Octopus, they typically go into objects and close them tightly like a shell, and no doubt about legs and slime.

But the author accidentally added an extra ingredient to the concoction–

Chemical X

I’m still young at 25, but I can see the hallmarks of aging. I’ve moved to a new state for 5 years now and when I visited my old home it felt half foreign, half familiar. I’m the youngest so my mom’s age is starting to show.

Things I consider recent are now described as “years ago”. I’m seeing things evolve through life. Things that felt like they had a beginning, middle, end now are starting up again. Almost like a ride that’s resetting for the next ones in line.

Nothing you said about black holes really contradicts what they were saying? Even if a star and black hole can have the same gravity, there is still a shell of space that once you pass you cannot ever return. I’m sure Superman could go into a star and come back out, not so much with a black hole.

It likely was the most efficient energy-wise, why waste energy going against the current when it’ll undo itself anyways.

I hate when they just repeat/reexplain the instructions and treat me like an idiot.

I didn’t ask “how” I asked “why”.

I understand how in the day to day people rely on shortcuts to understand people. But even when I explicitly ask to interpret the literal words I am saying they still jump around the question.

It gives me the urge to write the question down and give it to them like an essay question, maybe then they’ll see how much of a no sequitur their response is.

I’m surprised Harkon didn’t try to take Blackreach for himself. They’re immune to Falmer poison, they can use their full power without sunlight, they’re smarter and have access to invisibility, illusions, and charms.

In return he could have a country sized cavern, with at least two points of contact to Skyrim one either end, all the dwemer tech to hoard and use with their ancient knowledge. He could subjugate the falmer to be blood livestock, they’re already crafted to be good slaves by the dwemer.

He could slowly build up a vampire/thrall/dwemer machine army right under Skyrim then wage war overnight. Could even use dwemer machines by day to maintain territory until you complete this master prophecy you have.

Who’s to say gay men don’t do more white collar crime?

And thus a new masochistic furry was born!

I think it’s funnier without context, it implies she was disturbing the peace and the first person to walk up to her she fell in love with.

I think I’m going through the millennial thing, where everyone treats your generation as children even though I’m 25.

I mean, the first wave of Gen Alphas are 15 now, pretty soon no Gen Z’s gonna be in high school anymore.

I stayed up to date on ai and machine learning, including language models. I remember hearing that one learned math from language and wondering where things will go. I watched ai safety videos before they felt relevant. Then I heard Openai, which had a good rep at the time, is releasing their new model online, called ChatGPT. Having played with DungeonAI and NovelAI before I was gonna fiddle with this as well.

Then headlines broke, it became a phenomenon. Even then I figured this would be this week’s Thing before getting bored, as was common with these ai.

Down the line I remembered hearing ChatGPT on a gas station ad for some travel app. That was when I realized this is permanent. People who aren’t even online are likely hearing about this. Suddenly my niche hobby and hopeful dreams of the future became an actual enshittified crisis.

I don’t think I need to explain how everyone using language models now is just god awful for everyone. And the attention hasn’t gotten us closer to answering long standing questions of ethics, economic change, what is intelligence or consciousness. We’ve just got a bunch of the lowest common denominator shouting their answers now.