captainofthetidesbreath:

I do NOT want Chet to die, but if he d100 dies in his sleep at Zephrah, it’d be so funny because that would make 2 out of 2 Travis PCs in this campaign whose burial is someone in Vox Machina’s problem.

rabbiteclair:

cricket has rules for when and how to pause the match to have tea, and this might be the most British fact I can imagine

bixbiboom:

New character art on Laudna’s stat card!

nighthaunting:

thought too hard about MRI machines today and had this come to me in a vision

captainlordauditor:

cloudstation:

my spouse and I watched the mexican episode of great british bake off because we’re mexican and we thought it would be funny. the hosts asked if mexico was a real place and none of the contestants had ever heard of pico de gallo. even the judges weren’t very knowledgeable about the food they were making. that one lady peeling an avocado like it’s a potato. guacamolo. tah-cows.

americans take for granted their proximity to authentic mexican food. look at this bro this could be u

As a Jew I wish to offer my condolences in solidarity to all Mexicans during this trying time. One of the judges of gbbo once shared a recipe for challah made with milk. You can’t eat milk with most meals challah is served at. He claimed it was “traditionally served at Passover”. It’s forbidden to own challah or its ingredients during Passover.

mothermara:

my toxic trait is being so annoyed whenever people try to say my headcanons arent lore compliant. who are you to think I haven’t read and understood the lore… because I have and most of it fucking sucks

o-blivia:

AI isn’t a threat to creative professions because it can actually make passable art that humans enjoy (it can’t). It’s a threat because in a capitalist system, employers would do literally anything to not have to pay humans living wages (or any wages, let’s be real).

We’ve been in a productivity boom for the past 60 years, but the one area where production cannot become more efficient is the arts. It takes the same amount of time to write a novel or compose a symphony now as it did a hundred years ago. That’s just the creative process.

AI represents a shortcut to making art that has had executives salivating since LLMs and AI art generators hit the internet. It means more content faster with the benefit of not having to provide salaries, sick days, parental leave, time off, or healthcare. It means not having to deal with unions and labour laws. It means cutting humans out of the most fundamentally human activity we do – making art.

All those headlines and clickbait articles about AI annihilating the human race are a hyperbolic distraction from the actual problem we may soon be facing where people won’t have the possibility of supporting themselves making art (not that it’s particularly easy to do as it stands).

If making art becomes a luxury only for the affluent, we will stop hearing the voices, stories, and perspectives of marginalized people. And our cultural tapestry will stop being so vibrant, diverse, and vital.

whatbigotspost:

aurumacadicus:

I am pro-strike I am pro-union I am pro-workers-getting-their-due I want to be inconvenienced A THOUSAND TIMES if it means people earn enough money

Broadway theatres ✅ empty

Media content ✅ running low

Packages ✅ late

Awards shows ✅ canceled

Red carpets ✅ nonexistent

Travel plans ✅ delayed

Human rights ✅ more important