Random Ramble - Nov 11, 2023

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Hello, hello, hello, everybody. I'm very glad that looking at the comments on the last one of these that I did, that the hello, hello is one of the highlights of when I make these little things. And not bad.

Oh dear, I shouldn't be reading comments this early on. But yes, hello. For those people who are new, because, God, I hope there's people that are new, I like to feel like Ocleo is decent about discoverability and everything.

And if you take a little look at the Explore tab, you'll see that there is someone waiting to be discovered there. But of course, I mean, if you're listening to this, you literally have already found me. So I guess it doesn't make much of a difference that I'm saying that.

But yes, for people who might not have listened to my little random rambles before, don't get too excited because my pants stay on for them. Sorry. And they're more of like a brain dump slash chaotic little goblin rants as I just let everyone feel a little bit worse about who's creating these audios.

I mean, hopefully not worse. That'd be very sad, wouldn't it? No.

Look at me fucking picking at my fingers. Oh well. Yeah.

This is me talking about usually what comments people leave and then trying to go for half an hour and inevitably just going off on some random ass ramble. Hence, hence the name. Yeah.

It has been longer than I realized since the last one. I know I didn't do one of these for like all of October because I didn't do fuck all for all of October. I didn't realize how intensive, how busy I would be trying to like do normal life and then also making an audio every single week.

That's a lot. That's a lot. Does anybody actually write an audio every single week or do the people that make them every single week just do improv every single time?

Because I think what I struggled the most with was just like having time to write it all out and everything. And like granted, I don't make short shit. So maybe, you know, maybe that'd be a part of it is like if I could actually just do just a 10 fucking minute audio instead of being like no.

The first 10 minutes are for setup and setup only. Don't don't rush me on my smut. Oh, well, but I didn't realize it had been two months, two months is kind of.

Longer than I would have liked. Oh, well, I'm sorry. I'm back.

Hello. I didn't leave. I'm not going.

And I have I have some little notes on my phone of what to talk about. I think most of it like creeps all the way back around to AI. I always come back to it, but, you know, I feel like it's such a hot topic.

Not really a big fan of hot topic, but I feel like it's always such a hot topic since since the start of the year. It's crazy to think that I think before January, I hadn't even like heard of of mid journey. And now do people still use mid journey? I use I use I see a lot more stable diffusion.

Anyways, there's so many fucking AI. And before then, I was like, yeah. God, what was the one like OG chat bot that people would talk to? And it was really bad.

I can't remember the name. It was back back in like the days when people would use fucking Omegle. How do you say Omegle Omegle? You know what I'm talking about, though? I'm surprised to see people still use that.

I think there'd be a better site by now. Yeah, so I don't know. In a way, I feel weird always coming back to that.

But at the same time, I feel like it's just such a prevalent issue issue topic. I guess it is an issue right in the way that I don't feel too bad talking about it. I don't know if it makes your skin crawl.

Maybe maybe I don't know. Go rub your skin or something. You can take that sexually if you'd like.

But before I get to my little notes on everything, I'll go through the comments of of what people said. I don't think there were a lot. And if you if you leave them on like rambles before the most recent ramble, I probably there's like a zero percent chance that I'm going to find that I try to look at what comments I get.

But honestly, comments on older stuff is harder for me to go and find because that requires me over to open up. Opening up my notifications and kind of like peeling through them to try to find where the comments is. I get I get so many likes on everything.

I usually have to like go through one or two pages to find where somebody made a comment. So I just tend to like look at them like mass of the mast. The last three or four things that I've made and watch if those comments go up.

And once it's not in the most recent three or four, I might I might not see your comment. I'm sorry every now and then I go back through like deeper and find things. And that's always amusing.

But let's see. Oh, this was a maybe I should start naming them after the date that I post them on. That's a good idea.

I will do that. I even said that every time I creep you on TikTok, you creep me back. Yeah, I do.

I'm sorry. Sorry, a little bit. Not terribly sorry.

Yeah, odds are, if you like view my profile on TikTok, I'll get a little nosy and curious and view you back because. I don't have that many followers on TikTok. I don't know.

I. If. Something had changed recently, I would believe that I'd been shadow banned, but honestly, I've just never.

Gotten any kind of visibility on TikTok, so I don't think it's a matter of shadow ban. I think it's just a matter of I don't know, maybe they maybe they didn't let me do anything in the first place or the algorithm hates me. Algorithms tend to not like what I do.

YouTube like the Himbo thing. No, that was nice. Yeah, sorry, not sorry.

But speaking of which, it's really fucking annoying. If you if you make cool stuff on TikTok and I viewed your channel and I didn't follow you, I'm very sorry. TikTok isn't letting me follow anyone at all anymore ever again.

And I've submitted help tickets and they've always replied with. It looks like at one point we think you're following people a little too fast and that's kind of suspicious behavior. You should just wait a little bit and it'll disappear.

And I have and I've looked it up and most people wait have to wait like three days or something. This has been three months. And I just watch my following list shrink every single day or week or month, whatever it is, when either all unfollow people or they'll get banned or they'll stop or whatever.

Yeah, so I haven't been able to follow anyone in quite a while now, and it's really fucking annoying, kind of defeats the purpose of the app because it's like, well, great. Now, any any creator that I like, I'll just never find their shit again. So I lurk my way back to YouTube.

Thanks, TikTok. I say as I'm like trying to record one. Thanks, TikTok.

Very, very upsetting, honestly. It is. I feel like I've I feel like I've been banned.

But I haven't. I don't know. Whatever.

It is a bit upsetting. Oh, well. There's actually not that many.

I mean, there's comments about people enjoying the random ramble, but not. Not ideas for it. There is one that I do remember on Telonym.

Do I have to log in on my computer? No, I don't. Sweet.

I answered it, but I was going to answer it more. Let's see. OK, here we are.

It was from it was from Shea. You didn't ask it anonymous. Anonymously.

So I hope. It doesn't make you cry inside that I just said that. Oh, Cleo.

Well, let me comment on your random ramble. Oh, rip little tech glitch. Sorry.

So you asked it here instead. That's fine. I noticed it.

I saw it. It's just been two fucking months since I made one of these. Ah.

Number one, what would be my dream date for Ren Fair? Number two. You only use the anonymous feature for your dirty towns because you somehow still possess the ability to feel shame.

OK, fair. Number three. Hours of erotic RP is how I stumbled in the rabbit hole of GW.

Hey, nice. I don't think. Our role play helped me find GWA or audios at all.

I blame that on, like, the slippery slope of trying to find something relaxing to listen to at night. Roll a d20 and see what punishment you're subject. But my d20s only have numbers on them.

What kind of dice are you using? I got to read Anne Rice. Oh, I know.

I know. It's tyrannical. What is? Wait, what? Are you addressing something else? Or are you saying Anne Rice is tyrannical? What? I'm very confused.

My dream date to Ren Fair. All right, let's. Hope you didn't hear that.

That'd be very awkward. That was my tick tock finishing, which, by the way, if you if you want to maybe help me out since I can't fucking follow anybody else on that goddamn platform anymore, maybe go check it out and follow. Thanks.

Give me ideas of what to post there that are very easy, please. My dream date to Ren Fair. Man.

So. It hurts me to say it, but I haven't been to a Ren Fair since I think I was like 14. And that hurts because I loved it every single time.

I really did. And I got to drink water. My throat's getting real dry.

I did love it and I wanted to go back all the time. And in college slash university, depending on, you know, what country you're from, what terminology you'll use. I once said college in the UK.

And apparently that's a thing that exists for like ages 16 to 18. So they they thought. I meant when I was still a child.

But yeah, in during university. I'd watch a couple of my friends go every fucking year and it always felt. I don't know.

They must have, like, failed a test or something result as a result of it, because it always felt like it was right around the time when I just didn't have the time to go. And I was a little a little grade fearing boy. I guess in a way I still am.

Big F scares me. So I never went because I had shit to study for. I kind of wish I had gone.

It always sounded very fun. So. I guess is the long way of saying I don't I don't know.

It's been so long since I've been to a Ren Faire. I read. I think my dream date for Ren Faire would be.

Yes. Yes, I would like to go. Please just take me.

It sounds like fun. I don't care how I end up there. I think I kind of talked about the rest of them.

I think. Oh, God. Oh, God.

You're going to hear me. You're going to hear me again. No, no, no, no.

Hello. I already said hello many times. My little random ramble notes.

Here we are. Oh, boy. OK.

These are these are chaotic. I hope. I don't get myself lost in the sauce.

And if you don't want me to pull up these little notes, leave more comments on what I should talk about. But. What are some of these things that I said here? AI again.

Big bullet point. Yeah. Always.

Unfortunately. I heard. Yes.

Yes. I heard that there's like this audio book website or production company or something like that, that has recently fired all of its fucking voice actors because they had been because their voice actors basically signed their voices away. This is before I existed, being like, yeah, this production studio can do whatever they want with their voices, never really predicting that they would be able to replicate them.

And like, it's not great, but I mean, even some of the fucking tick tock voiceover voices. They sound weird, like maybe a little uncanny valley, but it's not an immediate like, oh, that's Microsoft. Sam.

Yeah, this is actually painful to listen to. I think it was. I was watching some fucking.

Movie summary YouTube channel, which have just they're everywhere now. They're like wildfire. They're like a goddamn cancer.

But it took me two minutes of listening to it before I realized that it was an AI voice. And it's wild. It is.

It's wild. So it's I don't know, in a way, obviously, as someone who is doing voice acting right here right now. It's a little worrying because I don't think we've seen the extent of what I can do.

I don't think I don't think that extent will be able to replace humans. Right now, but I also don't think we are. I don't think we're quite close to seeing just how good it could do.

And I guess I look part of me is a little worried, like to see just how far that'll be, because I feel like it's reasonable that someday in the summer. I mean, it grows so fast. It's gotten so good so fast.

So fast. And I think any like monotone narration, especially narration, I think is is on the chopping block, but especially any monotone voice narration. I think it's just going to be gone.

But I don't think I think it'll be quite a while. Maybe and maybe not possible. I don't know.

It's hard for me to say. I'm not in the AI business. I don't I don't make them.

I fuck around with them a lot because I'm very curious. And it is the technology that's out there. And I think just trying to ignore it is like wishing a problem that I don't know.

It's like wishing the hole in your boat would just go away instead of analyzing the hole and thinking about what you can do about it. It's just it's just trying to look anywhere but the hole. Fuck.

Oh, that totally lost me. Yeah, I don't I don't think it'll be able to do a lot of the emotion and variation that we see with voice actors. So any any guy that just gets up in front of his mic and talks like this for the entire audio, but his voice doesn't even really change and it just keeps going.

I'm sorry to say it, but that that might become automated in the future. Just my just my opinion. I'm just saying just put it out there.

It might be true. I don't know. So anyway, I guess I'm glad that I've already got it.

Got it. Oh, my God. Oh, my God.

Jesus, I've already gotten started. Not doing that, I guess. I feel like I do a lot of I hate to use that phrase because I don't want to put anyone down.

But I like to think I do a lot of acting in my audios and not just speaking in a seductive voice, which I definitely get the appeal for. But like I said, I feel like it's just a little risky just to do that without a variance. But it's very fucked up, in my opinion, that that they fire all their voice actors.

Let me see. Oh, yeah. Which kind of brings me like the second point.

Yes. Look at that, Jasper. Your notes are actually coherent in some sort of train of logic, which is that.

I don't know. I think it'll get more popular before. Before it gets less, I don't like I said, I don't think we've seen the peak of it, but I think at some point there will be a value to the human creations.

God, at least this is this is what I fucking hope, because, you know, capitalism just breeds speed and money. And I is very good about that. It'll definitely be much faster and much cheaper than any human could ever hope to be ever.

But that being said, and I think I talked about this like my very first random ramble made some analogy to like a machine wood carving versus human wood carving. But I think. I think there's a difference.

I think there will be. I think there already is a difference between art and AI creation, because in my mind, at least art needs meaning. It has to have some kind of actual actual meaning.

It is the human behind the art that makes the art. And with AI, that's literally impossible because it's code. And I know you could you could get into the science of it and try to explain away the human brain.

Like it is a machine. And I know there's some truth there. And I guess but the fact that I still like I know that and I still feel differently kind of raises the whole little like philosophical question of why, which I feel like brings people to the question like questions like what is a soul?

And if there was a perfect day I that made something and a human that made something. Would you still feel like what the human has made is art and what the AI has made is just a creation? And if so, why, you know? God, I'm getting deep into it.

But I feel like that is where questions of like what is meaning? Why? Like what is the human soul? Shit like that.

But I guess on some level that is kind of how I feel. I don't know. Claiming it's like it's it's the soul that makes art feels a little cheesy to me.

It feels like like pseudo religious. It's like not even not even full on saying that that it's like a religious reason behind is like going to like kind of half assed through there. Some kind of cheap out answer.

But I do feel like there's a difference. If if a human drew an art piece and an AI drew an equally impressive art piece. And from face value they were equally enjoyable.

The the humans are piece comes from their experience and their life and something throughout all of their life has led them to create that even if they don't view it as meaningful as you might. And I know that can seem like all the shit of modern art where artists will just throw up a blank canvas and be like oh yeah but it does have meaning. And I guess to some extent it does.

But that's also a little lazy. So I don't know I feel like in a way. Voice acting will.

Be similar. And I guess. I guess.

Thinking about that also makes me think about Baldur's Gate 3 is a very specific example. Which if you haven't played I fucking love it I'm still not done with it and like 200 hours in or something like that God. Finally on Act 3 because I have a chronic issue of restarting and playing through just to see everything there but I feel like the voice actors.

Behind the characters are starting to get as much attention as the characters themselves. And I think that's fucking incredible to see as a voice actor. So showing that the person behind the microphone.

Matters is important and has like some value with them it's very inspiring honestly. And I feel like ultimately. The people that I have to thank for that are critical role because Baldur's Gate being a Dungeons and Dragons video game I think the voice actors for your companions in Baldur's Gate.

Got attention because people felt about them the same way they feel watching critical role and seeing the characters there and the players there. It's almost a little inverse I think in critical role people tend to care more about the players than they do the characters they are playing because that's who we see. Whereas in Baldur's Gate we see the characters but we know about the players but I think there's investment in both of them.

I guess all I want to say is that yes it's nice it's very nice to see especially while AI is brewing up and everything it shows. I guess it shows that people people care about the human and I like to think that as long as we keep caring about the human. It's fine to let AI.

Go on and do its thing but we still enjoy the creations that have meaning. This is probably I don't know not as lighthearted and goblin brain to some of you guys are used to and enjoy. But in a way.

It gets me to. Thinking about space boys. That's my last note if you don't know what space boys is shame on you.

Thinking about space boys. That's my last note. If you don't know what space boys is shame on you but also not because I don't think any of the space boys audios are free but it's like my favorite series that I've made myself so maybe maybe just listen to it or even the freebies on YouTube I think they're good.

They're free here too what am I saying. Can you hear it when I'm drinking my water. I did that once on discord one of my friends thought it was horrible.

So I'm really sorry if you can hear it and I'm really sorry if you don't like it. But it does it does get me thinking a little bit about space boys because. Because apex is an AI.

And I know in the audios he's much more human and it seems like he has emotions and thoughts and everything and you might get attached to him the same way you do as a as a as a human. But he is an AI. And I think I.

Okay really quick side rant yeah. But November is NaNoWriMo national writing month some big fucking daunting goal of 50,000 words in one month that I've always looked at and thought absolutely fucking not are you kidding me. I can't do that.

And then a lot of my friends were like hey Jasper all doing this together we've already started but maybe you should do it too so fuck I got roped into it. Oh well I'll give it a try. But I was thinking about writing a space boys thing for NaNoWriMo and then I got inspired and sidetracked and I'm back to picking up my work in progress extempore novel that I'm already like 8000 words in.

Which I know I can't count those towards my 50,000 goals I'll finish it at 60k hopefully for this month I don't think 50,000 is possible we'll see. We'll see. But I was going to and I still am going to at some point because I just love writing I do I think I just like telling stories somebody asked me why I write.

Actually they asked the whole NaNoWriMo group I'm trying to get everybody all pumped and ready to go. And one person replied that they need to write it's like almost like self therapy lets part of them out on the page and they feel better having written. I almost felt a little selfish but I feel like I like sharing stories I like hearing stories I like sharing stories.

I don't know if I need to write it for myself I feel like I want to tell them for other people to enjoy. But I don't need I don't know I don't know anyways. So my point is I love telling stories so I will at some point write a little space boys story I kind of want to finish the extempore one first because I have everything outlined I have so many details.

So many things that are important I just need to fucking write it it's not that hard god damn it. It's like of course after I have the heart well I guess the hardest part is just sitting down slogging out what will probably be a 400 page novel or more. But no I will write a space boy story at some point and part of me in there wants to make Apex.

Kind of provoke those questions a little more haven't be maybe sassy sarcastic and everything but but programmed to be built so and maybe a little less human so that the listener character whatever end up naming them and creating them as kind of has to ask those questions of. Does he count. Especially especially with I want to make there be something like I don't know maybe EPA is fucking I can't believe I can I can't believe I named it fucking EPA environmental protection agency god damn it.

If I think the actual acronym that I came up with was it was something really boring and purposefully so but it was something like electronic.