dragonfly
1mo ago
"I remove my clothes in this prison to increase my stealth check roll!"
See also the A Dance With Rogues NWN module. Not that I'd know anything about that sort of thing.
dragonfly
1mo ago
If Monty knows what's behind each door but still opens one at random, it's 50/50 (given you're in a world where he didn't open the car door). I think people are often answering that slightly separate problem, without necessarily realising the ambiguity. Of course Mr Gardner, puzzle-master extraordinaire, would notice, but I think it's perfectly possible to read the (frequently, including in the initial statement) ambiguously-stated problem as the 50/50 one and not realise what you're doing.
dragonfly
1mo ago
Retiring means not having to go to work, and having time (but maybe not a tonne of spare money) to chase experiences. Of course, if one of the experiences you want to have is having a job, then by all means. (Although I rather suspect the experience of a job is very different knowing you have a gigantic pile of savings in the bank)
dragonfly
1mo ago
Granted it'd be a bit weird to go to a college party, but you're never too old for a spontaneous trip with friends! (It's not age that stops you, it's responsibilities (or lack of friends but then that becomes merely step 1)).
Also if you're 28 and have seven figures in savings that's pretty great! A very off-meta build, but I'm sure you can make it work.
dragonfly
2mo ago
I have the vague recollection that the only coherent interpretation of the final explanation of 999 is that the villain did everything due to a misunderstanding of the rules/universe the game operates in, which was amusing but narratively unsatisfying and inspired a couple of irl rants.
dragonfly
2mo ago
I think generally "harmful to society" is understood to mean "would be better for society if they hadn't been made". For it to be tautological you'd have to mean "contracts which are more harmful to society than the harm incurred by breaking them" and that is, I think, harder to demonstrate. The whole issue with, eg, student loan forgiveness, is that it incentivises people to choose based on the short term consequences, expecting they can always renegotiate at government-point the long-term consequences later.
dragonfly
2mo ago
Is this like "The US bans hard drugs because they can't compete with Colombia"?
dragonfly
2mo ago
worried about rogue ai paperciip maximizers
I always joked (in person) about them creating God in their own image.
The only real difference between a paperclip maximiser and a corp is speed, anyway. (Granted it's a huge difference)
dragonfly
2mo ago
If it helps, it's more like 30-40 hours. I don't know if you'll "get your shit totally rocked" though -- I think some of the reception is due to lowish expectations (previously unknown studio etc), but it's definitely a fun time.
dragonfly
2mo ago
I often just leave my phone in another room and that solves that.
That said, I work in front of a screen all day with little supervision and tonnes of microwaits where the computer is slow than me by between 5 seconds and 5 minutes, so it's easy to get distracted with stuff I don't endorse. On the other hand at least it's usually the Motte or longer Youtube videos, rather than more heavily Now, This content.
dragonfly
3mo ago
Looking at social media, I predict the "AI-vulnerable" will be the massively larger group. Maybe the inability to even pretend there's a human connection will put people off, but I'm not counting on it.
dragonfly
3mo ago
It's unclear why you think they wouldn't be able to use a slogan. I feel like rebranding to "Open Ideas" will take significantly more effort than for an empty dismissal slogan countering it to spread. "Open Ideas doesn't mean Hate Speech" or whatever sticks.
dragonfly
3mo ago
I would want to see them, of course, as a matter of due diligence. But I think for me "no credit score" is the highest possible credit score. Then again most things about the US feel slightly dystopian to me.
dragonfly
3mo ago
My general recommendation for YouTube recommendations is use your adblocker to hide the recommendations entirely. If you want to watch something on YouTube you can search for it. If YouTube wants you to watch something, why should you care?
dragonfly
3mo ago
Leaving aside all the other issues with that tweet (which I'm not accusing you of endorsing) -- which is the third "extremely violent shooting and firearms simulator with graphic imagery"? Garry's Mod? VR Chat? Is Dick suggesting he learned to use a rifle from Hearts of Iron?
dragonfly
3mo ago
I do think talk therapy, etc, have a place as a first-line intervention and everyone is too quick to jump to puberty blockers/HRT, but ultimately I agree with you: estradiol worked, the other things didn't.
I even had reason recently to stop it for a while which seemed like a good chance to test if it was still necessary or whether the other changes were enough. Sure enough, things were terrible again (long after the period where the hormone changes had largely settled down).
My position is that it's kind of like chemo: it may not solve things and dear God don't do it if you don't have the relevant issue, but if it works it's invaluable.
dragonfly
3mo ago
(Not the GP) "Ah yes, the fourth stage of grief: construction." made me giggle.
EDIT: I do think the "MAGA trying desperately to pin it on anyone else" bit is misinformation and pretty reprehensible, but not cancellable.
dragonfly
3mo ago
He went on to say of Rittenhouse: "I guess he was in very big trouble. He would have been — I — he probably would have been killed."
The president correctly describes some minor details about that night.
dragonfly
3mo ago
how disconnected their research is from real-world applications.
I don't think it's about real-world applications so much as in the sense of “Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.”
It doesn't matter if you pass a law saying that pi should be 3, or write a very well-written and persuasive paper, or murder your co-worker and throw them off a boat.
dragonfly
3mo ago
transgender care is fameously done without it he applications of meatcleavers to genitals, and other body parts.
The vast majority of trans healthcare doesn't involve surgery of any kind. On the other hand, I'm pretty sure the side effects of circumcision don't include infertility.
dragonfly
3mo ago
I predict that the constant drumbeat of "trans bad" will continue to work until parents feel secure that government force is not going to shut them out of medical decisions relating to their children.
dragonfly
3mo ago
The number on the credit card (something you know), the other number on the credit card (something you know), the smartphone app connected to the bank (something you have[conditions apply]), and the pin number (something you know but enter into an entirely different system from the CC/CVV, the compromise of those two probably being heavily correlated).
In the hands of a competent writer/director there could have been some salvaging after TFA (which had a lot of thematic and tonal inconsistencies, lacked a credible villain, and just hand-waved away RotJ). After TLJ it was doomed imo.
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