And here’s today’s vlog, covering Votification. Briefly. I mostly don’t have a voice and the weather is crummy, so I kept it short. That and I feel like garbage. Eh.
Still, there is cute kitty goodness at the end! Woo!
Let’s catch up a bit on my vlogs, shall we? This was yesterday’s vlog covering my morning routine.
Forgot to pay this one here too. I like the thumbnail that YouTube choose for me.
The game Dungeons and Dragons has all sorts of lists of spells and abilities you can use for gameplay. I trained an algorithm called a recurrent neural network to generate more spells – like Barking Sphere, Hold Mouse, and Gland Growth. Then, with a larger set of spells in my training dataset, I trained a better neural net that generated even more – like Song of the Dave, Summon Ass, and Shield of Farts.
It turns out that in addition to spellbooks, Dungeons and Dragons also has monster manuals – books full of the names and descriptions of creatures that adventurers can encounter. Colin Fredricks, who created the RPG Sufficiently Advanced, was kind enough to send me the names of 2,205 creatures from the 2nd edition monster manual.
As I had hoped, the neural network generated creatures that would probably be pretty awesome.
Owlborn
Cat, Stone
Vampire Bear
Kick Spirit
Hatfright
Purple Bird
Slug, Spectral
Wolf, Chromatic
Golem, Rain
Human, Crystal
Hound, Plant
Fish, Astro-
Wolfworm
Ogre, Space
Dog, Goblin
Serpent Shark
Mommy, Greater
Giant, Dunebat
Cloud of ChaosIt also generated some creatures that you should probably run from until you figure out what they are. (Though Dome Animal might simply be a cool turtle)
Brain, Fire
Horse (Spider, Brain
Undead Lake Man, Fire
Walfablang
Fraithwarp, Giant
Fish, Sun of
Lycanthrope, Wereladoo
Pat, Great, Space
Shadowstaffer
Spectral Woof Greepy
Jabberwont
Animal, Dome
Dwarf, Giant
Burglestar
Pigaloth
Beeple, Desert
Wendless Woll
Memeball
MarraganralleraithThere were 118 dragons in the original dataset, so of course the neural net liked generating new dragons. Some perhaps better-conceived than others.
Dragon, Death Seep
Dragon, Purple Fang
Dragon, Curple Lard
Dragon, Dead
Big Dragon
Will O’DragonAnd it generated new unicorns!
Unicorn, Fumble
Unicorn, Bat
Unicorn, Black Willow
Unicorn, Sith SheetThese might be possible misses, though.
Man-Can
Barber
Beet
Skull
Feast, Stone
Peg, Brown
Kurt
Durp Snake
Golf
Vampire, PutterEnter your email here and I’ll send you a few more creatures that wouldn’t fit in the main post. Including the legendary Bung Dragon!
I’m crowdsourcing a couple more D&D-related datasets – see below!
Also, I thought it would be fun to generate D&D character names for a future project. If you go to this form (no email required), you can enter your character’s name, race, and class. Once I have enough of these, I’ll give them to the neural network and see what happens. Edit: wow, over 10,000 responses so far! (Check them out at this link) Keep them coming!
I’m also collecting character backstories! Submit as many as you like. https://goo.gl/forms/ReInNw0Tz0mwzTLO2 I will post some generated character bios as soon as I can figure out a strategy that works better than this:
There was the prince of the sun. He was raised by the arcane arts and accepted him to become a fire work and the pig of the scorpions. He was in the blood of curious by the world to be a part of the church, really with the bartender.
Tag yourself I’m “Jabberwont.”
I am obviously a Desert Beeple.
I’m feeling rather crappy today, so Issun is taking care of me. He put my hand under his head right before the photo.
tbh the worst thing about being a self aware mentally ill person is that people assume that because you understand your illness you’re automatically able to actually apply your knowledge to your life and cure yourself
Do I know my brain isn’t making the most sense right now?
Yes.
Can I stop it?
No.
No one got hurt in this attack. Because the attacker did not use a weapon that can mow down people in seconds… it also didn’t happen in the US.
THAT COULD BE US BUT THE GOVERNMENT’S PLAYIN
So apparently the attic is full of kitties? Why wouldn’t you just live there forever?
They seem so peaceful too.
Sometimes it’s possible to have too much determination.
I feel like this is a video about Boo, except she’d pull the entire thing off the counter at the same time. (Zoan or Issun would just pull the entire lid off)
Or she’d get her face stuck.
Or break the container by dragging it onto the floor, then get her face stuck .