I feel like there are a number of ways to close the “oh I don’t have any income. I just get a loan against my assets from the bank. That’s not income! You can’t tax that!” process that rich people use to have money without tax obligations.
Conservatism is a bad world view. Rigid patriarchal authority will lead to abuse.
I also don’t have much patience for “it gets fun later I promise!”.
Guild wars 2 will scale people down for earlier levels, but the majority of content is aimed at the level cap (which hasn’t changed since launch ten years ago).
I don’t know how long it would take a new player to hit the cap. With friends, I think you could get to the cap via crafting in like 30 minutes if they spot you the resources.
Based on not much? Lol what. Finding venues and hours of operation is the go-to example of LLM failures. The other day whatever Google slaps on the top of the search results lied to my friend’s mom about something like that, and we had to remind her not to trust the AI.
Plus, the topic isn’t friends. The topic is someone you just met for dating. Dating is full of strategies to bail early so you don’t waste your time or theirs. If someone told me they were a huge fan of reality tv, that’s a minus for me.
For LLMs specifically, it is the wrong tool for finding facts. If someone told me they were writing their JavaScript in Excel I would also question their decision making.
thinking you are somehow the arbiter of intelligence.
You just made that up. Are you an LLM?
I think a lot about the guy I worked with that said he was going to Palantir. We were like “but what if they have you doing awful things?” He was like, big shrug. He was always friendly to people in the office, but I guess that’s as far as it went.
They expect us to be mad about people getting vital health care?
There’s a difference between “one skill [navigation] atrophies” and “all skills atrophy”.
Bro, he used the thing to search for a venue for a show,
That’s an incredibly stupid use for an LLM. If someone’s that stupid in this way, they’re probably stupid in other ways. Some upstream decision making process is broken.
There are more fish in the sea. If you’re traveling and looking for a hotel, you could stay at the one with the broken windows. Maybe it’s fine! Maybe there’s a good reason, and the windows aren’t even in the guest rooms. But you could also just not bother, and stay someplace that doesn’t have obvious red flags.
One of the things I liked about the Chronicles of Darkness system is it cleared this up nicely. Stats were in a 3x3 grid.
One axis was physical, mental, social
The other was Power, Finesse, Resistance.
Want to shove something? Physical + Power. That’s strength.
Want to figure out a riddle? Mental + Finesse. That’s Dexterity.
Command attention? Social + Power. That’s the Presence stat.
Lie and misdirect? Social + Finesse. Stat was called Manipulation.
Now you can have a character that’s commanding without also being a natural liar and flirt. DND doesn’t help let you do that because the concepts are bundled together into a single stat.
(You could invest separately into like Expression for making speeches and Deception for lying, of course)
Humans are rated 1 to 5, where a 5 is the peak of human capability. Presence 5 is like AAA movie stars and great leaders.
Of course, if you add supernaturals to your game a starting chump vampire could have seven presence if they take Majesty as their power, and become a nearly irresistible magnet of attention.
Have you talked to a lot of tech workers? I feel like there’s a set of left wing ones, a larger set of libertarian types, and an even larger set of people who are shockingly ignorant of politics and history.
For years, there was an apartment nearby that had a little plastic action figure on the window sill outside. Just standing there in plastic glory watching the street, little sword ready to defend the home. I noticed this week it’s gone, and I was a little sad. I don’t know if it just fell down, or they moved and took it, or what.
Nice! I got the new expansion but haven’t gone far in it yet. I played around with ritualist (my favorite from gw1) but reaper might still be my true love.
But I love that it’ll all just be there when I get around to it, and I can still have fun doing old content. The wizard tower convergence is a recurring favorite of mine.
As GM, I would ask the party for their standard operating procedure and then fast forward until something interesting happened. I really don’t like the “well you didn’t explicitly say you were checking this tile so you set off the trap” mode .
I was always a guild wars fan, in part because there’s no subscription fee.
Guild Wars 2 is still going. They do expansions every so often, but it’s been almost nothing but horizontal growth. No new level caps or gear tiers. Just stuff like “as a necromancer, you can summon spirits to fight for you instead of getting a death powered scythe” trade offs.
And the ultra rich would deserve to lose everything
A bag of chips at one of the local groceries is $7, and it’s smaller than it used to be.
Everything is more expensive and smaller.
If the private market can’t do it at a profit without cutting corners or stiffing labor, then don’t.
Probably get as many conservatives out of power as possible. Once they’re gone we can work on climate change, better electoral systems, removing the evils of capitalism, and so on.
Sure, but that seems like a separate, closely related, topic.
I was mostly objecting to the idea that souls games are just memorizing and pushing buttons. That accusation could be leveled at most single player games, but people seem to mostly bring it up to denigrate souls games.
Multiplayer often has less memorization though, as you say.
Yeah, that archetype of player is annoying, but I think it might be just a loud minority.
Not surprising. Capitalism wants money. Most people don’t care about things like “Art” or “long term”.