paddirn

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paddirn, (edited )

I find I like adventures that are more a bunch of toolboxes that I can pull out when I need them as I’m running the adventure. They give a full background of what happened behind-the-scenes that I can choose to reveal through player interactions with the world or characters. The rest it gives a range of options for how to treat some common situations, but doesn’t assume to know what the players will do. It’s a hard balance to find sometimes though, if it depends entirely on the PCs doing a specific thing just to even get into the adventure in the first place.

I don’t really like when they just assume X will happen, which will lead to Y, then Z. You don’t really have to worry about a game going “off the rails” if they’re not really there to begin with. I like interesting and colorful descriptive details added about anything, characters, rooms, buildings, environments, monsters, whatever. Even if it’s just hinting at things, anything that gives me something to go off of and flesh the world/characters with.

paddirn, (edited )

The Rifts RPG by Palladium Books had a sourcebook with an insane AI/supercomputer named A.R.C.H.I.E. that survived a nuclear apocalypse. It controlled a robotics factory to build an army of killer robots that it planned to rebuild humanity with. Rifts came out in 1990 (that sourcebook in 1991), about a year/two after this Archie system came out. I wonder if the writer, Kevin Sembieda, took it as inspiration and assumed this search engine would one day morph into an AI? Interestingly, many of the search engines of today seem to be trying to reinvent themselves as AI services, so it may not have been that far off the mark, just don’t give them control of any robots.

paddirn,

Yeah, that about does it.

paddirn,

She may be cold-blooded, but it’s making my blood pump hot in some places (I’m referring to my penis).

paddirn,

This is an abomination and we need to launch the Butlerian Jihad to destroy all the thinking machines.

paddirn,

Avoid touching door handles as much as possible. The best defense is to just never come into contact with germs in the first place.

paddirn,

Oh boy, so we get to live how Jesus would’ve lived.

paddirn,

He’s called Wall-E, because he be knockin’ down that uterine wall.

paddirn,

Fuck that, we should be making it easier and stop favoring one gender over the other in both divorce and child custody. Property/assets should be split based on who actually paid for those assets. If one person pays all or a majority of the mortgage on a property, why do they then have to split that property 50% with somebody who contributed nothing? Marriage is a dying institution that should be put out of its misery.

paddirn,

“Well… guess I’m never replying to that thread again.”

paddirn,

Krispy Bean Donuts

paddirn,

I was just thinking about interactions like this I’ve had a few times with different nice drivers, where I think they’ll be trying to wave me through (no flashing brights or anything), I’m assuming to be nice, but they’re far enough away that I can’t see them, so I’m not entirely certain of their intent. Usually it’s a busy road, so there’s very little margin for error, if I misjudge what they’re doing, then there’s gonna be a problem. And then you both end up missing a chance to go because they screwed up the process, when, if they just hadn’t tried to be nice and just went like they were supposed to, we both could’ve gone. Just follow the dumb traffic laws.

The exception to this though is at my kid’s school. To turn into the school, there’s a system that most of the parents follow and it works well, we essentially treat the entryway as a modified 3-way stop. Whoever has the easiest time to get in/get out go last in the order. So people needing to pull out and make a left turn onto the main road get first priority, then people needing to make a left turn into the school, finally people making a right-hand turn either into or out of the school go last. Anyone not going into the school just keeps going.

This system works better than when a traffic cop is occasionally posted to direct traffic (for whatever reason). With the cop, traffic gets backed up everywhere around the school and it takes everyone forever to get where they need to go. Without the cop, most people follow “the system” and traffic flows smoothly. When someone doesn’t follow the system, it’s not necessarily a surprise because they just don’t wait, but usually a car or two later follows the system and everyone goes where they need to. You’re rarely waiting for long.

paddirn,

“Who you tryin’ ta mess with ese? Don’t you know I’m loco?”

paddirn,

This video shows one way to make them, but doesn’t really help with my impression that there’s something strange in the state of Denmark. It also makes me think these long egg tubes could probably be used as heated pocket pussies.

Parishioners Report Priest for Saying Jesus Died With Erection (www.thedailybeast.com)

A Catholic priest in England was reported by his parishioners after he allegedly told them Jesus died with an erection. The Times of London reports that the diocese of Hexham & Newcastle investigated the complaint against Father Thomas McHale—an American assigned to Our Blessed Lady Immaculate in Blackhill for a decade—and...

paddirn,

“Father, into your hands I commend my spirit, but by God is my cock hard and my balls blue.”

paddirn, (edited )

Well aktually, Johnny Cash issued a statement to the KKK telling them his first wife wasn’t black and appeared to have some racist attitudes in his youth, though he did come around later on and I wouldn’t say he was racist. Her heritage is described:

“In the image, Vivian, whose father was of Sicilian heritage and whose mother was said to be of German and Irish descent, appeared to be Black.”

Though in other images in the same article she doesn’t appear black at all, so I’m not sure. There seemed to be different attitudes about what was considered “black” in that time.

“The stress was almost unbearable. I wanted to die,” she [Vivian] wrote in her memoir. “And it didn’t help that Johnny issued a statement to the KKK informing them I wasn’t Black.” She did not think the campaign should have been dignified with a response.

So she may have been more upset that he responded at all, not necessarily being upset that he said she wasn’t black.

washingtonpost.com/…/johnny-cash-first-wife-vivia…

paddirn, (edited )

Yes, but I was responding the original posts claim that Johnny Cash came out and said his wife was black, which was the exact opposite of what happened. His wife being 1/16 African helps the claim that she had maybe a darker complexion I guess, it’s hard to tell with most photos of her being in black & white or potentially colorized. I’m also 1/16 Native American and I really wouldn’t claim that I’m actually Native American based off of that (though maybe some scholarships exist that say otherwise).

Her being 1/2 Sicilian may have had a bigger impact on skin-tone, but maybe the African great-great-grandmother was a well-known secret in her family and they tried to hide it as much as possible, I don’t know. It’s probably more important to ask, “Did she consider herself to be black?” Everyone has their own definition of it, but I’ve not seen anything that says that she actually considered herself as black, but it’s also possible she tried to hide it early on given the racial climate at the time. Is the “One-Drop Rule” still valid here?

paddirn, (edited )

And yet it doesn’t even list ‘Plum’, or did it think ‘Applum’ was just a variation of a plum?

paddirn,

Freedom of speech… until you try to use it.

paddirn,

Has any developer ever announced that not everyone at the studio was happy with how the game turned out? “Mostly everyone here likes it, except for Merl, Anna, and Bunson over in Finance, they hate the new control scheme, but they’re all trash players, so they don’t count.”

paddirn,

Yeah, but think about how much fun we had with cardboard boxes as a kid. Now we get to relive those glory days and we can build those cardboard box castles we always dreamed of.

paddirn,

What’s the deal with college kids these days?

paddirn,

I was about to write something similar to that original comment, but then started thinking about it a little bit more, isn’t part of the problem with Capitalism that profit is nearly the only factor that businesses consider? It’s like the only way we can motivate businesses to do anything “good” is if we give them some sort of carrot or stick that either makes them more money or lose less money if they do the good thing (that they should be doing anyways).

So even though I want businesses to “stay in their lane”, there’s a number of businesses whose lane is negatively affecting society and the planet, so they should actually be concerning themselves more with the environment or their products’ effects on society. It’s not that businesses should care less, it’s that they should care more.

paddirn,

I get the idea, but what if the kill-guy fights back and at the last minute decides he doesn’t want to be a sacrificial lamb? I can imagine that as some sort of 70s tv series about a guy on the run from the government and a president who wants all-out war.

paddirn,

It’s kind of an interesting double-standard that exists in our society. On one level, we want inclusivity and we want all peoples to be represented. Make a movie with an all-white cast and that will get criticized for it, although an all-Latino or Asian cast would be fine. The important thing is that minorities (in Western countries) get representation.

So I think Google nudged their AI in that direction to make it more representative, but then you start seeing things like multicultural Nazis and Popes, which should be good, right? Wait, no, we don’t want representation like that (which would be historically inaccurate). Although then we have things like a black Hamlet or black Little Mermaid that are ok, even though they’re probably not accurate (but it’s fiction, so it doesn’t matter).

It probably seems schizophrenic and hard to program into an algorithm when multiculturalism is appropriate and when it’s not. I think they should just take the guard rails off and let it do whatever, because the more they censor these AI models the more boring they get with their responses.

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