Sturdy Knight, MLIS, PhD
@sturdyknight.bsky.social
Educational Technologist and Instructional Designer.
Specializing in gamification but not in creepy crypto-bro way I swear.
Coming at you live from the fairy bower.
Opinions are mine and correct.
He/Him.
Specializing in gamification but not in creepy crypto-bro way I swear.
Coming at you live from the fairy bower.
Opinions are mine and correct.
He/Him.
Hazbin is a gem and I think people will eventually come around, but right now it's very easy to bounce off the admittedly cringey, messy surface layer because there's a superior (in my opinion) alternative with broader appeal that's taking up all the oxygen in the room.
November 24, 2025 at 11:04 PM
Hazbin is a gem and I think people will eventually come around, but right now it's very easy to bounce off the admittedly cringey, messy surface layer because there's a superior (in my opinion) alternative with broader appeal that's taking up all the oxygen in the room.
I think Hazbin is suffering from the fact that KPop Demon Hunters came out at roughly the same time and was also an indie animated musical about exactly the same themes but PG and, frankly, better.
November 24, 2025 at 11:04 PM
I think Hazbin is suffering from the fact that KPop Demon Hunters came out at roughly the same time and was also an indie animated musical about exactly the same themes but PG and, frankly, better.
Dang, it's almost like both shows might be about the idea that people are flawed and fucked up but also still fundamentally decent if you give them a chance.
November 24, 2025 at 7:03 PM
Dang, it's almost like both shows might be about the idea that people are flawed and fucked up but also still fundamentally decent if you give them a chance.
Certainly has the high CHA ability stat to be a successful sorcerer, so yeah, plausible.
November 22, 2025 at 12:31 AM
Certainly has the high CHA ability stat to be a successful sorcerer, so yeah, plausible.
I know this wasn't the point, but just for scale:
CHA 1 - spider, sentient fungus, Stephen Miller
CHA 5 - donkey, JD Vance
CHA 10 - average human
CHA 20 - normal human max, famous bard, lesser angel/demon
CHA 30 - legendary human sorcerer, greater angel/demon, elder dragon
CHA ?? - Zohran
CHA 1 - spider, sentient fungus, Stephen Miller
CHA 5 - donkey, JD Vance
CHA 10 - average human
CHA 20 - normal human max, famous bard, lesser angel/demon
CHA 30 - legendary human sorcerer, greater angel/demon, elder dragon
CHA ?? - Zohran
November 21, 2025 at 9:23 PM
I know this wasn't the point, but just for scale:
CHA 1 - spider, sentient fungus, Stephen Miller
CHA 5 - donkey, JD Vance
CHA 10 - average human
CHA 20 - normal human max, famous bard, lesser angel/demon
CHA 30 - legendary human sorcerer, greater angel/demon, elder dragon
CHA ?? - Zohran
CHA 1 - spider, sentient fungus, Stephen Miller
CHA 5 - donkey, JD Vance
CHA 10 - average human
CHA 20 - normal human max, famous bard, lesser angel/demon
CHA 30 - legendary human sorcerer, greater angel/demon, elder dragon
CHA ?? - Zohran
Dishwasher broke during the height of the pandemic supply chain breakdown - can confirm.
November 21, 2025 at 8:52 PM
Dishwasher broke during the height of the pandemic supply chain breakdown - can confirm.
Love that series and can't wait for What Fucks Severely
November 21, 2025 at 7:57 PM
Love that series and can't wait for What Fucks Severely
Devil's advocate, I am also uncharacteristically without my wedding ring today because last night I was wrist-deep in a large dish of Buffalo chicken cheese dip for normal reasons, and I just forgot to put it back on again when I left the house this morning.
November 21, 2025 at 7:46 PM
Devil's advocate, I am also uncharacteristically without my wedding ring today because last night I was wrist-deep in a large dish of Buffalo chicken cheese dip for normal reasons, and I just forgot to put it back on again when I left the house this morning.
Reference librarians - which is the role that a hypothetical 'good' LLM for learning would most closely resemble - are explicitly trained on how to send users off to work independently as soon as they've gotten going with some appropriate starting resources.
November 21, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Reference librarians - which is the role that a hypothetical 'good' LLM for learning would most closely resemble - are explicitly trained on how to send users off to work independently as soon as they've gotten going with some appropriate starting resources.
I bet if Rowling tried her hand at a fresh YA series she'd have similar success. Ditto if James just went back to unapologetically derivative smut - just write the X-rated alternative take on The Hunger Games, E.L!
November 21, 2025 at 3:02 PM
I bet if Rowling tried her hand at a fresh YA series she'd have similar success. Ditto if James just went back to unapologetically derivative smut - just write the X-rated alternative take on The Hunger Games, E.L!
I interpret this as a failure to understand their original audiences. Rowling's first book was really engaging for awkward tweens, as was James's first book for fan forum perverts. Neither has subsequently written anything targeting that original audience.
November 21, 2025 at 3:02 PM
I interpret this as a failure to understand their original audiences. Rowling's first book was really engaging for awkward tweens, as was James's first book for fan forum perverts. Neither has subsequently written anything targeting that original audience.
Who (miraculously, barely) has two thumbs and a similar experience working at a sawmill as a teen?
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Alt: Giving a two-thumbs-pointing-at-self gesture and saying "This Guy!!!"
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November 21, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Who (miraculously, barely) has two thumbs and a similar experience working at a sawmill as a teen?
A shocking number of people who receive medicaid don't realize that's what they have, because it's called something else or managed through an exchange or whatever in their state.
November 21, 2025 at 2:33 PM
A shocking number of people who receive medicaid don't realize that's what they have, because it's called something else or managed through an exchange or whatever in their state.
And it should go without saying that no student/intern will ever benefit from having their own student/intern.
November 21, 2025 at 2:28 PM
And it should go without saying that no student/intern will ever benefit from having their own student/intern.
I'm settling on the position that using an LLM is like throwing a team of student workers/interns at the problem. There ARE people and projects who can benefit from that kind of brute force approach to helping. But there are WAY MORE that will just get bogged down in misguided nonsense.
November 21, 2025 at 2:28 PM
I'm settling on the position that using an LLM is like throwing a team of student workers/interns at the problem. There ARE people and projects who can benefit from that kind of brute force approach to helping. But there are WAY MORE that will just get bogged down in misguided nonsense.
"Splitting logs with a chainsaw" is a great metaphor for the amount of inefficient overkill that LLMs bring every problem in order to achieve an end product that is good enough at best.
November 21, 2025 at 2:21 PM
"Splitting logs with a chainsaw" is a great metaphor for the amount of inefficient overkill that LLMs bring every problem in order to achieve an end product that is good enough at best.
Hazbin Hotel manages to be simultaneously more mature (in multiple senses) and VASTLY more immature than KPop Demon Hunters, and it's not worth signing up for Prime just on its own. But if you have a way to watch it anyway, try to look past the glompcore surface aesthetic and give it a shot.
November 20, 2025 at 4:24 PM
Hazbin Hotel manages to be simultaneously more mature (in multiple senses) and VASTLY more immature than KPop Demon Hunters, and it's not worth signing up for Prime just on its own. But if you have a way to watch it anyway, try to look past the glompcore surface aesthetic and give it a shot.
Yes, it has an INTENSE amount of theater-kid-discovering-Tumblr-fursonas-for-the-first-time energy. But once you embrace the cringe, there is a really earnest and raw exploration underneath of what it means to be a fucked-up person in a fucked-up world trying to make things better anyway.
November 20, 2025 at 4:24 PM
Yes, it has an INTENSE amount of theater-kid-discovering-Tumblr-fursonas-for-the-first-time energy. But once you embrace the cringe, there is a really earnest and raw exploration underneath of what it means to be a fucked-up person in a fucked-up world trying to make things better anyway.
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Every "Hunger Games" title sounds like a Celestial Seasonings blend from Castlevania.
November 20, 2025 at 2:18 PM
Every "Hunger Games" title sounds like a Celestial Seasonings blend from Castlevania.
My mind immediately goes to this classic: youtu.be/KmkVWuP_sO0?...
The Shining Recut
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November 20, 2025 at 2:43 PM
My mind immediately goes to this classic: youtu.be/KmkVWuP_sO0?...
The extremely low-effort photoshop job in the lead picture is what really makes it.
November 20, 2025 at 1:40 PM
The extremely low-effort photoshop job in the lead picture is what really makes it.