Hyello It me
Realised this is my primary form of social media and wanted to vaguely attempt to lurk a little bit less (whilst still primarily lurking because this is tumblr what else would I do) so thought I’d make a brief about-me style pinned post.
I go by Sparrow online and I’m a big fan of Art, Games and just storytelling and media in general.
I have an art blog over at https://msparrowscribbles.tumblr.com/ and I’d really appreciate it if folks would give that a follow as Art is one of my favourite Creative outlets.
I’m vaguely socially anxious so I am unlikely to reach out to anyone to talk to you first but if any folks want to message that’s entirely chill and I’d love to chat - tho my responses may be slow :D
I study Computer Science at a quite intensive institution which means that atm I’m increasingly struggling to do any of my hobbies but we’re pushing through it - outside of that though I really want to in future program and design video games and at the moment am trying to work on a comic called “The Principle of Paranoia” when I have free time between doing my degree or playing D&D. (My two personality traits lol)
But yeah, if you ever want me to tag stuff (spoilers or trigger warnings) feel free to message - I try my best but I don’t really know the ettiquette all of the time.
AI isn't a threat to creative professions because it can actually make passable art that humans enjoy (it can't). It's a threat because in a capitalist system, employers would do literally anything to not have to pay humans living wages (or any wages, let's be real).
We've been in a productivity boom for the past 60 years, but the one area where production cannot become more efficient is the arts. It takes the same amount of time to write a novel or compose a symphony now as it did a hundred years ago. That's just the creative process.
AI represents a shortcut to making art that has had executives salivating since LLMs and AI art generators hit the internet. It means more content faster with the benefit of not having to provide salaries, sick days, parental leave, time off, or healthcare. It means not having to deal with unions and labour laws. It means cutting humans out of the most fundamentally human activity we do – making art.
All those headlines and clickbait articles about AI annihilating the human race are a hyperbolic distraction from the actual problem we may soon be facing where people won't have the possibility of supporting themselves making art (not that it's particularly easy to do as it stands).
If making art becomes a luxury only for the affluent, we will stop hearing the voices, stories, and perspectives of marginalized people. And our cultural tapestry will stop being so vibrant, diverse, and vital.
Normal Game Bug: enemies get infinite health and it eventually causes the game to crash
Dwarf Fortress Bug: new exercise mechanics unintentionally allow river trout to get super buff when swimming against the tide, to the point that they can now walk on land and beat anything they see up.
Just gonna include some of my favourite Dwarf Fortress patch notes and bugs over the years:
- Fixed a bug where animals could rent rooms
- Fixed bug with animals picking out clothes to wear
- Fixed bug with mules shitting luggage
- Cleaned up the bear situation
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Babies no longer start strapped with a knife
- Added cat butchery
- Fixed problem with undead passing out from strangling
- Made the corpses of small animals that die out of water stop teleporting
- Made dwarves care if you melt down their masterpieces
- Stopped soldiers from going to parties
- Added mouths
- Added an aperture flag that stops mouths from being gouged out
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Fixed bug where all the local rock turned into sky whenever migrant groups were created anywhere in the world
- Made semimegabeasts get along better with their cave friends
- Fixed a problem with blood hanging in the air
- Stopped elves from being pleased with unethical trades
- Stopped children and babies from joining you on your adventures
- Allowed dwarves to get married
- Made thieves and their support groups respect each other
- Stopped booze food from melting, even though it probably should
- Made dungeon masters happy with their cloaks and boots again
- Made all undead respectful of one another
- Fixed problem with the king coming early and not actually showing up
- Stopped aerial births
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Stopped looping dwarves from constantly trying out gloves and boots when they should just pick one and go
- Alligators have hair and other unintended attributes
- Rain kills everything it lands on
- Dwarves given their choice of weapons will choose ones too big to use
- Humans in Farming houses are naked
- Tigerman does not have ears
- Blind cave bears have front toes on both front and rear feet
- Magma crabs drown in magma
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Serpent Men can Kick
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ALL primates have front and back legs (with accompanying feet), no arms or hands, yet have fingers, somewhere
- Undead cat can adopt dwarf
- Vampires who have been scouts brag about murders they committed while scouting
- Undead dwarf contracted were-chameleon curse
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Animal breeding is prevented if animals aren’t “willing to marry”
- Frozen in time; no way to re-enter time continuum
- Incorrect use of “whom” in elf.txt
- Nonlethal fall onto upright spike causes unreasonably high skill gain
- Dwarfs refuse to use picks after unforbidding said picks while traders are present with their own picks
- Giraffe is trainable for war
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All animals are described as “Gigantic”
- Last time i played DF there was a known issue where female soldiers would charge into battle with their babies strapped to their chest, and go berserk when their child was inevitably wounded
Dwarves also used to be able to drink other dwarves
dwarves are just containers of liquids when you think about it
My favourite was a note from Toady as he was developing Jumping, where due to a math(?) error he jumped, rocketed forwards at 30mph, hit a cliff and instagibbed.
I DIDNT FORGET H8S PINK NAILS THIS TIME BABYYY
it is insane how fucking tiny these buttons are did they not like. consider the concept of UI scaling like at all. did they not consider what theyd do if someone had a big monitor. what is this shit
why asre there two post buttons. why do i get little numbers next to 'home' and 'following' when btoh are giving me the exact same information. why is it that when you open the account view you have the exact same information on both sides of your screen. why is it that the activity popup obscuires the dashboard now instead of the 1000000 miles of empty space on my god damn desktop. did they not consider the concept of UI scaling at all?????
when i first saw people p[ostp about this i thought maybe they were overreacting because they hate twitter and change but like. whatever you think abotu the concept of 'putting all this shit on the left side of your screen' as a bold UI innovation or whatever in concept this shit is like. just straight up unfinished. like i legitimately dont understand how this was considered ready to roll out to users
why does the activity popup open on the ONE part of my screen i DONT want to be obscured when im using tumblr dot com!!
no seriously why is this information displayed twice one inch apart. im not being snarky when i say this genuinely just seems actually unfinished
dont talk to me or my three (3) 'activity' buttons that show up when you're already on the activity page ever again
People don't like to admit it bcs cringe or w/e but Homestuck really did revolutionize the webcomic as a storytelling medium and I am endlessly frustrated that before webcomic artists could really stretch our legs fucking webtoonz swooped in, set a new, more restrictive standard, and then monetized and monopolized the ever living fuck out of the concept of The Webcomic until it drove away anyone who couldn't be a professional quality manga artist for free, and now the only webcomics that actually feel like spiritual successors to Homestuck are so obscure they're basically cult classics that you have to beg people to read.
Like it's just so wild to be in high school and see Homestuck be like "we're using like fifteen different artistic mediums to tell this story bcs we can" and be really fucking inspired by that, only to grow up and see basically every webcomic ever have to conform to One Single Standard or fucking perish.
Actually, I realized my real point here: we all need to make our art weirder. Please make weird art. I want more stuff like Prequel Adventure and 17776 and MyHouse.wad and I want it now. Capitalism thrives on conformity. We must be weird at all costs.
If my boss emailed me in space while paying HIS debt saying my wife's cooking is mid as hell, I'd just crash the ship and kill myself