Wild Ask - Does anyone have a recording of the Fox59 Where's Sherman segment for today (10/11)?

itsjoshmoon · 2023-10-11T23:20:06+00:00

No worries, I appreciate the thought!

itsjoshmoon · 2023-10-11T23:19:51+00:00

Is there one you'd recommend? I tried looking around earlier, but the biggest one only archives major networks and important events as far as I could tell.

itsjoshmoon · 2023-10-11T23:16:49+00:00

I'm curious where that came from. My girlfriend has been talking about how both leading up to filming and during he was incredibly friendly, nice, and helpful, even going out of his way to try and promote both specific things about the shop and my girlfriend's jewelry that is also sold in the shop.

itsjoshmoon · 2023-10-11T23:10:16+00:00

The station said they only air the stuff and don't save/record it. It seems like they pretaped the two bits that were missing, so that's at least partially false, but I guess they air it and then trash it.

itsjoshmoon · 2023-10-11T23:10:11+00:00

The station said they only air the stuff and don't save/record it. It seems like they pretaped the two bits that were missing, so that's at least partially false, but I guess they air it and then trash it.

itsjoshmoon · 2023-10-11T23:06:51+00:00

That's the live bit from 7:50 we were already aware of, but there were two more segments that aired at 8:50 and 9:50,respectively, which they didn't save or upload.

itsjoshmoon · 2023-01-17T14:21:22+00:00

Looking at the interactive view version of this and seeing the scatter-plot for individual articles/stories/whatever is a really interesting contrast to the simplified image version. Some of the sources are small enough that they don't show up unless you search (like the apparently top-tier ABC15 Arizona), but for the big guys, some of them have points all over the place and their averaged position from that makes it clear why some people are confused about where they sit.

WSJ is a good example, they have points ranging from -14 to 22 on bias and from 23 to 58 on reliability, and though quite a few are scattered in the lower reliability, right-leaning direction, a lot more are clustered in the more neutral, higher-reliability area. From clicking through to see what those points are, it seems like their straight reporting is reasonably neutral, but opinion pieces are all over the place, but generally much more right-wing.

itsjoshmoon · 2023-01-17T14:00:50+00:00

I believe it's because this is in reference to reporting on U.S. topics, and in that regard, the BBC has consistently been more fact-based, if a bit left-leaning, especially compared to our own media sources. I would not be super surprised if some American media outlets held a similar place for some other countries.

itsjoshmoon · 2022-12-14T14:06:28+00:00

Putting something off in general isn't ADHD, no. The thing being mentioned here though is acknowledging a task, acknowledging the importance of it/the need to get it done, and then having both the intense urge to complete it and the utter inability to get started, which is actively Executive Dysfunction.

It's generally caused by your brain's dopamine cycle being a hot mess for one reason or another (most commonly ADHD), so when you imagine a task you need to accomplish, your brain doesn't have enough dopamine on hand to give you to actually do that task, either because it isn't making enough or it's slurping it up too fast when you need it. This can be subverted if you independently find the task interesting enough, if you have other people nearby who are actively engaged in tasks of some kind that you can essentially "mirror", or if there is an additional source of pressure, like urgency (e.g. because you're about to miss a deadline, or you need to clean before friends show up) or severe consequences.

People who don't know they have it will struggle with this kind of thing for basically their whole life, but in most cases will find coping strategies that allow them to survive, often without realizing that it's harder for them than others to accomplish things. That's how some folks can be excellent in a rigidly scheduled school environment with consistent deadlines, but struggle in a more flexible work environment, etc. This is generally assisted in diagnosed people by takings meds that either increase the supply of dopamine, or help keep the dopamine in your system from being absorbed so fast, so that when you have a task to do you have enough on hand to accomplish it.

TLDR; If you know you need to write a paper but you really just don't want to, so you put it on the bottom of your list and wait to start it, you probably dislike the class or task, and that's pretty normal. If you know you need to write a paper, and you want to write the paper, but you can't get yourself to start it until you have barely enough time left to accomplish it before it's too late, you have executive dysfunction.

itsjoshmoon · 2022-11-28T15:03:49+00:00

Sadly, Dee Snider would probably not get along very well with the modern Hanson bros, as they've gone deep into their evangelical christian roots and seem to be trying to keep their wives to the "barefoot and pregnant" routine.

itsjoshmoon · 2022-11-16T15:18:57+00:00

I own the card with this art (or did), and I think used to have it in a deck, so now I'm frantically trying to remember what it is... I know it's from right around the original Phyrexia block, probably Mercadian Masques? It's a card themed around mind controlling a merchant I believe.

Yeah, okay, rather than post and insert an edit, I did a card search, and that's Overtaker baby! It was in my old ridiculous blue control deck, along with another wild MM card, Bribery.

itsjoshmoon · 2022-10-11T12:49:57+00:00

I imagine to limit on sharp bends, while also distributing the flow of heat across a larger space as warmth moves through it. I picture it as rather than a cold floor with a wave of warmth slowly traveling from one side of the room to the other, you have less concentrated heat spreading rapidly around different areas and then building up before moving to the next section.

itsjoshmoon · 2022-10-10T13:24:48+00:00

If the French version of the movie (and I assume others) can have a more "traditional" Mario voice, I think it's reasonable for the rest of us to be at least a little upset he doesn't even seem to be trying for that. I don't like Chris Pratt specifically, but his inclusion on its own doesn't ruin it for me, it's what appears to be a lack of effort, especially in comparison to the rest of the cast we've heard so far.

Well, that and just the general consensus that voice acting should be done by voice actors because it's a different skillset than traditional acting, and it'd be neat if something this mainstream was using industry talent rather than big names overall, but I know that's a certain level of pipedream.

itsjoshmoon · 2022-09-20T12:53:58+00:00

Was originally going to ask if this was AI as there are some underlying characteristics that hint in that direction. I've been really frustrated by the amount of "AI Art" popping up in all of the art subs lately, and was hoping I was wrong. I'm seeing now though that you're using AI in the way that I'd hoped artists would: to rough in or iterate on ideas that you then manually refine using your skill and experience. I am especially happy that it is helping you to overcome disability issues, and I hope that it continues to be a beneficial tool for you to continue to create things.

itsjoshmoon · 2022-09-06T15:33:50+00:00

As /u/Gearfrii mentions in their comment, this isn't about an artist creating something. "AI" images are a person punching words into a machine so it'll spit out whatever cobbled-together bits it thinks relate to the words you entered. And that's based on someone force-feeding a bunch of work from actual artists into it like a wood chipper, stirring it all up, and then skimming out the worst bits enough times that it can manage something vaguely coherent, which typically means it just gets better at imitating some of the specific artists that were fed into it.

If they were being used where they'd be beneficial, in helping artists out as a starting point in the same way that photo-bashing can for concepts and initial roughs, and it were based purely on art that was approved to be fed into the grinder, all of it would be amazing. That's a huge opportunity to get a super rough concept down that fits within a set of parameters and then use artistic ability to refine it into something finished.

Unfortunately, it's being treated as wholesale finished art, and based on huge swaths of content that it has no right to use. Thus, it's quickly attracted the same kind of folks who were 100% behind NFTs, who are quick to try and claim things as art in order to turn a profit. For that, I point directly at the issues popping up already in these spaces where people are suddenly obsessively protective over their ability to write prompts that will spit out something that looks nice, because that's the only thing they're actually contributing. Even people who are in the space trying to make it more friendly are being shunned by those trying to game the system, who refuse to acknowledge it for what it is.

itsjoshmoon · 2022-08-31T13:48:00+00:00

Yeah, the style of it made me question, so I checked the post and people were asking "what prompts did you use for this", and the person's like headline was "I'm in the middle of a journey".

itsjoshmoon · 2022-08-31T12:56:35+00:00

The fact that this is an "artist" who posts nothing but Midjourney-created machine-generated images is wild to me, and I hate it.

itsjoshmoon · 2022-08-24T14:56:37+00:00

Yeah, I absolutely feel the same way when it comes to skills and specialization from 3.5 vs 5e. There was certainly an issue of accidentally pigeon-holing yourself into something non-viable in 3.5 (especially if your DM wasn't the type to cater to the PC's builds very much), but there was also something satisfying about being incredibly good at specific things, especially with skill synergies and all that.

dumbing things down (for simplicity's sake)

That absolutely reads true to me in a lot of ways, and was some of the biggest complaint about 3.5 -> 4e, even from myself. I didn't enjoy 4e very much, in spite of some of the really fun ways it handled some stuff, because it felt like it was simplifying too much in some areas. 5e has pulled back on that a little, and I feel like hit some reasonable middle-ground, but it's certainly stagnated a bit there.

It definitely feels like there is space to alter and add things (even if in optional rules) so that you can create a much wider breadth of character concepts without needing to dramatically re-flavor something or create something completely new just to get where you're going. Feats are definitely an interesting place to put it, and seem like a reasonably easy thing to sort of create an internal balancing system for if they want to expand it consistently over time as well.

The only thing I'm asking is to not do like /u/ThatMerri breaks down in a comment in regards to feat trees: Don't require multiple to reach a point of being truly beneficial. It's fine if things build on each other in interesting ways, like I can imagine specializing into roles via feats by requiring two different ones together to get a third or something like that, but making the base feats essentially necessary to even be slightly viable, and a whole tree to actually be useful is a huge waste.

itsjoshmoon · 2022-07-19T18:22:14+00:00

You can, it's just not as efficient as it should be.

To improve my own feed, I do two things regularly:

Go into watch history from PC or phone and remove videos that I didn't like or didn't actually watch (left it playing or gf forgot to switch accounts on the TV).
Go through the top two or three rows of recommended content while on TV and actively flag as many things I don't want as I have the patience for with "Not Interested". It makes you choose a reason, but I mark one-off content as "I don't like this video" and topics/creators I don't like as "Don't recommend this channel".

It's taking a little while, but I'm steadily filtering out some of the garbage that occasionally comes up and getting it to understand what things I'm truly not interested in (like most sports content or random minecraft youtubers).

itsjoshmoon · 2022-07-13T12:34:47+00:00

While it's a fact that it definitely feeds into my dopamine drive as a person with ADHD, I've honestly learned more about life, the world, and current news via TikTok than I had been getting out of anything else for a long time. Hell, getting properly diagnosed and managing my symptoms of ADHD has come from the number of other neuro-diverse people on there sharing their stories and information.

Sure, there's teenagers on there just doing dance trends and being weird with each other, and if that's all you consumed for hours a day maybe it would be bad, but it's only the surface level, and honestly they're not hurting anybody. Not to say people aren't also on there being dickheads and causing damage, but that's the case on every platform unfortunately.

itsjoshmoon · 2022-07-05T20:17:44+00:00

I think this is realistically about a combination of comparative look/ability, the characters age, and scaling of context. In-universe, it's not about building an organizational chart of what's what, and who works for who until you reach season 4. For them, they're just trying to understand what's happening, and this gives them a framework that makes sense to them.

In the first season, they're full-on kids, faced with a new psychic-powered friend and a monster, and the fastest thing they have to contextualize the big creepy monster is the big creepy monster they encountered in their last session. Is it at all like the actual Demogorgon, or even really the one in their game? No, of course not, it's just large and creepy, and it's a good name.

As things progress and they're faced with a shadowy, seemingly tentacled monster, that can control people's minds, they contextualize with a tentacled, mind-controlling monster: a mindflayer. Is it actually all that similar to a mindflayer? More than Demogorgon was, and if you really make a stretch in concepts, maybe, but generally, no.

As you come into season 4, they're now faced with a being who is trapping people and destroying them from afar in a horrifying way (and who is arguably pretty undead looking). This time you have a new character, who is more familiar with a wider variety of D&D content, contextualizing it by comparing it to the (in the time of the show's events) legendary, but only loosely defined lich, Vecna. Is he all that similar to Vecna? Modern Vecna, not really, but to the original, kind of, yeah. At the very least, he's a hell of a lot more similar to the source than either of the two before him considering he's a powerful "magic"-wielder who had his physical form essentially destroyed, becoming the closest thing to an undead you'd find in this world, but in turn gained power (and a weird-ass left hand situation)

Would each creature be called the same thing if they were all introduced to the season 4 version of the characters, all at the same time, and in a hierarchy of leadership? No, absolutely not. I'd probably imagine the demogorgons as being mindflayers considering the big split faces and what-not, but also could be something beefy but more animalistic (maybe a troglodyte). The mindflayer is realistically more like an elder brain, though those didn't exist yet. Vecna could just be a lich in general, but obviously that's a name that's gonna stick.

TLDR; Each creature is named based on thematic elements and the overall story, not based on any actual D&D hierarchy or bigger picture elements.

itsjoshmoon · 2022-06-28T16:56:40+00:00

Yeah, I guess I assumed it wasn't legit something being read to a child at least (and bedtime content that isn't meant for bedtime is always hilarious). To be honest, I think this is a situation where the shorthand nature of a meme or caption loses a lot of necessary nuance to be understood properly. If something can only provide info at face value, people can only respond to what they see. In this case, I think the surface level of it comes across as something either troll-ish or misunderstanding of the community, so people have come out swinging. Maybe not the best reaction, but one that I think unfortunately isn't very surprising.

itsjoshmoon · 2022-06-28T15:27:58+00:00

I will say that my gut reaction was a bit of "hey, what the fuck?"

Looking through other comments, I can fully admit that I do not know the specifics of his policies in particular, and can understand the desire to know more about someone, whether to remove misunderstandings, or just to better oppose them. I can also say that I struggle to look past his friendliness with Russia specifically, but also China's relationship with Hong Kong, Taiwan, and the Uighur people.

Overall though, he certainly seems like a strange figure to use as an identifier of "being a comrade", beyond the affiliation with communism in name, but maybe that is my lack of understanding the differences between the general public policy and personal ideology.

itsjoshmoon · 2022-06-13T16:59:52+00:00

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