How ya been Pony? Still trying to convince Lemmy ‘chav’ is as bad as the words used to insult people based on race? You know it won’t work, right?

Noita

It’s a hell of a game. It’s essentially utterly fair, but brutal. It’s technically a rogue-lite because there are a handful of things that are unlocked on runs for use in later runs, but those elements are so unnecessary for completing the game you can ignore them. It has the ‘knowledge is power’ addage built into its bones, rewarding you for knowing how to play rather than just chipping out meta-progression, and containing such mysteries that some of them are still unsolved, despite people’s attempts to data-mine the game to find its secrets. It’s fun too.

Are you sure about that?

Telling someone to come to your house

public medium

It’d be funny to set up a table as GM, show up in that shirt looking serious, and then run a really lighthearted romp.

Thanks for reminding me I have some edamame.

‘And look where that got us.’

It’s hard to get buy-in from most people when your solution looks like the problem you’re trying to solve. It creates uncertainty. Add in the media’s approach to science, and you get fear. It’s hard enough getting science funding when people aren’t afraid of it. Toss on the modern anti-intellectual movement and now you’ve got a controversy, a system of doubt. And controversy is good for business. Controversy gets clicks, which sells ads, so the controversy will never be allowed to die. You can’t let there be a final answer to an argument that gets you paid for as long as it continues, now can you?

Inviting someone over is not advertising.

He takes over 10 minutes to get to the start of making a point, so that’s not great, but there have been people with ideas for terraforming earth before. It’s one of those things people are very frightened of because that’s kind of a thing in sci-fi. It might work, but people are still mostly looking at climate change as something that is in the future. It won’t get funding until it’s too late.

Isn’t part of the definition of ‘rube Goldberg machine’ the machine does something simple and easy?

Note:
frames one and three should not exist anyway. They are advertising. It was already malign before generative AI.
And Hank Green, despite the morons trying to sound clever by saying he did, did not use an LLM to write the script for the insert segment in that interview. He used a phrase, which was already a common diplomatic phrase, in a completely normal way. The phrase has made its way into ShartGPT outputs because it was already common, and people desperate to seem like they aren’t fooled by LLM output are grasping at straws to find things to point at as ‘tells’ and turning into anti-tech-priests, consulting auguries to check for demons in the words of strangers.
There are no nice, neat tells. There are dozens of models, each with dozens of versions, each with some things that MIGHT serve as a tell, but you can’t keep track of them, and the right prompt will disrupt them enough to ruin the tell, so you can give up. You can’t reliably tell. That’s the whole point. Enjoy living in the derealized, boiling world our annointed leaders have made. Hug your loved ones.

Hmm, Seventh Son and Noita… There’s some potential interesting inspiration there.

The only thing I have that might fit that is Endless Sky, on a certain level. Run missions or trade to get money to improve your ship to run missions or trafe to get money to build a fleet to… You get the idea.

There is a lot of expected common knowledge in the history of Israel. It has been in the news near constantly since its inception. Only half a dozen LoL no-lifers have any clue who those guys are. You’d even have to explain what a MOBA was to most people before you could ever get onto the niche understanding of a rivalry in one particular MOBA’s e-sports scene.

Briefly misread that as ‘Germanophobe’ and the the thought of there being nations that specifically eat a dessert because they hate Germans is delightfully absurd.

Grandpa, what’s a USB? Is that one of those old three letter groups that were part of the big group you always talk about? The, uh… guvver men?

That’s why I called it cute. If I thought someone was actually encouraging firearms-based vandalism and dismissing the public hazard that would create, I would have called it reprehensible.

made by Neil Druckmann, who was also the writer for the game.

That’s an important key. He didn’t buy the rights to someone else’s work. He basically did a revision of his own work, with all the intimate knowledge of character, narrative, etc. that implies.
The Last of Us as a game was also basically a playable movie as it was. Someone actually made it into a kind of movie by capturing game recordings long before it ever was made as a live action series. That means he didn’t have to revise it very far.

Cute, but skill issues with guns put people in the hospital.