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  1. Tuco

    Time Travel: What would you do?

    I've never thought about that before, but presuming that there's no monkey paw bullshit where I cause a butterfly to fart and then I'm never born or jumps forward cause me to fall into the sun, I'd treat the universe as my own personal playground. I'd go forward in time, document a bunch of...
  2. Tuco

    EQ TLP - Oakwynd (Evolving Ruleset Progression Server)

    The tools for a low-level rogue are extremely minimal and playing them is boring. It only gets fun in certain situations or when you get deep into EQ's lifetime where you are focused on buff stacking, rotations, etc. EQ is a unique game for a few reasons, one of which is the massive amount of...
  3. Tuco

    EQ TLP - Oakwynd (Evolving Ruleset Progression Server)

    Being puller is great for the first hour of a camp. Then after it's nice being in the camp so you can catch up on Netflix and just spam the same abilities over and over.
  4. Tuco

    AI: The Rise of the Machines... Or Just a Lot of Overhyped Chatbots?

    No. Maybe a future AI will have the kind of sentience that you're worried about, but it probably won't be called ChatGPT. ChatGPT (allegedly) is a mostly read-only process that only has memory of limited conversations, which aren't automatically fed back into the shared databases. OpenAI...
  5. Tuco

    The Astronomy Thread

  6. Tuco

    EQ TLP - Oakwynd (Evolving Ruleset Progression Server)

    Starting with a druid on TLP is $$$ because of utility. I don't know how it'll play out with the benefits of multiple chars on one account on Oakwynd but having a pocket druid to port you around, hand out DS/sow/regen/heal/whatever is a huge QOL. Having both enc/dru duo is a great core to build...
  7. Tuco

    Switch emulators Ryujinx and Yuzu

    How are the controls on emulated TOTK? Do you use an xbox or something with it? I really liked the gamepad/mouse combo for Elden Ring. Left hand on the gamepad for movement control and right hand on the mouse for camera control.
  8. Tuco

    AI: The Rise of the Machines... Or Just a Lot of Overhyped Chatbots?

    Decent summary. Interesting that they're releasing an open source model, but who knows if that was said just to drive the conversation with congress.
  9. Tuco

    EQ TLP - Oakwynd (Evolving Ruleset Progression Server)

    You're right, TLP is more like middle school.
  10. Tuco

    AI: The Rise of the Machines... Or Just a Lot of Overhyped Chatbots?

    I wonder if corps will publish datasets. Or if new standards will emerge that tag text data in useful ways to common AI models. Image datasets are super common ( 20+ Best Image Datasets for Computer Vision [2023] ). Sometimes companies will publish datasets as a way to crowdsource solutions, ex...
  11. Tuco

    AI: The Rise of the Machines... Or Just a Lot of Overhyped Chatbots?

    Are these the actual rules or are they just "rules" that the chatbot came up with?
  12. Tuco

    AI: The Rise of the Machines... Or Just a Lot of Overhyped Chatbots?

    Did you validate the questions / solutions?
  13. Tuco

    EQ TLP - Oakwynd (Evolving Ruleset Progression Server)

    Feels like a FTE being a training wheels server with easy pull splitting might be totally OK. The /yell prompt is zone wide, right? Might be entertaining for a group to be exposed as being little bitches by constantly exploiting it in front of everyone.
  14. Tuco

    Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom

    Coldest take this side of Snow Mountain Shrine.
  15. Tuco

    Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom

    There's a lot of things you could criticize Nintendo for, but I don't think their decision to not compete in the same technological space as xbox / playstation is one of them.
  16. Tuco

    Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom

    I might have to buy a new PC just to run a Switch game. I'm really just looking for an excuse to buy a new PC tho.
  17. Tuco

    Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom

    Anyone here running on an emulator? I don't think I'd mind playing on my switch but now I'm kinda curious.
  18. Tuco

    EQ TLP - Oakwynd (Evolving Ruleset Progression Server)

    Yep. They just need to yeet out a script that drops the respawn timer of the entire original EQ and Kunark mobs to 25% and see what happens.
  19. Tuco

    EQ TLP - Oakwynd (Evolving Ruleset Progression Server)

    Dropping the respawn time to 25% in a handful of zones and 50% in some other zones would be extremely positive and not that much work (Presumably...). I still like my "Monster Tide" idea though that's more ambitious and experimental. What's your favorite idea to handle Resource Contention you'd...
  20. Tuco

    EQ TLP - Oakwynd (Evolving Ruleset Progression Server)

    Their decisions are so grossly out of touch that it's impossible to predict whether they will do the rational thing and push back Oakwynd or ditch FTE for at least the original release (where it'd probably be most impactful,l lol) It'd be completely inline for them to release an absolute mess...
  21. Tuco

    EQ TLP - Oakwynd (Evolving Ruleset Progression Server)

    I agree, but I'd much rather lose to a bot because bot was running at 1ms on a PC with a 100ms less ping than I have when I'm spamming that ability at 200ms, vs the bot simply being able to attack untargetable and invisible mobs a second before I can.
  22. Tuco

    EQ TLP - Oakwynd (Evolving Ruleset Progression Server)

    Gotta be pretty dismal to push to fix this out when the playerbase hates the concept of it even with a perfect implementation. Just watching the video Jasper posted of mobs locking and being inaccessible to other players is personally revolting. Best thing the EQ devs can do for the long-term...
  23. Tuco

    EQ TLP - Oakwynd (Evolving Ruleset Progression Server)

    Just got off the phone with Jen Change, they are just calling a mulligan and not doing a TLP this year.
  24. Tuco

    EQ TLP - Oakwynd (Evolving Ruleset Progression Server)

    Yep. https://forums.daybreakgames.com/eq/index.php?threads/test-update-5-9-2023-patch-notes-and-discussions.290535/
  25. Tuco

    EQ TLP - Oakwynd (Evolving Ruleset Progression Server)

    https://forums.daybreakgames.com/eq/index.php?threads/fte-a-heaping-pile-of.290549/
  26. Tuco

    Writers Guild Strike 2023

    As a non-writer I'd be kinda curious to read an experience of a writer trying to create a "well-written" chapter or screenplay for an episodeor scene based on ChatGPT. Like you said it's generic and boring. Are there prompts that you can give ChatGPT that excite the right kind of interesting...
  27. Tuco

    Rajaah's CRPG Blog

    Would love to see another game that tries to capture the essence of Dungeon Master + party the way NWN did. ChatGPT has kinda primed the pump for that type of game in a singleplayer format too.
  28. Tuco

    Writers Guild Strike 2023

    @Chukzombi It broke at the end, lol. I regenerated it. It broke again. I think it runs out of gas.
  29. Tuco

    Writers Guild Strike 2023

    I thought the exact same thing. That was one of the first progression fantasy book series I've ever read. I wish there was an audible narration of it so I could consume it again now that I've gone through dozens of other similar series decades later.
  30. Tuco

    Writers Guild Strike 2023

    Asking for high-quality (which likely means high budget) and original TV content is a little unfair because it's so attractive to build on an established IP, especially in genres with strong IP like superhero or scifi. If a studio is willing to put up the $$$ for quality actors, special effects...
  31. Tuco

    EQ TLP - Oakwynd (Evolving Ruleset Progression Server)

    I wouldn't mind seeing them bring free-trade to live / Bristlebane for a single expansion. Especially if it came with reduced loot drops. Right now everything is loot pinata in the group game on live.
  32. 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...
  33. 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.
  34. 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...
  35. 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!
  36. 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...
  37. 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...
  38. Tuco

    Writers Guild Strike 2023

    What makes him a dogshit human being?