Usually people talk about the pre tax cost.

I have a tinfoil hat theory that the taxes are kept like that to give people a recurring, low grade, anti-tax sentiment. There are a lot of crazy idiots that don’t want government to exist here, so by making people feel bad about paying taxes (instead of obscuring that by baking it into the listed price) they can win sympathy.

Social media was always kind of garbage, and the modern algorithmically sorted stuff is worse.

I’d rather just text my friends

I don’t really use Spotify anymore. I started buying albums mostly on Bandcamp and I feel pretty good about it. Less beholden to shitty capitalism for-profit hellscape

I don’t think adult content should be stigmatized and quarantined. Why is a game about cutting terrified victims open with a handsaw cool, but a game about licking a clit needs to be isolated?

I don’t want to share my location nor have anyone else’s shared with me.

Friends and partners can text “I’ll be there in 5”

My friend shares her location with her mother. Her mother then nags her with like “Are you seeing someone new? You’re spending a lot of time in north brooklyn now.” Like, who needs that, or even the temptation of that?

A tech solution is not going to fix a social/mental problem like fear of cheating.

If I was going to make something like this, it would have to incorporate trust chains. I don’t care if some maga-hat says this lady is horrible. I care if my good friend Alex says she’s horrible. One person’s “this person won’t shut up about communism” is a big red flag (no pun intended) but for someone else that’s the dream.

When you sign up, you’d need to be referred to someone or be a root node. Anyone connected to you can be weighted differently. If some section of the tree is misbehaving, prune it.

But that’s a lot of work

I’ve played a fair amount of PbtA and close relatives, mostly at a meetup I go to that does one shots. Never seen anyone playing apocalypse world.

I don’t really like pbta that much, though, so I’m not seeking it out.

Google probably wants to keep you on google.com, where they have ads. By doing the AI stuff, you never click through to someone else’s page. They get 100% of the interactions and can sell all the clicks.

It’s monopoly stuff. They should be stopped, with whatever box of liberty is needed.

This wouldn’t be so bad if it wasn’t happening while there’s a climate crisis, housing crisis, and rise of fascism.

If tech bros want to set money on fire is isolation that’s whatever. But burning all this money on crap when there are all these other problems that need money and attention? Unconscionable.

Do they vet the people? Could someone hypothetically sign up for the app, case the rich person’s situation, and then do crimes? Sounds like a good way to find rich assholes.

Code reviews are important. Unfortunately, no-test-text guy convinced his whole team that he was right, and I wasn’t able to block it. I’d scheduled a meeting to try to get the wider org to adopt a more sensible standard, but then there was a mass layoff 🤷

The other guy with the bad messages is at a tiny startup where they’ve laid off almost everyone, and the other 2 guys don’t want to make waves. The CEO is big on “just ship it” (and also “why are there bugs in production? this is unacceptable!!”)

Could be. I’m not sure what games have defenders roll where a 10 is a questionable result. Such games exist.

But I think it’s more likely the title was written by someone who’s heard dnd terms and doesn’t really play the game. It’s got a “how do you do, fellow kids” feeling.

I don’t think D&D 3e has the defender roll to dodge. There’s only second roll from the attacker to check if it does extra damage or is a regular hit.

Fate also has the defender roll, but it doesn’t have a concept of a “critical strike”.

I’m going to guess they might not show up on the channel if, when confronted, they went “Oh I fucked up. Sorry.” and safely remedied the situation.

What system has you rolling to dodge critical strikes?

Yeah using AI like this seems like a recipe for a well deserved catastrophe

“free market” is overrated. People aren’t well informed rational actors.

Ds2 is worth playing if you like the franchise/genre. It tries some stuff different from the previous game, and some of it works.

It think it’s also easier than ds1, and maybe DS3. I almost cleared it without dying, just using a normal build. Because of the weird “lose max health on death” mechanic, if you die a lot it can snowball, but if you stay alive your max health is pretty generous.

Sometimes people are my old job post AI stuff and I just tell them “stop using the lie machine”

Automobile companies should be held accountable for destroying and lobbying against other modes of transit, so not really the best metaphor. Also destroying the environment is pretty bad.

Also there’s no cosmic law that says tech companies had to make LLMs and put them everywhere. They’re not even consistently useful.