Skulldrinker
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I get them every single time I use one for anything subjective or creative. I suspect LLMs are a dead end. The comprehension of prose is terrible, their ideas are terrible and wishy-washy, and the naked glazing disgusts me.
I suppose that biological neural networks were ultimately evolved in the same way; throwing them at a task (survival) over and over and over until they accomplished it, then iterating. It's why our brains arent truth-seeking machines, but survival machines, and even our sensory perceptions are a cobbled together mess of imaginary qualia and we see Shadow-Men and optical illusions.
Instead, these things are trained on convincing a human that the output pleases them; any accuracy or usefulness is ultimately incidental.
Skulldrinker
1d ago
All I can say is that I understand the appeal. I don't find it sexually arousing, but it's cute. Like bare feet or puffy groggy makeup-less morning face, or the smell of fresh feminine sweat.
Skulldrinker
1d ago
What makes him stand out is that men identify with him in a way they don't with other handsome heartthrob panty-droppers.
Skulldrinker
2d ago
I can't answer your question, because I have no real use for it either.
The main use I found for it was as an editor (in the human sense) of my own writing, mostly adventures and content for my RPG club. Initially I used it for quick image generation for same, but then I realized what a backlash there was towards even casual non-commercial use (an NPC portrait sketch or a landscape mood piece), so I stopped out of social practicality.
But for editing and refining, it was a terrible tool. Firstly, every last thing I write is apparently chef's kiss and has great D&D energy. It also confidently assumes it knows the rules for Dungeon Crawl Classics when it fucking doesn't; when it does have a negative note on something, it's typically because it doesn't understand the mechanics, and it's reaching for a nit to pick because I told it to NOT glaze me constantly.
Validation is heady stuff; you're not going to find very many humans that will go through your own writing with a fine-tooth comb and rap about this or that idea, just like not many people will happily listen to you talk about a dream you had last night. I would up getting slightly addicted to the ego boost. Then I got annoyed and suspicious and started doing double-blind testing to catch it out not understanding things but glazing them anyways, kinda shattered my view of the things as anything other than a shoggoth wearing a smarmy yes-man mask.
Skulldrinker
3d ago
Chicken thigh: $8/bag, let's call it $1.50 for the thigh, there's at least six of them in there. Marinaded with .25¢ worth of Italian dressing and grilled.
Box of smoked gouda mac&cheese (this is real cheese goo, not powder) $2. Add .50¢ for milk, butter, and black pepper to dress it up further.
A bag of frozen brussels sprouts: $1.75
That's $6 for a meal I'd consider excessive and fancy home fare; that mac&cheese could feed two people, it could easily just be noodles with butter and parm for even cheaper. This is hardly rice-and-beans or oliver twist orphan slop.
For another dollar, you could add grilled sweet mini peppers.
Cooking all this is hardly rocket science, if a human can't bother to take the 30 minutes to prepare food for themselves and would rather waddle to the wackarnolds, I don't have much sympathy for their plight.
Skulldrinker
4d ago
A meal costing less than $10 isn't "cutting corners," I think we're running into some serious clashes of socioeconomic status and culture here.
Skulldrinker
4d ago
I'm sorry, but you're really overselling how hard it is to cook while poor. A real porcelain plate with a aesthetic pattern on it is like $3 or less at a dollar general, you can get plates and bowls for 4 people for $20, which can be hand-washed in a few minutes. Pots and pans can be found secondhand, cast-iron can be found used, scoured, and re-glazed.
The cost and inconvenience of getting quality ingredients like meat and fresh vegetables is the problem, and the hapless fecklessness of the underclass who literally can't cook and who are tempted by uber-eats wackarnolds.
I live in a shite neighborhood in west-side Chicago, I'm lucky enough to have an Aldi nearby, but there's plenty of people slightly further away who really only have shitty inconvenience stores available, which carry "groceries" at absurd markup because it's meant to be bought with SNAP by people who don't want to walk further than a block.
Skulldrinker
10d ago
There's the propaganda being present, and then there's explicitly approving of a film because the propaganda happens to be what you ally yourself with
Skulldrinker
11d ago
I have a deep hatred of Tenet. While I was watching it, I disliked it. The guy's torture followed by cushy onboarding is really blatantly manipulative, the existential threat to reality conveniently justifies all collateral damage, and the bad guy is...a nihilistic Russian oligarch, who the MC has to rescue a White Woman from. This is aside from the questionable internal consistency of everything.
My (later-ex) friend who had reconfigured his personality into what was maximally appealing to college-educated white women at the time (so, a black gay communist who works in Finance) was absolutely transported. "I Identified with the main character, because he is black and I am also black. I also liked the themes of internationalism."
At that point, I went from dislike to disgust.
Skulldrinker
12d ago
I can attest: (short version) a spergy self-identified-autistic 30something woman once flirted with me, we kissed several times with no objection from her, then she accepted a ride home from me, whereon I gave her a final kiss and hug before leaving. The next day she was "very upset" with me, being "So Tired of Straight Guys Assuming I'm not Asexual". A year later this had become Sexual Assault.
Skulldrinker
14d ago
The labour left IS the social activism left. Every Pronoun Person also hates capitalism and billionaires.
Skulldrinker
14d ago
Yeah, these are professionals and elected officials with paid-up party membership, not a bunch of crazy kids on college campuses or activist e-outrage-chasers.
Skulldrinker
14d ago
I've been treated with contempt by quite plain women, I see no reason to burden attractive ones with my attention.
Skulldrinker
14d ago
I assume you meant to reply to me. I want someone who will go on a date with me.
And there's nowhere else to look. At speed dating, three women said I was the "most normal" guy there who they had the best conversation with; No matches. I tried going to a board game singles event; the gender ratio was 3:1 and the only games they had were Uno and Jenga. I tried volunteering to clean up the park; all trannies. The only women who participate in my hobbies view straight men as defective gay men. I've forgotten what it feels like to be interested in a woman; all they ever do is snarl about Data Centers or ICE when they're not praising some piece of media for its Queer themes, it's all become supremely boring to me.
Skulldrinker
14d ago
Should they be called Pedophiles, then, if one wanted to use technical terms that veer towards the misleading?
Skulldrinker
14d ago
I think fumbling melees with multiple officers and multiple implements (gun, knife, taser) have a high chance of tragic results.
Also, I thought all black people have gotten The Talk. My ex-friend who always talked about The Labor of his Oppressed Black Body had a performative fear of the cops even when they were in line at the taco truck, like he was going to get popped for Walking while Black.
Cops shoot people who keep holding knives after being told to drop them, this is well-known to everyone, no matter what color they are.
Even if this specific shoot doesn't look technically pretty, I have zero sympathy for the felon who could have just dropped the stupid knife.
Skulldrinker
15d ago
This articulates similar thoughts I've had.
"They care way more about the hypothetical feelings of a theoretical person than the real feelings of the actual person in front of them."
Skulldrinker
16d ago
🤨 No. The public opinion here is apparently that if you're not a Leftist, you are a bad person and therefore unworthy of her vagina. No woman is afraid of driving away men with her politics.
The options for politics on Hinge are Liberal, Conservative, Moderate, Not Political, and Other.
Based on the little jabs I see on Hinge from women, they disapprove of men who list their politics as Not Political, because how can you be apolitical when there's a Nazi in the Whitehouse, ICE Ghestappo in the streets, ACAB, BLM, Trans Genocide Palestinian Genocide et cetera.
Some people who identify as Leftist just see it as being a good liberal. Other leftists are in the "liberals get the bullet too" camp where they hate the DNC, so calling themselves liberal feels yucky, thus "Other." They might be playing that stupid game where they pretend they have to hide their power level, but that's like claiming to be an oppressed Christian in Alabama.
Just an update/journal/vent. Im 5 days into a 1-week subscription to HingeX, with new photos that are 40lbs lighter, having progressively swiped through every profile in a 1, then 2, then 3, et-cetera-mile radius, until I'm looking at Chicago's entire West side. I try to send comments most of the time. I don't bother liking anyone with their Instagram listed or who's obviously too hot.
Advanced filters: No one with politics listed as "Other", around here that can really only mean Marxist or Hard Leftist, many of the people who list themselves as "Liberal" also have a prompt demanding that anyone who messages them be a Leftist. Already saw a profile that mostly talked about how dreamy Mamdani is, to add to the "Hasan Piker is so dreamy" pile of Things That If I Had Not Seen I Would Hate The World Less.
Absolutely zero interaction. Getting flaked on or stood up won't wind up being a problem, it turns out.
Skulldrinker
17d ago
This broadly used to be my experience before 2020. It radically changed for the worse after COVID, despite me becoming way more attractive.
Skulldrinker
17d ago
You send ubers to women? I'll offer to pick someone up, I'll split food and drinks but cover the whole tip, or cover the first round or two myself, or some combination of paying for 55 to 80% of costs incurred. Sending cars for them seems like playing into a gross fantasy.
Also, odd that women are so willing to give out their addresses on a first date when 9 out of 7 of them will be date-raped at a frat party while make 70¢ on the dollar.
Skulldrinker
17d ago
A few times women have been honest and said it was because there was another guy they were more interested in, "sorry, I don't know how online dating works."
I told them it works exactly how they're doing it, just typically with less honesty.
There's a gradient that goes from
1 Cancelling the day of, with apologies and immediate rescheduling
2 Cancelling the day of, with a noted drop in enthusiasm in subsequent messaging and a vagueness about rescheduling that seems to be a hint you should stop bothering them.
3 Cancelling the day of, followed by ghosting
4 Ghosting the day of the date (no reply to the "hey, see you tonight at 7" text)
5 Getting stood up, which means her confirming the date then not turning up, leaving you sitting there like a jackass (a): apologies after, sometimes with a dramatic story about a sudden medical crisis, with hospital bed selfies, or (b): full ghosting with blocking/unmatching
2 and 4 are the most common variations. 0 (the date actually happening) happens slightly more often than 5, but less than 1-4. 1 sometimes later results in 0, but more often leads to 2 or 3.
At this point, I am forced to assume that 2, 3, and 4 are her double-booking and going on a date with a hotter guy, or having met a hotter guy in the interim. 5a is anxiety, 5b is, I can only assume, some kind of vindictive game.
Well, the problem seems to be that a huge proportion of the women in geek subcultures have become woke leftists who view straight men as defective gay men. They snarl and seethe at anything and everything.
I'd be open to it meaning an Online, but Basic woman. The sort who sneers and snarls when seeing a Tesla, says things along the lines of Men Are all Such Trash, Amirite?, gets pissy about age gaps and calls the men in such Pedos, and is generally a walking collection of stereotypes.
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