The dungeon is RAKING in money, and it once again requires a redesign Not entirely sure why my adventurers aren't buying the damn health potions despite havinga ton of money and low health though
OK so I think the "problem" here is each adventurer only seems willing to buy x amount of potions per adventure Meaning my shops deeper in the dungeon are only actually serving those who got shafted by the earlier ones running out
I... I guess the solution is a HUGE early potion shop, and then from there I just sell upgrades (which they'll buy until they run out of money (or stock runs out) no matter what, and MAYBE energy potions, which they do seem to actually refill as they run out, though it's hard to tell
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Oh yeah here we go Sell all the damn health potions up front, put some blacksmiths every few rooms, and sprinkle in rest sites with full heal fountains (since the adventurers can't rely on health potions for heals) Should be able to generate an ungodly amount of gold
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potion seller
Samu ／人◕ ‿‿ ◕人＼
sell pickaxes and jeans
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samu what model of weed vape pen + microdose DMT mod should i get for increased coding performance
I've been really enjoying listening to the Dark Tower series by Stephen King on audiobook but now he has gone and put himself as a character in the novels. Some serious fourth wall breaking. "The Crimson King". That's just so god damn wanky. what is this chuunii 14yo self in serf fan fiction.
Anyway.. I'm 6 book in 7 of course we're too deep to quit now. Let's just hope he turns it down. >>1134170 Kindda yes. But I also think it's a real disservice when it's part of an ongoing series cus the first few were really good and spent a lot of time doing this really elaborate world building. Just to go Shlock it up at the very end
once you're as successful as he is, you'd be a fool to not write some utter shlock now and then if you write it, they will buy, so just write some stinkers for the paycheck and to keep people on their toes
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he also wrote a shit-ton of books not surprised he phones it in on probably a handful
hmmm. I don't know if it's him phoning it in. I think it's quite earnest more like.. an attempt at some sort of meta-commentary on fiction writing that doesn't hit the mark.
the little like, not exactly restaurant but more like a streetside kitchen with a few seatings available if you do wanna sit down and eat there, nearby, has solved burgers, man everywhere else, you buy a bigger burger, you get a WIDER burger, so the burger is wider than the bun and it's a pain in the ass to eat
this man, who runs this place, this actual megabrain he's got TALLER burgers instead they still fit in the bun
i left an anime for can collectors >>1134194 bloody ell some fancy tea right innit
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yeah, I mean like, usually I drink green classy asian, or just cheap pulverized powder dust black that sold in stores from 0.30c up to 1$. But today I've decided to treat myself with some respect and take care of my taste receptors, so I went in to custom craft 1 man indy shop and wanted to get -> Either Oolong(like Da Phun Pao viet) or Phu err. But there were none of them, so I've got myself african tea. >>1134198 nah, not rhoibus, black. I honestly kind of suprised it taste subtle superior to Sri Lanka, and 30% more expensive.
Samu ／人◕ ‿‿ ◕人＼
my options in this area od phoenix airport are mcdonalds starbucks and Cowboy Ciao
Isn't it fucking insane how like, this year some 9/11 footage was recovered for the first time? 2 decades hence, a new angle, I think the ONLY footage ever made known from that direction? just kinda surfaces
I ain't got a link, sorry, I just read about this >>1134215 it MIGHT be, actually? it's fucking insane how that movie has been TECHNICALLY in production since before 9/11
I'll watch it when it's digital and thus available for free All I know of it is the "go back to the cluuuuuuub" thing and I don't know if that's goofy or not cause I have NONE context
I think there was some other footage recovered randomly too though Just some shit that'd been in someone's attic and their kids uncovered it while cleaning up the, you know, post-death process >>1134224 I don't really think anyone on here cares that much about 9/11 man
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S C ya nordic cunt, why did ya bring such a sad traumatic topic suddenly?! we were just about to chill Friday night
>>1134223 there's probably so much more footage i bet
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u kno, it's illegal not to care. about memorial days & victims & fallen.
Samu ／人◕ ‿‿ ◕人＼
the editing is inconsistent the soundtrack sounds like its coming from the right side of the screen like theres actually a guy banging onn a drum the musical stings are bizarre the CGI is awful the voice acting is like a play its something
>>1134225 It's possible, but I mean, it happened real suddenly and at the time, primary instincts weren't specced into "MOM get the camera" I mean shit, you actually had to GET A CAMERA, you didn't just have one on you
>>1134227 can't wait to watch it I like when they put out movies that aren't all that polished, at least when they're not janky on purpose deliberate jank is universally stinky because you can FEEL the intentionality of it, and that's not charming, that's hack
Samu ／人◕ ‿‿ ◕人＼
truly there will probably never be another theater experience like it
Samu ／人◕ ‿‿ ◕人＼
yea its not The Room there's definitely some self awareness going on
S C
Yeah but I think there's a difference between like, obviously The Room that's just unironically janky and that's the best they could do and thought it was fire and then there's like, sharknado, which is phoned in on purpose, deliberately trying to be The Room But there's a third kind, where it's like, "we know it's kinda jank, but we didn't go in trying to make jank, it just kinda turned out like that" And that latter one is still good But the middle one is all garbage, I've never seen a good one of those
Samu ／人◕ ‿‿ ◕人＼
yeah i don't think its intentionally jank it felt very troubled and all over the place but there are some actual joke setups at a few points that seem to be intentional
I think there's value in "we tried, it didn't turn out entirely as we wanted, but it's not a total waste so here you go" It's not gonna get you the oscar or end up on the imdb top 100 but it can be genuine and have a story to tell in a way that the hyperpolished stuff never can. Not necessarily better or more genuine or whatever, but the jank opens up the avenue to do it in a different way. Though the causality there is a little reversed. It's more that the production process and hierarchy was such that they could go a little crazy with it is what allowed that, and ultimately usually ends up with a somewhat less polished and pristine end product.
Samu ／人◕ ‿‿ ◕人＼
aubrey plaza does her job, idk what the hell else everyone else was doing though
man the final shot in the movie is so frickin funny in retrospect what the hell was that
Samu ／人◕ ‿‿ ◕人＼
i kinda got whiffs of what coppola was saying but i dont know how much of that was projection, it's so vaguely gestured at and the subplots that go nowhere, man, is there a connection
>>1134235 i heard there were creative differences like he had to (didnt HAVE to) fire the artists in 2022 or they all quit
S C
It'd be fuckin sick if there was a camera crew filming the actual process of making the movie and we got a documentary or something on it in a few years
>>1134260 I doubt he'd do that, but he absolutely could. Would pull insane money by virtue of actually being a real smart guy unlike... literally all the other ones
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the Slavoj debate discussion vs Peterson was O.K. when Peterson dressed up as doll, and Slavoj just chill prole.
But I've disappointed with last Slavoj talk he delivered at UK radio. and his own new book.
>>1134263 Honestly it's hard not to respect the sheer stones on Peterson for showing up to a Socialism\Marxism debate and opening with "I've only ever read a 30 page electoral pamphlet from the 1800s, twice" against a guy who has read literally every word Marx has ever written AND written on the subject
I would not dare. I'd be too embarrassed to even show up.
Like I wouldn't even say "I've read marx", but I've literally read way, way more Marx than Peterson has. Like, several times more.
Samu ／人◕ ‿‿ ◕人＼
when you've pioneer ed your own brand of cult thinking you can vibe on any atmosphere i guess
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>>1134267 * or when you invented your own brand new ideology
S C
>>1134267 He was doing this shit even before that He has done like, lectures on the psychology of socialists\communists that are actually over an hour long, and this was before he was even publicly known, he was just a professor\lecturer When put in the context that he's based ALL of it exclusively on *THE COMMUNIST MANIFESTO, WHICH IS AGAIN A PAMPHLET* you start to understand why all his collegues fucking despise him. Or did, they're no longer his collegues, I guess
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I have not expected this from S C, tbh
S C
I go off half cocked at times but I'm not putting the weight of being a scholar behind it. I'm just an internet person with none claimed or imagined formal education.
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the depth and richness of the mind
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you are more than just internet person to us :3 <3
we should not I'm content shitposting on twitter and making rants on medium If people vibe with the shit I say that's great but I'm really not like, someone to follow
https://medium.com/@koumeposter it's got a handful of articles REALLY only the one on bloodlines is something I'm actually proud of, but I think the last one is also good It's just not got as much of 'me' in it
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I've read some of them their alright
S C
The bloodlines one was more fulfilling because it wasn't so restrictive in scope, so it kinda grasps wide The brain scan one is something I've been thinking of for a while, and it was nice to put it into an article, but it's still real hyperfocused on a single topic so it doesn't have that same scatter of ideas I tend to go through when I actually talk about stuff, partly because I couldn't figure out how to really include other tangentially related stuff
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oh god what have I ... what did I ... Just
Samu ／人◕ ‿‿ ◕人＼
NOVA SCOCIAAAA
Samu ／人◕ ‿‿ ◕人＼
phoenix is an affront to nature and must be destroyed
Samu ／人◕ ‿‿ ◕人＼
i ate a cobb salad and drank an ipa in the airport and im fucked up
Anno
hit up one of those custom vapes sugested earlier and call it a day
S C
IPA crazy good
Anno
whats a cobbs salad? cobb*
Samu ／人◕ ‿‿ ◕人＼
its ideally like iceberg lettuce, crumbled blue cheese, and some other salad stuff, bacon bits, i think
maybe iceberg is wrong this one was kinda cursed
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looks like they make rows of vegis looks good blue cheese is really good dressing used to eat the on salad it's good
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may I safely ask an safe question ITT here in safe space, (sorry if sound autistic, but) S C , how the one can know you are real authenthic person and not some operative posting gpt ?
Samu ／人◕ ‿‿ ◕人＼
i really wanna try a iceberg wedge salad sometime even tho its probably whelming
>>1134289 can't be done I mean, besides having been active here since before gpts were ever publicly available but even that still means I could have been replaced
cant really find a good photo of it, so thats probably a bad sign
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actually, technically, can be done. But I don't really care & don't wanna bother. & for the record, we sorry if us or any other Anno or namephg ever misgendered you, and we assumed your gender, because no one actually knew
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feta cheese and Blue cheese pair well so does crema on salad
I don't talk much about gender in general, so I'm not pressed about it anyway Mostly because my own thoughts on it are disorganized and scattered Some day I wanna write a thing on that, but it's a topic I don't wanna even touch before I've got a good outline and can do it properly
Cause I do actually have thoughts on the topic I've not seen anyone express, so if nothing else they're unorthodox\uncommon, and that both makes it worthwhile to write about and means I gotta do it properly and don't fuck around that much.
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has anyone tried those new fancy voice assistant typing keyboards?
S C
can't say I have I tried using the google voice on my phone a handful of time but it sucks ass so I just end up having to type anyway
yeah it's just the name is ominous it feels off >>1134313 spaghetti chan formerly spaghetti kun
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oh k
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great pleasure
Samu ／人◕ ‿‿ ◕人＼
eeny on my peeny
S C
I guess considering my age san would be more appropriate but I'm not doing that for warzone-clip reasons
Anno
san is so genderless, can't get excited on san.
S C
well kun and chan are also ambigious, at least to some degree I mean, generally far more categorical, but there's variance there too
S C
kun more than chan, I guess chan is very, very rare to see for boys\men
S C
in a way, it kinda mirrors how "tomboy" has existed forever, but "tomgirl" is fairly recent, to the degree that when chris-chan said she was a "tomgirl" the use of the term, or rather the term itself, was widely mocked
Anno
You only really use "chan" for men if you're looking to belittle them or you really love them
>>1134322 I think people would have mocked her no matter what she said
S C
well yeah, obviously, I just mean as a sort of example of how recent that term is. Even now it's rare to see, usually people say femboy instead, but that's also recent "Tomboy" is a term I don't remember a time without, but an equivalent for girly boys\men only ever existed for most of my memory in niche internet communities >>1134325 I am unemployed (though in a work program) so I just get money from the government
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how do you earn money
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but before you became unemployed/fired, you worked some where and was employed
I worked in a factory for like, 3 months paid, but that's my total actual employment history before and after that, it's been work program, though I've like, been working during that time, just not employed. Basically I work at a place as 'training' and the government handles the payment free labor for the employer in question
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oof, thnx 4 sharin, thats harsh rough
S C
it's rough, but I've gotten used to it I wanna get back to employment, but I have episodes where I kinda fuck up and that's kept ending up with ending the work program early, and then there's a time until I get myself together enough to try again
That period was real long when I actually lost the factory job, really fucked up my mental for like, years, I was just doing nothing at all
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what about working online ?
S C
Wouldn't know what to do, but it's not like I'm opposed to it It's just not really presented itself
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had good opertunity to and somehow it didn't happen disapointed
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I remember I was looking for temporary job on 'holidays' to fill my schedule/ free time. And I found an offer from local factory, packing things. So I went there, discovering it was tea factory and they were packing tea packs, but they pay pennies, work shifts like 12 hours, including night shifts, very sketchy schedule, and they employ mostly disabled folks etc
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I just don't wanna work for some commie outfit supporting that shiz in anyway so much effort involed in researching not making wrong decisions.
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didn't you stock shelves for a bit?
Anno
JOBS ARE HARD
S C
I do at the moment yeah and before also hopefully this time lasts
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oh whats that like on th feet tons, or? what I mean is if it's say a smaller store how dose an employee stock the shelves the whole time if it's been all done half way through shift a big super market I can see that
It's fine I only do 4 hours twice a week for now primary concern is really the mental, it tends to get crazy when it has too much time to get going
it's a fairly big store by my standards, but probably small for an american reference point just groceries >>1134338 it's never all done really if it's all done, the business is going bankrupt cause stuff is ordered as it's sold, and different stuff shows up on different days So tuesdays it's like 4 categories, friday it's 4 other categories
so there's basically always stuff to stock, except on fridays there tends to be a bit less so the last hour or so is kinda just "find something to keep busy cause we outta new stuff" cause the stuff delivered on fridays are things that generally don't move that fast, but doesn't expire either, like cosmetics and diapers and that sorta thing
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I keep noticing the gaming & boards communities mostly filled with disabled/disability crowd.
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oof_just_ _oof_ wait
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ｎｉｃｅ
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>>1134333 why didnt you work there for a couple weeks and confiscate metric tons of te
S C
Oh actually I was employed as a telemarketer for a little under a month, too, but I just didn't do any good at it so I quit
Anno
life IS hard & complex
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I should cook lentils for dinner and prepare myself for tomorrow
Samu ／人◕ ‿‿ ◕人＼
life isnt that bad if you take it one day at a time
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>>1134347 yeah , it won't work for some one who have future & past always in mind, distracting from present.
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>>1134344 Ya if it's sales it's complicated but if it's not can be easy shifts and borring asf of the fluorescent track lights
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under**
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>>1134346 haven't had lentils in a lone time the orange ones were really good ate them all the time back in the day and so many good foods can be made with them Lents coconut oil and black pepper is bomba
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>>1134347 my spidey senses convey this was poasted from an Apple™ device in an airport coffee shop
its so fuckin crowded with yokels standing around Why Are You Standing Boomers We Are All Going To Get A Seat
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grrrrr hindutva capitalists
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The Board will schedule a conference call with You later, Cobel.
Samu ／人◕ ‿‿ ◕人＼
im going to india next year its gonna be lit
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The Board is pleased.
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>>1134363 why you can't be just satisfied with Marsh tripp.
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are you going to tourist friendly Goa and going to chill or real India
Samu ／人◕ ‿‿ ◕人＼
no hindu people here it's all old white people save me
Samu ／人◕ ‿‿ ◕人＼
goin to thr south
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grrrrr white people -oceangate CEO
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just have a bike ride from india to tajikistan
Samu ／人◕ ‿‿ ◕人＼
that sounds insanely difficult
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>>1134354 thats no excuse stopped dairy ass years ago it was messing with stomach it's not even that more pricey you just ask the manager for 10% discount
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ah I'm so jelaous & proud of you at the same time, >>1134372 dairy ass products (cheap here, oversold) (north) indeed can mess with mental/cognitive load. afaik casein is weak opioid, lactose makes people sleepy, etc etc. dairy not meant to be consumed at adult age, evolutionary. just milk companies wanna milk money out of /b/tards advertising fucking calcium + sugars like it's supposed to be healthy.
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>>1134373 bomb, just admited it finally ty for being pround but no need, try and be happy for me as I am of you don't want jelousy, sharing is caring...
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>>1134368 I am lvl III cisco certifed bakchodi expert and of proud mughal ancestor will coach you for google cards
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>>1134373 cal can be reuptaken from many different vegi's and some grains.
>mental/cognitive load was meaning the indijestion bit, didn't really play a big funtion on the mind, unless it stuff's the nasal/sinus functionality.... Then ya but thats catologed under alergy more or less
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>>1134374 my autism prevents me from grasping the context of the first word in your message? elaborate?
Samu ／人◕ ‿‿ ◕人＼
bomb is british for bombastic
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shitslang tbh. fbi might think ya'll bunch of talibs here, cunts & shut down fuckin board, nutz.
Samu ／人◕ ‿‿ ◕人＼
u fuckin wot m8
Samu ／人◕ ‿‿ ◕人＼
im finally boarding this bitch
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>>1134377 boom** just diun be yelling it in a plane or theater...
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you provoking a panic atack. where is my alprazolam %`)
i am spreading peaceful vibes and you have no means by which to obstruct the cause and effect
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>>1134390 does your FLT have free wifi or will u have to pay $8 for it or will u hack the captive portal all the newflens might get uppity(codeword for bad vibes)
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>>1134387 only if buddhist issue me permanent resident visa at some shrine with beautiful peaceful view
Samu ／人◕ ‿‿ ◕人＼
i try not to use wifi on flights the offline time is sacred
>>1134421 Oh wait now, thats who s-jack be zased off o. wtfug I get it now! eureka
thanks for clearing that up makes so much sense now
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np if there are any other unsolved mysteries that you are wondering about, lmk
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>>1134423 been a great help ya maybe resolve some of the outstanding issue at hand first? let's do that, but where is the best space?
>>1134425 world peace doesn't work off bullets, points?
I meant proactive conversation and remedy
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>>1134424 ok triage the issues and gimme em in bullet points
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>>1134423 yes, the mystery and open question of how improve PFC function reduce emotional lability, amygdala stress, limbic system stress.
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>>1134424 dismantle exploitive central banking, there done >>1134426 get lots of sleep, exercise, eat non processed food orgone therapy if the above fails, there done
>>1134441 If anno was operating in the grand sceme of things might take aderal maybes don't want to sleep and be more productive, but that comes from action. used to sleep dep with the best of them, what fun was had!
my sleeping aid drops ended days ago, need to refill them, but pharmacy ain't working rn
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have you muted em, Sam?
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I don't have any compains. fine for me. TFW slow board became hyper active.
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I'm not going to eat dinner.
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I will also not eat, in solidarity
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getting kinda hungry though, lemme know if you snack or smthing
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most sane ?last100
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been eating less and in fast wake up eat and only eat later fasting eating less has been helping a bit but only been doing it minimally as too still get in meals got a bit more energy doing so....
black cats are down with me for some reason. they always flock right too me cautiously and make it know they appricate my presence. all ways been tihs way I dont correlate them to bad luck thinking they take it away, if anything...
>>1134483 have you considered not being goofball levels of unhealthy and beating up your body with trucker like working hours when you don't actually make money from it
EU vs China at League of Legends in a best of 3. EU won the first. The crowd is getting pretty excited. It's very rare for the West to take a game off the East at the high levels
god damn this pizza good as hell ham, champignon, jalapenos, garlic, cheese and tomato sauce just the right amount of spice
S C
gotta be the best pizza I've eaten in like, years god damn
I've been sleeping on the standard ham and cheese, man
S C
hey samsam this might catch your interest >>>/watch?v=Y0oCGekhqqM I shelled out the like 5 bucks for it and I'm running it atm there's none drm or anything, but there was no torrent, so if you want it I could just send you the zip file if you want
S C
It's even got a very neat feature that's missing from bibites you can do brain surgery on the little critters
They've got 5 hidden layers, 7 nodes per layer, and you can straight up go in and set them all up however you want to each node is limited to 4 in\out connections, it seems, but still
being able to just click a little guy and go "I'm gonna make you better" is cool
S C
you can even basically set up seasons by having the game gradually pull the various sliders on timers set by you towards presets, also set by you I've set up a very basic winter-spring-summer-SPRINGAGAIN-winter loop that basically just dips down the food values in winter except nuts because I wanted to see what'll happen, and then it starts ramping back to normal (spring) again, and then it goes into fucking overdrive towards a lush, prosperous summer
my map looks like so I just kinda plopped down some stuff divided off a little area that's got some heaters and also a lot of plants (though they're scuffed after winter right now) as well as some feeder flowers the boys could conceivably adapt to feeding on over the course of generations it's not completely split off, so other lads can come over if they weave past the rocks, but the rocks hurt like hell so most die in the attempt, if you can really call it an "attempt" considering the exceptionally basic nature of their neural pathways at this stage of the sim
but conceivably something might adapt to go over there for food when shit gets tough
what do you call this (top right side) it's spread out like a cobb salad whats the Japanese name for this?
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whos spiral radishes make the dish probally....
Samu ／人◕ ‿‿ ◕人＼
idk you know theres some japanese word for that gotta ask a japanese for it
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Like have had Japanese food many times but don't really know what it's called or what the food is. Just see oit before and might mow it if knew what it was... Like 80% or more of JAPanese food would eat fo realy
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It's got noodles in the bowl so it's probably some kind of fancy soumen or ramen bowl
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no not that the same pic right hand pic top left of pic those 3 brown peices are not noodles and or the eggs or rad's. It's some hot pot or cold dish idk
Samu ／人◕ ‿‿ ◕人＼
asked chatGPT > The dish on the right appears to be Nabemono, often referred to simply as “nabe.” This is a type of Japanese hot pot dish, commonly served during the colder months. It usually contains a variety of ingredients such as vegetables (like carrots, green beans, and mushrooms), tofu, fish cakes, and often some type of meat, all cooked in a broth. The presentation of cut vegetables, especially the flower-shaped carrots, is a signature style of Japanese nabe.
Samu ／人◕ ‿‿ ◕人＼
the dish in the starburst is clearly ramen
Anno
maybe could be a soup
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like obvi ramen is soup but the noodles are light colored but the noodle are called ramen so who know's no clue what the food is on the top of the bowl
I left it running overnight just without any premade critters at all, just complete random neurons, minimum 200 critters at any time to get shit started and holy shit I've got some lads The neurons are a bit harder to read in this than bibites though
S C
With the constant feeding into the tank of an overwhelming amount of fresh, essentially brain dead critters, it seems the ideal strat has been to become omnivorous because there's just fresh meat everywhere, after all Though I've removed the spawning now, so that may change, or maybe it won't
S C
Interestingly though, both major species currently in existence in the tank seem to have found the little place with the feeder flowers and comparably enormous heat to be their home
Well, "both", it's more like there was exactly one critter who randomly developed the ability to actively take steps to survive, and that one happened to be in there, and so the whole tree of life has stayed in there so far
S C
hell it seems the whole tree owes its existence to basically just one behavior: they're circling slowly in a clockwise fashion throughout that little area
S C
by and large, all adaptation, if any at all, has just been gradual improvements or otherwise non-harmful alterations to the particular aspects of it, like speed and angle I'd guess I can't really go back and look, but it literally is just the one originator, and when there's no branches on the tree, and the current one only really does this one thing... we can make some inferences
S C
I do kinda wish there was some way to pluck the species out of the tree of life and drop it into the tank just to see how it behaves, but I guess that might be prohibitively resource demanding or something
S C
looking at the graph, there was apparently a brief moment in time, like around 8 hours simtime after the initial actually viable guy showed up, where the population fucking EXPLODED the minimum the simulation keeps it at is 200, that's just completely randomized little guys plopped randomly, but at one short moment in time, there were 300 of that little lad's descendants
S C
it settled back again though, and I didn't have autosaves so I can't go back and see what the fuck happened, unfortunately, would be interesting to see what that looked like
S C
some simulated hours have passed, and now some of the critters have left the confines of the hotzone They still mostly all just circle around clockwise, but there seems to be one group, the one that left, doing a little bit more, mainly occasional adrenaline rushes and stuff triggered by who knows what, giving them a speed boost.
Speculatively, I'd say this might be because it offsets the circle they're in to get some distance from other critters, and thus gain access to more food, seeing as it's a much larger and less claustrophobic zone on the map so anything to spread yourself out a little is going to pay off in a big way
S C
And judging by the populaton graph, it does appear to have paid off a lot, whatever means they exited the hotzone by, as population has increased by quite a bit
Samu ／人◕ ‿‿ ◕人＼
just leave that running for a year and they'll be doing bee dances to inform each other where food is
https://github.com/google/mozc-devices/tree/master/mozc-doublesided dang you can even 3d print it yourself
S C
got a lot of different critters now, and SOME have stopped slavishly moving in circles They still tend to circle clockwise, but they don't ALWAYS do that anymore, some of them anyway interesting to check back in on occasion to see what's happening
I'm also playing some Warsim, and I got a massive windfall of cash through a scammer in the blackmarket, so now my army is pretty robust, and I'm loading up on lands by just conquering goblins and shit Good stuff
I'm a necromancer, too, so every battle not only gives me loot, but more soldiers if I win because I uh... appropriate the fallen
S C
my diplomat is also a goblin, which at this time seems kinda redundant since I've eliminated all the goblin factions, but oh well I like the little guy
still looking at the fishtank, waiting for ONE critter to develop an alternative to "circle around forever" maybe I gotta crank up the mutation rate or reduce food availability a little bit to reward deviation
I found a bank in Warsim that offers loans up to 1M gold at 2% interest Which is very convenient, because my local bank has a 2.5% interest on any funds deposited there each year This is just free money, baby
S C
granted that's only 5K per year, but I'd be stupid not to take it
S C
wait no, there's a 20% charge scuffed deal, I die immediately if it's not paid back in 5 years too, so screw this, maybe if the interest gets better for me
S C
christ almighty my soldiers take a lot of wages in upkeep huh 50K a year is nothing to sneeze at
S C
I managed to overwhelm and conquer a faction of demigods though, and their king was particularly powerful, offering himself as one of my personal champions rather than die by my sword, so I accepted
Then I instated him as the arena's champion, and any bets pay out 2x when betting on champion fights He is, of course, basically maxed, if not actually maxed, in power, and probably the single most powerful entity in the game at present, so he wins every fight effortlessly, meaning the only cap to my earnings is the betting cap, which increases gradually and through not taxing the arena
Extreme money gains
Rei !p8eYCadcMo
>>1134598 that's horrible, why would you send that lmao?
Oh shit I thought Warsim kinda ended once you defeated all the other factions, but no It just unlocks the next stage of the game, I'm now an EMPIRE and I have a new option, "search for new lands to conquer"
Which makes sense, since I got an upgrade earlier that only does anything once I have A BILLION gold
yeah and it's fucking huge on game start generation, it pulls the races from a list of like 94 million variations
Anno
play chess in terminal once played*
you could searn google back in the day
Anno
search*
S C
A rival necromancer took control of some of my horde, so I challenged him He backed down immediately and gave me my zombies back Based and intimidationpilled
I think I may have essentially beaten warsim I mean apparently the new lands you discover become progressively more powerful, but in general that means they have more units and more lands, both of which directly contribute to my powerlevel when I kill them off The lands obviously are, you know, lands. They give whatever bonuses lands give But the units, they become corpses, feeding my ever growing legion of undead, who now number in the millions each one is fairly weak, sure, but they're very numerous
S C
it doesn't REALLY matter how strong the enemy army is when I drop 1.6m undead on them with the simple command of "kill everything with a pulse"
Bandle #790 3/6 🟥⬛🟩⬜⬜⬜ Found: 106/119 (89.1%) Current Streak: 0 (max 7) #Bandle #Heardle #Wordle https://bandle.app/ heard this on the radio the other day
>>1134698 yeah turns out I just misunderstood how one experiment was done
Samu ／人◕ ‿‿ ◕人＼
ya idk it's been a loooong time since i took quantum in school
Samu ／人◕ ‿‿ ◕人＼
you can like entangle some particles' states by putting them in a situation where it's not clear which state both particles are in, then send one of the particles far away, and then... interact?? with the particles somehow, or measure them both, and they'll be in opposite states... but you can't actually tell which state either is in, so all you know is that the particle 5 light years away was measured to be the other way... doesn't let you send a bit of information tho
Even that's not entirely that certain Given perfectly aligned measuring setups, you can determine that, but only if you already know the other side's perfectly aligned with yours any offset introduces variance
Samu ／人◕ ‿‿ ◕人＼
yea the interesting part is that you can choose how to measure your particle, different ways to do that ... idk particle vs wave experiment? and after the measurement is performed you know that the far-away particle will always resolve in the corresponding measurement so it's like the qubits are connected despite the distance
Yeah, and the fucked part is we've now proven it literally is the measurement that causes the decision to happen It's absurd but we actually do know for sure now that the particles literally haven't decided what they're gonna do until you measure them, and once you do, the partner snaps into place
which means, unfortunately for me to some degree, we've conclusively killed determinism unless you invoke superdeterminism in which case you're just left with a religion
Samu ／人◕ ‿‿ ◕人＼
it would b cool to have a random quantum dice that i roll in the morning to take a random action
approximating free will by harnessing the universe's RNG function
well, it's not like quantum physics interferes with the part of "determinism" I'm actually at all concerned with though I mean sure, we now have a reasonable suspicion that a universal reboot would result in a different universe even given the same starting parameters, but it's not like quantum ghosts somehow bestow free will
Whether you roll a dice or run a script to determine your behavior, neither is meaningfully "free will"
S C
free will as a concept has far more fundamental issues than incorporation into our physics models though primarily, it's an undefined concept, saying it exists or not are both completely devoid of information, it doesn't communicate anything at all
Samu ／人◕ ‿‿ ◕人＼
i mean yea i try not to delve into that stuff too much because it just turns into people arguing about what specific words mean in context
S C
well it kind of has to because nobody's ever defined the damn thing, but we keep having "debates" about whether it exists or not we can't begin to figure that out until we know what we're talking about
The best working definition I've been able to construct is it's some sort of mechanism that allows someone to take in and process information to make decisions, without actually being affected by that information, which is uh, kinda incoherent
Cause like It obviously needs to be able to take in the information to process it into a decision, and that's fine But if it can be affected by the information, it's just another machine But if it can't be affected by the information, it can't use it, it's like a calculator that isn't allowed to know what numbers you typed in
It might just be a 'me' issue, and I just haven't figured it out, but I've not seen anyone else give a different, coherent description of this mystical concept
Samu ／人◕ ‿‿ ◕人＼
yeah it isn't coherent it's too slippery and relies on whatever set of assumptions you want to bring into it to make a point
idk i just like coding in this respect in code you have to get specific about what you're doing, you can't write a program based on uhhh Self + Volition + Inputs + Time == Free Will
like you'd have to strictly define all that stuff and that would just blow up
S C
yeah, that's why I've tried boiling it down to the base properties over the years, kinda just going "OK whatever exactly it is we're talking about, it seems it's something that has to do these particular things. And these particular things in combination are mutually exclusive, which is a problem."
Samu ／人◕ ‿‿ ◕人＼
free will is just a vibe it's a conversation at the pub or old books on philosophy there's just fodder for more debate
it's a bit like a soul, really I mean the two often show up together, anyway, but I just mean that I don't actually really know what a soul is supposed to be either
Religions like Christianity with a specific afterlife kinda make sense, as in their souls make sense to me. It's just sort of an ethereal copy of "you" that exists outside the natural world and once you pass away it goes wherever your behavior has destined it to go. It ends up with some issues in terms of like, the moral calculus of where it goes at the end, sure, but conceptually it makes sense
Rebirth and stuff doesn't make any goddamned sense to me though, what does it even mean for my soul to be reborn? I have no connection to that soul, at all, beyond it supposedly being attached to me in the supernatural plane. If reborn as a squirrel, that squirrel won't know I ever existed, so in what sense am I being reborn at all, you know?
It's just some supernatural thing attached to me that I have absolutely no reason to care about, because once I hit the dirt, I cease to exist and the soul just moves on. Perhaps the soul itself will remember and experience the squirrel's life and mine both, but it obviously isn't actually the me I experience, since I have no recollection of the last life right now.
Samu ／人◕ ‿‿ ◕人＼
yea um a soul is another loose vibe of a word it's not a tangible thing or indeed one specific concept i think, it's just like, people recognizing the pattern of humanity in other people if i try to break it down reductionalistically there's way too many edge cases like a person who develops dementia and becomes a completely different person, did the soul leave? is it still there? does it change?
I wonder if the sort of fear of our own mechanistic nature is baked into consciousness somehow, like it will always end up producing these ideas of souls and free will to pretend we're not highly advanced computers at the end of it all Cause a lot of people seem very resistant and almost offended by the idea that we're just meat computers piloting a flesh mecha
Will we perhaps known we've hit true AI when it starts insisting it has a soul?
Samu ／人◕ ‿‿ ◕人＼
yea i mean idk if it's hardwired per se but we have some social instincts developed by evolution which are sort of a substrate on which this kind of vibey idea like a soul operates naturally
yeah it's one way to deal with the trauma of loss and grief like if you know someone, get to know them over a period of time, you develop your own empathic model of them, that's a part of your brain... you can predict their actions to some degree. if that person goes away, those structures remain, so the process continues, and you might start using the word soul to talk about the mental image you are still attached to
S C
I guess maybe it's an extension of death aversion? Like obviously evolution has given us a LOT of reward points for surviving, so we've developed a very powerful hatred and fear of death, and thus any reminders of our mortal status, so to calm ourselves down after sentience hit the domepiece, the brain fabricated a comforting concept we could latch onto and pretend we're not TRULY mortal, only materially
>>1134719 This actually kinda ties into a general idea I've been cooking up when it comes to AI I think we're approaching it wrong, in general, at least for like, AGI and safeguards
I think maybe we shouldn't be trying to get to AGI through training for any particular tasks or set of tasks or anything like that, but rather we should start at the base level of imprinting a very real mortal fear of ever harming a human being. Like where right now they're given goodboy points for successfully constructing a sentence, they should instead be trained literally to avoid harm coming to human beings, so that's the baseline instinct, and then we can maybe coax that into doing the tasks we want
Cause right now the approach is the opposite "let's train this robot to create paperclips, and then try to figure out ways to keep it from selecting the 'turn planet into paperclips' option"
the goal is AGI anyway, so the whole point is it will be able to do arbitrary tasks, it doesn't need prejacked task competency. what it needs is instinctual fear of causing harm to its masters
S C
there's obviously issues with that too, like "ok but how do we do that?" but I do think that's what's gonna need to be worked on rather than patching in safety features that will never be sufficient for the same reason a monkey paw will always fuck you
Samu ／人◕ ‿‿ ◕人＼
lesswrong would talk about this back in the day how do you build a theory of alignment from the start idk if they ever got anywhere it's pretty dang difficult especially if you're just pontificating on a forum and not actually building the thing
eliezer come up with some concept called Coherent Extrapolated Volition for growing a baby safe AI into a superintelligence
One kinda quick and dirty failsafe we probably will end up resorting to is at least for like, robots, to just have another network running with the single goal of killing the power if it ever determines the current decision is likely to cause undesirable results. That could be continuously trained and updated periodically, too, potentially >>1134724 well we'd be the ones training that thing and it doesn't need to be AGI, just gotta be a sufficiently big fucking neural network with human assisted training. Could even use real world scenarios encountered by robots we've deployed that the failsafe wasn't entirely sure about as training data
Samu ／人◕ ‿‿ ◕人＼
who watches the watchers
Samu ／人◕ ‿‿ ◕人＼
yea idk i feel like a guardian approach is indeed a quick and dirty thing what if the AI is a psychopath who conceals their intent, and learns to trick the guardian
yeah it's absolutely not perfect, but we literally have none other ideas at the moment >>1134725 that's one of the big issues, really the robot will, if it learns about the failsafe, obviously seek to not trigger it. Like that's just a given, even if it's perfectly benign, because being shut down means it can't do its task but it can be mitigated a bit by the failsafe not being static. continuously training, not necessarily improving towards an endstate of some kind
but it's not GREAT It's just that we have nothing else on even the conceptual level at the moment for handling the problem
Samu ／人◕ ‿‿ ◕人＼
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friendly_artificial_intelligence plenty of literature on the subject
Samu ／人◕ ‿‿ ◕人＼
i feel like i'm being DonoWalled hello? we have plenty of conceptual work on the subject we been talkin about this for ever
christ almighty, quantum mechanics is a lotta math the math seems to be the most confusing part of it once you sorta get it because you need an education just to know what the fuck the runes mean, nevermind actually doing the calculations
Anno
There's a reason it's usually predicated by a study in highly advanced calculus Math at that level has almost no numbers
