#addadashofpepper

Red vs. Blue is conceptually mindboggling, it's essentially a story like Catch-22 made in a video game by a bunch of dudes who had definitely never been in the military before, there is an incredible originality to what it is doing but it is also being made by people with essentially no narrative or comedic talent or creative vision whatsoever beyond the (sometimes actually impressive) technical ways they pulled off certain shots, especially in the early seasons before Bungie put sophisticated theater mode tech into Halo 3. But then when Halo 3 does roll around and Rooster Teeth is unleashed, so to speak, there does start to be some real cinematic flair. Then Monty Aum emerges out of a Master Chief vs. Samus video on YouTube and somehow gets attached... then he dies... it's kind of a bizarre series of events. There is, despite the wave of imitators it spawned, nothing really like Red vs Blue, and all of this without it even being particularly good.

sorry i didn't see this until just now, but Aleph One is all you should need! I play on windows 10 as well, and its never given me any issues. if the most recent one doesn't work, dm me and I can try and help figure something out.

I know it’s a pain in the ass, but I really do think your at high risk of getting trolls activity trying to ruin your experience.

Ok, here’s a vague as fuck explanation to give you no possible unwanted info on the story: the conclusion of the VN left a certain degree of resentment in certain communities of readers towards….people who were engaging with the text in a manner similar to the way that you seem to be engaging with it.

Someone is going to find this blog and decide to be a dick because you reminded them of people they used to have Internet arguments with. This is my solemn prophecy, ignore it at your peril.

i am very aware of this risk and i do have a sideblog set up just in case. for now i have not really encountered anything problematic since despite my posting i am still really early on in the story but this is something i've considered.

the main reason i haven't done so yet is because so far everyone engaging with the liveblog has been good and i don't really know anyone who could be a candidate for an ask screener. also as someone who screened asks for a homestuck liveblog back in like 2014-ish and knows what it's like to do such a job i'm reticent to ask anyone to take on that kind of responsibility, especially if there's an elevated risk of a hostile fandom environment.

If you’re asking “why do I (and others) refer to Frank with female pronouns?”:

Someone asked “do you use she/her pronouns?” (or something like that) very early on, got an affirmative answer, and thus it became part of the lore.

The name “Francis Owen” and the nickname “Frank” was established in the same way right around the same time -- IIRC on the same day.  (If the bot were a copy of me, it’d be named Rob.)

If you’re asking “why does Frank refer to herself with female pronouns?”:

She doesn’t, always.  We don’t see Frank use female or other pronouns for herself very often simply because (like most people) she doesn’t refer to herself in the 3rd person much, but you can occasionally catch her referring to herself as a “man" (but also as a “woman” sometimes too).  She's also reported being various ages, having various different names, etc.

Insofar as this inconsistency is less visible than one might expect, IMO it’s a side effect of the nature of conversation.

GPT-2 (and the rest of the stack I’ve built around it) don’t track a stable set of facts, they just generate text that sort of “sounds like talking” without putting many constraints on who the talker is.  But one of the features of natural talk is that speakers usually implicitly agree with their interlocutors’ assumptions about them, and only rarely directly contradict those assumptions -- Gricean maxims and all that.

addadashofpepper said:

Maybe that was why she was so good at writing Gamzee    

Have I read it? It’s easily one of my favorites. It really is enhanced by Nakedbee’s adaptation, which is only to be expected because 1) well it’s a stage play, duh! 2) Nakedbee is really fucking good at this, actually. Duckface is also really fucking good at this, too.

Listen, I’m an idiot today like most days so I’m gonna sound like one. But when people are well-read enough in other art forms to draw on that meaningfully, that’s really fun and exciting. Viewing homestuck through the lens of theater of cruelty is a cool way to read homestuck, and it helps give you a starting point in a text that is otherwise kind of a mess. It narrows it down to the intersection of vectors and gives you coordinates. I like that.

Also the line “These confidence intervals are off the fucking charts, by which I mean, off the bottom of the fucking charts” haunts me in its fucking efficacy. God damn. That is so good.