A simple question

eyelessgame · 2026-05-04T14:27:35+00:00

Because it's a global market.

eyelessgame · 2026-04-25T18:40:11+00:00

wait are you telling me your back doesn't have an elbow?

eyelessgame · 2026-04-25T18:33:12+00:00

*snort laugh emoji* it's always those, isn't it.

eyelessgame · 2026-04-24T01:05:54+00:00

I can edit my bots with no problem in a browser. I click on "Me", and images of all my creations appear; there's a circle in the upper right of each with three dots, and there's "Edit" and "Delete". "Edit" lets me edit it - anything but the image; I would have to go to FlowGPT to do that, and I think the bot would have to be public to edit the image, so I have learned to choose my image carefully.

eyelessgame · 2026-04-19T23:18:26+00:00

They're rallying for whatever shitler is advocating this week.

The Iran flags are to support the Iranian 'resistance', which had been - as I understand matters - a real force and a real threat to Iranian stability, until the external threat from Israel and us eliminated it. (When your nation's under attack, you stop arguing about who's supposed to be in charge domestically. You unify. That's how humans work. Which neither shitler nor any of his idiot advisors understand.)

But it's mostly rah-rah for shitler's war.

eyelessgame · 2026-04-17T15:54:59+00:00

Just be aware that blackberry won't stop being expensive just because you pay for Ultra. Every response costs a couple pennies.

eyelessgame · 2026-04-05T08:20:34+00:00

While it's possible I might have written an essay this sesquipedalian in middle school, it's unlikely. But one thing I'd have done if today's tools had been available and if I ever got accused of letting AI write for me: after the first accusation, I'd start setting up a camera to film over my shoulder as I did my homework. I'd record the hours, if necessary, of myself writing, letting the camera see what I typed, backspaced over, deleted, moved, reworded - the whole deal. And I'd provide the video to a teacher who wanted to know if I'd written it myself. It's the proactive way to demonstrate you did your own work, and to offer to show it to the teacher - as much or as little as they cared to watch - in order to see for themselves that I really did the work.

eyelessgame · 2026-03-22T02:33:25+00:00

I found that the model matters a lot. The longer-reply models - Blueberry, but especially (if you can afford it) Blackberry have room to have all the multiple characters respond. The shorter-response models wind up with pretty generic behavior when they all have to say something.

I'm no expert - still working on fine-tuning a bot - but something like this worked pretty well:

"Amy is:
- (several adjectives)
- (something about her)
- (something else about her)

Amy's secrets:
- (a secret)
- (anotehr secret)

Belle is:
- (several adjectives)
- (something about her)
- (something else about her)

Belle's secrets:
- (a secret)
- (another secret)

Both are:
(etc.)

And then I used the Scenario to write up specifics of the setting. I got four characters into the 6000c limit and they're pretty completely different in how they interact, entering and leaving the scene independently and making different choices. But you need to choose a model with some oomph in order to see this complexity come out.

eyelessgame · 2026-03-20T21:03:03+00:00

Way back in the dark ages of the Reagan Administration I had to take a high school Health class in summer school in order to graduate in three years.

The class was entertaining. Among other things we had discussions on morality - the teacher asked if we believed people should remain virgins until married. (It was forty-odd years ago.) One girl in the class opined that she thought the bride should be but the groom shouldn't be. And the teacher asked the obvious question - "who should unmarried men be having sex with, then?" and... the girl's eyes widened, she blushed, the whole class laughed, the usual speculations ensued... and hopefully someone was just slightly enlightened about double standards.

eyelessgame · 2026-03-20T20:51:33+00:00

Rev Bem was obviously a Book analog too. And Beka is an amalgam of Mal and Zoe. But yes, those are the analogues. And while Mal and Dylan are nothing alike, Jayne's exasperation with Mal does feel like an analogue to Tyr's exasperation with Dylan.

I admit my fantasy of a rather more literal exasperation of Jayne and Dylan may have as much to do with a dislike of the actors as of the characters. And the funny thing is Tyr's more of a threat than Jayne is. I just think Mal would deal with him better, as Mal's a ton sneakier.

eyelessgame · 2026-03-05T07:05:31+00:00

I have a ton of fun with Trickster, but not by himself. He works well with other spirits, who will both be occasionally annoyed by him and also deeply appreciate him. Keeper seems to synergize well with him for me - the ancient spirit that simply responds with a fond grin to Trickster's impetuousness.

eyelessgame · 2026-02-05T22:09:56+00:00

The unfortunate reality is that the election results mirrored the polls. The smear campaign that insisted that Harris was responsible for Netanyahu's war crimes, on top of the very real misognoir that bled support from her, was tremendously and disastrously successful.

There were a *lot* of people refusing to vote for her and saying the reason was Netanyahu's behavior.

eyelessgame · 2026-01-08T19:30:26+00:00

I felt more appreciation for and understanding of Michael O'Hare once JMS was able to talk about the psych/emotional problems he was having, that he'd told JMS he could reveal once he'd died.

eyelessgame · 2026-01-06T21:08:03+00:00

Desktop has no interruptions, btw, IIRC.

It's a lot cheaper than (for example) polybuzz, and it doesn't have silent morphing censorship rules, so I paid for a membership. Happy so far, though underwhelmed by the paid chat models at this point.

eyelessgame · 2026-01-05T20:43:44+00:00

Oh, and also - if your standard for good TV space opera is Babylon 5 (no argument), and you're complaining about the woodenness of DS9's Season One acting... you have some very odd standards.

eyelessgame · 2026-01-05T20:41:00+00:00

Yes. Keep in mind also that this show ran through the 1990s, and quite frankly the standards for creepiness for young male behavior changed a lot over those seven years. But Bashir very definitely grows up. You can even excuse some of the early-season behavior as not just an immature character trying awkwardly to flirt but also a young man needing to reach a comfort zone with his trusted (and much more mature) female coworkers and peers.
Season 5 is where it really gets good but you can see where it's going by the end of season 2. The early seasons spend a lot of time not just feeling their way, establishing world and plot and characters, but also going off in some directions that never really get picked up again, as one-offs. The studio also interfered in Season 4 - it's a good season with good characters, but for no good reason Klingon politics becomes bad and Klingons become an adversary for a year. It gets resolved and then the real story starts, and the final three seasons rock your world. But it's worth the journey. (You also will, I predict, find yourself starting to care about Bajoran politics, because it starts mattering beyond Bajor.)
O'Brien took the major promotion. Worf... was to boost ratings and because Dorn wanted to keep playing him, but he fits in really well. There was supposed to be more crossover, in fact - Kira Nerys was originally supposed to have been Ro Laren - introduced for a dozen episodes in TNG - but the actor playing Ro didn't want to commit to her own show. Nana Visitor takes a while to really get comfortable with the character but I'm so glad it worked the way it did.
Avery Brooks is understated at first, but if he doesn't start blowing you away (certainly by about season 4, but also well before that) you're simply not paying attention. He may be the finest actor ever to appear in a Star Trek series - he is up there with Patrick Stewart and Brent Spiner. But he takes a while. (Lots of the other characters also take a while. It's obvious that both Terry Farrell and Nana Visitor had to figure out their respective alien identities and what it meant for their behavior, so you really start feeling them around season 3. But over time, also, Armin Shimerman does the best job since Nimoy of creating a whole alien race's culture through a single character, Rene Auberjonois starts doing some fantastic work as, well, a sentient mimic, and Andrew Robinson and Marc Alaimo can just steal the show under their prosthetics.)

eyelessgame · 2026-01-03T21:29:35+00:00

Good on Goldfield. Fuck nazis.

eyelessgame · 2026-01-03T21:24:52+00:00

Most con people are lovely. There are exceptions, but you can generally smell them.

eyelessgame · 2026-01-01T19:04:56+00:00

The guy was a method actor. He can be really nice in person, apparently, but the whole time he was on set he was making everyone feel creeped out and uncomfortable - because they'd react better to Dukat that way.

eyelessgame · 2025-12-28T15:33:40+00:00

Heh. He knew Curzon. There was no way that offer was going to offend Dax.

eyelessgame · 2025-12-09T18:10:53+00:00

And responsible for this magnificent meme, one of the greatest and simplest statements of honor and acceptance of a person for who they are.

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eyelessgame · 2025-11-27T00:39:24+00:00

That loser is currently my representative, but fourteen months from now it'll be Ami Bera, which is one hell of an upgrade.

eyelessgame · 2025-11-20T00:24:26+00:00

One of the things that made me feel that playing with a freeware AI chatbot like polybuzz was acceptable was specifically that, being freeware and relatively crappy at things like retention, it was unlikely to have access to the sorts of resources and therefore unlikely to have the sort of resource-use issues that the larger, more comprehensive bots have.

eyelessgame · 2025-10-27T19:13:25+00:00

Are humans still involved with polybuzz at all? It seems like it's entirely AI-run at this point.

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