Litui (Aria) 🇨🇦

@litui

Opinion-haver, job-seeker, programmer, musician, gamer, anime-watcher, and maker. An @uwu.engineer. I know some things about a lot of things. I'm the creator and maintainer of @shrampybot.gsg.live. 🏳️‍⚧️✡️ Free Palestine #yyc #treaty7

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Litui (Aria) 🇨🇦@litui· 4d

Oh fuck off.

Litui (Aria) 🇨🇦@litui· Jun 10

My (re)Pebble Time 2 finally arrived this morning <3 The smartwatch I always wanted, now better than ever. Glad I upgraded to the Time 2 as well.

Pebble Time 2 boxes (watch and strap) on a white table and a wrist bearing the Time 2.

Litui (Aria) 🇨🇦@litui· Jun 6

Best buds #caturday

Two ragdoll cats lying next to each other peeping out a window. Left one is white and brown right one is white. We can't see either of their faces as the photo is taken from behind them.

Litui (Aria) 🇨🇦@litui· Jun 1

Technically my mom's yahrzeit is tomorrow but already feeling it today. 6 years.

A powered up electric yahrzeit candle with a glowing Star of David (orange glow) within a transparent glass lightbulb. Blue and brass bass with Hebrew text around the base. In the background are bread products, a butter keeper, and some scotch.

Litui (Aria) 🇨🇦@litui· May 27

Proof. Blew my mind.

Litui (Aria) 🇨🇦@litui· May 22

Made gluten free Pigs in a Blanket today. Not my finest work (flake pastry is kinda tricky) but functional :)

Litui (Aria) 🇨🇦@litui· May 20

Reminds me of this ol' pain inducing meme.

Litui (Aria) 🇨🇦@litui· May 19

how is this not health advice????

A course slide entitled "Questions customers may ask" and the question is "How can I reduce my risk for harms and lower my health risks?" section highlighted says "Avoid frequent use: Daily or near-daily use across months or years increases the risk of dependence and may bring on or worsen disorders related to anxiety or depression."

Litui (Aria) 🇨🇦@litui· May 19

yes, fine. THEN WHY ARE YOU TESTING ME ON HEALTH EFFECTS, AGLC?!

bold text: "Cannabis workers are not authorized to provide medical advice to customers."
normal text: "Any activities that involve or provide information on the medical use or health benefits of cannabis are prohibited."

Litui (Aria) 🇨🇦@litui· May 13

"Oops, I flubbed it, I suppose." #rezeromonogatari

Beatrice in ReZero saying "His outfit resembled the traditional attire of Kararagi, I suppose" to Ram.

Litui (Aria) 🇨🇦@litui· May 9

Litui (Aria) 🇨🇦@litui· May 6

Started rearranging and wiping the dust off of my synths this morning. Sorry for the neglect my fart-noise-making friends.

A squadron of synths and other music related boxes on a Jasper's rack

Perspective shot of the keyboard and knobs of a freshly dusted Korg Prologue-16

Litui (Aria) 🇨🇦@litui· May 6

Currency Wars in Honkai from the other day. Wheeeeew.

Big numbers go up game. Over 15 billion in damage done by a 5 cost Silver Wolf lv999 in Currency Wars. With Evanescia in 2nd place at 11 billion. Everyone else is trailing far behind.

Litui (Aria) 🇨🇦@litui· Apr 30

For instance the last image is gorgeous. Visually stunning even. But then you notice something and you can never unsee it. What is this roof? Why does it have a metal fence? Ostensibly a safety rail, but for who? There's no roof access hatch/door/ladder. THAT's the problem with LLM mistakes. #NTE

The context mistake - a fence around an inaccessible square of roof.

Litui (Aria) 🇨🇦@litui· Apr 30

A lot of the 3d asset stuff I can personally write off as a "resolution"/"scale" thing - at a distance things can be totally beautiful but up close you see the flaws. Determining at what level the detail matters is a normal thing in games/graphics, but genAI's context mistakes are immersion-breaking

Litui (Aria) 🇨🇦@litui· Apr 30

This store's sign says "OPEN" but when you knock they tell you they're closed. Probably a flower shop but unclear since their chalkboard sign is in gibberish. #NTE

Open sign on what appears to be a flower shop, but is otherwise nondescript. The chalkboard sign out front is in some nonsense probably LLM writing system.

Litui (Aria) 🇨🇦@litui· Apr 30

So it's not the weirdest architectural decision I've ever seen, but is there any point to that glass column besides letting in light to the small entryway at the bottom? It doesn't appear to open to any of the floors besides the main floor, and doesn't have levels. Just a big empty column. #NTE

Wish-dot-com Welt Yang / Dan Hung hybrid character Adler stares in disbelief at the weird architectural column.

Litui (Aria) 🇨🇦@litui· Apr 30

Cute flower shop/cafe, if a good deal of wasted space, and what a nice platform in the corner for the piano... with no piano bench and a coffee table in the way of using it. Some pretty blatant context-unaware #genAI asset placement here. #NTE

Haniel sure wishes that piano in the corner was playable.

Litui (Aria) 🇨🇦@litui· Apr 30

Yep, I spotted this wish-dot-com Weathering With You poster yesterday too and immediately grabbed a snap. What the hell... #NTE

Haniel knows ripoff AI slop when she sees it. In an underground walkway with a movie poster on the wall that is a total ripoff of Weathering With You.

Litui (Aria) 🇨🇦@litui· Apr 30

What are these buildings supposed to be? Offices? Suites? Why are all the rooms cookie-cutter copy-paste? Not necessarily a genAI thing but compared to the rest of the game this just felt bogglingly lazy. #NTE

Haniel standing on a roof creeping into nearby office tower (???) windows. Every room is uniform with one of maybe 7 or 8 different layouts, but all of them very simplistic.

Haniel standing on a roof creeping into nearby residential tower (???) windows. Every room is uniform with one of maybe 3 or 4 different layouts, but all of them very simplistic. Simple bedroom layout for the most part, all of them right next door to each other, one window per bedroom. Totally nonsensical.

Litui (Aria) 🇨🇦@litui· Apr 30

Okay, first-up we have some wonky decisions about stairs on a hill. I've seen this kind of thing in the wild in real places but it's wild that two folks are having a conversation on those steps. Guessing this is a confluence of GenAI weirdness. #NTE

Haniel looks on with some skepticism at two men having a conversation on some level stairs that unevenly cut into the sidewalk incline, making the bottom stair way too high on one end and way too low on the other. Very unsafe.

Litui (Aria) 🇨🇦@litui· Apr 29

Also, my favourite character so far is Haniel. A goblin child with appropriately gobliny voice acting from Alexis Tipton (who I also enjoyed as Reze in Chainsaw Man)

Litui (Aria) 🇨🇦@litui· Apr 29

Oh hey apparently I'm ("Aria") an ice cream vendor in #NTE.

A blue haired catgirl purchases ice cream in the game Neverness to Everness from a vendor named "Aria"

Litui (Aria) 🇨🇦@litui· Apr 21

Happy 420!

A blob of diamond resin dangling from some glass over its glass storage container.

Litui (Aria) 🇨🇦@litui· Mar 14

This Currency Wars team is wiiiiiild. #HSR #HonkaiStarRail

A Currency Wars finalization screen showing Sparxie having done 19494.0 million damage in the final boss fight.

Litui (Aria) 🇨🇦@litui· Mar 8

Some choose the bear, but I think we could all agree choosing Wendigo might be the right move for the times.

The Wendigo is a creature from the folklore of the Algonquin-speaking tribes of North America. It is described as a malevolent spirit or monster that preys upon humans, particularly those who have committed acts of greed or cannibalism. The Wendigo is said to have a heart of ice and a body that is skeletal and emaciated, with glowing eyes and sharp teeth.

Litui (Aria) 🇨🇦@litui· Mar 8

Weeb interpretation of the plot of Xanadu

Protag-kun: waah my girlfriend is an actual muse and left me and all I have now is the totally unearned equal business partnership in a badass rollerskating nightclub with rich dude Gene Kelly which I failed up into. Waaaah

Protag-kun: so I skated as fast as I could into a concrete wall and isekai'd as a sporty gay.

Screenshot of a TV with the white male protagonist wearing an untucked white and red patterned short sleeved button shirt, short early '80s jogger shorts, and rollerskates.

Litui (Aria) 🇨🇦@litui· Mar 4

How it started vs how it's going

Trump stating "As President, my highest aspiration is to bring peace and stability to the world."

The Iranian warship (prefix IRIS) "Dena" sinking dramatically in an unclassified photo from the US "Department of War" (not the department's legal name)

Litui (Aria) 🇨🇦@litui· Feb 9

On bsky I tend to hang with fellow creative nerds - vtubers, writers, smut peddlers (complementary), and musicians. On Mastodon it's like 99% my fellow nerdy dev and engineering peeps :)

@litui.ca's placement in a dot cloud of bsky users. In between Creative Industry Professionals and Digital Artists & Illustrators

Litui (Aria) 🇨🇦@litui· Jan 6

Excerpts from one of my all-time favourite textbooks, Rationality and Power by Bent Flyvbjerg. It is a fascinating tale of decision-making in the city council of Aalborg, Denmark. press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo... Anyway, here are some poignant and relevant (and blurry) pics from my 2007 reading.