Star Wars argument? All right, let's jump in.

0. The original trilogy is the best. It is about as quirky and cheesy and stupid as all the others, but in an endearing way. Bonus cinematography points for the lovely practical effects.

1. The prequels have the HIGH GROUND for their meme-worthiness, Natalie Portman, and the ludicrous Darth Jar Jar conspiracy theories.

2. Jedi Academy is the greatest sword and sorcery game ever conceived, and I will disembowel your grandmother with a spoon if you dare raise a single word of question.

3. The original Star Wars Battlefront was also an excellent title. Honorable mention goes to KOTOR.

4. Embrace the mother fucking dark side of the Force.

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Also known as the main Scrotum.

Hold it! Please hold it... My GOD, Madge... you voluptuous New York City slit! Why didn't you tell me before? It was so hard to tell with your little blousy-poo on, but -- now that I see you, I would've helped.

I didn't know that you were so obviously... pregnant.

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@vane My gut feeling is that natural language processing is self-defeating to begin with, as there's still a very specific way in which you have to structure the input to get good results.

So the correct direction would be a formally defined grammar, a DSL basically, which is already the case in practice: wrapping lists of tokens around parenthesis to modify their weight, being mindful of where and if to put a comma, or spaces and hyphens, BREAKs, etcetera.

The most effective and consistent prompts are not natural at all, hence the "engineering" joke. So 'just cut the shit' would be my advice to researchers in the field.

@vane You can get something more or less coherent with very simple wording. I only understand how neural nets are implemented at a surface level though. I can write a short program to answer basic mathematical problems without explicitly telling the computer how to solve it, via randomized weights and backpropagation, which is a fairly outdated model by now I think.

The jump to hallucinations is very much beyond my comprehension. "Same operation in reverse" is what I've heard people say, but I never dug in.

But I don't think knowing shit would make it any less unpredictable. Moving subjects around the frame, or making them perform some basic interaction, I don't want to say that it's impossible, but I very much gave up trying to be in control. You're not commanding the algorithm as much as you're just nudging it in different directions, but you never know how it's going to respond. Pretty mindless iterative process overall.

@jestdotty I'm trying to replicate my previous scare, but I can't do it. In part because I put the veil on the monster and force a long shot. That way I don't see demon eyes in the darkness and get startled again ;>

The way the hypnosis part works, from what I can tell, is you repeat an element to fill in detail...

Say, "a man driving a car", then "(a man list,list), (driving a car list,list)". It's not perfect but it's what seems to work more consistently.

I have hundreds of these and I can't stop generating them please help

blood for blood.

let us hunt together.

dear sister,

Oh, sweet mother...

@tosensei The plow is adequate to your mother's lot.

@vane What I was thinking is there's an endless stream of fake footage generated solely for laughs, that looks real enough to fool an untrained eye, and if the context of the joke is missed or lost to time there's simply no telling what people will make of it. So the only route is passing down knowledge of this deceiving footage, but that only means facts will too be eventually brought into question.

Uncertainty is not a new concept to historians. But we're at a point in time when they're really getting kicked in the nads due to the sheer volume of information, most of it complete fabrication. Looking for *reality* within records this corrupted is going to be a real needle-in-the-hay situation.

And with a mess like that, the fall of the ruling plutocracy is but a footnote. We've seen "the rich and powerful were cast down for being self-serving assholes" before, it's an old story. Our newfound ability for deception is not.

Sorry this is so long, I felt like ranting a bit ;>

For real though, it's still funny to think about academics in the coming centuries trying to make sense of the fuckfest we're leaving behind. Imagine being the guy that has to teach this period in history, he can't just skip the interwebz now can he. It'll become a field of study of it's own. It already is, in fact, mother fuckers earning their doctorate in memes lecturing your ass on the proper way to use a template.

Anyway, drill his ass with a mechanic holesaw until you reach the innermost core of his gastrointestinal structure, that will teach him some respect.

This is why I prefer raw conditional jumps.

@jestdotty You seem determined to see the damn thing ;>

IIRC the cursed part of my prompt went something like "(giant worm, monster: 1.23), (grotesque: 1.3)".

But I've generated stuff with tags like that before and it always looked bland, nearly cartoony to me. I'm not sure what else I wrote to trigger the terrifying part. Should we investigate how to generate better nightmare fuel? You know, for science.

@Demolishun Nice! I didn't know that one ;>

It's a beautifully broken game overall, to the point I have to set rules for myself whenever I start a playthrough, like which exploits are allowed and to what degree.

But one of my favorites, that I just can't let go of, is the infinite magicka glitch. You fortify both magicka and intelligence on self 100*1, then drain magicka on self 1*2. When the drain effect ends, you restore magicka relative to the fortify effect. This works in Oblivion too.

So what I do, for roleplay and flavor, is add a little bit of damage on self, say shock 5-10*2 at lower levels. I call it "Channel Storm", like I'm powering my spells by absorving elemental energy or what have you. I pick the atronach sign to make it more appropiate.

Shoot, I just love to play atronach altmer master race egotrip shadow sorcering nightblade mother fucker, whispering death uppon my foes. A knife in the daaaaarrrk!

@tosensei Then I will piss on your urn before they scatter them, now suck my dick and get lost.

@Demolishun I have been startled at least once by every type of daedra, save atronachs, that I've ever summoned. Undead, though useful, can go fuck themselves altogether.

TES talk for a minute: I always major in enchanting, mysticism, conjuration, illusion and sneak. Oblivion doesn't have enchanting as a skill, Skyrim doesn't have mysticism, and Daggerfall is another deal entirely. So without mods my favorite class is only possible in Morrowind.

How do I do combat? I don't, I just turn invisible. If I really need to kill, I'll resort to scrolls or enchanted daggers. So second problem: Morrowind and it's accursed hit chance makes the approach inviable without training. So I have to visit the Morag Tong to remedy this, but I need gold, so next thing I know I'm breaking the economy with alchemy. It Just Works™.

@jestdotty Yeah, it is part of what I dig as well, you know how my rants devolve into grotesque shit all the time. But whenever I'm seeing stuff like this my brain can actually tell the damn thing is not real -- this one monster skipped that barrier altogether.

@tosensei I don't know. I will defecate on your tombstone, is that strong enough?

@jestdotty No, those faces look OK. The thing I saw was eldritch; a mouth within a mouth, eyes of a deep sea monster and deformed worm-like appendagges, name of Lovecraft's cat levels of unspeakable.

@cho-uc It's called '$', ie 'money', or the name of a currency such as 'peso'. I've been developing it for a few years.

Essentially, it's virtual machine assembly, and programs can be run inside the VM or translated to x86 code; other architectures are also possible if we write translators for them.

Still a WIP so one can't do much with it yet. The point of the language is making efficient low level programming easier without insulting the programmer's intelligence. So you still have to deal with registers and memory, it's just a lot less verbose and the instruction set is small.

@asgs And the resulting binary is only using 242 bytes! (out of the 4KB the file takes up on the disk :B)

@Demolishun Firefox has a bunch of shiny little knobs. I like the password manager. Also that it can recall my settings when I install it on a new PC. It makes me feel both safe and immeasurably paranoid!

Of course we can ZAP the banners out of existence, this comment is sponsored by uBlock Origin, but we shouldn't have to.

Useless fucking sidebars, banners and bottom row buttons occcupying over half the screen when I'm trying to READ. It's infuriating, homicidal thoughts intensify.

@Demolishun lmao, but I'm serious to some extent.

To make jihad in the cause of God is, in short, struggling or striving for good; I see defense and promotion of software freedom, more or less as outlined by the FSF, to fall within that definition. Hence, GNU jihad.

It's only made *doubly* appropiate given the added connotation the word carries in the US and it's satellites, as similar tactics of misrepresentation are employed against the FSF -- the usual suspects would apply the label of "extremist" to me either way, and so I have joined the two.

Now, I'm not saying everyone around the world should libreboot AND prostrate on seven bones pointing towards the Cube -- I mean, not necessarily. But you get me, right? My brainwires connect these matters, it's like a King Terry mambo of sorts: "he doesn't panic, he just does what he can". ;>

As your brother partaking in GNU jihad, I am under legal obligation to inform you that many acts that would normally be considered *illicit* are pardonable if done out of necessity in extraordinary circumstances.

Because of this, you may utilize prohibited proprietary software in such situations -- when an emergency rises, and no permissible alternative is available to you -- long as your mind and intention are not those of a transgressor.

I would, however, recommend washing your hands afterwards ;>

@jassole Oh? Is that constipation, I presume? Don't worry, we'll drop you by the infirmary so your debilitating condition can be treated before the aforementioned deathmatch begins.

There is nothing to be ashamed of, dear. It is only natural for one *not* to desire shitting their pants when sent into the arena to prove their worth, but such is your fate.

Now make battle preparations and get your spells in order, the battle shall commence shortly. And may God have mercy on your soul.

I can see right through you, Mr. Joesole: you intend to spouse low level gang attitude in a vain attempt at attaining archwizard status among the unwashed masses of relentlessly wanking schmucks.

However, we at the arcane association of schizoid mother fuckers have standards, despite our crippling crack cocaine addiction, and for your repeated attempts at edginess that only result in immediately antagonizing the general public, we find you *not* worthy of joining our ranks.

In order to redeem yourself, and obtain the rank you seek within our circle, you will have to complete a series of trials, the first of which includes a duel to the death in the astral plane. If you can survive this encounter and those that follow with an unbesmirched asshole, then I shall __personally__ consider your next application for promotion.

Until then, your ambitions must be left on hold. Dismissed.

Easy. Hyper-condensed testicle stank pools keep the females away, it's not rocket science. Barbie dolls and hot wheels can't magically mind control you into picking a career path, and norms have always been openly challenged, else we'd still be living like it was ~10,000 BC.

You introduce a technically oriented school environment in which girls are comfortable and this situation immediatelly reverses. Not that difficult. You just have to accept that mixing is illicit.