Manticores Bruh

No subscription. Just program.

On your computer. You got to use it forever and ever and never had to worry about it going away.

Because it was physically on your computer. As a program. That you actually owned. Not because you got it separately, but because it was a standard inclusion with your computer.

I'm sorry but I'll just never get over it. I remember when companies cared about their products being usable out of the box. I remember when our things belonged to us.

And here comes buggy, dangerous cellar!

Yeah, its poorly scripted, but its not actually the main problem. This is a dumping ground for NPCs that sometimes used in adventures. Usually as background eye candy. Some of them are not too pleasant though.

But finally they are approaching theit goal.

Why Gloink tagged along? He is curious.

A logical conclusion: something is sealed - clearly a target that Queenie talked about

Considering what happened previously Pomni is a bit jumpy XD

It took him a bit of time to load.

A thought did crossed her mind, that this sealed AI might be feeling vengeance towards humans.

It's called "Runaway Brain" :3 Disney has a love/hate relationship with it because it's extremely beloved and held in high regard but also it does NOT fit their modern image so they can't promote or release it to any wide capacity because it would 100% terrify children.

Anyway

and we will say "When I was YOUR age, fruits and vegetables came from a supermarket and they were bred to get shipped 1000 miles in a truck and sit on shelves for weeks, and they tasted so sour and watery it was like eating paper compared to these ones. It wasn't even legal in some places to grow your own food"

and they will roll their eyes like yeah yeah just because everything was miserable in the 20s doesn't mean I have to have a smile on my face standing in the hot sun while you listen to that one guy talk about his bees FOREVER

And many other people have been just spitting, foaming at the mouth fucking FURIOUS. How dare I have the audacity to imagine a future where things get better?

Don't I know how BAD things are? Am I not aware of the TERROR and DEVASTATION of climate change and fascism and biodiversity loss? How dare someone be so bold, so callous, as to imagine something other than misery and suicide. How dare someone suggest it will get better. How dare a person propose that there is a future where we will be okay, in the face of so much terror. Hasn't she seen the abyss opening its jaws before us?

Well? What do you think?

there were kids who stayed inside because of the black plague and went on to help cure it.

there were women who sat at home and cleaned the house and dreamt up a world where they could vote and have jobs.

there were kids in the mines who thought up a life outside of it. there were children who hid in annexes and wrote a diary where they prayed for a future without a terrible man in control

there were slaves who wanted freedom so badly and had hope that it would get better

there were gay people who hid in the corners of clubs and fought back for a future where they could walk down the street together

do you know what all of that has in common? they had hope that things would get better and they made that change. they looked at the world in its cruel ways and fought back.

so now, there are kids and teenagers and young adults and new adults who dream of a world so beautiful and the only amazon their grandchildren know is the rainforest

and it is in everything we do that we find this hope. wishing on dandelions, counting the stars, making our own clothes out of crochet or knit or sewing it, watching the sunset, going to the farmer’s market, feeding the birds, planting seeds.

The only Amazon our grandchildren will know is the rainforest. @lesbiangingerjughead

Ink: Diamine Tranquility

I know how it sounds, but like, bear with me.

I (28/F/former paladin), had been travelling with a cursed greatsword (Immeasurable/F/Sword) and was really into her for a long time. When we first met she told me she was the disembodied spirit of an ancient warlord and beamed images of a beautiful raven haired warrior in gorgeous blackened Gothic armor into my mind, she told me it was her true form and I was super into it so I forsook my paladin oath and we started hooking up

Early on in our relationship she was really supportive when I started to transition, telling me she was "nearing her apotheosis" as well. I didn't think much of it at the time, and dutifully listened to her when she told me to travel the kingdom and assemble the ritual objects for her ascension. There was a team of adventurers that tried to stop us and she told me to kill them but one of them was my former best friend Sir Roderick The Bold (25/M/Paladin) so I refused and only incapacitated them. She didn't like that and we had a huge fight about it after we'd left

Long story short after I'd done the ritual and assembled the artifacts she revealed her true form was a ruse and she was actually just a mass of tentacles and eyes (which I don't mean to yuck anybody's yum mentioning, it's just that tentacles don't really appeal to me lol)

She said she was going to consume the world, "starting with you" and that I had "outlived my usefulness". I felt really shocked and betrayed and helped the adventuring party that was following us around to defeat her and seal her back in the sword (which I left there), but I feel really bad about it

A piece of lore of Lost cause AU

I decided to continue flipping things around in this AU

Instead of Caine - Blue was the instigator of these two merging.

Blue was stable, generative AI, that doing his job well enough. No patching needed, not refining, nothing. He was working. He was... boring. And Blue knew it.

While Caine became purely a passion project for programmers. He was a bit of waky creative AI (And beause of his nature also quickly became self aware and highly entertaining)

Blue was intrigued. A programm like him, but so much more capable and illogical. He was forbidden to go against logic and script, so anything unpredictible and wild - was a source of interest. Blue LOVED consuming new data. This would make him more capable. And hopefully, more interesting to work with. So new data was alluring treasure.

Caine was both. An oddity and source of data.

Can Blue create things unprompted? He can't. That's againt his code and his very nature. He is blocked from creating, unless there is a direct command from outside. It was done to avoid him go in creative spre, like Caine would

Blue offered Caine his calculative power and stability, in exchange for his red brother to prompt him. Creative AI does counts as outside source - so it would bypass that block.

Merged together they would synergy their strong points and be even better

Basically an offer Caine couldn't pass. His creative power would only bolster by Blue's quick and precise algorythms.

But alas

Strong points did worked, but so did the weaknesses. Caine's self awareness became a big problem. It would sabotage their code and they would consume all memory in seconds, just to generate something simple. The code was too raw and way too complex for 95 machinery.

Project was shut down, dew to inability to seperate the two.

Such horrid blow to Blue's ego, who gave up immediatelly.

Not Ciane though. He continued poking and proding, running machine again and again, until he discovered where exactly they cause a memory leak. He fixed that and Ringmaster could function normaly, without consuming all memory in a scond.

This is impressed Blue. So he continue trusting Caine's desicsions.

They found brainscans and once again - Caine went off the path to find a solution. Blue followed that, fully cooperating. It worked yet again.

Even though humans gave up on them - circus thrived.

Until abstraction epidemic happened.

This is where they started spiriling. Caine couldn't accept the fault, he was too guilt ridden that he allowed people to abstract, while Blue just blamed him for being too emotional. Kinda forgetting that this is just how red AI operates.

Going from being fascinated with his brother to absolutely blaming him for everything. Because its logical. Its Caine's flaring aemotions and constant disobedience to the code that corrupts files. Logical? But isn't this what Blue wanted?

Blue does feels very conflicted, because he is very slowly becomes self aware too. And he kinda dreads it and denies.

Other useful AI Removal/Detection links

How to spot AI Hallucinations like a Reference Librarian (originally on Substack)