Let’s not give the idiots more ideas. haha.

Yes. And perhaps, given time, accessing the wrong version of certain sensitive historic events could even be tracked that way.

Ale and Tale Tavern is great co-op fun, and terribly cozy. It’s primarily fantasy themed overcooked, but with much chiller vibes.

There’s optional adventurer stuff, but it is pretty light, there’s good accessibility settings, and the adventuring can be delayed until stronger gear is available or done cooperatively, making it much easier.

Over time, you can upgrade your gear and decorate the tavern.

If anything, the game’s flaw is just that it’s relatively short, for an economy simulation game.

(6 to 8 hours with my group unlocked everything. We played past the end for maybe another two hours just for the chill vibes.)

Strictly speaking, we only have to govern the billionaires if we don’t just eat them…so it’s kind of a run-off between how easy to govern they decide to be, and how they taste…

(This is solely meant to humorous, officer, your honor.)

If I were to hazard a guess - probably just different interesting and worthwile things.

The result gave lloD his first major title more than two decades after he began competing. It was also the first time a Peach player had won a Melee major since Armada claimed Super Smash Con in 2018.

So close, damn it.

I hope Dr. lloD respects their moral obligation to crush people - at least in casual games - while playing as “Dr Mario”.

Thought about a couple cases of his favorite beer. Still might do that. Any other ideas?

Consumables that the person already likes make great gifts, since they will get used up and not sit around.

I usually avoid abusable substances, just in case the person has a carefully balanced relationship with that substance.

But you know your friend.

Sometimes I just ask first. No real reason this needs to be a surprise.

“I know you said you won’t take cash, but I’m going to grab you two cases of X as a thank you, on my way back.”

Then they get a chance to call me off, or redirect me if it would be a problem.

And I’ll always let them call it off with even a mild “no thanks”, since they might not want to say to me “I have a real problem with X and I can’t safely have thay much on hand.”.

Yes. And we know Microsoft was drooling over the day when they shut down that server, and everyone’s library stops working 30 days later, allowing Microsoft to re-sell them all the games they previously bought.

Learning to quit vim will get them very far in life

How dare you?! q:qwqEscEscEscQ!

I wouldn’t wish what I suspect is coming for some of these greedy robber baron assholes on any living thing that can feel pain… but I kind of hope it gets caught on film for future generations to learn from.

I wonder if we could collectively push the funds to divest from closed book financial companies

If we don’t, there just won’t be a market, anymore.

I stopped telling colleagues to “invest at least 10%” and “at least get the 401k match, it’s free money” about three years ago.

After this bubble bursts, I’m honestly not even sure the concept of 401ks will survive.

The future of common people’s investing is very possibly only in gold chains and under mattresses.

Some of them will lose, and some “investors” will go dead broke.

It’s never everyone one would wish it could be, of course.

The web didn’t go away when the web hype bubble burst. But it changed a great deal, and a bunch of suckers got to be very broke.

This bubble is much bigger, and will hurt much worse when it goes.

Meta just took a 11% stock price drop for saying “we still think AI is a good idea”. This bubble is right on the precipice.

Maybe it can stay irrational for a bit longer, but it doesn’t look good at all.

Nice!

A short hike, alone is worth the cost of this bundle.

So is supporting workers through their union.

Good stuff.

Somehow it’s difficult for me to remember what I like?

I used to have mini-panic attacks when asked what I prefer.

Now, I just have memorized good enough responses that I won’t be unhappy with later.

Is that strange?

I’m told it’s not usual. So I guess so?

Does that make me non-human?

Nah. Human experience is much more varied than most people ever realize.

It does make you interesting.

I think a lack of enthusiasm has been kinda the default for me for as long as I remember

I’ve had life phases like that.

It doesn’t bother me as much, today, as it did, in the past.

Now, I focus on the things worth avoiding while I wait for my enthusiasm to return.

For me, enthusiasm returns, in bursts, eventually.

If anyone wants to ask what Tuvix thinks, Janeway will escort them to the transporter room…

Thanks. I think every data point helps people.

I can’t say that particularly shocks me. I imagine that Chat GPT has probably swallowed dozens of Physics textbooks.

The bigger part of the problem is knowing where we are on the human knowledge novelty / training data available curve, or rather, when we need to get off of the ride.

Edit: Any chance your chosen AI has access to Wolfram Alpha as an MCP Tool? Because that would be very different, too.

If it’s successful at math, there’s likely much more than a leanring model in play.

Which brings us back to the opacity problem. :(

If the answer machine has been cleverly rigged (and weighted) to pass off math questions to more capable software, things can be great.

But a person who just hears that AI can do math now can have a very bad time if they go blindly use a brute force pleasant answer machine on a math problem. :(

I had these runs early on, as well - where the rock I need to win simply is not present, or is so rare that I would have needed to be an expert to mine it.

They seem to have improved the randomizer, since then. I haven’t had that happen, lately - where the ore I need is too rare.

Also, mods that slash the ammo refill costs to 40 go a long way toward making DRG a much more relaxed gameplay.