Gradually_Adjusting

Gradually_Adjusting, 10 months ago

Oh wow. Shittier, you say?

Gradually_Adjusting, 10 months ago

I will scream

Gradually_Adjusting, 10 months ago

It’s a fun exercise, but all this really is, is “okay, talk out of your ass” and “now imagine you weren’t just bloviating at random and that was real”, rinse and repeat. Fun, but it’s a bit like hitting the exponent button on your calculator a bunch and going woooah big number! Just with words instead.

Gradually_Adjusting, 10 months ago

I never fuss about downvotes, people are inscrutable. If anyone has any detailed feedback I’m all ears.

These LLMs are not aware of what they’re saying. That’s why they occasionally hallucinate, they’re basically philosophical zombies.

Gradually_Adjusting, 10 months ago

Tories really doing their best American Republican impression and I’m not excited for where that leads

Gradually_Adjusting, 10 months ago

It’s annoying. I had the choice to live there or here, and the differences seem to be gradually lessening.

Gradually_Adjusting, 10 months ago

45 was such a cash cow for click driven corporate media. They must miss him.

Gradually_Adjusting, 10 months ago

Anyone who is president is already the most powerful being in history up to that point. The point of this whole initiative is making room in the dialogue for naked totalitarianism.

Gradually_Adjusting, 10 months ago

So this is what people mean when they say bing is insane. It plays exactly to the stereotype of a high functioning broken AI.

Gradually_Adjusting, 10 months ago

I set out to create a grim yet bright fantasy setting with the fun powers of Dragon Ball and loads of creative fighting moves. It was meant to be simple, but I ended up having a lot more canvas to fill than I realized.

I ended up making a game about grudges, generally speaking. I changed everything down to the death mechanic to encourage players as noble knights to beef with everyone and everything and eventually die in a spectacular manner over an ultimately petty dispute. So the tone is very grim yet light-hearted.

Part of the goal was to demonstrate that being less cautious can be a fun play style. As a storyteller, you never know what a story really meant until it ends, and encouraging character death through XP mechanics is my way of trying to keep things fresh and memorable.

In order to keep these deaths from seeming trivial or meaningless, it’s all happening in a setting that is as detailed and grounded as I can make it. It has a history, and active geopolitical issues that tangentially inform the plot. These characters have families and groups that may try to avenge them or settle the score. Death never makes things simpler, and like life, violence doesn’t actually solve your problems… But it can be a lot of fun while it lasts.

I do hope I answered the question correctly, but it’s before coffee. Let me know if I need to try again.

Gradually_Adjusting, 10 months ago

I like the thinking behind this idea. Would definitely play/read. Is it an RPG or a written story? I ask a question I could not answer, as I’m not entirely decided yet myself.

Gradually_Adjusting, 10 months ago

Thanks! That’s more or less the aim. Game design is about encouraging repeated patterns of play, and you could do a lot worse than “start shit, get hit”

Gradually_Adjusting, 10 months ago

I had more fun with PYST.

The humor was way over my head and probably hasn’t aged well, but it was fun at the time.

Gradually_Adjusting, 10 months ago

It was about right for the age I was - that is, too young to be playing it

Gradually_Adjusting, 10 months ago

Counterpoint, the quality of moderation was already pretty patchy, and the quality will continue to decrease. The mods who left are the ones with the most integrity. In my opinion, stepping down in protest is a sign of integrity, which is a key trait of a good mod.

The conclusion that the replacements will be worse is just a statistical average taken at face value, so who knows for sure. It isn’t an ironclad conclusion, but I think it’s a bit better than mere wishful thinking.

Gradually_Adjusting, 10 months ago (edited 10 months ago)

People still have microwaves?

Edit: this was meant to be tongue in cheek and things got out of hand. Just look away.

Gradually_Adjusting, 10 months ago

You know how food gets hot at restaurants? Turns out you can do that at home.

Gradually_Adjusting, 10 months ago

It has to be faster because you’re so busy, but you have time to stand up for the honor of microwaves on Lemmy. Cool premise, but I’ll pass.

Gradually_Adjusting, 10 months ago

Russia and Ukraine have both been using cluster bombs since the start of the war. The only difference is now Ukraine has American ones with lower dud rates.

Cue false outrage media circus, blah de fucking blah

Gradually_Adjusting, 10 months ago

Ecofasism ☕

Gradually_Adjusting, 10 months ago

Yikes to the max homie

Gradually_Adjusting, 10 months ago

The homeopathy of ethical compliance

Gradually_Adjusting, 10 months ago

I would prefer to believe it’s the latter, but it may also be a design choice that merely reflects a general disdain for the user, rather than being motivated by actual greed or cynicism

Gradually_Adjusting, 10 months ago

You wouldn’t think of having disdain for your source of income as blatant stupidity?