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  1. Tuco

    The Astronomy Thread

    Update: May 3, 5:17 p.m. ET: In an emailed statement, Celestis announced that all 120 flight capsules included in this mission “are safely in the hands of launch personnel and will be returned to us awaiting our next flight as soon as UP and Spaceport America complete their investigation and any...
  2. Tuco

    Writers Guild Strike 2023

    I'll note that nobody who thinks chatgpt can replace tv writers in 2023 has taken me up on my request to get chatgpt to write a script or screenplay.
  3. Tuco

    Writers Guild Strike 2023

    I'm glad you're asking such a fun question. I know this prompt response won't satisfy you because you know that human-generated information was provided to chatgpt and midjourney during its training, but I hope you enjoy it anyway. chatgpt: Midjourney: /imagine a 60 foot creature with 4 legs...
  4. Tuco

    Writers Guild Strike 2023

    Where did you get the idea of a dragon sea monster from? You're just a lizard brain with language regurgitating thoughts other people had with a thin veneer of consciousness fooling yourself into thinking you have a soul that provides creativity. Just like me!
  5. Tuco

    Writers Guild Strike 2023

    I was thinking about the writers strike when I saw this video lately of this human lego man comic Most humor can be quantified into discrete elements combining dichotomous relationships (where two things are related one way or totally unrelated in another), exaggerations, comparisons, unique...
  6. Tuco

    Writers Guild Strike 2023

    What is creativity, really? My drawing skills are shit. They will always be shit. They were shit when I drew a T-Rex in Mrs. Jacobson's art class in second grade and they were shit when I drew a picture of a car on a whiteboard earlier today. Last weekend my 8 year old son and I started...
  7. Tuco

    Writers Guild Strike 2023

    What makes him a dogshit human being?
  8. Tuco

    Writers Guild Strike 2023

    I use the app to order McDonalds and it's sooo slow compared to the point of sale system I used when I was 14 and worked at McDonalds. Annoying ass animations and cloud-based delay. Anyway, I'd love to see the drive thru times, operational cost and deployment investment on that McDonalds.
  9. Tuco

    Writers Guild Strike 2023

    I work in automation, primarily vehicles. Sign me up for paying a bit more for flying on airlines that don't try to pioneer automation of aviation maintenance/construction/testing.
  10. Tuco

    Writers Guild Strike 2023

    What field?
  11. Tuco

    Writers Guild Strike 2023

    You know Booze, if you learned to read and understand context, you'd have a shot at finally getting off welfare. Within the context of this writer's guild strike, ChatGPT only has a modest impact at displacing scriptwriters for the kind of TV shows we're talking about. In the future? It'll...
  12. Tuco

    EQ TLP - Oakwynd (Evolving Ruleset Progression Server)

    All I know they said in response is in Oakwynd Information and FAQ | EverQuest Forums where they didn't really acknowledge or address any of the FTE complaints. The test server's integration of those features was unsurprisingly pushed back.
  13. Tuco

    Writers Guild Strike 2023

    GRRM, in solidarity with WGA, is also pausing his writing on Winds of Winter, effective 2007.
  14. Tuco

    Writers Guild Strike 2023

    Also, anyone who thinks ChatGPT is ready to churn out scripts for TV shows that you'd be willing to watch, give it a rip and post what scripts you can make with it. https://chat.openai.com/
  15. Tuco

    Writers Guild Strike 2023

    I'm kinda interested to hear more about this. Do you know of any journalists or experts covering this that have described that problem in more detail? Especially with reference to how these mini-rooms churn out garbage and cause massive breaks in continuity because the writers pop out a script...
  16. Tuco

    Star Citizen Online - The search for more money

    Bannerlord and TaleWorlds isn't really in the same ballpark of funding as SC/CiG, I think they're at 3 million copies sold. I don't know anything about 7DTD. Buuut, I'd wager that the worst crowd-sourced or indie games that make it to AA or AAA games and languish try to use their own engine...
  17. Tuco

    Rajaah's CRPG Blog

    I'd argue that Skyrim is the pinnacle ES game. It really is a stellar game, with or without mods. I wouldn't play Morrowind in 2023 without heavy mods, but I'm a big mod guy.
  18. Tuco

    Star Citizen Online - The search for more money

    SC is the greatest game out there right now. I've transitioned my 401k investments from NYSE into Star Citizen's stock exchange.
  19. Tuco

    AI Image Generation

    *entire industries get upheaved by sudden surge of AI image and text generation* *Mist swoops in with a take so cold even midjourney would fail to generate an image for it*
  20. Tuco

    The Astronomy Thread

  21. Tuco

    Rajaah's CRPG Blog

    Morrowind holds up pretty well on a replay, in my opinion, because I consider it to be one of the last of that era of CRPGs before everything got WoWified (for better or worse) with more hub-centric quest markers and also because the modding scene is very strong for it. So it plays more like a...
  22. Tuco

    EQ TLP - Oakwynd (Evolving Ruleset Progression Server)

    Even if they made it persist on level cap increase it's still a uninspiring bonus. If you're the guy leveling up a bunch of alts, level speed is probably not a big concern for you anyway. And if you're trying to be efficient there are just too many advantages when having them split onto...
  23. Tuco

    The Astronomy Thread

    Yeah I wouldn't be shook if I was SpaceX. If they can keep delivering on Starship over the next couple years it's all just noise. The fulcrum for this is the Artemis mission that SpaceX is already participating in, but will probably end up carrying as their solution is shown to be wayyyy better...
  24. Tuco

    Factorio

    I resumed my Space Exploration / Krastorio 2 playthrough last night. I'm rebuilding the entire thing using city blocks. I avoided doing that the first time because I liked creating artisinal factories, but am giving in because I'm looking at the impact of increasing levels of upgrade modules...
  25. Tuco

    The Astronomy Thread

    Not that you need me to tell you this, but a key difference is that SpaceX probably had a meeting where each department was asked what risks were present in the launch and all of them said something like, "Bro we've made like a hundred improvements since this piece of shit was made and it's a...
  26. Tuco

    Fires of Heaven and our continued disappointment

    But seriously, can't wait till my kids are old enough so I can hermit-poopsock a new MMO.
  27. Tuco

    Fires of Heaven and our continued disappointment

    SMELLS LIKE OLD BITCH IN THIS THREAD
  28. Tuco

    AI music

    music noun mu·sic ˈmyü-zik 1a: vocal, instrumental, or mechanical sounds having rhythm, melody, or harmony choral music piano music recorded music b: the science or art of ordering tones or sounds in succession, in combination, and in temporal relationships to produce a composition having...
  29. Tuco

    The Astronomy Thread

    For me it's about 0%. Going to space sounds miserable and I'd rather someone more useful do it, even a civilian who contributes nothing to mission.
  30. Tuco

    The Mandalorian

    Finally got around to watching season 3. This whole season suffers from really messy writing between the storyboards. I think I've posted this before but I'm pretty sure they developed this show from something like the storyboards they show during the credits, and build everything around a...
  31. Tuco

    The Astronomy Thread

    If they executed that launch 100 times, I wonder in how many of those times it gets blown up before it clears the launch tower. There are absolutely massive forces at play, but it seems like all the forces would push the debris away from the launch vehicle. It's too bad they blew it up in...
  32. Tuco

    The Astronomy Thread

    https://esawebb.org/images/potm2302b/
  33. Tuco

    The Astronomy Thread

  34. Tuco

    The Astronomy Thread

  35. Tuco

    EQ TLP - Oakwynd (Evolving Ruleset Progression Server)

    Seasonal servers like other games have are kinda hard because of the absolute massive amount of content from classic to live. I don't really know how you'd do it without cannibalizing each server or making the pace so fast that players spend inordinate amounts of time dealing with the changes...
  36. Tuco

    The Metal Thread

  37. Tuco

    The Astronomy Thread

    Yeah. I gotta imagine there is so much SpaceX garbage for Starship / Super Heavy booster that anything out there right now will probably of limited value. Even parts of the Starship / booster itself. The boosters that participate in Artemis missions could get $$$. But some rando car damaged in...
  38. Tuco

    EQ TLP - Oakwynd (Evolving Ruleset Progression Server)

    I think this is one case where they really should state their reasoning behind the change.
  39. Tuco

    Chat GPT AI

    Yeah. I stressed it a bit a few weeks ago about something I was working on related to suspension dynamics in vehicles. At a surface level it described things just fine, but when I started getting into details it just started making up bullshit soft-body physics word-salads that would be...