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@redoorlemontree Fantasy novels should follow children's books naming conventions from the 60s/70s. Either things. Like "There's a Dragon Eating My Kingdom!" Or "Zarthul assaults a princess" really helps us know when we're getting to the main plot point

@AliceBunnyland2 Ohshit I just reread this and now realize you were not part of the interview. Proceed as you were

I think I ruined a job interview for someone last night. She was talking about how she uses AI to create a model of a customer and then “has a conversation with that customer” to refine her skills. I then turned to who I was with and started having a conversation with them about

@AliceBunnyland2 It was an interview setting. Turning to have a side conversation in that directly undermines a talking point the interviewee had is either intentionally degrading because you didn't want to hire them or extraordinary lack of social tact. You either meant this or have a skill gap.

@memeslich @newbiedm I like this approach!

@newbiedm half the health double the damage monsters are there to be jobbers and lose so have them hit hard and dip

Hot take: Traditional dungeon crawls are almost impossible to have fun with in 5e. The rules don't support it well, the length of the combats certainly make it a slog. They are not that much fun. Agree?

@newbiedm What's a traditional combat? Like are we talking 1st, 2nd 3rd, 3.5 edition? I generally structure my "sessions" in 4 hour blocks and essentially have 3-5 "encounters". Combat can occasionally drag but no more then *good god just get the quest from the sage" can sometimes drag

@pop_tartlet @markjaquith You could say it was a Mrs. Delivery

Adult daughter comes over to watch hockey. There was a mail delivery. Package addressed to my wife. She says it’s a bracket for horse stall fans. Daughter opens it. It’s an exquisitely engineered purple sex toy. Bedlam ensues. No idea what is going on.

@autumnsunflowrs Why are you dating your daughter?

every single day my partner calls me names and insults me, after needing me to cook every meal she eats, she does not do any of her own laundry, and she has not helped clean up any shared living spaces in the last 4 years.

@NerseaVT Pizza pops

Canadians, what is your favourite Canadian foods? I’ve had poutine, Nanaimo bars, butter tarts, California rolls donair and obviously Hawaiian pizza. I love them all. What is a Canadian food I’m missing out on still?

@d_j_l2525 @chevys_abrasive @TicTocTick What the fuck are you doing? I also live in Winnipeg, make that much, and live very comfortably. If 125k isn't enough for you in this city you are living well past your means, it's a you problem.

@chevys_abrasive @TicTocTick I live in Winnipeg, on my own, make that much and it’s not as easy as you think.

$120k in Canada is $80k USD. At $120k, unless you live in ThunderBay, you are poor . To live in comfort in Canadian city like Calgary and Vancouver, you need minimum 220K.

@johncrickett I don't rely on agents, as I hobby code, but it cannot review/tes/anything. This is immediately obvious the first time you get an error, YOU know the cause of the error, and you ask it to review/fix for you without giving it the answer.

On Sunday, I used AI to build an app. In a couple of hours, it generated 23,000 lines of code with full documentation and 836 passing tests. The code is amazing. The app is fully functional, well written, well structured, and has great test coverage. At least that's what the agent told me after reviewing the project structure, completeness, and code quality. So I fired it up and clicked the button. Nothing. Turns out all tests passing and the agent grading its own work as brilliant doesn't mean it actually works. Now I'm debugging, filling gaps, and showing the agent what it missed. AI can get you most of the way there, fast. But that last bit? That still needs a human who knows what they're doing. Let's not pretend otherwise.

@tapir_worf Your on the internet. That's the whole explanation.

3 things that cannot be true at the same time: - software engineering as a career is over - we are importing armies of visa slaves to suppress wages - i cannot hire competent senior swes to come to an office in nyc for less than 500k tc what’s the explanation here?

As someone who actually uses AI, I am convinced the only people posting about AI are plants or 19 yearold kids in San Francisco that know about AI the way an average 18 yearold knew about the internet in 2005. They've created an MSN bot and think their hackers.

@livingdevops It's a lot like NWO/Illuminati conspiracies. If the agents at the top are the bad actors we say they are, the current system works better for their nefarious plans then "the big bad thing that's coming". Economic disparity and wage slaving the population is pretty air tight.

I keep hearing this hype about AI taking over everything, and honestly I don’t get the endgame( I Don’t believe Elon musk universal high income statement ) Let’s say AI wins, all jobs are gone, and a few big tech companies own everything. Cool. But then what? In India, people live on salaries and EMIs. No job means no money, no money means no spending. No one is buying cars, no one is paying home loans, no one is ordering food every day or upgrading phones on EMI. Consumerism just dies. And once spending stops, companies also start bleeding because they literally have no customers left. Banks get stuck, real estate crashes, tax collection falls, and the same system that replaced humans with AI starts choking on itself. This isn’t some futuristic theory either, most Indians already live paycheck to paycheck, one emergency and things fall apart. So this idea that AI replaces everyone and somehow the economy keeps running feels completely disconnected from reality. Automation makes sense, efficiency makes sense, but a world where people don’t earn and are still expected to consume just doesn’t add up. What am I missing here? What’s the bigger picture here that makes this AI-everywhere scenario sustainable? P.S. Post taken from Reddit.

@ThePrimeagen So AI is like every other advancement in computing? My phone is infinitely more powerful then a windows 95 computer but that shit still turns on faster.

i must say, knowing how to do all the things really makes vibe coding a stupid project fun because i can do something that i would normally say no to (due to time) but on the other side, like all projects, even vibe coding something becomes a bigger and bigger time sync to where it just becomes another over scoped and under delivered project its almost like the speed change did not impact the amount of actually finished projects ;)

@Gloomcie @FirebeardYT @Atakez Kind of the point? The point is all of us on classic/Hardcore/etc, DO!

@FirebeardYT @Atakez No ty I don't want to level a single character for 200 hours

6 versions of the game, 5 of which cater to a group of players that feel nostalgia for the game. Why do they not improve upon the retail experience/theme to bring those players back?

@FirebeardYT @Atakez Well said. I haven't touched retail since Cata, but the excessive accessibility/streamlining in Cata took away the "investment"/"earned" feelings from Classic. Id play through every expac if they kept the systems/pacing/structure of Classic-WoTLK

Speaking as a Classic (and Retail) player, I think this is the part people miss: Blizzard did improve retail. Objectively. Systems are cleaner, classes are smoother, content is more accessible. It’s just that those improvements were aimed at solving problems that Classic players never really thought existed in the first place. Retail WoW isn’t worse because it’s sloppy or unfinished. It’s worse for us because it removes friction in places where friction was doing important work. Faster leveling, constant rewards, streamlined progression, UI elements telling you exactly where to go and what to do, those things make the game efficient, but they also turn it into something that feels transactional. You log in, you complete tasks, you log out. It’s a checklist, not a place. And when people talk about nostalgia, I think that word gets used as a dismissal. This isn’t about wanting patch 1.12 talents forever or pretending the game was perfect in 2005. It’s about pace and consequence. In Classic, choices matter because they’re inconvenient to undo. You know the people on your server. You recognize names in trade chat. You walk places. You group up because you need other players, not because a system matched you with strangers and teleported you into a dungeon. That friction is what creates stories. It’s what makes the world feel real. And over the years, retail WoW has very deliberately stripped that friction away in the name of accessibility, engagement metrics, and retention. From Blizzard’s perspective, that makes sense. From a Classic player’s perspective, it fundamentally changes what the game is. So when the question is “why don’t these players come back to retail?”, the answer is kind of simple: retail is no longer trying to be the type of game we fell in love with. It’s not a failure of execution, it’s a difference in philosophy. And Classic exists because that older philosophy doesn’t really have a home anywhere else anymore.

This lined up with me exactly. WoW-WoTLK all felt like improvements Ona the core game. I was absolutely hyped for a new world and the class combos of Cata, but it came tied to a complete overhaul of the core game system. Absolutely turned me off. Never went past my 10 hour intro

@JSRGN2 @yo_jaydee Diablo 1 was unapologetically gruesome/dark especially for it's time because there was still such a culture of "video games are for kids" so going hard was necessary to communicate "yes, adult, this game is for you". Meanwhile WoW was very much a Shepard of "Everyone can game"

@yo_jaydee Because Diablo 2 was a rated M game from the start while Warcraft 3 was T-rated. They can't diverge too far from their core audience. Warcraft has always been an adventure-focused setting, anyways. Gore has its place in such stories, but the over the top horror of Diablo, nah.

why can’t WoW’s cinematics and story just be as gruesome and violent as Diablo’s?

@yo_jaydee Because Diablo was a game for adults. And let's be honest, they softened the hell out of diablos tone at diablo 3.

@BarryReallyCann @Sosowski If you've got the patience, it's helped me figure out architecture. Sure I have to build to break point then tear it down and start over, but it can be hard to visualize everything end to end from step one and being able to quickly reach your blind spot is extremely helpful.

@thelocker @Sosowski Wholeheartedly agree on this. I think it won't be long before you can detail out a really solid architecture framework and have it do pretty well filling in the blanks.

AI solves ZERO problems that have not been solved yet. All the results it produces are worse and less consistent than what can be achieved "by hand". The only selling point is that it can produce the results faster. It's literally a slop machine by definition.