Can you compare it to voidcrew if you’ve played that? I want to like a game like this but voidcrew never hooked me and I’m curious how you feel a few days in.

“Three years ago, Valve made a promise to ship a general installer for SteamOS, enabling any PC to take advantage of all of its features. But that didn’t happen. And, let’s be real, it’s not going to happen in the next couple of years either.”

I’m trying to find a reason to go back to windows, I promise, but everything keeps working properly and being generally enjoyable. :(

He’s right and this is why his comment is the artwork of the person replying to him. It’s no different from a keyboard. It’s a really advanced, very complicated keyboard.

But I know the same people who argue lemmings aren’t intelligent also don’t want to recognize generated comments as being the property of the user who generated it. It’s “shitposting” and thus should be subject to scorn, ridicule, and has somehow stolen from all commenters everywhere, who have ever lived or ever will live in the future.

https://www.nomanssky.com/beacon-update/ https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/275850/view/520840848816998071

“A well managed settlement can make their owners rich in resources, but they need to be protected. Travellers can hire a squadron of wingmen, who will now defend towns when they come under attack from roving pirates.”

“Players can become town mayor and take ownership of multiple settlements. You can construct buildings and upgrade each one, with new building types like jukebox bars where you can choose the music, merchants where you can build custom starships or even ponds you can chill and fish at.”

If you can humor my oversimplification, this sounds pretty close to player run towns that can come under attack by enemies, with the implication that they are destructible or at least capable of some sort of loss. I also see NPCs with individual stats and player run taverns that should hook nicely into the bytebeat song creation system they built. It would be amazing if this made it to LNF as bard/musician player options while taking some inspiration from Star Wars Galaxies entertainer buffs. Regardless I can see most of these things being part of LNF gameplay loops in a fantasy setting with very little mental gymnastics.

I like where they’re taking the engine overall and hopefully they confirm some things soon!

Conveniently, this could be a path to competence for those juniors in the long term.

Yeah just start your own instance on a different planet with situations that only provoke your preferred amount of existential dread!

Barring that you’re going to be stuck identifying the sources of this widespread misery and trying to help people overcome it. For most people that might be difficult but I don’t know your budget so I won’t assume. There’s also the option of interacting with machines that pose as happier humans but your goal overall seems contrary to growing that 80% by adding yourself unless I misread your intent.

An empty vessel. A template, if you will.

Trying to come up with original memes for the community that gave you brain damage

Hmm, I’m beginning to think this internet bullshit might not be the best way to get a crab.

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You gain Crabshell x1. You’re still a little Hungry. You have become Lonely. You have saved $.65 on this order with your doordash subscription.

What about it specifically do you dislike? This type of setting definitely invites questioning by the audience and can break immersion, but I’m curious about your take on it.

In dungeons and dragons there is a type of hybrid character you can play called an Artificer who treats magic more like technology, and there are a ton of examples in popular media that others have mentioned. I do think you have to determine how and if you’ll keep them distinct if that’s important to your plot, but if they developed alongside eachother maybe the technology of that world relies on magic to work.

Or maybe your magic relies on elder gods that don’t like the mortal hubris of critiquing the gods works so attempts to unravel magic gets you cursed or worse.

I think they can go together and the way you fit them can even become a plot point!

Yes, we do care that it’s unintelligent because that’s the reason it can’t be trusted with anything important. This is not being pedantic. This technology is unreliable dogshit. We’ll still be having this conversation in 2030 if it hasn’t cooked us all or lost it’s undeserved hype.

(Adding Stellarst0rm’s example because I somehow forgot it https://www.reddit.com/r/funny/comments/6gzfra/damn_wish/)

Do you notice how the original sketch version has very different facial expressions for the punch line (if simplistic sketch art) and the AI doesn’t clearly convey anything by the younger’s facial reaction because the model paints the same “angry/alarm” pattern on both characters? Why is the younger vaguely angry in the AI version? You can make something up like “that’s just the style” but…

There is no answer because there is no style because nobody made this. It’s just a copy missing a piece of the humor the source had that didn’t make it through as statistically relevant even though it DOES contain data for the punchline to observers. Do you see how the next model training on this will actually lose something that’s a concrete part of the joke? Let’s ignore “soul” and say that it dropped the ball on nonverbal communication in a way that’s meaningfully worse to the viewer.

It’s true that people will have a hard time articulating why modeling art and language are worse than actually making them, but I don’t think their concerns are unfounded. It’s slop in my opinion because it loses to napkin art despite having vast resources applied to it. I understand how the difference may seem like a grumpy nitpick but the models can’t train off their own output without a buildup of convolutional traces that poison their outputs eventually and break them according to current studies. It’s clearly missing SOMETHING intangible and whatever people call it, it’s real.

I should have read more carefully, thanks for catching! I’ll edit and add something on topic.

“New York Life all said they’ve never hired prompt engineers, but instead found that—to the extent better prompting skills are needed—it was an expertise that all existing employees could be trained on.”

Are you telling me that the jobs invented to support a bullshit technology that lies are themselves ALSO bullshit lies?

How could this happen??

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I agree with all of this under the caveat that your DM interpretation of the “what constitutes interaction” in 5e can also have more influence on your success than clever or clumsy play. DMs I’ve played with have varied from very loose discussions about their concerns for balance to self crippling houserules that wind up with illusionist NPCs failing to do anything because of a broomstick and blanket being flailed at them by a fighter. Specifically speak with the DM running the game and come to a common understanding before you start. Find out how interactions and passive checks will work against your illusions ahead of time in that game!

Edit because I’m turning into a lich and forgetting which editions we’re talking about:

Major Illusion, Hallucinatory Terrain, and Greater invisibility are amazing staples of illusion and you can look to Shadow Evocation and Shadow Conjuration as patches for any missing features a wizard should have in your party. Other than that I think… take standard wizard spells and ban schools based on your party if you have the chance to plan with them. Also consider the synergy that lies (enchantment) can have with misdirection and see if you can fill that role or support your local lying bard/rogue/beguiler.

Illusion for gnomes in 3.5 invariably leads to talking about their shadow magic prestige class from Races of Stone and the ability to change what disbelief entails as well as cast evocation and conjurations as shadowy illusion that become more and more real as you progress. This is amazing for high powered campaigns but personally I recommend house ruling metamagic level out of the %realism formula. This prestige class is in no way necessary though as illusion rocks and gets license to make memorable scenes in ways other spell schools don’t!

‘Corn Maze’ by Aesop Rock

“The phone pings from a pillow fort in a corn maze. I don’t have a horse in your war games”

https://redirect.invidious.io/watch?v=gqY2CNMsFKw