bionicjoey

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[–] bionicjoey@lemmy.ca 10 points 11 months ago

As tasteful as Lawrence Ollivier in Othello

[–] bionicjoey@lemmy.ca 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

You may have misunderstood, it's not just Paizo. I've been spending a lot of time reading the books for other game systems. Lately I've been reading the rules and other materials for Call of Cthulhu, Shadowdark, Mothership, and Numenera. Luckily, it's possible to find a lot of these manuals and adventures online for free, but some of them I still paid for. Also, a lot of the time I spent reading could have been spent prepping my next pathfinder session lol. I appreciate the sentiment of your comment though.

[–] bionicjoey@lemmy.ca 7 points 11 months ago

You are describing everyone who would walk into a Denny's by choice

[–] bionicjoey@lemmy.ca 18 points 11 months ago (4 children)

Not me sitting here with hundreds of dollars in TTRPG manuals when my playgroup only meets once a week and we are in the middle of a pathfinder campaign.

I feel particularly called out because I spent all day today reading Mothership manuals and adventures and I have no idea when I'll get to play it.

[–] bionicjoey@lemmy.ca 5 points 11 months ago (3 children)

I was at a museum with displays like this recently and it was just really sad compared to a lot of the museums I've visited. It was so obvious that they were operating on a shoestring budget. It was still interesting to me, but I'm a colossal nerd. It didn't have the same power to share information with the masses as museums that have actually invested in their experience design.

[–] bionicjoey@lemmy.ca 24 points 11 months ago (1 children)

If Borderlands 3 had released on Steam, I'd have probably bought it when it came out because I still had a lot of goodwill for the series at that time. Instead, I had to wait until the Steam release when the game already had loads of negative press. Exclusive deals are idiotic

[–] bionicjoey@lemmy.ca 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Machine learning is irrelevant to the sort of AI used in a game like this.

[–] bionicjoey@lemmy.ca 6 points 11 months ago

Same! I still play Civ V all the time

[–] bionicjoey@lemmy.ca 34 points 11 months ago

The key is to think of Italian women

[–] bionicjoey@lemmy.ca 2 points 11 months ago

If you could reach yours, you would too

[–] bionicjoey@lemmy.ca 6 points 11 months ago (1 children)

ASMR videos. I know some people associate them with fetish stuff but they're really varied and most are just about relaxing.

[–] bionicjoey@lemmy.ca 3 points 11 months ago

It's more like it has to exist as a logical consequence of the technologies used, particularly the way that stock exchanges are implemented. Exchanges are built on the premise of fast and scalable technology, just like most other kinds of network service. There have been some attempts to build a new kind of exchange that does not have the inherent problems that allow for the possibility of HFT.

I highly recommend the book Flash Boys by Michael Lewis (author of The Big Short and Moneyball) if you want to learn more about this subject. It tells the story of the creation of Trader's Exchange, which is an exchange that tries to defeat HFT by introducing delays. It's a surprisingly fun read for a story about financial markets (I feel like that sentence could be used to describe all of Lewis's work)

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