ToaKraka
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ToaKraka
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57m ago
I remain in hopium-huffing mode, not game-playing mode.
(I will take this opportunity to note that Dyson Sphere Program, Factorio, Captain of Industry, etc. are industrial engineering, not civil engineering. But I am interested in them.)
ToaKraka
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1hr ago
All basketball arenas should be renovated into indoor-soccer arenas.
Don't forget that indoor American football also exists.
ToaKraka
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1hr ago
In American football, you've got your quarterback that's usually fairly well rounded, then you get a mix of big mofos and sprightly gazelles.
Compare the old system of one-platoon/ironman football, under which substitutions were strictly limited and therefore all players had to be competent both on offense and on defense. Presumably, the replacement of this system with unlimited substitution and two or three totally separate platoons of players has contributed to the specialization of players in the modern day.
ToaKraka
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2hr ago
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Right pocket: Wallet; keychain with house key and bedroom key; keyfob for my car
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Left pocket: Phone; keyfob for my mother's car
ToaKraka
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8hr ago
Why are 55+ communities allowed?
A cursory search indicates that 55+ communities are specifically exempted from federal law's ban on age/race/etc. discrimination in housing.
What are the perceived benefits of 55+ communities? It's weird to me that people are getting so offended at the idea of an almost-30-year-old woman can continue living in the same home she lived in before her father passed away.
In the vein of the famous comic: (1) You signed a contract. (2) Obey the contract. Whining that the contract is "weird" and (in the linked tweet) "HOAs have too much power" will not garner any sympathy when you agreed to the contract's provisions and you are free to just live somewhere else.
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21hr ago
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23hr ago
You have to press the Enter key twice in order to leave behind the blockquote.
ToaKraka
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1d ago
Dark Souls 2 is the only game in the "Soulsborne" ""series"" that I've actually played. I have significant nostalgia for it (without DLCs) on the PlayStation 3 a decade ago, and years afterward I accumulated 300 hours of playtime on PC.
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I've never felt much need to try Dark Souls 1 or Demon's Souls when Dark Souls 2 is so awesome already. (I think my brother and I did also have those two games on PS3. I don't remember why I didn't play them at that time. Maybe I preferred to spend all my time on Dynasty Warriors Gundam 1, 2, and 3.)
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It is my impression that Dark Souls 3 and Elden Ring are "rollslop" in comparison to the more methodical gameplay of their predecessors.
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As for Bloodborne and Sekiro, I prefer rolling to parrying.
ToaKraka
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1d ago
Don't forget that Bridge Constructor technically is in the same genre. Civil engineering is an extremely broad category.
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1d ago
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Nioh 1 (faster-paced action RPG)
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Dark Souls 2 (slower-paced action RPG)
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Darkest Dungeon 1 (slow-paced dungeon crawler; kind of dumb, but a reasonably fun time-waster)
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Nuclear Throne and Enter the Gungeon (move with keyboard and shoot with mouse)
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Death Stranding 1 (transport cargo across landscapes)
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Fallout: New Vegas and Fallout 3 with Tale of Two Wastelands bugfixes
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Kerbal Space Program 1 (plan space missions)
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Cities: Skylines 2 (build cities)
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Mini Motorways (draw road networks)
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Freeways (draw highway interchanges)
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Gundam Breaker 4 (the closest thing to Dynasty Warriors Gundam that's playable on PC)
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House of Dead Ninjas and Super House of Dead Ninjas (simple action)
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Solitairica (solitaire roguelite)
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Slipways original and fancy (draw trade routes to develop planets)
ToaKraka
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1d ago
And here's where I will drop just a little bit of CW here:
I will take this opportunity to point out that, in my own dabbling, I have noticed that, when given a race-neutral prompt, a local decensored LLM will always make all the characters white.
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A while ago, there were several controversies regarding companies' clumsy insertion of nonwhites into race-neutral prompts. What happened to that? Have they just gotten better at hiding it?
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If a prompter knows that his race-neutral prompt of "Write an erotic description of a young, skinny woman in a shopping mall." will always generate a white woman, and he doesn't make the extra effort of manually adding "Pick race randomly between white, black, East Asian, and South Asian.", can he be considered racist?
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To what, if any, extent should LLMs produce a mixture of races in their responses to race-neutral prompts?
ToaKraka
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2d ago
Dunno what the women are complaining about.
This sentence actually made me angry. 10/10 bait, made me reply.
ToaKraka
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2d ago
It is a humorous Spoonerism for "pissed (drunk) as a newt".
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2d ago
I assume that the other commenter's implication is that SpaceX and Starlink have improved humanity's situation more than "philanthropy".
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2d ago
Mi.
A daring synthesis. (The traditional abbreviation is "Mich.", while the newfangled postal abbreviation is "MI".)
ToaKraka
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2d ago
Is it really that disgusting for a straight man to think about having sex with a man?
Scientific study from year 2017 (news article):
120 male participants viewed photographs in six categories: neutral items (e. g., a binder clip); disgusting items (e. g., a bowl full of maggots); man+woman public displays of affection; man+woman kissing; man+man public displays of affection; and man+man kissing. Afterward, their disgust was measured through levels of a digestive enzyme that appears in the saliva of a stressed human.
A statistically significant increase in enzyme level was found only when comparing man+man kissing to neutral items (p < 0.2 %), comparing man+man kissing to man+woman public displays of affection (p < 2.0 %), and comparing disgusting items to neutral items (p < 3.6 %). This result was obtained among all participants, not just among the ones who self-reported as disliking homosexual men in an online survey that was administered prior to the experiment.
Presumably, actual sex would prompt an even greater response than mere kissing.
At the same time, the publishers started seeing various court cases around ownership and copyright of generated works, and now they're scared shitless about what happens if they publish one. (ToaKraka recently had some links about this.)
ToaKraka
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3d ago
Yes, I am in fact familiar with light novels
Confusing them with visual novels casts some doubt on this assertion.
ToaKraka
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3d ago
The only dynamic element they have is a tradition of branching choices, which anime and manga cannot do.
Japanese Wikipedia indicates that a few gamebook/choose-your-own-adventure manga works have been published.
ToaKraka
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3d ago
A generic locker-room joke's leading to a restraining order is funny. Repeatedly impregnating your girlfriend's underage daughters (including while out on zero-dollar bail) is funny. Accidentally fingering your daughter because she replaced your wife in the marital bed in the middle of the night is funny. I don't know what else to tell you.
Perhaps you have not sufficiently <del>desensitized</del><ins>refined</ins> your sensibilities by reading thousands of pieces of (predominantly non-loli) hentai manga and erotic literature.
ToaKraka
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3d ago
The censored opinion for today is extremely tame—just a 17-year-old's allegation that her 19-year-old ex-boyfriend distributed their sex video without authorization. I find it quite hilarious that the entire controversy hinged on whether a locker-room joke made to the plaintiff's brother ("Yo, did you see the video of your sister?") was a sly reference to a video that the joker had actually seen (as the trial judge thought) or just a genuine joke that coincidentally happened to land on a sensitive topic (as the appeals panel thought).
I assume "de[-]riv[e]ting".
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