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arrowpunk · 1 year

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So I'm in the process of starting up another TTRPG Campaign that I'll be running, and when I run a campaign I like giving all the PCs a little individual pre-campaign one-shot, so the players have a chance to get used to roleplaying their PCs in a low-pressure environment, and so that we can figure out, together, how their PC ends up where the campaign is going to start.

And with this new campaign I'm running I'm trying to focus on letting things be a bit more sandboxy and a bit less railroady, because I know that's something that I struggle with in the other campaign I'm running. I've been watching a lot of Adventuring Academy and stuff like that and trying to work on becoming a better DM, but anyways, the attempt at being less reliant on my railroads is what is important here.

Because in the one-shot I ran last night the PC I was running it for killed an extremely important NPC that he definitely wasn't supposed to be able to kill, and I absolutely did not plan for- and it was simultaneously the most hilarious and the most effectively emotionally devastating thing that has ever happened while I was running a TTRPG. But it ended up working REALLY WELL and it's like 12 hours later and I still haven't come down from the high that gave me.

Putting the explanation under a read more (Other players in this campaign, if you can, please refrain from opening it I've already given y'all the rundown of the whole thing w/ any information omitted that you aren't allowed to know yet so you aren't missing much trust me)

So the PC, Echo, belongs to @mookybear12404, who is absolutely wonderful and a joy to DM for.

Some necessary background needed for understanding exactly why what happened was both so hilarious and emotionally devastating:

Echo has amnesia, doesn't remember his life from before he became a science project for a very twisted rich family (The Nocturne Family) attempting to use him as a guinea pig to figure out how to unlock the secrets of immortality. When he isn't being used as a science experiment he's their personal assassin to get rid of anyone inconvenient for them. One day this, like, eight year old kid (Astrophel Nocturne) stumbles upon the place where Echo is being kept, and he can tell something is wrong, but like he's eight, there's not much he can do about it, so he keeps Echo company sometimes and just rambles to him about whatever he can think of. Echo never responds, Echo is mute, and has been taught that he isn't allowed to try to communicate with anyone(even tho he knows sign language) : (. Anyways, fast forward four years, this kid is twelve now, and he has devised a plan to help Echo escape. He smuggles Echo some keys, a map, and basic supplies, adding in a couple kitchen knives in an attempt to give this guy something to defend himself with. And also gives him this plush wolf, because he'll need something to keep him company before he makes real friends.

Using the supplies this kid gave him he's able to successfully escape, he keeps the wolf, names it 'Friend', and has a special pouch sewn into his backpack so he can take it with him everywhere. He also joins a bounty hunter guild and eventually learns how to make his own decisions, take control over, and have agency in his own life. (We're all very proud of him.)

Fast forward another twelve years, he's sitting in his bedroom, polishing his sword, when his sort-of-mentor-sort-of-dad(Kodo Finndal), knocks on the door and asks if he can come in. He's got an uncharacteristically somber look on his face, and a very thick file in his hands. He explains to Echo that they just received news that the entire Nocturne family had been murdered the night before. Nobody knows who did it, or why. It's this terrible mix of emotions because on the one hand he's elated that the people who made the first chunk of his life a living hell and took away his personhood are gone and he doesn't have to be afraid of them anymore. But on the other hand, Astro, the first person to treat him like a person, the kid who helped him escape, and gave him hope, and his freedom, is also dead.

The file Kodo is holding is a potential job that Echo can take if he wants to, Kodo and one of Echo's friends(Zettabyte) had been working on building this file for months, specifically for Echo. It's a mission he hopes will be cathartic for him, he knows that when Echo is having a rough time he tends to throw himself harder into his work, so the hope is that this particular job will help. It's a mission specifically tailored to Echo, an extraction and retrieval mission. Zettabyte had discovered a person(Longshot) in a very similar position to the one Echo had been in for most of his life. She figures, helping this guy escape, will hopefully be good for Echo.

Echo agrees, and heads back to the planet he had escaped from all those years ago to gather intel and start this mission. He goes to a local gay club that one of Longshot's coworkers has been known to frequent, hoping to gain some insight into how best complete this mission.

Now my PLAN for how this was going to play out was:

-While he's in the club his precious motorcycle is stolen (I know this seems mean of me but I needed this motorcycle somewhere else for Reasons) -Very sad for him but he's got more important things to deal with right now -Successful extraction of Longshot -Gets back to the guild -Is given a new bounty that will lead him to where the campaign is going to start and he will meet the rest of the PCs

Seems simple right???

I sure thought it did. But anyways, just for funsies, I had the person stealing the motorcycle roll a stealth check and he rolled a NATURAL FUCKING ONE. So while Echo is in the club, panicking because some guy just flirted with him and he's never had anyone hit on him before and he just accidentally snubbed this guy hard, he hears the very distinctive sound of his motorcycle engine revving right outside the club.

He sprints out to try and catch the guy before he gets away, and gets there in time to see the guy driving off on his motorcycle. He looks around for anything he can use to catch up to him, sees a couple of other motorcycles, but knows that those aren't able to get up to the same speeds his can. So you'd think this guy is about to get away scott free right? Except I'd made one crucial mistake as a DM.

I'd given Echo a gun.

Echo shoots. Rolls a 19. This guy's AC is 14, so he nails him in the shoulder, rolls minimum damage, does 3 points of damage to this guy, so I think, okay yeah this'll be fine, he'll get away and then things will be back on track. But I'm also trying to work at letting things play out and not try to force things to stick to a strict railroaded plot. So I roll to see if the guy is able to keep his control of the motorcycle after getting shot in the shoulder. This guy rolls a 4, so Absolutely not. He spins out of control, gets flung off the bike, and I roll for damage. Now I had warned Mooky when I let her have this motorcycle that if she ever crashed it at high speeds things would go BADLY. I wasn't thinking about how this might also apply to my NPC. I roll over triple this guy's max health for damage, he's killed on impact. Instadeath, no death saves, no nothing. (This guy was a squishy barely level one character).

Echo absolutely did not intend to kill this guy, so he sprints over to check on him, pours a health potion down his throat before even checking to see if he's alive. It has no effect. This guy is gone. Echo feels bad about it, but also he's seen death before, he's killed before, this isn't a huge deal for him. He still figures he should probably find out who this guy is, in order to know how best to deal with the body. So he has Zettabyte look through the camera feed she installed in his helmet and see if she can identify the guy.

She runs his face through some facial recognition programs. Is able to positively identify the guy, and tells Echo it would be better if he didn't know, to please just leave the guy there, and go. Echo wasn't expecting that response at all, and isn't going to take it, he pushes for Zetta to tell him. She eventually relents. Letting him know, that somehow, in spite of the news that this guy was already dead, that he'd been murdered the night before, somehow, this was Astrophel Nocturne, the kid who'd helped him escape, the kid he owes his life and his freedom to, now grown up.

Echo is devastated, shaking as he types, begging Zetta to give him some way to fix this, some way to bring him back, to resurrect him. To undo what he'd just accidentally done. Now the thing is, in my games, I want death to be pretty dang permanent, it's not really something that one can undo. Gives it more weight. Echo is not having this. He says that if Zetta won't help him he'll figure something out himself, and as he's typing this...

He hears a sickening crack, and crunch, the very distinctive sound of bones snapping, as Astro's neck snaps back into the correct position, and the rest of his bones start righting themselves, and all the scrapes and cuts start healing over. And a second white streak shows up in his hair. And Astro bolts upright, gasping to fill his newly mended lungs with air again, and yells "OH SHIT I JUST FUCKING DIED AGAIN DIDN'T I???"

Because the thing is, the thing is, I'd already developed this fun mechanic with Astro. He doesn't stay dead. He had been murdered the night before, his throat had been slit and his body dumped in a river, and then a few hours later he sat up, still bleeding from the wound in his neck. Death showed up, they had a fun and funky conversation that I'm not going to detail here. Death healed up the wound in his neck because honestly that's just horrifying to look at no thank you, and Astro went on his merry way, now a cleric for the god of Death, still no idea why it was that he didn't stay dead, fun brand new white streak in his hair, and no indication that this miraculous inability to die was more than just a strange one-time fluke.

Until now.

#shadows of astral undeath #descriptions of body horror #motorcycle crash #injury #death #murder #Echo #Astrophel Nocturne #Astro #ttrpg stories #Zettabyte #Kodo Finndal #Longshot #ramblings of an arrow

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slylockfoxespanol · 6 months

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Palabra del día📚

Palabra del día📚: Zettabyte -- Unidad de información digital equivalente a un sextillón de bytes o una de las séptimas potencias de 1000.

#Zettabyte #ElDetectiveFox #palabras #Palabra

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slylockfox · 6 months

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Word of the Day📚

Word of the Day📚: Zettabyte -- A unit of digital information equal to one sextillion bytes or one of the seventh powers of 1000.

#slylockfox #wordoftheday #word #slylock #Zettabyte

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kingdom-hearts-redux · 1 year

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About the Nature of Naminé

Kairi didn't (and technically can’t) make a Nobody for a few reasons. Chief among them being because her heart was inside Sora’s body when he used the dark-forged Keyblade at the end of KH1, thus only making one very special Nobody- Roxas. The second reason is because, as the Princess of Heart, she couldn't have created anything either way anyway- Heartless or Nobody- since that requires the heart itself to be overtaken by Darkness. The only exception to this is that so long as the heart stayed afloat, nothing would happen- like a game of keepy-uppy or 'the floor is lava (Darkness)'- but it’s also a game that the Princess of Heart is always guaranteed to win because they're just that pure-hearted (in a Lightful sense).

Therefore, Naminé is not Kairi's Nobody. At least not here.

But, then, who- or what- is Naminé? She still very well appears in the Redux story, though her origin is a more technical one. Putting it bluntly, she was created as an AI program by Vexen as an experiment within the electrical data-world known as the Zettasphere (which replaces everything Tron-related), and put inside a Replica body as part of his Replica project/program to see if and how an AI would fare as a ‘person’ and watching the results in Castle Oblivion, where she was given near-complete control. She can also observe anything, anywhere, at any time as a sort of security camera.

Vexen attuned her abilities to affect a person’s thoughts using a special ‘wave’ emitter that effects a person’s mind and was stationed in Castle Oblivion a while before the other members were sent there as well, mostly because of the confined space the castle provided (her powers work better indoor than outdoor). The only protection against her ability is a small device that’s worn to cancel out Naminé’s ‘waves’. Without it, she could very well make anyone think anything she was programmed to- but only what she was programmed to (Vexen is a man who takes no chances).

Also, having been built as a learning AI, she ends up learning and thinking more than she should’ve while watching the young heroes led inside the castle, which lends to her gaining something of a personality and an increasingly inquisitive sense of what was “right” and “wrong”. However, she also tends to overthink things in this regard; Vexen had made a mental note to not make the same mistake with any further iterations of her design. In fact, part of what replaces Space Paranoids is trying to override Vexen’s programming that prevents Naminé from helping our protagonists.

Yet, unknown to all save for the one who created her, there exists another motive- another thing that she was being tested for...

#text post #Kingdom Hearts Redux #my UA #Naminé #Castle Oblivion #Vexen #Kairi #Sora #the Zettasphere #because they're mentioned as well #fun fact: the Zettasphere comes from the word zetta which in turn comes from the word zettabyte

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timestechnow · 19 days

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#data #zettabytes #Wissen Technology #electronicsnews #technologynews

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ex-furry · 1 year

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the normal girl from pixel perfect would LOVE fiona apple

#watching pixel perfect again #by normal girl i mean the normal lead singer of the hashtag zettabytes

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cosmic-muses · 5 months

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In a not so distant future

Steam demands 5-6 zettabytes for a call of duty update

#easy posting

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so-much-for-subtlety · 17 days

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Harvard and Google have partnered on this really impressive project to map 1 cubic millimeter of human brain tissue that was removed from a patient as part of surgery to prevent seizures.

Obv false colored, but these are the most detailed views we’ve had of a brain.

Harvard did the wet science and Google used algorithms to automatically analyze and map the samples.

In that tiny chunk of brain there were 57,000 neurons and 150,000,000 synapses mapped, that’s about 2,600 synapses per neuron (the max case they found was 5,000 synapses).

If that’s representative of overall brain that means we have around 150 trillion synapses in a human adult brain*.

It’s also interesting to compare to LLMs like ChatGPT. ChatGPT 4 is rumored to have 1.76 trillion neurons, and they use an architecture where each neuron is connected to every other neuron (although some at such a low weight that they might as well not be connected) so that’s about 3 septillion connections (!!!)

Even if only 1% of those connections are functionally important in a LLM that’s still equivalent to 100,000,000 human brains.

We probably already have the processing power to emulate a human brain, but the architecture is absolutely wrong- for starters LLMs are completely serial, brains are massively parallel.

Although LLMs are very cool, no matter how much we scale them up they will never be anything comparable to the type of information processing that occurs in a biological brain.

The other cool thing noted in one article about this project was the data that would be required to scan a single human brain: they ball parked it to be about 1.6 zettabytes of storage, which for memory alone today would be about $50 billion, and would require a server farm with area of 100 football fields.

#*that’s ballpark to modern estimates of 100 trillion synapses

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welcome-to-green-hills · 1 year

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I forgot you like the science stuff ooooooooh okay and you mentioned mind uploading and I have a THOUGHT.

A HEADCANNON (kinda) because I like ti take pieces of canon and try to fit them all together.

And I'd love your thoughts.

In Sonic Brawl, Rouge says Shadow has Maria's soul. That is super vague, but we do know that Gerald was willing to go to any lengths to save Maria.

... Do you think a backup of her brain was created and 'downloaded' into Shadow?

(I have other thoughts in tandem with this but they're all mildly sad so I just want to ask the fun one💜)

Hello, my dear!❤️✨

I’m terribly sorry for taking so long on your ask. I wanted to make sure that my answer was reasonable, as well as supplied some knowledge to the character’s purpose of creation. Essentially, I wanted to make sure that I was thorough enough to share my thoughts. I’ve even shared this question with a couple of my colleagues at the lab to hear their thoughts too. This will be a pretty lengthy, but well-educated answer.

I absolutely agree, the journal entries from Sonic Battle are vague. I feel that they are purposefully meant to be vague so that the audience could make their own conclusions on what it means. Short answer: possibly, but I lean more towards “no.” Long and complicated answer can be found under the “read more” tab (because why not😅).

We just don’t know the extent of how extreme Gerald’s plans were with discovering immortality. We’ve seen in SA2, Sonic Battles, Sonic Rivals 2 and ShTH 2005 that Gerald has been known to tamper with very questionable forces in order to achieve immortality at the cost of risking everyone and everything around him. It’s desperation, yes. He care more about Maria than anything else. I think it’s just… really up for debate.

We have a couple of ideas that need to be addressed first in order for me to share my thoughts:

1). Brain uploading requirements, zettabytes

2). Psychology/Ethics and Moral Teachings

BRAIN UPLOADING REQUIREMENTS (ZETTABYTES):

The assumption that Gerald was crafty with uploading a consciousness into a computer is a process called “Whole Brain Emulation (WBE).” This is also referred to as a “mind transfer.” This is a process in which, presumably, has the ability to scan the state of our minds and transfer into a database whether it’s postmortem (deceased) or antemortem (living).

As of now, the process of uploading one’s consciousness into an artificial body or database is a pseudoscience. This means that it’s more of a fantasy sci-fi scenario other than supplying factual results. Whole Brain Emulation would have to take into consideration of scanning layers upon layers of one’s mind and convert them into various strands of code. The human brain is made up of neurons; the human mind has about 86 billion neurons (PNAS, 2012).

In order to even begin scanning the mind, we’d need an exorbitant amount of storage space that could store not even a handful of neurons. We’d need to take into consideration of zettabytes. The human mind itself can store about 1.1950 petabytes of data in a lifetime if it was used at its fullest capacity (Houzel, 2009). That’s roughly two zettabytes. That’s like finding the Pacific Ocean with water twice! Thankfully, we live in a world where we have access to zettabytes. Zettabytes are used to store large sums of data in servers for social media sites, like Tumblr and Twitter. Being able to store all of the data into a database seem plausible, but we still run into a couple of problems.

We would not be able to get a 100% accurate reflection of Maria. If anything, we’d only be able to replicate it via artificial intelligence. We would have to take into consideration of Maria’s mannerisms and wide variety of responses to the world around her.

PSYCHOLOGY/ETHICS AND MORAL TEACHINGS:

With all of the technological advancements made in human history, the capability of transferring organic consciousness into a mechanical device is nonexistent. We might be able to replicate states of consciousness, but we would have to teach AI and code human ethics and morals. In this case, we could make an attempt in replicating Maria’s consciousness to a certain extent. We don’t know a whole lot of Maria’s characteristics other than the fact that she mattered tremendously to both Shadow and Gerald.

The problem here would be that we’d lack a ration and irrational response of decision making of the individual. What we think that we might know of a person might be different from them being right then and there as they respond to the phenomenon. If anything, we wouldn’t have Maria’s internal thinking and logic. Everything that would be coded would not be Maria’s true thoughts, it would be an assumed thought of the AI and/or programmer.

There is no guarantee that the AI will possess every thought and feeling that Maria might have had when transferring her consciousness. In order to get that, we’d have to do extensive psychological research of Maria’s response to every situation in a controlled environment. This would have to be monitored 24/7. The Maria program would have to relearn everything about herself on top of learning culturally acceptable ethics and morals depending on the environment she was raised in.

If this is the case, then Shadow would have to be habilitated into having the same—or nearly the same—mannerisms that Maria would have had if having her consciousness uploaded into his mind. And if she were still a child, then that would take longer. A child is still in the process of knowing themselves and their identity. Because we would only have a secondary source of Maria’s characteristics, we would lack internal feelings of her growing up.

CLOSING STATEMENT:

It’s safer to assume that everything that Shadow has done in his life are his own thoughts and feelings. Shadow is meant to be perceived as his own person. I’m positive that his actions are influenced by Maria and his interactions with the world around him. Most, if not all, of his actions after learning the truth from SA2 are his own. I do not believe that Maria had her consciousness uploaded into Shadow’s mind, but it is a possibility that Gerald thought about it. The problem here is that we might never know. All that we know is that Gerald would have done nearly anything, even using government funding, to save Maria (Windii, 2018).

Most of my thoughts and feelings are told through the perspective of human interactions. We don’t know enough of Shadow’s physiology in order to make a true comparison. Until we learn more about Gerald and Maria’s characteristics, I think that it’s safe to say that this is more of a hypothetical scenario that needs more information.

I hope this answers your question, my dear!❤️✨

SOURCES:

PNAS, 2012: https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.1201895109

Houzel, 2009: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2776484/

Ted-ED, 2023: https://youtu.be/2DWnvx1NYUA

Windii, 2018: http://info.sonicretro.org/Sonic_Adventure_2_-_The_Truth_of_50_Years_Ago...

Here’s a great text from the National Institute of Health made that talks about neurogenics: https://www.ninds.nih.gov/health-information/public-education/brain-basics/brain-basics-life-and-death-neuron

#Also… I wrote this with three hours of sleep in mind #If you need clarification on anything please let me know #Also keep in mind that I’m an anthropologist/archaeologist… I might be missing a thing or two if a physicist would know #mystery anon #off topic #shadow the hedgehog #Maria Robotnik #Gerald Robotnik #Sonic Adventure 2

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awesomecake39 · 5 months

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Okay but how many copies of Doom could u fit on a Zettabyte?

one zettabyte is about 1,000,000,000 (one billion) terabytes. so, you could fit around 418,410,000,000,000 (418 trillion) copies of Doom.

fun fact: the any% world record for doom (at least, what i found from 30 seconds of searching) is 17m 22s. beating a zettabyte worth of doom would take 4.3598322x10^17 seconds, or 1.38157696×10^10 years. the universe, coincidentally, has currently existed for 1.37×10^10 years.

hope this helps!

#ac39 #askcake39

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slylockfox · 7 months

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Word of the Day📚

Word of the Day📚: Zettabyte -- A unit of digital information equal to one sextillion bytes or one of the seventh powers of 1000.

#slylockfox #wordoftheday #word #slylock #Zettabyte

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barn-dawg · 4 months

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me and the bf found a song that was a 1.3 zettabyte file size

#ray.txt

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san-fics · 2 years

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Bloopers Batfam

Warning: strong languege

Evening in the Wayne living room.

Jason: [while scrolling through his phone, thoughtfully] I wonder how much is the capacity of the entire Internet now…

Tim looks up at him, then opens the laptop lying on the table and begins to quickly poke the keys.

Tim: [in a few minutes] I found! Worldwide data volume will grow from 33 zettabytes in 2018 to 175 zettabytes in 2025.

Dick: [looks up at Tim] I don’t even know such prefixes…

Jason: Fuck yeah! 99 percent is porn, the other 99 percent are cat videos, another 99 percent is cat porn…

Tim and Dick are staring at him for a while.

Tim: I don’t think math is your thing, Jason.

Jason: What?! Why? That’s 297 percent of shit, right? [looks at Dick]: Right, Dickie?

Dick: Whatever you say, Jaybird… [sighs] Anyway, I have another question for you.

Tim: Is it about the Internet too?

Jason: Shoot.

Dick: So, you broke up with a girl, or better to say, she left you…

Jason: Oh, is it Betsy?

Dick: No. So you write to her: ‘This is the last text, I won’t write to you anymore. You’ve become a stranger to me. Goodbye’.

Jason: What does she answer?

Dick: Nothing.

Tim: Oh, It’s Kathy then.

Dick: No. So you write the second ‘last text’: ‘You could’ve answered. We actually had something special.’

Jason: Still nothing?

Dick: Not a word.

Tim: Janny?

Dick: No. So you write another ‘last text’: “I hasten to share my joy: I stopped thinking about you. At all! So don’t call.”

Jason: And she doesn’t call.

Dick: She doesn’t.

Tim: Elen?

Dick: No. Then you use some forbidden trick, like: “You know, it turns out that in Gotham there are still beautiful women besides you.”

Jason: Still nothing, right?

Tim: Clare?

Dick: Which one was Clare? Either way, it’s not her. [sighs] And so you send another hundred ‘last texts’ and the very last: ‘Is it really impossible to be a normal person and answer once?!’ And that's it. You stop writing, a year passes. You think you finally got over her…

Tim: Oh, it’s Star then!

Dick: Yeah… And then a text comes from her: ‘It is snowing. Greetings on the first day of winter’. Well, what would you call her?!

Tim: Bitch…

Jason: [turns to Tim] I didn’t know you’re familiar with that vocabulary!

Tim shrugs.

Jason: So now I have a question for each of you: Dickie, how many girls have you been dating this year? [turns to Tim] And you. Are you stalking him?

Tim: Would you like to talk about the amount of shit on the internet again?..

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