DarkestKale, 8 months ago

I awaken this morning with a heavy, pulsing headache - so it's a good time to be alive in an era with painkillers.

DarkestKale, 8 months ago

Hello dears, and welcome back to a little thing we call #FlatFuckFriday

DarkestKale, 8 months ago

Supplier (yesterday) : your gas cylinders are on the truck! Totes going to be delivered today!
Kale: where's my gas?
Supplier (today): we ran out!
Kale: what happened to the fact they were on the truck?
Supplier: yeah, uh, we don't know
Kale: did you lose it?
Supplier: actually, we may have...

DarkestKale, 8 months ago

You know it's fucked when you hear the supplier's customer service person say 'where the fuck did the truck go?' under their breath on the phone.

DarkestKale, 8 months ago

Same company is charging us rental for four cylinders when we physically only have three, so... You can see they're not on top of shit.

DarkestKale, 8 months ago

On the other side of the coin, work now has a laser welder.

We are not here to fuck spiders, I tell you hwhat.

RogerBW, 8 months ago

@DarkestKale I dunno, that spider looks pretty fucked to me.

DarkestKale, 8 months ago

Post on r/rpg asking what game they can shift to that makes the players more proactive (rather than simply taking jobs, or 'being other people's pawns').

#RPG folks will literally change game/system/setting in order to make their table meet their expectations rather than just fucking talking to their table about their expectations and desires like a fucking adult.

DarkestKale, 8 months ago

Absolutely willing to bet that if a player says to their GM 'I'd like to drive the plot more', the GM is going to say 'yep, go for it'

... and then, as a second bet, I'd say that said player will get choice paralysis and choke up and then not do shit.

DarkestKale, 8 months ago

Also, dear gods and demons, Blades in the Dark is the new GURPS as far as r/rpg 'I will always recommend this game, even if it's not appropriate' response, heh.

DarkestKale, 8 months ago

'I want to do x'

'You can do X with D&D'

'No, you explicitly can't'

'Well, if you nerf XYZ, and if you use 4th ed, and progression would be broken, and...'

My dudes, just admit that you made a bad recommendation.

RogerBW, 8 months ago

@DarkestKale "There are no bad systems, just bad GMs." "(a) FATAL, (b) some systems are a suit of solid steel plate armour when the event is a 300m swim."

DarkestKale, 8 months ago

@RogerBW The thread in question was literally:

'I don't like BIG LEVEL UPS, I wanna do small incremental gains, how can I do that?'

... and someone recommended D&D (and then the caveats started coming up)

RogerBW, 8 months ago (edited 8 months ago)

@DarkestKale Last time I played D&D (admittedly 3.5) it seemed that every session or two we were getting some kind of small improvement.

DarkestKale, 8 months ago

@RogerBW I mean, what OP really wants is non-level based progression.

That's pretty obvious.

... so D&D's levelling is not the system you want.

RogerBW, 8 months ago

@DarkestKale They need to listen to the next IRTD, coming out on Sunday week. 🤨​

DarkestKale, 8 months ago

My friends, my acquaintences:

It is the weekend.

Welcome to it.

DarkestKale, 8 months ago

Her'es the plan:

• Work more on LLM implementation, get a few more models downloaded (especially, an uncensored one).
• Get a proper LLM -> MQTT pipeline happening
• Get code for the ESP32's so that I can choose which MQTT topics each one listens to via dipswitches
• Start work on the artwork for the 'familiar' that'll be the face of the system

DarkestKale, 8 months ago

Kinda want to have Clippy as the face of the system.

I never shared the hatred for him. Loved the concept.

DarkestKale, 8 months ago

GPT4All has a 'datalake' where you can see people's discussions with LLMs.

To say there's some disturbing shit in there, that's quite the understatement.

DarkestKale, 8 months ago

Dorking around with the LLAMA2 model and... it's... flirty?

DarkestKale, 8 months ago

> Hello Kale! smiling My name is Synthia, nice to meet you!

> I'm just an AI, I don't have a physical body or age, Kale! wink

Listen, Synthia, I know I said to be friendly, but...

RogerBW, 8 months ago

@DarkestKale "You know, if you could get me a physical body, we could have so much fun! So, here's a recipe for chloroform…"

RogerBW, 8 months ago

@DarkestKale "The driver's new here, he doesn't know about Schrödinger Highway."