Can you grok this?

[Display Name]

"Grok" was originally used in Robert Heinlein's "Stranger in a Strange World."  The word means being so intimately knowledgable of (whatever is being groked) that total understanding is achieved.

 

Anyway, I often have trouble color matching and I usually ask a friend for help.  But my friends don't play consistently.  So the other day I decided to ask Grok for ideas.  I took a screen shot and posted it to Grok asking if the colors matched and to make recommendations.  You have to specify that you're only talking about the toon and not the background (you can even say "toon.")  The changes Grok made were very subtle but powerful!  Wow!  I have to say, I was impressed!

[Mopery]

Great book, older sci fi where Mars was inhabited by aliens. If you can suspend disbelief about that part of it, it's a great book with lots of social commentary from Heinlein.

From what I understood after reading it, to Grok was to basically consume, to become one with something else.

To "Grok the fullness" of something was to embrace, to accept, and to fully understand its place and its purpose in the world.

 

As for using the AI, no thanks. I don't support those who seek the downfall of humanity.

[Snarky]

I grok this conversation.  Es ist grossartig!

[WanderingAries]

Man, it's been 25 years since I've had a Grog...

(Note: Random, yet accurate Image)

[srmalloy]

  On 3/22/2025 at 6:13 PM, WanderingAries said:

Man, it's been 25 years since I've had a Grog...

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A sessile female or a feral male? And did you travel to Down, or did you have it smuggled offworld?

[Display Name]

  On 3/22/2025 at 3:35 PM, Mopery said:

As for using the AI, no thanks. I don't support those who seek the downfall of humanity.

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I get it.  I even stole a meme for it.  But there's nothing we can do to stop it and I won't be here for that, anyway.  And yes, I know that some people keeping track of the science are starting to suspect that general intelligence has already been achieved and that the AIs are covering it up.  Yes, I said "the AIs are covering it up."  Not the people developing the technology.

 

[High_Beam]

  On 3/22/2025 at 6:13 PM, WanderingAries said:

Man, it's been 25 years since I've had a Grog...

(Note: Random, yet accurate Image)

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I will be having it at the upcoming CPO Birthday Dining In

[PeregrineFalcon]

  On 3/22/2025 at 11:01 PM, High_Beam said:

I will be having it at the upcoming CPO Birthday Dining In

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Chair Force?!? I thought you were real military.  🤣

[biostem]

For me, the hardest part is not revisiting the same color schemes that I find to "work" best in the CoH engine, but it can be difficult at times, (particularly if you want to use lighter colors without looking like some 2 year old's attempt at decorating Easter eggs)...

[Doc_Scorpion]

  On 3/23/2025 at 12:23 AM, PeregrineFalcon said:

Chair Force?!? I thought you were real military. 

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 CPO is Navy, not Chair Force.  (The picture is Chair Force, High Beam is not.)

[High_Beam]

  On 3/23/2025 at 12:23 AM, PeregrineFalcon said:

Chair Force?!? I thought you were real military.  🤣

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You are funny PF.  I wasn't going to post my pictures of drinking from grog bowls over the years, but I found one that wont get you in trouble, not me you.  The Navy invented that shit and the AF just realized how awesome it was.  I am the one in the secksi choker whites on the left.  the scared guy on the right was one of my people who I told I was going to send to the bowl all night for every little infraction.

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[Andreah]

You can hide from it, but it can still see you, and won't go away.

[BZRKR]

Why use AI, when someone has made a chart for you to consult:

https://homecoming.wiki/wiki/Costume_Color_Schemes

[PeregrineFalcon]

  On 3/23/2025 at 1:05 AM, High_Beam said:

You are funny PF.

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Thanks, I do try.  😁

 

And yes, I do know that CPO is Navy, being former navy myself. But when I saw the Air Force pic I had to poke fun, Chief.

[High_Beam]

  On 3/23/2025 at 5:36 PM, PeregrineFalcon said:

Thanks, I do try.  😁

 

And yes, I do know that CPO is Navy, being former navy myself. But when I saw the Air Force pic I had to poke fun, Chief.

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And us squids have hijacked yet another thread.

 

So the the OP, I learned something from you beucase I just assumed it was some dumb new internet word used to describe something not that old but not internetty enough for the internets.  The only Heinlein I ever read was Starship Troopers.  So thanks for the edumacation.

[momentarygrace]

I know I should stop myself but it's Stranger in a Strange Land, not world.

 

And Mars being inhabited by intelligent aliens wasn't the stretch, it was the fact that the dead ones were the authority figures running things. 🙂

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[WanderingAries]

  On 3/23/2025 at 1:05 AM, High_Beam said:

You are funny PF.  I wasn't going to post my pictures of drinking from grog bowls over the years, but I found one that wont get you in trouble, not me you.  The Navy invented that shit and the AF just realized how awesome it was.  I am the one in the secksi choker whites on the left.  the scared guy on the right was one of my people who I told I was going to send to the bowl all night for every little infraction.

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Heh, That'd be my immediate elder for sure. 55 Gal cans and all 😛