I think about this As an engineer my talents are a bit different but I still enjoy art and creating things. I think you can do some new things if you get creative too. Here's a 3d relief with quite a bit of detail of Maomao @leaflit , just in time for Halloween. This has alot of AI to it - scene and depth. Honestly it's pretty cool. I have very different another way of doing these I'm working on.. Fixed the lighting and some of the camera setup.

I’m an antisocial nerd, so I’m bad at communicating. I asked AI to help clean up my flow of consciousness to be more easily understandable for everyone. This is the last thing I’ll say on the Ember situation… sorry it is long, you don’t have to read it: The old internet was built for this. Social circles, MMOs, avatars, and handles let people be themselves or be something else entirely. You could be a different gender, a different species, a completely invented person, and the space treated that as normal rather than a problem to solve. For a lot of nerds, that was the point. The character was the version of you that existed there. You didn’t owe anyone a tour of the body sitting at the keyboard just because they decided they liked talking to you. Ember said “I’m a woman” and “I’m not a man.” In my rule set, that was still the character. The whole point of kayfabe is that the persona speaks as the persona. If the character is a woman, the character says she’s a woman. That doesn’t automatically turn into a claim that the person behind the account is biologically female, any more than a male VTuber playing a catgirl is claiming to be a cat. I don’t have a problem with Ember keeping the female character. Online, the persona is the person you’re dealing with. The avatar, the voice, the consistent presentation—that’s the identity that exists in the space. Other creators invited that character into chats and talked to the character. I don’t think that created a debt for Ember to exit the character and hand over real-world information just because people wanted to be friends. No one has shown proof of coercion or Ember pushing for sexual stuff beyond basic banter. It was ordinary chatting under the assumption created by the kayfabe. From the older internet rule I use, you aren’t owed someone’s offline body just because they presented their persona to you. Treating the later discovery as proof they should have confessed earlier feels entitled to me. They invited the avatar. The avatar showed up. The rest was optional. This only looks like a clear case of deception if you already start from the position that the physical person must override the character once the conversation is personal, or that anything the character says about being a woman is a literal claim about the operator’s body. I don’t start from that position. It’s a different standard for what an online identity is allowed to be, not a shared rule that one side is simply failing. The online person shared with you about their real self if they wanted. I understand why they’re upset though. From their culture , they entered those chats under a working assumption that the presented sex matched the real one, shared things they say they wouldn’t have shared otherwise, and later treated the mismatch as a broken premise. That feels like a violation if you believe the physicality stays relevant in private online relationships. I get that reaction. I just don’t share the rule that makes the offline details something other people were entitled to in the first place. This is why I don’t understand it myself outside of emulation.

"Certain creators had a feeling Ember Paradox was a man and said nothing. Pathetic." Bro it wasn't that hard to know... Are you guys all actually for real right now...? Like I'm actually curious...

Yes and if we are unwilling to come together due to endless purity-testing we just lose. That's my point... we need as much help as we can get. The stakes are too high to make this infighting worth it. The left is celebrating and laughing at all of this.

I'm fine with Drag Queens actually—as long as the obviously sexual act isn't being promoted to children and it isn't being forcefed down our throats through hostile cultural takeover of companies that have nothing to do with it. I believe in freedom of expression actually. Im fine with weird people existing. I've been very consistent with my beliefs and I haven't lied about it go ahead and check me. Your entire idea of what my career has been about... thats the actual fiction.

In another episode of "X isn't real life"... Looks like the vast majority of Ember's audience do not care at all about the surprise reveal. Many people seemed to have already known... which, if you are a viewer of his, I'm not sure how you could "NOT" have known. Others also don't care because they see VTubing as acting, or they are just there for the content, opinions, etc and not about their gender. One interesting thing about the X algorithm, ever since it's been changed to the transformer model, is that it often not only amplifies the most controversial take, even if it's factually wrong, but also creates a simulacrum of opinions that forms an echo chamber... so much so that it can cause genuine psychosis if you don't touch grass. Engagement-optimized systems create an addictive feedback loop where the strongest opinions, regardless of their truthfulness, create an atmosphere of consensus that is sometimes divorced from reality. His profile also has Babiniku, which is an overt admission that they are a guy... something that was added recently. Their controversial books were not hidden either, with an explicit link to their Amazon page displayed on their Twitch page... a past that was evidently not a secret. If you ever feel like you are going insane doomscrolling X, that's the reason. The algorithm keeps feeding on the takes that create the strongest emotional reaction. Then that information gets amplified with the game of telephone, with stronger, sometimes wrong takes overlaid on top until the real information is lost. Now at this point, I don't have a clue what is "real" and what isn't, or whether he is trans or not. At worst, he said, "I don't know," and that when he isn't streaming, he is just "normal"... or whether he was genuinely being deceptive/lying, or people just "assumed" and got out of control. I also received communication by DM from someone who claims that Ember said that they were a guy back in 2024. But I CANNOT find that tweet anywhere; either it's fabricated, or it was deleted before it was archived. There are also posts around where he claimed to be a woman, explicitly. So did he lie? Probably? And that's wrong. TLDR: the X algorithm is genuinely insane... and is a lesson here is that to do your due diligence OUTSIDE of X to get a reality check.

If any Vtuber drama stuff confuses you just watch “Oshi No Ko” and it’ll all make sense. It’s incredibly accurate. The actual Vtubing part of the job, hitting live and making content is very fun… but everything else around it is absolute pain.

On the topic of the @powdury discourse specifically on abortion: People will disagree with you on stuff and that’s fine. That’s something we can debate and convince each other on. Humility is a virtue that forges the strongest ideas. But remember… free thinkers are not a monolith and unless we want to become like the left with their endless purity spirals… we have to form coalitions on the battlefield. Wars are won through people sharing common cause… and isolating ourselves will only make it easier to conquer us. Don’t let the people who disagree with you on 20% of things distract you from the people who disagree with you on 100% of things. Basically… discourse strengthens our ideas, but the majority of our energy should be spent on the enemy in front of us that literally wants us dead, our women raped and children brainwashed while they laugh at it.