stolenmerch

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by stolenmerch 2y ago
Apology accepted
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by stolenmerch 2y ago
I'm getting downvoted simply for giving examples, thus proving my point. But if you need a concrete example, I once had a DM include a drag show in-game.
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by stolenmerch 2y ago
I believe you, but that's not the case everywhere. I've had DMs who have put drag shows in our game as part of tavern entertainment, for example. Even though I have no problem with them in real life, I have no desire to see them i
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by stolenmerch 2y ago
Mostly political agendas that spill over from the real world, often surrounding themes of social justice and left-wing activism but sometimes right wing fascist themes as well. I just find it infuriating to have the DM shoehorn their extrem
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by stolenmerch 2y ago
A problem with the X-Card concept is that it can only be used within the pre-existing Overton Window of the group anyway, so you might as well ditch it in favor of normal social negotiation. For example, X-Card guidelines always tell player
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by stolenmerch 2y ago
I remember serious discussions about how we'd probably need to repave all of our sidewalks in the US to accommodate the Segway
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by stolenmerch 2y ago
I visualize some geographic location either in my home town where I grew up or in my current city. It's so vivid that I actually drive through some neighborhoods and can instantly recall what I was working on. I have a map with pins in
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Does anyone know the status of sdnotes.com?
3 points by stolenmerch 2y ago|1 comments
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by stolenmerch 2y ago
Exactly, there are numerous reasons other than it's not possible. 1.Time-travel will never become possible. 2.Time-travel becomes possible. Their time travel capabilities are inadequate to visit us. 3.Time-travel becomes possible. They
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by stolenmerch 2y ago
Bebe Williams published this idea in issue #14 of Strange Magazine (1994) and has published the book "Instructions for Meeting Time Travellers" https://www.artcomic.com/timetravel/intro.html
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by stolenmerch 2y ago
It's just campaign rules for Chainmail, their medieval weapon combat rules invented for the already existing Elastolin and Starlux figures. It was a system for wargamers much more interested in the weapon speed of pole arms rather than
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by stolenmerch 2y ago
Let's try to calculate an optimal prepping strategy using a back-of-the-envelope Bayesian approach with expected utility. We need to estimate the probability of a societal collapse along with its potential severity. Then, assign utilit
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by stolenmerch 2y ago
I got my Technicians license about a year ago but have struggled to find much to do with it. I check into my local nets every once and a while, but the repeaters are nearly silent otherwise. The CW privileges are ok but hard to use. Seems y
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by stolenmerch 2y ago
No, I have it stashed in the basement. I made it through a natural disaster in my area in the middle of a global pandemic and wasn't even tempted to crack it open once. Hope I never will.
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by stolenmerch 2y ago
They didn't just start, they've been selling these off-and-on for years. I have a 25 year food bucket I bought right around the financial crisis 15 years ago.
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by stolenmerch 2y ago
5 years ago I was running GPT-2 and generating D&D content with it. I expected much better text prediction loop and here we are.
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by stolenmerch 2y ago
A text file of a list of people from December 12, 1981. Originally had it on a floppy for the IBM PC 5150 and it's made the leap somehow to every new system for over 40 years.
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by stolenmerch 3y ago
They simply used the wrong link, its not really a lack of account or hostile UI
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by stolenmerch 3y ago
Because the effects of my actions in this case have yet to be demonstrated, let alone shown to cause harm. The author claims there is expoititive harm to labor, the environment, and maybe others. That is not at all obvious or provably true
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by stolenmerch 3y ago
> I don't think this article even remote attempts this claim. It's in the first sentence, "AI output is fundamentally derivative and exploitative (of content, labor and the environment)."
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by stolenmerch 3y ago
I'm not a fan of this hyper aggressive line-in-the-sand argumentation about AI that pushes it all precariously close to culture war shenanigans. If you don't like a new technology that is perfectly cool and your right to an opinio
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by stolenmerch 3y ago
What's crazy is that the OSR movement itself is now 20 years old and is probably no longer a renaissance or revival but simply a bona fide style of D&D that people play for its own sake.
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by stolenmerch 3y ago
It gets colder in Minnesota during the winter. https://weatherspark.com/compare/y/68697~10405/Comparison-of...
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by stolenmerch 3y ago
The real-time global threat assessment tool powered by AI that allows "actionable intelligence to keep you one step ahead of potential risks" currently lists Ma Barker's gang as a high-threat terrorist event. https:/&#x
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by stolenmerch 3y ago
"web0 is web3 without all the corporate right-libertarian Silicon Valley bullshit." So, building normal small websites like we've always done? I'm honestly struggling to see what's going on here other than a couple
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by stolenmerch 3y ago
I would love to see them add books as well
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by stolenmerch 3y ago
> "an off-putting nerd named Elon Musk won’t stop talking about an “everything app” called X that will help him manifest his extremist views" > Twitter’s slide into irrelevance and extremism as it decays into X has hastened
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by stolenmerch 3y ago
In 2015 The Atlantic wrote a glowing puff piece on how unstable Twitter was as if it was almost cute. https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2015/01/the-s... Now if outgoing links are broken for
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by stolenmerch 3y ago
"...leaving the platform virtually unusable for those who remained." Sorry, but what? I use it everyday and it's fine. Oh I'm sure some of the author's favorite people decided to switch to mastadon or blue sky or so
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by stolenmerch 3y ago
Also check out the Principia Rewrite project, which aims to use the interactive theorem prover Coq to ensure each proof step is a valid step according to Principia’s axioms and that no steps are skipped, even by accident. https:/&#x2F

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