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Dikitain posted...

Despite all of that, I could have fun with any of them with the right people and that is what's important. Anybody who complains about why board game X is popular and not game Y are probably the same people who get off trying to min-max their characters in D&D and get pissed when the Chaotic Neutral NPC wins a battle with them because they rolled a nat 20 on the "Kick them in the balls and run" check.

My brother, you should know more about DnD if you're going to make references.

Entity13 posted...

Again?

Yeah, with the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank and now First Republic Bank, I've heard on the grapevine we're a few bad tweets away from another collapse.

Metalsonic66 posted...

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/9/7/5/AAFUswAAEbMn.jpg

And we're heading for a bank crash!

Y'all, monopoly sucks and I don't know why people think it's fun.
It takes forever, has no decisions, and just causes hurt feelings.

Calling someone a boykisser is honestly hilarious in the modern day. The response is either extremely mad, or laugh.

Don't worry, if you're ever worried about not getting enough of Mr. Carlson, he's been offered a new TV show!

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/tucker-carlson-offered-jobs-russian-state-tv-channels-putin-ukraine-rcna81281

Operation doesn't deserve this level of hate. It's not great, but it's still the base of a lot of dexterity games

potdnewb posted...

robot bodies need more maintenance than human bodies

Yeah but those parts are more easily replaceable.
Do you know how much a new elbow costs compared to a servo?

I like the idea that turning someone into salt isn't them being dead.
"Police help! They turned my wife into salt!"
"Well, can't do much about that, she's not missing and isn't killed, and it wasn't an assault, guess that's that"

lmao

About 40%.

I wonder if they're paying the schools to display those commandments.

Lokarin posted...

I do like the rice, but I don't think I'd ever buy a 50lb bag due to, like, potential mold

In any sort of "reasonable" metric, rice is shelf stable. The only reason it would go bad is vermin getting inside and ruining things.
If you're looking for food at the end of the world to survive for decades, yeah that's not great. But a 20lbs or 50lbs isn't going to go bad if you're eating rice 2-3 times a week.

My 50lbs bag of rice is still going strong!

ChatGPT can fairly easily transcribe code, it might be worth it to just copy and paste it there.

Meditation works for me occasionally.

SKARDAVNELNATE posted...

Then why is it not more Freakazoid and less corporate spokesperson?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ed-hUoeHcz0

Oh I fully expect in 5 years when the other people will be able to make high quality AI, we will see that.

ChatGPT is the internet distilled you can talk to.

People are flopping between "this isn't anything, it's just parroting other people" and "this is an incredibly useful tool" on the technology side.

I've honestly enjoyed using it, and I've found ChatGPT more useful for putting points together than anyone else around. As an example, I bought an uncut die (the thinky bits of a computer) and was looking at it under the microscope, and found some weird formations. I don't know anyone who is in the silicon wafer design, and wouldn't even know where to start looking around. ChatGPT helped me point to some different terms and also handling the die.

It's as good as what's fed to it, so as good as the internet is.

I'm not interested in MMOs.

0/10 no dropping on the floor and doing the dinosaur.

The important question, who bears the mantle of internet browser history.

Nope.

Those shirts are a pretty shitty design, not going to lie.

RedHawk4 posted...

There isn't enough electricity in power grids to support a widespread increase in use of EVs. The facilities that manufacture EVs also operate on coal power.

Wonderful let's look for more electrical power then. Humans tend to increase power usage over time, so we need more plants.

jsb0714 posted...

Do you think it's just that simple?

Finding new commercially viable products? Yes.

captpackrat posted...

Probably because they require large amounts of lithium for the batteries. The world-wide demand for lithium is expected to reach 3,000,000 tonnes by 2030. Lithium production in 2021 was just 540,000 tonnes.

So another source of batteries that are commercially viable that solve that issue?

Because?

Lokarin posted...

I heard when you're in a game and there's chinese players that if you mention Tianamen Square Massacre they get booted from the game cuz of their chat censor

That's korean my brother.

I'm totally ok saying both are bad.
Like Olive Garden.

adjl posted...

Just a regular old ICE car and a two-cylinder bike. I'd prefer electric over ICE, but with no option for home charging (landlords use the driveway and I'm parked on the street virtually all the time) and the extra cost, it's just not a plausible alternative for us right now.

Same with me, but I live in an apartment complex.

adjl posted...

It's not fully automated, but it's definitely true that there are fewer manufacturing jobs available in the US than there used to be, with no commensurate reduction in domestic manufacturing output. Many, many factory jobs have been lost to the combination of automation and outsourcing.

That's also true. I just get a bit of a weird reaction to "oh no all the factory jobs are gone" when it's provably not true.

chelsea___wtf posted...

this is the most overhyped productivity tool in the history of software engineering. it helps you write boilerplate quicker. It doesn't architect systems.

So far, yeah. We don't know how far this will go, there's now a whole fuckton of money being poured into this by every major tech company. The software side of this is going to blow up hard.
I've even seen silicon manufacturing companies produce specific chips for matrix multiplication, and thus AI.

ParanoidObsessive posted...

Factory workers were getting their jobs replaced by robots decades ago, and everyone just told them to suck it up and go retrain their skills (as if that's a simple thing).

adjl posted...

Factory workers were automated into obsolescence because designing a machine to do repetitive mechanical tasks is pretty easy

I don't know if you all have stepped into a factory recently, but, factory work is very much not fully automated. It costs millions to create that machine for a line that's going to be around maybe 4 years at most. It's also not a "fire and forget" machine that marketers claim it to be. It still takes even more specialized automation teams to maintain those machines.

Mundane factory work is still alive and well because those workers are cheaper than automation.

That's my professional opinion, because I'm an engineer at an automotive supplier who has only a slight amount of automation (and shakes my fist at operators fucking up perfectly fine parts).

AI will be different. It takes a team of, say, 10, to automate a department of 50 (and then budget cuts come in). Anyone who spends their day in front of the computer 95% of the time, is likely to be automated, or extremely reduced departments once corporate realizes programmers can just ask a computer to do the code.
I'll also happily, any, any, any day of the week take AI HR over any single HR person I've dealt with.

Judgmenl posted...

Been a formal job title for decades but ok? The wikipedia page for Software Architect started in 2005. I don't know what you would call someone in a position above Principal. Literally the person on the team who architects the software.

So, like, do you look at buildings?

Clench281 posted...

these job titles keep getting weirder

Gotta build up them SQL databases by hand, brick by brick!

Yes that's the point.

Michigan is good enough.

I'm into Brotato right now.

VideoboysaysCube posted...

This is where I have my doubts. Just consider current chess AI. They're capable of identifying certain lines that no human could ever come up with, and that's because of their raw computational power. Think of how many hours a person has to invest to become an expert in something. A computer can completely eliminate that time component. I'm talking beyond writing here, but say we were trying to create a new kind of technology. Scientists would ordinarily have to resort to trial and error. But if an AI had a full understanding of physics (at least within the scope of what we understand) it could process millions of variations in just a brief moment.

So in some ways, I think future AI will be able to produce outputs that exceed human capability.

Oh you see it with mathematics right now, especially higher dimension systems where people suck at understanding examples. An AI can show links to potential mathematical models, and then the mathematician goes and checks more rigorously.
Just like a "computer" was a job for someone who computes equations, and that went away to the calculator.

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/4/4/1/AAQNxdAAEUOx.png

agesboy posted...

This is probably the best use of ChatGPT, tbh; personal projects like this. It can create full character sheets for random NPCs/enemies in your setting, it can semi-randomize plot points by dangling a bunch of threads for you to further pursue, etc. It shouldn't ever be used unassisted, but it looked like an absolutely fantastic supplementary tool. When things go commercial is of course where the line gets drawn.

Oh absolutely, I expect this to be used and abused to hell and back. But just asking it for some interesting ships, and the corporations that made it, to fill out a shipyard. Yeah it's great.

I can whip up an interesting NPC with just a few seconds of typing, and have them fit the exact scene I need, and make up details quickly.
The GM dread of the players talking to an NPC you haven't fully prepared yet, are a thing of the past!

Nade_Duck posted...

this shit is depressing as fuck

there's just no point to anything anymore

Yeah, why would I play chess if there are robots better than me?

helly my beloved

Count_Drachma posted...

Humorously enough, he probably could've just written an actual novel in about 40 hours.

Uh, I very, very, much doubt that

I use ChatGPT to write RPG scenarios. It's sometimes useful to just bounce ideas off of someone whenever I want, and, ask for mundane details that bring out a world.

God, is this what PotD has really devolved into?

Which culture?

BigOlePappy posted...

I meant traditional mushrooms for eating instead of psychoactive ones.

Do you mean Button? Portobello? Shitake? Wood Ear? Hen-Of-The-Woods? Lions Mane?

Fungi are the third kingdom, some mixture of animal and plant, there's more than "traditional mushroom", there's entire species differences.
Plus, different cultures eat different types of mushrooms.

I did.

He's got a fairly real argument for defamation, you can clearly draw a line from the charges to his loss of income.

Never listened to him in the first place.

Conner4REAL posted...

for Someone in trumps position it would be very likely they would arrange his surrender with the das office rather than just slap the cuffs on him.

a famous celebrity or non violent white collar criminal who has had an attorney involve early on in the process and that attorney has been in contact w the police DA and investigators and they dont consider them a flight risk, might very will be given the opportunity to do so.

this does occur more often in white collar crimes because the very nature of such an investigation involves document subpoenas which they then involve their attorneys early in the process and are non violent in nature.

in those situations the defendant is usually processed and in and out with bail by the end of the day. There is no reasonable thought why trump woild not get bail or be treated like this if the case proceeds.

if trump is physically arrested publically it will be because he forced that to happen for his own (in his mind) political gain.

Oh how often have you been arrested? Or have you arrested people?
'cause I haven't done either.