cjet79
Anarcho Capitalist on moral grounds
Libertarian Minarchist on economic grounds
User ID: 124
cjet79
7hr ago
I think @George_E_Hale has a reasonable request to not use the word you used.
There is definitely a bit of a euphemism treadmill with this concept. But the once acceptable word was "retarded" and "tards" seems like it has always been a derogatory term.
I'm not putting this down as an official mod warning of any kind.
I also don't want this misconstrued as any official or wider spread rule. Two adults can disagree about appropriate word usage. As long you aren't insulting one another or getting nasty with each other or other users that might plausibly be on this forum then I don't think mods need to be involved.
cjet79
8hr ago
is this the same judge that was getting in spats with elon musk and trying to have twitter employees in the country arrested for not censoring the platform?
cjet79
18hr ago
People in power lie. The truth for them is what is convenient and what they can get away with.
I think irrational conspiracy theorists notice this habitual lying and just extend it everywhere. Even to the point of absurdity.
Rational conspiracy theorists can notice the lying when it is ultra convenient for those in power, and when it is easy to get away with it.
This will produce some false positives. Sometimes the truth is convenient for those in power. Some crazy jihadists carrying out 9/11 is certainly convenient if you want more excuses to mess around in the middle east.
I don't like blaming the victim in these cases. The problem is not that people are prone to conspiracy theorizing. It's that they correctly notice those in power are happy and willing to lie about the truth all the time, and it kinda breaks their brains trying to figure it out. The problem remains the liars, and their willingness to torch the public's trust, not those who are confused by it.
We would need a sea change in culture for that to change. A teller of harsh truths is not lauded, they are hated. Confessing to crimes is not a path to redemption it's just a speedy path to punishment. An honest politician is an out of work politician.
cjet79
1d ago
Every game that would otherwise be too dark, no screw you I'm turning up the brightness. It's gonna look like broad daylight in the mines of moria and I don't care.
cjet79
2d ago
A lot of music discoverability seems to be based around the idea that I like the elements of the specific song and want songs that share those elements. That is sometimes true, but it is more often ass-backwards for me. I want songs that are the best example of certain elements, and once I hear the best example I want very different elements. So just grading on "pop" success has been an easy metric for me before. Whatever song from whatever genre that rises above its peers is usually interesting to me. But pop music seems to have compressed into its own sub genre of copying its own elements.
cjet79
2d ago
I have been making more progress on my eastern cultivation mod for Timberborn.
This is what the AI says has been accomplished:
We've accomplished quite a lot in Immortal Beavers:
- Built a working C# mod with AI-assisted development.
- Implemented cultivation progression: individual beavers advance to Qi Gathering, gaining major productivity and lifespan bonuses.
- Created a meditation system with cultivation experience and wellbeing effects.
- Built a functioning pill economy: refinery, Sustenance Pills, and dedicated storage.
- Verified gameplay in Timberborn, including production, consumption, progression, and storage.
- Established a sustainable AI workflow: Grok, Git, shared documentation, and smaller coding tasks to conserve tokens.
- Researched existing faction mods and identified a practical route toward a standalone faction.
- Redefined our roadmap around an entire cultivation civilization, including spirit stones, four energy-production methods, ley lines, and supernatural abilities.
Currently underway: Creating the playable Immortal Sect faction, initially based on Folktails.
In my mind the main achievements are figuring out the AI workflow. I have chatgpt doing quarterbacking. Used gemini briefly, blew through all the tokens twice now. Have a subscription to grok and its going ok in terms of token usage.
I feel the need to ask them to be careful and conservative about token usage. Like directing overeager interns that would gladly research an impossible software engineering problem for three months unless you tell them explicitly 'report to me every day about what you are doing, do not waste time on super difficult problems'.
This sort of thing feels basic. which is frustrating. it could be a basic prompt start for the models, but that doesn't serve their interests. so it becomes a basic 'if you care at all about money, you need to ask it to do this thing'.
the one thing majorly in favor of AI doing stuff is that it is fun. it feels like i am making so much more progress. i get to feel like a boss directing various AIs rather than a dumb peon figuring out the API for a random beaver game. This aligns with my advice on dieting, find something fun that you can easily continue doing, rather than a super optimal process that is hard to follow.
Also the real bangers where visual and musical align are awesome to experience, share those too.
Rich men north of richmond
a few bo burnham songs
some dance anthems
etc
edit was looking for it earlier but goo goo dolls iris playing in the rain is perfect: https://youtube.com/watch?v=_HZM0QiuUS8
cjet79
3d ago
I try to find new music on youtube. Find songs I like. I add them on a spotify playlist. Realize I don't like listening to them that much.
There is a class of songs that hit really well when I'm watching the singer, but fall off significantly without a visual aspect. One of the best examples of this is a singer "dax" on youtube. A dozen music videos I enjoy watching and listening to. But as soon as my eyes wander, or i listen to him without visuals he immediately loses my interest. I don't even like rap as a genre that much, but he is visually interesting.
I'm wondering how to find the opposite. Super listenable, but no good music video for discoverability. I haven't liked most of spotify's discoverability.
cjet79
3d ago
missed that post, but good one! Banshee in fallout is silly. Reminds me of when someone changed all the dragon models and sounds in skyrim to thomas the tank engine.
cjet79
3d ago
I've been trying to get an AI to help me vibe code a mod for the game timberborn. I'm trying to shoehorn in an eastern cultivation system. Immortal beavers, with super beaver constitutions and abilities.
I went to the mod page for the game and I'm not the first one to have the idea of AI coding some mods, especially if the sample mod images are anything to go by.
Made me wonder if any other games are having a modding Renaissance right now.
cjet79
3d ago
Ha, it's kinda funny to think of new species as something like a creator god dropping a new album.
cjet79
3d ago
Ya I don't know how it gets up in there so often. Had to deal with diarrhea the other day and it was like a spray on shit bikini.
And ya it applies to boy babies as well, but the post is about a female literary shit test. I'm not doubting that many male characters can think and or talk about shit.
cjet79
4d ago
I feel really lucky to have been disabused of female purity early on.
I had a younger sister on the highschool varsity volleyball team. I was a senior, I was classmates with many of the very attractive and tall senior players. My sister was one of two sophmores on the varsity team. They won states that year, it was not a shitty team. But boy did they love to talk about shit. Any juvenile male thought of 'huh i wonder what the hot girls are talking about, maybe its how they really want some good dick or something' got so disabused that year. No, they weren't talking about dicks, they were talking about their shits. The big ones, the liquid ones, the frequent ones, the smelly ones, etc. I had to beg my sister to stop talking about her team gossip. One of the best parts of going to her games was looking at all the beautiful buts in spandex. But it was completely ruined. All I could think about was them talking about their latest dumps on the ivory throne.
No, it wasn't some psyops to get me not interested in her teammates. Sister would have set it up if it was viable. She told me when her classmates her age had crushes on me. A real caring sibling. I still get along great with her.
Nowadays I have three daughters. They stink, they shit, they pee, I've changed so many diapers, and wiped poop out of a vagina so many times. Sorry if that is graphic for people without female daughters. It just becomes this weird fact of life. Once they get past one the shits get real gnarly and you want them getting potty trained asap. Of course my daughters fought it until 4.
Sorry why am I talking about shit so much? Its a default human experience. And its also like the first thing any self conscious female will want covered up in their characters. I think we should have a shit test for female characters. Can they talk about taking a shit for a few sentences, even just as an internal monologue. If yes, they are a real person. If no, they are fake barbie dolls.
cjet79
4d ago
Shitbag move by Vivek. Wish he would just retire away quietly somewhere.
My maybe controversial take is that being a victim of child sexual assault (CSA) makes me not want you as a high level politician.
It's not their fault, it's not that I think they did anything wrong or I want to punish them further. But look, I feel bad for blind people too, but I don't think they should be driving a motor vehicle on the same roads as me.
High level politician is a mentally stressful job. You'll be dealing with shitbags like Vivek, and even plenty of people worse that are either:
- Less in the limelight (imagine any of the state's worst criminals asking for a pardon)
- Better at not looking like a total shitbag (imagine a rival politician had instead just quietly bribed her mom to come up and be in her life)
So there won't be a national consensus every time that someone has done you dirty. They'll just do it and you'll just have to deal with them partly getting away with it.
There will be many other situations where mental stability and health is important for the position, and even fully healthy people are likely to be worn down by it.
Alternatively maybe it's a good thing because every high level politician is likely mentally ill in some way (how else do you explain why they want the job?), and this is a case of 'better the devil you know than the devil you don't'.
cjet79
6d ago
I'm confused by the whole thing. Is the flag upside down to signal some kind of danger from Trump? If yes, it seems weird to not own up to it.
Was it just incompetence on someone's part of how to fly a flag? Ok, I get wanting to hide that.
Was it sabotage from someone at the venue, and no one realized it was a problem in the moment?
cjet79
7d ago
Its hard to pick.
Just the last thousand years of decently documented history has so many fascinating stories and people. It is tragic that most of our history is just gone forever.
I would like definitive answers on the ancient civilizations hypothesis. Of what was going on 11 thousand years ago.
cjet79
9d ago
I've never met a single adult that is naive to that level about weight loss in the western world. Most kids i know above five are at least vaguely aware that fat people eat more. Once they take a single health or gym class they usually immediately learn about calories and the relationship with weight.
It's like someone saying they want to learn about politics in the US and you say "well the US rebelled from the British in 1776 and George Washington was the first president". And you just stop there expecting them to now know more about US politics.
It's advice that most adults could reasonably respond to with the phrase "do you think I am fucking retarded or something?"
It is far more likely to be offensive advice than helpful advice.
cjet79
9d ago
I guess our opinions just differ on what to call true and useless advice. I call such advice garbage.
cjet79
11d ago
CICO is garbage advice and dieting measure, but standard and acceptable physics.
Our bodies don't measure fullness via calories, there are many ways it can adjust metabolic rate to match food intake, and it has many ways to encourage food intake if body is using more calories.
Count calories all you want (and most people don't want to spend tons of time doing that), but what you eat is gonna determine whether you feel fine and satiated or hungry and miserable. Being hungry and miserable all the time is a great way to quit a diet. So why not skip the part where you count calories, eat the right foods, and don't feel hungry and miserable all the time. That's what the non CICO diets tend to offer.
cjet79
12d ago
Eh I just have this weird aversion to touching pots and pans with metal. Ingrained habit in trying to preserve Teflon cookware
cjet79
13d ago
Rediscovering writing
Weird benefit of the proliferation of AI writing is that my weird eccentricities in writing are now marks of sophistication rather than marks of degeneracy. Before I couldn't be bothered to learn all the proper standard ways to write things. To conform to a perfect platonic ideal of written communication. Now that AI has mastered that platonic ideal and using AI is a signal of low effort the more obvious it is that your writing is not that platonic ideal the more obvious it is that you have put in effort to craft a thing.
This has made it a little more enjoyable for me to craft messages, forum posts, etc then it was before. Where I once sounded weird, now I sound genuine and 'real'.
My writing will probably go more and more off the rails in the future. Before AI I was trying to correct for eccentricities. Now the guardrails are gone. I gotta lean into the weirdness!
Its made me more interested in getting back into writing stories. I don't think I'm the first to have this observation, but in a world where everything can be perfect, the imperfect becomes more interesting.
cjet79
13d ago
I occasionally find stupid cheap gadgets on amazon that I buy sort of on impulse and they turn out to be awesome. Or items I pick up in a random store as I browse for something else. Some of the items, no particular order:
- plastic potato masher utensil. So much better than trying to use a fork. doesn't damage pots or pans since it is plastic. usually i dislike single use kitchen gadgets, but if you make mashed potatoes ever you want this.
- lemon squeezer. its awesome, works great. old concept, still perfect. Again, usually i dislike single use kitchen gadgets, but squeezing lemons and limes is a common thing. I'd say we use it every other week.
- small magnetic kitchen timer. lightweight, simple. attaches to anything vaguely magnetic. sound is loud enough to be heard in the same room no matter the noise level, or across the house if things are generally quiet. found a whole bunch of non kitchen cooking uses for it with the kids "ok try to take a shower in just ten minutes ... rather than thirty minutes, here is a timer"
- canvas print photos. they really decorate the room really well. cheap to order a bunch of them, no frames needed (since they come with an internal wooden frame). easy to hang cuz of the existing frame and their light weight.
- yeti water bottles. keep things cold or hot forever, very good longevity on the product. still works great after almost a decade of use.
I think I could walk around my house and find more. Ill add one dumb thing as a bonus: tungsten cubes. These were apparently a fad among crypto bros for a little while. I bought mine before then. They just feel so cool. Very heavy for a small object. Denser than lead.
cjet79
13d ago
Trying to vibe code an eastern cultivation mod for the beaver colony management game timberborn. Why? partly shits and giggles. But also see where my former job of programming has gone. I've only had one 3 hour session so far. Its been very informative.
Things I discovered:
- Humans are lazy programmers, that is their worst quality. (knew this already, its why I started using AI)
- AIs are the opposite of lazy programmers. That is their best quality.
- Humans are lazy programmers, that is their best quality.
- AIs are the opposite of lazy programmers, that is their worst quality.
I had a plan of battle going in, hashed out with free version of chatgpt. Start with an initial proof of concept mod to see how well AI can mod and change the game. I was gonna stick to mechanics that are already in existing mods. Chatgpt helped me setup a local programming space that would use gemini as a local coding agent.
Was all going well, but then we sent gemini to start on the initial coding task. And it kept looking at a bunch of files in the game library. Running a bunch of read commands and asking for permission to do so. I checked in with chatgpt 'hey whats this thing doing why is it reading all these files' chatgpt explains this is entirely harmless and its just trying to read the files to understand what it can do modding wise. "wait" i think, there are examples of how to create basic mods online. I talk to chatgpt about using those, chatgpt realizes oops ya its not really using those as an example its trying to basically reverse engineer the whole game. We stop gemini from going further down the rabbit hole, redirect it to a more focused task, it then runs out of tokens. Fuck. 6d wait for more tokens. double fuck.
At this point I switch to being computer -> human -> AI middle man for chatgpt. I am the agent part of a coding agent. but I'm exercising more caution at this point because it just wasted a bunch of time trying to decipher the whole game when it could have just looked up the simple modding guide. I stop chatgpt from overthinking or overanalyzing things a few time "yo have your tried using the internet to see if that resource exists" gets met repeatedly with "oh yes! great idea! i found that exact resource I was trying to reverse engineer to be easily available online."
Anyways I ended up with a basic mod at the end of the night. It runs, the game doesn't crash. Minor first success i suppose.
Mane president in Brazil sounds like a lame position, why aren't they fighting more about who gets to be supreme court judge?
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