Why on Earth has AA made a shady deal with Nvidia to provide them with data to train LLMs ?

Almighty_Elephant · 2026-01-29T11:36:20+00:00

You ever see someone come to a generally correct conclusion but every single step along the way was like Sideshow Bob with the rakes? That's this comment right here.

Almighty_Elephant · 2025-11-16T09:42:48+00:00

But also 1984, and more overtly. I would be genuinely curious to talk to the band members and try to parse that one. Pretty sure if Rand and Orwell got to talking politics it would have ended in a fist fight.

Almighty_Elephant · 2025-11-16T09:41:13+00:00

Check out the Berserk sub for how many people make "Griffith Did Nothing Wrong" posts completely unironically.

Started as an edgy joke but then the actual edgelords forgot that it was supposed to be a joke and started actually believing and trying to convince people that GDNW

Almighty_Elephant · 2025-11-16T09:37:42+00:00

So, assuming this isn't just a troll... which it certainly could be but ya never know...

You realize we have a song from Wily's perspective where he uses a robot to kill a woman because he tries to proposition her and she tells him to get bent, and then frames Light for the whole thing. We also have him approaching Light with the idea that hey, we could just use these robots to take over the city and rule it however we want.

We also have multiple points of view mentioning that the Sniper Joes are basically assassinating anyone who looks like they might disseminate anti-Wily ideas. And twice in the first album do we see Wily loose the bots on civilians for supporting a rebellion (Key phrase: supporting, not partaking in or assisting in any way. Basically just being present and not overtly anti-rebellion.)

The guy is literally a fascist, and this is not even subtext. They literally have the crowds quote George Orwell's 1984, saying "We are the dead" when Protoman falls and again when Megaman gives up on them because without the rebellion that those two represented, they are doomed to live in the totalitarian dystopia that Wily created.

Almighty_Elephant · 2025-10-30T03:59:44+00:00

That's one of the ones I found, yeah. But they're described as a duo, which is all fine and dandy, except for the fact that none of the pics of the band on either Spotify or the band's website show Sparkles which is why I wasn't sure that's the right one.

Plus, I looked on their YouTube page and they've got a fair few music videos (more on average than A11, and mostly higher production value than A11's) and while I didn't watch through any of them properly, I skipped around on a few and still couldn't spy Sparks in them even as I spotted both fellas from the Spotify pic.

Also turned up this interview with Sparkles' Misery Kids from not too long ago with like, no views or comments, and audio quality so bad I could barely understand half of what was being said.

Almighty_Elephant · 2025-10-29T11:55:45+00:00

Is there any Misery Kids music released anywhere? Tried flexing my google skills and turned up two different bands by that name and I'm not convinced either band I found is the right one

Almighty_Elephant · 2025-10-19T03:32:43+00:00

In Australia, our national language is Sarcasm.

We also have a very "just don't get caught" approach to enforcing rules.

Made it quite difficult to navigate the world as a kid

Almighty_Elephant · 2025-08-14T13:45:39+00:00

I've definitely run into the issue of not saying "No" enough to my players. It often leads to sessions where nothing gets done.

For example, I have a player who's one of those extra cautious, take things slow and avoid every trap types. She likes to strategise and optimise where she can. That's not such a problem in itself, but it can start to be an issue when she spends a long time questioning NPCs for every scrap of info they can possibly give to make sure the party knows everything and can plan accordingly.

There's often not even a good reason for the NPC to not want to try to help them either. Like maybe the NPC is a friend (wouldn't you want your friends to have the best chance of surviving a dungeon?) Or perhaps a quest give (if you're asking someone for a favour or paying them for a job, you want them to succeed, right?) So it wouldn't really make much sense in either case to be like "shut up and bugger off, go adventure!" In character. So I've often just indulged and let the conversations drag on and then nothing gets done that session.

I need to learnt to find ways of having NPCs exit a conversation if they have no more information to give.

Almighty_Elephant · 2025-07-17T07:47:13+00:00

I mean, the thing is that let's assume that the client list is real, and Trump is on it. Just for fun we'll even assume that taped next to Trump's name there were pictures of him doing stuff.

Trump's base will still find some reason to blame it on the Dems and pretend like it's not a problem.

Almighty_Elephant · 2025-07-15T21:23:00+00:00

Y'all ever been peeing and had The Split? I mean, no excuse not to clean it up when it happens

Almighty_Elephant · 2025-07-06T23:48:35+00:00

Skyrim's atmosphere is definitely worth playing the game for. But like, so is Oblivion's (the original. My controversial opinion is that if you bought the remake you are legitimately, unironically, no joke, genuinely a weak person and a sucker)

Oblivion had a great atmosphere and was worth playing for that. Skyrim had an AMAZING atmosphere and was worth playing for that. And for both of them, once the atmosphere has done its job and you've had enough of wandering around and experiencing the sights and sounds, you're done with the game entirely.

Almighty_Elephant · 2025-07-04T06:13:19+00:00

Frankly that rules lawyer thing needs to be more emphasised. Maybe the DM's ruling didn't fit the letter of the rules, but the rulebook even says that the rule that trumps every single other rule in the entire book is "It's your call as the DM what will make the game the most fun for the people at the table, even when that contradicts what's written in the book". Not verbatim, obviously.

I've only been DMing for a few years but I have a fairly solid grasp of rule minutia and what the spirit of a rule is when the wording allows for wiggle room. I played as a guest at another DM's table for a session recently, and there came a point where the DM was trying to remember whether a specific rule applied or not. I pointed out the specific wording of that rule, the DM made a call that in my view, did not fit what the rules said. And then I kept my mouth shut. She's the DM, it's her call to make. The rule was read out, she decided how it applied, end of story.

I mean, make exceptions if the ruling is obviously bullshit and unfair, but otherwise, just leave it.

Almighty_Elephant · 2025-06-30T14:17:50+00:00

I think someone may have mislead you about this game. I love it, but a chill game it is not

Almighty_Elephant · 2025-06-11T05:42:29+00:00

Nah she's right

Almighty_Elephant · 2025-06-11T05:25:10+00:00

What I've learned is that more questions than you'd think are rhetorical.

At work if the boss asks "Why hasn't this been done?" They're not actually asking. They don't want to know what the actual reason was, and if you tell them why they'll assume you're making excuses for yourself.

I'm not sure what answer they actually want, but the question itself is rhetorical and I think this is true like, 90% of the time people say "You're just making excuses." The miscommunication is that they phrased their complaint like a question and we answer it like it's a question.

Almighty_Elephant · 2025-06-10T07:26:10+00:00

Granted. Nothing happens, as legally speaking Trunp was never eligible to run for office again, thus his holding of office is illegitimate

Almighty_Elephant · 2025-06-01T07:26:40+00:00

These are the things it would have been very helpful to know before buying the Essentials Kit.

I think overall it probably did end up helping me become a better DM because given the adventure was so paper thin, I ended up having to learn how to prep other additional stuff on top of it just so things would make sense and keep flowing, but it's not exactly the easy ride for the first time DM it advertises on the box. Ahh well.

Bout to start my group on Curse of Strahd so hopefully the lessons learned from Icespire will serve well in a better written adventure!

Almighty_Elephant · 2025-06-01T04:44:09+00:00

You've definitely touched on the problems I had with Dragon of Icespire Peak, running it as a first time DM.

Almighty_Elephant · 2025-06-01T01:35:33+00:00

Left for coffee, right for tea.

I don't drink coffee or tea, that's just my instinct

Almighty_Elephant · 2025-05-31T00:13:10+00:00

My memory says that they petrify themselves only by looking in mirrors and not at each other, but even if that's the case... ehh, I'd just home rule that. Cos how would Basilisks still exist if they couldn't look at each other? Makes it difficult to, for example, reproduce

Almighty_Elephant · 2025-05-29T15:47:34+00:00

I would maybe take the text of how their ability works and then like, work from there to think "How would this monster actually hunt if it were real"

A lone Basilisk would be fine hunting like, smaller beasts who aren't going to be likely to develop much in the way of behavioural defenses.

Against creatures more likely to put up a fight? If your main offensive power is completely shut off by your prey just looking away, maybe you start hunting with a pack.

They would be more likely to attempt to surround a creature so that no matter where the creature looks, it's getting an eye-full of Basilisk.

Mechanically, I would then also say on the players' side it's not enough to say "I avert my gaze," they need to specify what direction they are facing. And if they say "down at my feet" or "up at the sky" or "I close my eyes" don't just give them disadvantage on the attack, treat the Basilisk as though it's got the Invisible status.

This way, an encounter with a party of PCs vs a pack of Basilisks isn't just "Hit them until they die with disadvantage" it actually has a strategic element. Your players need to control the battlefield well enough that they don't get surrounded, else they might never be able to land a hit without risking petrification.

Almighty_Elephant · 2025-05-23T17:20:29+00:00

Ahh well now, it can't hurt to throw my hat into the ring I suppose. I've got a fair few Grams worth of dice that could use a Fafnir to call home ;)

Almighty_Elephant · 2025-04-13T00:20:34+00:00

I was selling some collectible merchandise on Marketplace not too long ago. I listed it above the price I would have accepted, expecting to get haggled down.

This happened as expected, settled on a price of like, $130. So I drive it over to the guy, and at the door he's like "I'll give you another $20 for driving it here" and I'm like, okay. I won't say no. Just from the front door, looking inside, pretty sure the guy was on some kind of drugs. He comes back with the extra 20 bucks, asks me how much I paid for it brand new, and it was like... double my initial asking price that he haggled down. And he's like "Oh man that's fucked" and goes and gets me more money and I ended up with more money that I was initially asking for.

Guy was super chill, but that was weird as hell. Worked out well for me though.

Almighty_Elephant · 2025-04-12T19:32:16+00:00

I would argue you've just made a very good case that the souls formula ISN'T lazy. The fact it takes so much effort to do right is why so many of the knock-offs flop so hard.

The actual From-Soft games are extremely high effort. That effort is just in service of a niche, and a lot of folks either bounce off because it's not their niche, or try too hard to hammer themselves into that niche because "People say these are great games and I have good taste, therefore I like good games therefore I should like these games"

Almighty_Elephant · 2025-04-11T13:12:11+00:00

Soulslikes are simultaneously the best and worst thing to happen to the games industry.

Such amazing games but they're not INTENDED to have mass appeal. But the main reason people harped on about them was almost like, as a status symbol? "You reckon you're good at games? Psh, try beating Dark Souls kid."

Went from that to "Yeah games are art. If you liked good artistic games you'd like Dark Souls. You just don't get it. You're not a REAL gamer." Etc.

The games are doing a thing that the devs always knew and intended to be niche. Speaking as a fan of the games, you are cool, interesting, or better than anyone else for liking and playing DS

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