so the thing that fucks me up about elves is like, of course they’re great archers. they live several hundred years. you’d be good at anything if you could do it for several hundred years. but what really fucks me up is thinking about how elves go to war with humans and they’re like, looking at these dudes across the field and they nudge their elf friend and are like ‘oh my god Ch’adrick those dudes are like, twenty. they’re twenty Chad’rick. why are we fighting a bunch of babies’ and then they die because the babies can shoot arrows too. NOT GOOD, BUT THEY CAN.
Kinda like how sometimes adventurers are like, wait, these goblins are like six years old and they’ve literally never been exposed to anything except hostility from anybody outside their tribe, maybe if they just had the chance to–
and then they don’t say anything else because they got stabbed by goblins a whole lot.
That’s the entire plot to Goblin Slayer. Good manga.
Everytime you fill in CAPTCHA you’re helping to digitalize old books and documents. Using CAPTCHA abt 250 books are added to a digital database everyday
Its called RECAPTCHA! The creator of CAPTCHA (Luis von Ahn) realised a lot of time was being wasted with CAPTCHA (worldwide we spend about 500,000 hours doing CAPTCHA every day)
So he wanted to put it to good use
The reason why CAPTCHA uses wonky letters is because computers can’t read them, but we can!
But when trying to automatically digitalise old books and documents this becomes a hindrance because computers often cant read the faded old letters. So the digitalising is done by humans (very costly and time consuming)
Anyway Ahn found out about these a integraded into captcha creating RECAPTCHA.
Everyday about 150 (sorry i meant 150 not 250) old books get digitalized this way. They are currently using it to digitalize the whole archive of The New York Times (since 1851)
So we’re all kinda building a digital library of alexandria this way by using captcha, noice
reCAPTCHA Founded 2007. Overview reCAPTCHA is a free CAPTCHA service
that helps to digitize books, newspapers and old time radio shows.
reCAPTCHA improves the process of digitizing books by sending words that
cannot be read by computers to the Web in the form of CAPTCHAs for
humans to decipher.
In case any of you thought this was BS
Yeah too bad it’s now recognizing stuff in pictures to train surveillance software instead.
Those old “Oh Chuck Norris is so strong he could beat up anyone.” memes from like 2007 are so fucking dumb. Like, I could name off at least 20 or so people that could kick his ass, for example;
Gandalf the Gray
Gandalf the White
Monty Python and the Holy Grail’s Black Night
Benito Mussolini
Blue Meanie
Cowboy Curtis
Jambi the Genie
Robocop
The Terminator
Captain Kirk
Darth Vader
Lo-Pan
Superman
Every single Power Ranger
Bill S Preston
Theodore Logan
Spock
The Rock
Doc Oc
Hulk Hogan
I can’t think of anymore but please feel free to add on
A quick glance through the notes tells you who wasn’t there in 2007 just because they’re continuing the list
Just saying, that this is currently happening on HumbleBundle C: For those my Warhammer followers who possible were interested in this, in my opinion, quite enjoyable game.
>black market weapons for unregistered credit chips and Big Mac E-Coins
>scavengers show up late, have the payment but it’s all in credit chips, no Big Mac E-coins
>credit chips turn out to be registered to the Target-Mart corporation
>scavengers stole Target-Mart credit chips and tried to pass them off
>ohsynth.rom
>Target-Mart Loss Prevention And Tactics Squad drop on our position
>blind fire with a McTec-9 from behind a suicide booth while my cybernetic implant fights off Target-Mart tort malware
>manage to upload payment information to a band of child mercenaries I contract to for import/export purposes
>they scramble in through an air filtration system and deploy anti-material rifles against the Target-Mart LPATS, rifles are enormous so one holds it while the other fires and reloads
>run out of Big Mac Coins, McTec-9 stops firing
>LPATS start to retreat after 10 minutes because cost of operation wasn’t meeting the deductible on the credit chips’ insurance
>scavengers are by his point pulpy skidmarks on the pavement
>child mercs charge my debit card and strip whats left of the scavengers equipment and drugs, I
escape back to shitty apartment
>landlord ambushes me with a shotgun and demands my rent, refuses to take credit chips
>don’t have any Big Mac Coins so he shoots me in the head
>consciousness backup transmitter sends my cognitive process to a nearby clone bank,
still Big Mac Coin less so my consciousness has to work it off
>have to spent 400 hours as the run-time process for a McDonalds Ice Cream Machine before they’ll clone me a new body
>machine never works, pass time by flirting with the cute girl’s consciousness operating the Debit/Credit/Coin scanner
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