I think even at the time the consensus was that the poster was right, and closing the sub was a shitty joke that took away an outlet a lot of people relied on. But now the sub is long gone, the people who ran the sub are long gone, and we’re on like ten degrees of ship of theseus shit by now and calling out “closing the site as a joke wasn’t ok” every time there’s scheduled or unscheduled downtime for whatever reason is divorced from its original intent and is now just a meme form of complaining about downtime. I feel like people say it because it’s the rote thing you say after downtime, like cursing someone’s ancestors when they sneeze.

(if I could only figure out the fucking tech tree!)

There’s a button that shows it, otherwise most of the resource ones are just like a linear find raw resource -> process raw resource (-> process refined resource) path, although the nuclear one is longer and weirder because you have to research the concept of radioactive stuff, then survey for uranium, then learn how to oxidize uranium, then learn how to enrich that, and then learn how to make fuel rods from that, and only then can you research how to make nuclear power plants although honestly just selling the fuel rods is probably better because they’re absurdly valuable on their own to the point that I think they may actually be more valuable than the power they can generate.

Thanks.

it’s at 121 chapters

Would you happen to know where I can find the latest ones? I only managed to find up through 113 and burned through them in just over a day.

Good (in no particular order):

• Elden Ring
• Cyberpunk 2077
• GTA V

Slop:

• FO4
• FO76

Trash tier:

• Starfield
• Anything from Ubisoft or Nintendo

N/A:

• Everything else

The big issue with all these data-poisoning attempts is that they’re all just introducing noise via visible watermarking in order to try to introduce noise back into what are effectively extremely aggressive de-noising algorithms to try to associate training keywords with destructive noise. In practice, their result has been to either improve the quality of models trained on a dataset containing some poisoned images because for some reason adding more noise to the inscrutable anti-noise black box machine makes it work better, or to just be completely wiped out with a single low de-noise pass to clean the poisoned images.

Like literally within hours of the poisoning models being made public preliminary hobbyist testing was finding that they didn’t really do what they were claiming (they make highly visible, distracting watermarks all over the image and they don’t bother training algorithms as much as claimed or possibly even at all) and could be trivially countered as well.

I watched the first third or so before getting distracted and losing where I was in it. Also watched Yurikuma Arashi from the same director which was even more impenetrable and “everything is stilted symbolism, nothing is literal.”

8 novels, 6 of which have been translated so far, with a 12 episode anime

finished stories

Lmao I forgot all about that, yeah that was weird.

I’ve read the novels that covered the initial Rae/Claire story and it’s 100% not bait, and I think the story itself is good even though its protagonist is sort of a piece of shit.

I started reading the first novel of the second major arc, but didn’t get too far before getting distracted with something else, and it’s on my old computer so I haven’t picked it up again.

It would have been better if it staggered along, getting increasingly wrecked by the slightly uneven terrain and small arms fire it was taking, then collapsed onto the barrier frying itself but overloading the similarly overengineered Enclave systems.

Also if there was a character who literally looked into the camera and said something to the effect of “lmao, Liberty Prime was built by the Enclave pre-war and only ever saw action against the successors of the very people who built it in the first place.”

Red corn syrup. In some places it’s apparently a tomato puree with vinegar or something? But in the US it’s just corn syrup and food coloring.

It’s a form of productive capital, and its ethicality depends entirely on the conditions and reasons for its use, same as any other. Renting time on a proprietary model is unethical, because that represents a modern enclosure of the cultural commons. Capital replacing skilled workers with generative slop is unethical, because it’s yet another step in automating away productive workers with inferior machines.

Hobbyists and yeoman artists using non-proprietary local models to amplify their own labor is ethical, because that’s just a worker using a tool to be able to accomplish more, while existing as much as possible outside of the cultural enclosure techbros are trying to make.

The question of whether training data has to be properly licensed from someone who claims the rights to do so is a red herring meant to favor huge corporations that either own massive amounts of IP (like Disney and other media companies) or which claim licensing rights over massive amounts of user-provided IP (like , imgur, instagram, etc) and who can negotiate licensing fees out of the big tech companies like what got from google. The property angle will never come out in favor of small yeoman artists and their meager holdings any more than property rights came out in favor of yeoman farmers over huge agricorps, and thus should be disregarded.

That said, the hobbyist AI community is at least 95% irredeemable and better off in , from the grifters, to the nazis, to the nonces, to the people whose only crime is just being too cringe.

I felt like armor was crutch anyway

It definitely is, but I think it’s a good one for the tutorial stretch while people are learning how their character and the monsters move, and since it’s a flat boost it becomes less and less impactful as the story goes on, giving a smoother learning curve for new players. By the time someone gets into the meat of high rank if they’re not moving right they’re going to get fucked up even in defender gear, but at the same time in high rank they get to branch out and do basic buildcrafting with armor skills so there’s an active incentive not to use it then as well.

If you have Iceborne too, people are going to say to not use the mid tier armor it starts you with as a boost, but I strongly disagree with that. It’s really not worth grinding the easy mode tutorial monsters a bunch to iteratively grind out trash gear that doesn’t even have skills on it that becomes literal trash as soon as you hit the halfway mark of the base game’s base story, because you’re going to then go and grind out the mid tier version of that anyways and then you’ll be grinding it yet again when you get to Iceborne.

At least weapons you upgrade along trees so you’ll keep upgrading them and making more trash tier weapons to upgrade even into the late game, so make and play with those.

The defender armor and non-defender weapon is probably the ideal way of learning in the tutorial stretch of the game that’s introducing the maps and the more common monster types: you can take hits so you can keep trying again without restarting, and you’re doing less damage so you have longer to focus on learning the movesets of both the monsters and your own weapons.

I just track and kill monsters. Is that it?

Yeah, the genre is basically like if soulsborne games were all bosses, all the time (despite predating soulsborne as a genre), with some fighting game combo systems mixed in to give you more things to pick up and learn to use. Seems like people either really like that gameloop or they bounce off it hard, with no in between.

The bottom center one does have a very obviously gay couple in the main cast, but they’re basically background characters and their exact relationship is never mentioned, they just live together, are literally never apart, interact with one another in a way that’s entirely distinct from how they interact with any of their friends, and quietly comfort one another with very non-friend-like embraces:

But they’re not the focus of the show, the absolute trainwrecks Nina and Momoka (the two in the picture in the meme) are and despite people memeing them as a couple they have terrible chemistry and seem to barely interact directly with one another past the first few episodes, like they’re friends but not even particularly close friends.

It’s not particularly good overall and I wouldn’t recommend it. I wrote a somewhat spoilery comparison between it and Jellyfish yesterday since they’re rather similar shows to the point of more or less having literally the exact same ending.

Look, the car may or may not perform basic car related functions, who can say. When you’re moving fast and breaking things you can’t be concerned with theoretical problems like the some of the very first functionalities ever introduced to cars, or whether or not the car will decide to literally move fast and break things on its own.

Someone showed him an industry ad video for the sort of big sensor array things they install in some border checkpoints and he couldn’t comprehend any of it apart from seeing a big thing moving and hearing someone claim it helps find hidden drug compartments.

How does this work? Where am I getting the initial funding? Who am I? Who authorised this? What is this madness?

In the second campaign, the backstory is that you’re basically supposed to be an eastern european country that was colonized by a western power that built some infrastructure to aid in resource extraction, except you revolted against them, gained autonomy, and established a socialist state of sorts, with your objective being to attain autarky and modernize the scattered villages throughout the country.

So there at least, I’d guess the $2,000,000 balance is from seizing the US-backed dictator’s wealth, and the 10,000,000 rubles you start with were either the result of selling captured western equipment to the Soviets or a sort of hands-off foreign aid grant from alternate timeline more-liberal-brained Khrushchev.

Well, the workers aren’t going to go wageless/salariless regardless of whether or not they are working on the project, and I don’t think that there even were contract workers in the USSR.

This made me think of two things, one related to the game and one not. The first is that nothing domestically involves currency that you deal with, all the money is foreign currency used for trade; that means that your internal economy is running purely off some kind of labor voucher system and abstracting away both the wages workers earn and what they spend on goods and services as an overall balanced and isolated system.

The second is that AFAIK starting under Khrushchev (IIRC) there was a tacit acceptance of a so-called “second economy” in the USSR, which involved comparatively small scale private exchange for crops grown in personal plots, craft goods, and contract services like repairwork that existed outside the centrally planned institutions.

Tangentially, that’s making me think about the centralized state-run farm equipment depots in the game, and how one of Khrushchev’s more notably hair-brained and disastrous reforms was privatizing that sort of thing so that farmers had to own and maintain their own tractors, which made maintaining them way more expensive and reduced overall agricultural efficiency since “idk lmao everyone do it for themselves” is much worse than having centralized depots staffed by mechanics whose whole thing is maintaining them and who have all the tools and materials on hand to do so in one place. Also that contemporaneous to that in China, farm machinery was rare and the rural communes weren’t really communes yet, so the farmers who’d managed to get access to tractors and the like quickly turned around and became private contractors who’d go and use the tractors on other farmers’ fields for compensation and within just a couple of years of that being the status quo it was already creating a problematic wealth inequality between farmers in general and the sort of contractor tractor-kulaks that had to be addressed by the state.