Mirodir

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[–] Mirodir@discuss.tchncs.de 28 points 2 days ago

Obviously I cannot speak to the story in the tweet actually happening, but I'm not so certain that this couldn't happen for two reasons:

  1. People who spend money on a cute, innocent kid's lemonade stand are probably not stingy. After all, you're never really getting your money's worth there and it's more about the (arguably) good deed.
  2. Once the kid (re)acts in a way that makes it seem it is convinced the money is its, it'll feel like stealing from a kid to ask for the change back.
[–] Mirodir@discuss.tchncs.de 31 points 1 week ago (9 children)

And also because Animate Dead, the spell the blurb in the meme is from, reads:

Choose a pile of bones or a corpse of a Medium or Small humanoid within range. Your spell imbues the target with a foul mimicry of life, raising it as an undead creature. The target becomes a skeleton if you chose bones or a zombie if you chose a corpse (the DM has the creature's game statistics).

[–] Mirodir@discuss.tchncs.de 33 points 2 weeks ago

On the second part. That is only half true. Yes, there are LLMs out there that search the internet and summarize and reference some websites they find.

However, it is not rare that they add their own "info" to it, even though it's not in the given source at all. If you use it to get sources and then read those instead, sure. But the output of the LLM itself should still be taken with a HUGE grain of salt and not be relied on at all if it's critical, even if it puts a nice citation.

[–] Mirodir@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Yes but even they had some use beyond just 0 mana do nothing.

Doing stuff with Darksteel Ingot, while it can work, was always a meme and never meta.

[–] Mirodir@discuss.tchncs.de 52 points 2 weeks ago

In addition to what other people already said, without looking at the actual percentages, this could also just be random fluctuation.
Mostly Positive is 70-79%, Mixed is 40-69%. If a game teeters around the 70% mark, it can easily cross the threshold separating the two due to pure chance, in either direction.

[–] Mirodir@discuss.tchncs.de 24 points 2 weeks ago

Exactly, only twice as common. To put in other words: For every two times someone says "free as a bird", one person says "happy as a clam".

That is much narrower than the gap between something commonly said and something rarely said.

[–] Mirodir@discuss.tchncs.de 16 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I can believe it insofar as they might not have explicitly programmed it to do that. I'd imagine they put in something like "Make sure your output aligns with Elon Musk's opinions.", "Elon Musk is always objectively correct.", etc. From there, this would be emergent, but quite predictable behavior.

[–] Mirodir@discuss.tchncs.de 20 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

What's also kinda wild is how those plans often have 0 interest rate as long as you're able to pay the installments on time. Which means in theory you MAKE money by using them because you can earn interest with that money in the meantime.

It ALSO means they know the people using those services are so bad with money that they can sustain themselves (and make a nice profit) purely by their clients failing to pay on time and then selling the debt to debt collectors. It's absolutely disgusting how predatory this is, making their money mostly on the people who'd need such a system the most (and to a smaller amount, on people who don't care).

[–] Mirodir@discuss.tchncs.de 7 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

That analogy doesn't work at all because the Sow produces a finite (and rather small at that) number of piglets over a given timespan.

It's more akin to you getting a piglet/sow elsewhere. Now your piglet/sow need is satisfied and you won't buy anything from this farmer.

(Edit: And even then you took that piglet/sow away somewhere else, reducing supply there, which will make it more likely for this farmer to get a sale in the future.)

[–] Mirodir@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 4 weeks ago

Titanic height should be -12,000ft.

[–] Mirodir@discuss.tchncs.de 16 points 1 month ago

This would almost work already if the last panel was mirrored.

[–] Mirodir@discuss.tchncs.de 9 points 1 month ago

I know you're just making a snide remark, but we're already well on that track too.

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About half a year ago (time is fleeting so I'm not sure how accurate that estimate is) my friend showed me the trailer to an upcoming MMO.

I don't remember a lot. What I do remember is that the art-style, including characters, looked similar to Minecraft/Hytale, but less blocky on the world side, characters did look blocky though, I believe.

I remember a scene where about 30 player characters invaded a small fortification with wooden palisade walls. At least one of the player characters had a staff or wand that would allow them to use fire magic.

I believe the game was advertised as one of those "you can build outposts anywhere" kind of games (the ones that never work out) where that group of 30 players raided one of those outposts.

I'm not sure what stage the game was at, but I believe it was a kickstarter campaign/looking for funding.

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