Lydia Scribe

@lydiascribe

Future author, future podcaster, future miracleworker. Someday I'll be someone.

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Lydia Scribe@lydiascribe· Jul 9

So I was reading a comic on Webtoons called Anthropods, and a really interesting scene happened. A mimic bug takes a test for wasps, which they've been warned is incredibly hard. But when they arrive, it's a short interview, and an immediate pass. The reason why:

Interviewer: "Hmm... Sounds sincere. Ok! You start Monday."
Mimic bug: "Huh? That's it? Isn't the exam super hard? I trained and studied all week!"
Interviewer: Ah. Those are the humbling tests. You know we wasps are known to be more solitary, selfish, and prideful than ants. They wouldn't work well as a team. So we humble them. If they don't give up, they can join."

Lydia Scribe@lydiascribe· Jun 26

One of my favorite sections from "Thanatopsis:"

Lydia Scribe@lydiascribe· Jun 17

A friend-of-a-friend lent me their copy of Spirit Island, a game I've wanted to play for a REALLY long time. But... look at this shit! It's still in the wrappers! The cardboard hasn't even been punched out! Is this just me? I HATE opening up other people's games. It feels so disrespectful.

A picture of the inside of the Spirit Island box. The cards for each of the spirit guardians are still in their original shrinkwrap, untouched.

A picture of the top lid for Spirit Island, inside of which is the cardboard sheet with all the little tokens in it that need to be punched out.

Lydia Scribe@lydiascribe· Jun 12

Done. This is... technically a joke, but also... cromulent? Like, you could definitely play this. I think it'd be fun!

A Monsterhearts character sheet, but for Sonic the Hedgehog.

Lydia Scribe@lydiascribe· Jun 11

Although... I looked at the examples on their website, and they don't really look like, uh. This.

Me having an argument with myself. One side of the argument is in white boxes, and the other is in orange-red. Notably, the white side says something like "I'm not having a mental crisis, cry laughing emoji" while the red one seems pretty insistent I take this argument seriously.

Lydia Scribe@lydiascribe· Jun 3

Where my thought immediately went to:

Lydia Scribe@lydiascribe· May 13

I also did my own versions of the Fated Leaders, the 3rd PnP, but those already had illustrations. Mine are just... pale imitations of @d20plusmodifier.bsky.social 's inestimable artwork. So have a couple where I went maverick and added my own (crappy) flair to them!

Hand-drawn version of the Scavenger Fated Leader. It looks pretty similar to the one drawn by Kyle Ferrin, except there's a little muffin-shaped fluffball in one of the Scavenger's bags.

A hand-drawn version of the Oracle Fated Leader. The original had three identical heads; this one has three different heads and stitchwork across the body to suggest a sort of grotesque, chimera-like creature.

The Abbot Fated Leader. This one didn't actually have a picture, so I came up with something: namely, a three-eyed alien wearing a face mask akin to a blast shield, dressed in something like priestly robes. He's looking at a shining star matching the symbol of his faith.

My hand-drawn version of the Firebrand Fated Leader. I changed up his pose a little bit: now he's winking and pointing out in front of him, very rogueish and dashing. I also changed his uniform to be more military.

Lydia Scribe@lydiascribe· May 13

For those of you in the know, Buried Giant Studios just finished a Kickstarter for a new expansion to Arcs! They've released a couple things as Print and Plays, just without their final artwork. So of course, I made my own illustrations, by hand! I'm not much of an artist, but it was super fun!

A collection of 31 illustrations for the Arcs Print and Play. They're colorful and charming, but pretty amateurish.

Lydia Scribe@lydiascribe· Apr 23

Not actually a "crime" per se, but this story is a great example of this:

Lydia Scribe@lydiascribe· Apr 10

My friend and I have been playing through that new game, Absolum. I tried playing as the elf sword girl, but then I unlocked... Cider. A non-binary, acrobatic half-puppet thief who has both a male and female soul inside them. ...so, uh. Gender goals? Maximum gender goals? 😳😍🥵

Lydia Scribe@lydiascribe· Mar 22

Pic for proof

A semi-transparent whiteboard, with the sentence "Every word that comes out of your mouth hurts the people you love" on the bottom half and a message on the top half which is meant to say "Fuck the new Lydia," but which suddenly falls apart into incomprehensible scribbling

Lydia Scribe@lydiascribe· Sep 4

Latest bit of Silksong Madness: I got this on my Starbucks cup, and for a second I thought it was Hornet. 😆

Lydia Scribe@lydiascribe· Aug 8

New profile pic! This one from an artist whose work I've loved for a long time, @tatoisr.bsky.social ! She did a spectacular job here! I love all the little charms on the jacket sleeve, the gold trim, the swoosh of the hair and the smirk! 😍

Lydia Scribe@lydiascribe· Jun 25

I could have stayed Jekyll--kept you hidden within me, your name an illicit thrill. Why in the name of God and heaven did I come out as Hyde: expose my sin and call it virtue; profane my temple with the trappings of Eve; eat the fruit of evil and kill myself with its insidious poison?

Lydia Scribe@lydiascribe· Jun 24

Lydia Scribe@lydiascribe· May 16

@jonbois.bsky.social I caught a piece of nerd cred you messed up. Where's the apology? Who's getting fired for this blunder??? (Just kidding. Love your videos! 😁)

A tweet I made over on Twitter. "But that's not what I wanted to mention. In one of the many, many side tangents, he talks about a military operation to take radioactive waste and scatter it, and I quote, "like coins in Super Mario 1-1. ...Level 1-1 doesn't have any overworld coins. They're all in blocks. Facepalm."

Lydia Scribe@lydiascribe· May 7

Yessss, I'm so excited! I finally got my name misspelled on a Starbucks order! 😆 It's like a rite of passage.

A Grande Mocha from Starbucks, for "Lidia."

An Egg Pesto Mozzarella sandwich from Starbucks, for "Lidia."

Lydia Scribe@lydiascribe· Apr 16

Adam Smith's legacy is... complicated, but at the very least, he does get some sick burns on landlords, lol. I was trying to find some good ones, but here's the best one I could find offhand.

When the public deliberates concerning any regulation of commerce or police, the proprietors of land never can mislead it, with a view to promote the interest of their own particular order; at least, if they have any tolerable knowledge of that interest. They are, indeed, too often defective in this tolerable knowledge. They are the only one of the three orders whose revenue costs them neither labor nor care, but comes to them, as it were, of its own accord, and independent of any plan or project of their own. That indolence, which is the natural effect of the ease and security of their situation, renders them too often, not only ignorant, but incapable of that application of mind which is necessary in order to foresee and understand the consequences of any public regulation.

Lydia Scribe@lydiascribe· Apr 15

I guess you were probably joking, but... I couldn't find anything about uncertainty, but here's Smith's take on tariffs, lol

To give the monopoly of the home market to the produce of domestic industry, in any particular art or manufacture, is in some measure to direct private people in what manner they ought to employ their capitals, and must, in almost all cases, be either a useless or hurtful regulation. If the produce of domestic can be brought there as cheap as that of foreign industry, the regulation is evidently useless. If it cannot, it must generally be hurtful.

Lydia Scribe@lydiascribe· Apr 15

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Lydia Scribe@lydiascribe· Apr 8

If we're switching to dice, then I think the next-closest thing would be a craps table.

The layout of a craps table, with all its many variations in bets.

Lydia Scribe@lydiascribe· Apr 7

Also, hey, look, the Democrats are in here, too!

Revelations 6:10-11 from the Bible. They cried out with a loud voice, “O Sovereign Lord, holy and true, how long before you will judge and avenge our blood on those who dwell on the earth?” Then they were each given a white robe and told to rest a little longer, until the number of their fellow servants and their brothers should be complete, who were to be killed as they themselves had been.

Lydia Scribe@lydiascribe· Apr 6

Here's two more. The first one is DeepSeek. I... really don't understand this punchline. As to Copilot's joke... I know I've read this joke a hundred times in those lame joke books for nine-year-olds. Like I said. This is the level LLMs' jokes are at. Neuro's jokes are IMPOSSIBLE.

So, my friend Dave bragged about teaching his dog to meditate.
"He sits perfectly still, paws folded, eyes closed—total zen," he said.
I was skeptical, but sure enough, when I visited, the dog was cross-legged on a cushion, ominously serene.
Impressed, I asked, "How’d you manage this?"
Dave sighed. "Turns out he’s just *really* good at pretending I’ve thrown a treat."

The punchline? Even enlightenment is food-motivated.

Copilot's "very original" joke:

A snail goes to a car dealershp and says, "I want the fastest sports car you have, and paint a big S on it!" The dealer asks, "Why the S?"

The snail replies, "Because when I drive by, I want people to say, 'Look at that S-car-go!"

I'm rolling my eyes, this joke is so bad.

Lydia Scribe@lydiascribe· Apr 6

Okay, I tried both ChatGPT and the free version of Claude I had access to. Their jokes are... not much better than Gemini's, but at least ChatGPT's is kinda funny. (I'm almost certain it stole this joke from somewhere, though.)

ChatGPT's decent joke: "So a guy walks into a library and asks the librarian, 'Hey, do you have any books on paranoia?' The librarian looks around and whispers, 'They're right behind you...'" Ba-dum tish.

Open-AI GPT 4o-mini's terrible joke: "Why did the computer go to school? To learn how to improve its memory! But what happened when it graduated? It kept forgetting its classmates! So where did it end up? In a web browser, surfing the net for better connections!" Ha... ha?

Lydia Scribe@lydiascribe· Apr 5

By contrast, I asked Gemini to tell a joke, and it gave me these stinkers. Three completely unoriginal jokes, with these weird second punchlines attached to the end that make no sense. (Also, esp. that first one, LLMs love to make meta-jokes about themselves. I assume this is programmed in.)

Gemini's first terrible joke: "Why did the language model bring a ladder to the conversation? Because it wanted to reach a higher level of understanding... and maybe get over some data biases." ughhhhhh

Gemini's second terrible joke: "What has a spine, but no bones? What can tell you stories, but has no mouth? What travels the world, but never leaves a shelf? ...A library book, obviously. But I was mostly asking because I'm trying to figure out how it keeps ordering pizza." What does pizza have to do with anything???

Gemini's third atrocious joke. "What has cities, but no houses? Forests, but no trees? And rivers, but no water? ...A map! I was asking because I'm trying to figure out how it keeps losing its car keys." Boooo, you stink!

Lydia Scribe@lydiascribe· Apr 4

How did they miss this? They even spelled it right. Or are they not familiar with tea-leaf reading??

The definition of the word "augur:" to foretell especially from omens

Lydia Scribe@lydiascribe· Mar 13

Then they explained that it uses the Inscribed Angle Theorem, and I breathed a sigh of relief. Of course. It's all doubled angles, and the doubled angles add up to tau. So the collisions don't add up to pi; they add up to half-tau. Phew!😮‍💨

A screenshot of a video explaining the mass experiment described previously. Of note is the first equation, "2 theta plus 2 theta, et cetera, is less than 2 pi." In other words, less than tau. Vindication!

Lydia Scribe@lydiascribe· Mar 13

Lydia Scribe@lydiascribe· Mar 12

A two-panel comic. Panel 1: Elmo looks at a collection of fruit and pile of mysterious white powder. Panel 2: Elmo rejects the fruit and slams face-first into the pile of white powder.

Lydia Scribe@lydiascribe· Mar 9

Here's two of my favorites!