Turniper
9mo ago
I got a publishing offer like two years ago from Podium, but wasn't interested in finishing the story so I didn't accept it. But the amount of unsolicited interest I've gotten over the last year is definitely down, seems like the market's a bit glutted and there's less interest in pushing new stuff out atm.
Turniper
10mo ago
This is an excellent explanation for how the law works and why prosecuting attendees of one event was much easier than charging those at others. But it's also exactly why this controversy keeps finding new legs. Most people don't see 'Rioters wore masks, operated under the cover of darkness, and overwhelmed the ability of local police to gather evidence about who committed what crimes' as a reason they should get off. Guys who think the BLM riots were under-prosecuted don't usually have a specific theory of current law under which they should have been punished. They just think that if masked people burn down a local auto-zone, someone needs to be punished, and every failure to do so undermines the legitimacy of the legal system. You cannot legally reason someone out of a morally reasoned position.
Turniper
10mo ago
Sorry, which republican elected officials are groypers again? Which of their policies are dominating Republican discussions? It's the party of Trump, business interests, and cultural conservatives. Groypers remain years away from mattering and a Carlson interview does not even begin to change that. Joe Rogan has what, 40 times Nick's viewership? Sixty? Nick struggles to break half a million, Joe regularly puts up 20 times that, and has done 100+ times that. The only times I ever even see Fuentes mentioned in political conversations are on this forum, even my conservative conspiracy nut friends barely remember who the dude is.
Turniper
10mo ago
I just use claude code. I don't think the modality matters anywhere near as much as the underlying model and the user instructions. There's definitely an art to prompting it well to get good output, by default it just surges forward along the path of least resistance. Good instructions, and cutting it off when it's beating it's head against a wall, are major force multipliers.
Turniper
11mo ago
The use case of one-shotting crappy vampire survivor is that you could easily manage a supervised build of crappy Hades or your ARPG of choice. I'm just insanely impressed with how good recent models are at coding. I'm getting them to produce thousands of lines of multithreaded code in Unity's burst compiler with sizable amounts of guidelines and bugfixes, but I'm still getting code in days that would take me 5x that long to produce on my own. Having an assistant that just knows 'Oh yeah, you gotta delete the cache when you change GPU-passing structs', and can just 'tweak that native array to persist height data so we don't need to sample the resultant mesh' is so insanely powerful. As soon as someone solves post-training and long term context, we're probably gonna see a huge amount of digital-friendly jobs get wiped out in a single wave.
We're going to see some insanely ambitious indie games in the next five years. One programmer can now do the work of 2-4 with a really effective AI collaboration workflow. And I don't doubt it'll be 10 in another year.
Turniper
11mo ago
At the end of the day, getting married is a leap of trust. Some people figure out they are aligned in values and take the plunge early, trusting in mutual commitment to make it work. Others move as slowly as my fiancee and I did, and the official commitment is just recognition of a trust and commitment that already exists. At the end of the day, all you need to figure out is when you reach the point that you believe the two of you are on the same page about what a life together should look like, and how much you are willing to work and compromise in order to bring that dream into reality. The appropriate timeline for you will be greatly dependent on the potential spouse you are considering. Don't think about when you need to leap into bed as an answer you need to have worked out, but as a chance to build or test that level of trust and communication you need to develop to make a marriage work. If you wait too long and she dips because of it without giving you a chance to fix the issue, well, marriage wouldn't have worked out anyway.
Turniper
11mo ago
I'm gonna necro this a bit (I mean, it's only been a week) to say, as someone in a 10 year relationship getting married in a few months, sexual compatibility is a huge deal. There are people who, after the initial honeymoon phase of a relationship ends (2-8 years or before first kid), will want to have sex 3-5 times a year. There are people who want to have sex once a day. There are people who prefer a more reasonable 3-5 times a week. There are people who are only interested in sex when they are in a good mood and after substantial foreplay. There are people for whom sticking it in is the foreplay. There are people whose sexual interests are dominated by one or more very specific paraphilias. There are people who just don't like sex and are only doing it because they don't want to be alone. There are people who don't give a shit about any of this and enjoy sex but experience no real FOMO or distress when they don't have it for long periods of time.
There are gender distributions to this traits, but none of the groups I mentioned are smaller than 10% of the population. People vary extremely wildly on this dimension. Unless you're one of the take it or leave its, you need to be on the same page about this to have a marriage-length relationship. That doesn't mean having sex before marriage, but it does mean talking about the subject in more detail than a lot of people are comfortable with. "Figure it out with each other" is a strategy that works maybe 50% of the time, and the other 50% either dooms you to eventual divorce or one or both parties perpetually being unsatisfied with whatever compromise you end up with.
Yeah, as an American resident dual citizen, this is pretty much my reaction. I'm not exactly gonna be upset if the administration snaps back at them.
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