Cethin

I know there’s one quest that gives the wrong directions. I assume that’s part of the reason they don’t do it anymore. If they modify the game and the position of something changes they need to go back and modify any text that referred to it. With a quest marker they just mark the location and it works automatically. It shouldn’t be that hard to make a procedural text directions generator though, but that wouldn’t work with 100% voices lines.

Thats part of the reason I think that is flawed. They can’t have characters give you detailed lore about the world because it needs to be voiced, so they have to shove it in a book, which means you can’t have a conversation about it. I think a hybrid approach would be better, but there’s no way Bethesda is going to do that now.

I guess there is an argument for AI generated voices for this task. It’d be doing something that is impossible to do otherwise, so it’s not replacing anyone.

Sorry, that was a huge tangent/rant.

I disagree on it being weird the thing that makes it great. No, it’s because they cared. They wrote a deep intriguing story, and they trusted the player to treat the world as meaningful and to learn on their own. They expected you to read and to be interested.

Now, everything is dumbed down and simple, and it’s baby fed to the player. There’s little to discover that isn’t shoved down your throat. Sure, there’s (precedurally generated) loot to gather, but nothing more.

Morrowind was built as a world, and then they set a game there. The people, locations, and events make sense in that world. Starting especially with Skyrim, but even with Oblivion, it’s built as a theme park. The world is just there to entertain you, but there’s nothing behind the fecade.

I don’t know the exact wording, but I don’t think so. Sure, you can share information if it’s anonymized, but that isn’t. There was only one person brought in by ICE I assume. It isn’t anonymous. It’d be incredibly easy to tie it to a single person.

You are not separate from humanity’s history…

I think it’s pretty narrow minded to say you have to believe in something to still have a connection to it. I know religions played a role in our history (often negative too). I like learning about this. I’m still connected to it. I just know it’s almost all bullshit. I can gain a lot from reading a sci-fi novel too without believing it’s real, for example.

Just use the software the human brain was developed alongside and use your processing power on things more useful…

I hold the opposite opinion. I think wasting out effort to please some supernatural thing is a waste of time and energy. This must be double true if you can’t even decide on which one it is, because they’re all mutually exclusive. I’ll just live my life trying to be a good person. It doesn’t cause me any extra effort to do.

…than trying to feel smarter and more right about the universe, which is mostly just lying to yourself anyway.

Wow, this sounds rude. When was I trying to feel smarter? More right? Sure, and probably true (almost every religion is mutually exclusive, and there’s a huge number of them, and most have been forgotten. The odds of you having the right one is effectively 0). I don’t think I’m smarter though. I just think I’m more honest. I don’t feel a need to lie to myself, or others, that I think there’s anything beyond nature. I’m perfectly comfortable and content with that reality. Death, and everything else in life, doesn’t bother me.

You use it to help you process it sounds like, which is fine. You do you. I don’t need that. For me it’d make things harder, not easier. Don’t assume we all work the same, because we don’t. I feel absolutely zero draw towards spirituality. To use your analogy, we’re running different OSs. I don’t think I’m superior for it like you seem to.

Sounds like it’s still oriented to a “spiritualist” at least though, not for someone who isn’t religious. I’m sure they’d be fine if an atheist showed up, but I don’t think I personally would want to be there. I do like learning about religions, but more from a “how has this effected humanity and changed the way they think/behave” standpoint, not from thinking that there’s anything true there.

For the clothing thing, it should be enough to buy from a thrift store. Just pay with cash to be safe. Although if you’re planning to do something that’ll make you of particular interest this may not be enough. Thrift stores do have cameras, and the police could theoretically look for a particular set of clothing being purchased. Its incredibly unlikely and would take a ridiculous amount of effort, but it is possible.

This is going to be unpopular, because it’s Trump doing it, but most of this is probably good. Nuclear power is incredibly safe. It’s also really reliable, and it would be cheap but the dirty energy companies have made laws and regulations that make nuclear power so expensive it can’t compete. We should be lessening regulations around nuclear power. It should be done thoughtfully, which I doubt this is, but it needs to be done.

For example, the linear no-threshold danger model for radiation exposure is at best wrong, and at worst actively harmful.

Nuclear power has been purposefully over-regulated to protect energy companies. If it were regulated at a reasonable amount it’d be far more cost-effective than other sources (besides maybe solar and wind). Companies producing and selling dirty energy would go bankrupt incredibly quickly, if they didn’t invest in alternatives, if they’re regulated to the same levels of safety. The energy market has been designed to favor them over nuclear.

I wouldn’t be surprised if he has a chatgpt history asking about acid to throw on somebody, but he was too stupid to know that this wouldn’t actually do anything but smell.

I think you’re mixing up “complex” with “complicated.” the first answer has no complexity (detail) and the second has a lot, but neither is complicated. You could make either sound more or less complex.

To actually compare them, the first should be “a shaving razor owned by Occam” and the second should be “a philosophical razor created by Occam.” Now they have the same amount of detail, and the second is far simpler to understand why someone would know about it.

God, you don’t read, do you. How do you intend to abolish ICE in this case. It’s purely about a bill that’s already passed the house. He’s trying to prevent it from passing the senate. Abolition is not an option in this case. That requires a new bill. The only thing that can be done in this case is to stop a funding bill passing or passing it. There’s no third option.

Your problem is that you still believe the liberal institutions will turn back fascism.

No. My problem is that I want power to be used when we have it. I don’t think we should give up power just to sound strong to idiots on the internet. Sanders taking an idiological stance that the senate doesn’t support sounds cool to internet communists, but it doesn’t actually get anything done except for handing over power to the Fascists.

Your stupid community that insists we get nothing done because it isn’t perfect are annoying as hell. You aren’t as smart as you believe. The leftists who have actually accomplished things did so by working with people they didn’t agree with completely. You take what you can get when you can get it. You don’t throw it away because you want something better.

Sanders doesn’t have the power to abolish ICE (at least, at this moment). He does have the power to maybe have this bill not pass. Even that is unlikely though. It sure as hell won’t happen if he takes the stance you want, and then ICE gets even more funding. Is that what you want?

Fair enough. Probably a good use case for it. I’ve found it’s pretty reliable at creating boilerplate. I just wouldn’t trust it for doing anything important.

Well, they do have that. They’re incredibly ignorant of what’s going on. It’s just not a problem for them.

Dude, he’s not trying to get the voters to agree. He’s trying to get the senate to agree. The senate does not want ICE abolished, even if the voters do.

Regardless, this is about a bill, that has already passed in the house, that he’s trying to get blocked in the senate. You can’t abolish ICE by not passing a bill. It will hurt their funding though.

I don’t want to say you’re totally wrong, but I am skeptical of the benefit. Sure, maybe it works now, which is cool, but is it making changes that are maintainable? The next time someone does this is it going to work? If we just constantly have LLMs update code, when does it start breaking, and when it does is it going to be in a state someone can fix?

Seriously, are you still thinking ICE will be reformed with Trump as president?

I literally said it wouldn’t. Did you read? I said this is a way to get defunding done, because they won’t allow it to be reformed. If he went with a full defunding then he’d be used as an enemy for the supporters of the regime to gather support and they would definitely pass funding. With this move he may be able to get funding stopped.

If you’re a representative, your best play is to “play the game.” Us though? We don’t have to. We should be pushing for what needs to be done. We’re in different positions than them. You’d be an idiot to think they should just give up all power to make an idiological last stand. Sure, it’d feel great to watch, until the regime gets everything they want and fucks you.

What is the point of starting from a compromised position that literally only serves the purpose of creating a zero substance bill that will only serve as another illusion of democracy working?

Do you know what’s happening here? This isn’t about creating a new bill. It’s about not passing a bill for increased ICE funding. It’s already passed in the house and he’s trying to prevent it passing in the senate.

I don’t think you are actually aware of what’s being discussed and you’ve read too much from idiots who say if something isn’t exactly what they want to hear then it’s bad. Sadly, in the real world, this isn’t how things work. No one has ever been able to get exactly what they want. Even the most ardent revolutionaries have to compromise to get enough allies, or they just fail and no one hears about them. I guess you’d prefer the latter.

Look, I don’t disagree that they aren’t covering as they should be, but this article is from CNN. there is some mainstream coverage. It should be more, and it should be in more people’s faces, but if people are ignorant then that’s on them.

There is no chance in hell he passes a bill that abolishes ICE. There is a chance he can convince the old fucks in the senate to not vote to fund ICE. He has to play the game that he can win in the senate. If he tries to do the most extreme option, however good that would be, there’s no way in hell it’d get done.

You can have someone who does what you want, and gets nothing done, or you can have someone who does as much as is possible, and they occasionally slow things down (and maybe get a few good things done). You can’t have both, at least not with the current senate.

Sadly, politics, in this case, is not among the voters; it’s among the senate. It’s a bunch of old fucks who are not going to vote for defunding ICE, no matter what. They may be convinced that temporary defunding is good, and we know the regime isn’t going to compromise, so its as good as any other defunding functionally.

Sure, for the other senators, defunding would be the right move for them politically. Sanders already agrees with us. He’s on the right side of politics for the voters. He just has to play the game the best way he can to get things done, which is not to go with the most extreme position even if that’s the most supported by voters.

Useful for them.

Do you think thievery isn’t useful to the thief? Usually the phrase “legality is not morality” is required, but I guess this time it’s “legality is not utility.” It being legal has no bearing on it being useful or not.

That’s where you’re wrong. They taught them a lot of useful things (for them). They just didn’t teach them what’s legal or not. In fact, they explicitly taught them to do many illegal things.