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verygently:
a scythe is the ultimate symbol of goth/country solidarity
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verygently:
a scythe is the ultimate symbol of goth/country solidarity
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Oct. 1st, 2017
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tripleclown:
tripleclown:
jiluan:
jiluan:
jiluan:
jiluan:
the sexual tension between you and the other bearded guy reaching for the same carton of organic free range eggs
you lock eyes
“you go ahead” what the hell did you say that for? that’s the last carton
you study him as he reaches for the eggs and you can tell he works out, you think 3 maybe 4 times a week
you notice his college lanyard. a student? you look up and see his wrinkled brow no a professor
“thanks i owe you i would have had an earful from my wife if i didn’t grab these” he chuckles as he puts the eggs in his cart
his wife? why do you care
you open your mouth to reply but you stutter
“y yea no problem m man” what the hell what are you so nervous for?
op please keep going
Op Please
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tripleclown:
tripleclown:
jiluan:
jiluan:
jiluan:
jiluan:
the sexual tension between you and the other bearded guy reaching for the same carton of organic free range eggs
you lock eyes
“you go ahead” what the hell did you say that for? that’s the last carton
you study him as he reaches for the eggs and you can tell he works out, you think 3 maybe 4 times a week
you notice his college lanyard. a student? you look up and see his wrinkled brow no a professor
“thanks i owe you i would have had an earful from my wife if i didn’t grab these” he chuckles as he puts the eggs in his cart
his wife? why do you care
you open your mouth to reply but you stutter
“y yea no problem m man” what the hell what are you so nervous for?
op please keep going
Op Please
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sunspotpony:
ranma-official:
omgweatherunderground:
steelplatedhearts:
sourcefieldmix:
good idea: marry a blacksmith so you can get free swords whenever
Better idea; become a miner and then marry a blacksmith so he can have the required materials for you to get free swords whenever.
Make a harem and marry a full production chain
Monopolygamy.
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sunspotpony:
ranma-official:
omgweatherunderground:
steelplatedhearts:
sourcefieldmix:
good idea: marry a blacksmith so you can get free swords whenever
Better idea; become a miner and then marry a blacksmith so he can have the required materials for you to get free swords whenever.
Make a harem and marry a full production chain
Monopolygamy.
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the-porter-rockwell:
nooniebaddass:
thecringeandwincefactory:
I fucking love Venn diagrams.
This Made Me Uncomfortable
don’t bring a splayd to a knork fight.
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the-porter-rockwell:
nooniebaddass:
thecringeandwincefactory:
I fucking love Venn diagrams.
This Made Me Uncomfortable
don’t bring a splayd to a knork fight.
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shedoesnotcomprehend:
I.
It seems like constructing good security questions is Hard.
II.
On the one hand, if the site makes you choose among a set of pre-written questions, they’re inevitably so generic that anyone who’s friends with you on Facebook could find out the answers in five minutes. What’s your mother’s maiden name? is the cliché, of course, but what street did you grow up on? and who was your first kiss? and where does your oldest sibling live? aren’t much better.
Half of them don’t apply to any given person – what color was your first car? for someone who doesn’t drive, where was your honeymoon? for someone who isn’t married.
Others have so few possible answers that they can’t really be providing any level of security – people’s first cars are pretty likely to be red or gray or black, people’s favorite flavor of ice cream is pretty likely to be chocolate or vanilla or rocky road.
And nearly all of them that aren’t as straightforwardly googleable as where did you go to high school? are so boringly generic that you have no chance of remembering them by the time you need them: what is your favorite movie? where was your best vacation? Who knows what I put for that last year!
III.
On the other hand, letting users construct security questions isn’t any better.
It seems like it should be! I can come up with a dozen questions for myself that no one else would be able to answer and I would know right away. Off the top of my head:
What did your sister used to call mango spears?
What do you run at night for allergies?
What do you shout while stabbing the ceiling with a foil?
What dangerous thing could be where you used to hide your diary?
What did you name your baby blanket?
(If anyone guesses any of these I will be very impressed. Or have made a tumblr post I totally forgot about mentioning them, I guess.)
But in practice, if you let people enter custom questions, you apparently get:
What color is a banana?
How many fingers do I have?
What rhymes with ‘assword’?
(Conclusion: people fail at theory of mind.)
IV.
Proposal: build-your-own security questions.
(I know nothing about security, so this probably has some glaring flaw in it that I’m just overlooking. But.)
Give the user a row of dropdowns, and make them choose one value for each. That’s their security question. Then they can type in a freeform answer, as usual.
It might look something like this, with square brackets indicating dropdown lists:
What
[is/was/would be]
the
[name/nickname/middle name/last name/maiden name/color/flavor/model/location/occasion/obstacle/interruption/defining feature/cause/number/topic/protagonist]
of
[your/your mother’s/your father’s/your oldest sibling’s/your youngest sibling’s/your oldest child’s/your youngest child’s/your best friend’s/your spouse’s/your pet’s]
[first/second/last/best/worst/favorite/least favorite/cutest/scariest/only/oldest/youngest/usual/dream/secret/emergency/imaginary/home/nearest/farthest/longest/shortest/weirdest]
[friend/child/job/vacation/teacher/kiss/enemy/toy/car/street/song/game/school/hero/book/movie/food/dessert/injury/fear/dream/comfort object/house/crush/character/boyfriend/girlfriend]
[now/as a baby/as a toddler/as a child/as a teenager/in elementary school/in high school/in college/before marriage]
?
Some sample questions someone might construct from that:
What [was] the [nickname] of [your oldest child’s] [weirdest] [toy] [as a toddler]?
What [is] the [middle name] of [your youngest sibling’s] [worst] [enemy] [now]?
What [would be] the [defining feature] of [your pet’s] [dream] [house] [in college]?
Obviously these are a bit clunkily phrased – the last, for instance, would make more sense as “the dream house of your college pet” – but it’s clear enough what they mean. And sure, you can construct nonsensical questions – what [would be] the [flavor] of [your pet’s] [dream] [dream] [in elementary school]? – but if someone can come up with and remember an answer to that, more power to them.
There’s enough room for customization that you can narrow down something that’s actually unusual and memorable (yes, my youngest sibling has a worst enemy). And even at the low end of creativity, it’s going to be hard for users to create something worse than the typical security questions; I suppose you could go for what [is] the [name] of [your father’s] [only] [child] [now], but that takes deliberate effort; casual laziness is more likely to end up with something comparable to a typical security question: [what was] the [flavor] of [your] [favorite] [dessert] [as a child]?
It doesn’t seem like it would be significantly harder to set up this system than the standard kind. Maybe even easier, when you take into account not having to come up with a bunch of security questions yourself. The combinatorial explosion of possible questions means it’s OK if you borrow the dropdown lists of possibilities from some other site; there’ll still be way less repetition of questions than usual.
And those possibility lists are just off the top of my head; if I sat down and took an hour to come up with more, I bet I could enable a really good variety of useful questions. Maybe having to deal with multiple dropdowns is more of a pain than users are willing to put up with? I’m not sure why a compromise solution like this isn’t already in use.
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shedoesnotcomprehend:
I.
It seems like constructing good security questions is Hard.
II.
On the one hand, if the site makes you choose among a set of pre-written questions, they’re inevitably so generic that anyone who’s friends with you on Facebook could find out the answers in five minutes. What’s your mother’s maiden name? is the cliché, of course, but what street did you grow up on? and who was your first kiss? and where does your oldest sibling live? aren’t much better.
Half of them don’t apply to any given person – what color was your first car? for someone who doesn’t drive, where was your honeymoon? for someone who isn’t married.
Others have so few possible answers that they can’t really be providing any level of security – people’s first cars are pretty likely to be red or gray or black, people’s favorite flavor of ice cream is pretty likely to be chocolate or vanilla or rocky road.
And nearly all of them that aren’t as straightforwardly googleable as where did you go to high school? are so boringly generic that you have no chance of remembering them by the time you need them: what is your favorite movie? where was your best vacation? Who knows what I put for that last year!
III.
On the other hand, letting users construct security questions isn’t any better.
It seems like it should be! I can come up with a dozen questions for myself that no one else would be able to answer and I would know right away. Off the top of my head:
What did your sister used to call mango spears?
What do you run at night for allergies?
What do you shout while stabbing the ceiling with a foil?
What dangerous thing could be where you used to hide your diary?
What did you name your baby blanket?
(If anyone guesses any of these I will be very impressed. Or have made a tumblr post I totally forgot about mentioning them, I guess.)
But in practice, if you let people enter custom questions, you apparently get:
What color is a banana?
How many fingers do I have?
What rhymes with ‘assword’?
(Conclusion: people fail at theory of mind.)
IV.
Proposal: build-your-own security questions.
(I know nothing about security, so this probably has some glaring flaw in it that I’m just overlooking. But.)
Give the user a row of dropdowns, and make them choose one value for each. That’s their security question. Then they can type in a freeform answer, as usual.
It might look something like this, with square brackets indicating dropdown lists:
What
[is/was/would be]
the
[name/nickname/middle name/last name/maiden name/color/flavor/model/location/occasion/obstacle/interruption/defining feature/cause/number/topic/protagonist]
of
[your/your mother’s/your father’s/your oldest sibling’s/your youngest sibling’s/your oldest child’s/your youngest child’s/your best friend’s/your spouse’s/your pet’s]
[first/second/last/best/worst/favorite/least favorite/cutest/scariest/only/oldest/youngest/usual/dream/secret/emergency/imaginary/home/nearest/farthest/longest/shortest/weirdest]
[friend/child/job/vacation/teacher/kiss/enemy/toy/car/street/song/game/school/hero/book/movie/food/dessert/injury/fear/dream/comfort object/house/crush/character/boyfriend/girlfriend]
[now/as a baby/as a toddler/as a child/as a teenager/in elementary school/in high school/in college/before marriage]
?
Some sample questions someone might construct from that:
What [was] the [nickname] of [your oldest child’s] [weirdest] [toy] [as a toddler]?
What [is] the [middle name] of [your youngest sibling’s] [worst] [enemy] [now]?
What [would be] the [defining feature] of [your pet’s] [dream] [house] [in college]?
Obviously these are a bit clunkily phrased – the last, for instance, would make more sense as “the dream house of your college pet” – but it’s clear enough what they mean. And sure, you can construct nonsensical questions – what [would be] the [flavor] of [your pet’s] [dream] [dream] [in elementary school]? – but if someone can come up with and remember an answer to that, more power to them.
There’s enough room for customization that you can narrow down something that’s actually unusual and memorable (yes, my youngest sibling has a worst enemy). And even at the low end of creativity, it’s going to be hard for users to create something worse than the typical security questions; I suppose you could go for what [is] the [name] of [your father’s] [only] [child] [now], but that takes deliberate effort; casual laziness is more likely to end up with something comparable to a typical security question: [what was] the [flavor] of [your] [favorite] [dessert] [as a child]?
It doesn’t seem like it would be significantly harder to set up this system than the standard kind. Maybe even easier, when you take into account not having to come up with a bunch of security questions yourself. The combinatorial explosion of possible questions means it’s OK if you borrow the dropdown lists of possibilities from some other site; there’ll still be way less repetition of questions than usual.
And those possibility lists are just off the top of my head; if I sat down and took an hour to come up with more, I bet I could enable a really good variety of useful questions. Maybe having to deal with multiple dropdowns is more of a pain than users are willing to put up with? I’m not sure why a compromise solution like this isn’t already in use.
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ladygolem:
this is a good joke but the concept of a funko pop physically aging terrifies me more than anything i’ve ever encountered in my life
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ladygolem:
this is a good joke but the concept of a funko pop physically aging terrifies me more than anything i’ve ever encountered in my life
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musicalhell:
haleykinz:
What are you doing with your life if you aren’t watching Lin-Manuel Miranda singlehandedly drag Trump to hell on twitter
If you follow LMM on Twitter (and if you don’t, why the fuck not?) you know he is normally the most positive person on that shithole site. Even in the wake of Hurricane Maria, he’s been an amazing force of love and support during what must be a very difficult time for him and his family.
What I’m saying is, if Lin-Manuel Miranda is getting on Twitter to tell you you’re going to hell, you done fucked up BIG TIME.
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musicalhell:
haleykinz:
What are you doing with your life if you aren’t watching Lin-Manuel Miranda singlehandedly drag Trump to hell on twitter
If you follow LMM on Twitter (and if you don’t, why the fuck not?) you know he is normally the most positive person on that shithole site. Even in the wake of Hurricane Maria, he’s been an amazing force of love and support during what must be a very difficult time for him and his family.
What I’m saying is, if Lin-Manuel Miranda is getting on Twitter to tell you you’re going to hell, you done fucked up BIG TIME.
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pragnificent:
borderlineanders:
priscillajeanohare:
fdkfjslfdja ppl are mad that the female protagonist in The Shape of Water doesn’t speak oh my goD she’s the main character nonetheless and communicates with sign language…her “voice” has not been taken away, she just doesn’t communicate in a way that the average person is used to. the force of her voice isn’t heard by her oppressors for precisely that reason - she is “otherized” for it, much like the creature in the tank is for being what he is - and somehow I doubt he speaks conventionally either. that doesn’t mean either of them have no agency.
#‘hmm i dont like that she’s disabled but how do i sugarcoat this?’
“How do I make my deep seated ableism read as a feminist position?”
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pragnificent:
borderlineanders:
priscillajeanohare:
fdkfjslfdja ppl are mad that the female protagonist in The Shape of Water doesn’t speak oh my goD she’s the main character nonetheless and communicates with sign language…her “voice” has not been taken away, she just doesn’t communicate in a way that the average person is used to. the force of her voice isn’t heard by her oppressors for precisely that reason - she is “otherized” for it, much like the creature in the tank is for being what he is - and somehow I doubt he speaks conventionally either. that doesn’t mean either of them have no agency.
#‘hmm i dont like that she’s disabled but how do i sugarcoat this?’
“How do I make my deep seated ableism read as a feminist position?”
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hyratel:
genatrius:
What?
this sounds like the opposite of a problem
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hyratel:
genatrius:
What?
this sounds like the opposite of a problem
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cirilee:
every-story-is-worth-being-told:
@cirilee *.*
magnificent ;u;;
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cirilee:
every-story-is-worth-being-told:
@cirilee *.*
magnificent ;u;;
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nocturnalsmile:
crimson holiday I
december 18th 2016.
(please don’t delete my captions, it’s rude!)
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nocturnalsmile:
crimson holiday I
december 18th 2016.
(please don’t delete my captions, it’s rude!)
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floating-head:
if fallout has taught me anything it’s that the true advantage of being bi is that I do 10% more damage to all human targets
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floating-head:
if fallout has taught me anything it’s that the true advantage of being bi is that I do 10% more damage to all human targets
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ilikemusicalsandtheinternet:
thechekhov:
danscratch:
So I found out that people have strong feelings about sparkling water
I, too, share the sentiment of this post. Sparkling water needs to chill and stop trying to bite the inside of my mouth. It’s rude and unpleasant.
Angry water
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ilikemusicalsandtheinternet:
thechekhov:
danscratch:
So I found out that people have strong feelings about sparkling water
I, too, share the sentiment of this post. Sparkling water needs to chill and stop trying to bite the inside of my mouth. It’s rude and unpleasant.
Angry water
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naamahdarling:
lewisandquark:
The King’s Arms. The Bell and Bucket. The Black Bull Inn. The Beggar’s Bridge. A pub’s name is part of its soul, often highly unique, often hundreds of years old, often with a story behind it. A simple computer program couldn’t hope to give a proper name to a pub. But what if it tried?
Timothea Armour asked me to find out, as part of a project called “The Last Hour!” on the cultural peculiarities of pubs, commissioned by Collective, a gallery in Scotland. I’ve been training a type of computer program called a neural network to generate names for all kinds of things - guinea pigs, craft beers, and paint colors. Neural networks are a bit different from regular computer programs: In the usual kind of computer programming, a human invents rules that a computer has to follow. With neural networks, however, the human only gives the computer some examples to learn from, and the computer invents its own rules about how to make more examples.
Timothea gave me a list of 1,053 pubs from the northeast of England from a database compiled by Colin Anderson, and I fed these names into an open-source neural network framework.
After just a little bit of time training, the neural network had made some progress - after all, it starts with no idea of whether it’s supposed to be generating prose or musical notation or Finnish grocery lists. It had to form its own rules about capitalization, and line breaks, and which letters go with which other letters. And these names - well, some of them - are already identifiable as possibly pub-like, though at this stage none of them are usable.
Euceseeettigwtird Arms
Tea Posh Basei
Innery
Ga iral Ferk
Thod Inn Inn
Darn Funk Inn
Alan
Ars Swoos Loveles
Noms
Lick Aams Tteat
Armharoh Hams
Olk Ars Hotle
Moveam Treee
Slamlongs Arms
Roll
Brrew
keg Arme Horel
Booge Houne
Arse Inn
Tumen Poodes Cavel Coundor Horse
Baak
Hotey Bead Inn
Fl Wlofler Arms
Oleetrar Moor Corore oad Bite & Chuts Wotee Vonehscon Cresks Arms
After the neural network has looked through the list of names about 11 times, it has made a bit more progress. These mostly sound like pub names, though there’s definitely still something off about them.
Tostars Inn
Liad Cush House
Blawky Arms
Stons Of Horse
Blaksigth Arms
Whistle Plan Hotel
Bracken of Crovn
Coksarnss Hotel
Vulck fod Lick
Bool House
Many Inn
Horshy Ban
Crownreal Top
Drock of Conshersland
Prickhomidd Arms
Bill Inn
Dhodalgoat Hotel
Facg Manf Hell Hotel
By 17 times through the dataset, the neural network still doesn’t quite have the knack for this.
Whoneas Grey Hotel Hotel Hotel Trlety Eln’s Arms
Phite
Meathord
Green Head Hotel
Bhickloy Farp Arms
Wharberb Bark
Hirlamion Crapy
Grile & Fumthorse
Male Dora
Rey Ofe White Bear Pivsing Jambork Hotel
Cumperlel
Watersy Head
Ox Cadder Inn
Bar of El
Carhey Orb
Boak Hotel Inn
Whee Blinf
Plowde Tree
Bleak Clad
Angely Arms
By 21 times through the dataset, the neural network has shown some signs of improvement, but most of the names still need work.
Elden Mens
Collick Inn
King Brad Inn
Load Hotel
Torn House Inn
Rob Inn
Thanes of Lampel
Gurn uf Staneton Hell
Garled Blorge
Roods Cocket
Horn Blawde
Inn House Inn
Tivern
Got Blewe
Wot n Arms Hotel
Arm Savers
The names eventually get more consistently pronounceable, and very occasionally, even believable. But mostly, they’re a bit substandard. At this stage, the neural network has had 35 tries at the original dataset, and still thinks “Bill” is a pretty good name for a pub.
Green Green
Frown Arms
Plucksick
Bill
Horse Long Bog
Lede Lick Hotel
Farter Inn
Ports Bean
Fin Dune
The Beelly Gam
Tha Dlee Fark House
Phan House Naw
Old Mess
Now and Inn
Fripy Whee Bore Inn
Ladside Inn
Hogs Thee Inn
Shur Hiad House Hotel Hotel
Old Ash Ox Horse Inn
Bleak Clab
Bark Inn
Blisksmerd
Shorthood
Rat Horses
Wheee Travel
Sham
New Shins
Ferp’s Brel
Forty times through the dataset, and it also has not relented on its odd preference for rude-sounding names. The pubs of northeast England are in general a lot more innocuous than this.
F'ing Hotel
The Gland Greene
Old Farders Arms
King Shams
Bliyffinge
The Blande Tree
Blink Bear
Gole Clown Hotel
Hall of Sprong
Firdwock Hotel
Dur & Thimpers
Dorty Hounds
Phage Farm
Ox Kings
Kingfarter Mantle
I’m not even trying here. As the neural network progresses in its training, the proportion of terrible pub names only increases.
Bollock Hotel
Flee
Sun Farm
Pubber Arms
Blanding Weed
Willey
Farters Red Hotel
F Kings
Moldy Goine
Pant Cabber
Hell
Castle Stan
Crown & Three Hotel
Grey Trip
Now that the neural network has gone through the dataset a hundred times, I can only conclude: don’t use a computer to name your next pub.
Belle Inn
Crow’s Rest
Mingside Arms
Crown & Fathous
Stonebredde Arms
Old Festerlan
Burn Horse Hotel
Doss of Wulling of Stank
Shore’s Castle Crustle Hotel
Lick Inn
Odd Lingwion
Lambles
Loons Hall
Thringeron Arms
Flint Horse
The All House
Dean & Funtling
Old Hell Kick
Jolly Trocks
Wallow Arms
Were there worse names that I didn’t include here? You bet there were. There are two ways to see them: 1) After Sept 22, 2017, look for the “Last Hour!” newspaper in pubs all over Edinburgh, Scotland, where you can find a version of this article that includes the rudest names as well. 2) Follow this link and I’ll email those names to you now. They’re quite rude, though.
“Now and Inn” is actually clever, and “Crow’s Rest” I am definitely stealing, but the rest … GOD.
GOD.
KINGFARTER MANTLE.
Tag yourself, I’m “Wheee Travel”
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naamahdarling:
lewisandquark:
The King’s Arms. The Bell and Bucket. The Black Bull Inn. The Beggar’s Bridge. A pub’s name is part of its soul, often highly unique, often hundreds of years old, often with a story behind it. A simple computer program couldn’t hope to give a proper name to a pub. But what if it tried?
Timothea Armour asked me to find out, as part of a project called “The Last Hour!” on the cultural peculiarities of pubs, commissioned by Collective, a gallery in Scotland. I’ve been training a type of computer program called a neural network to generate names for all kinds of things - guinea pigs, craft beers, and paint colors. Neural networks are a bit different from regular computer programs: In the usual kind of computer programming, a human invents rules that a computer has to follow. With neural networks, however, the human only gives the computer some examples to learn from, and the computer invents its own rules about how to make more examples.
Timothea gave me a list of 1,053 pubs from the northeast of England from a database compiled by Colin Anderson, and I fed these names into an open-source neural network framework.
After just a little bit of time training, the neural network had made some progress - after all, it starts with no idea of whether it’s supposed to be generating prose or musical notation or Finnish grocery lists. It had to form its own rules about capitalization, and line breaks, and which letters go with which other letters. And these names - well, some of them - are already identifiable as possibly pub-like, though at this stage none of them are usable.
Euceseeettigwtird Arms
Tea Posh Basei
Innery
Ga iral Ferk
Thod Inn Inn
Darn Funk Inn
Alan
Ars Swoos Loveles
Noms
Lick Aams Tteat
Armharoh Hams
Olk Ars Hotle
Moveam Treee
Slamlongs Arms
Roll
Brrew
keg Arme Horel
Booge Houne
Arse Inn
Tumen Poodes Cavel Coundor Horse
Baak
Hotey Bead Inn
Fl Wlofler Arms
Oleetrar Moor Corore oad Bite & Chuts Wotee Vonehscon Cresks Arms
After the neural network has looked through the list of names about 11 times, it has made a bit more progress. These mostly sound like pub names, though there’s definitely still something off about them.
Tostars Inn
Liad Cush House
Blawky Arms
Stons Of Horse
Blaksigth Arms
Whistle Plan Hotel
Bracken of Crovn
Coksarnss Hotel
Vulck fod Lick
Bool House
Many Inn
Horshy Ban
Crownreal Top
Drock of Conshersland
Prickhomidd Arms
Bill Inn
Dhodalgoat Hotel
Facg Manf Hell Hotel
By 17 times through the dataset, the neural network still doesn’t quite have the knack for this.
Whoneas Grey Hotel Hotel Hotel Trlety Eln’s Arms
Phite
Meathord
Green Head Hotel
Bhickloy Farp Arms
Wharberb Bark
Hirlamion Crapy
Grile & Fumthorse
Male Dora
Rey Ofe White Bear Pivsing Jambork Hotel
Cumperlel
Watersy Head
Ox Cadder Inn
Bar of El
Carhey Orb
Boak Hotel Inn
Whee Blinf
Plowde Tree
Bleak Clad
Angely Arms
By 21 times through the dataset, the neural network has shown some signs of improvement, but most of the names still need work.
Elden Mens
Collick Inn
King Brad Inn
Load Hotel
Torn House Inn
Rob Inn
Thanes of Lampel
Gurn uf Staneton Hell
Garled Blorge
Roods Cocket
Horn Blawde
Inn House Inn
Tivern
Got Blewe
Wot n Arms Hotel
Arm Savers
The names eventually get more consistently pronounceable, and very occasionally, even believable. But mostly, they’re a bit substandard. At this stage, the neural network has had 35 tries at the original dataset, and still thinks “Bill” is a pretty good name for a pub.
Green Green
Frown Arms
Plucksick
Bill
Horse Long Bog
Lede Lick Hotel
Farter Inn
Ports Bean
Fin Dune
The Beelly Gam
Tha Dlee Fark House
Phan House Naw
Old Mess
Now and Inn
Fripy Whee Bore Inn
Ladside Inn
Hogs Thee Inn
Shur Hiad House Hotel Hotel
Old Ash Ox Horse Inn
Bleak Clab
Bark Inn
Blisksmerd
Shorthood
Rat Horses
Wheee Travel
Sham
New Shins
Ferp’s Brel
Forty times through the dataset, and it also has not relented on its odd preference for rude-sounding names. The pubs of northeast England are in general a lot more innocuous than this.
F'ing Hotel
The Gland Greene
Old Farders Arms
King Shams
Bliyffinge
The Blande Tree
Blink Bear
Gole Clown Hotel
Hall of Sprong
Firdwock Hotel
Dur & Thimpers
Dorty Hounds
Phage Farm
Ox Kings
Kingfarter Mantle
I’m not even trying here. As the neural network progresses in its training, the proportion of terrible pub names only increases.
Bollock Hotel
Flee
Sun Farm
Pubber Arms
Blanding Weed
Willey
Farters Red Hotel
F Kings
Moldy Goine
Pant Cabber
Hell
Castle Stan
Crown & Three Hotel
Grey Trip
Now that the neural network has gone through the dataset a hundred times, I can only conclude: don’t use a computer to name your next pub.
Belle Inn
Crow’s Rest
Mingside Arms
Crown & Fathous
Stonebredde Arms
Old Festerlan
Burn Horse Hotel
Doss of Wulling of Stank
Shore’s Castle Crustle Hotel
Lick Inn
Odd Lingwion
Lambles
Loons Hall
Thringeron Arms
Flint Horse
The All House
Dean & Funtling
Old Hell Kick
Jolly Trocks
Wallow Arms
Were there worse names that I didn’t include here? You bet there were. There are two ways to see them: 1) After Sept 22, 2017, look for the “Last Hour!” newspaper in pubs all over Edinburgh, Scotland, where you can find a version of this article that includes the rudest names as well. 2) Follow this link and I’ll email those names to you now. They’re quite rude, though.
“Now and Inn” is actually clever, and “Crow’s Rest” I am definitely stealing, but the rest … GOD.
GOD.
KINGFARTER MANTLE.
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akron-squirrel:
fivelosersandaqueen:
akron-squirrel:
the-bradshacalypse:
akron-squirrel:
The trend with fandoms nowadays seems to be:
- Praise the living daylights out of a show and shove its greatness in everyone’s face
- 2 years later, pick it apart violently and insult everyone who still enjoys it in as edgy a way as possible because negativity is cool
I’ve noticed this same trend, and as an aspiring artist/content creator, it disturbs me deeply. I know I don’t want to spend 1-3 years of my life on a large comic or animation project solely for people to enjoy from now ‘til the end of time… only for its true fan base to expire immediately like milk left out of the fridge, and only attract the lowest common denominator type fans and amass a useless “hatedom” afterwards. I’m sure I’m not the only one disturbed by this.
It’s like the relevancy of a work of art/fiction in this day and age keeps getting shorter and shorter. Is that due to shrinking attention spans? Is it because there’s a constant barrage of new works being cranked out everywhere, and other works just kinda get buried? Is it because things get too popular too quickly? (those seem to be the worst). I don’t know, but regardless I don’t like it.
An important two cents to consider
It’s likely because they’re things that attempt to cater to the new wave of social justice and awareness, and I say that in a good way. Shows that legitimately try to address things like LGBTQIA+, and gender roles, and racial issues, and anything else I’m forgetting in the moment.
When Tumblr sees that, we immediately latch onto this show, because the creators are clearly like us, they understand, they want to do good by spreading awareness.
The problem is that we go all in. They have to get everything perfectly right or they’re fucking it all up. If they make an attempt, they must be completely knowledged in what they’re addressing. Because we’ve put this show on a pedestal and adopted it as a beacon of morality.
As someone whose been there, it’s a dangerous path to walk down. When you expect the things you love to be perfect, you set yourself up for disappointment. Not to say you shouldn’t question things! But for fucks sake, what do you think you’re gonna get if you go for the throat the minute you find a hair out of place? Don’t put your favorite shows up on a pedestal. Don’t act like what you like has to be perfect. Understand that liking something flawed doesn’t inherently mean you’re forgiving those flaws. You can love something and also acknowledge what about it is fucked up. That’s called critical consumption of media!
No show - no one - is gonna wanna touch on issues if they aren’t allowed the chance to learn from their mistakes.
More to consider
People especially do this when the creators are openly gay or trans or women or PoC or any combo there of. Because these people have face oppression and thus “know better” so…when human error or flaws or even just corporate/censored mandate occurs it feels like a betrayal.
When the creator is a white straight dude they usually get a pass because we’re taught to simultaneously expect great things from white straight dudes and to expect nothing.
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deepdishpeacock:
akron-squirrel:
fivelosersandaqueen:
akron-squirrel:
the-bradshacalypse:
akron-squirrel:
The trend with fandoms nowadays seems to be:
- Praise the living daylights out of a show and shove its greatness in everyone’s face
- 2 years later, pick it apart violently and insult everyone who still enjoys it in as edgy a way as possible because negativity is cool
I’ve noticed this same trend, and as an aspiring artist/content creator, it disturbs me deeply. I know I don’t want to spend 1-3 years of my life on a large comic or animation project solely for people to enjoy from now ‘til the end of time… only for its true fan base to expire immediately like milk left out of the fridge, and only attract the lowest common denominator type fans and amass a useless “hatedom” afterwards. I’m sure I’m not the only one disturbed by this.
It’s like the relevancy of a work of art/fiction in this day and age keeps getting shorter and shorter. Is that due to shrinking attention spans? Is it because there’s a constant barrage of new works being cranked out everywhere, and other works just kinda get buried? Is it because things get too popular too quickly? (those seem to be the worst). I don’t know, but regardless I don’t like it.
An important two cents to consider
It’s likely because they’re things that attempt to cater to the new wave of social justice and awareness, and I say that in a good way. Shows that legitimately try to address things like LGBTQIA+, and gender roles, and racial issues, and anything else I’m forgetting in the moment.
When Tumblr sees that, we immediately latch onto this show, because the creators are clearly like us, they understand, they want to do good by spreading awareness.
The problem is that we go all in. They have to get everything perfectly right or they’re fucking it all up. If they make an attempt, they must be completely knowledged in what they’re addressing. Because we’ve put this show on a pedestal and adopted it as a beacon of morality.
As someone whose been there, it’s a dangerous path to walk down. When you expect the things you love to be perfect, you set yourself up for disappointment. Not to say you shouldn’t question things! But for fucks sake, what do you think you’re gonna get if you go for the throat the minute you find a hair out of place? Don’t put your favorite shows up on a pedestal. Don’t act like what you like has to be perfect. Understand that liking something flawed doesn’t inherently mean you’re forgiving those flaws. You can love something and also acknowledge what about it is fucked up. That’s called critical consumption of media!
No show - no one - is gonna wanna touch on issues if they aren’t allowed the chance to learn from their mistakes.
More to consider
People especially do this when the creators are openly gay or trans or women or PoC or any combo there of. Because these people have face oppression and thus “know better” so…when human error or flaws or even just corporate/censored mandate occurs it feels like a betrayal.
When the creator is a white straight dude they usually get a pass because we’re taught to simultaneously expect great things from white straight dudes and to expect nothing.
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team-lionheart7:
momnar:
roachpatrol:
one of the nice things about heterosexuals i never see talked about on here is that they haven’t already heard all your gay jokes yet. i just really appreciate having a new audience sometimes for my completely automatic responses to phrases like ‘i’ll be straight with you’. so, shoutout to all the innocent hets out there who have a genuine giggle over lame quips that a fellow queer would groan and hit me for. ilu guys.
I recently no scoped my coworker when she asked me “What’s in the closet, anyway?” and I automatically said “me”. She lost her mind. Full cackling in the middle of the store. I never thought I’d see the day that joke would work but here I was, blessed with an unexperienced heterosexual. It was transcendent.
I once had a girl working on a display where I work, and she commented, “I thought this would be straighter when I got done with it.” And I said, “my mother thought the same thing about me”, and everyone around us lost it. It was a blessed moment.
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team-lionheart7:
momnar:
roachpatrol:
one of the nice things about heterosexuals i never see talked about on here is that they haven’t already heard all your gay jokes yet. i just really appreciate having a new audience sometimes for my completely automatic responses to phrases like ‘i’ll be straight with you’. so, shoutout to all the innocent hets out there who have a genuine giggle over lame quips that a fellow queer would groan and hit me for. ilu guys.
I recently no scoped my coworker when she asked me “What’s in the closet, anyway?” and I automatically said “me”. She lost her mind. Full cackling in the middle of the store. I never thought I’d see the day that joke would work but here I was, blessed with an unexperienced heterosexual. It was transcendent.
I once had a girl working on a display where I work, and she commented, “I thought this would be straighter when I got done with it.” And I said, “my mother thought the same thing about me”, and everyone around us lost it. It was a blessed moment.
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alexis-royce:
sabertoothwalrus:
cheaper suggestions for inktober
1. refillable brush pens
you can get packs like these for pretty cheap on Amazon. You can fill them with whatever kind of ink you want. I like them because they’re portable, clean, and really versatile. If you get a 3 pack, I’d suggest filling one with waterproof ink, one with water soluble ink, and one with water. Or you try filling them up with various colors! I find it way more cost efficient than getting one of the pentel brush pens because their refill cartidges can be kind of expensive.
2. Sharpies
Again, Amazon is your friend here. You can chisel an edge off with an x-acto knife to get more dynamic lines.
3. literally any pen you already have.
Ballpoint pens. Gel pens. Crayolas. Anything. It’s free and you really don’t need expensive art materials to participate in inktober.
Have fun and get spooky
I’ve tried the second set of brushes and they’re fine, but that brand up top literally fell apart on me the first time I used them. The bristles fell out in chunks and ruined my inks. Maybe I got a bad pack or whatever, but I wanted to toss in a warning, especially for people who don’t have money to waste!
oh boost! I don’t have experience with those brushes so I didn’t know. I have a set of pentel water brush pens that I found in my mom’s scrapbooking stuff, and they’re really nice. I know they run a little pricier but I work at Hobby Lobby and you can get them 40% off if you have the coupon from their website.
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alexis-royce:
sabertoothwalrus:
cheaper suggestions for inktober
1. refillable brush pens
you can get packs like these for pretty cheap on Amazon. You can fill them with whatever kind of ink you want. I like them because they’re portable, clean, and really versatile. If you get a 3 pack, I’d suggest filling one with waterproof ink, one with water soluble ink, and one with water. Or you try filling them up with various colors! I find it way more cost efficient than getting one of the pentel brush pens because their refill cartidges can be kind of expensive.
2. Sharpies
Again, Amazon is your friend here. You can chisel an edge off with an x-acto knife to get more dynamic lines.
3. literally any pen you already have.
Ballpoint pens. Gel pens. Crayolas. Anything. It’s free and you really don’t need expensive art materials to participate in inktober.
Have fun and get spooky
I’ve tried the second set of brushes and they’re fine, but that brand up top literally fell apart on me the first time I used them. The bristles fell out in chunks and ruined my inks. Maybe I got a bad pack or whatever, but I wanted to toss in a warning, especially for people who don’t have money to waste!
oh boost! I don’t have experience with those brushes so I didn’t know. I have a set of pentel water brush pens that I found in my mom’s scrapbooking stuff, and they’re really nice. I know they run a little pricier but I work at Hobby Lobby and you can get them 40% off if you have the coupon from their website.
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The Most Convenient Charger Ever.
How many times have you wished you had your charger with you?
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Data sync
Charging cable (requires any power bank - not included)
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