mildly_obsolete
No bio...
User ID: 1305
mildly_obsolete
1yr ago
I can't tell if there's a vibe shift at all, but I imagine the assassination attempt incentivizes toning down the 'threat to our democracy' angle in favor of more positive messaging. 'Threat' narrative is already baked in, can still be pushed on the fringes, but ideally Trump does not get to mention the assassination in a 'high impact' context without seeming somewhat self centered.
mildly_obsolete
1yr ago
Well said. Hope he does not get banned.
mildly_obsolete
1yr ago
It's of course easy to propose optimizing the natives away when the framing is: only parasites are victimized, and not really. How do you justify this encroachment, again? What is being built?
I admit I see this post as a high effort variant of your occasional outbursts of hostility towards the natives. If you were 'chosen', then it was a mistake.
mildly_obsolete
1yr ago
I am surprised how obnoxious I'm finding this topic. Maybe selective, or maybe I no longer have patience, with war and AI looming, for endless, careful dissection of such a mundane event obviously pulled into attention for political aims. More assassinations, please.
Incidentally, what are people's feelings on these AI article summaries?
Use the LLM to give you the first draft of a summary, review it, correct it, post it.
Do not mention you used one, and if you do, make it very clear it was reviewed carefully - of what use is the summary otherwise? I can generate it myself, and you come across as lazy, just padding the post out. Take full responsibility for the post.
mildly_obsolete
1yr ago
Is no one actually curated a list of classics that have endured through the ages?
Despite the endless hours spent using the internet, I am consistently reduced to 'add reddit to the search' when looking for curated media lists, and competently curated information in general. To an extent, this is a personal failure. This stuff must be out there, in whatever form - a book, a blog - but finding it in the sea of slop is tough, and the effort is lost unless one is disciplined in maintaining a proper list.
I sure would love an AI assistant I could outsource this to.
mildly_obsolete
1yr ago
Suggesting the next ten lines means I need to carefully review them, and I might as well just write them myself at that point
Talking Copilot specifically, the suggestions I wait for and review are typically 1-3 lines long, and it's the sort of code I review far faster than I type. Most of the time it knows exactly what I mean to write. Maybe an extensive, expertly setup & quality tooling could match it, but I'm too incompetent and too poor, respectively.
Also Copilot chat is hugely helpful, superior to a search engine for simple questions, though admittedly only once I settled on 'instructions' prompt that reliably prevents it from yapping. It gives very concise answers, rarely makes mistakes. It consistently saves me time, and is much more pleasant to interact with than your typical search engine result.
mildly_obsolete
1yr ago
Out of curiosity, would you say classic code completion is 'helpful' when writing code?
mildly_obsolete
1yr ago
I did some soul searching after largely missing the AI opportunities. Conclusion: pretend chart spans higher than 2 years do not exist, or greed for reasonable prices will prevent you from buying anything at all.
mildly_obsolete
1yr ago
We don't really know what China would do if they had complete dominion over ethnic Europeans. It hasn't really happened before.
1945 was not total US dominion over ethnic Europeans, and even from there it's a long way to 'essentially unlimited capacity to act'. What would US do with that? Maybe I'm naive, I don't know much about China, I am aware of the outlines of the Mao period, but don't think we have reasons to think the Chinese singleton variant is obviously the worse one.
mildly_obsolete
1yr ago
saying the quiet part out loud
If the 'quiet' part is merely that performative activism is a common phenomenon in the context of any high profile issue, Israeli conduct included, I think it's actually a pretty widely acknowledged fact.
If the 'quiet' part is that opposition to Israeli conduct is just a hysteria and a performance, therefore illegitimate, then this assumes a consensus that does not exist.
The very first thing she says in the video is that stating her opinion on the conflict 'would make absolutely no difference to anyone'. I consider this a weaker strain of 'let them kill each other', and distrust people pushing it to western audiences. Why is it reasonable and proper for plebs to be neutral if their state supports one side?
mildly_obsolete
1yr ago
Life got in the way
Honestly, I'm impressed you manage to be so productive, considering all you mention.
you could have left a glowing review right there yourself
I did a while ago, recommended to a friend too. "I'll take a look" - never did, flaky bastard.
They are increasingly popular in Poland. A tattoo place I pass by once in a while is called "ACOTATANATO" (translates to "but what will daddy say to this?", a mystery why it's not "ACOTATONATO" which is still correct and flows better) - a vapid, somewhat common reason, I imagine. Rebellion in the face overbearing authority, except such prepackaged rebellion is common, and authority in retreat.
mildly_obsolete
1yr ago
I do write a hard scifi novel
Do you? I keep checking the page every other day, and keep getting disappointed.
Kidding. I genuinely enjoyed the novel so far, I'm grateful for each chapter. I thoroughly recommend it to everyone here.
The reviews crack me up each time I take a look. "Pretty cool" - 3.5 stars, on a webzone with rating system where in practice 5 stars means 'readable, MAYBE'.
mildly_obsolete
1yr ago
I found the voice so grating I closed one of the demos on an impulse. Turns out I categorically do not want someone else's mechanism to talk to me in such a bubbly, ingratiating, worryingly palatable manner unprompted.
mildly_obsolete
1yr ago
I want the sense of massive armies movies, and not just fighting battles, but fighting wars.
It's nothing close to that, but Distant Worlds 2 is a interesting Stellaris alternative.
Economy/trade involves large numbers of ships going places, see any screenshot from the game. Target rich environment for pirates/raiders. Empires feel a significantly more 'alive' than your typical Paradox game. You have a lot of options as to how much of economy and other aspects of the game are automated, but some automation enabled is the expected way to play.
It is not quite polished and balanced enough, doesn't live up to its potential, but the one campaign I played was worth it.
mildly_obsolete
1yr ago
Bear pickers would get what they deserve. At least you can expect a man, if he's forced to eat you, to kill you before he begins.
mildly_obsolete
1yr ago
We already have a substantial minority of Russian speaking people.
My hunch is that a policy of open arms for all (ethnic) Russian immigrants would help with the Polish reputation of being rabidly russophobic, and make it a tiny bit harder for German politicians to explain away a local conflict as something Poland pushed for and maybe even deserved, actually. And anyway, not many Russians would come, I imagine.
I suppose the potential for sabotage is a concern.
mildly_obsolete
1yr ago
By contrast, the power of Borris Johnson to coerce, compel, bewitch, or otherwise overturn the true desires of the Ukrainian political establishment was...?
You frame this as if it were absurd to think US had any way of influencing Ukrainians. I do find the focus on Johnson silly. The idea that at that pivotal moment US helped Ukrainians decide to commit themselves to the meatgrinder, not so much. Obviously Johnson himself would be little more than a mouthpiece.
My impression is that you never give an inch.
mildly_obsolete
1yr ago
enough to trigger something that wouldn't be out of place at a Klan rally
Where is that something, do you just mean the responses under the the tweet in your link? The pinned tweet on that account, while recent, makes me suspect the shitposting crowd was antagonized before already.
mildly_obsolete
1yr ago
This is so bizarre to me.
If you're male, I find it very hard to believe you don't see his point. You can discard it as a primitive, outdated consideration if you so choose, but don't call it bizarre - it decidedly is not.
Myself, I can't overstate just how much this scenario makes me recoil. If such mercenary behavior is straightforwardly permissible, then the idea of fighting for a nation falls apart, and you're just meat to be sacrificed to further elite interests. You don't exactly get to loot your way into leaving a war better off these days. War in Ukraine is utter hell, demanding solidarity on homefront is perfectly normal.
mildly_obsolete
1yr ago
I mean that something like Foxhole but with Factorio-complex factory gameplay and combat that's more like say, war thunder or Squad (but with lots of AI grunts) would be far more fun.
I see, I'd like to see a game like that too. Don't know about it being more fun though - it does not exist.
There's no commander's map view where he can assign objectives to units
No, it's total anarchy unless you talk people into something, and there are no such in-game tools to coordinate even just your own squad. Randoms, you must wrangle them via text/voice chat. But you can imagine, against such backdrop of chaos, a coordinated group can be insanely effective.
So 'effortless coordination' in comparison to that, and experimentation, since the base assumption is that it must be purely voluntary.
I lost my taste for that kind of game cca 1997.
I think it would surprise you. It's light on individual aim skill, heavy on positioning, flanking, correct tool usage. Digging a key trench or placing tripod MGs correctly can turn a battle. Admittedly short engagement ranges make it all somewhat arcadey, but I'd say most of the time this is not detrimental.
mildly_obsolete
1yr ago
Maybe, no idea what sort of changes you're thinking of. But as it is, it's both good gameplay, and nicely unique. Imo the wasted potential is in the lack of serious experimentation with tools that would enable effortless coordination at all scales while maintaining anarchy.
mildly_obsolete
1yr ago
IRL Russia chose Religious and Aristocratic and ended up technologically backward
MEIOU3 is a total overhaul, possibly more feature rich than EU5 will ever be - it adds pops, simulated economy, and a lengthy, painful process of reform from feudal to modern bureaucratic state. A small but modernized, urbanized country with rich and educated plebs will demolish a country like Poland - strong early, but held back by the powerful nobility, naturally falling behind as game progresses.
The mod is still rough, held back horribly by the UI limitations, has a steep learning curve and demands patience, but I 100% recommend it for all EU4 players.
Civ 5 + Vox Populi is the king of the genre imo.
More options
Context Copy link