cjet79
Anarcho Capitalist on moral grounds
Libertarian Minarchist on economic grounds
User ID: 124
cjet79
8hr ago
I've been trying to get an AI to help me vibe code a mod for the game timberborn. I'm trying to shoehorn in an eastern cultivation system. Immortal beavers, with super beaver constitutions and abilities.
I went to the mod page for the game and I'm not the first one to have the idea of AI coding some mods, especially if the sample mod images are anything to go by.
Made me wonder if any other games are having a modding Renaissance right now.
cjet79
8hr ago
Ha, it's kinda funny to think of new species as something like a creator god dropping a new album.
cjet79
9hr ago
Ya I don't know how it gets up in there so often. Had to deal with diarrhea the other day and it was like a spray on shit bikini.
And ya it applies to boy babies as well, but the post is about a female literary shit test. I'm not doubting that many male characters can think and or talk about shit.
cjet79
16hr ago
I feel really lucky to have been disabused of female purity early on.
I had a younger sister on the highschool varsity volleyball team. I was a senior, I was classmates with many of the very attractive and tall senior players. My sister was one of two sophmores on the varsity team. They won states that year, it was not a shitty team. But boy did they love to talk about shit. Any juvenile male thought of 'huh i wonder what the hot girls are talking about, maybe its how they really want some good dick or something' got so disabused that year. No, they weren't talking about dicks, they were talking about their shits. The big ones, the liquid ones, the frequent ones, the smelly ones, etc. I had to beg my sister to stop talking about her team gossip. One of the best parts of going to her games was looking at all the beautiful buts in spandex. But it was completely ruined. All I could think about was them talking about their latest dumps on the ivory throne.
No, it wasn't some psyops to get me not interested in her teammates. Sister would have set it up if it was viable. She told me when her classmates her age had crushes on me. A real caring sibling. I still get along great with her.
Nowadays I have three daughters. They stink, they shit, they pee, I've changed so many diapers, and wiped poop out of a vagina so many times. Sorry if that is graphic for people without female daughters. It just becomes this weird fact of life. Once they get past one the shits get real gnarly and you want them getting potty trained asap. Of course my daughters fought it until 4.
Sorry why am I talking about shit so much? Its a default human experience. And its also like the first thing any self conscious female will want covered up in their characters. I think we should have a shit test for female characters. Can they talk about taking a shit for a few sentences, even just as an internal monologue. If yes, they are a real person. If no, they are fake barbie dolls.
cjet79
1d ago
Shitbag move by Vivek. Wish he would just retire away quietly somewhere.
My maybe controversial take is that being a victim of child sexual assault (CSA) makes me not want you as a high level politician.
It's not their fault, it's not that I think they did anything wrong or I want to punish them further. But look, I feel bad for blind people too, but I don't think they should be driving a motor vehicle on the same roads as me.
High level politician is a mentally stressful job. You'll be dealing with shitbags like Vivek, and even plenty of people worse that are either:
- Less in the limelight (imagine any of the state's worst criminals asking for a pardon)
- Better at not looking like a total shitbag (imagine a rival politician had instead just quietly bribed her mom to come up and be in her life)
So there won't be a national consensus every time that someone has done you dirty. They'll just do it and you'll just have to deal with them partly getting away with it.
There will be many other situations where mental stability and health is important for the position, and even fully healthy people are likely to be worn down by it.
Alternatively maybe it's a good thing because every high level politician is likely mentally ill in some way (how else do you explain why they want the job?), and this is a case of 'better the devil you know than the devil you don't'.
cjet79
2d ago
I'm confused by the whole thing. Is the flag upside down to signal some kind of danger from Trump? If yes, it seems weird to not own up to it.
Was it just incompetence on someone's part of how to fly a flag? Ok, I get wanting to hide that.
Was it sabotage from someone at the venue, and no one realized it was a problem in the moment?
cjet79
4d ago
Its hard to pick.
Just the last thousand years of decently documented history has so many fascinating stories and people. It is tragic that most of our history is just gone forever.
I would like definitive answers on the ancient civilizations hypothesis. Of what was going on 11 thousand years ago.
cjet79
5d ago
I've never met a single adult that is naive to that level about weight loss in the western world. Most kids i know above five are at least vaguely aware that fat people eat more. Once they take a single health or gym class they usually immediately learn about calories and the relationship with weight.
It's like someone saying they want to learn about politics in the US and you say "well the US rebelled from the British in 1776 and George Washington was the first president". And you just stop there expecting them to now know more about US politics.
It's advice that most adults could reasonably respond to with the phrase "do you think I am fucking retarded or something?"
It is far more likely to be offensive advice than helpful advice.
cjet79
6d ago
I guess our opinions just differ on what to call true and useless advice. I call such advice garbage.
cjet79
8d ago
CICO is garbage advice and dieting measure, but standard and acceptable physics.
Our bodies don't measure fullness via calories, there are many ways it can adjust metabolic rate to match food intake, and it has many ways to encourage food intake if body is using more calories.
Count calories all you want (and most people don't want to spend tons of time doing that), but what you eat is gonna determine whether you feel fine and satiated or hungry and miserable. Being hungry and miserable all the time is a great way to quit a diet. So why not skip the part where you count calories, eat the right foods, and don't feel hungry and miserable all the time. That's what the non CICO diets tend to offer.
cjet79
9d ago
Eh I just have this weird aversion to touching pots and pans with metal. Ingrained habit in trying to preserve Teflon cookware
cjet79
9d ago
Rediscovering writing
Weird benefit of the proliferation of AI writing is that my weird eccentricities in writing are now marks of sophistication rather than marks of degeneracy. Before I couldn't be bothered to learn all the proper standard ways to write things. To conform to a perfect platonic ideal of written communication. Now that AI has mastered that platonic ideal and using AI is a signal of low effort the more obvious it is that your writing is not that platonic ideal the more obvious it is that you have put in effort to craft a thing.
This has made it a little more enjoyable for me to craft messages, forum posts, etc then it was before. Where I once sounded weird, now I sound genuine and 'real'.
My writing will probably go more and more off the rails in the future. Before AI I was trying to correct for eccentricities. Now the guardrails are gone. I gotta lean into the weirdness!
Its made me more interested in getting back into writing stories. I don't think I'm the first to have this observation, but in a world where everything can be perfect, the imperfect becomes more interesting.
cjet79
9d ago
I occasionally find stupid cheap gadgets on amazon that I buy sort of on impulse and they turn out to be awesome. Or items I pick up in a random store as I browse for something else. Some of the items, no particular order:
- plastic potato masher utensil. So much better than trying to use a fork. doesn't damage pots or pans since it is plastic. usually i dislike single use kitchen gadgets, but if you make mashed potatoes ever you want this.
- lemon squeezer. its awesome, works great. old concept, still perfect. Again, usually i dislike single use kitchen gadgets, but squeezing lemons and limes is a common thing. I'd say we use it every other week.
- small magnetic kitchen timer. lightweight, simple. attaches to anything vaguely magnetic. sound is loud enough to be heard in the same room no matter the noise level, or across the house if things are generally quiet. found a whole bunch of non kitchen cooking uses for it with the kids "ok try to take a shower in just ten minutes ... rather than thirty minutes, here is a timer"
- canvas print photos. they really decorate the room really well. cheap to order a bunch of them, no frames needed (since they come with an internal wooden frame). easy to hang cuz of the existing frame and their light weight.
- yeti water bottles. keep things cold or hot forever, very good longevity on the product. still works great after almost a decade of use.
I think I could walk around my house and find more. Ill add one dumb thing as a bonus: tungsten cubes. These were apparently a fad among crypto bros for a little while. I bought mine before then. They just feel so cool. Very heavy for a small object. Denser than lead.
cjet79
9d ago
Trying to vibe code an eastern cultivation mod for the beaver colony management game timberborn. Why? partly shits and giggles. But also see where my former job of programming has gone. I've only had one 3 hour session so far. Its been very informative.
Things I discovered:
- Humans are lazy programmers, that is their worst quality. (knew this already, its why I started using AI)
- AIs are the opposite of lazy programmers. That is their best quality.
- Humans are lazy programmers, that is their best quality.
- AIs are the opposite of lazy programmers, that is their worst quality.
I had a plan of battle going in, hashed out with free version of chatgpt. Start with an initial proof of concept mod to see how well AI can mod and change the game. I was gonna stick to mechanics that are already in existing mods. Chatgpt helped me setup a local programming space that would use gemini as a local coding agent.
Was all going well, but then we sent gemini to start on the initial coding task. And it kept looking at a bunch of files in the game library. Running a bunch of read commands and asking for permission to do so. I checked in with chatgpt 'hey whats this thing doing why is it reading all these files' chatgpt explains this is entirely harmless and its just trying to read the files to understand what it can do modding wise. "wait" i think, there are examples of how to create basic mods online. I talk to chatgpt about using those, chatgpt realizes oops ya its not really using those as an example its trying to basically reverse engineer the whole game. We stop gemini from going further down the rabbit hole, redirect it to a more focused task, it then runs out of tokens. Fuck. 6d wait for more tokens. double fuck.
At this point I switch to being computer -> human -> AI middle man for chatgpt. I am the agent part of a coding agent. but I'm exercising more caution at this point because it just wasted a bunch of time trying to decipher the whole game when it could have just looked up the simple modding guide. I stop chatgpt from overthinking or overanalyzing things a few time "yo have your tried using the internet to see if that resource exists" gets met repeatedly with "oh yes! great idea! i found that exact resource I was trying to reverse engineer to be easily available online."
Anyways I ended up with a basic mod at the end of the night. It runs, the game doesn't crash. Minor first success i suppose.
cjet79
10d ago
I just started working on a modding project for the game timberborn. Plan is to see how far I can get using free or cheap AI. Was gonna post about it in the tinker Tuesday thread today.
cjet79
11d ago
I like exploration both of a physical space and a set of game mechanics. I like progression that is both in personal skill but also game mechanic assisted progression. I often use games as a second screen as I'm listening to comedy podcasts. For multiplayer I enjoy cooperation in games, but not competition. I like the skill required for FPS games, I can play halo 2 nearly endlessly for the sheer enjoyment of the firefights.
Lately starship troopers extermination was scratching a cooperation itch and an FPS itch at the same time. But the game mechanic progression/unlocks had stopped, and my skill had meaningfully topped out in most of my favorite guns. Finally player counts in the game overall and my group in particular had dropped too low.
Yes we are probably looking for very different things. My favorite game was probably factorio on a first playthrough. Since I enjoy the exploration aspects of games most games have low replayability for me. I'm not crossing games off a list I feel obligated to play, I just have genuinely more fun doing something new and slightly worse on other metrics than doing the same thing again and again that is awesome in every other way.
cjet79
12d ago
I am having fun despite all my complaints. It's not just crossing it off a list.
Exploring the dungeons in the deep north has been fun. Sieging the forts in the Ashlands has been fun. Kiting bosses while they absolutely obliterate the environment around me is fun for thirty minutes, just not an hour or two.
The progression is always something I'm addicted to. I wish it was more tied to the character itself rather than just the gear and meals.
The building is fun at my super base once I had a huge backlog of stone or other raw material.
I like the size of the world but I just wish there was a faster way to traverse it. I'd love if there was an end game air ship. And a mid game ship with way more speed. Possibly some resource burning option for a flat boost to speed. So you would still want the wind for top speed, but aren't completely stuck dead in the water when you get a headwind in a narrow channel.
cjet79
12d ago
Ya I guess I'm an NPC, I prefer enshrouded. You are about to hate everything I'm gonna say.
I really can't spend endless time on a game. And the basic mechanics of Valheim are just not that interesting to me. It's smack things and avoid being smacked for combat. Or slowly run away while reloading a bow or crossbow.
The resource gathering has nothing interesting going on. At most it requires entering certain combat zones or dungeons to gather a particular resource, but that just brings it back to the standard fight mechanics.
The sailing is boring. I used cheat engine speed hack and literally sped up the game by 5x to take care of long sailing journeys. Even then I felt like I was barely paying attention and still easily avoiding stuff or going the direction I wanted.
Gear and food is the entirety of your progression. The default settings have you lose both on death and then make a corpse run. I fucking hate corpse runs. But fair enough that makes me not want to die. But that leads me to playing cautious and ultra boring all the time. I am absolutely not gonna risk a 50 minute meal count down on a risky and aggressive strategy. I turned the setting on so I at least kept my equipped gear, but I doubt you do that.
Finding specific locations on the massive sprawling map would take forever even if you are using portals and the in game map. Playing without them seems like insanity. I instead found an online tool that took my map gen key and revealed the whole thing locations and all.
Basically I'm shamelessly "cheating" at this game and barely finding my time worth it. I can see how someone with nearly unlimited time could enjoy the slow grind of this game. But that's not me. The combat just doesn't interest me, and the base building mechanics are strict. Resources don't go far in building, and height restrictions for all but the best materials kick in so fast that you always feel like you are making a crappy temporary base.
cjet79
13d ago
Playing Valheim again since it got 1.0 release.
I like that they changed some of the difficulty settings. Previously I had to install mods to not have their preferred hardcore experience.
There is still some slight annoyance with travel distances in the game. It is fun to build huge sprawling bases. But the default setting doesn't allow for ore and metals going through portals until you reach the end game. Sailing is painfully slow given the size of the map. So the game slightly encourages small bases next to resource nodes, but the resource costs of many bases is cost prohibitive since many of the crafting stations use up rare resources.
Fighting the bosses alone is a slog. They are definitely designed around multiple players. Melee DPS is much higher than ranged DPS and the bosses can tear through large health stacks with relative ease. So you are stuck with one strategy of run in a and take a few whacks then back off to shoot from range while health regenerates. You can't spam healing potions even if you stock up cuz they have a two minute cool down.
The boss fights are hour long battles where one mistake sends you to a respawn and erases 15 minutes of progress as their health regenerates and you spend time getting back in the fight.
Still a mechanically fun survival rpg with interesting and unique story aesthetics. Graphics are in an ok spot, better than minecraft but not by much.
At this point I just want to beat it and cross it off the list.
cjet79
16d ago
Yuck. That would possibly be one of the worst things Trump could do for his presidency.
Blatant interference in sports will not be tolerated well. Americans have their bread and circuses. Don't fuck with the circuses. Especially after his war with Iran just made the bread so damn expensive.
Ovechkin is retiring anyways and has said he plans to move back to Russia. Just wait ~6 months and he will be gone.
cjet79
17d ago
Bryan Caplan is not a lefty. He is for open borders. He would be happy to get rid of the welfare state as well.
cjet79
17d ago
It's high effort and impractical right now.
When AI agents are ubiquitous? It's a short request away for anyone.
cjet79
17d ago
There is a cascading failure route. Big website gets overwhelmed with bot spam. People get sick of it and move to medium size website. Medium size website gets overwhelmed with bot spam. People get sick of it and move to small website. Small website gets overwhelmed with bot spam. People get sick of it and move to tiny website. Tiny website is overwhelmed with bot spam.
At each iteration the website owners might care more about getting overwhelmed with spam. But to crack each layer the bots get more sophisticated. The fact that big websites are already overwhelmed is not a good sign, its a sign of things to come.
In my experience of moderating slatestarcodex and themotte for the last decade is that the moderators have an effort advantage. It is easier to ban a user than it is to spin up a new one. We have a default system that excludes new bots. I had to read your post before I allowed it through the filter. But humans do not have any inherent advantage here, unless you start implementing draconian personal identification rules. Which actually benefits the large websites. I've had to do youtube's creepy 'im a real human' process of taking a selfie video.
I just don't like a defense that is basically "my adversaries have been stupid". They can easily get smarter. Especially when costs are in their favor.
missed that post, but good one! Banshee in fallout is silly. Reminds me of when someone changed all the dragon models and sounds in skyrim to thomas the tank engine.
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