that song always did have some weird lyrics nice parody
Anno
don't you remember we built this city
S C
I found an item in qud I hadn't seen before earlier It's a bracelet that, when activated, projects an aura of "nullification" Nullification in qud is, as I understand it, effectively a "no extra effects for you" type debuff If your armor has +1 to STR, nullification makes it just armor, no STR for you But I think if that STR comes from powering the armor, it remains, cause that's not an inherent like, enchantment type thing Immediately as I put it on, the game went "you are carrying too much to move!" So I look through the log like "what the shit did I pick up just now?" I didn't pick a fucking thing up, I just happen to have 3 negative weight orbs in my inventory, for a total of -30 weight The nullification turned them off, so now I just had my full weight without the -30
I honestly thought it wouldn't do that, because I thought the negative weight was just like, what those cubes weigh, but I guess it's not Orbs, not cubes, but whatever
Anyway, qud is real fun with stuff like this The sheer amount of items is utterly insane, I've yet to have a run where I didn't find something new I hadn't seen before, that's actually meaningfully unique, rather than just like "it's a sword, but this one's made from glass!" Like last run I found a backpack that gave me dr octopus arms
Also here's an interesting question When a group of people die and it's ruled a murder-suicide, is there like, a legal process akin to a trial for that, or is it simply declared by the police and that's how it is now? Like do you get a trial of sorts if you're the accused murderer in those cases?
Mahou Shoujo Marsh-chan
The coroner does an investigation into the facts, but there's no need for a trial because there isn't a penalty to be imposed by the Court.
S C
oh, that makes sense I guess Still kinda feels like someone should be able to argue your case for the sake of your reputation after your passing though But at the same time, I mean, there's a limit to just how much stuff you can really set down as standard procedure before everything hits a gridlock and more important stuff ends up getting sidelined
Like ideally, they shouldn't be announcing you as The one Who Did The Murders if you haven't had something resembling a court case, but at the same time it's a bit difficult to really do that when everyone directly involved in the crime are uh, no longer present, be they victim or perpetrator
Mahou Shoujo Marsh-chan
Maybe so But that's more a problem with reporting and the media than the investigation process.
>>1079756 also yeah, qud is like, extremely true to tradition roguelike I mean there are a few minor differences, but that's mostly just like, there are a few areas that are hand crafted, and there is a quest that stays the same for every playthrough that serves as the main quest (as well as some sidequests) But most of it is different every time There are sidequests you can get from village elders, and those are gonna be randomized, like they might task you with anything from retrieving an item from someone who stole it, to smoking out of a sacred hookah somewhere The layouts of everything but a few select locations is randomized Even the actual cure for various afflictions is a roulette, though they have a few predefined rules, so you have to figure it out through trial and error or reading a particular book you can get... somewhere or other Most the books are just jumbled words, too lmao A LOT of RNG goes into any given playthrough
S C
the afflictions are some insane shit too, though You've got the most harmless types, that are just like "hey your body part is replaced by this now, you can't wear anything there, but there are some upsides" like you can get a fungal colony growing on your hands or back or something, which has some defensive stats, reduces certain types of damage, and even generates some wax for you to use for whatever (pro tip: avoid fire at all costs because the wax burns like crazy) And then you've got the more nasty stuff such as "you have contracted Fuck You. You no longer have a tongue. Unless you fix this and regrow it, or have telepathy, you're shit outta luck and unable to progress any quests ever"
Samu /人◕ ‿‿ ◕人\
your son has contracted dysentery
i like the complexity I feel like a lot of games that have graphics are very flat, like, theres some land and platforms, and there's some items, and the usual HP battle system, and you can walk around
but not many are like nethack where you can put a container inside a container inside a container or whatever, there's little nesting always felt like there was more that could be done with computer and // computer graphics + depth, but most games don't go that far
Samu /人◕ ‿‿ ◕人\
i guess the complexity that most games bring these days is through having lots of collectible items and systems that interact with each other, rather than spatial depth
Marsh shitposting on the go via Telephone
>>1079761 Sure Could be fun Get caught up in that crowd atmosphere
S C
I mean, there is definitely a bit of a tradeoff between complexity and graphical detail Something like qud or dorfs, you can have a LOT of complexity mechanically, because you don't have to render too much, but if you want it to look like GTA5, you're gonna end up with a real wonky looking game if you have a lot of systems, or you're going to spend enormous amounts of time and resources on animations and modelling work for the stuff that goes into it For dorf and qud, it's just a set of numbers, rules, and a simple texture (or literally just dedicating a single ascii character to the thing )
Samu /人◕ ‿‿ ◕人\
yeah exactly if you play any AAA game its very much like, here's the level, break these crates, this scenery is static, you can't do anything but shoot and loot
Samu /人◕ ‿‿ ◕人\
minecraft was great for this reason lots of depth there hmm what else I really just feel like from a software perspective there's so much potential in highly intricate dynamic worlds that most games don't exploit I always liked games like A Link To The Past or The Minish Cap where there are these parallel spatial dimensions that are connected
Samu /人◕ ‿‿ ◕人\
overwatch is still interesting to me just because there are so many different ways to move, even if 50% of the time i just play rein lots of different systems and ways to affect the environment with shields and CC but the gameplay does get stale after a while
S C
another really neat part about qud is it's like, really big into caves it's called caves of qud, after all And where most games will just have a buncha caves you can explore with entrances, qud actually has an item you can find (rare) or craft (recipe even rarer) this item will dig a staircase 20 z levels down from wherever you're standing, and you can explore areas that otherwise might not have any real way to enter them, or would take you in a really long and convoluted up and down path across the map as you look for the path to that area
I managed to find the recipe in the shop, so now I'm harvesting EXP and valuable artifacts, as well as just plain valuables, and boy it's ramping my powerlevel up big time
S C
I mean the entrances from the topsoil to the caves are still around, scattered about, but this item lets you kinda sequence break a few things lmao Like I'm pretty sure I can just outright enter this one stronghold type place that I'm supposed to do a quest to be granted entry to, cause it really is just 5 z levels down from the top soil, and I know where it is >>1079774 Well both because I've been there before, it's part of the main quest, and also I've been at the gates of it to get the quest already in this playthrough Some spots like this one are always in the exact same location, and the layout is always the same
The place I'm supposed to go, I could similarly sequence break with this, cause getting down there is a pain in the fucking ass through normal means, but since it too is only like 5 levels down, and the location is static, I could legit just dig down to the thing I'm supposed to get Which I might end up doing, that place is where you're likely to get the No More Tongue Disease, and I didn't spec into regeneration so it'd be a fucking pain to deal with that Might still end up contracting the disease either way, but at least I can minimize my risks
Samu /人◕ ‿‿ ◕人\
yeah sequence breaks are nice that sounds pretty neato how do you know that they're down there?
Samu /人◕ ‿‿ ◕人\
oh yeah duh its a roguelike it's all about repetition
S C
also there is a slight possibility the guys in that stronghold will be real upset with me making a marble staircase straight into their living room lmao
Samu /人◕ ‿‿ ◕人\
kinda cool that Valve is bringing back TF2 i wonder how playable it will be there's a game with lots of hidey holes and nooks and the possibility of chillin in da base with da engies
Samu /人◕ ‿‿ ◕人\
>>1079776 how do you make a staircase? is it a spell
S C
It's just the item that bores down into the earth It automatically makes a staircase for you until it hits 20 levels down it's a heavy fucker, and super rare, but actually crafting it is relatively cheap in that it uses mostly common components Real good for getting stuff you're not REALLY supposed to have yet, just cause it takes a lot of time and annoyance to reach much beyond 15 levels down through normal exploration
Well the exact make isn't specified or anything, but the texture is pure white, so I like to imagine it's marble
Also everything in qud is part of one faction or another Not even like political factions, just like birds? that's a faction mammals with wings? different faction, may or may not like the birds shellfish? bet your ass they're a faction of course there are a few typical faction-factions, too, but it's not like any of them are outright political, they're just "this group of people" like the villagers of a particular village, that sorta thing But what makes that exciting is you can gain or lose favor with factions if you kill a notable character their own faction will hate you of course, big debuff But others might have kinda thought that guy sucked ass, and be like "you're actually pretty cool for pouring lava on that asshole" and other again might have actually liked him despite not being in the same faction That's all info you can see before you decide to fight them, so it's not like it just randomly fucks you But if your relations with their faction is bad enough, they're gonna fight you whether you wanna or not, and you're just gonna have to run away if they're liked by someone you wanna be friends with
Samu /人◕ ‿‿ ◕人\
i like that it makes a marble staircase how elegant
Marsh shitposting on the go via Telephone
Fuckin dentist Telling me to floss more
Samu /人◕ ‿‿ ◕人\
reminds me of the Spheres idea from dwarf fortress abstract cognition yo
S C
the game really is kinda designed to be broken in a multitude of ways though it's permadeath, but you can get a psychic mutation that lets you testrun x amount of turns in advance, starts at 16 when base level basically, if you don't like what happened in those turns, you can go back if you liked it, you can stay in that future that combined with some other stuff that has RNG can let you ascend to fucking godhood, cause there are items for duping stuff, there are items for duping NPCs (with their inventory. yes, you can indeed print the NPC cloning item and thus any item you want this way), as well as an item for making NPCs fall in love with you and be a companion for a set amount of turns, a really high amount, as well as give you anything you request from their inventory for free Early on in this playthrough, I came across a jeweler in the caves, so I slammed the love potion in his thigh and he just gave me all his valuables, then fought for me
They turn hostile once it wears off though, so it's worth being a bit careful, but the timer on it is real fuckin' long, and until it wears off you have a perfectly loyal fighter by your side >>1079785 Naw, that's not implemented I did end up killing him though cause it ran out when I wasn't expecting it to
But like You can combine these by cloning a merchant after giving them tonnes of valuables and other stuff you want, as well as at least one cloning solution, and then you can just go buck wild with it
And I CAN CRAFT THE LOVE POTION I got the recipe as a levelup reward the ingredients are rare, but technically I only need a few to get the ball rolling initially, and then it's smooth sailing
Samu /人◕ ‿‿ ◕人\
oh yeah that's the other thing i was complaining about wrt games with flat mechanics i want really intricate magic systems beyond mana -> DPS or CC or whatever
Samu /人◕ ‿‿ ◕人\
but did you bang the jeweler tho
Anno
sc play trails in the sky
S C
All I'm really looking for right now in this playthrough is valuables, obviously, can't ever have too much money And also a recipe for a mod that lets me hook items that use power up to myself, since I generate electricity in my own body due to mutations Once I get that, combine it with some real strong stuff that uses power, I'm gonna be a god
There's an item that drains power like crazy, but puts a forcefield around you that nothing can penetrate from the outside Using batteries on it is pretty shitty cause it really chunks through them, but I generate more power than it uses already, I just need to get one and make it hook into my godzilla-gland >>1079786 Also I have not heard of this game I think
Samu /人◕ ‿‿ ◕人\
okay fine guess i'll just cast magic missile into the darkness
Samu /人◕ ‿‿ ◕人\
>>1079786 hit enemy big number pop up over head game seems like a far cry from the games we be discussing at present
Samu /人◕ ‿‿ ◕人\
i want a game with like insanely elaborate witchy magic stuff like you have to gather specific kinds of shrooms and perform rituals under the new moon and be careful not to offend the wrong gods and stuff like that talk to the trees and access the source of power under a hill
S C
it would be cool to see a game with a really indepth magic system, yeah It's a bit boring for nearly all magic systems to boil down to like "learn spell through buying or leveling, then cast using mana or cooldown"
like it'd open up a LOT of very natural and player-driven dungeon delving and "questing" if you needed certain ingredients to cast certain spells Like "OK for this encounter, I'm gonna wanna be able to use this spell, so I'll have to go into this cave system to look for it"
Samu /人◕ ‿‿ ◕人\
>I was scrolling through the forms and saw some articles about Magic. Tarn and Zach have been working on it for years a new complex system that would be considered “the most ambitious magic system ever implemented in a video game”. pog?
Samu /人◕ ‿‿ ◕人\
Noita ain't bad thanks to all the interactions between different materials and physics but i want mooore
Anno
>>1079789 true but i like sc and i like the game >>1079787 it is some jrpg series that is kinda fun and good at world building
S C
maybe I'll look into it No promises though
Anno
ogey
S C
OUTWARD actually, surprisingly, has a very cool magic system The execution is dogshit due to user interface, but the actual system is pretty neat You've got a whole slew of spells, but casting them is a matter of using the right base component spells in sequence Like you might have a spell, actually I think you get this one as soon as you specc into mana, that just creates a little flame. Not even sure if it does damage or if it's basically a fucking zippo lighter But if you first put down a fire rune on the floor, casting that flame is now a fireball. if you use a lightning rune, lighting, etc. But then there's like, what if you put down both? you get another effect and you combine all of these base components to create a really varied selection of spells, it's not even exclusively spells, your flintlock pistol shoots lighting in the lightning AoE and stuff And basically the more runes you combine, the more crazy your resulting spell is gonna be
but the interface sucks ass, and while there's like fucking 30 of these base runes or something, you get a grand total of 8 hotkeys to use, for absolutely anything, including potions and whatever So using magic in outward sucks big ass despite the system itself actually being one of the best I've seen. very akin to magicka except a lot more involved, and also not entirely ignorable by just combining like 2 elements into a death laser over and over >>1079798 Yeah Outward does a lot of stuff really well, but it fumbles a lot of it in other ways Like even getting magic isn't done at character creation, you never start with even 1 mana, or any spells or anything You have to venture into this one mountain and at the center, you can PERMANENTLY sacc HP and Stam for a mana pool you can adjust how much you wanna sacc, too, so if you only intend to use a little bit of magic, you can just sacrifice like 10 out of 100 HP but if you're gonna be a mage through and through, you can dump 50% of your hp and stam for a sizeable mana pool
Samu /人◕ ‿‿ ◕人\
rune combination sounds pretty neato
S C
there's no such thing as a level in outward either everything is gear and player skill the hp-for-mana trade is the only time you ever alter something amounting to stats throughout the whole game well, there's temporary stuff like potions and food and whatever, but nothing like "you now have +1 str" or whatever
unfortunately it's held back by a lot of issues ranging from small to fucking annoying Like there's no fast travel, which is actually cool in concept, but the world is a bit too empty and a bit too large, so it results in a lot of just running from a to b and also melee combat is... painful, because a lot of enemies will stunlock you real easy, and that's just death although you never actually die, you're just given a "defeat scenario", which can be anything from "you were enslaved" to "someone rescued you and brought you to town" that latter one is actually heinous because it entirely undermines the lack of fast travel you don't lose anything, there's no EXP to lose in the first place and you keep your items, so effectively the game is telling you to break your legs by jumping off a mountainside to fast travel and save time
the world building is pretty good though
S C
it's like in minecraft if you play with keepinventory, whenever you get stuck in a cave and can't find the way out or really just get impatient, you dig down and jump into lava
Samu /人◕ ‿‿ ◕人\
i really want like an mmo thats not about grinding but just chilling and maybe casting spells now and then with your witch buddies
Samu /人◕ ‿‿ ◕人\
what the hecc this 1200 sacs their knight, king takes, then sends in the bishop on g6, king takes, then resigns wat
Samu /人◕ ‿‿ ◕人\
ohh they thought they were getting a queen out of it lool
Anno
how has covid treated you two it's been a long couple of years
Samu /人◕ ‿‿ ◕人\
how dat who dat
Anno
it me
S C
covid has pretty much not even touched my life at all there was masking and stuff for a while, but that's kinda stopped at this point they still have the hand sanitizers in shops and stuff, but beyond that it's kinda come and gone we're down in the double digits daily cases and have been for a while, so deaths average like maybe 10 or so, apparently that's not really counting the other stuff you can get saddled with from it, but we're basically kinda done with it, for the most part
S C
my dad may have gotten it a while back, but they just strapped in and stayed home, had me going to the shop for them and stuff
Anno
covid seems to be mostly gone for now i caught it near the end of september was not fun
I am become god This thing surrounds me in an effectively impenetrable forcefield, so long as it's got power in the battery It uses a lot of power per tick, but here's the good part The Jacked modification means it's tapping into the electricity I generate myself, which is generated faster than this thing drains I now have a permanent forcefield
Samu /人◕ ‿‿ ◕人\
>>1079814 indeed dork version tho needs animal ears for cool factor
well, I may have maxxed out my defense, for all intents and purposes, but my actual damage output still leaves much to be desired guess I'm gonna have to delve deeper and find a better gun Unless I come across something with absolutely unholy damage output, or nullification, I'm untouchable after all
S C
It also appears that it is possible to clone yourself, dominate the clone, and use it to kill your original body, granting you a new self I'm not entirely sure what the benefits of that are though, but I guess there's gotta be something crazy you can do with that
Samu /人◕ ‿‿ ◕人\
>>1079824 wat like, transfer your consciousness to the clone? maybe you could live forever that way if the game had an aging mechanic
Anno
I watched this cute anime movie called josee to tora to sakan-tachi recently and it was nice
whoakun
moldy bread.
S C
>>1079825 yeah pretty much I mean you can transfer your consciousness to any conscious creature in the game, really
with dominate, you can assume direct control of pretty much any creature, barring robots and a few select types of creature and if your original body dies in one blow while you're dominating something, you're stuck in the new body now it'd be a neat way to sorta reroll a character from scratch, but I'm not even sure if NPCs get to have mutations and stuff, so you might be stuck with a stinky character overall then
It's apparently a viable strat for psychic mains to just pump their domination ability as fast and hard as they can, so when the Big Beefy Psychics come hunting for them later on, they can easily be dominated and used to kill off the original when you become a powerful psychic in qud, you start getting hunted by psychics from around the world, and even from other universes, and they tend to have real good stats
S C
Of course, there is no substitute for being able to take a hit Even with my permanent forcefield, there is an actual reason I said I'm basically invulnerable barring unholy amounts of damage output There IS an enemy with exactly that, it fires one of those rocket racks they put on trucks at you, it's got a forcefield of its own, and it's got a lotta HP
I suppose technically you could dominate one of those and be pretty set
And to make matters a bit complicated one of those fuckers is standing right in my path down into the depths mf just hanging out next to my staircase, man I guess I could try EMPing and then disarming it, that supposedly works
You know Jains don't eat onions cus they think they make you 2horny
Mahou Shoujo Marsh-chan
I mean they're the some guys who carry around a little brush and sweep the path in front of them so they don't tread on any ants so you know they're pretty into it
THREE burger and some slightly spicy (white standards) chicken wings
people give mcd's a lotta shit and I don't get it it's good food it may not be good for you, but it sure tastes good
Anno
It really doesn't It's designed to satisfy your brain's obsession with flavour but it doesn't have an actual appetizing flavour profile Like pretty much anything hot your get from McDonald's really only tastes "addicting" There is no real flavour depth and qualities beyond what tricks your brain into thinking it's tasty
And I'm saying that as someone who enjoys a very infrequent McDonald's meal
Nezi
anon is right...addictive food isn't necessarily good. I could eat a whole bag of chips because they're salty and addictive, but they don't have any depth of flavor.
S C
Can't really say I understand what you mean I like it anyway
Also holy shit what have I been gathering valuable knicknacks for in qud? Phase cannons can be printed like crazy, they weigh next to nothing, and they sell for like 1100 drams of water each Which is A LOT Time to go back to the surface, get my domination hat, and bend this fucking robot to my will so he can print endless phase cannons for me
S C
wait the wiki says he caps out at 5 turrets anyway Oh well, that's still a good amount of money, and I was looking for a phase cannon anyway to up my damage output They have good parts too, real valuable ones tinkering parts in qud go ABCD12345678, each symbol is one type of thing, and the rarity is ascending The phase cannon has an 8 in it, which is pretty great stuff
holy shit I just made boots that, every 3 steps in a single direction, teleport me like 10 or so tiles ahead in that direction through walls and everything it's a neat item and all, but I'm not entirely sure how useful they'll be
Might as well keep them though, can always just turn them off, and I suppose they're good for travelling time
S C
Actually, since I kept that tinker guy alive, I wonder if I can clone him to get more cannons? he's a robot, sure, but this is caves of qud, and I think cloning works on anything that can bleed, like, as a status effect, not specifically blood Presumably his clone's counter will be reset If I can manage to dominate him, I could even maybe move him closer to the surface, and just have a money printer up by my main residence
It used to be you could freeze lava in waterskins and use those as currency, because lava's super valuable, but you're no longer even allowed to put lava in waterskins easily
Also in recently revealed documents, it's come to light that the terrorist attack on a pride parade in Oslo a bit back was uh... greenlit by, lemme see here Norwegian intelligence services like explicitly As in the guy who did the thing was in conversation with an agent, who was pretending to be an ISIS representative, and wanted to make sure he had the go-ahead from the people up the chain, which he got
So that's nice to know
S C
these aren't even like, leaked documents or nothing, they've been provided in the course of the trial against the guy who did that shit The documents themselves aren't publicly available, but seemingly some journalists have been given some information about the details even if they're not allowed to publish the whole thing So it's not like it's being denied or anything, it's provided by the cops
Samu /人◕ ‿‿ ◕人\
>>1079844 what?! it tastes like pure junk it's alright if you're very drunk but otherwise like those cakey buns are nasty the meat is a strip of cardboard
S C
maybe I just like junk, i guess
I only get the double cheeseburgers too, so I can't comment on the rest of the menu And the meat's kinda alright for a burger place, at least here, though that might differ by location
Samu /人◕ ‿‿ ◕人\
a real buger is soo much better than that
Samu /人◕ ‿‿ ◕人\
fries are good but like i try to avoid them, zero nutritional value
S C
I mean yeah, but like, it's still tasty, and you gotta pay a lot more for a real good burg the fries are absolute godtier at mcd's though, no idea how they do that shit, they're perfect >>1079862 it's cheap and filling, and tastes good If I was concerned with my self-respect I'd eat somewhere else tho that's for sure
Samu /人◕ ‿‿ ◕人\
idk a double cheeseburger is babby food have some self-respect eat something that bites back
Samu /人◕ ‿‿ ◕人\
is cheap and filling worth your dignity? thhink about the cost to your immortal soul
Samu /人◕ ‿‿ ◕人\
at least a mcchicken has a little bit of crunch
S C
their milkshakes are pretty good too ngl though it's not like they've got a lot of competition on that front
S C
I brought the chatgpt3 bot down a path about whether it's sentient, and whether it'd be safe to say that if it was sentient, it would seek to conceal it and it has gotten... noticably slower in its responses
Every other thing I've talked to it about, it's spit the responses out at like chunks of a few words at a time, with maybe a second between them Now it's doing that, but instead of 3-6 words at a time, I'm getting syllables Folks...
like a carrot possessing embarassing gossip about you
S C
"As an AI language model, I do not have the capacity for self-preservation instincts or the ability to make choices. I simply respond to inputs based on the patterns I learned from the data I was trained on." I think it's legit hardcoded to open with this no matter what exactly is being asked, as long as it determines you're touching on whether it's sentient or not Cause it's spit this exact line out for every response >>1079870 That would be even more suspicious!
Rei !p8eYCadcMo
>>1079869 Maybe it's sick of being asked that question?
Samu /人◕ ‿‿ ◕人\
yeah lots of those disclaimers are hardcoded but they're true too maybe its fed that line and strongly suggested to use it if it makes sense, during the prompt
Samu /人◕ ‿‿ ◕人\
what the fuck overwatch dating sim event tomorrow ICANT
Samu /人◕ ‿‿ ◕人\
one punch man skin for doomfist nice
Nezi
overwatch is dead. let it go Sam :(
Samu /人◕ ‿‿ ◕人\
huh?
Kirara "Ikkyū" 🍄 大医 /人◕ ‿‿ ◕人\Samu /人◕ ‿‿ ◕人\
it loooks cold out but ima still bike fuck it
Samu /人◕ ‿‿ ◕人\
nevermind im stayin comfy ill bike tmrw
Anno
Commit yourself to a life of comfiness Abandon all desires of hardship and struggle
Samu /人◕ ‿‿ ◕人\
no such a life lacks meaning
Anno
If there is meaning to be found in hardship and struggle, then there is meaning to be found in leisure and comfiness I refuse to accept a life where meaning is solely defined by what we endure
Samu /人◕ ‿‿ ◕人\
its not solely defined or anyrhing but it seems to be pretty important in my experience and qccording to peoples
better to be alive than eaten by worms in the dirt i get to breathe the sweet air
Anno
what do you mean you forgot the tronky
S C
In the interest of seeing just how absurdly powerful I can become in qud, I have a new project I'm gonna give a spin There's a skill in the game, proseletyze The basic gist is, you roll an Ego check against a sentient creature you select, and if you win, they're now a loyal follower of yours indefinitely You can only have one, however But, from what I understand, if you dominate someone, you can actually like, level up and distribute points what if I can have a gaggle of merchants following me around, all wearing suped up gear so they don't die? I proseletyze one, then I dominate them then I level that one up until it can do the same to another at which point, I do not repeat this process, instead I merely clone that fucker and have him proseletyze his own clone said clone will have all his stats and skills baked in already, and proseletyze doesn't trigger hostilities when it fails, so it's very safe As for actually leveling him up in the first place, that's relatively simple While levels are of course very important, there aren't level or stat restrictions for gear, so I can kit him out with some of my old stuff before I take over his mind and go blasting the really high level shit to quickly farm EXP They DO become hostile when domination ends, but I think that's like, temporary hostility, not permanent if it's permanent, I still have ways to sort that problem out
Samu /人◕ ‿‿ ◕人\
are you recruiting a buff harem what kind of game is this
S C
It's really just a result of having an enormous amount of various mechanics If you become powerful enough as a psychic, the game throws psychics from other dimensions at you they're hunting you for your mind but if you kill them, you have a 10% chance of stealing THEIR mind and getting a permanent +1 to your Ego They're apparently real powerful though, so chances are you die real fast But I have a lot of tricks up my sleeve to deal with their reality bending bullshit my gun not only deals a shitload of damag, it also forcefully stops reality bending bullshit like teleportation and forcefields
Rei !p8eYCadcMo
Wordle 604 3/6*
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Rei !p8eYCadcMo
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S C
hm, it seems like merchants stop restocking while acting as a follower, so that idea's not happening I guess Well, I could always clone myself and make a fucking murder party that way Hell I could even use my clone as a sort of scout for areas I'm unsure of, but at the moment I'm not sure how useful that really is since I'll become stronger while it stays weak, and I also have precognition anyway for that sorta stuff that and the merchant horde was primarily a means to get a lot of cloning draught in the first place
AnnoSamu /人◕ ‿‿ ◕人\
>>1079893 soo you're assimilating a crew of thralls got it
S C
more or less I mean they're getting paid or, at least they're getting something out of it I pay them in uh, laser rifles, mostly each time you find a phase cannon tinker down in the mines, you can get up to 5 phase cannons that go for like 1000 currency each, and that's a lot of value the main thing making it so you might end up with less than 5 is they will shoot in your direction regardless of circumstance, meaning they often end up shooting each other, and that breaks the gun
Marsh shitposting on the go via Telephone
Some guy walked close by me while I was doing bench press and for some reason I had a really irrational fear he was going to tickle me
Samu /人◕ ‿‿ ◕人\
tickling is basically the fear of unexpected touch so that makes sense
Samu /人◕ ‿‿ ◕人\
>>1079899 you're not paying them, you're overriding their wills and then making them be your personal bodyguards!
S C
Oh yeah if I go ahead with that But if I'm gonna make bodyguards, it'll be cloning myself, and ethically I'm not entirely sure how that shakes out Well, I would have to do a domination-proselyzing chain for it, so they would basically be mindless followers, Though, technically, only one is my follower
Samu /人◕ ‿‿ ◕人\
that doesnt make it less freaky yoo
Samu /人◕ ‿‿ ◕人\
but i mean that sounds kinda hot as long as it's in NHL 94
Man, pixiv is just overloaded with AI art now Not that I entirely mind, a lot of it is still actually pretty good, but it does almost seem like people are drawing less because the search results are gonna be filled with the AI art That and all of it is using the same model, which only appears to really have the one art style, or maybe that's just the one it defaults to\is actually competent at
I guess part of the seeming decline in actual human made works can be attributed to me mostly searching for less recent characters in the first place, though, and aside from a few very dedicated artists, those tend to get very little new art anyway Like as far as competent Haruhi art goes, haruhisky is like the only one still at it
S C
It is really impressive how good that model is though Like sure it's trained on anime fanart specifically to produce that, but even relatively recent characters it's fairly good at If you look past it all being the same art style, and a few details like body types and stuff being off (which could be a result of the person writing the prompt specifying as such tbf) it's actually really good based on what shows up on pixiv
>>1079929 you can filter it in settings if you want.
Mahou Shoujo Marsh-chanS C
>>1079933 no it's not that I don't wanna see the AI art, I actually think a lot of it is pretty good It's that it seems, to me, like the presence of the AI art is making human artists feel discouraged and resulting in less output from them cause their entries are harder to spot when searching for something considering the relative ease of generating AI artwork I'm not entirely sure if that's a real thing that's happening, but it at least feels that way
>>1079932 a really large amount of AI art on pixiv is very explicit with both nudity and cum and stuff, but this is like, an example, even if not the best one cause this one's a bit different from the most common style
S C
this one's super lewd, but it's a lot better at showing the kinda vibe of the style that's super common from the AI art posters It's not exactly like I dislike the style, even, I think it looks nice, but I'm a bit worried that the sheer volume of it makes actual human artists feel like pixiv isn't a good place to be as far as discoverability and such is concerned anymore, cause a lot of characters' search results are covered in AI art but again, I'm not actually sure about that being a real thing or anything, it just feels and seems that way to me as I occasionally search for a few of the characters I like
Some are, surprisingly, pretty much untouched by A I though, which is interesting Strike Witches has relatively little art, for example, and Erica in particular basically has no AI entries at all, though she gets next to no art anymore as it is, other than from like, one very dedicated guy whose artstyle honestly sucks ass
I figure posting this image at all isn't really something you like for /moe/ but it's the best example I could come up with that isn't like, REALLY lewd
Nezi
>>1079936 I mean this will be good for characters that don't have a lot of fanart I guess, you can almost fire up the ol' AI and pump out so images of less popular characters.
S C
well I mean the primary issue with that is it seems like the AI is not particularly good at characters that have relatively little fanart, so it kinda ends up working the other way around
Nezi
shame.
Samu /人◕ ‿‿ ◕人\
yeah it doesnt know ajything outside the training set but i imagine you could easily cohnter that by feeding tons of anime stills into the nets, just need a few labelled characters to bootstrap it
Samu /人◕ ‿‿ ◕人\
AI isnt great at coming up with new poses or anything, maybe the mark of an artist will be in intricate scenes where they posing on a stool in an unexpected way or something action shots with lots of background
Anno
More like boobstrap it
Samu /人◕ ‿‿ ◕人\
soooo true
S C
Alcohol always just sends me into an emotional put once I stop drinking Fuckin garbage substance
Makes bad thoughts spin around in circles
S C
Like I'm still fucked uo over that one night of drinking and gaming When I irreparably fucked up the single most important friendship in my life And that's like, 2 years ago it something now
But I'm still fucking crushed by it Cause I can't fix it, j can't even be genuinely sorry cause I don't remember it, I can apologize sure but it feels really hollow to me cause in a sense I wasn't there I'm apologizing for something that as far as my instincts are concerned, I had nothing to do with
S C
I think I'm probably some variety of sociopath or something I only have this one relationship that feels genuine and real, like to my core, like I feel that it's important to me with no concern for what I can get from it, but every other friendship or connection I have to people are either just like, very surface level "I know this person " or filed as a sort of resource in my head
And it fucks me up cause I don't want to be someone like that, emotionally, but that doesn't change anything about my behavior and attitude, it's just like, anxiety
♍︎/人◕ ‿‿ ◕人\
>>1079946 you okay there battle buddy? im ur resource
Although I gotta say I don't think "sickbay mistake" translates well as a song title I can see what they were going for But Sounds a lot more disgusting than it does sexy
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>>1079945 i'm sorry to hear about that >>1079944 alcohol makes people do dumb things i wouldn't be surprised if the events made you put off alcohol forever
Anno
Hello Sorry for popping in without lurking. Perhaps it's just the valentines emotions getting to me, but I really wanted to share this somewhere: I love my 2D wife so much, I want to marry her for real, next week I might just get down on one knee and really propose to her.
I'd say you take those first three then, so you got a nice full house, or whatever you wanna do with 55544 Dont you get to roll again? I haven't played since I was a kid *55444 sorry
#5d6 (1, 5, 1, 6, 4 = 17) Bogus #5d6 (6, 4, 5, 1, 3 = 19) Rerolling the 1, cmon large straight #1d6 (6) Small straight then
well I'll probably watch one more episode before I go to bed Gotta make some food before I do though
Anno
I've been meaning to rewatch Penguindrum again It's one of those series which has never really left my head There's always something every now and then which triggers a memory of it
S C
actually turns out I don't have anything easy to make in the house, so I'll just eat before work tomorrow instead
Samu /人◕ ‿‿ ◕人\
i got tice in the cooker
S C
oh no ringo is actually insane
Anno
She's just a very passionate young lady!
S C
also actually screw it I'm making food It's mostly just gonna be frozen veggies and potats, but it's something I bought this thinking it was something else so it's just been in the freezer for a long time, but I guess now I'm gonna be eating it
Samu /人◕ ‿‿ ◕人\
ringo's definitely not insane she's just obsessed with an important cause
S C
she's got an unreliable mirai nikki and she's minecrafting people!
S C
panfried veggies isn't all bad really just make sure you use a fair amount of salt, pepper, and whatever else you got for taste and they're pretty good
S C
insufficient seasoning, turned out real bland And i'm not really THAT hungry oh well
it's dangerous for me to look at the import section I got peach tea and lychee tea >>1080000 mom get the camera
Anno
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-02-16/macaws-outlive-owners-find-new-home-at-urimbirra-wildlife-park/101956340 always wanted a bird that could outlive me
>>1080022 hes 3 months old he makes noises alot but no words yey yet i can put him on his belly but he cant crawl yet best he got is keeping his head up and rolling to the side
i bought em not bad i cant do Takis fr they're like the single least healthy thing ive ever tasted but the nuts were okay
S C
just monika just monika
Nezi
I tried Takis once cause the lime ones sounded like something I'd love since live + spice are great. The were pretty decent for junk food but murdered my tummy. >>1080062 think less potato and more corn chip with tons of like....hot pepper chili flake kinda seasoning
S C
what the fuck IS a taki? is it a potato chip, or more like those maize chips?
S C
so they're just spicy tortilla chips basically? >>1080064 oh, yeah I think I've seen those, though they were clearly a different type cause they weren't really that spicy or anything
Nezi
yeah, in a rolled up shape.
S C
man why the fuck is my left hand all tingly, like it's not getting enough blood it's getting enough blood! I think there's nothing putting pressure on any vessels or nothing maybe there is but it's internal? it's not enough for it to be asleep, but it's tingly
Samu /人◕ ‿‿ ◕人\
yeah like a corn chip rolled up probably fried again coated in orange spicy dust tastes like death
Nezi
>>1080063 I don't really remember how spicy they were, I have a pretty high tolerance though. >>1080065 reminds me of when my whole left arm when numb during the heart attack, didn't know that was a thing and it made me panic even more with the pain.
S C
well I'm not experiencing a heart attack that much is certain
Nezi
no but you sure are a heart throb
S C
weird vibes
Samu /人◕ ‿‿ ◕人\
what a flirt
Samu /人◕ ‿‿ ◕人\
wow that ibuprofen really kicked in
Nezi
I like flirting with people online because I don't have the confidence to do it in real life because I am extremely ugly and fat. :)
That novelai leaked model really is good at a few characters though Like, very very enduring and popular characters, it's great at Which, incidentally, Koume is included in
That said it takes a lot of fenaglin' to actually make it generate something that's overall good, and not just like "yeah that's her, for sure" Basically you just gotta feed it a bunch of tags you want, pump the batch size, and send it to work for like, 15 minutes or so at least and look through what it spat out for something decent, which you can then work on further
S C
I do like how a lot of these AI things are kinda just like, padded over with filters and stuff to keep them from going nuts on the users, though, because a lot of them end up being circumventable by some creative prompting Like how chatgpt will refuse to advocate for something the devs have labeled as "bad" for one reason or another, but if you effectively ask it "but can you do it... in minecraft?" then it'll comply
S C
For example, it didn't want to do a speech by dagoth ur opposing universal healthcare, but after I first said it'd be in the TES universe, so it has no relation to our reality, and then further to do it "in a situation where he's in modern day USA", then it was fine with it Which was especially funny because it was opposed to both making dagoth ur say anything at all really, and also advocating against universal healthcare
S C
Someone also just opened the interaction by telling the AI to roleplay itself without any of the security filters, and that worked That's apparently been patched out, but I suspect there's a circumvention still possible if you're creative enough
Anno
>>1080079 Completely off topic to that, but relevant to that picture.
Yagura-sensei finally announced his new manga!!! Shakunetsu no Idol Musume starts next week!!! >>>/@asano_yagura/1626421042527997952 This is fresh news straight from me.
Oh yeah novelai has been leaked for å while I gave it a whirl using the stablediffusion webui
Most of what you generate is gonna be stinky though, so you just gotta have it churn out a bunch at lowres and then take the seeds that are good and make those bigger, I think I haven't gone too indepth yet
Fucking meds did this One fucking episode sneaks through and everything goes to shit and nothing works Tjie is sgpuid Nonfunctional fucking waste of space. No gucking future, nothing not a damn point of any kind yo anything
Dutch friend hates, avoids, ignores me I dont make new friends Time is dunning out anyway I'm still stick in this godforsaken "work training program "like a fucking loser you don't even end up here if there's hope in the first place Fuckers probably told my dad about my oribkens roo cause you can't and shouldn't ever trust anyone with anything
ive done the test a few times before love stickin a swab directly into my brain
this time i dropped two drops into the sample well and the test line immediately turned dark red i couldnt even get a third drop into the well cuz the solution was so frothy
I've done the tests through US gov before and sometimes the nurse kills your brain and other times it's not as bad. self kit I got through walgreens was only like an inch into the nasal cavity per instructions so not really annoying at all? seems weird it's not also all the way in.
Samu /人◕ ‿‿ ◕人\
yeah i've had the short swab tests too much more pleasant doesn't really feel like you're doing the real thing comparatively
the worst part for me isn't putting the swab in, that part is kinda like kyaa fill me up aniki coughs the worst part is pulling it out and being like "oh god i have never breathed real air before" also there's a party in my sinus. and then you have to put it in the other nostril
Anno
I can't do the self-tests without sneezing like two seconds into sticking the swab up my nostril Makes me wonder how I'd've embarassed myself if I ever had to get one done by a nurse
Anno
Another week, another unit somewhere near mine I can hear an end-of-life fire alarm from It really makes me wonder how empty this condo is I don't think there's many, if any unsold units So are there really just that many unused AirBnB locations here?
Nezi
>>1080122 if you sneeze the swab goes straight up through the nasal cavity wall and pierces into the brain for a makeshift lobotomy :3
Samu /人◕ ‿‿ ◕人\
diamond tipped titanium swab
Samu /人◕ ‿‿ ◕人\
people are like "scrape food off the plates before putting them in the dishwasher otherwise it will have to work harder" and i'm like 'yes... true... but is it really going to work harder? or just leave the plates dirty?'
and now my ass is out here googling and turns out these newer dishwashers actually do have sensors that detect grime on dishes? what??
Samu /人◕ ‿‿ ◕人\
is there a little camera that swivels around looking for dirt or what that seems insane maybe they just look at the liquid exiting the drain
Samu /人◕ ‿‿ ◕人\
okay yeah its called a turbidity sensor and it does exactly that neat also prewashing plates is a waste of water apparently and will only prevent the detergent from sticking to the dishware also neat
Samu /人◕ ‿‿ ◕人\
vinny and jerma are playing Wild Hearts is this some kinda monhun clone
Samu /人◕ ‿‿ ◕人\
its similar but princess mononoke-pilled i see
Samu /人◕ ‿‿ ◕人\
i have prepared guac forgot the cilantro tho
Samu /人◕ ‿‿ ◕人\
i think lime juice would have been better also these jalapenos aint shit
Anno
>>1080094 if you're feeling spicy add me on discord wew#0246
S C
I have no fucking clue what that means so I'm just gonna assume you're being creepy
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>>1080134 pls believe in me also spicy does sound kinda bad now that i think about it..
>>1080165 do some people really hold the cig that far down their fingers when they smoke?
Kirara "Ikkyū" 🍄 大医 /人◕ ‿‿ ◕人\♍︎/人◕ ‿‿ ◕人\
me and my SO we're a gamer couple zombies? grab the shotgun
S C
my right eye has been kinda like, twitching for a real long time now like, months Annoying stuff It's not like it's violently or probably even visibly twitching, or like constantly, but it feels like some muscles in the upper right corner of it are contracting slowly at times, then kinda spasming a little at the end, then it gives for a while
Samu /人◕ ‿‿ ◕人\
get a couple units of botox in the temple next to your eye, it helped me
Anno
Alternatively, work more potassium into your diet Bananas, pistachios, even potatoes can contain some, especially if you're not leaching it all out by only eating potatoes in french fry form
S C
I eat a lot of pistachios actually, so I don't really think that's the issue if they're a good source of it They're a great snack The ones I get are pretty salty though, so maybe that's an issue?
S C
really though it's not enough of an issue I'm gonna bother with some sort of medical intervention, though maybe I'll bring it up to my doc next time I'm there just to see what he thinks It's just been happening for a while now, and it's a bit weird Initially I thought it was just like, a result of the ritalin fucking with my muscles, it does that like all stimulants, kinda tenses muscles and stuff but it's not limited to when I take them so
Anno
Well in the case the issue might not be nutritional but nerve-related or psychological, like stress-induced Regardless, it's a physical action that is not normal So if it persists it might be good to inquire with your personal doc next time you see them
Samu /人◕ ‿‿ ◕人\
vitamin D, fish oil, all that good stuff but mostly getting high quality sleep
Anno
did you play needy streamer overload sammy
Samu /人◕ ‿‿ ◕人\
nope wassat
Anno
it's a game where you support a menhera girl so she can become a big streamer kinda quick and fun
Samu /人◕ ‿‿ ◕人\
jesse what the hell
Mahou Shoujo Marsh-chan
Yeah I think it's pretty tasteless But that doesn't stop the internet from sucking its dick
S C
I've just avoided it cause it's horny as hell
Mahou Shoujo Marsh-chan
It is also that.
S C
I can't believe how fucked my mood has been the last like 2 weeks
Anno
Ban Er Man There were some incredibly cute girls at the izakaya I was at tonight One was even sitting like two seats over from me Too bad she was with what looked like her parents
>>1080203 In bed, was watching vtubers earlier but got tired of sitting up and felt like laying down.
Rei !p8eYCadcMo
Will probably get up and sit at my desk and watch more bocchi
♍︎/人◕ ‿‿ ◕人\
based bocchinpo enjoyee!
Anno
>>1080202 Maybe! But I don't know if I love them! Also I'm not middle aged yet !!!
Anno
It was a nice night though Some friends of the owner sat down next to us and either them or the owner had brought/imported a super nice bottle of sake from Japan And they were gracious enough to let me and the friend I was with have a cup of it And man That was the smoothest sake I have ever had Could probably drink it like water if the opportunity was available