Donk. This Foone is under new management:
I’m Alice Averlong now.
any time i wake up an my activity feed has a billion notes on a computer post, i can be assured that @foone reblogged it.
"The Ancients were capable of wondrous things, but they often made mistakes, and 'dungeons' are the outcome of those mistakes" is a common conceit in dungeon-crawling fantasy, but the Ancients' fuckups are typically framed as products of hubris or madness. I want to see a setting where they messed up for the same reason that real-world engineering and public works projects often come to horrifying ends. The safety reports were suppressed because the architect was somebody's cousin. The plans clearly called for unobtanium rods, but a malfeasant contractor swapped them for mudanium and pocketed the difference. Somebody got sick of having to re-summon the hellgate each dawn and propped it open with a shoe.
The warding sigils would have detected the problem, but they were so overtuned that they were constantly throwing false alarms, so eventually one of the assistant thaumaturges simply disconnected them and forgot to tell anyone they'd done so.
I support this 100%, if only because I want to listen to the Well There's Your Problem OrbCast, starring Roz the Wizard, Liam the Rogue, and November the Sorceress.
the vacuum powered rat obliterator exists unchanged between our timeline and theirs
yeah that’s 1000% something an unhinged wizard would invent. You can’t make me believe the people who designed that one weren’t wearing tall blue hats covered in stars
"The Ancients were capable of wondrous things, but they often made mistakes, and 'dungeons' are the outcome of those mistakes" is a common conceit in dungeon-crawling fantasy, but the Ancients' fuckups are typically framed as products of hubris or madness. I want to see a setting where they messed up for the same reason that real-world engineering and public works projects often come to horrifying ends. The safety reports were suppressed because the architect was somebody's cousin. The plans clearly called for unobtanium rods, but a malfeasant contractor swapped them for mudanium and pocketed the difference. Somebody got sick of having to re-summon the hellgate each dawn and propped it open with a shoe.
The warding sigils would have detected the problem, but they were so overtuned that they were constantly throwing false alarms, so eventually one of the assistant thaumaturges simply disconnected them and forgot to tell anyone they'd done so.
I support this 100%, if only because I want to listen to the Well There’s Your Problem OrbCast, starring Roz the Wizard, Liam the Rogue, and November the Sorceress.
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After 16 months of being bedridden, I'm finally recovering, but this month has been the perfect storm of broke & bills. I'm trying to keep 6 people housed and fed, so any money you can spare would be greatly appreciated!
Happy Pride! ~🏳️🌈
Here’s a selection of pride flags designed as medieval banners!! Unfortunately due to the massive amount of individual identities we have in the queer community, i could not illustrate all of the flags, so if your flag is not here i am very sorry!
Stay proud this month gays, we’re gonna make it through <33
Flags included:
Bisexual
Lesbian
Gay Men / MLM
Pansexual
Intersex
Asexual
Aromantic
Genderfluid
Polyamorous
Butch
Femme
Transgender
Genderqueer
Nonbinary
Two Spirit
Progress Pride: BIPOC
Progress Pride
I think part of the problem with AI is that none of the datacenters fuck. They're all a bunch of virgin blade shits. just piles of GPUs. No fucking drip. Apologize to the AN/FSQ-7 immediately you're embarassing her.
So i'm realizing now that I may have given you the false impression that the AN/FSQ-7 was good. I assure you, it wasn't.
The AN/FSQ-7 Combat Direction Central, usually just shorted to "Q-7," was a massive step forward in computing. It was built for the Strategic Air Command, the nuclear warfighting wing of the United States Air Force, in the mid 1950s. It was the first modern, networked computer. It communicated with radar stations, ground-based anti-air missiles, and fighter-interceptor wings to coordinate a response to invading Soviet bombers in real time. This system was, collectively, refered to as the Semi-Automatic Ground Environment, or SAGE.
Each machine was enormous, weighing some 250 tons. Each had 60,000 vacuum tubes, and used 3 megawatts of power. Every SAGE "direction center" had two Q-7s, and there were 12 direction centers, for a total of 24 computers. As a fun bit of trivia, this means that the air defense network of the United States weighed about as much as a Los Angeles-class nuclear attack submarine.
So, the question is: did it work? And the answer is, not in the slightest. In early tests of SAGE it took something like 8 hours to transmit notice of a simulated attack to the airmen operating it. Q-7s frequently overheated, broke down, and had strange bugs, on account of, again, having 60,000 vacuum tubes per computer. This, by the way, is why Q-7s were installed in pairs. The chances of both Q-7s experiencing the same failure at the same time were infinitesimal.
Anyway, SAGE came online in 1955, at a time when the computer industry was booming in was that would boggle the modern mind. It was technologically obsolete within 3 years, when UNIVAC released the "Solid State" which largely eliminated vacuum tube logic. By the early 1960s, though, the advent of the Intercontinental Ballistic Missile meant that the window for responding to a nuclear attack wouldn't even be enough to evacuate a city, as bombers became, largely, obsolete.
A few Q-7s remained in service until the 1980s, but most were dismantled and sold either for scrap or as movie props. The Q-7 has actually had a very long cinematic career stretching all the way from the 1960s to today. You can read more about that, and see examples, here. Q-7 components have been in everything from the original Lost In Space, to Airplane!, to Independence Day and Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. [Note: I do not endorse the MCU, but i know what site i'm on.] They were even in a Kellogg's cereal commercial. (I browsed youtube briefly for a link, but i could not find one. It is documented on the above linked page)
Do you think that OpenAI's servers are going to go on to have a 60+ year career in film and television? Fuck no. You're not going to get kids to eat corn flakes with an IBM z17. Lookit that. I'll wait. It's gamer shit. Fuckin RGB lights? Gimme a break. Like I said, modern enterprise computing doesn't fuck. It's embarassing. 0/10.
I want all animals to become sapient enough to produce art specifically because I want to see what sort of sex homunculus caricature each species would create if given the ability to draw
Like we've already got the anime waifu with the needle-waist and watermelon-bazonkas and borzoi-legs and bug-eyes. Now show me a fucked-up stupid beetle as drawn by a horny beetle. I want to see what a cartoonishly sexy lion looks like according to lions. I want to see the most ridiculous drawing of a peahen that would have the peacocks squaring up by the fountain.
We give this power to ostriches and they just start drawing people
