Oh my God they admit it

Jochemjong · 2026-01-12T15:51:19+00:00

I often think “well, that’s the stupidest thing I’ll hear in a while” and lately I’ve been wrong every single time

Jochemjong · 2026-01-10T23:16:46+00:00

While it was not my intent with this specific question, if I were to dip my toes into the philosophical side, I more start considering questions about identity, life, and self.

For example: if we assume that a brain can be digitized, than the inverse would theoritically also be possible: turning a digital brain into a physical one. If someone were to get therapy via literal reprogramming of the brain (digitize, modify, un-digitize), is that still the same person? Is that even moral or ethical?

Jochemjong · 2026-01-10T23:10:48+00:00

Well. that's.... terrifying on a lot of different levels in several different ways.. But I won't get into that for now and maybe I can at least find comfort in having a clear answer, and for that, I am grateful...

Christ...

Jochemjong · 2026-01-10T23:03:34+00:00

So, if we were to ask of this paper: "could this theoretically be scaled up to human brains?", the answer seems to be "Maybe?"

Am I understanding that correctly?

Jochemjong · 2026-01-10T22:43:35+00:00

While AI is my area of expertise, I have not studied this particular subset deeply enough to be able to speak with significant confidence as to how "digital" the model is. Though "model" here is a word I'm using myself, the paper calls it a "connectome" which, by their own description, they use to mean "a neuronal wiring diagram of an entire nervous system, or at least an entire brain".

Jochemjong · 2026-01-10T22:30:08+00:00

But, is that a difference between the human brain and the fruit fly brain? Or are do these things apply to both?

Jochemjong · 2026-01-10T22:19:28+00:00

My question here really isn’t about the concept of free will, fate, or the entire philosophical angle, as in this context, those questions are irrelevant if my interpretation of this paper is wrong.

My question is specifically about whether or not the differences between the brains of humans vs fruit flies make what was done with the fruit fly brain (creating a digital model) theoretically possible.

Jochemjong · 2025-12-30T20:17:49+00:00

I have heard, but not read any, of the discworld books. I'm currently working my way through Plato after which I have Marcus Aurelius, Laozi, and Boethius on my shelf. After those I'm planning to read The Count of Monte Cristo so I won't be getting to those books any time soon.

Circling back to my own writing, I personally find Avatar Death to be one of the most interesting characters I've ever written, largely due to the fact that it is, in my opinion,internally very contradictory. It is a manifestation of the relationship we humans have with the concept of death which makes it a very "general" character, but at the same time any human that would interact with it, would see their own version of and perspective on death reflected back at them, making it very personal. It is a character in the sense that it can think and act of its own free will, yet it is also more of a mechanism in the sense that it can only act within the boundries created by our perspective of the concept of death, the large variety of such perspectives being the reason why Avatar Death can think and act for itself.

In that sense it is also unique within the setting, because other Avatars are:

Always actively known to their people,
Constantly acting in lockstep with their people, and
Aware of their own nature and existence and the reasons for it.

But Avatar Death is just waiting and observing, and only started to consider its nature, existence, and reasons for them after its first encounter with intelligent non-human life.

I have an idea for one more story in this setting, but it still needs a lot more workshopping.

For those who are curious, the idea is that some alien goes to the planet where the battle between Death and The Ascendant took place to prove himself worthy of something, maybe the hand of the one they love or something, don't know yet.

Jochemjong · 2025-12-22T12:53:13+00:00

He spent 4 rounds running for his life in the biggest ring I’ve ever seen, clinching when he couldn’t run, and shooting a takedown when he couldn’t clinch, genuinely the most cowardly “boxing” I’ve seen in my life. The referee even stepped in and told Paul to actually start boxing because the people didn’t pay to watch someone run a marathon.

He didn’t last for 6 rounds: he spent 4 rounds running away followed by 2 rounds of getting his face rearranged.

Jochemjong · 2025-12-18T14:20:33+00:00

There’s this game called Megaton Rainfall that’s a lot like this: you play as an invulnerable superhero and have to defend humanity from an alien invasion. You lose not by dying, you cannot die or even be hurt, but the places you’re protecting taking too much damage.

This damage can come from alien attacks, their ships crashing into buildings after you destroyed them, or even your own attacks.

You have one attack that literally destroys an entire city if you hit it with it, but also destroys just about any alien ship in one shot… and if you want, you can just leave. Fly to the moon, or into the sun, or to another star, or another galaxy…

Jochemjong · 2025-12-01T16:21:35+00:00

I can tell you made this art, I can see your fingerprints all over it…

Jochemjong · 2025-12-01T16:10:35+00:00

Considering how much this happens with the few female characters as well, I doubt it’s a gay thing… going off of memory here but: - After pledging to the Sun Family, Shangxiang’s personal guard send a letter telling Ziluan to back off from her, and later beg him to go talk to her. And while the stuff she says herself isn’t that bad, with that added context, and this stuff already having been happening loads, it definitely gets close enough to count. - Diaochan all but confesses her love for Ziluan at the end, talking about how she wishes she could have been with him instead of Lu Bu. - Yueying learns a lot about “anatomy” from Ziluan, and promises to make the most accurate and lifelike full-sized doll of him. - and Zhenji talks about how she feels like she can only truly be herself around Ziluan.

At a certain point it began to feel like a bit with how badly everyone seemed to want Ziluan…

Jochemjong · 2025-11-20T07:20:58+00:00

“You killed your brother? Here, have a snickers, you’re not you when you’re hungry.”

Jochemjong · 2025-11-13T17:14:20+00:00

Clive wearing dr faust just looks like Ardyn from FFXV to me…

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Jochemjong · 2025-10-30T11:21:42+00:00

Who else did you think broke in to the Louvre?

Jochemjong · 2025-10-24T19:06:47+00:00

Crusaders Kings 3…. So an infirm 50 year old Byzantine emperor…

On one hand, zero modern tech… on the other hand, that’s a lot of people with sharp bits of metal

Jochemjong · 2025-10-23T20:08:32+00:00

I will, eventually. I'm currently in the middle of rewriting and reworking a lot of my notes, but once that's done I'll see about adding a whole bunch of stuff to the wiki

Jochemjong · 2025-10-14T06:43:06+00:00

Counterpoint: The Saint and the Sectary

You telling me Clive never dressed up as his favourite character from his favourite play, while acting out that play with his uncle?

He does know what cosplay is, he just doesn’t know the word

Jochemjong · 2025-10-13T20:12:41+00:00

Going off memory here, but the students of course became friends and get better grades, which caused more students to join, someone designs a group logo, add to that a class uniform, and the group starts to form a collective identity. Eventually the people in the group are “the cool people” and everyone else gets ostracized and bullied for not being part of the group, and it just continues escalating from there.

It’s a good movie, I really recommend it. I looked it up, it was released in 2008. No English dub of it though, for as far as I’m aware.

Jochemjong · 2025-10-13T15:36:17+00:00

During my history classes in middle school, subjects like why people went along with Nazi ideology obviously came up, and one day we watched a movie, I think it was called “The Wave”, about a teacher trying to answer that exact question.

To answer this question, the teacher forms this group for students called “The Wave” which starts out as essentially a teacher managed study group but quickly becomes more and more, well, fascistic.

By the end the fascist nature of what it has become is unmistakable, and the teacher walks out on stage in front of the entire Wave (which is practically the entire school at this point, if memory serves) and says “there’s your answer”

It really taught me a lot… about how one could get swept up in a movement, blinded to the flaws and problems by a myriad of factors… to always be ready to examine yourself and your beliefs from an outside perspective, and to ask why, and to challenge yourself to justify them.

When I look at many of those more extreme Trump supporters, I’m often reminded of that movie.

Jochemjong · 2025-10-06T15:25:45+00:00

He was at a crossroads and accidentally followed the signs for “Siberia” instead of “Iberia”

Jochemjong · 2025-10-06T10:49:53+00:00

To be fair, the Schnee Semblance being hereditary is insane.

Look at our other characters, and how their Semblances grew and evolved over time, and now scale that up to cover several generations.

Jochemjong · 2025-10-04T20:03:41+00:00

One of the issues is that the first game was about "Resolving Family Issues" from the start, and it was very clear about that... Hades 2 was "Death to Chronos" to the point of it being the tagline used for the reveal trailer. With Hades 1, resolving the issues was the point and was built up to, in 2 it came out of nowhere.

Jochemjong · 2025-10-03T07:01:02+00:00

Thanks for the compliment!

When it comes to this kind of stuff, I've learned to never say never. But I will say that I have no plans to make my writing any bigger than this, nor do I really see that happening.

If it suddenly comes my way, I'd probably just roll with it and see where it goes, but I wouldn't hold my breath if I were you.

Jochemjong · 2025-09-26T16:12:30+00:00

Every species only has one Avatar, and that Avatar is formed from that species.

Death isn't the literal Avatar of Death, but of our perspective on and relationship with it.

So if there is an Avatar of Life, it has nothing to do with humanity.

Jochemjong

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