I started working on a chapter and realized… I forgot my own lore. Now I have to read my OWN story to learn the lore! Wtf!
I've always been one to refer to my older chapters because I forgot what day of the week it was, even in the middle of a more consistent schedule.
That's actually not too uncommon. If it's a lot of backstory I suggest jotting the cliffnotes down somewhere to make sure to keep matters consistent
What’s terrible is I have notes! I just didn’t keep track of who knows what (secrets and the like), so I can’t write any dialogue that advances the story because… what do they know lol
I think a Commission AI of sorts that looked for artists open for commission that would do your prompt would be really cool.
Would still make use of AI's 'scrub the web down to its individual posts' thing but would still support artists while also leading people to places they might end up really enjoying.
Obviously there's probably still some sort of way this could be abused, but it's better than the current system of slop and scraping, and its not like it requires quite the same energy consumption of those big data centers we have at the moment.
The parody song of Video Killed the Radio Song, "Radioactive Shrimp from Walmart" is now living rent-free in my head.
Clearly unserious arody songs are a very special kind of 'hit-or-miss' in that it's either a hard miss, the funniest shit you've heard in months, or actually more enjoyable of a listen that the original if you wait for the right time.
@GyroscopicGraphite it only took *two days* for the Internet to make a song making fun of the incident XD
update: someone uploaded it to YouTube and I can now link it without TikTok's hidden built-in tracking! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3yopBLdzqXM
Are any of you highly educated in scientific fields and if so how inaccurate/summarized can I describe a complex concept before you get mad?
I'm a programmer. My frustration with inaccurate portrayal of my job (and adjacent ones in the field) by mass media has loooong since run dry. So go on, reverse the polarity on those bits! Overclock the hard drive! Insert a backdoor in the stack trace!
I'm highly educated in a few, including gender, particularly as it relates to neurology. As long as someone's summary doesn't cross the line from reductionism to falsehood, I don't particularly mind.
*publishes content at normal rate and goes to work with a rather taxing head cold* Other people: What are you, superhuman? Me: American
I'm know it's probably really bad advice, but if I'm ever in a really bad mood, I look at cute cat videos and after a while I feel better. Change animals as needed if it helps.
Well finally writing a novella version of Blake getting in a sleepover. 10 years later and so many things need modern references and touches
Big fan of the muscle that lets *some* people make their vision blurry at will, and the other one in our ears that lets us make fake noise.
Visited my countries biggest hospital today. Now I know what it feels like to be stuck in the backrooms.
Thank you, but no, no. I visited a relative who had surgery. Everything went well, so these long windowless corridors were the real scary part.
As a tangent, the original picture that started the whole backrooms was just a small business being remodeled iirc
"Are you guys seeing this?!" I say to myself, in the bathroom, whilst absolutely nothing is happening (barring usual bathroom activities).
No chapter publication today; yesterday was rather rough for me mentally (gotta love executive orders /s)
In a story's title, you get exactly 3 key words before it becomes too much. For individual chapters however, go wild. Same applies to anime.
Manga and anime meanwhile take the opposite approach to you. IIRC, the idea is that "kids these days" won't be bothered to read a synopsis of a story, so you put the synopsis into the title and they will read it while scrolling through new titles. ...I hate that trend, but it has been big for a while now.
@raziel83 Believe it or not, that's exactly what I was referencing. Saw an anime titled "I reincarnated as the 7th prince and (something somethimg I forgot) to hone my abilities! :D :D :D :D" and I realized the reason those kinds of titles suck is how many key words they shovel into the sentence, and subsequently concluded 3 key words was the maximum.
However, they do come with their own risks; if you're American, merely using Tor can get a target on your back
I2P is also a lot more complicated than most are willing to do for now. It's about making it too tedious for most to access so they just decide the checks are faster and easier.
I've concluded that 2025 is the year of "just saying shit," from politics and world news to the trending bullshit on Instagram Reels.
I was considering giving an example on the latter, but I think I might genuinly start coughing up blood if I attempt to bring forth such an unholy union of lexicon.
Found a new video game and my writing time is in the dumpster. Very glad now that I promised updates so infrequently. :P
ChatGPT. Work related: stops working after a dozen of messages. Isekai harem building slave training RPG:Be my guest all day! WTF?
My theory is that OPENAI has a system that benefits chats they deem useful for training future models.
I don't think OpenAI has that kind of foresight, and even if they did, it's gonna get really difficult to make AI the widespead monster they want it to be when it talks like a pornstar half the time.
So far my story pattern is: true ending - comfort, happy sex, and a warm bath; alt endings - horrid bad ends for my beloved characters
A bad ending, however, is often caused by taking the 'easy way out' by ignoring vital points or submitting to the 'villan' whether metaphorically by simply not respawing, or literally submitting to the bad guy, usually literal in the case of erorica ;)
