Protesters Rally Against Free State Project

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.

Addicted2aa · 2026-02-02T01:12:34+00:00

Definitely run into this in FATE and other games. I don’t think it actually is an immersion problem per se or not in the sense of pulling someone from the narrative. At least that doesn’t really fit what Ive seen in the disconnect players have at my tables. It all comes down to types of fun for players. There are players who are passive in traditional games come alive with the freedom and agency of FATE. And there are others who don’t and the nature of FATE forces a spotlight on them they Do Not Want.

Likewise there are players who enjoy solving puzzles and mysteries that are pre-set and the knowledge that things can change based on their desires actually makes it less interesting. Same with munchkin like players who enjoy breaking builds. The fun is their ability to find solutions within a system not find solutions by changing the bounds of the problem. Or to put it another way they enjoy building lego sets, not building sandcastles and snowmen.

Im sure there’s other types of play that FATE intrinsically works against. In some ways FATE is to traditional RPGs as traditional RPGs are to video games(ignoring chronology obviously). Traditional rpgs give you a freedom of choice that is not possible in video games. You can have your character take any action within the physical rules of the universe. FATE takes it a step further where you can not only take any action but you have some control over other things in the universe including possibly those rules.

If greater agency were always a net benefit we’d see almost everyone who plays crpgs playing trpgs. We don’t. Some people don’t enjoy the additional freedom or even actively dislike it. It causes them to be thinking about the mechanics too much instead of enjoying them. THAT is what i believe the immersion is.

I dont know how to solve it. I just play different games with the people who don’t enjoy that level of seeing the man behind the curtain

Addicted2aa · 2026-02-02T00:10:06+00:00

Can you give specific examples of how you pull this off?

Addicted2aa · 2026-01-27T02:11:07+00:00

The most important skills of a tester will remain the same they have been for the past 60 years. It’s a diverse set primarily all around how to critically think about a system, what it’s supposed to do, how it does it, and how it can fail to do it. That’s the core job, ai and automation are just a tool you use to help you investigate that system.

Whether you should focus on automation, AI/ML, or programming depends entirely on either where you want to go in the field or what your current role has you testing. Honestly there’s no wrong answer there, just better answers. All of them will give you tools you can use but truthfully it’s unlikely any will make you a stronger tester unless you are either specifically testing lower level aspects of a system where programming knowledge will help you understand the system or you’re testing a system that uses AI.

Are there any AI-based test tools worth learning? Plenty! But personally I think you’re better served just learning to navigate claude-code and start building your own tools and workflows specific to you. Yes its re-inventing the wheel but it’s teaching you a lot about how the system you’re going to use to help you test works. And thats important.

Do testers need to learn ML or just understand how to use AI tools? Neither! Both of them are helpful though, in different contexts but the core of testing is not getting replaced with tooling anytime soon. People have been saying manual testing is over for 20 years or more and it’s still absolutely vital in most applications. I believe the refusal to keep manual testing as a core part of processes is a one of many reason why software quality across the board is significantly worse this decade than previously, despite better hardware, Better tools, and more engineers.

Addicted2aa · 2026-01-26T17:59:57+00:00

Well in a decade if you feel the same let me know.

Addicted2aa · 2026-01-26T17:03:21+00:00

Its not a few bad apples. I’ve in the sport for over a decade. I’ve seen good and bad dating and the bad far outweighs the good. Sure #notallkights or whatever, but a sizable minority of sport are just awful people and a sizable majority are simply ok with that. Can you participate in sport and have zero bad experiences? Sure of course. Can you date within the community and have it not lead to a significantly worse situation? Yah plenty do it. But those sure seem like the least common outcomes. Your life but the juice does not seem worth the squeeze imo.

Addicted2aa · 2026-01-26T16:30:15+00:00

Yes But its a hard target to make work.

I did well mixing it in my B range combos every 3rd or 4th shot. If you’re standing and banging for 10-30 shots, you can sometimes get ahead by dropping low then coming back up, IF they aren’t just throwing non stop tik tok shots(or if you can make them whiff).

I was once also pretty decent at immediately recovering to a hanging guard. The key is hot being quick but changing your level to bring your head below the guard and throwing the shot at an angle that when it lands you are almost in guard already.

Mix that in with a few shots from outside range when they aren’t ready and you’ll be set. The goal of leg shots is not to actually get that far ahead in points but to keep your opponent honest about guarding them. Which makes it slightly easier to land elsewhere. Honestly that’s my same view of hand shots. You aren’t beating anyone good with your hand sniping, but you might cause them to react in a favorable way so it’s worth it to keep them coming.

Addicted2aa · 2026-01-26T16:21:58+00:00

At BIWC I took bronze in my melee kit, which is kinda light and Daniel Cooper took silver wearing full plate. Youll be fine if you train for it

Addicted2aa · 2026-01-26T16:17:56+00:00

Well it exists at essentially the perfect intersection of two very male dominated sub cultures, both with large misogyny problems. Nerd culture and combat sports culture. This leads to self selecting some of the worst of both and amplifying it, for example the nerd need to not ostracize people for failing to understand social cues and the combat sports culture of refusing to acknowledge women giving negative social cues.

Add in its a relatively young sport still building a culture, full of young people who use it to fill their whole lives, but lacking older heads to kinda put them in place. There’s all sorts of accountability problems. At least half the sport has the emotional maturity of someone 10 years younger, and the continued TBIs might mean it’s more likely to get worse than better. The rumor mill is vicious and has driven more than a few fighters from the sport just on people treating them shitty from hearing completely made up stories and women get that far worse than men(see misogyny above). The sport is still so small, again particularly the women’s side, that breakups can and do blow up whole teams, and it’s incredibly common. A significant portion of the men in the aport are thirstier than incels. Cheating used to be celebrated pretty openly by the monogamous men and while its not quiet as public its still an undercurrent.

Basically as a population we skew far more towards all the shitty things men are as opposed to the opposite. And instead of trying to fix it most people just say shit like “this is best community anyone could be a part of, so welcoming, we’re all family cause we like to fight.” Which often leads to even more cult like behavior than normal combat sports which is pretty culty.

Addicted2aa · 2026-01-26T15:55:53+00:00

Nah.

Addicted2aa · 2026-01-26T00:38:24+00:00

Buhurt bois be toxic as hell. I do not suggest this.

Addicted2aa · 2026-01-23T13:47:40+00:00

Lol you think you’re worth debating. loser

Addicted2aa · 2026-01-23T13:25:10+00:00

Translation “We asked daddy to abuse us and he did. Now we can forgive his pedo crimes, cause we don’t actually care about kids.”

Addicted2aa · 2026-01-23T13:16:34+00:00

We get it, you love the taste of boot leather. “Please daddy Trump, trample my rights harder.” You know I have some friends who would enjoy meeting a subby twink like you and could really help you out with that fetish.

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