it was only the one visit this halloween I guess I guess just one group
Samu /人◕ ‿‿ ◕人\
do you have a lighted up display
S C
naw I don't do decoration I didn't even prepare any sort of candy or nothing, but I grabbed a bag of candies I had when the bell rang and just handed some out >>1136648 most people don't really do any particular decoration here I mean some do, sure, but it's not super common
Kids just go door to door based on the ol' "are the lights on?" rule
Samu /人◕ ‿‿ ◕人\
oh well no wondee
Samu /人◕ ‿‿ ◕人\
yea it's an american holiday anyway like what da hecc
Samu /人◕ ‿‿ ◕人\
if some of the houses are doing decor im sure they get the brunt of visitation
S C
back when I was littler we'd ring every doorbell on the whole damn street But I guess a lot has changed since back then
Samu /人◕ ‿‿ ◕人\
yerp life has changed
S C
Life Glorp
Anno
ya I remember going around yellin halloween apples and trick or treat and shiz
S C
when I was in like the 4-7th? grade, we'd go big we had roller skates, so we covered a LOT of ground damn, those were the days well we had bikes too, but a bike is harder to use in costume, so that and rollerskates are a lot more fun than bikes
what a strange larp so strange that its probably REAL
S C
the librarian schroedinger wife situation is crazy
S C
fucked up I write schroedinger When I know how to write and pronounce Schrödinger, which is his actual fucking name
S C
granted oe is easier to type than ö because norwegian keyboards have å in the way
S C
I could always use ø which isn't correct but basically correct
Samu /人◕ ‿‿ ◕人\
A Møøse once bit my sister... No realli! She was Karving her initials on the møøse with the sharpened end of an interspace tøøthbrush given her by Svenge - her brother-in-law - an Oslo dentist and star of many Norwegian møvies: "The Høt Hands of an Oslo Dentist", "Fillings of Passion", "The Huge Mølars of Horst Nordfink"...
Time to catch up on Trillion Game Surprisingly fun show
Anno
not sure what this player was thinking but knight put the king in check in 3 moves had the king running accross the board
S C
A hacking tournament like the one in this show seems strange A simultaneous attack and defend server hacking game? Like what are you supposed to do, write up security software for your box before the other teams manage to type in the shell connection command?
Samu /人◕ ‿‿ ◕人\
i assume you start with the firewall closed but to achieve your objectives you need to expose some ports
S C
Yeah, it seems all the servers come prejacked with security software, but also various holes, so you gotta try to patch those before the others exploit them, and also exploit them in others before they patch them Still seems kinda weird for a tournament, but it is an anime so
Samu /人◕ ‿‿ ◕人\
knight c4 ICANT
Samu /人◕ ‿‿ ◕人\
whats the point of having those rooks and bishop if they're just gonna chill on the backline while your king is sitting next to a giant hole in the wall
I mean yeah, it's one of those traditions that aren't actually family events, so it won't be reinforced familialy Once it disappears as a media trope, it disappears
I didn't realize it had, though, but I guess maybe it has
Samu /人◕ ‿‿ ◕人\
its decentralized now my friend in toronto got a bunch
its all about piece activity how many squares can your pieces attack what potential do they have
Anno
= piece placement (in other words) what piece to put where for maxium damage.
S C
Are the rules stockfish follows public, or do they keep that under wraps? For evaluation I mean, the "rules" for depth are pretty straight forward conceptually, even if computationally expensive as shit
Samu /人◕ ‿‿ ◕人\
the chess rules are extremely standardized i dont think the rules have been updated since like the 1930s
Anno
"keep the horsies off the edges of the bort" as me best pal, an Irish grandmaster always said
S C
>>1136695 so really stockfish isn't special in any real way beyond its sheer depth? I mean it's still very impressive, but I kind of expected them to have some more sophisticated evaluation metrics under the hood than the standard
Samu /人◕ ‿‿ ◕人\
>>1136696 knight on the rim is dim >>1136697 i think modern stockfish has adopted neural nets theres plenty of variation between implementations
Samu /人◕ ‿‿ ◕人\
>>1136697 wdym standard evaluation engines are the closest thing we have to a "standard" for evaluation
S C
Like What a chess engine actually does is it takes a board state and goes "this is better for black\white according to this rule set", right? And for evaluating a potential move, it runs that across the potential moves following that move to generate an overall evaluation of that move >>1136701 Oh sorry, I should have used a different term, I don't mean the rules for chess, I mean the metric for evaluation Like "if the knights are near the center, that's more points than if they're near the edge" and "if the queen is threatened, that's worse than if she's not" That sort of thing
Samu /人◕ ‿‿ ◕人\
the rule set is a constant unless you mean variants like duck chess but like for the purposes of argument we concentrate on one game
Samu /人◕ ‿‿ ◕人\
chess is not a solved game so there is no objective metric the standard evaluation is like points and centipawn loss assuming a pawn is 1 point, knight/bishop are 3 points, rook 5, queen 9 but in reality these are approximations, piece value depends on the context and generally bishops are considered to be slightly better than knights
S C
right but it does have to use some metric to evaluate, and it can't JUST be piece value Well I guess with enough depth you literally could just use piece values
Samu /人◕ ‿‿ ◕人\
the metric is literally "do you have forced mate" when it comes down to it everything else is a vague approximation, well not really, some positions are obviously better than others
S C
True I mean there are ultimate board states that make a move just the categorically correct one, but the engines are still able to evaluate moves at points in the game when there's no way to say you've got mate in x regardless of how high you make x because there's way too many moves left that can counteract it
And it has to use some metrics for evaluating that, those are what I meant
Samu /人◕ ‿‿ ◕人\
yea engines are good at evaluating unclear positions but even then there are lines where stockfish fails to understand
Samu /人◕ ‿‿ ◕人\
>>1136705 >there are way too many moves that can counteract it chess is mostly statistical like that but there can be situations that are very "sharp" where there is a sequence of moves that upset the expected outcome
Anno
are there any good vids showing top AI vs AI tourneys?
Samu /人◕ ‿‿ ◕人\
not that i know off hand chess engines are better than humans so its kinda like who cares
S C
I'd be interested in seeing a sort of battlebots with chess AI where it's like, you've got a neuron count restriction and you've got some amount of time to train it, but otherwise you're free to figure out exactly how to train it or what to reward and stuff, and then they all duke it out in a tourney
That'd be fucking kino
Anno
>>1136702 yes ,B/C there are sometimes combos that say a knight can make so it's piece higharchy VS multiple piece advancment.
S C
I guess you would need a cycle limitation rather than a time limitation for training, technically Because you know, obviously if you've got 5000 nvidias to use, 10 minutes for you is a LOT more valuable than even an hour for someone using their 1080i
Samu /人◕ ‿‿ ◕人\
i guess you could give each contestant a fixed amount of electricity
S C
oooh, that would be a cool restriction too But ultimately not a big fan because I think it would also very much favor people with a lot of money to throw at expensive but cost efficient hardware Maybe not as significant as a raw time limit, but still
Maybe just a flat "training episodes" limit? So you're free to do whatever you want, but you can't train it on more than this many refinements, basically >>1136718 I bet you could get somewhat around that by demanding logs of the training process, like extremely granular, and if that doesn't match up with the network that you used, you're DQ'd
Cause I mean, you may not understand what each bit does, but if the log says "and this weight was changed to x" at the end, but that weight isn't actually x, you know it's bullshit and they either didn't log properly or they cheated, either way DQ
Samu /人◕ ‿‿ ◕人\
well standardized hardware provided too if its gonna be a competition
Samu /人◕ ‿‿ ◕人\
the main issue is making suee no one sneaks in a usb drive with a model on it
Anno
>>1136709 are there any good at Fischer chess/960? as it seems that would be better training for the networks and stuff rather than emphasis on opening strats
Samu /人◕ ‿‿ ◕人\
surely some one has made a 960 model by now yea i mean aybe they made 960 separate models for all i know
Samu /人◕ ‿‿ ◕人\
i think stockfish is pretty good in general at evaluating arbitrary positions as long as there arent like 40 bishops or something
S C
yeah I imagine whatever metrics they follow are gonna get a bit loopy once there's way more than standard amounts of actual pieces on the board Or more clearly, unusually many promoted pawns
>>1136737 I saw this in theaters at a aold out show. it's kino >>1136738 age restricted F
Kirara "Ikkyū" 🍄 /人◕ ‿‿ ◕人\
I'm really mad that Juror #2 isn't in theaters anywhere in Florida. It's so stupid! Every single exec that's sabotaging Clint and preventing me from watching what could be the film of the year needs to die!
AnnoSamu /人◕ ‿‿ ◕人\
> Releasing the film in fewer than 50 theaters, Warner Bros. is expected to not report box office results; the decision to give an Eastwood film a limited release was described by Variety as "a peculiar approach for a filmmaker who still has commercial appeal" dang whats the story here
Kirara "Ikkyū" 🍄 /人◕ ‿‿ ◕人\
The CEO, Zaslov, has a long running vendetta against Clint Eastwood. Clint made Cry Macho and it didn't turn a profit (it wasn't meant to) and Zaslov started raging about it, claiming that Clint was cooked and not worth keeping around. After that, he allegedly started harassing Clint angrily.
And this is part of Zaslov's sabotage of him.
Kirara "Ikkyū" 🍄 /人◕ ‿‿ ◕人\
Clint probably would have done this film elsewhere but Zaslov and Clint were stuck together for it by contract. Clint will probably leave Warner Bros now
Samu /人◕ ‿‿ ◕人\
oic thats the tea eh seems like it might come out on streaming quick at least
Kirara "Ikkyū" 🍄 /人◕ ‿‿ ◕人\
That's true but I want to see it in theaters!! It's not fair that I have to miss out on seeing art on the big screen because one of the worst people in the world has a bug up his ass about his profits.
oh my gawd you guys it's the league of legends worlds grand finals in london who else is hype? Best in China vs korea's reining champs packed stadium each team has 1 win in the best of 5 it could go either way. let's get excited
there's a burning little factory inside each of us
Kirara "Ikkyū" 🍄 /人◕ ‿‿ ◕人\Samu /人◕ ‿‿ ◕人\
ba-dump ba-dump
Samu /人◕ ‿‿ ◕人\
back to the forest
S C
found a new interesting game Elin Seems to be some sort of base-building and adventuring thing, except on top of that there's permadeath, or at least there is on one of the oaths you can take when you start I saw no reason not to, so here I am, a chaos entity sprouting extra limbs as I get further into the game, building a base and adventuring
S C
it is real brutal though, I've had to start over again quite a few times by now Last time I was assaulted by numerous puppies and just died AT HOME the time before that, a demon of some description just kinda showed up at my home and killed me
Samu /人◕ ‿‿ ◕人\
muder pups moïdah
S C
It is a bit annoying you gotta start all over, with all the tutorials and also shuffle around the widgets of the UI every time you die though I mean you CAN just not take the permadeath oath, but I don't WANNA just gotta be more Good at the game
Samu /人◕ ‿‿ ◕人\
4Head
Samu /人◕ ‿‿ ◕人\
that is annoying they don't save the Ui
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>>1136815 I'm in a vtuber discord full of Lispers and functional programming obsessed people, its seriously making me want to try working through SICP again.
Annowhoakun
its almost my kids bday i got him his first hotwheels track i hope he likes it :) im excited to see him open it
Anno
cool hot wheels cars rock enjoy the excitment!
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i got ur hot wheels right here
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lol (lots of lizards)
!ReneWy59x.
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Not certain how I'm supposed to generate all the money I need in Elin, but at least I'm able to pay my dang taxes reliably now Magic's getting p strong, too
I leveled up, so now I have 15 HP Being a lich is tough, I'm fully glass cannon build by necessity You start with like no vitality at all, but you've got magic out the ass Though, very early on, magic isn't easy to come by, so it's a rough start
But now... now I am power I've got a shitload of spells stacked up, and I made a cane out of lapis lazuli that causes blindness and does decent damage too And unlike my spells, the cane doesn't have a charge counter, so I can spam it as long as I have mana And if there's one thing I do have, it's mana
S C
Oh hell, I've developed a taste for human flesh now did not know that could happen
Guess I'll have to find some way to farm humans
S C
Everything I eat, my girl is like "I would have rather eaten human flesh..." and then she gags like she's gonna throw up Truly, I am embodying the nature of the lich
when I inevitably die, I'll maybe try a different start Still wanna make magic work though being a lich is rough, but man you're powerful as a lich as long as you've got spells
Well I restarted in a cave Might be fun I don't actually know if I can grow food in here or not though
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Samu /人◕ ‿‿ ◕人\
drawing a flow chart of how my doomscroll-dissociate cycle manifests surely this will cleave the gordian knot
Anno
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Samu /人◕ ‿‿ ◕人\
I found Marsh's leaked DMs
Samu /人◕ ‿‿ ◕人\
reading about the rolex buying experience is p funny basically a gatcha game you gotta farm rapport with the authorized dealer until one day they randomly drop the gift of the opportunity to spend 5 digits on whatever model
>>1136867 now your talkin, Ωmega? I would opt out for the (gentely pre owned) market. some ppl lease them like cars, not sure how that work. But I guess you could try out a bunch of diferent lines before buy out and settleing on a desired model. Vintage rolexs 1960's submariners and yatch masters are preaty cool and the pie pan line.
But it's all about the Ω seamaster.
S C
the new run is coming together turns out things do grow in the cave it's weird, but I'll take it
Fungi I understand, but I'm growing tomatoes in here Granted, I'm mostly eating mushrooms for now, but it turns out tomatoes give bonuses to magic because they're sweet, so I may well pivot to a tomato based agricultural economy They also give Charisma bonuses, which is very helpful for me as a lich Liches start out with utterly atrocious charisma, so a boost from my food to that isn't bad
My pet girl though, I gotta feed her meat Both because she fucking LOVES meat, and because meat gives STR based bonuses, which is good for her tank-capabilities
S C
And these aren't like, buffs They're how you grow your stats Food selection isn't a situational decision, it's a long term strategy to max out your gains
Honestly I fucking love how varied and impactful the food is in this game It's something I've whined about before, but one of my big gripes with a lot of games is how low-impact food selection is Like in minecraft, there's like 500 different foods, but every experienced player is eating beef exclusively, until their econ gets to the point they can start eating golden carrots There's just a literal best food, and that kinda stinks
In this, sure there is a best food, but it's dependent on your build If I was a warrior, I wouldn't be farming tomatoes, I'd need protein
>>1136873 ya, American made watches are all good they don't make um like they used to, though.... Whats GS stand for? Gshock? then in that case I would agree
Samu /人◕ ‿‿ ◕人\
its grand seiko gotta get that Spring Drive one day
Samu /人◕ ‿‿ ◕人\
just kiddin id rather just get a citizen solar w atomic and call it solved
not sure about the band either but this reminds me of a watch brandished that has a similar crystal radiusing to it, that is very delicate on the eyes. very classy from this angle.
Anno
some of those promasters fetch like almost 6k
Samu /人◕ ‿‿ ◕人\
>>1136885 yeah the skyhawk is sick im thinkin more tsuki-mono
Samu /人◕ ‿‿ ◕人\
errrr tsukiyomi*
Anno
right, that fisrt typo didn't make much heads or tails
Samu /人◕ ‿‿ ◕人\
its a pretty basic watch but its a cool meme idk the blood moon
Samu /人◕ ‿‿ ◕人\
nomos tangente also kinda cool but idk about the lugs
Samu /人◕ ‿‿ ◕人\
really depends on how it sits on the wrist tbh would be a sweet dress watch
Anno
>>1136893 kind of reminds me of swatch, or even some lower end Jacob
Samu /人◕ ‿‿ ◕人\
ive seen it irl its kinda slick w it if you're an architect
Anno
looks like this one has a gaurd
Samu /人◕ ‿‿ ◕人\
sport? havent seen that before
Samu /人◕ ‿‿ ◕人\
i guess if you're an industrial designer you probs already have a junghans
Anno
ya some of them look like wall clocks
S C
Aw hell they got CASINOS in this game GAMBA LETSGO
S C
>mod is disabled Huh? This is vanilla tho
S C
well, only the slot machines are disabled I can still do blackjack
it looks like live music, art installations, lots of exhibits oh there's all sorts of cool events that go on during most of the days have something to do with specific countries like april 24th is Denmark, 26th is Thailand, and there's a lot of days that this runs we'd be there during the opening couple weeks it runs like half the year what the hell
holy shit, the pillars that spawn around holy altars are not only possible to pick up, but they're worth a SHITLOAD Sure I can only carry 2 at a time, but I can just go back and forth
S C
the altar itself is too heavy to even move with though I wonder if I could still grab it and use a return scroll or something...
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Marsh shitposting on the go via telephone
That old /fit/ meme. Get stronger, girls don't give a shit. Compliments from other dudes. It's so true
im looking forward to driving home and being done with it
Samu /人◕ ‿‿ ◕人\
wtf who would just do that
S C
somehow it feels like the magic loses power real quick I can compensate by just respeccing into some melee stuff to at least beef up those stats a little, but part of me kinda wants to just reroll as a chaos creature and mutate hella limbs while going full melee mode
every level, the chaos entities have the option, in place of a perk, to grow a new limb, and levels are NOT capped in this game there isn't even a softcap I think, beyond the fact each level takes more exp than the one before it
meaning there is potentially a world where you have 15 arms and 7 heads
Samu /人◕ ‿‿ ◕人\
magic is draining out of the world NOOO - the elves
S C
very similar to caves of qud in that way though in qud the actual meta is to go psychic-mode, or at least partially psychic mode, so you can rig all the rolls associated with various buffing substances there's built in savescumming but that doesn't work for rigging rolls cause they're seeded But, if you CLONE YOURSELF, the clone has a different seed And as a psyker, you can mentally project yourself into your clone, and if your original body dies in one hit, you are stuck in that new body >>1136943 Possibly, but it's hard to argue with the sheer utility of 7 pairs of arms wielding greatswords >>1136944 well that's true But nobody said all the arms are coming out of one torso
Samu /人◕ ‿‿ ◕人\
i feel like there are diminishing returns to adding arms willy nilly
Samu /人◕ ‿‿ ◕人\
the utility is only there if you have enough room to wield and swing otherwise you're hackin' off your other arms
Samu /人◕ ‿‿ ◕人\
yea i mean if you become a Elden Ring boss and get hueg you might get some constructive coverage from all angles
S C
Fuck it I'm starting a chaos creature run, just to see how it goes I can fairly easily knock out a good amount of levels early on by just abusing the training dummy you get pretty early on
Because unlike in other games, that thing gives EXP and all EXP is created equal in Elin your actual "main level" exp counter isn't gradually ticking up, it gets chunks of EXP every time you fully level up some skill or attribute like STR or whatever which means you can just pick up some skills you've overlooked for a bit and start grinding, and you'll get more levels Your HP and mana does seem to scale, somewhat, with the main level, but they also scale based on attributes which can be leveled on their own, so you can conceivably become an actual demon creature with like 1m HP because you went REALLY hard on farming
Samu /人◕ ‿‿ ◕人\
you know how in LOTR the magic is slowly waning out of the world, i wonder what other fantasy epics there are where the amount of magic is steadily increasing
S C
thankfully while there is permadeath, you aren't limited to one save, so I don't gotta restart as much as start a new game
S C
>chaos shapes start with actually none HP well that's \\\ none charisma but also none HP I guess
But hey unlimited equipment slots
S C
actually hold on, priest run could be fun for this, depending on how holy magic works
S C
OK looks like I can do some shit here as a priest Crazy utility in holy spells, and sound as a subdomain gives me even more utility, and I just focus on traditional "beat 'em with metal until they go quiet" for the actual combat
S C
oh.. I start with only one hand and a torso
S C
> Chaos Shape may acquire up to five additional parts without penalty, but each additional part after the sixth is accompanied by a -3 life force, -5 speed, and -3 charm penalty which replaces the complicated body penalty from Elona; the cap is -45 life, -75 speed, and -45 charisma at 20 gained body parts.
huh Well I guess I'll just have to be a tank Crank that life force No shot I'm offsetting the speed penalty, and the charisma penalty is rough but not THAT big a deal
Kirara "Ikkyū" 🍄 /人◕ ‿‿ ◕人\S C
at least the econ is PUMPING early on here, because I found out I can steal the pillars from holy sites and sell them for LODSA money
Mahou Shoujo Marsh-chan
You know the thing about the song Tomboy by (G)I-DLE dancing around in a cute dress and make up isn't really tomboy like behavior. Still, good tune tho.
S C
in real life news I am straight up fucking broke for probably the rest of the week Like actually broke the damn bank login dongle thingie ran outta juice so i can't fill in a damn form and until it gets filled out I'm not getting a red cent
S C
anyway all this to say, while I was preparing some classic poverty food, macaroni with butter and some pepper and other random spices, I noticed i've actually prepared for situations like this anyway So once I finish eating this, I'm making some actual food some fuckin' snurring
S C
snurring being, basically, some ground beef and pork, rice, beans, and a few other things commonly referred to as "canned german" cause it came in cans before they went with the new cardboard packaging, and from what I understand it either literally is, or is very similar to, the rations the army used back in ww2
Anno
It's also the kind of thing where,
Anno
if you add vegetables, which could be acquired fresh if possible or more likely in separate cans, basically form a well-rounded meal
S C
that doesn't explain the nickname at all
Kirara "Ikkyū" 🍄 /人◕ ‿‿ ◕人\AnnoRei !p8eYCadcMo
Took too damn long to 日本語 to the polls. And the bus driver gave me bad directions so I had to walk even longer. It may actually have taken less time to just walk to the poll station.
cops shot a tiktok squirrel or something like that the maga boys are convinced this wins them the election
I don't understand it either
Kirara "Ikkyū" 🍄 /人◕ ‿‿ ◕人\
A gay pornstar conspiracy theorist had a squirrel that he refused to get vaccinated for rabies. A raccoon too. The state took them and had them euthanized because he wasn't following the law. He said that he didn't want to get the squirrel vaccinated because he was worried about autism, is what I heard.
Anyways, the animal was killed and he cried online about it. JD Vance heard about it and got obsessed and now legions of incredibly online losers are talking about the squirrel nonstop and thinking it's going to win them the election.
S C
buck angel had a squirrel?
S C
"gay pornstar refuses to vaccinate squirrel over autism concerns" is honeslty the most insane thing I've had to mentally parse out in the last like, several weeks, man
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that's extremely funny
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I mean its sad that they were euthanized
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Vance is such a freak
S C
nothing the republicans did after picking that guy could have won them the election all that remains to be seen is whether the democrats flew too close to the sun by going "hey hillary, what do YOU suggest?"
Kirara "Ikkyū" 🍄 /人◕ ‿‿ ◕人\
It's going to be bad, either way. The fact that Kamala had great momentum and wasted it all really annoys me. Even their current strategy, they're not doing well.
S C
I still remain convinced she's got this sown up I don't think they made any blunders big enough to actually fuck them
it was a terrible campaign, but anything other than a catastrophic fuckup would have been good enough
Kirara "Ikkyū" 🍄 /人◕ ‿‿ ◕人\
If Kamala wins, I firmly believe it's solely because of the comments about Puerto Rico at the Trump rally. Kamala did not run a very good campaign and shot herself in the foot constantly. She failed to educate voters on her policies and failed to champion policies that are popular.
Her best policy is her housing policy and she never took the time to explain it to anyone. All she ever did was say she's going to make more apartments. She completely failed to mention the important parts of that policy.
She failed to advocate for medicare for all - one of the most popular positions in the country.
It's just a mess. If they had kept up with their antagonistic strategy where they just talked shit about how fucking disgusting the GOP is right now, they could have gone far without policy, but they gave up everything that made them worthwhile.
S C
I mean I'm not even gonna pretend I know shit about her policies at all my prediction is extremely based on vibes
but it is fucking astonishing how from the moment she announced, she actually had communists going "oh fucking HELL YEAH THERE IS HOPE" and she felt the need to go "no, no, don't get excited. there's no hope"
Kirara "Ikkyū" 🍄 /人◕ ‿‿ ◕人\
I think her decision to embrace endorsements from the Chaneys and to advocate for Republicans on her cabinet had promise. I obviously don't like those policies, but she failed to capitalize on them.
The easiest way would have been to say that she's going to remake the Democratic party as a centrist party of American unity, giving a place for the Republicans who are alienated by Trump while maintaining Democratic values. But she didn't do that. She just said she is going to listen to Republicans and left it at that.
She never outlined a vision, she never spoke of transformation.
The people want change. She never offered that.
S C
there is a certain insanity to running a dual messaging campaign of "the republicans are literally, unironically nazis" (which is true) and also "I'm gonna put some of them in my cabinet" Like what are you doing
S C
well, despite all of this, I really do think this one's going to madam president the american median voter is a very unpredictable animal, to be sure, but I dunno my gut tells me they like her more and will vote because she's not the other guy
you don't need to put too much effort in when the opposition is running your public outreach for you
And I also don't think that if Harris wins, she'll necessarily be president. I think the GOP have an insider coup planned.
And besides, the Democrats aren't doing anything to ensure the election goes down fairly. Florida's election has been rigged already.
S C
well that's somewhat alarming
Kirara "Ikkyū" 🍄 /人◕ ‿‿ ◕人\
The federal election monitors have been banned from Florida polling locations and Biden won't do anything about it. I loathe that man. He's such a coward. Democrats won't do anything to protect their treasured democracy if // even if it means the democracy ends.
>>1136996 Yeah, it's hard to not have much control over your future. America can just completely tank the global economy if they do some dumb shit like, say, put a 200% tariff on everything.
S C
I do think there's some level, and I am not myself immune, of a kind of genuine apathy now though It's kinda like "yeah sure, whatever, do a 1000% tax on lumber imports, who cares man, let's see what happens"
Have none control, gonna get fucking screwed one way or the other, and many things are getting screwed the same way either way So fuck it, it'd be kinda funny to
S C
get to see everything rip apart at the seams
I'll suffer too, but at least if I make it through I can look back at it like "damn that was funny as shit"
S C
I mean we're not even truly innocent either The US is like, days out from determining whether the klan gets the nuclear codes, and we're sitting aroung like "well, those crazy americans"
Marsh shitposting on the go via telephone
What else are you meant to do about it
S C
I dunno, but I'd have been more comfortable with some sort of response I wouldn't expect one, but I'd prefer it
I think that people could come together and advocate for the UN to send people to oversee the elections. But they're afraid because if Trump wins, anyone who advocates for that is going to become his enemy.
wonder if America will elect a woman in my lifetime
AnnoS C
I've decided the chaos shape run is boring, so I'm just sending the lich run instead
I'm just gonna have to start dumping some points into survivability stuff so i don't get onetapped by everything more powerful than a goblin
!ReneWy59x.S C
part of me DOES kinda want to reclass into a priest instead of a wizard, just becasuse I don't have access to Holy magic as a wizard Or rather, I don't just like, GET holy magic for free when I sleep I still get holy magic from books and scrolls and stuff, but I don't get freebies in my dreams, which kinda sucks cause that's by far the most cost effective source of magic in Elin
S C
But, whatever I can at least respec my two extra domains later, and I want sound for sure
Paying taxes in Elin usually involves going all the way over to a city and dumping it in the tax chest with the payment But, I got some *furniture tickets* from my questing, which allow me to pick up a furniture in the associated city and claim it as my own So I just went over, paid my taxes, and took the chest, which I'm gonna place in my own home stonks
Mahou Shoujo Marsh-chan
bruh i should have gone to one of those sports betting sites and put everything on Trump. could have doubled my money.
Drank a little from a well out in a field My body mutated twice I got a +5 charisma mutation and one that makes me resistant to holy damage, but vulnerable to nether damage Which seems like a kind of win-lose thing, but as a lich I'm already very resistant to nether damage, so it's actually a big boon And my charisma was already in the toilet, so a mutation that makes me more charismatic is very welcome
I actually have 4 mutations plus an ether mutation (different system) and only one is strictly negative, which is I'm partially colorblind, giving me a pretty sizeable perception hit But I don't really use perception much, so while I do wanna remove it at some point, it's not a priority My ether mutation is a heavy carapace, making me slow as sin, but very tanky
Oh and my blood is actually boiling too, so I'm very resistant to cold, but unfortunately I'm even more vulnerable to fire than I already was
Samu /人◕ ‿‿ ◕人\
future humans are gonna look back and be like 'lool those cavepeople just put whatever in their body and let their gene expression up to the phase of the moon lmaooo they didn't even receptormaxx or mutate at midnight'
S C
"Life must have been so tough back before everyone was genetically engineered in the womb, man, how did we even make it as a species"
Samu /人◕ ‿‿ ◕人\
they'll be engineered but i bet there'll also just be dynamically altering their whole DNA on the fly by methods we can't even comprehend we only know the slightest things about how gene expression and epigenetic memory works
S C
drank some more well juice First sip, my legs are lighter, I have increased speed WE ARE MUTATION MAXING
S C
I've got so much luck stacked up, I think I'm rolling with an insane bias towards good mutations cause I've only gotten the one bad one, and that one was before I even knew mutations were a thing in the game so I was sipping well water for the ambience
S C
Another few sips, the mutation has advanced, my legs are EVEN BETTER they almost cancel out the carapace debuff now
Who needs HP when you can just mutate into a super human
Samu /人◕ ‿‿ ◕人\
they got unicorn blood in this well source or somethin
S C
all the wells in the game have a table it rolls when you take a sip Can be basically anything, from mutations, temporary paralysis, upping or decreasing your stat gain modifiers, all sorts of shit But ever since finding out you can get mutations from well water I've been sipping every time I'm in a city cause fuck it, get it twisted, if you gamble you WILL win
Samu /人◕ ‿‿ ◕人\
how uh discrete and precise is the biology simulation do you have individual organs like DF
S C
Absolute specimen >>1137084 I mean the game \\\ Oh I don't think it actually counts each body part or anything, you just have a flat HP, but I wouldn't be surprised if at some point in the game I get a notification like "your arm got crushed, get healed or suffer" But so far, no such happenings
Anno
*my body is purified*
Samu /人◕ ‿‿ ◕人\
blood boiling all the time seems healthy
Anno
thats why ya need the *purified body* yup
S C
My blood boiling is real bad cause I'm already weak to fire lmao what with the undead thing I MIGHT see about getting rid of that mutation, but it's categorized as a positive cause it's one of a pair you can get one of, the other being the reverse For strictly negative ones like the colorblindness, you can use a blessed antimutation potion to target it for removal, but for positives you gotta just roll the bones with a regular or blessed one, and I don't wanna lose the other ones
Anno
did you try pepper (ground), acv, and tumeric?
Samu /人◕ ‿‿ ◕人\
is pre-ground tumeric ok or do you have to get it whole
Anno
do as you please may if it's ground your self can save $$$$
Samu /人◕ ‿‿ ◕人\
i always hear the benefits of such herbs are greatly diminished if not obtained fresh but idk how true that is
Anno
idk sounds right
Samu /人◕ ‿‿ ◕人\
Howl do be throwin a tantrum he's greening out
Samu /人◕ ‿‿ ◕人\
despite this bein one of my fav movies of all time i realized I haven't watched it in like a decade so here we ar e
Samu /人◕ ‿‿ ◕人\
omg the two old women climbing stairs scene i forgot lmaooo
Those were already low to begin with, so this is a rough one But I can cope with it If anything, low STR is arguably somewhat good in a fucked up way, because weightlifting only levels while I'm overburdened in the first place It does impact a bunch of other skills too, so I gotta raise it for sure, but I'm producing a lot of good foods now
S C
Hell I might need a new fridge
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AnnoS C
big ol' base renovation project has begun Turning this cave into a proper home There's no natural light, of course, so everything has to be lit with candles and the like, though sooner or later I will get up the tech tree and I can start putting up electric lights I already have a fridge, after all, cause you're just given that for free in the cave start, presumably because the game takes pity on you seeing as your base location will never naturally grow any food or anything It's currently powered by the exercise of a single dog It's not hooked up to a generator or nothing, it just kinda generates enough power to run the fridge by running around in the base
S C
Though, man the resources are gonna be a pain to get Wood is easy enough, you can chop chop like crazy very quickly But finding the stones I need is a different matter That and the grass, as stupid as that may sound
Anno
It sounds like a a productive cave, no scratch that more like a lab. Sounds like the dog's on a tread mill Maybe alot of produce can be grown vegis are very important. A wood stove can be very radiating. Gotta keep the temp at a very comfortable pitch. Big candels are good for long burning and, it would be helpful if there was a library. Screen are lame to look at al the time. Just wanna read some books again in good ol' paper.
S C
I do have a bookshelf actually, yeah It's mostly just scrolls in there though Books I just read as I find them, assuming my passive identification skill at least confirms they're not cursed Don't wanna read a cursed book in a dungeon, can and will straight up kill your ass
S C
before anything though, i gotta set up the kitchen and stuff I only have a bonfire and a small pot over a different campfire for now, but still Might appropriate a BBQ set later, no idea how to get it "legitimately" so I'll have to either save up influence to grab it, or straight up steal the fucking thing maybe >>1137110 On permadeath mode you've got the mandate of heaven, and as long as you're above 50% of your max stamina, you can't die, it just dinks your stamina once you hit 0 instead So you can safely do lethal stuff at home as long as you sleep first
Anno
>>1137108 >>Don't wanna read a cursed book in a dungeon, can and will straight up kill your ass
well some books are better off not read then, in that case. Luckly not being able to die and or not being able to be killed are swell perks can.
look if the book is more grimoire than book, with iron rivets and chains and a massive padlock, and the book is levitating and straining against the ancient stone dais it's isolated on in the deep reaches of the library, maybe you shouldn't read it
Samu /人◕ ‿‿ ◕人\
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Samu /人◕ ‿‿ ◕人\Mahou Shoujo Marsh-chan
I told my boss yesterday I was working from home, which isn't usually a big deal. 9 times out of 10 it's like >yep. >no worries. >I'm working from home today also
But yesterday she was like >How come?
and I'm like damn dude suddenly i need to justify it? and then i was cc'ing her into every single email I sent out and issuing meeting invites like >SEE LOOK I AM WORKING
I want out anyway. I'm thinking in 2025 I start looking and seeing what other alternative careers options are around
Samu /人◕ ‿‿ ◕人\
sounds good i bet they'll sense your pulling-away vibe and try to promote you
Samu /人◕ ‿‿ ◕人\
> AI for Real-time Fusion Plasma Behavior Prediction and Manipulation this is literally the plot from Spider-Man 2 use a neural chip to contain the fusion plasma just need the octopus arms
Mahou Shoujo Marsh-chan
lately I've been watching videos about people living off the grid in their tinyhomes. honestly maybe that's the move
Samu /人◕ ‿‿ ◕人\
oh no not the van fluencers
Mahou Shoujo Marsh-chan
stay cucked, house-cel
Samu /人◕ ‿‿ ◕人\
i'll let the municipality suck away my sewage like a good citizen