This story of Gary Kasparov also has its own backstory, because he was born just ten days ago out of boredom, which lay like a huge whale in the vastness of our cold bottom of Stopgame blogs. Ru.
Now this whale is no longer so big, of course. Every now and then you can find interesting works on blogs, and new authors appear, and, with each new article, they only grow, which I personally am most happy about, that’s just..
Along with all the good things that periodically pop up in the best, in the depths under this still huge whale, there is also something that causes a slight degree of bewilderment and even anger, because, well, you can’t write articles for people in such a formulaic and short way.
These are essays, full of water, opinions about everything bad, briefly and en masse, schoolchildren, retrorunners, interviews with retrorunners – in short, what is there, on our glorious day under the boredom whale. And it would be possible not to look there, but… Looking for something that people might like, pushing it up to the “best”, it just so happens that you will stumble upon something anyway. The more you push, the more this something infuriates you along the way, stress accumulates, and then involuntarily results first in trolling, over time in fat trolling, then in fat social experiment, and then..
And I don’t know what stage we are at now with my partner Lunerz, but what we brought to life recently made us very happy at first.
Only over time, our little twink frightened us more and more with his texts generated by the neural network, which people read in all seriousness and did not even really see the difference between the blog of a neural network and the blog of a living person. I’ll tell you about all this and much more in text, and Luners in pictures. Today we’ll tell you.
And at the same time, let’s move this boring whale a little.
Best wishes to everyone! You are reading CoolStory. Another format straight from the SG smoking rooms, which today we will upgrade to the blog, and, I hope, after its release, Loev will not ban all three)
Chapter one. About an idea that did not become obsessive.
Well, for starters, what do you personally know about blogs?? Well, besides the fact that here periodically all sorts of nouns publish their articles and opinions?
At different times, and blogs on the site have existed for more than ten years, they have always been flexible to change, and it depended only on people what they would be and, most importantly, what they would be about. The more interests there were, the more heated debates there were under the topics, the more formats and the more, oddly enough, the usual flood.
Lonerz, for example, according to the stories told to him from the first olds, was very close to the very beginning and, one might say, the dawn of the entire Stopov movement. With his active life as a viewer on the site, it was from blogs that SG authors appeared, whom regulars at that time appreciated more than ever before.
It was then that clips of the best moments from their streams, promos and photoshops with their participation were born. With them, users amused both themselves and the authors, which is why they did not neglect the blog section and periodically looked with interest and commented on the most striking works. And in general, a lot of other light and stress-free content was created by people themselves, both on blogs and in the comments under them, in which there was always someone to flood with hundreds of other subjects in order to make the author an achievement for two thousand comments (yes, that happened too).
I would call this period of lively and pure communication between very talented people. They were just having fun themselves and raising the spirits of others, simultaneously moving the most talented authors from blogs into the ranks of authors and destroying waves of Minecrafters and copies of Mad with their minus throwers)
Looney himself lived his active period in blogs, when they had just begun “dying" (the eternal state of blogs, in which they seem to be holding on, but it seems like there’s not much time left to wait for death), but still not as active as after the twentieth year (thanks, Dima, the redesign turned out awesome. If only you had found Dotterian NOT six months after the start, so that half of the users would not leave, and in general he would be handsome).
I’m more from the later period of these blogs, having found not them, but some small editorial staff carefully monitoring the content in this section. People who often hid under the association TBB (Dark Brotherhood of Blogs) and wrote articles themselves, were like mentors here. They made sure that the blogs were filled with interesting detailed opinion articles and essays on the topic, some serious research works and other serious miscellaneous things, so that God forbid the mower would not receive an article that does not fit into the framework of the site.
The logo copied from one of the TES fraternities was cool, of course) But the topics came out with varying success and quality.
And, when I personally squeezed into this framework with my large review blogs, the funny thing was that I began to get more pleasure not from publishing topics, but from communicating with already, like, well-deserved blog authors, who were then already completely focused on both their writing and, in general, what was happening on the site as a whole. They left their corner and our little cheerful movement to them, and then to us. There was no need for more.
One of the eternal topics of the smoking room)
But this was a different communication in an already formed circle of people, in which I personally was interested not only in discussing the topics of others, but also in throwing in what interested me. However, I learned a lot of news from the smoking room, I left many hundreds of subjects there and, in fact, I am glad to continue communicating with many of them even now.
And here it would be logical to ask, which led to two characters like me and Lunerz from completely different time periods in blogging life meeting?
But the methods of how to return communication here differed between us. I again returned to the vastness of the site with the legend of an open smoking room in the past, in order to look at the asset; Lunerz with a video of a wet photo-toad, which shook up the blogs of the oldfags (and made them quite amused). And, although we avoided each other’s blogs at the beginning, the irresistible desire to experience a new revival of blogs on the ruins of the old ones forced us to return, choosing one of, one might say, the guilds of artisans, aiming in the future at the Masonic lodge.
We chose simple but sincere guys who met and communicated strongly with each other on the site itself, going through all sorts of team competitions organized by Druzhe Oblomov (thanks to him for this), and at the same time publishing their blogs on the site.
True, the idea of rewarding these same blogs, whose façade you probably saw in the best topics (if it’s somewhere close to this one, then you yourself understand how sad everything is), hides behind it an extremely routine work with extremely routine assholes about which blog should be awarded this or that nomination and who should be rewarded. And, in principle, only these long disputes in the discord somewhere around the tenth of June were the reason that Anonymous’s blog came out so late.
Fortunately, Looney and I did not participate much in the selection of candidates, rather watching with interest the debates within this interesting emerging blogging community, united by the only goal: to mark worthwhile blogs and advertise them again. Of course, they expressed their BUT from time to time, but when it all really dragged on, they even contributed to finally reaching this general consensus.
And even though the point of making this topic in the blogs themselves is not particularly clear to me (the same people have been reading these blogs for many years now and it’s unlikely that your eyes have missed something), on the whole the idea for me still remains quite noble. Yes, and in the VK of the Official Stop it seems like it’s not a shame to post it to attract an audience in our e… ahem..
Well, yes, the awareness of the fact that it is necessary to mark something from blogs and, if possible, move it, made it so that both Looney and I often went to give good blogs a thumbs up, and my partner also stayed there for some shit, one of which he took me to the week before last. And communicating with a visiting journalist there inspired me so creatively that I can’t wait to see him in the comments to thank him)
Well, off we go, actually. First the comments, then immediately the blog and the revival of the Post by the Blog, not without the help of Lunerz. And after that, in discord Anonymous peacefully discussing the neural network-talker BalaBoba, whose philosophical statements my friend had been filling up the server for two weeks already, the idea of making a twink on the foot was born quite spontaneously, which would be expressed in the words of this amusing neural network. And for some reason we were so excited about it that we started implementing this idea literally right away, it seemed so cool and unusual to us. And not only us.
Chapter two. What is this “Kasparov” of yours?? .
This is the phrase that greets you on the website of our entertaining neural network. And damn it, its author, writing about responsibility, went straight to the root!
Before this, I briefly touched on the use and participation of the neural network in this whole story, but now it’s time to tell the whole story.
Yandevsky Service Balabob – this is such entertainment in itself. It clearly demonstrates how, with the help of neural networks, you can continue texts on any topic, maintaining coherence and a given style. Although, there is also a second sign on the service:
The whole thing works simply: you insert the beginning of the text into a line, click on the “Babble” button and voila – in less than a second, you get very convincing nonsense, just in the style of most commentators on the network. At first, it might be somewhat amusing, but personally it didn’t draw me in enough to get into it and look for emeralds from the answers of this thing
He was imbued with this entire neural network more than deeply, because the answers that Balabob had generated for him so far were as ridiculous as they were familiar. The guessing irony and banter in each of the options attracted our hybrid of the Hulk with the grandfather from the cartoon “Up”, and it was with the help of screenshots of answers generated by the neural network that he commented on the works of two newly minted blog authors in the diss, as if competing with each other in receiving minuses for under-ESSES, which Looney did not like in a neat way.
Examples of using Balabobs in diss before entering it on the site.
Examples of using Balabobs in diss before entering it on the site.
Examples of using Balabobs in diss before entering it on the site.
Examples of using Balabobs in diss before entering it on the site.
Examples of using Balabobs in diss before entering it on the site.
Examples of using Balabobs in diss before entering it on the site.
By the way, this old guy didn’t like a lot of things on the set. Although he more than compensated for the lack of more or less cheerful movement and flood in the Microblogging Disk, returning it to Stop for a while is the goal that he pursues, reviving blogs with his works and comments in search of like-minded people. And the use of this neural network for fun gradually turned into an obsession for him and even a whole bunch of ideas that would be nice to implement, get excited and move on, in the best traditions of entertainment for the site’s true bloggers, who sit here just for fun.
The main idea was to show that all such statements are already a template, according to which you can calmly and without making any effort at all generate hundreds of comments on any topic. And they, in turn, will be much funnier than what any interlocutor will generate in one of the millions of meaningless disputes on the Internet, proving his intellectual superiority in all seriousness.
And, quoting Denisov Valera (Idk, who is he, I liked the statement):
Lunerz’s idea was especially lucky in this regard, because it found a way out literally within an hour, because it came across an enthusiastic me, inspired by the success of my blog (yes, +5 positive ratings for my writing and a couple of comments under it really make me happy) and ready for further exploits. Although, I must admit, the first discussion of the implementation itself was not without punctuation.
Their point was (from my point of view) that Looney is not really a troll. Yes, he can easily joke with a picture or GIF in the comments, yes, he highlights more or less noticeable conflicts on the site and jokes about them, but he has never been a participant in any of them. And for my idea I had to find just a participant who would create a twink and write neural network generated text, thereby posing many questions to a person like: “What kind of nonsense is this??"How to react to it?"and my favorite:
Gadget (yes, he’s on our discord and he’s not even banned yet), wasn’t particularly excited about the idea. Well, I, considering all this as crazy as it was attractive, at first refused to participate in it for a long time and set up a whole neural network for the amusement of the guests, but, as I already said, the small dispute between us was just that “small”, and we quickly came to a consensus.
NO SOONER SAID THAN DONE. https://betirocasino.co.uk/bonus/ You can talk further using screenshots, because at that moment the head was not aware of our actions, but the actions themselves quite excited the imagination, and the overall action developed quite rapidly.
I immediately:
I registered through the mailbox and… Yes, if I had known that the first and last name would be transferred from the mailbox, I would have been more careful)
At the same time, Luners:
He was searching for interesting articles and selecting the most interesting examples of comments in the style he invented for Kasparov
He was searching for interesting articles and selecting the most interesting examples of comments in the style he invented for Kasparov
Well, the reaction to almost all of our pranks was not long in coming:
All this happened within half an hour after reaching a consensus late at night and one could have stopped there, but by the morning, having seen the resonance, Luners came up with something even cooler – to generate the text of a standard Essay using a neural network, which infuriated him with their presence on the site, and by writing which he seemed to rebel against them.
The text of this blog is a distillation of all the water that I saw in Looney’s Essay format and made our entire little cozy server see and dislike such work.
I don’t know how long it took him to generate it, I only know that I agreed to it with great pleasure and spent no more than ten minutes copying and formatting the text.
And the novice editor Tin, in order to turn it all into a video version, spent an hour.
We didn’t know what the reaction would be, we didn’t know what would come of it, and we didn’t really fully understand where it was going until publication. But after it, this whole story began to play with completely different colors. And the farther, the darker.
Chapter Three. Who is fighting for what??
Have you ever been in a bubble of your own opinion?? In that strange, viscous and sometimes even intoxicating state, when nothing around you is important and nothing is gnawing at you, and all attempts to break through your bubble from the outside turn out to be not only impossible, but even funny.
Yes, I didn’t generate it for ours Kasparova-BalaboBy and five of his texts, but it was I who conveyed the generated words to the person who decided to talk to him in the comments, and his answers could neither hit me, nor hurt me, nor simply be heard, because he was not talking to me, but to the neural network or responding to its extremely stereotyped and collected as if from the surface of water, stream of text. At the same time, the overall success of the enterprise was quite surprising both in the reactions and the assessment. (the neural network blog went to the BEST and even earned seven pluses until it slipped down, nothing experimental, yes?) reigned in the discord Holiday of Little Mischief, when everyone started commenting on it and communicating with the neural network, and some of them helped Looney and me with answers.
It was from this discord, seeing the picture as subjectively as possible and in everyone’s own way, that at some point I found myself in a bubble of my own opinion, which in me gives rise to an already very angry troll in places (whom I don’t really like in myself).
A feeling of complete security and impunity – this is the feeling that grew in my troll and made him stronger. But before all this, I threw our first neural network blog into another group of smokers lurking in discord – and my unbridled fun ended as quickly and suddenly as it essentially began.
After this rather strange conversation, I took a completely new look at the whole idea in general and at this blog in particular. I won’t post it all, I’ll just write conclusions that didn’t make me happy at all.
Firstly, Looney sat on the blog for about five minutes at most. He generated Kasparov’s blog from four initial phrases:
1. Hi all. Today I would like to discuss with you whether games are art.
2. But can games become art in the future??
3. What games will we consider art??
4. In conclusion, I would like to say that games and art..
For each of them, Kasparov gave a full paragraph of text, and the resulting four paragraphs make up the entire blog.
Even the captions for the pictures were generated from phrases like “Game X”.
Secondly, we, in fact, pushed this out with the entire server, not caring about the opinions of the viewers, which, of course, does not do us credit, but the viewers, in essence, don’t give a fuck. Well, seriously, people are so indifferent that at best. They don’t see the whale from under which they have to push the good stuff out from the bottom. And, in essence, they do not know anything about what is happening on this day, preferring, just like Kasparov, not to dive deep into the topic. To the fact that it is simply in the best, and even more so at the bottom of the blozhiks, to everyone except the authors of these same blozhiks, don’t give a damn, with rare exceptions.
And thirdly, the fact that we pushed it out (maybe not only us, but still) rather interested the audience in why it is in the best? People seriously read Kasparov’s texts, chosen by Luners and copied by me. After reading, of course, they were even more shocked, but the real joy is not in this, but in the opportunity to communicate with the one who generated it. And the worst thing is that people understood that there was a catch in something, but they just looked for it, for some reason diving into the shallows, that is, into the text of the neural network. But there are no answers there, and never have been.
Few people thought that this could not be written by a person. It’s more likely that this person wrote the same and a little worse than others could do using his templates. Nobody thought about whether it’s even worth pouring water within the framework of templates. As no one, of course, expressed the main message – Such texts can easily be generated by a Neural Network and they will be better and more interesting than what people write using these templates.
But it wasn’t even this that sobered up, but the fact that in fact it blocked eighty percent of what is coming out on blogs now, has come out before and will come out in the future.
Here it’s not even a matter of the topic, but of the water that people pour in such articles, giving only new forms to thoughts that have been spoken a hundred times, using perhaps newer and fresher examples. And, the funny thing is, I thought the same way and used the same cliches. And I am better only in the form of texts, which do not stop living in these templates.
And it turns out that we, being within the community of those who evaluate SUCH blogs, we’re going in the opposite direction.
With these thoughts, I finally reached Lunerz in a channel already separate for Kasparov, because he had already disappointed half of the guys, and infuriated the other half with his very presence on the site. Two people who didn’t really understand how their idea looked from the outside, but who were so captivated by the idea itself that they were left almost alone with it, finally began to figure out what they really wanted to say.
After this conversation, it was decided to end the prank, admit to the prank and voice all those conclusions above, which were not very funny in comparison with the beginning.
But, as usually happens, writing a normal blog takes a little more time than generating text using a neural network. And during this time something has changed.
Chapter four and final. I/We Kasparov.
When, in 1990, the computer calculated a variant with 76 moves to checkmate, I didn’t believe it – but it turned out to be right! For a moment I saw God.
(WITH) Garry Kasparov
You know, less than a week has passed since I started writing this blog, and I suddenly realized that there is very little about Kasparov there. But he was named after the most famous living grandmaster, who will forever go down in the history of chess precisely because he lost a game of chess to a computer.
And the funniest thing about it all is that we also lost this game together with Luners. After all, after the first blog, our Kasparov published another blog, and he didn’t even make it to the best.
Maybe the text was so-so, maybe the design was too formulaic, I don’t know, but due to the lack of activity on our second blog, Lonerz, and only he, carefully selected comments on blogs and news with the sole purpose of entertaining the audience)
And, discarding all our ideas and goals, the text itself, just like the neural network, has only one task: entertain the audience. And it was with this important idea, which we for some reason forgot in the process, that Kasparov was created by us, and he coped with it perfectly.
To revive at least a little empty blogs and the site as a whole – this is the true goal of the whole event and the only thing that Looney and I needed when we initially introduced Kasparov to the blogs. And when this blog was recognized due to a slight lack of time for it (and this is entirely my fault), and we devoted ourselves exclusively to entertaining people on the site, it became finally clear that he is better than me, the one who just brought him to the site.
It doesn’t have that tiredness from hackneyed topics. There is no anger, which is a no-no, but it results in trolling and there is no experience in writing articles, although he is gaining it a little bit.
Unpublished works of Kasparov
The topic of retro games has been relevant on our Internet for many years now. On the one hand, it’s understandable – people are nostalgic for their youth, when they were young (and are they even young??) and played the same games as in the good old days. Yes, these games were better than modern ones and did not let you get bored. But many people forget that it was just a game and it could not replace reality, and therefore, its opinion could only be treated as entertainment and nothing more. I have a friend who often says: “Well, when I was a child, I also played games like this…”. And it’s true! When we were kids we played the same games. Some played better, some worse, but everyone played.
Now let’s try to find something in common between games from twenty years ago and modern games.
Many games had nothing superfluous. Even if there were parts in the game that could have been used, they were used to improve the game and not have them ruin the game. The game was simple and clear. As a child I remember a lot of games that were quite difficult to play. To pass them, you needed some special skill. For example, to complete a 3D action game you had to be a very good player, and to complete a real-time strategy game you had to have a good spatial and logical mind.
2. Movable characters.
As a child, when I played the same games, the characters were motionless. And in order to make the hero act, it was necessary to use special objects that could be found in the game, or to make him move, it was necessary to make him move. Most games had different ways for characters to move: stairs, ceilings, walls, etc. d., or even flew.
Unique original: https://stopgame.ru/blogs/topic/107787
Fen is an ordinary homeless person who lives in the basement.
Vasya is a former schoolboy who decided to become homeless in order to earn money and help his grandmother.
Malt is Malt’s friend, who constantly mocks him, considering him to be worthless.
Malt walks at night in the park near Fen’s house. Leans against the wall and starts reading a book. Fen decides to check what his friend is doing. He leaves the house. Malt doesn’t pay any attention to him and goes home. The guy goes to the nearest stall, buys himself a beer and returns to the basement. Satisfied with himself, he begins to drink.
Here Fen comes into the basement. “Oh, well, where have you been hanging around??"- asks Fen. All he hears in response is noisy breathing. Fen approaches his friend and begins to undress him. At this moment Vasya bursts in, throws a bottle at Fen and runs away. Fen wakes up in a cold sweat.
Fen wakes up in the morning and goes to the kitchen. There is already cold food waiting for him there. The guy decides to cook something. He takes half an egg out of the refrigerator, breaks it and pours it into the frying pan. Malt comes in. "What’s up, how are you??"- he asks Fen. He tells him that he hasn’t prepared anything. At this moment Vasya enters the kitchen. “What are you cooking??"- he asks and starts to eat. Fen approaches him, takes off his pants and pours hot scrambled eggs on him. Malt tries to run away, but Fen grabs his leg and starts kicking him. Vasya cannot resist and falls to the floor. He tries to get up, but the guy starts hitting him and choking him. After a while he falls asleep. Fen leaves.
At this time, Malt wakes up and does not understand what happened. He begins to remember the events of the previous night. Vasya lies on the floor in a pool of blood. Malt tries to run, but Fen catches up with him. The guy hits him on the head with a bottle and runs away. Malt realizes what he has done and calls for help. Friends are trying to take him away from Fen. They hit him, and he tries to throw them off his back. In the end he gives up. They put him in a car and take him to look for Fen.
Vasya wakes up when he is tied to a pole. He says he didn’t do it. They blindfold him and start the car. The malt is trying to escape. Friends are trying to help. The car stops. But then Fen appears again. After he beats Malt up, his friends help him free himself. He runs away.
Malt calls an ambulance and asks for help. At the other end of the line, a doctor picks up the phone and explains that he needs help from the police. In the end, Malt is rescued by the police. They help him get up. After that he leaves. Malt manages to escape.
Vasya wakes up in the hospital. He says that he is still guilty of what he did. He is sent to a psychiatric hospital for several months. Friends are trying to find him. When they help him, Vasya says that he is still to blame. He has to spend another 3 months in the hospital until he is released. He’s coming home. He still doesn’t have a job. He is attacked on the street and all his money is taken away. The police arrest him. Friends help him escape from the police station.
After Malt comes to his senses, he says that he is not guilty of what happened, and that it was Fen’s revenge. Malt understands that he will still pay for his sins. He goes to church and asks the saint to help him. As soon as Malt leaves the church, he gets hit by a car. He is again sent to a psychiatric hospital.
After some time, Malt is released. He gets a job as an assistant to a psychotherapist. Over time he becomes his patient. Malt begins to go to him for sessions. Some women are starting to put pressure on him. Soon he begins an affair with one of the patients.
One day Malt sees a young woman jumping out of his office window. He rushes after her, but doesn’t have time. On the way to the hospital, she tells him that he should have saved her. But Malt understands that he himself is to blame for what happened, and that she does not want to meet him. Malt ends up in a mental hospital again. They’re trying to save him again.
At the hospital, Malt begins to think that he is not who he seems. He feels like he’s being watched. After some time he is released again. He goes to church, where he asks the saint to help him. But the saint is silent, and Malt tries to get rid of obsessive thoughts. Soon Malt is arrested. All his thoughts and actions seem wrong to him. Therefore, on the same day he escapes. Malt understands that he must live again. He tries to act like a human being. Gradually he starts to feel better. Malt has a wife and child, but at the same time he lives on income from his treatment. He has to work several jobs.
One evening Malt goes to visit a friend. There he meets a former patient with whom he was once in love. She’s trying to help him. Together they write a new script. Malt realizes that he has something to live for.
Now, if I wanted to talk about all the intricacies of making dumplings, then yes, I would have to write a whole article. And in this article you will find some simple tips that will make preparing your favorite dish easier and, perhaps, make it even more delicious.
1. When choosing meat, give preference to fresh meat.
The packaging should say "refrigerated".
If you live in the city and buy meat at the market, then it is best to check the quality with a knife.
Touch the surface of the meat – it should be smooth, not have an unpleasant odor and be very pleasant to the touch. If the meat is frozen, it must be thawed.
To do this, place it on the bottom shelf of the refrigerator and turn it over periodically.
It is best not to defrost meat in hot water, because then all the vitamins and nutrients we need will be destroyed.
2. You can use onions, garlic, mushrooms, herbs, salt, pepper and other spices to your taste for the filling.
The only thing you need to consider is that with cheese you will have dumplings that are already salted.
3. For dumplings you need to know how to sculpt. First of all, you need to roll the dough into a thin sausage and cut it into small pieces.
Then each piece needs to be rolled out into a small cake.
Place the filling in the middle, pinch the edges and shape into a dumpling.
Dumplings can be boiled in salted water or stewed in sour cream sauce.
4. In order for the dumplings to turn out tasty, they need to be boiled properly.
To make them juicier, add a little butter to the cooking water. When cooking, you can add a little dill, parsley and green onions to the water.
5. The filling should be placed in boiling water when the water is almost boiling.
But that’s not all.
If you want to cook real Siberian dumplings, then you must first fry the meat in a hot frying pan until half cooked.
6. In order for your dumplings to turn out tasty, you do not need to salt them at the beginning of cooking, as this will make the dough too dense. It’s better to do it at the end. At the same time, add half as much salt as in the recipe.
7. The dumplings are ready when they float to the surface of the water.
After this, they need to be thrown into a colander and allowed to drain.
8. You can serve dumplings with any dressing: fried onions, cheese, sour cream, mayonnaise.
They must be served with hot, ready-made sauce.
9. Dumplings should be served immediately after
And maybe it’s worth giving this Kasparov a chance to speak out more? At least if you’re going to ban someone for breaking the rules, it’s better than me.
Because Kasparov will be much more active on the site, will support newcomers who know what he is and encourage the stray dudes who have decided to promote themselves here, and just talk to Kasparov when such an opportunity arises)
And he will write blogs more productively than me, on occasion. He is also somehow even better at this, if only because it is the machine that generates these watery texts in seconds.
And it’s better to let him write this, and not a living person according to these boring templates and in the form of such a strange, but still quite funny, parody.
Have you read CoolStory?. Blog stories that are best written as they happen.
