Jamie

Subscribers to the paid plans can enjoy deeper interactions with Lain, witnessing an increase in intimacy levels and evolving facial expressions as they engage in conversations.

tl;dr: People are gonna pay to e-sex a virtual version of Lain.

I’m not sure what you’ve seen, but I’m just going to pull stuff off my MAL that I don’t remember having that happen in no particular order. A lot of these are shows I’ve seen years ago, so if they do include that gag, there’s a chance I could be forgetting in some instances. Though I would recommend seeing if you can get past the distaste, style changes like that are super common for gags, and avoiding them locks you out of a lot of amazing shows like FMA Brotherhood as an example.

Code Geass

Baccano!

Phantom: Requiem for the Phantom

Psycho-Pass

JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure

86

Blood+

Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex

Black Lagoon

Parasite: The Maxim

Cyberpunk: Edgerunners

Accel World

I just have my instance installed as a progressive web app with emails enabled for replies. It’s a little roundabout I suppose, but my email will give me a notification when I get something.

As someone whose girlfriend is in love with her Flip 4, yeah I’d call that an accurate statement.

I didn’t buy it for her though, she just kinda did it.

When I tested it on ChatGPT prior to posting, I was using the bing plugin. It actually did try to search what I was talking about, but found an unrelated article instead and got confused, then started hallucinating.

I have access to Bard as well, and gave it a shot just now. It hallucinated an entire event.

If you can use human screening, you could ask about a recent event that didn’t happen. This would cause a problem for LLMs attempting to answer, because their datasets aren’t recent, so anything recent won’t be well-refined. Further, they can hallucinate. So by asking about an event that didn’t happen, you might get a hallucinated answer talking about details on something that didn’t exist.

Tried it on ChatGPT GPT-4 with Bing and it failed the test, so any other LLM out there shouldn’t stand a chance.

I have my instance on 18.0 and it seems like that may not happen anymore. Beehaw hasn’t updated yet, maybe due to the captcha issues being fixed in 18.1.

I’ve been flipping between Hot, New, and Top Day. I end up spending most of my time in New though.

To get better, two things: read more, and write more. The more you read, the more you’ll absorb of how others write and the more ideas you’ll get. The more you write, the more practice you get.

“Just write, finish things, and then start writing the next thing…Just write. Assume that you have one million words inside of you and they’re all rubbish. You need to get them all out.” - Neil Gaiman

I like to write from time to time, as for whether it’s something you should pick up, I think that’s a question better answered by you. Does the idea of writing sound like a fun one to you? Do you have anything you’re interested in that you might enjoy writing stories about?

Despite the sort of stigma against fanfiction, in reality, writing fanfiction about a world or character you’re passionate about is a great way to get started. Fanfiction reduces the burden on the writer greatly by providing a large amount of the creative building blocks needed to write a good story. You don’t have to build up a world, the main characters’ personalities and motivations are already established in the main canon for you. If you opt to share that story with an audience, they’re probably going to already be familiar with all of those basics as well.

That isn’t to say that writing something that will truly captivate people is easy, even in a fanfiction sense. Your challenges in writing an original work differ from that of fanfiction, but the latter is a place where a bunch of fledgling writers get their feet wet into the hobby… which in turn leads to the stigma behind it, since many of those are self-insert fantasies, rather than appealing stories about characters people know and love.

I’ve done my share of high up administration in game communities, I can attest based on that the amount of entitlement people feel like they have from a group doing something for free or nearly nothing is insane.

I say focus your time on the people worth your time. Don’t let toxic folks get to you, or you’ll just burn out.

When I used the official Reddit app before I saw the light of RIF, I had push notifications. I didn’t have them on RIF except when I opened it, and I found that to be a lot nicer on my psyche.

I have email notifications enabled on Lemmy right now, which turns into a push. But I don’t really mind as much because the conversations here are nicer, and it’s usually replies to me trying to be helpful, which are nice to see.

Nah, it’s really topical and helps ease people into the community by having common ground to start off on. Plus, it’s cathartic to slam them in a place where they have no power.