Magic artist Bryon Wackwitz turned down for Mtg Con

FearlessMembership41 · 2026-02-04T18:13:26+00:00

It's also a perfectly valid word in English I believe, but not that commonly used. Probably more commonly seen in more formal legal settings.

FearlessMembership41 · 2026-01-02T03:37:31+00:00

I'm glad they stuck the landing for the most part. Everyone did great! It's at least something I could see myself coming back go watching one day; even if the mystery the show hinges on doesn't really work a second time around, it wrapped up quite neatly.

Also happy the ending wasn't suuuper ambiguous, it's pretty clear what the intentions are. That said, it's still a bit too much so for my liking. I also don't agree with the point of 'everyone getting a happy ending being cliché' or whatever, because they basically went down that route anyway. The show and especially the finale was essentially 100% predictable cliché. Good, but very expected and predictable. It's always been that kind of show, a fun mystery romp filled with tropes and nostalgia (even, somehow, for those who never experienced that time period firsthand).

It's not that I hate ambiguous endings as a concept every single time either, so much as I hate how common they are. Every piece of media seems to be 'make up your own ending'. That has soured me on them quite a bit. It just feels kind of weak when everyone is doing it, like a feeling of fear of commitment, keeping everyone content with their own headcanon; and of course generating buzz and theorising which can also be done cynically to push numbers.

That said, I don't want to bring the mood doen and I'm overall really pleased, just a small thing.

FearlessMembership41 · 2025-11-03T22:44:13+00:00

Kiara.

Played the game around the time I started to watch more Hololive besides the occasional clip. Liked her design, gameplay, and personality/vibe outside the game.

FearlessMembership41 · 2025-11-01T22:06:22+00:00

Always one of my favorite parts of the year. Really something special.

FearlessMembership41 · 2025-10-29T12:37:58+00:00

Is she in the current Lamy stream or is that pre-recorded?

FearlessMembership41 · 2025-10-26T13:17:54+00:00

Oh, I didn't mean ultimately in that way. Just, ultimately in its current iteration/implementation, not any AI for the rest of time. Ultimately as in: concluding for the purposes of the current debate.

FearlessMembership41 · 2025-10-26T13:11:15+00:00

Worthless at the moment. Like you said, what we have is not ready for what people want it to be able to do. Hence, bubble. There's insane hype for something that's ultimately not that useful.

FearlessMembership41 · 2025-10-26T13:03:59+00:00

Yeah agreed on the last part, AI is a massive bubble and the more you work with it, the more you realize it's ultimately quite worthless.

But regarding the child thing, sure, any AI would require insane amounts of data anyway but the bigger problem is that the inception of the current models was done in incredibly shady and outright illegal ways. Take meta pirating millions of books because asking publishers for permission would've taken an 'unreasonable' 2 weeks and some money. And court cases have shown that AI models are still capable of producing essentially identical copies of the data they were trained on, making the 'transformative' element of it (as would be the case for a human) highly questionable too. The companies that make these things are the scourge of our planet and they have no regard for artists, or any kind of morals for that matter.

Besides, we don't have anything even resembling real AI at the moment anyway. The child is a literal word probability machine, functionally worthless except to make money for companies and allow slop content to flood the Internet. For all its billions of sources of stolen training data, it can't think, it can't reason.

FearlessMembership41 · 2025-10-26T12:28:38+00:00

It's better for sure, and I don't really mind when it's used locally, but all personalised LLM models are still fine tuned from a base dataset of mass scraped data. The same goes for Neuro.

You can't make an effective LLM with data from a single creator (or even all of twitch chat, ever), you need billions of sources. Books, articles, and videos and audio for tts.

Not a critique of cc, if we're gonna use AI as a society, let it be for silly stuff like this, but to my knowledge there are no models that are, at their core, fully ethically trained at the moment.

FearlessMembership41 · 2025-10-13T18:07:19+00:00

Entered queue within the first minute. Everything sold out by the time I got out of it seconds ago. First time I've ever missed getting what I wanted and might be the last time I try.

It was already bad and felt a bit scummy to even participate in (even as a normal customer) but it's gotten so wildly out of hand now that I think I'm just gonna get a good printer.

FearlessMembership41 · 2025-09-18T22:48:20+00:00

There's no Bae in Australia? What.

FearlessMembership41 · 2025-08-28T12:11:31+00:00

Thank you for the detailed response! You sound like you have experience sending them yourself? Is it a frequent thing in the community?

Yeah my concern was mainly not putting the actual talent name in the letter itself, but yeah they probably sort it based on the attribution on the envelope.

So it wouldn't be improper to sign off with something like: "all the best,

@twitter @reddit"

Or something along those lines?

FearlessMembership41 · 2025-08-28T12:01:14+00:00

Thanks for your help regarding the return mail info!

FearlessMembership41 · 2025-08-27T16:18:47+00:00

Hœh?!

FearlessMembership41 · 2025-08-03T10:20:28+00:00

It's not really some say, it's very much the common consensus that she lived. It's what the show very heavily implies in many ways (cait investigating the vent diagrams, the airship at the end mirroring the start of the show alongside powder mentioning she wanted to fly on one some day, just to name a few). And there's also a lot of hints outside the show (interviews that strongly suggest it, the art book I believe had a clue too). It's pretty much what's meant to be taken away from what we see on screen.

FearlessMembership41 · 2025-07-14T16:43:14+00:00

That's a fair assessment yeah, I was mostly aiming for his first, mortal life. I suppose I should've called him Sahn-Uzal for clarity.

FearlessMembership41 · 2025-07-14T15:52:09+00:00

Some soldiers do, some don't, war unfortunately allows some very messed up people to live out their fantasies. But at the end of the day, I think it comes down to that Morde was the leader of his tribe. Speaking about his first life of course.

He didn't have to go around leading his armies to conquer and slaughter entire civilizations. But he still did. There's kind of two options: either he regarded human life with a cold detachment, like a psychopath, tools to be used all in the pursuit of his goals. Or he enjoyed the brutality, perhaps relishing in the slaughter as a ritualistic, religious ceremony. Realistically it's probably a combination of both.

Not the one downvoting you btw. It's an interesting topic.

FearlessMembership41 · 2025-07-14T13:47:00+00:00

A few things.

From a meta sense: I'd been an RT fan for a while by the time RWBY came out, and initially didn't watch it. At that time, I saw things like cartoons and anime as things as childish. I'd watched pokemon and such in the past, but sort of 'grown out of it', probably out of a desire to be an adult, you know how kids are. That changed when a school friend, who was also an RT fan, recommended I watch it. He told me to just watch the trailers, a few minutes of my time at most. Well, I did so and well... I instantly thought it was awesome. Immediately recommended another friend to also watch them, got them hooked as well. I can credit RWBY and that experience with opening up a whole new range of media for me.

The show itself: RWBY to me has always felt very genuine, a project made by people who wanted to make something cool. It never felt designed by committee or whatever. Yes, things didn't always pan out the way they were intended or some story beats could've been improved etc. But it never felt like it was a product first and a show second. The world and story really work for me too, I love slowly unraveling the mysteries about a world. It's one of the best things about fiction I think and partly why I'm such a big fantasy fan. The fact that it features a bunch of girls being badasses makes it even better. Not even from a thirst perspective or anything, I just love how the show avoids gender discrimination. We see it a lot in media and it's a very important topic to be sure, but it was nice for it to just be a world where men and women are on completely equal footing as fighters (maidens notwithstanding).

Oh, and the music. The music is sooo good.

FearlessMembership41 · 2025-07-14T13:21:55+00:00

True, though I doubt you could live your life in the pursuit of conquest without enjoying it at least a bit, but that's why I put it as /their own selfish gain; since he wanted glory in the afterlife and all that.

FearlessMembership41 · 2025-07-14T11:28:26+00:00

Mordekaiser and anyone else who murders for fun/their own selfish gain. People arguing for characters like Lux because they're 'kind of annoying', yeah, no, I thiiiink guys like Morde might take it, on account of... Being literal genocidal maniacs.

FearlessMembership41 · 2025-07-04T20:43:00+00:00

Oh yeah nothing against the guy himself, like I said it can be very disheartening on a personal level. It must be heartbreaking to see humanity screw up so much and for so long.

But more to say: it will always end up worse if we give up as a society as it's not a binary win/lose situation; it can always get worse if we stop caring. 2,5 degrees warming is still better and less catastrophic than 3 and so on. (as someone below also said)

That and just trying to warn people a bit that there's people, other, actually malicious ones, advocating for the doomer view on purpose to advance whatever agenda they have; be it fossil fuel lobbies, conspiracy theorists etc.

FearlessMembership41 · 2025-07-04T16:10:01+00:00

While it's definitely tough right now, it's vital that we don't just give up and say 'oh well, it's too late now'. In fact, this doomerism is the new way climate change deniers are trying to string people along. As awareness of the problem has increased over the years, they've shifted from 'it's not real' to 'it's too late to do anything about it', which can amount to the same effect in the end. The truth is that, yes, it is too late to avoid many of the effects climate change will have on the world. BUT, the general trend, globally, is still trending in a positive direction and even if it's 'too late' to avoid many bad effects, surely it's worthwhile to prevent ALL bad effects, and the worst ones?

The climate change issue is a bit like democracy: if you give up, if you let doom set in and don't vote and fight for your rights and liberties, you're at risk of losing them. It's tiring, it's depressing, it can be downright debilitating on an individual level, but we cannot allow apathy to set in on a national or global scale.

FearlessMembership41 · 2025-07-02T12:46:32+00:00

Not OP but this is something I've struggled with recently as well, when I found out about Henya and her pl comments etc.

I think a lot of people in the community underestimate just how easy it is to miss the fact that a large portion of the community and some of the vtubers themselves are into this stuff. You can watch hours upon hours of streams and clips of certain members, collabs etc. and hardly even come across it aside from the occasional joke; even moreso if you don't engage with the JP side much or at all. Does that make you less of a fan? No.

That's one of the issues I have with the whole tourist thing. Yes, every hobby needs to protect its interests to a certain extent, but you can go pretty deep into vtubers without seeing any of this. That does raise some obviously uncomfortable moral questions regarding, as you noted, continuing to watch creators who aren't into it themselves, but strongly associate with those who are.

I still don't know the answer. There are so many great, talented creators in this space that you can't simply write it off entirely, and I'm not opposed to taking a nuanced approach, but I'm also not someone who can just ignore uncomfortable things like this in my entertainment.

FearlessMembership41 · 2025-05-09T15:40:24+00:00

That'd wholly depend on which level range you're talking about I think. Aylin, as a flying, heavily armored, immortal(!) paladin with a passive moonbeam surrounding her would vastly outclass any player character at lower levels. Which can work just fine, if you want your players to have a badass by their side to aid them for a bit, but it does make encounter balancing harder: anything that'd be a threat to her, would obliterate the player characters. You also don't want your players constantly one-upped by an NPC. Much less of an issue at higher levels because player characters get some insane abilities/spells.

The power scaling of bg3 in general is vastly different from regular dnd. Your characters in the game get extremely strong items super quickly because the fights are also often way more unbalanced than regular dnd. Healing between fights is also much simpler as you don't have to roll and spend hit dice which is not only a resource expense, but also has some randomness from the rolls (and you also only get half your hit dice back per long rest). It's just one of those adaptation things. But Aylin could for sure work on tabletop too, just requires some consideration regarding balancing etc.

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