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Catching Elephant is a theme by Andy Taylor
If you have not been paying attention to my blog in the last couple weeks, you are probably not aware that I have been streaming on Twitch (shameless self-promo here), and more specifically I have been streaming Sifu. Let me start by saying that I think it’s an incredible game in terms of design, aesthetics, and gameplay, and I think everyone should have the chance to play it. That’s where I’m taking issue now; not everyone can play this game as the developers intended while playing on PC.
I downloaded this game about a month ago now, and as soon as I went into it, I felt that the default control scheme was not ideal for how I wanted to play the game.
“Oh good!” I thought, “I can remap the controls to be how I like! No need to strain my hands and fingers unnecessarily!”
Unfortunately, it wasn’t until a couple weeks later that I found out something had gone wrong. I was unable to activate the Special Moves that the game gives you.
“Ok,” I thought, “maybe I have to unlock something in game before I can use them.”
But when I looked back into the keybinds menu, I noticed that the button to activate them had simply been unbound, and would no longer accept any inputs for changing the control. I came across a small Reddit thread of people complaining of the same issue, and it seems to be locked as a PC only complaint.
The issue is that when you switch to custom mapping on PC, it automatically unbinds the Special Move buttons, and completely locks them out of use.
This is completely unacceptable for such a major game release in the year 2022.
“Well it’s not the biggest issue,” you might say, “you don’t need to use the Special Moves to beat the game,” and you’re right. It doesn’t stop you from playing the game at all, but it certainly does make it significantly harder. I am at this point willingly using custom controls, knowing full well it locks away some of my most powerful attacks, but I really shouldn’t be forced to take a large handicap in order to play this game the way I want to play it.
Imagine you play on PC, but you have some reason to need to remap any number of controls. You are so excited for Sifu to release, cause you can’t wait to feel like a total badass, mowing down grunts like Daredevil in a hallway, and you go in and realize “Oh, I can either be forced to play with a huge detriment, or I can’t play at all.”
Can you imagine how disheartening that would be? To require accommodations in order to experience the game, and then have this absolutely neutered experience?
Sloclap studio, this is a message directly for you. This game is 40 dollars on the Epic store, and I Know a lot of people are playing it. I love your game, and would love to finish playing it, but until everyone can enter into it on level ground, I cannot do so.
For everyone else, my full playthrough of the game is up on my Youtube channel, with my the start of me discovering the glitch in my fourth stream. Please read this, watch the video, and spread this around. I want people to play this game, and I can’t in good conscience recommend people do so until this issue is fixed.
forgot to post these here. tears of the kingdom+long term nuclear waste storage warnings
reblogging now that the game is real!
Meanwhile, on Twitter:
Brain farts, a thread
Reblogging this once again because, once again, it made me laugh.
Super cool ocean fact: there is at least 6 fish in the ocean
NOT ANYMORE THERE AINT
Goku is on Namek fightin that Frieza guy…Goku uhh…flyin or doin somethin over there…
for context’s sake: this is from JBVO, a show hosted by Johnny Bravo where you could call in and request your favorite episode of a CN show and Johnny would play it for you. for the most part it worked out pretty smoothly since at the time cn’s shows mostly had an average episode length of 7 to 11 minutes.
but one day a viewer requested that they play their favorite episode of dragon ball z, a show with 23-minute long episodes. due to time constraints with both dbz AND jbvo they had to work a compromise: a sped up version of the requested dbz episode played with johnny narrating over it so people understood what’s going on
Honestly I’m pretty tired of supporting nostalgebraist-autoresponder. Going to wind down the project some time before the end of this year.
Posting this mainly to get the idea out there, I guess.
This project has taken an immense amount of effort from me over the years, and still does, even when it’s just in maintenance mode.
Today some mysterious system update (or something) made the model no longer fit on the GPU I normally use for it, despite all the same code and settings on my end.
This exact kind of thing happened once before this year, and I eventually figured it out, but I haven’t figured this one out yet. This problem consumed several hours of what was meant to be a relaxing Sunday. Based on past experience, to the bottom of the issue would take many more hours.
My options in the short term are to
A. spend (even) more money per unit time, by renting a more powerful GPU to do the same damn thing I know the less powerful one can do (it was doing it this morning!), or
B. silently reduce the context window length by a large amount (and thus the “smartness” of the output, to some degree) to allow the model to fit on the old GPU.
Things like this happen all the time, behind the scenes.
I don’t want to be doing this for another year, much less several years. I don’t want to be doing it at all.
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In 2019 and 2020, it was fun to make a GPT-2 autoresponder bot.
Hardly anyone else was doing anything like it. I wasn’t the most qualified person in the world to do it, and I didn’t do the best possible job, but who cares? I learned a lot, and the really competent tech bros of 2019 were off doing something else.
And it was fun to watch the bot “pretend to be me” while interacting (mostly) with my actual group of tumblr mutuals.
In 2023, everyone and their grandmother is making some kind of “gen AI” app. They are helped along by a dizzying array of tools, cranked out by hyper-competent tech bros with apparently infinite reserves of free time.
There are so many of these tools and demos. Every week it seems like there are a hundred more; it feels like every day I wake up and am expected to be familiar with a hundred more vaguely nostalgebraist-autoresponder-shaped things.
And every one of them is vastly better-engineered than my own hacky efforts. They build on each other, and reap the accelerating returns.
I’ve tended to do everything first, ahead of the curve, in my own way. This is what I like doing. Going out into unexplored wilderness, not really knowing what I’m doing, without any maps.
Later, hundreds of others with go to the same place. They’ll make maps, and share them. They’ll go there again and again, learning to make the expeditions systematically. They’ll make an optimized industrial process of it. Meanwhile, I’ll be locked in to my own cottage-industry mode of production.
Being the first to do something means you end up eventually being the worst.
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I had a GPT chatbot in 2019, before GPT-3 existed. I don’t think Huggingface Transformers existed, either. I used the primitive tools that were available at the time, and built on them in my own way. These days, it is almost trivial to do the things I did, much better, with standardized tools.
I had a denoising diffusion image generator in 2021, before DALLE-2 or Stable Diffusion or Huggingface Diffusers. I used the primitive tools that were available at the time, and built on them in my own way. These days, it is almost trivial to do the things I did, much better, with standardized tools.
Earlier this year, I was (probably) one the first people to finetune LLaMA. I manually strapped LoRA and 8-bit quantization onto the original codebase, figuring out everything the hard way. It was fun.
Just a few months later, and your grandmother is probably running LLaMA on her toaster as we speak. My homegrown methods look hopelessly antiquated. I think everyone’s doing 4-bit quantization now?
(Are they? I can’t keep track anymore – the hyper-competent tech bros are too damn fast. A few months from now the thing will be probably be quantized to -1 bits, somehow. It’ll be running in your phone’s browser. And it’ll be using RLHF, except no, it’ll be using some successor to RLHF that everyone’s hyping up at the time…)
“You have a GPT chatbot?” someone will ask me. “I assume you’re using AutoLangGPTLayerPrompt?”
No, no, I’m not. I’m trying to debug obscure CUDA issues on a Sunday so my bot can carry on talking to a thousand strangers, every one of whom is asking it something like “PENIS PENIS PENIS.”
Only I am capable of unplugging the blockage and giving the “PENIS PENIS PENIS” askers the responses they crave. (“Which is … what, exactly?”, one might justly wonder.) No one else would fully understand the nature of the bug. It is special to my own bizarre, antiquated, homegrown system.
I must have one of the longest-running GPT chatbots in existence, by now. Possibly the longest-running one?
I like doing new things. I like hacking through uncharted wilderness. The world of GPT chatbots has long since ceased to provide this kind of value to me.
I want to cede this ground to the LLaMA techbros and the prompt engineers. It is not my wilderness anymore.
I miss wilderness. Maybe I will find a new patch of it, in some new place, that no one cares about yet.
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Even in 2023, there isn’t really anything else out there quite like Frank. But there could be.
If you want to develop some sort of Frank-like thing, there has never been a better time than now. Everyone and their grandmother is doing it.
“But – but how, exactly?”
Don’t ask me. I don’t know. This isn’t my area anymore.
There has never been a better time to made a GPT chatbot – for everyone except me, that is.
Ask the techbros, the prompt engineers, the grandmas running OpenChatGPT on their ironing boards. They are doing what I did, faster and easier and better, in their sleep. Ask them.
In Super Mario Odyssey, as long as Mario is sitting on a bench, any Goombas touching him will become frozen in time, as seen in the footage.
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Gerard Way had green hair. Suits him, ngl.
I have to reblog this to add that the original submitter spelled Gerard as “Gerdad”
I was today years old when I learned this account’s posts come by submission and it isn’t just one person self reporting the absolute cornucopia of weirdass dreams they have nightly