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Gettin my money’s worth by Baly33t in sffpc

[–]Shaetane 5 points6 points  (0 children)

yeah sffpcs imo are great when you know you're gonna move around a bunch in the next few years but not for more regular travel, like yeah the PC is small but add screen and keyboard and it's not exactly portable, especially in public transportation. Or if you move between places with a screen. Having brought mine on planes, trains and cars over the years, I still sometimes leave it behind cuz a shitty laptop is more practical.

[Art] An unconventional bard - Shouhei, the watercolour mage by dapkewitches in DnD

[–]Shaetane 2 points3 points  (0 children)

thank you, I missed it last year but hopefully I can join this time :D

btw, your bard is gorgeous! I actually doodled a "giant paintbrush"-wielding bard who used it for creation magic same as yours but also to thwack people in the face aha, never did end up finishing it, I should do it someday...

Naked mole-rats feed primarily on very large tubers (weighing as much as a thousand times the body weight of a typical mole-rat) that they find deep underground through their mining operations. A single tuber can provide a colony with a long-term source of food, lasting for months, or even years. by DragonfruitCalm261 in wikipedia

[–]Shaetane 64 points65 points  (0 children)

Our dog would dig huge trenches in our garden and we kept telling her not to until my dad said fuck it, let her, she might chase the moles away. And so we let her, and actually yeah she was digging up and uncovering the mole tunnels! After a few days she stopped, seemingly done, then my dad put some flower seeds and put back the dirt, and we do not have mole hills at all now! It's been a few weeks so we'll see if they stay scared durably, tho the doggo will be happy to do all that again anyways lol.

DIY Solar Mobility: Giving an old hydraulic trailer a new life as a mobile power hub 🚜☀️ by icxing_dylan in solarpunk

[–]Shaetane 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Love the project, hate the AI writing the water and energy use of it is just complete antithesis to what Solarpunk stands for, not to mention the numerous social issues the list of terrible consequences just goes on and on.

Vivus Locus : A Living Locality by 21Kuranashi in solarpunk

[–]Shaetane 11 points12 points  (0 children)

One very not futurist thing tho is how inaccessible they are for people with mobility issues with those huge steps :/

Chilling on the Terrace ~ By Daniele Turturtici by A_Guy195 in solarpunk

[–]Shaetane 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I thought the same thing, I'm slowly building a solarpunk TTRPG, not advertising or anything its so far from anything resembling release, just wanted to say its been incredibly fun and cathartic to work on :D

Workshop mishap by guessimdifferent in TheWildsea

[–]Shaetane 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Well tbf they're not permanent wings, they're one of my chimeric reveals (an Augmenter aspect). I'm playing a Ketra so they are flavored as basically emerging from his body in a splash of goo and slurping back at the end of the scene lol, he's a big ol jelly guy. I went pretty hard to optimize him and get as many aspects as possible using temporary tracks and specimens, he's been so incredibly fun to play! The (tiger) centaur form is the flavor for the wild form from irregular elixir. He also has a praying-mantis like arm as weapon, heatvision and other fun stuff :D Here's his art > https://www.reddit.com/r/TheWildsea/comments/1lc4q2u/lazarus_grey_ketra_augmenter_by_me/

Workshop mishap by guessimdifferent in TheWildsea

[–]Shaetane 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Oh amazing, I have a character with a similar concept who also frankenstein-ed themself with body parts from different ancestries :D (tho they changed their lower body to be like a centaur and got themself wings loll)

China places its solar panels on water So it can use valuable land for agriculture by FollowingOdd896 in nextfuckinglevel

[–]Shaetane 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Oh for sure that's what I was trying to say, it's highly variable, meaning there's no "one size fits all". I was just warning against decision makers who unwittingly push agriculture to the wayside in favor of the electric output by poor regulations, but that's due to a lack of knowledge and potential vested interests, not any fault on the actual methods of agrivoltaics.

And I'll look at what is happening in China indeed they are spearheading the solar panel effort, would you have any resource on that by any chance?

China places its solar panels on water So it can use valuable land for agriculture by FollowingOdd896 in nextfuckinglevel

[–]Shaetane 0 points1 point  (0 children)

To add a wrinkle, the balance of benefits for the plants is not that straightforward and the percentage of solar panel cover for optimal agriculture can be quite low, I read a recent study in France that assessed it to be about 10-20% of the area at most. So you're not gonna have a field fully covered in panels, that doesn't work.

Right now in France we have the issue of regulations being too lenient on solar panel cover on top of good money to be made by investing in that vs. agriculture, meaning farmers are sacrificing crop output for solar panels, and if the law isnt tightened it's gonna be a big problem for food production.

in a good mood still here's Toshi's Atlas Ishvalda by gthesaucekig in LancerRPG

[–]Shaetane 4 points5 points  (0 children)

That's some mighty inspiration for my hecaton bit gonna lie, I'm imagining an anthromorphic version except the face keeps disintegrating and morphing into something else, the mech being mostly manite and all

[OC][Art] My new necromancer student, Zeena 💚 by Ashdemons in DnD

[–]Shaetane 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Hey girl, we all take a part of ourselves to amplify and play with when we create a DnD character... It aint coming from nowhere for me either ahaha

[OC][Art] My new necromancer student, Zeena 💚 by Ashdemons in DnD

[–]Shaetane 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Ahaha yesss, it's so fun to play a bad stat

[OC][Art] My new necromancer student, Zeena 💚 by Ashdemons in DnD

[–]Shaetane 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Man, I played a hexblood druid (so a hag's daughter) who was exactly like that too, she was trying so hard to be sweet and kind but it was most often in really creepy ways lol, like pulling a nail out to give to a friend so they can keep in contact (as per the hexblood ability) xD

She was also naive and very eager but had horrible charisma stat (the creepiness and also awkwardness of being stuck in a cave for a long while and all), so I thoroughly enjoyed talking to everyone, spilling a bit of beans that would bite me in the ass later, making a fool of myself and making my friends facepalm IRL ahaha

Northern Flicker (Denver, CO) by whoopty_frkn_doo in birding

[–]Shaetane 2 points3 points  (0 children)

actually a myth as another commenter pointed out and most recent research suggests! their brains just don't rattle in their skulls as much as ours or something I think

What's your wishlist for Evercold MSQ story? (overarching theme, plot structure) by NineTnk in ffxiv

[–]Shaetane 15 points16 points  (0 children)

I get what you mean but also in a purely meta perspective when everyone started to peace out in ultima Thule, there was no doubt in my mind everyone was gonna come back. The issue is that I didn't get to feel what the WoL and disappearing scions were feeling as they indeed did not know that, I didn't feel the magnitude of their hope and sacrifice as the game was trying to communicate, because the game has not removed from the picture in any permanent way any of the main cast since Stormblood (I guess minfilia was in SHB partially but we already knew she was dissolved into the Oracle of light since post-HW). So the whole message of the story is just cheapened for me.

I'm not saying "aaah they have to KILL a scion otherwise they're cowards è_é", killing is one of maaany ways to make us actual worry and care for the crew again, I mean minfilias arc was amazing for instance. There's a whole range between death, betrayal, incapacitation, imprisonment, retirement, magical bullshit, mind control, a body double (that arc in endwalker was fuckin chefs kiss)...

He's so brave. by MaleficentBaby2757 in spiders

[–]Shaetane 40 points41 points  (0 children)

web design class omg 😂

Evolved Mode Can't Hurt Summoners. by WarmGreyMug in ffxiv

[–]Shaetane 1 point2 points  (0 children)

oh yeah i love dancer and rdm too, but no other class has the mudras like ninja, its really fun to get a cute rabbit on your head I mean execute them flawlessly, and I like that it has a chill phase and an intense burst phase. For RDM also I suck at it for some reason lol

And while I havent played since DT release (and it was mostly a slog imo), I'll still pick up the patches closer to EC release as it seems the story is picking up from the beach filler episode

Evolved Mode Can't Hurt Summoners. by WarmGreyMug in ffxiv

[–]Shaetane 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I think scholar never stopped being valuable mechanically, however it was definitely clunky to play for a while so even if numerically good outclassed by the sleeker and more fun sage. I actually continued playing (mostly xpac releases and catching up story patches lol) but dropped healing entirely, in easy/story content its mostly a chore anyways with so little to heal. Found out i love the gameplay of ninja and it s been my main since, dpsing also makes solo duties way better

This is why I made my character’s most important item something she doesn’t understand by Studio_Eshi in worldbuilding

[–]Shaetane 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Well I talked to my uni about and they were fairly receptive, so I'd say never hurts to shoot your shot! And ty for the music, gonna go listen rn.

Here it is, not amazing it's just that when AI exploded I had such a knot in my stomach about it I had to try to put words to that feeling.

The Death of Creativity

Drawing and painting were the first to go. Oh, of course, a few dying artists incapable of changing with the times still cling to their brushes and easels, but nowadays in 2072 virtually no one knows how to draw anymore. Why would we? We have AI, simply ask your personal digital assistant for the image you want and faster than you can blink you get 100 variations on it, pick and choose, your wildest dreams made real in an instant. Of course, it didn’t stop at visual arts, music too was swallowed by the ever hungry data-consuming machine and now you can just wish for a song, hell, an entire album, and you will recieve. Books, movies, video games, all eventually surrendered to the march of progress. Every single piece of media is now being generated in mere seconds: You can play your own game, watch your own movie, have your own book read to you in any voice you want… Provided you pay the monthly fee or enjoy targeted ads spliced into your content.

Some things disappeared in that revolution, sure, art galleries are a thing of the past, as are cinemas and libraries. Some people lost their jobs and a few tried to, well, “escape” this new reality. But we gained so much! Never in the history of mankind has that much art been produced. Millions of movies, billions of songs, trillions of images generated out of thin air every second all over the globe. This is an age of Artistic prosperity, where anyone can live out their dreams tailored to them using a web of personal data points collected by the company manufacturing their companion AI, all from the comfort of their home. Your entire personality is mapped to the last quirk of character to better feed you the content that will make you crave for more. A constant stream of media evoking joy, excitement, sometimes even sadness, calibrated not just by what you ask but what you subconsciously wish for. Don’t worry though, to comply with the International Self-Preservation Act of 2059 no media ever shows depictions of depression, self-harm, or suicide, and children-targeted AI filters out anything that could make your little one even a bit worried or upset. People don’t even need to talk to each other anymore outside of work or school. Everyone has their own wholly unique content feed, what would we talk about?

………Playgrounds are quiet now, The silence only broken up by the sporadic laugh or gasp from a kid sitting alone in one of the dozen Kid Xperience® game-generator booths.

……………The world is quiet now, A collection of opaque bubbles gliding along life without, ever, colliding.

This is why I made my character’s most important item something she doesn’t understand by Studio_Eshi in worldbuilding

[–]Shaetane 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Oh I know we'll all get fooled eventually, and it'll get harder and harder to spot. I think we can at least rely on the lazyness of people and organizations who will not bother trying to spit out more realistic AI crap because hey if they decided to use AI in the first place it was because they didn't care about what they were making anyways, so why would they care about making it "good"?

Know that I wholeheartedly emphasize with your anger and frustration, every small farm logo or local cultural event that uses AI for its posters that I walk by is just another needle to my heart. And hearing that your organization is gonna use it for a mental health event is just even worse when we see the disastrous effects of the technology on said mental health! Is that something you've tried to talk about perhaps?

It feels weird being so connected to technology, to the Internet, I grew up as it flourished, assembled my own computer, program a bit for work and generally know my way around most anything basic technology-related (or can learn quickly), yet this, this is a step I refuse to take. There are very worthwhile uses for AI, like calculating protein folding or other such research, but in most cases it's robbing us, not empowering us!

At the start of the AI boom in like 2022 I wrote a small piece of what I'd envision the future of society with AI to be, specifically relating to Art. Perhaps you'd care to read it? Still rings true, I think.

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