Taking Screenshots In Horror Games.

Taking screenshots in horror games.

I FINALLY WENT SLIPPING DOWN THIS RABBIT HOLE AS WELL AND IT JUST KEEPS GETTING WILDER

I’m still trying desperately to find an entire pdf or copy of the script itself but the fragments and other details I’m getting from different articles just, were worth adding on their own

The cherry on top that’s bringing me undone rn is how they really committed to The Unknown, like, actually having some creepy evil character reveal himself from behind a mirror (clip below on r/oddlyterrifying)

and it just scared the shit out of the children because of course that would

This story is one of the most bizarre I've ever come across

It’s creepy af when it’s the guy in Marrow cause we saw him be reckless enough to assumedly eat one of the mutants himself.

The merchant is a very competent saleswoman. Ever since the Dave the Diver crossover DLC I have been fully convinced that she’s reselling them to the hooded figures on the side, being how familiar she is with them and how to contact a large group of them. There’s clearly some connection she’s fostered between her business and them.

Fishmonger in Greater Marrow: He’s doing something weird to those aberrations and you know it. Just don’t question it and accept the extra cash.

Traveling Merchant: ‘Wow this lil guy’s fucked up. I want 10.’

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My favorite Kitty Horrorshow games but described boringly

- You walk around an old house listening to a recorded lecture about architecture.

- You play as a girl helping her elderly grandmother with the gardening chores.

- You take a stroll around a city block listening to small talk from your neighbors.

- you explore a few empty, greyscale buildings and read some archeologist notes until you come back to the start with nothing.

- A lonely woman just lost her family and needs a friend. You wander aimlessly through the woods with no objective until she invites you to come inside.

- You run a corrupted zip file with an unhelpful gibberish name and the game closes itself after a couple minutes of glitchy, indiscernible visuals

Your posts are in an AI model

and then Tumblr decided to sell them to AI models.

Now, don't get me wrong, tumblr selling out the users to AI companies is bad, yes, they shouldn't do that. It sucks.

but don't lets get this confused: your posts were already in there. Tumblr selling them is about tumblr making some money and about the AI models having more exhaustive post collections. It's not about your posts being in an AI model, vs not being in one. That battle has already been lost.

Can you find your post on google? Then it's almost certainly in an AI model already. Think about it: These AI sites showed up before all the sites were making deals to sell their users' content, right? How do you think they built them in the first place?

They scraped the posts. Just like google and bing and such do when they build their search indexes.

It's a fundamental part of how the open web works: you want your posts on tumblr to be visible to users, right? You want them to be readable?* Like, look how much stuff broke when twitter changed their whole read-while-not-logged-in policy, ruining a bunch of thread links/NSFW links. And if it's visible, it's scrapable. That's what the AI models were built on.

I've done website scraping before (not for AI models, of course. I was doing search engines and website archival), this is just how it works. You hire a few relatively smart CS graduates and tell them "build me a scraper that'll give us a bunch of tumblr posts" and they go off for a month or two and come back with a database of a few billion posts, and you stuff that into your AI model. That's how they got all the deviantart and flickr and twitter and pinterest and so on posts. They didn't pay for them: they just took them.

They only ever pay for this shit because either:

they fucked up in such a way that the site might be able to sue them for taking rather than paying

They can buy them cheaper than they can finish taking them. Maybe they'd need to pay the CS grads for an extra month? well, that might be more expensive than just throwing the site a couple hundred thousand bucks.

ANYWAY: my point is, don't treat this "oh no tumblr is selling our posts to AI" like it's a big thing that might happen and it would be bad to happen. Yes, it's bad, tumblr shouldn't do this, this'll let AI models get continual updates of content for far easier than just scraping them would be, tumblr betrayed user trust, and so on...

but realistically, this is not a black and white matter of "if only tumblr didn't do this, then we'd be safe from AI models!"

Nope. We already lost that battle. I'm sorry, and it does suck, but that's just how it is. The avalanche has already started, it's too late for the pebbles to vote. * I'm assuming here that you don't run a private blog that's set to only followers or something. You'd be safer then, of course, but you're not really my target audience for this rant