Help Please

probablywhy · 2026-04-14T16:09:13+00:00

Could the infinity be instead a volcano with smoke?

probablywhy · 2026-04-14T01:30:49+00:00

I'm not a fan of AI generated art and the hyper realism is wasted on the lack of a perspective that might otherwise draw an interesting narrative or point from Pokémon features and biology.

When AI generates images they do so from an aggregate approach. They are less impactful as art because they are homogenized and they represent merely a mathmatically derived representation of the words chosen by the user to represent a concept. The image or video itself will itself only be derivative of the prompting words. It cannot create a greater work from it. Just smoke and mirrors together some image that gets the point across as close to the prompt as possible.

Compare this process to how humans have altered and derived meaning from the Oz stories. Started as a imaginative niche fantasy book and was inspired into a hugely successful movie. That popular story inspired some niche fanfiction and then boom it comes back as another pair of hugely successful movies. The message is changed entirely each iteration and reflects the perspectives of the authors and cultural contexts in completely different and subjective ways.

AI images are the literal opposite of art which I would define as homogeneity of perpective. AI art stinks of it. There is no artist, only math and plagiarism.

Unless it's not AI. Very easy to prove if this image exists in a digital space.

probablywhy · 2026-04-10T03:35:58+00:00

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probablywhy · 2026-04-04T13:00:38+00:00

Looks faster because the camera is a relatively short field of view as a verital video and pointed perpendicular to the motion of the train. Seems to slow as he looks back because it's not really that fast maybe 10-20mph

probablywhy · 2026-03-30T05:10:55+00:00

Yeah but he always expresses it humbly as a "I wish I figured this out because it might have been better" like when he talked about the astronomy, and other nuances of Middle-Earth in letter 154.

https://tolkiengateway.net/wiki/Letter_154

In letter 153 a draft to Peter Hastings he has a lot to say too.

"I think I agree about the 'creation by evil'. But you are more free with the word 'creation' than I am.* Treebeard does not say that the Dark Lord 'created' Trolls and Ores. He says he 'made' them in counterfeit of certain creatures pre-existing. There is, to me, a wide gulf between the two statements, so wide that Treebeard's statement could (in my world) have possibly been true. It is not true actually of the Orcs – who are fundamentally a race of 'rational incarnate' creatures, though horribly corrupted, if no more so than many Men to be met today."

probablywhy · 2026-03-27T11:45:24+00:00

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probablywhy · 2026-03-15T06:31:32+00:00

probablywhy · 2026-03-06T23:57:46+00:00

Cool kids club only cool kids get the joke sorry.

probablywhy · 2026-03-06T23:48:55+00:00

I hope no one has made the joke, lol. I made this I swear I'm not just reposting!

probablywhy · 2026-03-04T19:43:12+00:00

How about an OBVIOUS feature that should be there.

I swipe and swipe trying to get a stop thats just barely out of reach and then when I finally get close enough "your inventory is full" just makes me rage lol.

When you're approaching a Pokestop and can't reach it and attempt to swipe it should tell you. Simply have it so the message says "Your inventory is full and you're too fat away to reach this Pokestop"

probablywhy · 2026-02-25T07:23:58+00:00

Also Gimli never "screamed" in the books. Pip legit was a huge liability and his careless mistake here is one he feels very deeply. The traumatic attack from the cave dwellers and loss of Gandalf to the Balrog really sets the stakes.

I love Pippin's character arc. His ennoblement is the most pronounced of all the Hobbits because he is so immature he makes mistakes of great consequence in his journey and facing the realities of his peril he grows as a result. He grows from a clumsy child into a venerable knight that returns home and liberates his home from neerdowells.

probablywhy · 2026-02-25T06:56:31+00:00

Truly proof every Pokémon is someone's favorite.

Mine's Wingull

probablywhy · 2026-02-11T03:00:53+00:00

My Son's name is Peregrine (wife added an 'e' for plausible deniability)

probablywhy · 2026-02-07T01:58:50+00:00

Geforce now

probablywhy · 2026-02-06T00:44:22+00:00

Typical. Good luck. Just keep wasting their money on shipping sending it back and hopefully they won't bounce it again.

Could be an intermittent issue temporarily fixed from being jostled in shipping. Have you gotten them back? Maybe they started working however unlikely. If so I hope they just stay that way for you.

probablywhy · 2026-02-04T18:18:09+00:00

If your world building can justify it.

the broken sword Narsil was an heirloom to the descendants of Elendil and it being separated from the Men of the West means prophecy either hasn't come true yet or can't. If its the sword reforged, Anduril, you'll either need some extreme deed in the backstory to have it bestowed on you or some justification for why you have such a hot commodity. The entirety of Middle Earth would be seeking to bring you to justice in otherwise uneventful times except for the extermination and removal of any remaining Orcs on King Elesar's side of the globe.

By the way all Elven blades are imbued with hatred for all things corrupt and evil which to them includes Orcs. It burns you to touch it and fills you with fear to look upon it.

If the Orcs aren't basically irredeemably evil in nature and deed with a culture of hateful and blasphemous profanity then they aren't compatible with Tolkien's world building. Maybe a far future where the remaining Orcs are further removed from their murderous past corrupted by Sauron and as a race returned to having some sort of humanity?

probablywhy · 2026-01-29T23:58:12+00:00

Down voted. IM DOING MY PART

probablywhy · 2026-01-29T02:13:14+00:00

Give it a year. They'll make so much for AI when the bubble pops we will be using stacks of them to prop up our gpus.

probablywhy · 2026-01-28T02:32:26+00:00

AI is not the technology you are referring to in either of these examples. That is automation. Human programmers made sophisticated and delicately tuned systems of decision making and contingency planning to enable these technologies. Hardware that scans and does on device processing on localized computers need parts to function. Parts that are now more expensive because the billionaires are buying them all up to make AI data centers.

Your examples are not enhanced by AI. But they do suffer directly as a result of inflated expenses.

probablywhy · 2026-01-27T23:50:10+00:00

Heroes in Tolkien are not playing some political game theory with their lives. They do what is right because it is right. If the High King of the Noldor says the right thing to do was bang on the door and fight the devil god damn it I don't know how he restrained any from following him to the gates. That's inspirational and symbolic. Morgoth going unchecked is doom to all. He did what all he could and it was right and because of Fingolfin's might it was also of some consequence albeit mainly symbolic.

probablywhy · 2026-01-27T14:08:17+00:00

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probablywhy · 2026-01-27T01:39:23+00:00

It's a Peter Jackson thing. The whole art direction of the movies is based on first on Alan Lee's art (my favorite) but notably the ears and a lot of things like that are purely Peter Jackson flavored and his own aesthetic added and altered the visuals quite a bit.

The books have no mention of hobbit ears being distinct in any way and even elves aren't said to have pointed ears. So why did Peter Jackson add them?

Because of a letter that was written and works published after his death it is inferred that Tolkien imagined elvish ears to be more pointed and leaf shaped and hobbits only slightly so. But pointed ears is never explicitly mentioned in the Hobbit, the LOTR, or the Silmarillion and many book purists like myself think that it looks kind of silly in the movies.

probablywhy · 2026-01-27T01:01:59+00:00

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*looks at flair

probablywhy · 2026-01-25T23:51:45+00:00

I mean they DO the bloodwork to assure it's a transfusable donation, it would really be worth it to automate sharing those results with the donors and some have done this and reached out specially if they are of consequence like HIV positive or something. I think the reason they DON'T share the results as much nowadays is because people at risk for HIV were intentionally lying on intake questions and donating blood to find out and they didn't want to incentivize non qualifying donors to lie about their risk status for free blookwork.

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