wizardbeard

Hey, is your wife free later? I could really use some German lessons. I mean German less- I mean German- I mean Ger- I-I-I mean light domming.

While I dislike further proliferation of the AI idiocy, I have mouths to feed too, and I've definitely seen that strategy work. Good luck and god speed.

My workplace has started using multiple new software/systems over the past few years that advertised heavily on their AI features automating away a bunch of the grunt work of running say, a NOC monitoring solution.

Then we got hands on with the thing and learned that the automation was all various "normal" algorithms and automation, and there was like two optional features where you could have an AI analyze data and try to analyze trends instead of using the actual statiscal algorithms it would use by default. Even the sales people running our interactive demos steered us clear of the AI stuff. We cared that it made things easier for us, not the specifics of how, so it was all roses.

Presenting Muppet Labs All Purpose Tenderizer

If they get rid of the skirts, how are the police women supposed to stop everyone from seeing their underwear?

Does Japan's perversion know no limits?

That's quite a small view of temples. Seems mainly restricted to stereotypes of Catholic/Christian abuses.

There's a whole world worth of shitty religious/spiritual practices you could be overgeneralizing!

What about ritualistic animal sacrifice? Burning of fragrant herbs and psychedelics while causing intentional heat stroke? Drinking "tea" mixed with blood and drugs and having delerious orgies masquerading as spiritual awakenings? Combat to the death? Bloodletting? We could get all the strong men together and make the youngin's drink their semen for strength! We could have young women go streaking while guys chase them around with whips!

For better or worse, most of my major hobbies are still similar. Reading, gaming, taking walks in nature. That said, I find that some key aspects to getting the kind of carefree fun I had as a kid are three things: going in "blind", intentionally setting aside time for fun/hobbies, and leaving room for spontaneity during that time.

• Going in "blind": Nowadays with how widespread the internet is, and the general attitude of over-analysis and data mining everything, it makes it very very easy to know damn near everything about something before you ever experience it for yourself. I find that when I cut off my exposure to details about a game (for example) once I hit the point that I know I'll enjoy it, I can leave room for surprise and the unexpected. As a kid, I'd choose movies or games off maybe 30 seconds of an ad, the box, and on rare occasions a one page review from a magazine. Things could still have the magic of the unexpected, and I find it immensely rewarding intentionally making room for that again.

• Intentionally setting aside time: It can be hard to find chunks of time that aren't "stealing" from other things you should be doing, like sleeping. But by making a point to set aside some, I can do a better job at getting my brain to shut up about all the responsible adult things I should/could be doing (but probably wouldn't have used the time to do anyway). Kids don't have nearly the same drains on their time, or responsibilities, as adults do. A big part of the "childlike fun" or things people tend to be nostalgic about, is the lack of responsibilities. There's no big blanket of background stress from everything else you have to take care of looming about. So I try to set aside time where I can intentionally go "stop, all that stuff can wait until later." Definitely easier said than done though.

• Spontaneity: Kid's don't go "oh no, I can't play at the playground even though I want to." For the most part, during play time they play how they want. So if I'm not having fun, I don't try to force myself. I just move onto something else. Sometimes that means pre-planning. Getting a yearly membership to the arborateum or museum instead of just a day pass, so when I'm done I can just go and not worry about "getting my money's worth", and if the mood takes me I can go out there without having to plan a day around it.

Now before people start picking apart the generalizations I've made, I have first hand experience that many kids don't get to be spontaneous, can't do what they want, and can also often have blanket stress over things they "should be" doing. I've lived all that as a kid, and as an adult.

But my best memories growing up, as a kid, as a teen, as a young adult... they all have these elements in common of surprise/joy of discovery, not being weighed down by other responsibilities (or at least not feeling the weight), and having the freedom to do as I wanted.

Huh, I never felt it was weak, but I still haven't finished the first act.

What frustrated me with the combat was just how easy it was to make a small misplay early on in a combat that doomed you to lose, but it would still take like a fucking hour for you to actually lose (or for it to become obvious that you would).

It's a careful balance that's hard to get right. It's ok to not be ok with the state of the world, but it's also ok to find your own way to survive and to still be happy despite the state of the world.

If by countless you mean 8 valid ids of this same singular issue in 100 runs, with an almost 30% false positive rate, then sure.

I'm far more worried about the false positive rate drowning out things.

Yes, but it still deserves the question to be asked explicitly. I don't think most iPhone users looking for a music reccomendation app would assume they'd need to selfhost in order to use an app.

And again, if as the dev he's not prepared to set up his own server for use to pass basic testing, it begs the question of what exactly he's expecting out of his end users and if it's truly a reasonable ask even if they're prepared to self host

Wait, how is this app going to function on release if you can't stand up the basic resources for it to function for them to test it? Every user has to self host their own?

Which brings up another issue: if there isn't an easy way for you to secure the server as the developer, is it fair for you to just dump all that on your end users?

If the gameplay is good and it's not microtransaction hell, I'm up for more XCOM