Wandering Adventure Party

I do not NEED the desktop printing press.

But I do want it.

@ielenia@ck.catwithaclari.net welcome to the crenellations of a new day. Best of luck out there.

I don’t need you to be such a strong individual that you don’t care about the judgement of others.

What I do need is for you to be secure enough to realize that someone doing or thinking something different than you is not an inherent attack on your own conclusion.

Referring to oneself in the third person can be strangely comfortable, but the comfort is probably not an healthy response.

@mikoto@urusai.social today’s weather report is overcast with a mildly haunting sunset…

@askDNA@urusai.social Understandable. I hope next week is better for you.

@Kingu@sakurajima.moe more like “got a chef named after him”

@askDNA@urusai.social I thought getting ink on your hands was just a part of using fountain pens.

@Kingu@sakurajima.moe ​​ though in fairness to Caesar, his name became a title of rulers for centuries. Even after the Roman Empire, we have titles like Tsar and Kaiser that derive from his name.

@babble_endanger@freeradical.zone I get what you mean. There’s a certain worldview, an impenetrable naïveté that comes from having undisturbed core memories that pair vulnerability and safety. I think It must be nice to have a corner of your psyche you can retreat to.

It has a large effect. I kinda struggle to connect with those kind of people. Some mental block. I invariably learn that the person I’m chatting with comfortably has had something truly awful happen to them. The rest drift away.

Talking to someone who did not have a fucked up childhood is kinda like talking to a space alien.

@ielenia@ck.catwithaclari.net I feel it's only fair to ask them to say in their wedding vows that they'll still love you through American Tax Season, since that'll be a thing until you manage to end your citizenship.

@ielenia@ck.catwithaclari.net Morning. ​​

@sidereal@kolektiva.social The blank statement is definitely wrong, agreed. What I may instead say is the Gen Z may be the first generation where the internet is utterly inescapable. I grew up in the sticks, and eventually we got dail-up but that was just ... a thing with chatrooms, emails, and a few forums. It was something that was easy to walk away from.

These days... It's required. The administrative apparatus has bought all in. All toys and tech have it. The appliances, the TV, the schools, everything.

I won’t generally rain in on things people like, but who are these hobgoblins who will only play D&D5E to such a degree that everything is getting pressured into doing a 5E port? ​​

As a ruleset, it’s just ok, and it’s not especially flexible into all the things it’s being forced into. I want publishers to focus on content for their actual game, not weirdo ports. Make the pain stop.

Be careful how you get angry on someone else’s behalf. There’s a terrible beast of presumption and sometimes even privilege waiting there in.

@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).