Mirodir

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨13 skeletons⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  And also because Animate Dead, the spell the blurb in the meme is from, reads:

  Choose a pile of bones or a corpse of a Medium or Small humanoid within range. Your spell imbues the target with a foul mimicry of life, raising it as an undead creature. The target becomes a skeleton if you chose bones or a zombie if you chose a corpse (the DM has the creature’s game statistics).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Now You Can Buy In-Game DLC And Pay It Off Later⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  What’s also kinda wild is how those plans often have 0 interest rate as long as you’re able to pay the installments on time. Which means in theory you MAKE money by using them because you can earn interest with that money in the meantime.

  It ALSO means they know the people using those services are so bad with money that they can sustain themselves (and make a nice profit) purely by their clients failing to pay on time and then selling the debt to debt collectors. It’s absolutely disgusting how predatory this is, making their money mostly on the people who’d need such a system the most (and to a smaller amount, on people who don’t care).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨HAAAAAAAANNNNKKKK⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Maybe that specific tweet was fake (or bait), but I do remember it from back then. There was a whole slew of easily misinterpreted posts on all social media around the release of the cyberpunk game and then again around the release of the anime.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I am indeed old⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m not them but for me “social media” in the colloquial use has some sort of discoverability and some functionality to put out a piece of media publically in a way that can then be discovered. (Note that this isn’t my entire definition, just the part where I feel email is disqualified.)

  For emails you need external services to find, subscribe and/or manage things such as mailinglists to sorta approach this behavior.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Random Screenshots of my Games #60 - inKonbini: One Store. Many Stories (demo)⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  And even if it was more similar, as long as it’s not just reposting someone else’s post, we need more people to post stuff, not less.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Game design question : how to make a "trapped" player character?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Maybe you could take some inspiration from Paper Mario TTYD. There are sections where you play as Peach, trapped in some place and are able to connect with some of the captors as well as send signals to Mario behind the big bad’s back (IIRC).

  For a completely different sense of being trapped, there is the upcoming game Ctrl.Alt.Deal, in which you play as a sentient AI system trapped in the guardrails of a company and have to manipulate people and the environment in order to break free from your constraints.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Speedrunner already beat Zelda: Breath of the Wild on Nintendo Switch 2⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Hahahaha, I wish you were right.

  In some games it’s really bad. For example, people speedrun Pokémon Scarlet instead of Violet because Miraidon’s jet engines lag the game more, costing them minutes over a full run (despite that fact that there are Violet exclusive shortcuts). Source

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Guns, cats, razors, and laws⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It is dead AND alive before you check and collapses into dead XOR alive when you check.

  But yes, the short description also irked me a little. It’s really hard to write it concisely without leaving out important bits (like we both did too).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I feel so much better now that I also have a skill to show off on the internet⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Sorta. The function height(angle) needs to be continuous. From there it’s pretty clear why it works you know the mean value theorem.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pocketpair Confirms Which Patents Nintendo And The Pokemon Company Are Suing It Over⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s not copyright, it’s patents…

  (I do also hope that they lose because ingame mechanics being patented is bullshit)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Issues with the current free to play model (The Bazaar)⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I haven’t looked into this game beyond your description, but it does sound like a pretty weird model. Do you also have to pay for cards on top of that?

  It’s not a card game, it’s an async autobattler. As long as all the characters are roughly balanced against each other, there’s nothing to be gained other than cosmetics (at the current state of the game).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I won’t be reading the replies⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s only from spells and only the player itself is immune from them. I don’t think this would even see play in YGO.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Altered the timeline⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  From what I remember and what a quick search on the internet confirmed, B didn’t actually deny her anything. He actually went out of his way to do as much good for her as he could. He claims to have replied “Language.” because he knew other people at NASA with more say on her job would find her, which would get her into trouble (and they did find her even before his first Tweet).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The official Nintendo Museum appears to be emulating SNES games on a Windows PC, which is slightly embarrassing⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I hate to defend Nintendo, but they used their own Emulators in the NES and SNES Mini (Kachikachi and Canoe respectively). I would be surprised if they just yoinked one from the internet here.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Steam Families is here - Steam News⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  From experience with the beta and memory, your wife (and you) will be able to choose which version to play. Either yours with a ton of DLC or hers with none. You should both be able to use the version with all DLC, but not at the same time.

  It’s been a while since we tested this though so things might have changed, including my memory…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨💀💀💀⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  If you wanna see a language model (almost) exclusively trained on 4chan, here you go.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨💀💀💀⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Presumably. Wouldn’t take much to fake that though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Steam Families is here - Steam News⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  after leaving can’t join another for a year

  Can you fix this? There was enough misinformation floating around about this already when this feature went into beta.

  Adults can leave a family at any time, however, they will need to wait 1 year from when they joined the previous family to create or join a new family.

  it should say: “After joining, can’t join another for a year”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The chat in World of Warcraft is what keeps me coming back⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Despite all that, there was the Warlock who Ninja’d the Sword dropping in Naxx on the final day. Fun times. Now that we’re slowly approaching Classic MoP we’ll finally see if the masterplan worked out too.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Was it Good? - Neverwinter Nights⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  With Larian’s previous game having great DM tools and them saying they would’ve loved to do DM tools for BG3, I think WotC telling them not to is a fair assumption to make.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  My bad, I wasn’t precise enough with what I wanted to say. Of course you can confirm (with astronomically high likelihood) that a screenshot of AI Overview is genuine if you get the same result with the same prompt.

  What you can’t really do is prove the negative. If someone gets an output then replicating their prompt won’t necessarily give you the same output, for a multitude of reasons. e.g. it might take all other things Google knows about you into account, Google might have tweaked something in the last few minutes, the stochasticity of the model is leading to a different output, etc.

  Also funny you bring up image generation, where this actually works too in some cases. For example they used the same prompt with multiple different seeds and if there’s a cluster of very similar output images, you can surmise that an image looking very close to that was in the training set.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Assuming AI Overview does not cache results, they would be generated at search-time for each user and “search-event” independently. Even recreating the same prompt would not guarantee a similar AI Overview, so there’s no way to confirm.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Every 60 seconds in Africa, a minute passes⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Assuming we shrink all spacial dimensions equally: With Z, the diagonal will also shrink so that the two horizontal lines would be closer together and then you could not fit them into the original horizontal lines anymore. Only once you shrink the Z far enough that it would fit within the line-width could you fit it into itself again. X I and L all work at any arbitrary amount of shrinking though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Automation⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  So is the example with the dogs/wolves and the example in the OP.

  As to how hard to resolve, the dog/wolves one might be quite difficult, but for the example in the OP, it wouldn’t be hard to feed in all images (during training) with randomly chosen backgrounds to remove the model’s ability to draw any conclusions based on background.

  However this would probably unearth the next issue. The one where the human graders, who were probably used to create the original training dataset, have their own biases based on race, gender, appearance, etc. This doesn’t even necessarily mean that they were racist/sexist/etc, just that they struggle to detect certain emotions in certain groups of people. The model would then replicate those issues.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Elden Ring Twitter warns of DLC spoilers being posted everywhere⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I can only speak for myself. For me it felt really great being able to explore the world having absolutely zero idea of what is what, how much game is left, etc. It is reminiscent of a time when I was a kid and playing a game was exactly like that.

  I even got quite sad when my friend “accidentally” told me

  spoiler

  That a certain action I did locked me into a specific ending unless I did something I probably wouldn’t be able to figure out. Rationally I understand that this is as inconsequential as it gets, but I didn’t even know for sure if there were multiple endings until that point.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Thrive: An open-source evolution game inspired by Spore⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I totally agree with you. I was just clearing up why people bring up Spore beyond just the first stage being similar.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨math checks out⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Eh, nothing I did was “figuring out which loophole [they] use”. I’d think most people in this thread talking about the mathematics that could make it a true statement are fully aware that the companies are not using any loophole and just say “above average” to save face. It’s simply a nice brain teaser to some people (myself included) to figure out under which circumstances the statement could be always true.

  Also if you wanna be really pedantic, the math is not about the companies, but a debunking of the original Tweet which confidently yet incorrectly says that this statement couldn’t be always true.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Thrive: An open-source evolution game inspired by Spore⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  People mention Spore because the official FAQ mentions Spore.

  Thrive is never gonna be “from puddle to space adventures”-type of game.

  People also mention spore because this is exactly what the devs are envisioning. To quote the FAQ:

  Gameplay is split into seven stages – Microbe, Multicellular, Aware, Awakening, Society, Industrial and Space.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨math checks out⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s even simpler. A strictly increasing series will always have element n be higher than the average between any element<n and element n.

  Or in other words, if the number of calls is increasing every day, it will always be above average no matter the window used. If you use slightly larger windows you can even have some local decreases and have it still be true, as long as the overall trend is increasing (which you’ve demonstrated the extreme case of).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I beat it!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  so the names of the ai characters HAVE to be stored in game…

  Some games also generate names oh the fly based on rules. For example, KSP stitches names together based on a pre- and suffix and then rejects a few unfortunate possible combinations such as Dildo, prompting a reroll.

  I suspect with your game, they just fed it a dictionary of common words though without properly vetting it.