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SlothfulCobra posted:I think Schlock Mercenary is headed towards playing around with what technically counts as genocide, so things are going to get really weird.
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people freeze up in unfamiliar and stressful situations
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Jun 1, 2019 02:35
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The situation in Schlock Mercenary has escalated very quickly.
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Jun 1, 2019 02:42
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I admit I wasn't expecting eyeball planet genocide brain scooping from space when this chapter of Schlock Mercenary started.
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Jun 1, 2019 03:39
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Given the established ability of the teraport and the scale the Minds operate on I figured they'd just grab the whole planet, as a planet. Somebody wanted to test their new 'non-lethal' doomsday ray though.
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Jun 1, 2019 05:26
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i get the impression that mass is the primary consideration when it comes to power draw, the problem w brains being more one of delicacy. its like the difference between using a forklift to transport a pallet and a cushion to transport a faberge egg i suspect petey's kind of low on forklifts after hurling the probe after the dinosaurs
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Tollymain posted:people freeze up in unfamiliar and stressful situations Yeah, remember that January thought she could've fought Su-Yeong one-on-one. She brags about her family being cops, but she's probably never seen any serious conflict, and now poo poo's Just Gotten Real™. Sadly, we will probably find out exactly how capable she is fighting her former friends soon.
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The Lone Badger posted:Given the established ability of the teraport and the scale the Minds operate on I figured they'd just grab the whole planet, as a planet God is currently experiencing budget cuts.
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FronzelNeekburm posted:Yeah, remember that January thought she could've fought Su-Yeong one-on-one. She brags about her family being cops, but she's probably never seen any serious conflict, and now poo poo's Just Gotten Real™. I still think it felt out of character for her, and Broom Girl had plot armor for that scene. January is brash and impulsive. Again, minor point and it doesn't hurt my enjoyment of the comic any, just something I noticed.
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my long running webcomic , A Ghost Story, just finished the third chapter of the second plotline so i'm doing the rounds busking my wares in various places. i think its in the op, but its about two incompetent idiots who, in theory, exterminate ghosts who pose a threat to public safety. what they mostly do is get into legal, moral and mortal peril. the start of this chapter is here but, you know, the whole thing has more context. its a long running one. please look at it, if you want.
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Joe Slowboat posted:I admit I wasn't expecting eyeball planet genocide brain scooping from space when this chapter of Schlock Mercenary started. It was to be expected the day Tayler wrote a comic where that possibilty was raised, because he always does this in storylines. Writes some far-out techs or strategies or ambushes that might happen, then without fail later down the storyline they happen/get employed.
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fun hater posted:my long running webcomic , A Ghost Story, just finished the third chapter of the second plotline so i'm doing the rounds busking my wares in various places. i think its in the op, but its about two incompetent idiots who, in theory, exterminate ghosts who pose a threat to public safety. what they mostly do is get into legal, moral and mortal peril. the start of this chapter is here but, you know, the whole thing has more context. its a long running one. please look at it, if you want. read their webcomic
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Did they ever explain what's been killing off older galactic civilizations in Schlock Mercenary? Because I've been giving it some thought and it feels like it's because civilizations keep re-inventing long gun tech and anyone who survives the resulting galactic war does a total comms blackout to hide from their enemies.
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That's what the current thing with them chasing the world-ship with the dinosaurs is about. They found a fuckload of worldships heading away from the galaxy, and this is the one that they could get a location for and pop over to say "so, what's the deal with you guys hauling rear end out of here?" It was enormously expensive, so Petey doesn't have the power to keep the Pa'anuri out of the galaxy anymore, which lead to the sequence of events where "blow up all of Othlin's TAD systems and then soulgig everybody" seemed the least horrific course of action.
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The dark matter entities from Andromeda are still the overarching antagonist for now, but they are starting to get a bit overshadowed as a concern by what seems to be an inherent stage of development in galactic societies that involves packing everyone into VR inside a dyson sphere-computer and sending it on a trajectory away from anything that could destroy it (which is basically anything and anyone else inside a galaxy, given enough time), but it's not so much a threat as just an uncomfortable discovery about the nature of post-singularity life. Sure, societies can choose to not go down that route and probably last for a fair long while depending on circumstances, but on the timescales involved in the comic, the societies that went all in on the computer-star exodus are the only ones that survived to the present.
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There was that whole "supernovae are volcanoes" simile too, of just going to more remote and stabler places once your tech level allows you to.
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SardonicTyrant posted:Did they ever explain what's been killing off older galactic civilizations in Schlock Mercenary? Because I've been giving it some thought and it feels like it's because civilizations keep re-inventing long gun tech and anyone who survives the resulting galactic war does a total comms blackout to hide from their enemies. probably the dark matter monsters first and foremost, but yeah it was already explained in general as societies starting to think really long-term and in the long term a stable galactic civilization is unsustainable cause there's enough random poo poo going on all the time that sooner or later something is gonna happen that it can't survive. How civilization is more sustainable once you've permanently sequestered yourself to a lovely little rogue planet with extremely finite and dwindling resources isn't at all clear right now but hey
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Goddamnit do I need to read Schlock Mercenary again? It took me days to work through the archive the first time I got into it, and that was over a decade ago
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A Wizard of Goatse posted:How civilization is more sustainable once you've permanently sequestered yourself to a lovely little rogue planet with extremely finite and dwindling resources isn't at all clear right now but hey Considering that their only needed resource is energy, and their dyson spheres are said to be built around red dwarves, I think they can be forgiven for not having a plan in place yet that will let them last past the heat death of the universe.
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Has he ever talked about how maintenance and entropic decay of information are solved? That seems like it'd be an issue for planet-sized computers. Hell, I leave my home PC running for a few days and it starts chugging.
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Information storage is literally part of the title of the comic. Sergeant Schlock and his species of amorphs were originally very hardy information storage mediums that evolved sentience and mobility after their creator civilization annihilated itself in a post-immortal breakdown of sanity, simply due to their inherent directive to endure. I imagine that the idea isn't completely unique and similar non-volatile storage solutions have cropped up in the various post-singularity civilizations, where the continuing presence society that created them has meant that the storage medium didn't have to go to such drastic lengths to remain functioning. Slashrat fucked around with this message at 18:26 on Jun 3, 2019 |
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Phy posted:Goddamnit do I need to read Schlock Mercenary again? It took me days to work through the archive the first time I got into it, and that was over a decade ago absolutely not but discussing it is a sunk cost for those of us who did it anyway Slashrat posted:Information storage is literally part of the title of the comic. Sergeant Schlock and his species of amorphs were originally very hardy information storage mediums that evolved sentience and mobility after their creator civilization annihilated itself in a post-immortal breakdown of sanity, simply due to their inherent directive to endure. no actual information survived from that civilization, though; they just wound up with hard-drive-descended mindless eating machines wandering through the ruins of their cities. the comic's thrown in a bunch of ancient civilizations but this arc's basically the first we've heard of ones whose artifacts aren't extremely badly corrupted, and how and why is sort of a central question there given that discursions on imaginary physics and lame dad jokes are the twin pillars of the comic I don't think he's just handwaving away entropy with a 'oh they cured that' A Wizard of Goatse fucked around with this message at 21:10 on Jun 3, 2019 |
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Yeah, information is just...speaking as a librarian, digital information is inherently volatile in some really nasty ways. Even a non-volatile storage solution, if it's expected to be in active use (as...y'know, any kind of giant mind preserve would need to be, since otherwise all the digitally uploaded minds would be frozen in time forever and effectively be dead), is going to suffer pretty terrible from entropy over time. Physical maintenance is going to exacerbate this. On the scale of Dyson spheres, with digitally stored information, we're talking about...oh, let's see, cosmic ray damage, micrometeors, the movement of whatever machines deal with the micrometeors and do the maintenance, loss of information to entropy over millions of years...it's probably safe to assume they're not storing information magnetically the way we do here, which is absolutely terrible for shelf life, but still, they're definitely going to have use a storage medium more changeable than carving in stone, which is your best bet for preservation in ideal physical conditions here on Earth.
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A Wizard of Goatse posted:no actual information survived from that civilization, though Well there are like 7 members of that civilization left. One of them joined the mercenaries and got dissected by the UNS to make some of the immortality mods that they've been abusing lately. You'd think he'd come up more often with all this dead civilization talk.
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thankfully not even the author expects you to remember much of Schlock Mercenary
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SlothfulCobra posted:Well there are like 7 members of that civilization left. One of them joined the mercenaries and got dissected by the UNS to make some of the immortality mods that they've been abusing lately. You'd think he'd come up more often with all this dead civilization talk. All their memories of why he "left" Tagon's Toughs are false implants.
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SlothfulCobra posted:Well there are like 7 members of that civilization left. One of them joined the mercenaries and got dissected by the UNS to make some of the immortality mods that they've been abusing lately. You'd think he'd come up more often with all this dead civilization talk. Once someone dies he/she's pretty much forgotten by the entire crew.
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Notably, the amorph creators also had the slightly different approach of using the amorph storage medium as replacement for their meat brains because the meat brains weren't up to the task of perfectly retaining full memory of their newly immortal existence. This then led directly into their apocalypse because they hadn't adequately considered the mental health impact of such long memories. The survivors explicitly mention that they survived because they were the ones who realized this and kept the ability for their minds to forget things while cutting themselves off from the rest of society. The civilization was implied to be inhabiting their homeworld only and showed no other signs of post-singularity tech, so it's possible they just discovered the means for immortality early and were thus woefully unprepared for the consequences of it. The amorphs by no means turned out to be a perfect storage solution after their creators self-annihilated, but given the capabilities they possessed even before transitioning from storage medium to actual sentient lifeforms, they seem a good indication of what an information storage method of a long-term civilization would look like. Slashrat fucked around with this message at 06:46 on Jun 4, 2019 |
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Jun 4, 2019 06:38
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Poster Syd Midnight has solved the problem of webcomic names forever:Syd Midnight posted:IMPROVING UPON BAD WEBCOMICS VIA PROCEDURAL GENERATION
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I'm not gonna buy that that guy actually used machine learning for that unless he provides the intermediate stage of names that are just nearly incomprehensible gibberish
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Cup Runneth Over posted:I'm not gonna buy that that guy actually used machine learning for that unless he provides the intermediate stage of names that are just nearly incomprehensible gibberish
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gpt2 is really loving good: https://blog.floydhub.com/gpt2/ You may be familiar with the most famous implementation of it: https://talktotransformer.com/ I fed your response to it and it decided that I wanted a webnovel: quote:I'm not gonna buy that that guy actually used machine learning for that unless 」 (Alice)
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See, that's the kind of ADHD nonsense I expect from baby AIs. Challenge passed.
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gently caress I wish I could draw so I could make Nick Fury: Agent of C.H.A.D.D.
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Witchin'
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TwoPair posted:Nick Fury: Agent of C.H.A.D.D. In fact, there's not one line that's more cringe-worthy than the one where he says to himself: "My father had the nerve to marry me!" That's a line that every American soldier needs to hear at some point today. The Big Short—the film responsible for many of the many "I'm saving the world, dammit!" moments of its $11.5 billion opening weekend—does not deserve to be called an award-winning film. We know that its financial success, at any cost, has created its own legion of critics and Hollywood personalities who just happen to have zero interest in hearing any arguments for or against the film, for lack of something better. This is bad news, for sure, and we've spoken here before about two reasons why critical reception matters in the film's favor. First, critical criticism can really alter a film's success, and it's going to have a major influence on the final film as well. Second, this film has taken on such a powerful position of public awareness that the entire industry is now willing to spend money trying to influence it, and there really has been a push towards more critical analysis of the film on this side of the Atlantic. While the film's success may not actually have been the greatest possible outcome of all this critical interest (
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PMush Perfect posted:Agreed. Basically every legit machine-learning post includes a long list of nonsense or almost-nonsense involved. (Ex: Literally every post on AI Weirdness.) She’s literally just posted a new list of GPT2 cat names.  Her last several entries are all GPT 2 based. Read the stuff you’re posting!
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A big flaming stink posted:In fact, there's not one line that's more cringe-worthy than the one where he says to himself: "My father had the nerve to marry me!" That's a line that every American soldier needs to hear at some point today. Sir, this is a Burger King
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Begemot posted:Sir, this is a Burger King
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this technology is going to revolutionize insanely weird fetish porn
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