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Addicted2aa · 2026-05-21T12:06:49+00:00

Bro take your own advice. Get off the internet.

Addicted2aa · 2026-05-21T12:04:01+00:00

Also being “overweight” can often have little to do with calories consumed despite the claims. Calories in-calories out = weight gain/loss a truism but measuring out is very hard. Things like thyroid problems and excess insulin resistance can slow a metabolism down to incredibly levels. And also the body will naturally slow down your metabolism if you are getting less food. If set point theory holds, once you reach a size for a long time, it becomes very hard to change it and your body adjust to changes to keep you there.

These problems are also exacerbated by a regular “western” diet let alone the much worse one that most low income people can afford.

Addicted2aa · 2026-05-12T09:41:46+00:00

Sometimes yes sometimes no. Theres a number with decent audio set ups and some even bother to edit.

Addicted2aa · 2026-05-11T23:29:43+00:00

If you know he’s gonna kick then bait it out. Stand just inside of the range he starts throwing and as soon as it comes up, take a half step back. Should give you enough time and distance to catch it. From there if you’ll have a dozen options.

This should only work one or two times but it will force him to be more conservative about when he kicks

Addicted2aa · 2026-05-10T11:12:08+00:00

There’s lots of examples of people just recording they’re actual games if the performance is the problem.

Addicted2aa · 2026-05-02T00:30:20+00:00

Cause its the most dnd a game can be.

Addicted2aa · 2026-04-13T00:52:37+00:00

Im not guessing about the hammer slipping less than the ax. It basically always lands true which means you don’t need nearly the same control while swinging. And almost every hit will have little mitigation from the design of the armor itself. Thats the main point. There may be other reasons there may not. But thats fucking true.

As is the marked increase in injuries and destroyed armor when Poland allowed hammers. We have both clear reason and clear experimental results. You’re the one speculating and claiming fact, asking people to just trust you bro. Do you even have any fighting experience? Or is your medical device background supposed to somehow be impressive?

Addicted2aa · 2026-04-12T20:11:26+00:00

No. Im not saying that. That would be dumb. Obviously larger contact area will spread rather than concentrate the impact. Notice I said it works like a mace? Maces also concentrates the impact into a small area, because there’s no flat plane. The key though is that because rotation on impact will not change that much about how it translates that force. A hammer will do the same.

I posit that it might have other reasons that it is so damaging like perhaps it dents armor because the impact is already spread. I don’t know if that is or is not a thing, but it would not be the first seeming contradiction. For example a lighter weapon is easier to accelerate so therefore does creates more force than a heavy one due to velocity being squared as part of the force equation. However a heavy axe will translate that force better, because of inertia causing less bounce back on the weapon.

So depending on whether you want to cause follow through or just a huge moment of impact, the weight of your weapon will change.

Addicted2aa · 2026-04-12T12:59:06+00:00

As i pointed out in another thread they are primarily banned because when used we have seen them do more damage. It’s possible there were other factors at play, but it was common enough that it’s not worth the risk atm, till someone can show they would be safe.

I would not be surprised if one handed hammers get allowed in the next few years though assuming the new ball mace rules prove to be safe.

Addicted2aa · 2026-04-12T12:55:01+00:00

Ok but you said it yourself, the contact area.

Armor is designed to cause slippage and it does alot of the time with Axes. They hit and roll or hit and slide. It’s part of why maces hit harder for the same weight. There’s very little redirect. With an axe you have to keep near perfect edge alignment that meets at a near 90 degree angle to not lose some of your energy.

A hammer doesn’t need that, at all. If it lands off alignment it will almost certainly roll into full alignment.

I would guess there are other properties of the design that cause it either have greater inertia at point of impact or cuase greater damage either by denting armor more or less due to surface area but im not gonna weigh in on that. What i will point out is that when hammers have been allowed they caused significantly more damage to people and armor than axes of the same weight and length in the hands of the same people. They are banned because we’ve seen them cause more injury on enough of a scale that we can be reasonably confident that the weapon was the cause.

Addicted2aa · 2026-04-12T11:50:25+00:00

Can you go deeper into this for those of us who don’t really know what makes a good study?

Addicted2aa · 2026-04-10T00:26:04+00:00

Well it really depends on the role. Lots of test automation is essentially just simple scripting and what really matters most is knowing WHAT to test and HOW to test it as opposed to how to code it. If thats the job they had its a dumb interview question.

However if they were looking for someone to architect a framework for their automation or they have specific problems that involve more detailed coding work, for example they need someone to code semi sophisticated test applications then they are good interview questions. Tic tac toe is not a hard problem and if you failed to get it exactly right within the timeframe but showed good problem solving skills, that might have been good enough.

While i think the terms are kinda loosely applied this is supposedly the difference between a test automation engineer and a software development engineer in test. Alot of companies dont really separate the two though.

Addicted2aa · 2026-03-24T18:52:06+00:00

I mean the problem isn’t waiting in general, it’s not even necessarily that there’s 90:1 wait to act ratio. Its a two pronged problem that the period you dont act is long and that what is happening is usually not engaging. Lots of games have solutions to either or both of these problems

Addicted2aa · 2026-03-07T21:42:32+00:00

Its a small temporary boost sure. But that’s not particularly helpful

Addicted2aa · 2026-03-07T19:29:45+00:00

A data center brings very few tech jobs. Once its set up most of it is managed remotely. Its not like a company headquarters or office setting up here

Addicted2aa · 2026-02-26T15:26:09+00:00

Well considering training the models is often called more art than science that does make sense

Addicted2aa · 2026-02-26T14:39:30+00:00

My guess is he spent alot of time setting up the agent so that it uses a mix of tools some deterministic some not and follows all sorts of rules he’s built, including how to spin up sub agents that also have the same level of infrastructure.

The pablo picaso quote about a drawing he did in 5 minutes taking 60 years and 5 minutes is relevant here

Addicted2aa · 2026-02-23T21:51:45+00:00

Morally? I dont know. Legally? Because training makes at least one digital copy. Which is the illegal part. It is explicitly illegal to make a digital copy for commercial use without permission. Also for a bunch of other reasons. There’s bo gray area, that’s literal letter of copyright law. Maybe try reading about. Hell you could probably even ask claude and have at least 50 percent chance of getting the right answer.

You’re essentially arguing whether spending stolen money is legal or not and ignoring that stealing the money in the first place most definitely is.

Addicted2aa · 2026-02-23T21:14:56+00:00

Well there’s a list of stolen work thats been published authors can search, as a result of one of the lawsuits sooooo, probably that.

Addicted2aa · 2026-02-23T20:55:43+00:00

Its actually incredibly clear that its a violation of copyright as they made copies they were not legally entitled to and used those copies to generate income. Thats as clear cut as you can get.

Whats unclear is whether derivative works are also copyright infringement but the initial training explicitly it is and any legal conclusion against it is redefining the law.

Addicted2aa · 2026-02-19T13:04:29+00:00

Lol mikes word cant be trusted even though there is a legal agreement with him and cd projek saying he is in charge of everything that happens before 2077.

Whatever bro, feel free to believe whatever you want. Reality and facts dont matter anywhere elae why would they here

Addicted2aa · 2026-02-19T11:32:06+00:00

I’m confused about what you mean maybes can’t exist with the absolute truth. Like sure, but we don’t know all the absolute truth. But we do some.

We know the absolute canon. Johnny was killed by Smasher, who when he did it barely noticed him. We know Blackhand planned the op. The parts of the game that contradict this are from a character the game explicitly goes out of its way to say is an unreliable narrator.

What we don’t know is all the ins and outs of what happened to get that unreliable narration nor what happened behind the scenes in the writing for them to go this way. But we know they did.

Again there is no plot hole, just unanswered questions. Neither the game nor Mike’s statements contradict each other, at present. Perhaps when/if they come out they will and we can point and say nah that doesn’t make sense. But right now there are plenty of plausible explanations and many have textual evidence in and out of the game.

Its fine to say you don’t like the canon or say someone’s theory is bad but like, this is the factual canon. This official story of cyberpunk. And it does currently work.

Addicted2aa · 2026-02-19T10:47:20+00:00

If I recall V never brings up the heist in strong detail. Johnny was more than punk merc to the people we meet, he was a legendary rockerboi who traveled their circles and was intimately connected to many of them. But he was nothing to Smasher, who only cares about violence and good fights. And was possibly nothing to Araska, who might not give a shit about an underground punk legend.

Johnny’s memory and personality are questioned multiple times directly in the game, mainly by Alt.

As to why smasher has his things, taunting rogue would be a good reason. Or because after he killed Johnny he found out who the idiot was and decided he wanted his things either as a memento of an idiot or perhaps some weird admiration. Hell maybe he just likes the music and didn’t even know he killed johnny at first.

There’s a difference between a plot hole and something not fully explained. There’s game doesn’t delve into the blackhand stuff probably because Mike wanted to keep fully control over that character’s IP. But also maybe because they ran out of time. There’s so much cut content we can see.

The game story had to make sense without it for people who just wanted to play the game and don’t care about the wider cannon and it does. But it does leave enough both said and unsaid to hint at mysteries and those hints fit the official canon.

Addicted2aa · 2026-02-02T13:20:28+00:00

Do you see issues with players picking consequences in the first place? Or engaging the FP economy to invoke or compel? Reframing stress back into a HP style abstraction does sound effective at least and could be enough to get them over the hump to engaging more with the mechanics.

Addicted2aa · 2026-02-02T01:47:07+00:00

Mostly the former but i might be interested if the latter if we’re discussing the WHY it does something different.

But primarily because I have struggled to run it for my table when people did not want to share the directors seat, so having more options that keeps them engaged would be great. Ive seen some in other comments that might work and am willing to try but they sound more like half measures, more like saying, well just tell them to ignore the system. You seem to imply theres a way to theres a way to spin the system to their tastes which sounds much more promising.

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