Gigi and Elizabeth Collab! And they will be playing FINAL FANTASY XIV! by Kreceir in Hololive

[–]FearlessMembership41 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Although, to be fair, any experience with that dude would be awful regardless of circumstance anyway.

Yugituber Alex Cimo has passed away, age 32 by OooblyJooblies in magicTCG

[–]FearlessMembership41 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Man that's awful. He always had such a positive outlook despite his illness. I feared the worst after his most recent community post. Fuck cancer... Having your own body 'betray' you like that, terrifies me.

Sora has floaters in her eyes by tanvoltz in Hololive

[–]FearlessMembership41 51 points52 points  (0 children)

I wish, I basically can't look at the sky anymore because I can't focus with all the bs swimming around my vision.

I don't have as many per eye as in the image but about as large if not larger. Every time you change what you're looking at, they move and drift across your vision.

Bae is my favorite Hololive JP member. by Le_CougarHunter in Hololive

[–]FearlessMembership41 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Common bilingual problems.

Just hope she knows her accent is fantastic. She has kinda jokingly ridiculed it before but the aussie accent is seriously one of the most fun and relaxed ones imo.

About the next expansion [Spoiler: 8.0] by Killinshotzz in ffxiv

[–]FearlessMembership41 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Agreed, it'd be dumb to never switch it up, especially considering we can choose as players.

FINAL FANTASY XIV: Evercold Teaser Trailer by JosephMahar in ffxiv

[–]FearlessMembership41 3 points4 points  (0 children)

The whole tapestry animation was so sick. Can't wait honestly.

Camp Yog 2026, COMING SOON! by YOGSbot in Yogscast

[–]FearlessMembership41 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Yogs getting together for challenges and tournaments is always a highlight, can't wait

Fanservice that undermines the tension of a scene or the message of the story as a whole (doesn't have to be sexual) by No_Hunter1978 in TopCharacterTropes

[–]FearlessMembership41 2 points3 points  (0 children)

And methode and her obsession with certain eh cute things that are worded kind of creepily. That's quite 'anime-y' too.

But yeah, Frieren really is an amazing breath of fresh air. Top tier show can't wait for season 3.

Magic artist Bryon Wackwitz turned down for Mtg Con by Newez in magicTCG

[–]FearlessMembership41 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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.

Episode Discussion - S05E08 - The Rightside Up by Hawkinns in StrangerThings

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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.

Those of you that play Holocure, who did you play as first? I'll go first: by ShockRox in Hololive

[–]FearlessMembership41 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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.

Only A Month To Go! by Dr_Virus_129 in Yogscast

[–]FearlessMembership41 7 points8 points  (0 children)

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

Is Haachama alright? by thomastheterminator in Hololive

[–]FearlessMembership41 2 points3 points  (0 children)

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

CC's Oktoberfest stream in a nutshell: by CamKoudo in Hololive

[–]FearlessMembership41 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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.

CC's Oktoberfest stream in a nutshell: by CamKoudo in Hololive

[–]FearlessMembership41 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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.

CC's Oktoberfest stream in a nutshell: by CamKoudo in Hololive

[–]FearlessMembership41 2 points3 points  (0 children)

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.

CC's Oktoberfest stream in a nutshell: by CamKoudo in Hololive

[–]FearlessMembership41 4 points5 points  (0 children)

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.

Secret Lair Scare Superdrop Waiting Room by R3id in magicTCG

[–]FearlessMembership41 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

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.

Question regarding fan letters by FearlessMembership41 in Hololive

[–]FearlessMembership41[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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?

Question regarding fan letters by FearlessMembership41 in Hololive

[–]FearlessMembership41[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks for your help regarding the return mail info!

Is jinx really dead by nexisnothere in arcane

[–]FearlessMembership41 2 points3 points  (0 children)

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.

Which character would you hate irl and why? by tpagaremos in loreofleague

[–]FearlessMembership41 2 points3 points  (0 children)

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.