ITS SO CUTE IM GONNA DIE LOOK AT THAT FACE!!!!

The magical lucky loot box. Reblog for luck in your loot boxes this Halloween~~

New rule, non muslims can’t say the word jihad. Until you stop conflating a word that means personal struggle with faith and temptation with terrorism youre just not allowed to say it.

What can go wrong? The squad have everything under control!

That toke me so many hours n fixes to complete. It's silly, it's chaotic and maybe not everything makes perfect sense but it's my ultimate bby:3

chinese room 2

So there’s this guy, right? He sits in a room by himself, with a computer and a keyboard full of Chinese characters. He doesn’t know Chinese, though, in fact he doesn’t even realise that Chinese is a language. He just thinks it’s a bunch of odd symbols. Anyway, the computer prints out a paragraph of Chinese, and he thinks, whoa, cool shapes. And then a message is displayed on the computer monitor: which character comes next?

This guy has no idea how the hell he’s meant to know that, so he just presses a random character on the keyboard. And then the computer goes BZZZT, wrong! The correct character was THIS one, and it flashes a character on the screen. And the guy thinks, augh, dammit! I hope I get it right next time. And sure enough, computer prints out another paragraph of Chinese, and then it asks the guy, what comes next?

He guesses again, and he gets it wrong again, and he goes augh again, and this carries on for a while. But eventually, he presses the button and it goes DING! You got it right this time! And he is so happy, you have no idea. This is the best day of his life. He is going to do everything in his power to make that machine go DING again. So he starts paying attention. He looks at the paragraph of Chinese printed out by the machine, and cross-compares it against all the other paragraphs he’s gotten. And, recall, this guy doesn’t even know that this is a language, it’s just a sequence of weird symbols to him. But it’s a sequence that forms patterns. He notices that if a particular symbol is displayed, then the next symbol is more likely to be this one. He notices some symbols are more common in general. Bit by bit, he starts to draw statistical inferences about the symbols, he analyses the printouts every way he can, he writes extensive notes to himself on how to recognise the patterns.

Over time, his guesses begin to get more and more accurate. He hears those lovely DING sounds that indicate his prediction was correct more and more often, and he manages to use that to condition his instincts better and better, picking up on cues consciously and subconsciously to get better and better at pressing the right button on the keyboard. Eventually, his accuracy is like 70% or something – pretty damn good for a guy who doesn’t even know Chinese is a language.

* * *

One day, something odd happens.

He gets a printout, the machine asks what character comes next, and he presses a button on the keyboard and– silence. No sound at all. Instead, the machine prints out the exact same sequence again, but with one small change. The character he input on the keyboard has been added to the end of the sequence.

Which character comes next?

This weirds the guy out, but he thinks, well. This is clearly a test of my prediction abilities. So I’m not going to treat this printout any differently to any other printout made by the machine – shit, I’ll pretend that last printout I got? Never even happened. I’m just going to keep acting like this is a normal day on the job, and I’m going to predict the next symbol in this sequence as if it was one of the thousands of printouts I’ve seen before. And that’s what he does! He presses what symbol comes next, and then another printout comes out with that symbol added to the end, and then he presses what he thinks will be the next symbol in that sequence. And then, eventually, he thinks, “hm. I don’t think there’s any symbol after this one. I think this is the end of the sequence.” And so he presses the “END” button on his keyboard, and sits back, satisfied.

Unbeknownst to him, the sequence of characters he input wasn’t just some meaningless string of symbols. See, the printouts he was getting, they were all always grammatically correct Chinese. And that first printout he’d gotten that day in particular? It was a question: “How do I open a door.” The string of characters he had just input, what he had determined to be the most likely string of symbols to come next, formed a comprehensible response that read, “You turn the handle and push”.

* * *

One day you decide to visit this guy’s office. You’ve heard he’s learning Chinese, and for whatever reason you decide to test his progress. So you ask him, “Hey, which character means dog?”

He looks at you like you’ve got two heads. You may as well have asked him which of his shoes means “dog”, or which of the hairs on the back of his arm. There’s no connection in his mind at all between language and his little symbol prediction game, indeed, he thinks of it as an advanced form of mathematics rather than anything to do with linguistics. He hadn’t even conceived of the idea that what he was doing could be considered a kind of communication any more than algebra is. He says to you, “Buddy, they’re just funny symbols. No need to get all philosophical about it.”

Suddenly, another printout comes out of the machine. He stares at it, puzzles over it, but you can tell he doesn’t know what it says. You do, though. You’re fluent in the language. You can see that it says the words, “Do you actually speak Chinese, or are you just a guy in a room doing statistics and shit?”

The guy leans over to you, and says confidently, “I know it looks like a jumble of completely random characters. But it’s actually a very sophisticated mathematical sequence,” and then he presses a button on the keyboard. And another, and another, and another, and slowly but surely he composes a sequence of characters that, unbeknownst to him, reads “Yes, I know Chinese fluently! If I didn’t I would not be able to speak with you.”

That is how ChatGPT works.

YAS

Things I Want from Blizzard in 2018

A Reaper animated short.

For them to fix Mercy

A Canadian character that kicks ass

A NEW DEFENSE HERO

Junker Queen as a playable character

For them to fix Mercy

A voice line interaction of 76 saying “Tor-til-la” and Reaper correcting him aggressively “ITS TORTILLA”

Genji and Zenyatta animated short

FOR THEM TO FIX MERCY

Roadhog face reveal

A Single player story mode game for Overwatch with customizable characters and abilities

FOR THEM TO FIX MERCY

McCree animated short

Lynx Seventeen as a playable character

Lúcio animated short

Overwatch World Cup for Console players

BLIZZARD FIX MERCY PLEASE

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here are some compiled theories on how the philza love triangle is going to go

Theory 1: Polyamory

Theory 2: Through Forever’s insistence and general charm, Philza chooses Forever.

Theory 3: Through Missa’s gentle encouragement and good parenting skills, Philza chooses Missa.

Theory 4: Through consistent begging and good pathetic man voice, Philza convinces Quackity to add his wife to the server, immediately marrying her, ending the competition.

Theory 5: In a desperate final bid to prove that he cannot love them he attempts to contact the underworld to hilarious results, but Kristen never picks up the phone in the end

Theory 5a: Forever and Missa find out canonically about Philza’s extensive lore, and are so weirded out by it they decide maybe it’s better to leave him be

Theory 6: Philza asks Wilbur for relationship advice

Theory 6a: Philza asks Foolish for relationship advice, Foolish would probably answer something otherworldly and wise, like “Well, kiss them both and whoever is the better kisser is a better husband!” Leaving Phil to become a little self-conscious about his ‘good husbandship’

Theory 7: in a surprise triple sweep FitMC enters the battlefield at the last second and sweeps Philza off his feet

Theory 8: Phil says he only needs his kids and runs away into the woods holding them like kittens in his mouth

Theory 9: In a dramatic attempt to win Philza’s affection Missa and Forever preform “El Tango De Roxxane (Moulin Rouge 2)” to see who he prefers. Phil then reveals he’s never seen the movie.

Theory 10: Cucorucho, already invested heavily in the lives of the people, arrives and Phil’s house and will not leave until he chooses.

Theory 11: it is never resolved

Time for some art dump! (and oh boy you can really see the progression)

So as part of that Red Dead Supernatural AU I'm working on it's going to feature a Ghost Rider!Arthur. Or in this AU a "Harbinger".

Goes from most recent to oldest because of tumblr show more and I definitely want to show off the most recent one, and my favorite, first. Can't wait to draw more of this and get back into the groove of writing out that AU.

FUCK

how dare adaptations make dracula/mina the ship when first of all, jonathan is the obvious gothic heroine of the book, and second of all mina would put the fear of God in dracula for touching her man. she proposed to him as soon as he woke up from his coma and MARRIED him while he was in the sick bed of a catholic hospital, this girl is Not Normal either