jjjalljs

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[–] jjjalljs@ttrpg.network 3 points 1 hour ago

Well, the lunch is being eaten either way. Personally I feel like "AI" stuff is not great for anybody except the people selling it (and even they are often losing money)

A couple CEOs have made statements about how they're not hiring anyone in favor of "AI". Somehow Saint Luigi hasn't visited any of them, but I think a couple had to reverse course after the "AI" was bad.

Labor should unite. We don't need infinite growth and profits. Dignity and a sustainable environment are more important

[–] jjjalljs@ttrpg.network 1 points 1 hour ago

Ehh I think celebrities is probably an example of why user-first is bad. They're given too much weight. If Chris Evans wants to talk about the MCU he can post in an MCU forum. If he wants to go off about Israel, well he's not an authority and we shouldn't facilitate that halo effect of "well he's famous so he's probably smart".

A band can have their own website and participate in communities for their genre/location/etc.

I'm painting with a broad brush but I think organizing by content rather than user is better in most cases.

[–] jjjalljs@ttrpg.network 9 points 3 hours ago

Business idiots. Management is out of touch with both users and products

[–] jjjalljs@ttrpg.network 6 points 4 hours ago

Conservatives are wrong about pretty much everything. I don't know of a single problem where they have a sensible policy. They're worse than toddlers.

[–] jjjalljs@ttrpg.network 4 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

I'm just waiting for someone to Mario Party their boss after a return to office mandate. It would be deserved.

I had a recruiter (in the US) message me about some jobs. They're all on-site 6 (six!) days a week. That should be a crime and everyone involved in that banished from the land. This wasn't climate change work or anything important. It was like ai fintech nonsense.

[–] jjjalljs@ttrpg.network 3 points 5 hours ago (2 children)

On Twitter and Instagram you follow users. That's user-first. You go there to see what so-and-so is saying, regardless of if it's about cats or politics or their dinner plans.

Reddit, lemmy, and traditional web forums are content first. You go to the video games subforum to talk about games, and the sports forum to talk about sports. You often don't even read the user names. You're there for the content.

User-first stuff tends to incentivize bad behavior, I think. It becomes more about who's saying it than what's said.

[–] jjjalljs@ttrpg.network 19 points 6 hours ago

AI doesn't have agency and cannot be a peer. "Falling in love with it" is an illusion, often with a tremendous opportunity cost.

[–] jjjalljs@ttrpg.network 1 points 6 hours ago (4 children)

I think content-first social media like forums is far less bad than user-first like Twitter, Instagram, etc.

[–] jjjalljs@ttrpg.network 6 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

Interesting. Thanks for the link. I realize I didn't really define "smart", so I'm not sure education is a good proxy for it, but this does make my hypothesis look more doubtful

[–] jjjalljs@ttrpg.network 2 points 7 hours ago

To an extent. but think about how like some people are super eager to get in on the latest in joke and drive it into the ground. You see it on forums sometimes where someone will come up with a bit, and then some people just want to keep repeating it forever. They're the kind of person who relentlessly said "I'm on a boat" in 2010.

[–] jjjalljs@ttrpg.network 8 points 8 hours ago (5 children)

Hypothesis: Stupider people with weaker senses of self are more likely to use chatgpt. That kind of person is also more likely to adopt the language of others. There are many such people.

Thus, the language used on average changes.

I expect smarter people with stronger identities won't have much change.

[–] jjjalljs@ttrpg.network 10 points 19 hours ago

Another benefit of making our living spaces friendly for pedestrians and bikes instead of exclusively cars is people will get more exercise.

Like, just fucking around in Brooklyn this weekend I probably walked 4 miles.

 

Not sure if this community is dead, but here we are!

I kind of stopped playing new versions around .28 because I really disliked the opportunity attacks mechanism, but I thought I'd give .32 a try. The new shapeshifter things look cool, but in fussing with it a bit it's harder than I expected.

But now the tournament is live! Who's playing?

https://crawl.develz.org/tournament/0.32/

I currently have one win with ye olde MiBe. Got lucky with good armor early on, and then cruised to a 3 rune (shoals + snake + vaults) win.

There was one dicey moment in the lungs where I went around the corner to reveal 4 orbs of fire, some draconians, and a lightning golem all waiting for me. Hasted + Fog'd my way the hell out there.

 

I tried it a bit with my reaper in pve and it seemed okay, but I wasn't doing anything challenging that really put it to the test. I haven't tried the others classes yet.

 

Currently, I'm polite to friendly with all of them. No outstanding conflicts. It's sometimes literal kitchen table poly with one, and the others I only see at like parties and such.

Some years ago I had two partners that absolutely did not get along with each other, and that was rough. Recently I was able to do a dinner with 3 partners and everyone had a good time.

I try not to make a big deal about folks meeting. I try to model after meeting your friend's friends.

 

For me there's a bit of a network effect where the polycule sprawls out into the distance. Partners have partners who have partners.

But for disconnected folks, it's mostly been tinder (yuck), and a local meetup.

(Also this might be the first post? That or nothing federated yet)

 

I'm looking for players for a weekly game of Fate. I'm thinking something like a mix of Shadowrun and World of Darkness, where the players are vigilantes looking to make the world better. It would start (and maybe stay) at the street level, rather than global or cosmic.

I've been playing and running games for 20+ years.

LGBT friendly. New players okay. Unreliable players less so.

Message me if you're interested. Include a blurb about yourself, your experience with games, with fate specifically, and a joke of your choosing.

 

Like I saw one that was titled "I wonder why rule" and had a picture about overpaid CEOs or something.

Why "rule"? What's the origin of this format?

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