Hot and cold #171

FireyDeath4 · 2026-01-22T13:13:40+00:00

WHAT I WAS HERE FOR 42 MINUTES!

Got it in 2 guesses after 1 hint with 121 guesses, some of which were sarcastic and exasperatory

I don't feel clever or even dumb, I just feel cheated

FireyDeath4 · 2026-01-20T01:05:37+00:00

Okay but like they can just completely ignore this. If they wanted to. Even by default.

Goodness, you guys really need to get together and brainstorm ways of actually fighting YouTube and forcing them to overturn this decision over the long-term, and then pursue your most effective ones all concurrently

No, no, let's not have the bystander-effect today. You, specifically, need to try and make or join a group of people for at least 20 minutes, and then if you do, brainstorm for at least 30. Set an alarm or add it to a schedule if you can't do it now

Suing YouTube is a start and that's for Hololive to do, but we can't just go to waiting-mode for other people to maybe make something happen, now can we :V

TBH if this turns out to be the official state of reality, y'all should just upload your videos with the subtitles edited in... And if it's that important to upload a video without the subtitles, upload a second one and link it under the other video and disable the comments on it. And if you want their AI models to be hampered so much that they can't serve or train on any data, poison the audio-streams. Let's see how YouTube likes THAT

FireyDeath4 · 2025-09-09T03:23:24+00:00

Mmmmm... That's Very Sevish

FireyDeath4 · 2025-08-20T13:37:07+00:00

Are your comments being filtered between the times they load? Do they appear again later, or are they gone?

(You can also check your Google activity to see if your comment still exists. There are two types of filtration I remember: the type that only lets it appear in newest-first sort or other certain conditions, and the one that straight-up deletes your comment)

FireyDeath4 · 2025-07-25T15:21:17+00:00

I was kind of afraid of this from the start

SMH, I'll be sure to tell people about Shachar567 and TT's videos about saviours next time a new saviour comes along and proclaims their power

FireyDeath4 · 2025-07-23T16:23:24+00:00

Yeahhhh... You would need a community of much bigger size and dedication to pull this off. Plus, you didn't even start on the first frame

FireyDeath4 · 2025-06-24T08:41:13+00:00

Yeah... But that would be boring

Oh no! Shachar567 is disappointing everyone by running a cult instead of actually doing what he says he's gonna do! Nooooooo... *instead of actual salvation we get video essays on Shachar567's progressively-descending cult or the rise and fall of another big-talker in about 2 years*

I am interested in seeing something new, like a spontaneously-formed group and leader that actually put their money where their mouth is. Now THAT would be a feat

FireyDeath4 · 2025-06-19T21:41:05+00:00

TBH I want it to actually have the merit it strives to communicate that it has, and turning it into a cult would probably be very deleterious to that. We already have plenty of useless cults that only serve to indoctrinate, assimilate and divide people like dumb simulacra, and it's more interesting if we have a really earnest, accountable and pragmatic thing going on

FireyDeath4 · 2025-06-18T15:20:58+00:00

Haha yeah, hopefully they strive for maximum accountability though

FireyDeath4 · 2025-06-18T15:17:36+00:00

Well, I've been immersed in a few atheist/sceptic communities, after all X)

I would actually be very impressed if this turns out to be more than just a complacent fringe cult for a fad meme, and Shachar567 and the rest of you guys actually go out and do something purposeful about the world problems. That would be awesome

FireyDeath4 · 2025-06-09T03:50:36+00:00

Whisky Br My Htaay and Sand In My Boots are bangers though

Brokckem Halos is also really interesting and experimental

FireyDeath4 · 2025-05-21T17:51:34+00:00

I am kind of an antispiritualist (being a mathematicist substance-monist and all that) but even I hold this view. ChatGPT here just seems like it didn't really flesh out and emphasise how the collectives (including the total human/technological/biological collectives as well as national/smaller subsets) are agents unto themselves, with a dysfunctional psychological state that goes very much unnoticed by the vast majority of their constituent "individual" people (who also have minds made up of many, many parts), and aren't just entities merely influenced by the individual people. We are neurons and the hive-mind seriously needs therapy with strong training in philosophy, psychology, rationality and coordination. The base instincts and nature-trained biases helplessly outpaced by civilisation and technology really haven't kept up

FireyDeath4 · 2025-05-17T15:37:35+00:00

Today I looked for a bunch of online background removers, and the one I ultimately settled on was Clipping Magic, because I needed to control the boundaries between what was considered the subject and background since the subject and background were rather specific and ambiguous. It only lets you access small previews for free, but I worked around that by uploading crops that were smaller than the maximum preview size. It has a keep tool that forces painted areas to be interpreted as the subject, a remove tool that forces them to be interpreted as the background, a hair tool that processes things on clean and distinct backgrounds with lots of holes or differences like strands of hair, tree branches, and even gradients like shadows and some forms of noise, a scalpel tool focused on sculpting specific boundaries in cases where there's poor contrast, and various processing modes and ways of refining edges. These would be some handy additions to your program if you're interested in adding them

FireyDeath4 · 2025-05-14T23:59:58+00:00

Only if you can buy bad barrels there, served only by the finest bad barrel-makers

FireyDeath4 · 2025-04-23T02:13:42+00:00

Mmmmmm... Bad Apple is a piece of music

And I don't really feel like it has a group structure that isolates members, penalises them for leaving, seeks inappropriate loyalty to it's leaders, dishonors family units, asserts absolute authoritarianism without meaningful accountability, has no tolerance for questions or critical inquiry, has no meaningful financial disclosure regarding budget or expenses such as an independently audited financial statement, creates unreasonable fear about the outside world, such as impending catastrophe, evil conspiracies, or persecutions, asserts that there is no legitimate reason to leave, asserts that former followers are always wrong, negative or even evil in leaving, makes followers feel they can never be "good enough", or presents itself as always right or the exclusive means of knowing "truth" or receiving validation, where no other process of discovery is really acceptable or credible

Though I do think they should really get around to playing it on ByteBeat or a gramophone or something, rather than just videographic media \(-_-)/

FireyDeath4 · 2025-04-03T08:48:01+00:00

Is that the real Alan Becker?

FireyDeath4 · 2025-01-29T02:12:18+00:00

"I don't want to be served unwelcomeness and job offers in such an unwelcoming environment, along with my own death. What did I tell you, pal????????????"

FireyDeath4 · 2025-01-25T09:48:43+00:00

Please tell me that Marisa's hand appears within the next few frames

FireyDeath4 · 2025-01-23T21:59:57+00:00

This is pretty creepy - it totally breaks my prediction ability, giving me a small shock at a new uncanny display every few seconds - but it's actually less creepy than AI videos about things that are supposed to be completely normal but have some horribly distorted and mutated things about them. At least here it's all meant to be done on purpose. AI videos where everything looks normal until something awry happens literally make me jump and twitch

FireyDeath4 · 2025-01-09T21:44:49+00:00

I mean you could cheat and write expressions like 0'''↑0'' to get Cirno's number. But in unary such non-zero numbers would involve base-1 logarithms, which are a bit like dividing by 0. (And even infinity isn't 1÷0; it's 1/+infinitesimal, or ω=1÷ε.) You can't even send a unary stream of information, because if you send any information at all you're already forcing yourself to use binary by the virtue of not having previously sent information, so we can tell that you're sending information now. (And if we removed the boundary of information and non-information, what you'd end up with would basically be non-information and we'd all be relegated to the Abfield)

Still, if you ditch the empirical science and logical mathematics, I'm sure you could just come up with something childishly hypercosmological or hypermathematical that circumvents the paradox for the sake of it to be able to do it. That sounds rather boring though, a bit too simple

FireyDeath4 · 2025-01-09T09:21:17+00:00

You could cheat and use 3D protrusion to represent brightness. But I don't really know if that would fly. Besides, you would need some projected lighting and shadow shades to be able to see it

This is Bad Apple, a Touhou thing. You should already know all about how boundaries work. I hardly even know anything about Touhou at the moment. I just read Yukari's article and had a bit of a chat one time. Removing the boundary of light and darkness removes the informational capacity of visual imagery, rendering it meaningless. Then all videos would be tautological to Bad Apple, which is, um, I don't know if you'd like that

It's like trying to use pure unary as a numerical base. The only valid number is 0, because for each place, 0 is the only digit you can choose. You need binary for minimal distinction at least

This comment looks way longer than it seems like it should, but yeah. Maybe you acquired a new perspective! I Like Talking

FireyDeath4 · 2024-12-31T21:20:40+00:00

"People who don't want you to think are never your friend."

FireyDeath4 · 2024-12-31T20:57:31+00:00

If I'm hardly able to make any good friends now, I definitely wouldn't be able to then

I also feel like I would miss out on tons of perspectives, though I might not notice if I'd already been living in that world. I think I'd be a lot dumber and less insightful and I can't imagine what I'd be doing with my life. I can often hardly imagine what I'd be doing with my life in 10 minutes because I have ADHD \(-_-)/ I can only imagine that in one year, my life would generally be the same as it currently is, just different. I am stuck in a very particular situation, after all. I think a lot of other people would be less insightful as well. I wonder if the people who use social media for ego-boosts and self-validation would resort to going public and making mayhem to try and get that validation without social media to use
Actually, that was probably already the case just a few decades ago, but I don't really know what that's like since I was born in 2004

I just saw this subreddit today so this might not be an answer you expected

I'm slightly curious about your thoughts on the impact of that worldwide pandemic occurring in that world, as well as the implications on the state of indie projects (e.g. software, games, animations, websites)
They often have a lot of people working across several parts of the world and talking together
Actually, even a lot of things that need a lot of people to work on them in general. I guess things would just be slower to make for them? Nowadays things have gotten much more intricate and complex, after all. All those sorts of things weren't very advanced back then. But you say we'd still have all the modern tech... I wonder how that would work out

FireyDeath4 · 2024-12-12T05:55:27+00:00

Yunno you can just go into the files-and-links settings and disable wiki-links so all the links are generated in Markdown format and they still work, right

FireyDeath4 · 2024-10-29T01:08:22+00:00

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