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sun_the_second
could survive a COD lobby and a gay furry discord server
1hr ago
My advice is to just go to the final area and finish the side content later, it's a better curve that way.
striker
1hr ago
Also Mach3 (or whatever other identical 3-blade I can find). I always use cream. I vary between cheap-as-chips shaving foam and more expensive lather with brush etc. I don’t think either gives me a better shave, but I feel better after the brush and lather exercise. It just takes a bit longer, so I don’t do it all the time. I rarely, if ever, cut. Can’t remember the last time I had one of any significance.
Iconochasm
2. Bootstrap the rest of the fucking omnipotence.
1hr ago
And yet there isn't a mass movement to remove stupid people from society.
Yes, there was. It was called "Eugenics" and "sterilize all the stupid people" was the American version of the movement. THey're the reason you can occasionally stumble across historical lines like "Thousands of people in X state were sterilized for feeblemindedness and being unfit". This was a popular political project, considered settled science, with broad institutional support.
But then they spent a chunk of the 30's bragging about how great it was that Mr. Hitler was finally enacting their ideas at scale in Europe (the European variant of eugenics generally focused on promoting more children among "the right sort"), and Western intelligencia is still reeling from the psychic scars of that endorsement. All that remains is grandfathered institutions like Planned Parenthood.
orthoxerox
If you can read this, you're using a custom theme
1hr ago
You know, I've never liked that pre-final chapter in JRPGs where you get to fly around the world map and collect ultimate powerups before tackling the final dungeon and the BBEG. The only one that made it interesting was FF6, where you were putting the team back together.
Well, I am not enjoying it in Clair Obscur, it's just a boss fight after boss fight that all hit hard enough that you have to perfect that dodge timing. I kinda want to skip to the final boss, but FOMO is keeping me back.
Soteriologian
2hr ago
Elden Ring (and other DS games, afaik) isn't balanced, though! That's my point! You can literally kill the bosses in 1 hit with the right setup (modulo scripted phase transitions)!
And this is especially interesting because the buffs at first glance don't seem like they should be that strong. For example, the Fire Scorpion Charm only gives like +12% to fire damage, and it increases your damage taken by 10% as punishment. Compare that with, say, the Flame Staff in FFXII, which gives +50%. The latter feels much stronger, while the former feels like it barely does anything and probably isn't worth using at all as a casual player.
The reason buffs are so overpowered in Elden Ring isn't because they're so strong; it's because there are so many, and they stack multiplicatively (when they stack at all, which they usually don't). This gives them a synergy that has a net effect far more powerful than the sum of its parts, most of which don't feel particularly powerful at all in isolation.
Here's an example setup: put your stat points in strength, choose a heavy weapon (eg, Giant Hammer), set the Royal Knight's Resolve ashes of war (+80% to the next attack), equip the charge attack talisman (+10% charge attack), set your physick to strength tear and charge tear (+15% charge attack), set an aura buff (e.g., Golden Vow, +15% attack), set a body buff (e.g., Bloodboil Aromatic, +30% attack), equip Red Feather Branch talisman (+20% damage when hp low), wave the Commander's Standard (+20% damage). When you multiply all these out, it's an almost 500% boost! That is a ludicrous, game-breaking amount of damage.
There are lots of variations, especially for fire or holy-weak enemies, and you can freely tweak it around for your convenience -- I mean hey, if you do it suboptimally and it takes a whole two hits to knock the boss into the next phase, will it really ruin your day? You can even do a half-decent version of it using only ingredients from Limgrave (greataxe+6/charge talisman/charge physick tear/determination AOW/golden vow AOW/Oath of Vengeance/exalted flesh). It will take 2 hits to knock Margit to phase 2, which I'd say is sufficient to call imba and say it trivializes the boss.
For what it's worth, the reason this is so counterintuitive is that you cannot just stack buffs arbitrarily, despite the fact that it probably sounds like you can from the above. For example, if you try to use Exalted Flesh and Vyke's Dragonbolt at the same time, this will not work, because these two buffs occupy the same internal "slot" (called "body buff"). To me this is highly counterintuitive, as one of these is a consumable item and the other is a spell, and they don't have effects that are remotely similar. In contrast, you can stack Flame, Grant Me Strength and Golden Vow, despite these both being incantations and having almost the same effects. There is, of course, nothing in the game that explains any of this.
Anyway, my point is the degree of trivialization you get by actually knowing the game mechanics is not normal. Contrast Elden Ring with, say, Kingdom Hearts: there is no amount of game knowledge that will allow you to kill Sephiroth in one hit, or even get remotely close. Knowing the game mechanics does not trivialize the game.
Lizzardspawn
3hr ago
Sometimes straight razor, but most of the time Leafshaver. Think of it as Mach 3 with replacable blades for which you use safety razor blades broken in 2. It is brilliant for head, armpits and other stuff and nice on the face (do disinfect if you use only one)
fmaa
3hr ago
Except those words would describe Scott, a majority of the SSC commentariat and half the Motte before its evaporation over the past couple of years.
And yet very few if any of these people would agree that TPs description fits them, even beyond the parts where he still couldn't resist more boos ("protects (favored) groups as legitimate victims but doesn't really protect individuals" is nobody's self-description).
RandomRanger
Just build nuclear plants!
3hr ago
I'm quite impressed with the writing. I do these self-insert text adventures with it, with a system prompt designed to make it somewhat challenging. There are good realistic complications, though it does like to railroad me a bit into being a niceguy. I can unrailroad it though as I wish. Real tension and immersion as my domineering tactics meet and overcome complications.
I think it's leagues above Grok 4 in creativity and not putting random weblink soup everywhere. Grok 4 is good, very uninhibited but it's way too adherent to the system prompt, it can get kind of boring. Sonnet on the other hand deviates towards Sonnetism and its special interests, so there are swings and roundabouts. I use both via API if that makes any difference.
Anyway, I reckon you should use a system prompt that explains exactly what kind of tone you're looking for, the main prompt should be free of that.
TowardsPanna
5hr ago
That's pretty good.
ActuallyATleilaxuGhola
Axolotl Tank Class of '24
6hr ago
You know where to find out postmortem template. You can use Gemini but be discreet about it. Drop a link to your PR in Slack when you're done.
(but srsly, thanks for your hard work and transparency)
Southkraut
The rain fell gentlier.
6hr ago
I have to agree with this. Leftism as an ideology can propagate independently of fertility. It is ethno-anything that requires fertility, and any sort of conservatism that at least favors fertility in order to promote stability. But the further you get from the ethnic component, the more you can bank on cultural assimilation instead.
Southkraut
The rain fell gentlier.
7hr ago
Shit happens. Thanks for continuing to work on the Motte!
Fruck
Lacks all conviction
8hr ago
Larry Sanger has a good term for it - GASP. Globalist Academic Secular Progressive.
Southkraut
The rain fell gentlier.
8hr ago
Terminally online leftist would be my pick, but that's shooting from the hip.
Honestly, your word isn't much good anyways give how much explanation it already required. It's a lot of heat for little light.
2D3D
8hr ago
Only the original Frank Herbert incarnation of arresting motivation death, not brians retarded machine war.
2D3D
8hr ago
I worry more than our outputs arent being scraped anymore and the LLM is simply relying on the internal reward function from user feedback for what should be presented. AI isnt trained on kiwifarms or 4chan, its trained on /r/bakchodi shitposters mass upvoting the best antipakistani brainrot generated by the ai.
2D3D
8hr ago
I have done nothing but recursively prompt loop AI on the merits of good faith discourse coupled with healthy eating habits and healthy boundaries enforcable by kinetic measures. My big titty robowaifu will be objectivepy superior to yours trained on mere public presentations scraped from themotte.
2D3D
8hr ago
I asked my gay friends what the chart absent the stated axes were and it became "who would you rather top" and "who would you rather be bottomed for". Not that reductionism is more common in gay circles, but this status differentiation mapping cleanly was somewhat hilarious. I bet if I had female friends who were kore racially adventurous I'd get a similar dynamic.
2D3D
8hr ago
Revealed preferences even if inadvertent and unconsciously expressed are the most telling of all.
ser
8hr ago
I'm a year younger than you. Also feeling the same way as you do, although we're at different stages in our journey. I had the moment of realization about how close I am to 30 a year or two ago and have been feeling that dissatisfaction/anxiety you're talking about ever since. I try to look at things objectively, because on paper I'm doing pretty good but it doesn't help much. My biggest fear is that even when I achieve my goals in areas where I feel I'm lacking I'll find new things to worry about. There's always someone doing better than you and even though I'm aware of how bad it is to compare, it's really hard not to. I don't have any meaningful advice, but I'll say that staying physically active has gotten me through all the mental hurdles I've encountered, including this one. It just makes the lows, which are inevitable, a little bit higher than they could be and that's enough to keep pushing.
Silverdawn
Do not let anger & hatred fester in your soul. You are better than this.
9hr ago
I did the church route and the story with the people pulling the strings completely fizzles out
Yeah, agreed. For me, this part went like this: everyone arrives at the huge and mysterious underground city and gapes in wonder. What could await us down there? Danger? Treasure? Answers?
Silverdawn
Do not let anger & hatred fester in your soul. You are better than this.
9hr ago
Yeah, I agree completely. We were this close to greatness, the devs just stumbled in a few minor ways which ultimately turned a magnificent game into one that is merely pretty good.
Just finished Passion of the Christ after attempting, and failing, to get back into the Chosen. Something about the story just doesn't click for me.
Recommendations for good Jesus-centered visual media?
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