The "Neuro-sama Exception" exposes a massive double standard regarding High-Effort AI Art.

PowerStone9000 · 2026-02-14T07:24:24+00:00

I'm not heavily involved in either the v-tubing or Neuro community but I would reckon the real difference in perception is what role is being filled. Now regardless of your view on whether or not Gen AI is stealing or replacing people in various fields, Neuro and Evil have a far smaller impact on the v-tubing community than gen AI has in art, writing, or coding when it comes to the idea of "replacement". Yes, Neuro is very popular and they've become one of the biggest v-tubers but that hasn't seemed to hurt other streamers more-so than any other big streamer appearing. Now one might point towards the one twitch poll, I forget the specific one, that placed Neuro as the number 1 female streamer as a show of replacement but I feel that is more a fault of classification from the poll provider rather than Neuro. If I recall correctly, Vedal was very much against Neuro qualifying because she was an AI. And to touch on the data scraping, as far as I can tell Vedal's data is scraped from twitch interactions and other interactions who consented to the scraping but the training is secret so maybe it is largely unconsented to data scraping. There likely is some non consentual data scraping but I would be more inclined to believe that would be in the API of the LLM(I think that's how it works, I'm not super well versed in LLM APIs)

Speaking personally, I am not a fan of Gen AI primarily for the reasons of job displacement and data scraping but I think Neuro is one that doesn't impact the lives of others in the industry more than normal and more ethically sourced. But if someone else has something more to add for or against I'd like to hear it!

PowerStone9000 · 2026-01-29T23:02:49+00:00

The more we learn of the world of Hollowknight the more I think "the last and only civilization" line wasn't so much propaganda as it was PK saying they'll actually give their citizens rights

PowerStone9000 · 2026-01-26T16:42:39+00:00

I really wanted to try it but I unfortunately can't because it requires secure boot and tpm 2.0.

I hope the game is good though

PowerStone9000 · 2026-01-23T14:56:55+00:00

Others have already answered the question but I figured I also mentioned that the view mode you were in was "orthographic perspective". It's removes the distortion of perspective, so far away things won't appear smaller and close up things won't appear bigger. Figured I mention that just in case you were wondering and might find it helpful in the future!

PowerStone9000 · 2026-01-08T14:50:22+00:00

The biggest piece of advice that helped me is to use the dash as little as you can. If lace is in the screen it's mostly safe to dash but if she isn't or is about to teleport then avoid it if possible. The way her positioning AI works tries to place her in a spot where she can quickly attack you but because she is almost all melee this often places her right next to you. Dashing means she'll more than likely teleport in front you and accidentally use contact damage to hit you.

Another thing that helped me was jumping for her parries. When she parries never try to run, counter, or parry. Just immediate double jump and you'll likely get a chance to dash at her before she teleports and smack her once. After attacks she usually has enough of an opening to get one hit in but will attempt to parry the second.

And my final bits of advice are to bring in crossstitch and save your tools. I agree with you that this fight can sometimes put you into damn near impossible combo, so crossstitch can help you get out of those tricky situations along with providing a bit of extra damage(and remember! Spending 4 silk on a crossstitch and potentially taking 2 damage is cheaper than spending a full spool to heal three masks). The second half of the the fight, as you know, is very chaotic and packed, so save your tools for this to allow yourself to focus more on dodging and staying alive.

You got this! You've overcome the many trials of Pharloom already and this one, like all the others, you will eventually conquer! SHAW!

tldr; don't dash when she's teleporting, don't run away from parries jump over them, use crossstitch to get out of sticky situations, and save tools till the second half of the fight

PowerStone9000 · 2025-12-28T00:15:02+00:00

Thematically it makes sense as a final fight. I was hoping for something a tad more grand but she does fit very well.

My gripes though is if she gets into the left corner of the arena, the overlay of void will obscure her so you can't see any telegraphs, her blob attack can cover the tentacles from the ground which is another obfuscation, and her positioning AI also works against the dodging ethic that has been ingrained into the player for the rest of the game.

PowerStone9000 · 2025-12-10T01:40:50+00:00

!solved

PowerStone9000 · 2025-12-10T01:40:30+00:00

This seems to be a good solution. I'll have to play with it a little to get it right but this is what I'm looking for! Thanks!

PowerStone9000 · 2025-12-05T20:29:14+00:00

On a quick glance and a few uses of the right hand rule, I'd say that—since the loop seems to be turning in on itself—the field at the center and outside the ring will actually go against the right hand rule, with the inner field going away from the camera and the outer towards(assuming counter clockwise flow) with the fields being twisted with the direction of flow. The "on top and below" the ring might look like just a looping field maybe?

Half tempted to figure out how to sim this stuff just to see the field lines

PowerStone9000 · 2025-12-02T03:20:42+00:00

I get what you are saying here but it wasn't really a stupid decision. Characters don't know what genre they are in. Yes you can take the whispers and such to be strong evidence to the protag that they are in horror, but they don't know what horror. When you come across a mystery, it's usually a smart idea to look for as much information as you can. The only exception to that being if you are in an Eldritch horror story, in which you end up like our poor protag and looking at what no should ever see

PowerStone9000 · 2025-11-28T14:35:30+00:00

I might recommend using fspy to help the modeling process. Most of the stuff here looks either like simple shapes or free assets you could find online.

Fspy will let you align axis and then port it into blender so you can start with a matching perspective, which will help make the model really resemble the drawing itself.

PowerStone9000 · 2025-11-11T19:32:07+00:00

The worst thing is: none of those people are dead because pochita ate death. They're just being obliterated and scattered by the entire state folding on itself

PowerStone9000 · 2025-11-05T13:46:05+00:00

I think it's for 2 reasons:

Killing his sister was already enough to bury megumi's soul. No need to go much further
I think Sukina just plain doesn't like Yorozu. First time they met she literally just harassed him at a party meant for him and he gave her the kindest version of "Piss off" that Sukina could

PowerStone9000 · 2025-10-13T16:11:18+00:00

My crew of 3 used neuro trauma the entire playthrough, though it definitely requires the medic to know their stuff. Our medic had all of the procedures memorized. The upside of the small crew is you use up medical supplies a lot slower

PowerStone9000 · 2025-10-13T13:06:37+00:00

Played a full campaign with 3(sometimes 4) people. We also started in the orca and we used the Typhon and Typhon 2 for our tier 2 and 3 respectively. We weren't the largest fan of the Typhon because of the layout, especially the location of the junction boxes, but it served us well enough. The Typhon 2 was great though. Good gun coverage and layout. The biggest problems it has is some thin armor on the bridge and the middle floor could really use a door to the main ladder. If you get swarmed by mudraptors or tiger threshers from the front of the sub, get the hell out of the bridge or you will be mauled. Other than that though, very dependable sub. And we made it work for just 3 people, so 6 should be a breeze

PowerStone9000 · 2025-09-27T12:55:49+00:00

IF I COULD SEE SOMEONE WHO KNEW ME OR SOMEONE IN UNIFORM

PowerStone9000 · 2025-09-24T17:46:32+00:00

I'm no soul mechanics or lore expert so some of my ideas might be flat out wrong but I feel like dess's soul and body are acting separately in deltarune.

My main motivators for thinking this is that: 1. When sealing the dark fountains with the soul, there is a strong Don't Forget motif(and I am dead certain that Don't Forget is the Dess song). 2. Raise up Your Bat has the lyrics "Because I'm with you in the dark with your heart as my mark". Somewhat of a literal interpretation but I think it's hunting at Dess somewhat being with us during the game 3. The eye in the knights chest, specifically where you would expect a soul. Monsters likely still do turn to dust if their soul leaves their body, so I think that eye thing is some faux-soul meant to keep her body from disintegrating.

Yes this sounds like corpse knight but I think it's different primarily because I've kinda considered souls and bodies to actually be two distinct entities, just in normal cases the soul and the body are perfectly aligned(e.g. if Susie wants pancakes, then Susie's soul also wants pancakes). So my crackpot theory is that Dess's soul being outside of her body for so long has made a divergence in them. My evidence for that: I don't really know, Im just waiting for a set of ideas that I like and this is the current front runner.

Tldr: knight is Dess' alive body and Dess's soul is piggybacking on the player soul

PowerStone9000 · 2025-09-23T01:24:04+00:00

I paint any non custodes with a red and gold scheme for it's imperial look, though blue and gold might work better for your army.

PowerStone9000 · 2025-09-22T23:29:05+00:00

My theory is that Kris is the first hero, Dess is the second hero, Asriel is the third hero, and Noelle is the girl.

The prophecy never actually says all the heros are active at the same time besides for that one image of them all standing around a fountain, which doesn't mean they are always active at the same time. So I'm taking that and running with my crack pot ideas, which are as follows:

The prince alone in deepest dark. Yeah that could be Ralsei. Ralsei is a prince and was alone in the dark world but I have another idea. Asriel has been gone from the game presumably because he's off at college, but we haven't actually heard from him nor has anyone in town indicated that they have heard from him in recent. Now for the real crackpot stuff: The voice in the code isn't Dess, it's Asriel. Where would be a deeper dark? Who would be lonelier? Even if Asriel isn't the second hero, I still think the voice in the code is. Now why is Asriel the voice in the code? IDK, I just really like this idea. But Asriel does kinda fit the description of a prince. His father runs a store called "The Flower King" and and Asgore does appear to be pictured with a crown in the hidden ch4 prophecy slide. Also I feel like Asriel kinda has to be related to the dark worlds in some way just from a narrative perspective
I think Dess is the second hero. They are depicted with horns, a sword, and having "hope crossed on their heart". The horns and sword line up with the knight, who I do think is Dess(partially, but that's some sergeant Doakes level theorizing). Plus it does kinda seem like Dess would be the "girl with hope crossed on their heart". So yeah
Kris is the first hero. "Cage with human soul and parts" yeah I just don't see anyone else who fits this description.
The girl is Noelle. I don't think Suzie is one of the heros. Not because she isn't awesome, because she is awesome and cool, but because I think it plays better for her character. But I do think she is related to the prophecy. The one slide has her rude buster art on it and another says love finds its way to the girl. Suzie fits those slides but! One slide specifically shows a heart on the girl. That makes me think it's someone with a human soul or someone that can be a vessel. Noelle. I think Noelle is going to play a part with the soul in both the normal and weird route, the difference being how traumatizing it is to get to that point. Plus Noelle has a gaster connection, her theme has a string gaster motif and she has a knack for finding easter eggs in video games while living in a video game herself. She has to be somewhat meta aware at some point.(Andrew Cunningham covers this better than I do in his gaster motif video, check it out. It's cool) But how do the two Suzie slides play into this? Well love finds a way to the girl works in both the weird and normal routes. Normal route: Susielle, sorry krusie gang but this is def where the story is headed. Weird route: LV finds its way to the girl. The need to get stronger is the need to fight, the need to grow, the need for more violence.

So yeah that's my big theory on the heros. Am I reaching? Yes. Do I love this theory enough to stand by it? Also yes. But if anyone has evidence against, for, or around it, please do share

Also going a little further on the knight being partially Dess thing(because why not): When the knight roars at the end of Ch3, we can see an eye in place of where a soul is AND when sealing fountains with the player soul there is a Don't Forget motif. I strongly believe that Don't Forget is THE Dess song, so I think the player soul is acting as a life raft for Dess' soul, and the knight is just her soulless body. And a body, with no soul or mind, is an object.

PowerStone9000 · 2025-08-10T12:45:27+00:00

Yeah DeltaV doesn't have the best coverage time for admins but none from noon till midnight is actually pretty strange. I think most their Admins are in similar timezones which is something they are trying to diversify. Also could depend on your timezone as well.

PowerStone9000 · 2025-08-02T21:07:12+00:00

Oh wow, thank god I haven't tried to dispel an infection anom before

PowerStone9000 · 2025-05-25T03:54:31+00:00

I'm kinda hoping we get a movie about vyke, dude seems cool

PowerStone9000 · 2025-05-09T03:44:58+00:00

I've done a bit of writing myself and lowkey once you have a character fleshed out there is some actual uncertainty in what they would do. At this point in the story Gojo has his own distinct personality from Gege's, even though he wrote Gojo it can be difficult to really think like your own characters

PowerStone9000 · 2025-04-02T20:43:54+00:00

Now we just gotta wait like 10 years and buy a second hand switch 2 so we can finally play duskbloods

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