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randomsnark,

sounds like the old terrafirmacraft mod

randomsnark,

Honestly even if everyone agreed to a linear story, they can jump the rails without even knowing unless you have clear and explicit communication. DMs should be willing to say “hey, you can do this, but just so you know I never considered this action and might need to make up some nonsense on the fly or take a break to do some new prep” if they think it’s necessary. Clear communication beats hiding behind the curtain for the sake of immersion every time.

I was a player in a campaign a while back where this basically happened - we all knew the DM had plans and thought we were following them, but he revealed at the end that pretty much the last half of the campaign had been panicked improvisation of material that he wasn’t happy with, because at one point the NPCs we’d been traveling with got on a boat to a new continent and invited us along, and in absence of other clear plot hooks we said yes. Apparently all the prep was on the previous continent and he riffed a ton of interactionless filler descriptions, a random dungeon, and a half-baked new plot, rather than saying “you can go with them but to be clear you’d be leaving my prep”. In our particular group’s case, we would have happily changed our mind on that basis, but even if we’d gotten on the boat we would have been in a position to understand and enjoy the new adventure better knowing that everyone (including the DM) was venturing into the unknown together.

randomsnark,

Do you have any additional info about the changes they’re making to the mission? I didn’t see that in the article

randomsnark,

You people make me sick.

A toast sandwich consists of only these following items. Bread. More bread (usually toasted). This entire community consist of “double-deckers”. Almost every “toast” sandwich i see on here has other spreads added to it. The fact that this community is called “toastsandwich” is nothing short of utter blasphemy. Let me start out by saying I have nothing against double-deckers, I just hate their association with sandwiches that are not toast sandwiches. Adding toast to your butter sandwich? It’s called a butter double-decker. Totally different. Want to add mayo and some pretentious bread crumbs with salt? I don’t know what the hell you’d call that but it’s not a toast sandwich. I would be more than willing to wager I’ve eaten more toast sandwiches in my 21 years than any of you had in your entire lives. I have one almost everyday and sometimes more than just one sandwich. Want to personalize your toast sandwich? Use a mix of different toastedness levels or use sourdough or french bread. But if you want to add some olive oil and take a picture of it, make your own community entitled “double-deckers” because that is not a fucking toast sandwich. I’m not a religious man nor am I anything close to a culinary expert. But as a bland white british male I am honestly the most passionate person when it comes to toast sandwiches and water soup. All of you foodies stay the hell away from our toast sandwiches and stop associating your double-decker sandwiches with them. Yet again, it is utter blasphemy and it rocks me to the core of my pale being. Shit, I stopped lurking after 3 years and made this account for the sole purpose of posting this. I’ve seen post after post of peoples “toast sandwiches” all over lemmy and it’s been driving me insane. The moment i saw this community this morning I finally snapped. Hell, I may even start my own community just because I know this one exists now.

You god damn heretics. Respect the toast sandwich and stop changing it into whatever you like and love it for it what it is. Or make your damn double-decker sandwich and call it for what it is. A double-decker.

randomsnark,

He mentioned he uses automatic1111

The stable diffusion mode for working with existing images is called img2img

randomsnark,

Why would we base our definition of AI on fiction, rather than using the definition from computer science, which is where the term originated?

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Well you can start here, then spend a few decades reading and thinking about it, and get back to us when you’ve figured it out

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It’s been forever since I read it, but I think the cool suit was covering himself in sandtrout, which eventually led to the wormy fascism?

I did think more or less the same thing on seeing this meme though, in that my first reaction was “wait, wasn’t that God Emperor?”

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The following year she was exiled to Mars, where she grew an extra boob

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maybe it should be 1d2 then - can only deal 4 points of damage on a crit

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I could have sworn there was an xkcdsw exactly like that, but there doesn’t seem to be. Some of them are a bit happier though

E.g. xkcdsw.com/3968 , xkcdsw.com/2485 , and others if you click “browse by source” at the bottom and search for “spirit”

randomsnark,

Weird - I’m seeing that now too. But I wasn’t at the time that I copy and pasted the links, and you can see from the other replies around 8 hours ago that other people were also seeing a site hosting edited versions of xkcd comics. I guess it has suddenly changed, after years of being up, in the few hours after I posted it? I have no idea what happened there.

randomsnark,

He’s talking about the belgariad/malloreon, by David Eddings. It seems like he may not have read the second paragraph mentioning the death gate cycle, hence the confusion.

The Belgariad is a series of 5 books, and the Malloreon is a sequel series which is also 5 books.

randomsnark,

same tbh

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I remember being very interested in them back in the early 2010s, but progress has been very slow. They’re more or less at the same point now as they were then, as far as I can tell, apart from minor updates. It’s hard to be sure though because their site updates so rarely. I clicked through to it just now and there were some machine pages talking about what they hope to accomplish in 2014, and others being proud of their progress so far in 2018. It’s hard to tell exactly where they’re at when their site is so inconsistently updated.

If there’s a source showing a clearer and more complete picture of their status I’d love to see it, as I do find the idea interesting.

Just finished reading Annihilation - strange book

After seeing it on the list in this thread, I decided to read Annihilation, and I just finished it. As others said it’s weird (I like weird, so it’s one of the reasons I wanted to read it). The writing style really reminded me of H.P. Lovecraft, which is to say it’s a bit stilted. I’m glad I read it - it’s an...

randomsnark,

I actually just read it for the first time in the past few days too. After all the hype, I was a bit let down although I still found it somewhat engaging. Its real strength is the dreamlike style, although that often seemed conscious and artificial - I occasionally became very aware that I was reading something the author had intentionally crafted to be stylistic, which took me out of the experience. I was surprised by how little happened over the course of the book, how little characterization there was (apart from the main character, largely fleshed out through constant flashbacks rather than a sense of her personality), and how flat the dialogue was. The way of alluding to the indescribable and incomprehensible was enjoyable, but nothing new. I’ll still read the next two though (already started the second).

I also found their mind-control depiction of hypnosis to be a bit unrealistic for my liking. I know it’s a book about reality warping madness, but it seemed like everything outside of Area X was supposed to be essentially present day reality, which the hypnosis isn’t.

randomsnark,

Needs quotation marks

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I’m sure it’s better when made by a professional, but if you really want to try it, this site has a recipe: gluttodigest.com/cube-croissants-square-croissant…

It also mentions some places that sell it, but I’m guessing those are expensive and/or distant.

randomsnark,

Where have you visited so far? Usually I’d think you’ve encountered something other than the ship within a few hours, and most of the things you can encounter should give you ideas as to what else to explore. Have you literally only floated around in the ship, or is that a way of saying that the things you’ve found aren’t interesting to you?

randomsnark,

Talking to people and examining writing will usually drop references to a couple of other places to explore, or to unanswered questions that are worth looking into. Even if they seem minor, these almost inevitably lead to putting together pieces of the larger story, regardless of which pieces you start with. I don’t specifically remember what whistling guy talks about, but it sounds like that’s the only potential lead you’ve found so far. It’s certainly possible to make progress without ever talking to him, via all kinds of things that can be independently stumbled on, but if you haven’t found anything else I bet revisiting his dialogue will give you an idea on where to search next.

(Okay, I checked the wiki and can confirm that, while Esker is not the richest source of new options in the game, his dialogue does include instructions that lead to new threads for you to pull on)

randomsnark,

It’s a fictional diary entry, from The Prestige. The next entry is 2 months later, when he’s fallen in love with a different woman.

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Bulimia - twice the taste, and no calories!

What’s the Bare Minimum Number of People for a Mars Habitat? (www.universetoday.com)

A recent preprint paper examines the minimum number of people required to maintain a feasible settlement on Mars while accounting for psychological and behavioral factors, specifically in emergency situations. This study was conducted by a team of data scientists from George Mason University and holds the potential to help...

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because they do not wish to be clobbered

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he’s fluent in bullshit

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Stolen

You mean stashed in your mental cheek pouches.

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But Larry, you don’t have any hair. Why do you need a hairbrus–auuugh bears why are there bears

randomsnark,

I was curious as to what this implies, so I did some quick/superficial googling. The page in the OP has a Yes next to Intent To Use - this appears to mean they have a good faith intention to make commercial use of the trademark within the next 6 months. If for whatever reason they could not make use of it within that time, they can file extension requests indicating good cause for being unable to do so, for six months at a time, up to 5 times. So, OpenAI ostensibly intends to make available a commercial product named GPT5 within the next 6 months (or up to 36 if there are unforeseen delays). So, probably before mid-january.

I welcome corrections from people with actual knowledge, I just did some quick googling because I was curious and thought I might as well share what I found.

randomsnark,

There are hacky ways to do it through a frontend that can only block communities. Any time a post appears from that instance, automatically block the community and hide the post. I don’t know if jerboa would prefer to wait until a more elegant solution is possible and/or leave it to the user though.

randomsnark,

I think xeelee’s joke might have been that you have no idea what the inside of a car’s engine looks like, and are therefore a cartoonist

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