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An observation made so many times: 100 years ago, oppression of the public was done through making enough people act as agents of the state and report their friends and family. Today we tell our deepest secrets to machines who are pre-made to act as agents of the state (or company, or anything...)

The few times I ever fallen for the temptation to open a youtube short from some creator I don't know, I have almost always been just annoyed at the extremely low and click-baity content. I really thought YT was supposed to be good at this algo BS 😤

I really need someone to make a non-AI version of "How to start an F-16" 😤

Listening to Sapiens (by Y.N.Harari) is a really uncomfy experience 😓

I'm a couple of chapters in and it's essentially just hustle culture propaganda. Where corporations was invented to allow innovation and where humans just used to be much "better" before "idiots" could be useful (and reproduce).

This looks really nice!

One core lesson i wished more people learned about LLMs is: it's good at what it was trained on.

What value do you bring by asking it to summon a, at best, lightly flavored copy of something well known?

We are just constantly moving faster and faster, with less and less control, afterthought and intentionality.

If you've ever wondered: how could we have a real time graphical interface in computers back in Win 3.1 times but, today, with such massive increase in hardware performance, you are still experiencing lagging and slow downs...

That is because the equivalent of vibe coders have always won...

I feel like there should be a word for that feeling when you realize that a friendship or relationship isn't what you were assuming... Maybe it used to be, maybe it never was... just that now it isn't.

It is kind of a weird simile, but anyone who argues that "it's too hard to host, I just want to make art" is basically using the same reasoning as "ai-artists" that says "it's too hard to learn to draw, I just want to make art" 😅

It's almost like a lot of the people upset about itch haven't been online for that long... These issues will always be the issue with monetizing through others services... If you want control, you have to host your content yourself.

It's funny how the economic cycle is never that right-wing politics, in a state, increases to the point where people have it too good and they start voting for left wing politicians out of misguided comfort...

I am all for opposition to genAI, but some arguments against it is really out there... Almost feels like during initial Covid where antivax where criticizing capitalism in medicin but just reaching such bad conclusions...

Hey, is it just me or is there a connection between all the drama posting about Stop Killing Games and the slow realization among the former "alt-right" crowd that MAGA is indefensible?

#SKGIsJustAboutEthicsInGameJournalism

I watched the new Jurassic Park movie and I really enjoyed it. Really felt that it gave me what I want from a Jurassic Park movie, the right flavor of adventure.

If anything I wish they had been nerdier about the dinosaurs... It went a bit too fantasy in some places.

I'm fairly comfortable with the inherent lack of meaning in the universe...
But there is a part of me that envies those who so firmly believe that there is a hidden truth to be found.

Realizing that, us dealing with LLMs is actually kind of a first for humanity when it comes to dealing with "stupid" entities. LLMs are uniquely stupid; they aren't like animals, machines or even incurious or uneducated people... and we need to figure out how to have reasonable expectations of that.

Ah yes, nothing like a power outage to realize how close to the surface the thought "is it happening now?" Really is 😓

... I'm just really tired...

Radical idea, but self-policing is way worse than people being a bother about them being offended online.

Be honest, caring, and sincere and let those who then want to call for you head over what you say be seen as the fools they are 🤷‍♂️

Just my opinion but letting the fear to offend take the lead is the slow death of creativity... A lot of people seem to confuse "intentionally provoking anger" with "saying something that other takes offence to". The former is the bad thing. As long as you say things you can stand for, say it.

I hear you, but you are also comparing yourself to the aggregate of the entire space. I only know a few who, at times, create effortlessly.
But being frustrated at the money aspect of it makes a lot of sense and why I'm curious if you have some insight that I'm missing 😊

Hey, don't bail on me, my question is sincere! This isn't about cool or offended.
What is it that actually bothers you about it? Let's blaspheme!

How is any of these things bothering you tho? Not trying to be dismissive here, but all of these things seems very optional.
The history of ttrpgs (and a reason it's super difficult to actually make a living on it) is that players can literally just use a cover image and make up a fun experience.

Rolling for perception really is just rolling to get permission to carry on playing the game isn't it?

Too be fair it's very much More Usable™ 😅

In definitely going to send it your way whenever I translate it to english at least 😁

I haven't read up on Conan but apparently WHFRP also use a similar Momentum system. The idea is just that you have a pool that accumulate during a scen and you can use that to take some extra control during a scene. So things like helping a user, reroll, or establishing new Assets.

Yeah, fate points feels like a distraction for me. For some reason just counting momentum feels better.

I mostly found it very hard to come up with good aspect names in Swedish. And making them useful is even harder. But I think it's a matter of different types of improvisation 🤷‍♂️

Most of the changes is to how aspects and fate points work. Mostly inspired by momentum in Charge (by @farirpgs.com ) and the the idea of being able to declare aspects without naming them. It kind of mixes aspects and stunts with pbta moves into one solid mess 😅

Actually got a chance to pretty properly test out my new TTRPG system and I definitely feel that I'm on to something 🤔
It definitely feel like a, for me, more usable version of Fate Core.

Don't get me wrong, I really love Fate... It's just very hard to teach and run as a GM.