Personally I love oranges but cant stand orange juice.
Double. Space. After. Periods.
Period.
D&D is not as good as it is popular. It’s a very idiosyncratic game that’s mostly focused on a particular kind of play, but people treat it like it’s a general purpose tool.
Clearly people can have fun with it, and that’s what really matters. I’m still convinced many of them would have more, easier, cheaper, fun if they picked up a different game.
It’s most useful because it’s popular. I can travel to the other side of the country, find a local game shop, and sit down at a group and have a shared understanding of the rules.
This is broadly true, but given the low level of rules mastery I’ve seen I say “shared understanding of the rules” is a generous description.
Still, like a national fast food chain sometimes you just want something familiar even if it’s not as good as other options. You know it’s not likely to be worse than your expectations
I don’t think this fits the topic because it is not “doesn’t matter at all” tier. This matters. Hasbro is a massively shitty company and D&D just keeps getting worse (a raging barbarian gets to use strength to hide and to notice things, and gets advantage on the roll in 2024 rules…).
It is very important to the health of the hobby that people start playing, and giving attention to, other game systems.
I could accept it matters more than 0, but it is pretty far down the list of issues given the state of the world.
I occasionally become insufferable and recommend people play other games, but people don’t really care. It’s like getting people off twitter.
every time i’ve played it i’ve always been shocked at how boring and nonsensical it all is.
it’s also slow as fuck.
Yeah I’ve played a few rounds with my buddies. My honest opinion is that it is too boring and constrained to me. Because the whole storytelling and the World Building is limited both by the DMs intent as well as mental capacity.
I have played with two friends that both have Avid experience in being dungeon masters and both with freedom for the players in mind. however, I still don’t feel free playing it. Everything is an option according to them but it’s ultimately isn’t.
Everything is an option according to them but it’s ultimately isn’t.
It really is a more restrictive system than people think. If you have a concept that’s like “psychic batman” you can’t really make that concept go in DND. Trivial to make in the other games I play the most (fate, CofD).
Many programming languages allow “trailing commas”:
my_list = [ 1, 2, 3, ]This is wonderful because you can treat the last element like the previous ones instead of having to make an exception. I use it all the time, even when it provides no benefit, and I think we should even start allowing it in natural language.
This is also necessary for lists in python with one member. Or was.
I think you mean tuples, because
(1) == 1, but(1, ) == tuple([1]).Oh gosh you’re right. I think I was confusing it with how I previously used the list() constructor, which I no longer use. Thanks for the clarification.
Pancakes are fragile narcissists. You need a WHOLE FUCKING INTERNATIONAL HOUSE TO SLAKE YOUR EGO, YOU THIRSTY, PATHETIC BREAKFAST FOOD!!
You’re nothing, nothing, compared to the waffle!
When was the last time you walked into a Waffle House at 3am on a Saturday night?
You’re talking big shit for someone who doesn’t even own his own meth pipe.
this is wrong. pancakes now. pancakes tomorrow. pancakes forever. specifically, my grandma’s chocolate chip pancakes
Sounds like you’re in the pocket of big pancake.
lemon baked goods taste like vomit
Parmesan has entered the chat.
i love parmesan
What? So fresh and delicious!
they make me physically ill 😂
if your hair is still blonde in the sun, then it’s dark blonde, not brown.
This guy ☝️ :
"It’s dark light brown not brown "
Continuing to invest and scale up AI Data Centres without a clear path on how to improve LLMs logic is a fool’s errand.
I don’t think this meets the criteria of not mattering at all, it matters a whole lot
I see zero evidence that logic has a path to being solved or even just improved from the train wreck logic LLMs currently have as scaling up did not have the impact the investments anticipated. Yes, most other AI metrics really did improve with scale, but not logic as is obvious to anyone using AI for heavy mental lifting like codin. I call this the Cognitive Gap and despite the effort, it is clear no AI company has any advantage here. Certainly not OpenAI based on their behaviour alone nor anyone else as the first to crack it, will have a massive advantage and will likely see the birth of AGI and the elusive self improvement takeoff. Clearly no one is there today.
John Carmack said a few years ago on the Lex Fridman YouTube video titled “The code for AGI will be simple”
“It seems to me this is the highest leverage moment for a single individual potentially in the history of the world … I am not a madman in saying that the code for artificial General intelligence is going to be tens of thousands of lines of code, not millions of lines of code. This is code that conceivably one individual could write, unlike writing a new web browser or operating system.”
This deeply resonated with me as it is likely true. In fact I am sure many in IT can relate as anyone working on large IT systems likely have a story that goes like this. Performance of a new Enterprise system that was developed in-house will require millions of dollars of compute to meet the SLA performance metrics which is well above the original budget. As hardware was being begrudgingly acquired a smart developer (usually 1 person) realized there was a better way to code a key component and it gained 100x in performance making the need for all that extra millions in hardware null and void. This did not happen to me once, but many times over my 30 year IT career. You can brute force, but you can also find elegant solutions.
In my firm opinion there is a strong possibility that John is right and if this comes to pass, it will suddenly mean that AGI is much more efficient than the data centres we have built for it, thus making those investments pointless.
Of course it may not roll that way and instead we realize it is big code and big data Centers needed and one company or country ends up Dominating all, but my money is on an individual discovering and then making it open source and decentralized and you should hope for this too as the alternative is ugly for all. Centralization = Corruption and Exploitation.
Video referenced: https://youtu.be/xLi83prR5fg
You think it’s a sign that I got nothing that I may be taking myself a little too seriously?
If you’ve never worked on a holiday you shouldn’t be allowed to go to stores and restaurants on holidays.
Pineapple pizza is not bad when done right
Can Americans just switch their spelling back to standard English, please? Why do we have to have two systems of spelling just because the U.S. wanted to be different?
Oranges are the worst kind of orange. They taste quite good, but if I need to use tools to eat it, I want something at least as good as a grapefruit.
Grapefruit lovers unite!
…So sorry for those on medications who can’t eat grapefruit.
Oranges are the worst kind of orange.
Pardon?
Sorry, I should’ve realized that could read as ambiguous or nonsense.
To rephrase: Navel oranges are the worst variety of fruits that taste approximately like an orange.
At least where I’m from orange on it’s own can mean either navel orange, or any similar fruit like tangerine, mandarin, or clementine.
I think the word you’re looking for is citrus
There isn’t a good word that signifies just the citrus that look and taste more or less like oranges.
I don’t say “bless you” when someone sneezes, because it’s an archaic tradition based on superstitious nonsense.
Are you a “Gesundheit” kinda person?
If I like someone, I sometimes go with “shut the fuck up” 😊
I wish it was socially acceptable to interest-dump someone and for them to do the same to you.
Just getting a 5-10 minute lecture deep into a topic that someone is passionate about is fun and educational! Much better than trying to make small talk or talk about the 3 common topics at your workplace (at mine it is local tv, energy spending/taxes, and cars), which is often sports. Then you get to learn about other people’s interests too!
Yeah, it’s hard having ADHD and not be able to be enthusiastic about stuff without people thinking you’re weird. I don’t want to talk about boring shit you’re “supposed to” talk about.
Oh I love to ask that as a conversation starter. One time someone got me so hooked into crabfication I presented a whole seminar about it at uni.
I absolutely love when people at work do this, you can tell how passionate they are about it and it’s fun to listen to
Deck PCs combine the worst of both worlds, they are too cumbersome to be a proper handheld, and too underpowered to compete with desktop PCs.
I love my deck as a PC more than any computer I’ve had in ages. Steam OS is wonderful.
