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Yes. I’ve experimented with this too. This is the perfect use case for LLMs - there are no wrong answers, the LLM should just make something up, which is what it does.
I started playing Drakar & Demoner (now known as “Dragonbane”) in the 80’s, but after a long abscence from the world of TTRPGs I started playing D&D 5E in 2020. Now I’m exploring Pathfinder 2E, as well as designing my own GURPS-inspired game. My home in the Fediverse is https://ttrpg-hangout.social.
Yes. I’ve experimented with this too. This is the perfect use case for LLMs - there are no wrong answers, the LLM should just make something up, which is what it does.
Agreed. As far as I know, there is no actual artificial intelligence yet, only simulated intelligence.
Well, it could be argued that Trump is a cold-blooded fossil who looks kind of like that, so I think this has some merit.
My one thing I feel like I can brag about in tech circles is that I switched to Linux in 1995 (Linux kernel version 1.2.1), and I haven’t looked back since. This was even before Windows 95 was released.
Yes. However, if you had skipped the -f, it would have been valid. Without the filename argument, it assumes it should extract from the tape drive (TAR = Tape ARchive). The tape device is probably something like /dev/rmt0, but you don’t need to specify that. Using the -f is technically an exception which means “instead of extracting from the tape like you’d normally do, pretend that this file is the tape device instead.”
Oh and their CEO is a rich frat boy and also probably the one with the crayons.
I’m not so sure, I’m pretty sure that guy ate all his crayons before he could do any kind of drawing.
Interesting. I’m assuming we’re not talking book-length chapters here, right? More like a paragraph or three? Mostly about what your own PC does?
Who the fuck do these Vatican people think they are, to lecture others on morality? The previous pope instructed all of Catholosism that they were not to report pedophile priests to the police on pain of excommunication. And this is apparently fine by the current pope.
They are a bunch of idiots with no coherent concept of morality. All morality is based on personal responsibility, but most Christians seem to think they can ask their imaginary friend - rather than the one they have wronged - for forgiveness, and be granted it! It is absolutely absurd. I’m not saying that Christians in general are bad people, I’m just saying we shouldn’t be looking towards Christianity or any of its leaders for moral guidance.
Incidentally - do you know which World War 2 nazis were excommunicated for their crimes by the Catholic church? You’d probably be surprised to know that it was only one. One! And who was it? It was Joseph Goebbels. Among all the heinous crimes commited by the nazis, what was it that Goebbels specifically did that caused the Catholic church to say “enough is enough”? I’ll tell you what he did: He married a divorced protestant. “That’s it,” the Catholic church said, “you no longer get to go to heaven with your fellow nazi war criminals. Killing 13 million people in the Holocaust alone we can live with, but marrying a divorced protestant? No, we can’t have that, that would be, like, totally immoral dude.”
But surely, I hear you say, the Catholic church was against the nazis? No. No, they were not. Hitler’s birthday was celebrated in German Catholic churces all throughout the war. Only in 1960’s did the Catholic church apologize for its silence during the Holocaust, and revert the hitherto established doctrine that all currently living Jews - including children - are personally responsible for killing Jesus. That’s why they didn’t oppose the Holocaust - because the Jews (never mind that they weren’t the only victims) had it coming, since they were all (some-fucking-how) personally responsible for “killing Jesus”.
So, yeah. I’m not going to let these morons lecture me or anyone else on morality.
Interesting. I’ve never come across roleplaying games played on forums before. Can you tell us a bit more about how that would work? For example, would you use a bot for dice rolls, etc?
I’ve heard of RPGs being played in chat rooms, and that I understand because of the shorter “posts” in a chat as opposed to a forum. I’m having trouble picturing how this would work, but I am intrigued.
Yes, I agree. Uncertainty creates tension. If you know exactly how long your torches will last, then you can theoretically calculate exactly when you have to start heading for the exit to make it in time. Without knowing how long your torches will last, you’ll have to make a choice whether to risk delving deeper or heading out. That’s an interesting choice, with real consequences.
Yeah, that’s a good point. For example, making four characters for Four Against Darkness is really quick compared to something like D&D 5E or Pathfinder 2E. And not having to keep track of initiative etc makes combat a lot quicker. I suppose this makes the game more viable even if you only have 15 - 30 minutes available to play.
I generally find complex mechanics substitute for a deep engagement with the world.
You mean you’re completely fine without deep mechanics, as long as the world is engaging, correct? Just so I understand you.
Quite the contrary, I think in ideal design there is no real difference between the world and the mechanics. They are both simply lists of facts about the alternate reality, is to say ‘a 3rd level thief has an 87% chance to climb shear surfaces’ really that different to ‘a fire needs fuel, oxygen, and heat’, or alternatively, ‘fire needs phlogisticated matter and good air to sustain itself’.
Hmm. I guess my problem (typically) with simple mechanics is that when I attack someone, let’s say, I want many things to affect the outcome:
But this isn’t really feasible with a single d6 roll (because the +3 from my strength, the +1 from my weapon, and the +2 from my skill “overwhelm” the simple 1 to 6 range of the d6. But like I said, despite this “shortcoming” (in my view) of Four Against Darkness, I’m surprised to say that I still enjoy it because its width of contents compensates for its lack of depth of mechanics.
I get your point, but he didn’t create Tesla, he bought it (as far as I know). So it could be argued that these things would be happening with or without him. But with him, he’s giving electric cars (at least, that brand) a bad name.
Yes. My company wanted me to get a corporate credit card with Bank of America. I said absolutely not, they have a terrible reputation and I want nothing to do with them. In response, I was told in an email (which was Cc-ed to some VP of Finance) that this wasn’t true, and that Bank of America has a great reputation.
Now, if you’re gonna claim I’m wrong and start cc-ing people, you better be able to back it up. This pissed me off, so I googled for lists of the worst banks in America. Of the three first surveys on the topic that I found, two of them had Bank of America as the “top spot” as worst bank, and the third one had it in third place. I emailed this back to the person. I never heard back. I happily continued not using their corporate credit card ever after.
That’s not how that works. In Linux, that command would simply create girlfriend out of thin air.
… no wonder we like Linux.
I’ve found that Mastodon (for those who don’t know what it is, think of it as sort of distributed open source Twitter) has been great for me. There are lots and lots of instances, and you’ll probably be able to find one that suits your interests. I’m very much into tabletop roleplaying games, and there were already several instances for that kind of thing, but I still started my own. It’s been a lot of fun.
Well, I haven’t pooped since last year, I bet that stuff is pretty damn hard by now if you really must know. 😅
It’s the only one that I’ve found that has Smart Play. I’m not sure why not all podcast players have this, it’s such a great feature. Going back to something without it, would feel like going back to the stone age.
Exactly. Good example.
Lol, of course not.
… my cutting hammers are in the bathroom.