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Shepard ask meme

shepard-headcanons:

I’ve thrown together the questions from my past questionnaires. Just reblog it and let your followers ask questions about your Shepard.

  1. What’s their favorite color?
  2. Their favorite food?
  3. Their favorite drink?
  4. Their sexuality?
  5. Their middle name? (if they have a middle name)
  6. Their class?
  7. Their MBTI type?
  8. Their morality alignment?
  9. Their Hogwarts house?
  10. Favourite season? (spring, summer, autumn, winter)
  11. Favourite weather?
  12. Favourite music genre?
  13. Are they a sun or moon person?
  14. Are they a coffee or tea person? (or both?)
  15. Do they prefer reading books or watching movies/tv shows?
  16. What do they do during shore leave or their free time?
  17. What kind of clothes do they usually wear off-duty? (sporty, elegant or specific clothes like sweatpants, jeans etc)
  18. Do
    they have a nickname? (a nickname given by one person counts)
  19. Do they have a morning routine or is it just complaining and groaning while trying to wake up?
  20. Do they have parents/are their parents still alive? (You can write their parents’ names if you want)
  21. Do/did they have siblings?
  22. Are they left or right-handed or maybe even ambidextrous?
  23. Do they have any quirks, strange mannerisms, annoying habits, or other defining characteristics?
  24. As a child, did they have any dreams or a dream job?
  25. What was their childhood like?
  26. Did they have any friends?
  27. Was there a person in their life that changed their view on life/the world?
  28. When did they decide to join the Alliance? Was there a breaking point in their life that made them to become a soldier?
  29. Is there something they’d change about their past?
  30. When was their first kiss?
  31. Were they confused about their sexuality at some point in their life?
  32. Do
    they prefer one-night stands or serious relationships? Alternative: Did
    they use to have one-night stands until they met ‘The One’?
  33. Do they openly talk about their relationship/gush about their partner or rather keep it private?
  34. Are they optimistic or pessimistic?
  35. Do they have any mental illnesses and if yes, do they visit a therapist or talk to someone about it?
  36. Do they have any coping mechanisms?
  37. When was their first kill?
  38. Under what circumstances do they find killing to be acceptable or unacceptable?
  39. What is their greatest fear?
  40. Who is their LI and what do they love about them?

Darth Net: Star Wars characters invented by neural network

lewisandquark:

Neural networks are a type of computer program that imitate the way humans learn. If you give them a long list of examples of anything – paint colors, Broadway musicals, cat names, and even guinea pig names – they’ll teach themselves how to generate similar examples.

Last week, I tried giving a neural network a list of Star Wars planets and sure enough, it was soon producing plausible planets that (mostly) would have passed without comment as part of the Star Wars universe.

Now, I try the same thing with Star Wars character names, thanks to another list from blog reader Chris Jones. It turns out that it works pretty well.

Garan Sande
Seran Bant
Bri Dalrhon
Joff Bala
Bun Bana
Betti
Cantha Boen
Cemenan Shilen
Carton Doylan
Wannaar
Jo Grailis
Greki Ves
Lar-V Male
Rob-V
Rachal
Slin Sran
Baran Saran
Rantar Tanter
Mana Kane
Captain Kreet

You’ll notice there’s a “captain” at the end of the list… the neural network would occasionally produce captains and commanders and admirals, but it’s rare that it would spell them correctly. This is because I was using some pretty aggressive dropout settings to prevent the neural network from memorizing entire names from the tiny input dataset. I was essentially forcing it to learn to function with only a small fraction of its neurons working at a time, so it had to stick to very simple rules that could be implemented with just a neuron or two. The upside: the neural network began to work with short Star Wars-y letter combinations rather than entire words. The downside: lots of “Cammanders” and “Anmirals”.

Inquisisor: Sarth Bertor
Grand Andiral Chenge Shelte
Anmiral Carn Daralo
Admira Sanos
Anmeral Teeran Salan
Cammander Copta
Carmander Sorod
Comtander Jan
Ganaral Danter

Some of the other names were also less than successful, but that’s not the neural network’s fault. It only knows about the words on its own list, not the rest of the English language. If a word sequence is pronounceable according to its rules, it’s perfectly valid as far as it knows.

Jan Moron
Reme Mold
Ban Sand
Mo-Da
Cat Dars
Werdo
Math Bins
Mad Danran
Santa Salane
Bun Mans
Bare Center
Granter Matter Broth

But my favorite part was the Sith lords.

There were enough Darths in the list that at the very lowest-creativity settings, everyone was a Sith lord. Here are some of my favorites:

Darth Teen
Darth Tannin
Darth Ben
Darth Toes
Darth Teena
Darth Darth
Dorth Darth Darth
Mon Darth
Man Darth
Darth Sans
Darth Band
Darth Mall
Darth Tall
Grand Moff Darth Salt

I would like to see the costumes for some of these.

Want more Darths? Sign up here and I’ll email you an 8-page pdf of output straight from the neural network.

spitegoblin:

I’m curious– What style of clothing would y’all wear if public ridicule, financial limitations, and general inconvenience weren’t a thing?

I’d wear ball gowns; I’m talmbout big, flowy, fluffy chiffon and taffeta 1980s prom night sequined nightmares. Catch me buying Hot Pockets at the Wal*Mart looking like Jennifer Connelly’s hallucination in Labyrinth.

Put your answer in the tags!!