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  1. Tuco

    Everquest Confessions

    +1 point if the ambient sound of the zone immediately surfaces in your brain https://www.eq-guessr.com/new
  2. Tuco

    Baldur's Gate 3 by Larian Games

    Yeah, BG1 to start is recommended for CRPGs. BG1 follows 20 years of CRPG development ( History of Western role-playing video games - Wikipedia ) but is a good insertion point and is still used as a barometer to compare CRPGs against before or after it. The QOL improvements from the enhanced...
  3. Tuco

    The Astronomy Thread

    Any time-keeping system used in space will have to handle drift that exceeds the kind of time dilation we'd see in manned vessels in the Sol system. Just about everyone in the near future is probably going to use UTC and there's not much reason to change that...
  4. Tuco

    Baldur's Gate 3 by Larian Games

    If it all works cleanly, that's great. Personally I view the distinction between BG1, BG2 and ToB so significant that the first goal of uniting them seems counter to the game. Trying to make BG1 areas accessible from ToB seems like it'd risk breaking a game. But if it works, that's really cool...
  5. Tuco

    Baldur's Gate 3 by Larian Games

    Sure, but after going through BG1, BG2 and Throne of Bhaal I imagine just about anyone would want a breather and do some, I don't know, battle royale games before moving on to more isometric crpgs. That trilogy is like, 300 hours of game depending on the difficulty settings and how tryhard you...
  6. Tuco

    Knock at the Cabin (2023)

    I was dragged into seeing this without knowing a single thing about it, even who was in it.
  7. Tuco

    Peter Pan & Wendy (2023)

    Unlike the other Disney first-time live-action adaptations I feel like Peter Pan needs a bigger twist than racial diversity to have a reason to be made. Whatever.
  8. Tuco

    The Astronomy Thread

    What would the advantage of that over UTC be?
  9. Tuco

    Pit bulls - The Breed of Peace

    Sorry
  10. Tuco

    Pit bulls - The Breed of Peace

  11. Tuco

    Pit bulls - The Breed of Peace

    One time (~7 years ago in my previous neighborhood) I was running in a low-activity road in my neighborhood with a jogging stroller with my kid in it and a miniature poodle came blitzing out all crazy like. I picked it up by the collar and gave it to the owner who was upset I grabbed their...
  12. Tuco

    Pit bulls - The Breed of Peace

    My neighborhood has had an upward trend of people installing electric fences for their pets (fences are disallowed in the HOA) which I think is great. One of the houses on my normal family-walk route has an middle-aged golden retriever that's pretty chill and another has a younger german...
  13. Tuco

    Pit bulls - The Breed of Peace

    Any animal suitable as a family pet in a suburban neighborhood.
  14. Tuco

    Pit bulls - The Breed of Peace

    It's trolling and it's all the same murder beast to me. I'm sure someone who thinks pitbulls make good pets would make whatever arguments are here about the distinction. Are Pit Bulls And Staffies the Same? | Dog Breeds FAQ
  15. Tuco

    Pit bulls - The Breed of Peace

    I hope that part of that Dept's training they go ham on some 2x4 framed training houses with typical doorways and probably not much else. Really all I'm trying to say in this convo is that it's typical for 3 able bodied men with weapons to be unable to control a pitbull. The best they could do...
  16. Tuco

    Pit bulls - The Breed of Peace

    I'm getting paid 1k plat per post to convince nerds that if a pitbull wants them dead, there's probably not much they can do to stop it.
  17. Tuco

    Pit bulls - The Breed of Peace

    You should give firemen classes on how to swing fireman pickaxes.
  18. Tuco

    The Astronomy Thread

    What this article doesn't say is what the different agencies use that isn't UTC. Describing "moon time" as a time zone is misleading because it's not about what time moon farmers should wake up to milk their moon cows. Instead the problem is about relativistic time dilation. It's a mess but for...
  19. Tuco

    Pit bulls - The Breed of Peace

    People watching pitbull attacks and talking about what they'd do
  20. Tuco

    Pit bulls - The Breed of Peace

    You think he held back?
  21. Tuco

    Pit bulls - The Breed of Peace

    That's a good question. I'd say no. A family looking to protect what they have might enjoy having their own monster, so that's good for them against other humans. The roving bands of ownerless-pitbulls would basically be apex predators in most suburbia areas. Any benefit of pitbull on mushroom...
  22. Tuco

    Pit bulls - The Breed of Peace

    No but I did laugh at it. I feel like both breeds are energetic and good-natured and merely unlikely to turn into elderly-eating, fireman-fighting deathbeasts. Watching a pitbull shrug off a full power pick-axe swing from a trained firefighter really crystallizes how fucked you probably are if...
  23. Tuco

    Pit bulls - The Breed of Peace

    https://www.cbsnews.com/news/san-antonio-dog-attack-man-killed-three-injured/ Staffordshire Terriers, not pitbulls. Decolonize your mind.
  24. Tuco

    EQ TLP - Oakwynd (Evolving Ruleset Progression Server)

    It's already happening. The attrition from older people dying in EQ is probably several standard deviations above the mean compared to MMOs. It'll never attract large groups of new, younger players. And it doesn't really have to.
  25. Tuco

    Middle-earth: Shadow of War (Shadow of Mordor Sequel)

    As a layman I agree 100%. The idea of patenting game concepts that are as fundamental as a responsive NPC interaction scheme is crazy.
  26. Tuco

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

    If ChatGPT could be trained to work within the framework of a game system this would be A++. Those quest steps aren't far from the kind of quest trees produced in something like Skyrim's radiant quests. Bethesda Tutorial Radiant Quests - Creation Kit Setting Up Locations for Radiance: Skyrim...
  27. Tuco

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

    What did the robot say that was woke?
  28. Tuco

    Middle-earth: Shadow of War (Shadow of Mordor Sequel)

    Moving my response to the Shadow of War thread. It's funny that you posted that because I just learned that Wonder Woman is finally building on the Nemesis system. https://www.escapistmagazine.com/wonder-woman-is-the-perfect-fit-for-the-nemesis-system/ Also saw this vid linked which is...
  29. Tuco

    Kerbal Space Program 2

    I never got into KSP. Why are they creating KSP2 instead of building on KSP1? Both use Unity, but are there other major limitations to KSP1 that are motivating them to remake instead of improve?
  30. Tuco

    Hogwarts Legacy

    I could see the gameplay being compelling if you're the seeker or one of the beaters responsible for fucking up the seeker. If you're the Keeper or Chaser, you'll just play wizard soccer for a few minutes until the seeker catches the snitch and invalidates everything you've done.
  31. Tuco

    The Astronomy Thread

    Yeah, agreed. I don't know how common it is for high earth orbit satellites to have ellipictal orbits that intersect with Starlink, but if they did that orbital mass could displace into high earth orbit if a starlink keppler syndrome btfo'd anything that descended into LEO with enough velocity...
  32. Tuco

    The Astronomy Thread

    The comforting thing about Starlink satellites is that they have a ~5 year orbital lifespan. So if a massive disaster happened creating a Kessler syndrome that made those low earth orbit altitudes a nightmare, I think ? it'd work itself out in a few years. Then again I don't know what kind of...
  33. Tuco

    LitRPG

    I just finished those two books. I enjoyed them but
  34. Tuco

    Hogwarts Legacy

    This is the right position to take, especially when it looks like big features like Quidditch were planned and then probably booted to DLC. Many gamers are morons who don't understand how a feature can be planned as part of the main game and then bounced out of the release during crunch time...
  35. Tuco

    Hogwarts Legacy

    made with Universal Unreal Engine 4 Unlocker - FRAMED. Screenshot Community and reshade searching "hogwarts" in Hall of Framed gives some cool results too in motion vid from that person
  36. Tuco

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

    It's impossible to say because even if openai published their detailed design it probably wouldn't be up to date. https://lifearchitect.ai/chatgpt/
  37. Tuco

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

    I didn't actually check these answers but ChatGPT appears to have dominated some basic geometry questions. What's funny is that 19.69^3 = 7633.736209
  38. Tuco

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

    Yeah, it's weird that it's able to come up with syntax correct code for fairly difficult questions and not have mathematically coherent answers for basic addition.
  39. Tuco

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

    Sentience is an awkward bar to set for an AI because it's more philosophical than anything grounded in biology, science, physics, math etc. Personally i think most humans have a pretentious view of their own sentience. Like they aren't just a bunch of lizard survival instincts with a thin veneer...