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  1. Ukerric

    Baldur's Gate 3 by Larian Games

    Same. I will "early acess" and won't click "install" until launch day.
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    Will Wight

    Also, Waybound (Cradle 12) is on June 6th.
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    Everquest Confessions

    Then later, you had to re-enable them so you could use your mount (and med on it).
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    AI: The Rise of the Machines... Or Just a Lot of Overhyped Chatbots?

    It's not databases. It's neural architectures. Basically, ChatGPT is a "brain" that is pared down to language centers and memory. That's why it fails badly when you stray from chatting and try to have it think. It does not think, it talks. That's all it can do. ChatGPT is a politician: it's...
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    The Paranormal, UFO's, and Mysteries of the Unknown

    There is also the absolutely obscenely racist fact that the typical hierarchy of IQ is: Africans (ancestral population) -> Europeans -> Asians, and both Europeans and Asians still have Neanderthal genes (about 1%) since those guys covered the entire Eurasia. Denisovan genes are only prevalent in...
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    AI: The Rise of the Machines... Or Just a Lot of Overhyped Chatbots?

    Isn't there already an (AI-powered) scoring test that gives you the likelihood that text was generated by AI vs a person?
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    MTG thread

    Apparently, it's a lot of hard work to implement a set in Arena. Since their goal is mostly the standard format (which forces players to constantly churn new sets, hence buy packs for a lot of them), implementing old sets isn't considered worth it. There is still the issue of art licensing too...
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    MTG thread

    Put ABU on Arena, watch heads explode.
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    AI: The Rise of the Machines... Or Just a Lot of Overhyped Chatbots?

    The big problem with the way the GPT model works is that there is no discrete way to find "the sources" used. Because there is no specific source, everything that was in the dataset ends up having an impact on the final result. Case in point: They trained a GPT model on the full medical corpus...
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    Web Serials

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    Interesting, Non Political News

    The road was straight before:
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    The D&D thread

    "You first."
  13. Ukerric

    The Paranormal, UFO's, and Mysteries of the Unknown

    That's another possible. Quern-stones were mostly for making primitive flour. But the traces of fire on it might be that too...
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    The Paranormal, UFO's, and Mysteries of the Unknown

    Looks like some form of Quern-stones. Those were stones used for grinding grain. But the multiple holes seem weird.
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    AI: The Rise of the Machines... Or Just a Lot of Overhyped Chatbots?

    With M3GAN, dead simple seems correct.
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    AI: The Rise of the Machines... Or Just a Lot of Overhyped Chatbots?

    And why Microsoft is already investing bajillions in it. Bing with AI = 5% market share for Google.
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    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    Don't worry, they'll play Tencent's copy of WoW: Tarisland *EDIT: Drat, sniped*
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    AI: The Rise of the Machines... Or Just a Lot of Overhyped Chatbots?

    There's a scene in a novel like that. The main character is playing a full immersion VR Soccer game, and someone absolutely needs to talk to him, so they hack into his game and plop an avatar down in the middle of the field. All the AI bot players can't figure out what is the proper reaction to...
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    General Gaming News and Discussion

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

    Paraphrasers are AI tools too. I wouldn't bet against AI detectors (who are AI themselves, the traitors!) being unable to detect paraphrasers. The "humanness score" tool, notably, might be able to detect human written text, rather than specific AI text.
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    LitRPG

    With the first 74 chapters now on Amazon after editing book 1, there are still 9714 pages, up to the last chapter 929 on RR. The pacing is still slow, but it's way better than what I remember being on RR.
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    The D&D thread

    Also, D&D is about 15-20% of WotC's earnings, if I remember right.
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    LitRPG

    Different series. It's an AI who opens a portal to a world which runs under RPG rules, because of nostalgia as it was the constant companion of his owner's son in those VRMMO. Lands near Byzantium with a load of nanotech and a bioengineered body, proceeds to exploit the hell out of the System...
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    LitRPG

    Recent top notch recommendations: Divine Apostasy series, by A. F. Kay (yes) The Great Core's Paradox I & II, by Zendran (snek litrpg) Second tier recommendations: Azarinth Healer, by Rhaegar (much edited/rewritten version from the RR one, which is actually finished) Wake of the Ravager, by...
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    LitRPG

    That third book was when the author had IRL problems and decided he needed to wrap up the story because he knew he would never finish it.
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    LitRPG

    So, Dungeon Crawler Carl, without the comedy.
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    Dall-E AI image generator

    Stable Diffusion at work: "Take those World of Warcraft screenshots, and do it in the style of a B-movie of the 80s": (and you know what? It looks way better than we got)
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    The Astronomy Thread

    That was the Falcon 1 (only 1 engine) at the time, launching from Kwajalein where they had gotten a launchpad. The first three were failures, and the fourth (in Sep. 2008) finally managed to reach orbit and deliver its payload.
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    The Astronomy Thread

    In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice, there is. SpaceX needed three launches before they finally mastered engineering of their rockets.
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    Roguelike... City Builder (Against the Storm)

    That seems to be a perennial topic on reddit. You can tell the devs know the reward/difficulty is not good for small glades because they did attempt to fix this with the camp2 upgrade, where every resource in a small glade is always harvestable (due to small camps), unlike dangerous glades...
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    What book would you like to see adapted to Movies or TV?

    You'd have to dial down Chalker's fetishes there, but hell yea. Use that $1B budget!
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    Roguelike... City Builder (Against the Storm)

    Ah. Well, since you get small camps (and those are small nodes), it only takes wood to build one, and you can recover the gears afterward if you recycle the camp. But yes, that's a bit weird. I wouldn't say annoying, but definitively on the weirder side of starts.
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    Roguelike... City Builder (Against the Storm)

    That's a good start. Farms/Plantations are relocatable, so you can move them to cover the entire field when you've cleared the two nodes, meanwhile you've got the other farm field (once its trees are cleared). And humans to farm and I see beavers to chop. Your early food is covered, provided you...
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    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    There is never a major patch while they're pumping out and "testing" the expansion. At best, you get a feb/march patch in 2024, and that's it.
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    The Astronomy Thread

    In the 20th century, prior to antibiotics, you had 800 people per 100k dying of diseases every year, and nobody would shut the entire economy to fight epidemics.
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    General Gaming News and Discussion

    I have no problems with making digital CCGs illegal (note that none of the CCG in existence are TCG - there is no trading whatsoever going on in those games, unlike real TCGs). I also strongly object to digital objects with real-world value. You can scamper back into NFT world for all I care...
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    General Gaming News and Discussion

    Rule 34. If it exists, there's porn of it. And the slime is presumably... in the active position (tentacle porn is a thing, remember).
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    Science!! Fucking magnets, how do they work?

    I remember one article where someone said "you need a x10 ratio - of energy produced to used - to get into the commercially viable range. Under that, it's nifty physics lab stuff."