maybe tomorrow I'll find the answers I'm looking for

This is a fascinating dive into evolving chatbot ethics, or as Kevin Roose put it, large language model AIs. "There is something going on here that I don't think Microsoft intended to build into a search engine," he notes. "Something is not right."

It may not be precisely wrong, either, at least in the sense of world-ending Terminator apocolypses, but--it definitely bears watching.

And hi, hello, it's me again, who should have blogged this a week ago..It was a hard week. I missed a lot of things. I'm trying to catch up.

[Pre-publishing note from the Editrix: add on another five days to that figure...]

I'm walking into blogging this one while watching the latest Babymetal video, Metal Kingdom, so...that's the backdrop to this, I guess.

The 'Pandora' Blood-Letting Dagger from Vae Victis.

Let me introduce the "Pandora" Blood-Letting Dagger from /Vae Victis\. And for once I'm starting with the dual HUDS--one for tinting the various sections (and fourteen different shades for each section!), and the animation HUD, which I'm quite fond of.

The 'Pandora' Blood-Letting Dagger from Vae Victis.

So first, out of the box, and in an outfit I found on sale, oddly enough, from Le'La (sans the crown)--this is the dagger, untinted.

The 'Pandora' Blood-Letting Dagger from Vae Victis.

This can be resized, as with nearly all /Vae Victis\ products, but I'm showing it at the same size at which it unpacks.

The 'Pandora' Blood-Letting Dagger from Vae Victis.

Some great details, as expected, seen closer in the first image--and a great visual sense of weighting, if that makes sense.

The 'Pandora' Blood-Letting Dagger from Vae Victis.

And then I fell down. Why? Got me. I clicked the ground in the garden. That was all I did. Apparently that's bad.

The 'Pandora' Blood-Letting Dagger from Vae Victis.

It may or may not need adjusting on the hold pose--I found that in most of my AO poses, it was fine, but a couple threw the blade so it partially phased through my thumb (seen here).

The 'Pandora' Blood-Letting Dagger from Vae Victis.

And this is my favorite pose from the pose HUD--a dagger flip. Great for photos, great for being passively threatening at events, probably still great for a DIY AFK moment for when one must step away from the keys for any reason.

You can find this lovely lethal thing at Abnormality until the 28th! It'll set you back L$450, and I gotta tell you--for the flip animation alone that's a steal.

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