Wandering Adventure Party

I’ve retreated to only helping people in my direct circle. Anyone else immediately starts ignoring me, like they’re prideful or afraid of a weird parasocial relationship even if I made nothing of it. Or maybe they were just scamming. Who knows.

@fujiwara@sakurajima.moe it just sounds like you’re generally asexual, and that’s ok. I don’t think you’re broken.

@usernameswift@labyrinth.zone if you considered only half my posts terrible I’d feel like I had achieved something.

"Reliably Mechanical" is a phrase that resonates a lot with me in regards to tech.

I think the success of technology has always rested on two axes. One is speed. Doing things faster is always appreciated, because we can do more. The other, perhaps more critical axis is 'correctness'. Good technology doesn't just do things faster than people, it does them more reliably, more precisely, and accurately. The cost of mistakes tend to grow exponentially the further they are in the chain of production, as a mistake in the next step ruins all the productivity of the previous step. So, speed is usually secondary. The history of "The first patented machine to do X" is littered with failed designs that were too inaccurate, too unreliable. The first design do combine speed with correctness is the real revolution.

This is how I feel about the LLM stuff; it's fast but not reliably correct, or "reliably mechanical". I think the Genie is out of the bottle so to speak and we're stuck with this stuff, but once the venture capital gets tired of pitch-forking piles of money into a furnace, I think you'll see mostly local models and the big ones will be too expensive for the average person beyond whatever google or other is willing to lost-lead for sweet ad revenue or to create propaganda realities (ala Grok).

I finally got around to playing Wolfenstein: The Old blood and some of The New Order.

I played The Old Blood first and honestly... The New Order feels way better.

The levels in The Old Blood are just kinda annoying - there is always some god damn hidden hatch or wall climb you need to find to advance, so there is a lot of 'where the fuck do I need to go?'. The developers are in love with this pipe you find and I don't understand why. The stealth feels way less optional (with the last boss being a stealth boss). Like, what the fuck man I'm here to blast nazis. A little stealth is fine but I don't want to be penalized massively for avoiding it and it's not a 'good' part of either game. The number of times a rock falls on BJ or you're too late to save an NPC is just comical.

The New Order isn't perfect but I'm half way through and it just feels like a better put together game. I see The Old Blood get a lot of praise and I don't really get it. I played through the game and just felt vaguely annoyed the whole time.

@pup_hime@toot.cat I had to start with figuring out which OP you were talking about, and work from there ​​ You just triggered my curiosity.

@pup_hime@toot.cat OP2 for Working!! ?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4uou1yGqCG8

@speckledlemon@urusai.social what’s funny is that before I moved here, I actually trimmed down a large part of my collection.

@pup_hime@toot.cat goodnight. Awaken to good things tomorrow.

Sometimes the words are there just for feeling. The surface meaning of the sentence is nonsense, but individual words may reveal the feelings of something if you just stop trying to parse out instructions.

@EricMalves@squawk.social a friend and I just had this discussion a bit ago.

I can only assume this is one of the ways our society encodes classism into popular media. The villains are most often people coded high class by dint of leadership, wealth, or violence. They are on equal class footing with the hero who has these higher class codings from the same metrics. So, the hero has to make a check when it comes time to commit violence.

While the mooks … are just the underclass. Violence is used against them without question or restraint. That’s just gravity pulling the shit downhill in this narrative.

At least that was the conclusion we came to.

@Ouvee@urusai.social welcome to fedi ​​

We will survive the night.

My book collection is beginning to reach the capacity of my 7 book cases and there is not really room for another. Some hard choices may have to be make in the coming months… ​:neocat_0_0:​

@BrianBinh@dice.camp the context I’d like to add to this is that the Romans were not writing on paper - that hadn’t been invented in Europe yet, and vellum was too expensive. So for scratch writing ,They were writing most commonly on… WAX. They had wax tablets on sheets, which they would heat to ‘wipe clean’. This plus often carving in stone is why so many of those upper case Latin characters are big LINES. This persisted through to the Middle Ages.

@BrianBinh@dice.camp I can only imagine how much the translator nerded out when they had this chance to use this word.

Everyone who is gone had nowhere else to go but here.

@pup_hime@toot.cat Violence has been brought to my attention and I do not like it... (I kid)

Maybe less obvious to the those on the fediverse; but X just did a self-own.

They released an 'about this account' feature. Embarrassingly, this revealed that a lot of MAGA / US nationalist accounts were in fact, based outside of the US. Last I heard, This feature was suddenly put on pause. No one on this side of the fence is shocked.

Source: https://www.thedailybeast.com/top-maga-influencers-accidentally-unmasked-as-foreign-actors/

I am only hard on journalism because I believe the members of that establishment should serve an incredibly important role in our society. The work some of them do is incredible and important.

So when I see them act like propagandists (publishing pieces derived purely from police statements, company blog posts, marketing material), or refusing to even armchair understand their 'focus' enough to do more than mislead their readers (lookin' at you especially, tech journalists), I get a little peeved.