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Ideas graph

I made a new section called Ideas Map to organize random ideas I've had, mostly for game design or character ideas/art, so far.

So the process is: I type in a note on a page I have locally, which adds the idea to an existing list and processes it, extracting keywords and choosing existing (or creating new) categories for the idea. It gets uploaded to the site which displays the graph, using the similarity of keywords between ideas to link them together. Closer links get a brighter line.

Still working on the keyword matching. The plan is that I'll eventually turn this into a proper (but small) knowledge graph, but I haven't written the code to find relations between the subjects/objects yet.

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More updates to the radio recently:

- upgraded the host's voice to a new model without the radio filter (should hopefully sound more clear)

- the host now introduces song 1, plays it, plays song 2, gives a more detailed outro for song 2 (the take often makes no sense, GPT-3 doesn't have information about a lot of songs and there's really no way to figure out if it does automatically.)

- made various little fixes on the code and the prompts so the monologue should *hopefully* be a little better.

- fixed bugs with the player in Firefox. Previously it was playing/looping bits of cached audio after a refresh.

I also made a quick update to the video on the page to match with the newer site theme. It's just a short clip from a VRChat map that I've been working on occasionally.

Someone also requested I write some technical details about it, I'll try to do that soon.

Radio New Vegas GPT updates

Just updated the radio to find a new song from Spotify's recommendations (using only the songs I've added personally as the seed) every 4 days. Tested it today, hopefully I didn't bungle the timer.

Also made it email me when someone adds a song or when recommendations are added so I can quickly remove stuff in the case that it's the most boring thing possible for someone to suggest (looking at you, United States National Anthem. christ.)

VRChat world updates - Braixen shrine

Finally building a shrine to the fox Pokémon, Braixen.

Here's a very early WIP of a private room of a nightclub-themed Braixen shrine:

Been working on this for a few days but have had it in mind for years. Apparently, the mirror model was made in September 2020 -- but then I paused until recently because I didn't know what kind of architecture to go with. Originally I wanted to build a Braixen shrine in VRChat, like a psuedo-church kind of thing, so I briefly tried making a cathedral (back in 2020), but it seemed completely uninspired.

I recently started thinking about different styles of architecture people tend to use for worship, and what could work best as a secular shrine/chapel/church. There's a lot of classical stuff to choose from but I didn't want the religious or cultural connotation that comes with them, and I don't want to appropriate from less well-known religions to skirt around that. I've seen people make RL shrines to favorite characters, animes, etc. but they tend to be a small area composed of figurines, plushies or posters. It's closer to what I was looking for, but still not it.

Finally realized that concert venues, mosh pits, night clubs, etc., can arguably be a place of worship. Maybe a more carnal type of worship, I suppose, and closer to what I'm looking for.

I still need to block out the rest of the club, which I'll start tonight, then comes the detailed modeling. And... unfortunately I'll have to learn some video editing for what I'm doing. Lots of screens showing lots of Braixens. Do people still make AMVs?

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