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“Either both of us violated the law…or no one violated the law.”

Yeah... I think actually the advice that would be most useful is exactly that.. "how to approach making stuff up in the moment?"

Nah I'm just bad at undirected tasks, get everyone organized, code a physics engine from scratch, those I can get motivated for. Tell people what to do once they're organized or actually build a game out of those functioning mechanics? No clue.

@alter_kaker I think some media miss the cycle of "liberals are mad about this silly thing" and they are trying to recreate it. To some degree it's funny to do such stories about conservatives but it's also just an annoying way to frame politics. It's boring. It's possible to talk about small issues about design and advertising without becoming ... crazy. These things do matter. Not as much as other issues, but part of the framing feels like "how dare you analyze anything!"

Ocelot meows in HD, but at the cost of bad framepacing and an inconsistent framerate.

@Not_Dieter_Rot @cryptadamist You should also add a warning about how they are creepy and how they will depress you.

That's actually a good point. I forgot that armor is a work of art, sort of like a statue that you wear.

@violetmadder @atrupar Yeah it could be that too. It's even more of a reason to not interfere and be distant.

@dalias I've worked with "AI" before it meant "LLMs." I've worked with Machine Learning and MCMC far longer than the Attention is All You Need paper existed.This use of "AI" is far, far older than LLMs, and has been used as a marketing term in this general direction since at _least_ the 1980s. Ceding everything and criticizing everything under the label just because of LLMs strikes me as not a productive use of time.@adamhotep @raven667 @Nazani @futurebird

@phpete Who is Collective Shout? What kind of person would spend their free time as a volunteer?I smell astroturf.

@dalias @david_chisnall @kelson I think most people dislike ads, but it can be hard to get people to admit that advertising works. (Which should cause one to ask, why is so much money spent on ads? Why are they everywhere?)

I think the Venn diagram of non-D&D TTRPG players and programmers is a circle.

@gbargoud @futurebird @farah Yeah, Banks is generally rough on his protagonists, even if it turns out kinda ok as part of a heroic transformation. I think it's partly Bank's general darkness, but also the narrative constraint of coming up with an interesting plot in what amounts to utopia. So a lot of the stuff happens at the edges, when encountering less enlightened civilizations, and shit happens. Note also that Banks never really pushes the Culture as an utopia: while the average Culture citizen does just fine for themselves, mostly, these edge interactions are always loaded with moral ambiguity. The POV in Consider Phlebas does not really help, either. Protagonists are more embedded in the Culture in the next volumes, Use of Weapons and Player of Games, which is more interesting in terms of, well, Culture (but do not expect an easy ride for the protagonists, either). I prefer the pre-Excession novels, and it gets a bit repetitive in the later volumes, but it's still my favorite SF series...

That's why my oblivion play through is a wizard with a shield and heavy armor.

I posted this before but it's such a good video if you want to know what this was like:http://youtube.com/watch?v=cv0yB_wo12I

@cavyherd Yes! But they are angles so it's OK to say it again.

I tried to sync [@testing@chebucto.club](https://community.nodebb.org/user/testing%40chebucto.club) with @testing-ground.

I'm a first responder. I occasionally have to go through the pockets and belongings of unresponsive or dead people to search for ID or medical information. Obviously I'm not doing it to steal anything, but it has occurred to me that I have one of the few jobs where I actually "loot" corpses.

@DavidM_yeg It'd be more exciting if it was a real cult with creepy robes and rituals and such. And not just everyday BS

@futurebird @llewelly I was a young adult in the 90s and I was astonished how much push back there was against the idea of consent, of openly discussing boundaries. Camille Paglia and Naomi Wolff and other pundits complaining how it spoiled the sacred mystery. Sit-coms playing it as a way to mock literal-minded nerds and over-earnest college students.