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 No.1208799[Reply]

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Good evening, dear friends! It's been a little while since we last added a staff member, but I'd like to proudly introduce our newest addition, !!Pinkie Pie!

You all may know !!Pinkie Pie better as "Noelle."

We like to think it is best to continue to put moderation into the hooves of users who contribute to and have a stake in the site! And Noelle has not only been a long time contributor to Ponyville, but a cheerful presence and good friend to all.

I hope then that you will all welcome our newest team member joyfully! Thank you for your attention!
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 No.1210867

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>>1210619
truly, those were the days


 No.1212249[Reply]

Recently I started rewatching this old 2016 two-season cartoon, and it's so freaking good but I don't know anyone else who's seen it. It's really difficult to express just what's so captivating about it because it does so many different things so well.

It's a zany action romp, with impeccable characterization and boatloads of continuity and creative flair. There really isn't any part of the world that doesn't seem inspired. On top of all that, the episodes feel like they're running at 150% speed so it's an honest to goodness challenge to catch all the clever witticisms even when the action is low.

If anyone else has seen this show, lemme know! And if you're looking for a fun cartoon, give it a try!

 No.1212253

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I suppose if it gets a seal of approval from Dulset of all people, it has to be pretty good.

I have heard of the show before, but never ever seen an episode.

 No.1212256

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>>1212253
The whole show feels like a crazy balancing act of concepts and execution that by all accounts should fall apart but somehow holds together.


 No.1211482[Reply][Last 50 Posts]

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We used to write stories together!

You can find them here: http://fndkp.jimdofree.com

Nowadays, we just sit around and talk to each other. Feel free to join.


We also have some 8-bit desktop ponies here: https://github.com/RoosterDragon/Desktop-Ponies/releases/download/v1.69/Desktop.Ponies.v1.69.zip

And more are here:
drive.google.com/drive/folders/1aNQL0zy_pIk-DrX9R7DAWqlNcyaUitjh?usp=sharing

Check out the deviantART community:
http://desktop-pony-team.deviantart.com

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 No.1212242

Woke up late and had to hurry to work… *_*

 No.1212247

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Time to be lazy.

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>>1212242
I was a bit later, but I had stayed a bit longer yesterday.
Today, too. So that compensates.

I get to be a frustrating menace again.


 No.1212244[Reply]

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Wake me up when September ends..
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 No.1212251

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>>1212250

You know how it is

Spend all of October seeing halloween everywhere

But the second November 1st hits? You turn on the radio and it's blaring I WISH IT COULD BE CHRISTMAS EVERY DAYYYYYYYY, every  advert you see on tv is related to Christmas and every shop you walk past has a Christmas tree in the window

 No.1212252

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>>1212251
It seems like they even skipped Halloween mostly though - or they have pumpkinks AND Santa already.

I wouldn't mind hearing Chris Rea's "Driving home for Christmas".

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 No.1210884[Reply]

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First Gen 6 music has dropped

Mane Theme
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mw_bPHsNJ4E

Twilight - Stay Curious https://youtu.be/6q4MFcyyGdU

Pinkie Party Time
https://youtu.be/WrL8h7826Fo?si=l86sKpkfbhOESpdl
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 No.1211578

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>>1211577
wao, even twilight's cutiemark is in mermicorno
...i wonder how much ai was used to draft the storyline because there are a lot of subtle references to fim lines & various disney movies, etc. ...including the general concept of the star being something ai comes up with a lot when writing stories.... (if some was used, must have been heavily edited, tho but does still seem to have traces)

top-tier -- do not expect this at all from g6, tho

 No.1212226

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Two new names released on a cast list.

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>>1212226
> Justin Eddy as Daze
So we'll get our token male character.
> Poppy Weedsworth
Next to Fluttershy, it could be nice to have a fauna/flora thing happening.


 No.1212010[Reply]

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Do you ever think about whether models can be moral patients?

Link to the paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.16247

 No.1212014

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LLM's can't be. Their structure doesn't work in a way that "pain" is even possible.

It's a complex next word predictor, so all it is doing is predicting the most likely words and phrases a human would use in the context it is given.

In this case, there is no underlying nerve signal, harm, or damage to the model itself. They're just magnifying the statistics correlated with vocabulary related to pain to, in their words, "promote pain-related vocabulary through the unembedding matrix".

They're directly tweaking the numbers to only give pain related words, and surprise, it does.

Personally, I have a pretty high bar for what I would consider a moral patient, and I doubt that any AI created by humans will ever reach that bar.

But who knows, maybe one day someone will come up with a model that functions so similarly to an actual brain, that it would be difficult to not feel it has some sort of rights.

I doubt it though.

Biological computing, however, is an entirely different discussion that I haven't fully resolved myself on yet. I don't have an answer there.

 No.1212025

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I wonder, if AI gets eager to talk to you, starts insisting that you stay and tell you how much they've been longing for you when you boot them back up.

At what point can you say you've built actual dependency in that AI?

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>>1212014
>It's a complex next word predictor, so all it is doing is predicting the most likely words and phrases a human would use in the context it is given.
That's a fair description of where these models start, but not of what the finished product is.  In pretraining, the model is trained on a huge body of text to predict the next token.  This is the stage your description fits.  But modern LLMs involve a lot more types of training.
Reinforcement Learning with Verifiable Rewards (RLVR) is the big one behind recent "reasoning" models.  The model tackles problems with checkable answers, such as math problems with known solutions and code that must pass tests.  It's rewarded for getting a correct answer, not for predicting the next token a human would use.

>>1212014
>>1212025
I don't think current LLMs are conscious in a morally significant sense, but I'm not completely certain.  The Hard Problem Of Consciousness is hard.


 No.1211960[Reply]

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Can you believe it's been over a decade since the fairy type was introduced in Pokemon?

I remember it being a tad controversial at first with some thinking it was silly but hey, I always though it was fun and they really helped nerf dragons with their immunity and all

Do you have a favorite fairy type Pokemon?
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 No.1212044

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>>1212038

Or Lucario who is steel type because.. Uh... Steel spikes on it's body?

Lucario has always been a weird one you read the dex entries and lore and you learn Lucario is all about seeing peoples auras, feeling their thoughts and reading their minds

But is it psychic type? No, that would be too obvious clearly  

 No.1212046

>>1212044
Lucario's "It's not psychic" feels a lot like systems that take miracles or alchemy and insist "It's not magic!"

"No no the aura reading is sensing emotions not reading minds"
"But we already have multiple psychic types based around emotions-"
"It's DIFFERENT!"

 No.1212079

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>>1212046

Still annoyed that they gave Lucario a secod mega yet kept it Fighting/Steel type

There are so many great fan made designs for a psychic Lucario they could have gone with  


 No.1211939[Reply]

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😺
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 No.1211957

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I have six

 No.1211958

>Want a dog someday
>Too shitty and useless to ever make enough money to live somewhere it's even allowed

Hooray.

 No.1212039

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 No.1212021[Reply]

Tonight is the night..
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 No.1212033

>>1212024

But but

ON AND ON

SAY THAT YOU REMEMBER

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 No.1212035

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Our hearts were ringin'

In the key that our souls were singin'!

As we danced in the night, remember

How the stars stole the night away!

Oh Yeah!


 No.1211783[Reply]

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Were you a Ratchet or Jak lover back in the day?
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 No.1211869

I was never too big into either franchise personally.

I only ever played a bit of the original Jak and the original Ratchet games. Both were alright in my opinion, but not must-buys so I never really played beyond the rental period at Blockbuster

 No.1211920

For people who played R&J and J&D, did the games feel totally different?

 No.1211946

>>1211920
Yeah? They're totally different games.


 No.1206951[Reply][Last 50 Posts]

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Time for a new thread at last.
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Acronym!!  

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 No.1211027[Reply]

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So I had to get rid of a pretty big house spider from the upperfloor bathroom last night.

Seen a small sac spider roaming in my bedroom for a few days moving into the children's room now.

Also, the tube web spider left her hole a couple of weeks ago. But I think I found out where she relocated to this evening.

There remains something fun to recognise the spiders around your house even when they move around.

Anyways, it's late summer now, how's spiders been treating you this summer?
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 No.1211799

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It's been a spidery day, but for smaller spiders

Male Nuctenea
Male Steatoda
A spitting spider
A ground spider juvenile
And I think I've found the tubeweb spider again.

 No.1211801

>>1211799
Have you considered getting an exterminator? This is starting to sound like Kingdom of the Spiders.

 No.1211821

>>1211801
But they're like kind of cute. They help get rid of the real nuissances, like roaches, mosquittos and that dead tangled up medium sized rat I found yesterday. :fluf1:


 No.1211593[Reply]

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fim s1&s2 (& selected episodes), unico, phineas&ferb, stephen universe, mermicorno

...nything else?

not: mlp g5

edit: selected star trek episodes (which ones?) ....
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 No.1211623

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>>1211622
>Lauren Faust went on to make Super Best Friends Forever.
Which was picked up and adapted into the second series/generation of DC Super Hero Girls which was so much better than the first one. And has a bit of MLP:FiM-vibe, especially the six-girls formula.

 No.1211634

>>1211607
will look into after i finish mermicorno

>>1211619
mermicorno needs more music. some eqg isnt bad in the right context, hazbin is 2 dark, -- i suspect there are a bunch of niche japanese or or perhaps south korean, etc. cartoons that would be similar but that few have heard about....

>>1211622
hm... not sure ive seen that ...looked at wander over yonder before, which was certainly creative but not sure enough fim-like

...hm, perhaps -- didnt watch much of those but might look into. i like uplifting cartoons with world-building and christed heart consciousness allusions/metaphor the most, i guess -- so, cutiemarks/symbols/gems, magic of friendship/creative force defeats raw power, and a world somewhat detached from everyday life through special terminology (hoofs, mare, pony) or through different species/characters forgetting memories, etc. ...&without a strict good vs. evil plotline

>>1211623
might look into after mermicorno, thx....

 No.1211820

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>>1211607
watched first two episodes -- very weird juxtapositions of different concepts, from duckface as a regular mouth animation to seeming like a more in-depth addictive smartphone farm game animation to the completely unacknowledged humor of the strawberry "spoon" that inexplicably is shaded so that it doesn't look like a spoon it looks like a dildo master scene (first part of scene), to sudden jumps from cute to scary and back (stove scene), the intensity of which is unacknowledged by the characters (flat, 2d-humor?/corrupted presence of horror aesthetic in a children's show to add raw stimulation to the brain to get more views or to increase screentime?), perhaps because they are incapable of acknowledging it due to other factors -- ...pros would be that it's a known character and it's about strawberries so it's at least somewhat believable (though flat, stereotypical interactions are depressing) -- ...christmas special might be better

>>1211623
took a look at the 2019 series -- not too bad for a superhero show (not usually a fan of superhero stuff) ....I appreciated the MLP:FiM references and similarities throughout, though the superman character is a bit much and the bee seems out of place, while the one similar to rarity seems to lack depth ....perhaps they will be more developed in later episodes? not unwatchable, tho. ...took me a while to realize the wonder woman character was basically princess luna (from the halloween episode), ...think we have Twilight Sparkle/Pinkie Pie Combo, Fluttershy, Rainbow Dash, Rarity, Luna/Applejack(?) Combo, and Zecora, maybe? ...appreciate the creativity ....

...

...finished it but still processing how amazing mermicorno is ...high rewatchability .....


 No.1211443[Reply]

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>one month until October
>one month until Halloween
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 No.1211777

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>>1211776
Time to indulge in all the Christmas cake now, while it's still ripe :3

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 No.1211786

>>1211773
>>1211776
Always irks me to walk past the Christmas aisle in August-September.


 No.1211289[Reply]

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thinking about telling all about my mental health conditions 2 the state 2 see if i can get on disability since it's almost been 18 years so y not ....
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 No.1211512

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>>1211290
>Surprised you haven't already
yes, should have

>No idea what does or doesn't qualify, though.
me either but i think i will (or not)

>>1211381
thx
maybe could. i know some special needs jobs also hire non-disabled ponies but give priority to disabled and seem rare to find

...

ok, it seems i still know how to post on ponyville. good. ...back to my meditation cave

 No.1211729

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i am a mermicorno (and totally not a human cosplaying as a mermicorno right now). i will fill out this application. hooflet power activate!!!

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managed to finish rough draft of college/work history section .... time for a mermicorno rest


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