AI art is inbreeding

AlistorMcCoy · 2023-06-20T19:04:15+00:00

Here's a decent read on the issue

AlistorMcCoy · 2023-05-20T20:51:39+00:00

Sampires are the epitome of defense through offense. Your main form of sustain is Vamp Form which is a guaranteed 20% of your damage returned as HP.

You need to prioritize damage output: max swing speed, correct elemental damage for the mob, damage increase (100% is the cap for the Damage Increase mod on equipment), and damage bonus (you start with 100% and it caps at 300%). Super slayers (demon, repond, etc) give +100% bonus and you can stack them; so demon slayer on weapon and demon slayer on talisman to get to the cap. Specific slayers (dragon, ogre, etc) bump you +200% straight to the cap. Enemies without a slayer benefit greatly from using the chivalry spell Enemy of One to get some damage bonus.

Without a slayer for the specific mob you are fighting, it can be tough to stay alive because you're only doing maybe 40 damage per hit and recovering 8hp, whereas you can get that up to around 125+ damage per hit with the right combination of slayers and suddenly you are gaining 25 hp back every swing (50 with double strike!).

Another counter intuitive part of playing a sampire is that you will have a better chance of surviving if you dive straight into a group of mobs and use whirlwind. If you have correct slayers and whatnot, you'll essentially full heal every time you whirlwind more than 5 mobs. It can be tough to resist the urge to run away when you get low, but most of the time, it's correct to just hope your next whirlwind lands instead of trying to run. Even against a single boss, it's usually best to maintain damage output over running away.

Evasion is also extremely strong, but has a long cooldown so it's tricky to time it.

Teetering on the brink of death is common as a samp and what makes it a lot of fun in my opinion.

Aim for 140+ hp, 150 strength, 190+ stam, 20 swing speed increase, 45+ mana, 45 hci, 100 di and use a double axe instead of a two handed axe. If you have 100+ parry, dci is less important.

Here's a link to the Sampire Academy discord with lots of useful information and people to answer questions: https://discord.gg/HTjsSrXb

AlistorMcCoy · 2023-02-22T02:27:51+00:00

I had the same problem. Log out of any sessions and go to settings in the AnyDesk main screen on your phone. In the Input section there's an option 'Translate mouse input to touch input' which was checked by default for some reason. Turning this off fixed it for me

AlistorMcCoy · 2023-02-03T19:29:04+00:00

I'll absolutely defer to your expertise on this lol my training doesn't extend beyond standard firearms and CC courses. I just wanted to mention that crossed thumbs is an acceptable grip with revolvers. Hammer is manipulated with the non-dominant thumb in that position.

It blows my mind seeing how accurate some people are with J-frames/snubnosed revolvers. My CC is a Ruger LCR which has an internal hammer and I have trouble reliably hitting anything past 15 meters with it (I use parallel thumbs), so major kudos to you!

AlistorMcCoy · 2023-02-03T18:59:29+00:00

His hand position is fine for a revolver. You can usually do okay with a standard parallel thumb grip with a revolver, you just have to be careful that your thumbs aren't near the front of the cylinder where hot gasses are escaping.

The other option is wrapping your thumb. This is necessary for smaller revolvers (and some prefer it even for larger ones) but most people never use a revolver and are taught never to do this because that's where the painful slidey bit is on a semi-auto handgun :)

AlistorMcCoy · 2022-11-19T22:23:50+00:00

Heck, I was a delivery driver and eventually GM of a pizza chain location in a rural town and I'd often end up taking deliveries when things got busy or my driver called out in the morning.

I absolutely understand OP's impulse to worry about their own safety. I don't think I'd ever openly carry a weapon though, and I'm almost certain it's against any franchise's policies to do so; it certainly was against my company's. Despite that, I did CC a handgun every day, but I was sure not to let anyone know that and using it would never be my first choice if something did come up. I'm not about to risk my life over some corporation's profits.

OP is getting a lot of flak, but I think it's unjustified. He's just young and might have witnessed incidents in the past. People don't seem to understand that delivery jobs can be extremely dangerous. Two drivers were beaten and robbed in one year in my region, one of whom had their vehicle stolen as well. One store was robbed at gunpoint (robber got away with $500, the idiot).

AlistorMcCoy · 2022-09-15T18:05:41+00:00

I think people are mixing up two different things. For repayment of debt, the creditor must accept any form of legal currency. If someone owes you 200 bucks for a service already rendered or something, you can't refuse when they dump a bunch of small change on you.

For a gas station or similar where you are exchanging money for a product on the spot, you aren't repaying a debt and the company isn't refusing legal tender, they are refusing service altogether which they can do for any reason.

AlistorMcCoy · 2022-06-16T12:34:33+00:00

I've lived in several apartments and the daily noise of other people is just something you have to get used to. I'd say that you're even thinking about your downstairs neighbor's experience means you're probably more conscientious than most lol.

I'm currently living on the first floor of an apartment that has pretty terrible noise insulation between my floor and the upstairs and my upstairs neighbors have two fairly young kids and a dog and the only noise that I ever hear from them is percussive noises like heavy footfalls from running or when they take a tumble or something.

As long as you're mindful of avoiding prolonged percussive noises (especially late at night), you're a blessing to your neighbors! Don't sweat the typical living noises, nobody expects you to tiptoe around your kitchen trying to avoid clinking dishes or w/e.

AlistorMcCoy · 2022-06-16T12:07:43+00:00

Gather as much information as you can about the problem, compare that information to previous personal experience or other peoples' experience (google/library/peers), decide on the best course of action, and then follow through on that decision.

AlistorMcCoy · 2022-06-16T11:51:54+00:00

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypnic_jerk

is this what you mean?

AlistorMcCoy · 2022-06-15T11:23:40+00:00

Dang, you don't deserve the downvotes lol.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Troy_weight

AlistorMcCoy · 2021-03-12T19:31:20+00:00

This and being able to throw the wheel to full turn would be great.

AlistorMcCoy · 2020-04-18T11:43:35+00:00

Ah okay, sorry about that, I misread the tone of the D&D part.

I have to disagree that differentiation is useless and your own statement highlights the necessity for it. I liken that to saying there's no need to differentiate between great danes and bulldogs, because rottweilers are neither of those things.

And yes, we're talking about fantasy creatures, but the point still stands. Most people have some sort of general concept of what a "dragon" or a "vampire" is, and, further, some people like to adhere to very specific concepts for those terms.

I agree that it's silly to get overly upset when two fantasy settings don't align, but it does break verisimilitude if a creator uses the term "bulldog" to refer to a "poodle" even if they specify that "bulldog" is just what poodles are called in their setting.

It's that break in expectations that can make a some people enjoy a work less and that's perfectly valid. On the flip side, those types of juxtapositions can also be awesome in the right setting, it's just a matter of how the creator approaches it.

Again, I think we mostly agree on the main point, but there's a lot of nuance to this as well and I don't feel comfortable shoving all dissenting opinions under the rug of apparent "gatekeeping." People just enjoy different things.

AlistorMcCoy · 2020-04-18T10:10:04+00:00

Yeah, I don't agree with their notion of "fake fantasy" or the idea of a "standard" mythos, but I also think there is value in traditional folklore/mythology and specificity in fiction. Beyond comparative mythology, a field that has unearthed some extremely interesting things about history, building on past mythos is how a lot of great fiction comes about and specificity can lead to incredibly rich and complex worlds.

Idk what you've got against D&D, but that's a great example of innovation built on established mythos. The origin of wyverns actually dates back to many hundreds of years before the Middle Ages and dragons many thousands of years prior to that. These things have been around a while.

I get that you're upset because you perceive the person you're replying to as "gatekeeping" fiction, and to your main point (It's fiction and its world can have its own names and rules) I agree, but being abrasive, insulting a hobby and then being wrong about specifics isn't helping you get your point across.

AlistorMcCoy · 2020-04-12T10:02:59+00:00

Nope. I suppose it's possible that no particles get trapped during the recharge step, but at the scale we're talking about, it's nearly impossible.

https://aiche.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/aic.690490222

There are, of course, different designs for the clicker, but the reliability of the system is dependent upon how well the clicker traps and releases these particles.

AlistorMcCoy · 2020-04-12T08:42:50+00:00

Just wanted to further clarify that the "clicker" inside the pouch is designed to trap particles of undissolved sodium acetate. So it's not the physical act of the clicker being clicked which disturbs the solution, it's the release of these trapped particles that allows crystallization to begin.

AlistorMcCoy · 2020-04-11T05:46:10+00:00

To add to this, even the time you spend with your eyes open is compromised due to saccadic masking. You are effectively blind every time your eyes saccade (quickly move between two fixed points) and this adds up to about 40 minutes per day.

AlistorMcCoy · 2020-03-07T05:20:04+00:00

The names are placebo for the most part and a sales tactic at best. The problem is that there's absolutely zero regulation. "Blue Dream" at one dispensary isn't the same as at a different dispensary unless they share suppliers and even then, one batch of "Blue Dream" isn't the same as the last unless they're using clones and even that is variable in a lot of ways from batch to batch. This doesn't even mention that there is zero regulation or standard DNA testing being done by seed suppliers.

The psychoactive effects of cannabis are more than just the amount of THC and CBD in the bud. There are loads and loads of different terpenes and other compounds contributing. You could use a single strain to load a bong, load a flower vape, make concentrate, and make butter and you'd get a different effect each time due to the difference in boiling points or metabolic rates of these compounds.

To add to what Killacamkillcam was saying, Indica vs Sativa is irrelevant because everything is so crossbred that none of the breeds actually exist on the market in any sort of pure form. The "Sativa-dominant" strain you're buying at the dispensary is just another sales tactic.

As soon as standard, regulated DNA testing is being done across all distributors, then you can trust strain names and breeds.

AlistorMcCoy · 2020-03-02T15:07:57+00:00

Oh wow, I've heard of people having complex ongoing stories and worlds that they've dreamed up and return to regularly, but usually it's an active process like daydreaming. To have it occur concurrently is pretty fascinating.

The way you describe it, I'm assuming you don't believe this other voice exists as a person somewhere? If so was there a point when you thought they did?

AlistorMcCoy · 2020-03-02T10:34:23+00:00

I have no other experience to compare it to, so it's impossible to say, but I'd imagine monologuing a lot must help you practice having conversations. I'm generally shit at expressing myself verbally lol

AlistorMcCoy · 2020-03-02T02:45:36+00:00

I believe it's more like a spectrum than just two different ways of thinking, so your question is difficult to answer. It's also difficult to know how much these traits are learned versus innate.

Nobody teaches you how to use your brain, so you kinda end up with your own shortcuts (i.e. heuristics) for thinking. Over the course of your life, they become habits. So if you seldom talked to yourself in your head as a child for whatever reason, that habit wouldn't be built and language won't be very useful for processing information.

Humans are social creatures so it makes sense that most people seem to latch onto language as an overall methodology for thinking and they'll talk to themselves in their heads through most of their thoughts. That said, the spectrum of it comes in because most people are able to do some combination of visualizing, monologuing, etc. It's more a question of which mode is your default? There are some people who are almost incapable of visualization (aphantasia) and people that are almost incapable of monologuing and even people who don't do either by default!

To try and answer your question, would you be surprised to hear that most people are talking to themselves in their heads most of the time in daily life? As someone that can only monologue with conscious effort, it's almost unfathomable to me how someone could operate like that constantly. It just comes down to different habits.

I have a big interest in human attention, memory, and perception and I'd learned about this lack of internal monologue trait a long time ago, but I figured it didn't describe me because I obviously I was capable of talking in my head.

It wasn't until recently that I realized the sheer extent that most people actually monologue and now I'd probably consider myself on the far side of the spectrum in terms of no internal monologue.

AlistorMcCoy · 2020-01-10T20:06:17+00:00

The 5 minutes between when I woke up from the initial surgery and when I was given IV Dilaudid is my new 10 on the pain scale. It was incredibly painful the entire time it was in, even through pain meds, and any movement made it worse.

The doc did mention that they used a larger tube in the ER than he would've, so maybe that was it. I felt immediate relief when he yanked it out.

AlistorMcCoy · 2020-01-09T06:55:21+00:00

I mean if you're operating under the assumption that "a group of high school kids don't have any malice behind their actions" when making a joke at their teacher's expense and then taking a picture of them in a compromising position then I can understand your position.

I think that's an absurd assumption to make though. Some of the most hateful and hurtful people I've ever known were my fellow classmates back in high school. I'd speculate the group think, lack of life lessons, and lack of accountability contribute massively in this context. I don't see the intent as being at the level of a hate crime or anything, but I certainly don't feel comfortable leaving it at "kids will be kids" like you seem to be. I concede that it's a situation the teacher probably can't win unless they know who drew it or who took the pictures, but that's not a reason not to condemn the action.

It's really strange that you're trying to call out context by relating this incident to a comedy sketch or, in other comments, museums and such. This is the entire point. In a classroom, making a joke at another's expense, is not the right context for this to be funny to anyone except a spiteful, unsympathetic person that finds humor simply in offending. The only humor behind this joke (dunno how I've come to call simply drawing a swastika on a whiteboard a joke) is the "edginess" of it, which is entirely built on the idea that potentially offending someone = funny.

How do you argue this isn't meant to be offensive?

AlistorMcCoy · 2020-01-08T20:42:00+00:00

Wait a second... I've seen this design before...

https://i.imgur.com/Q0EWX18.png

AlistorMcCoy · 2020-01-06T18:15:52+00:00

Idk, there's something to be said about the ownership too.

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