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One area of science that I find fascinating is the creation of mosquito gene bombs https://www.selectscience.net/editorial-articles/genetically-modified-mosquitoes-could-crispr-gene-editing-end-malaria/?artID=58435 tldr: release a genetic disease into a mosquito population that results in...

Yeah but it's not the prize, it's the victory over competition. On a server designed to block that competition you gotta enjoy those small prizes. Oakwynd is a server where you and your buddies form a soccer team and then shoot goals at an empty net with no opposing players. Oakwynd raiding is...

I hold everyone who votes for this by being active on Oakwynd accountable for this dumbification of this great game.

With how the last two years have been I could definitely see them try to come out with a real banger for next year. Or not. Oakwynd could be hitting all the marks they want and that'll be the model they want. Only thing I really want from a TLP is harder rules, so the FTE turning the entire game...

Yeah I was wondering how much the heirloom / character lockouts are diluting the gear pool. Seems like initially it'll be pretty bad, but might clear up when the server matures and anyone who actually plays their 5 alts will be able to rotate gear as they keep them leveled. Joining a luclin...

An interesting point that this show didn't stress but I'm glad they made is that literally the only main chracter with a reliably happy personal life was the family man, Higgins, and his modest family wife. Two mediocre people living in absolute bliss and comfort. Literally every other character...

Just finished season 3. So many shows start out with an interesting premise and devolve into the same tired tropes we've seen many times before. This is a particularly egregious case of it. Of the fans who loved season 1 I wonder how many people wanted them to cut out as much football as...

Thanks. I've been trying refreshing my music library since I got tired of Pandora, Spotify et all giving me the same regurgitated slice of songs. It feels like the best music browsing experience I ever had was some twenty years ago when I was using Direct Connect ++. I could find an album from...

bad. As bad as my mental clarity for giving up on that sentence before fi

I know you're kidding but the foot pedals for fighting games would be tremendously bad. The only games I ever used them was on Guild Wars 2 and Chorus, both of which are button heavy but also rhythmic where a the foot presses are predictable. I use a standing desk so I rarely use the foot pedals.

Interesting quick interview with John Williams on how long it takes him to write small little melodies that form the bedrock of his musical scores. AI music being able to do voice changing or style transfer or generate really complex musical scores seems kinda in line with what we expect, but...

So a week after release how grungy is endgame farming with FTE? How much of a nuisance or exploitable is it for a single group playing on their own? How does conflict between two aggressive groups get managed? Have any exploits come out that allow for near-guaranteed tagging for anyone who...

Dude is doing a soda self found run irl

That's how I perceive it too. If all they did was lower respawn timers of specific expansions it'd be massively popular. 25% respawn times (so, 10 minutes becomes 2.5 minutes) for classic would be great for some zones. 50% would be safer generally.

Would be interesting to introduce massive genetic treatment on a widespread scale, and then jump forward 100 years in the future to see the effect. Ex: something that regulates or even broadly increases genetics for empathy like OXTR ( Oxytocin receptor - Wikipedia ), then seeing what that does...

Interesting reversal there, AI generated art using a painter as manual labor. I wonder how good the robotic painters are. From a cursory search they are trash tier, but I wonder if there's something like a "3d" printer for painting coming out.

But seriously, I love the cacophony of garbage that is EQ in 2023. I box six characters on live and it's a totally unique experience.

It's easy. First, you look up a guide on how to play your class, to find what abilities to use, then because that guide is 5+ years old you have to research what the latest spell names are and what the abilities currently are since they got renamed. Then you use a combination of a few EQ...

Yeah, if Rome was given steam, railroad, metallurgy and other pre/early industrial tech they would subjugate the crap outta everyone for a hundred years. And then what? And what if we give them not only the means to have an industrial revolution, but the information made during the information...

This shit is why I don't read any social media for books. People can't help but spoil book series immediately after introducing someone to it!

A compounding effect is that a rando rogue you give a pity invite to in original EQ is probably too obtuse or ignorant to play a better class, so they aren't the diamond in the rough that makes up for class imbalance with force of will, but a subpar player who chose a subpar class.

I don't know you or Sylas but if someone infantilized me this much I'd be infuriated and massively insulted. He's more than welcome to shitpost and be treated like an adult for doing so.

very surprising. I really enjoyed his work.

How frequently in your personal life are you forced to realize you made a mistake, only to make the same mistake soon after?

In my scenario of hopping back, enacting a change and hopping forward to see how it played out, I think this would be a problem and you'd have to motivate a society to overcome the language/tech barrier to experience the payoff. Jumping forward 10,000 years only to find out that Augustus was...

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...

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...

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.

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...

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...

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.

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.

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

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...

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

Did you validate the questions / solutions?

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.

Coldest take this side of Snow Mountain Shrine.