“I want computers to do my laundry so I can do art. Instead computers are doing the art.”

All of this AI stuff would be fine (or at least less bad) if we didn’t live in a capitalist dystopia where people might have their basic needs (food, shelter, etc) threatened so some rich turd can become a little richer.

It’s going to bother me forever that, even if we do get some sort of new deal, the people who shit up the world will never really be made to pay for it. Like, one time Facebook tried to see if they could just make people sad by changing the feed algorithm. And yet no one hanged for that mass cruelty, and no one ever will. Energy companies pollute the air and water, lie about the facts and consequences, and then are never put up against the wall and shot. It’s unfair. It’s not right. Little new deal changes to raise minimum wage or provide mandatory maternity leave are good, but they’re not enough to account for the crimes and injustice.

The people who shit up the world should pay. In money, in time, or in blood. But if they skate free, that’s another insult and injury on top of everything else.

I believe this article misses the real reasons: labor isn’t paid enough.

Capital makes record profits but that isn’t being shared with the people who do the work.

Stop going to nazi bars.

unless they’re going to do some successful July 20 tier stuff, i’m not sure it’s going to save the day.

Anyone who unironically says they want the government run like a business should not be anywhere near decision making power.

Businesses waste so much money. They fail all the time. Their priority is making money, not quality or service.

I got the D&D 3e books when I was a kid. I completely, deeply, uncritically loved them. Read them cover to cover. Spent a lot of time drawing nonsense dungeon maps and coming up with terrible ideas.

I remember I went to some game shop in some local mall and asked the guy for advice. He was like, “yeah i don’t know, but that guy’s into it” and pointed me to some customer who was a mega D&D nerd. He was surprisingly patient with my youthful excitement. I remember being like “So I can just… do anything in the game? I can be like, you kill the orc and his eyes are magic??” The guy was like … i can’t remember exactly what he said, but it was something like “You can, but probably don’t spend a lot of time on minutia. You probably don’t want your players spending 30 minutes checking every single trinket and orc body part for secret magic.”

I don’t really like D&D/its close relatives much anymore, but like many people it was my entry point.

Some feedback: the “hi I’m coi” thing at the top? I thought it was another LLM AI thing introducing itself. I closed the tab immediately, but then double checked when I read the rest of this post.

The social media links at the top, especially Twitter, are a negative for me. Fuck twitter and Facebook.

The big color buttons (that are not actually buttons) interspersed with text is a choice but it feels very bad-modern to me. If you’re going for more retro pre-shit, maybe take inspiration from https://evenbettermotherfucking.website/ or friends.

I see a lot of posts for typescript, but every job also says 100+ applicants. Job market is not looking good

Plus all these places want people to go into the office just-because

You got me. Me and my friends were little terrible people when we were eight years old. Enjoy your victory.

They really just rolled over and died on the whole 14th amendment can’t hold office if you did an insurrection thing, so far as I can tell.

But yeah I mean people voting R or abstaining aren’t helping.

A. You extrapolated from one sample to a generalization. That’s not very sound. There were other nicknames but they were less memorable (eg: “curly” for the kid with curly hair)

B. Giving yourself a nickname is kind of dubious. Not like shortening “Nicholas” to “Nick” , but like “Call me killer” is kind of laughable. Maybe that was just where I grew up, but if you just tried to give yourself a cool name it’d be laughed at as unearned.

What exactly is “100% straight up hating”? Are other percentages available? Other directions? Verbs?

I expect most people don’t stick with their nickname from when they were a kid. The kid we called “green shit” (because he’d always play luigi) isn’t obligated to carry on that name. I mean, we lost touch, maybe he is, but somehow I doubt it.

The juxtaposition of the formal “Lady” and the babyish “Gaga” is mildly interesting.

I saw “No Men” play a tiny show and it’s still one of my favorites. They put on a great show and also they were super friendly with everyone in the crowd. I saw them another time after at a bigger venue and they even remembered me and my friend.

Old man yells at cloud time: I feel like naming yourself “Ninja” is something a 7 year old would do. I can’t take it seriously. It’s like naming your BG3 rogue “Assassin” or your music group “Guitarists”.

But also I stay away from all influencers, so I don’t know what’s going on in that world.

How I feel about mana depends largely on how quickly it regenerates. It can be just a reskin of spells-per-day or spells-per-encounter, or it could be something more interesting.

DA:O had unlimited mana potions, which meant essentially you spend a small amount of time to refresh mid fight. Not very deep tactically, but more or less fine.

I don’t think resource management is really a thing most people actually enjoy. Most people don’t like timed missions, so you probably don’t want to use that to prevent people from resting a lot. You don’t want to soft-lock players by letting them blow their resources too soon, so they can’t win the fight but don’t have a way to restore. The dark souls style “you reset at the checkpoint but so do the monsters. Keep trying until you get it right” works for me, but a lot of people hate that.

There are so many ways you could do magic, and it’s a bummer that vancian magic takes up so much space.

DND just isn’t as good and universal as people think it is, but it’s hugely influential anyway.

Side note: DND is balanced around like 6 “medium” encounters per day. You’re supposed to slowly trickle down your resources. Turns out most groups do one encounter per day on average, and then the system doesn’t work very well at all. There’s lot of patches (eg: gritty realism) but the problem remains people don’t seem to want to do that kind of cadence.

I meant how in poe1 and 2 might (the stat) is 3% more damage per point, so it’s hard to feel the difference between might 10 and might 15. Does +15% of 10 damage make a meaningful difference? It’s probably the same as +12%, right, or is there decimal damage too? I guess when multiplied by power levels it’s a bigger deal, but that’s kind of opaque.

Also “like proficiency bonuses on crack” is deeply funny to me as someone who played DND 3e. Base attack bonus every level, skill ranks up every level, oh so many memories and not all of them good.

The other day I said something about how maybe people will rise up, and someone responded with a quote from “they thought they were free”

Go on. Have a read: https://fedia.io/m/history@lemmy.world/t/1432476/An-excerpt-from-They-Thought-They-Were-Free-The-Germans

(Edit: that URL isn’t making a nice link for some reason)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/They_Thought_They_Were_Free