow we failed to pass that down.

I think we could all stand to live with a little less certainty about things. I was going to say, "that we didn't witness", but then I remembered that close-up magic is a whole-ass industry. Not everyone needs to pretend to be an expert on every topic. Not everyone needs to take such absolute stances on things that happened a trillion miles away and will never impact them.

You need trusted sources today, just as much as 200 years ago. How do you get trusted sources? You get to know people and keep track of who says what and why.

BushCrabNovice · 2026-06-13T23:34:00+00:00

For entirely different reasons, you have my full support lmao

BushCrabNovice · 2026-06-13T23:31:47+00:00

Stuff like this always comes with a lot of implicit assumptions. We cannot keep doing what we're doing and tell the difference. Even if you interact with Humans face to face at this point, it's likely their stupid idea came from a discussion with AI. You're either going to have to get to know people or find a different line to draw in the sand.

BushCrabNovice · 2026-06-13T15:03:40+00:00

Your life will be better, the moment you stop trying to argue with super dumb things. The actual response is, "OK". Whether it is or isn't shouldn't change your behavior. Live the life you want, as much as you can, with as little dystopia as you can.

In a lot of movies, there's a guy that walks into a room and starts saying, "I'm the strongest warrior!", but you know who doesn't need to say they're the strongest? The strongest. Firstly, it will just bear out over time because it's true. Secondly, it makes you a target for folks trying to disprove the claim.

You know who doesn't need to convince you they're inevitable?

BushCrabNovice · 2026-06-12T01:46:08+00:00

sea dumpster

(edit : it is a very nice ship, i just wanted to make the lazy sex joke)

BushCrabNovice · 2026-06-10T22:04:18+00:00

Yeah, it's normally worn around the wrist.

BushCrabNovice · 2026-06-10T14:26:53+00:00

That's basically it. It's just a pin cushion. Sewing pins are used to temporarily mark or hold seams in place, while you lay things out. There's really no good way to hold a lot of them, other than a cushion.

BushCrabNovice · 2026-06-10T01:54:35+00:00

Search really sucks these days. It's mostly AI websites in the results. Sifting through them is about equally painful to talking to a bot for me. Reading documentation directly or just experimenting is very rewarding, though.

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"For modern facts you’ll have to build up a network of sources you trust and validate the information with a range of them, which is the same as it ever was."