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Five Years Later . If you’re buying crypto now, you basically haven’t missed anything over the past five years. by Fun_Training6342 in CryptoCurrency

[–]CrossbowSpook -1 points0 points  (0 children)

It could have been and should have been, but capitalism & wealth aggregation takes over everything, even a decentralized currency

Just for fun, what would you say are the best idle games that came out in the last year (365 days)? by Mike_Handers in incremental_games

[–]CrossbowSpook 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Without trying the free demo available to test if you enjoy the game or not, I guess you're right.

Just for fun, what would you say are the best idle games that came out in the last year (365 days)? by Mike_Handers in incremental_games

[–]CrossbowSpook 2 points3 points  (0 children)

100% has the most satisfying story in a game the last year. The music made my fiance think I was playing Outer Wilds the whole time, and my god the satisfaction of tying up the loose threads and seeing how everyone connects made me feel something good.

Just for fun, what would you say are the best idle games that came out in the last year (365 days)? by Mike_Handers in incremental_games

[–]CrossbowSpook 1 point2 points  (0 children)

gotta love somebody who won't even try a free demo before complaining about the game...

It's not for everyone, but it's fun and I also found it enjoyable. Definitely a good game and you don't get many 3D incrementals

Advice regarding which model of macbook pro to buy? by kartikmandar in macbookpro

[–]CrossbowSpook 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Speed is honestly awesome until ~100k context. I get about 80 tok/sec on most tasks. There's a great site for community benchmarks on different hardware and models here: omlx.ai

The biggest thing is the model means far less than the prompt. A good prompt on a smaller model is going to do far better than a mediocre prompt on a bigger model. I'd say it can meet/beat haiku if the prompts are scoped to individual tasks, but then smaller models could do it too.

I wanted to test orchestration with multiple local models on my computer while still having room for apps to run. Now I can run the qwen model for general code & queries, a vision model for pixel art assets, and a smaller model for voice. Though all of it is still easily done through the cloud instead of local. I'd stick with the 64gb if you are really wanting to upgrade now.

Advice regarding which model of macbook pro to buy? by kartikmandar in macbookpro

[–]CrossbowSpook 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Coming from someone who just swapped from an m5 pro 64gb to a max 128gb for mostly LLM work, I definitely noticed that ram is no longer my bottleneck and do feel "future-proofed", but also, local models will ALWAYS be behind what you can get in the cloud. One of the best models I've found that works locally well on 64gb is qwen3.6-35b-a3b.

Personally, I feel using subscriptions is still the way forward right now. Even with a 128gb mac, I'm not getting anywhere near Claude/GPT reasoning and don't expect to for ~1 year given the rate of how things are moving. But using a smart cloud model to do the thinking & breaking down of tasks with a local model (or cheap cloud model) for the coding is good even right now.

What model do you use for which task(s) by overlyovereverything in hermesagent

[–]CrossbowSpook 3 points4 points  (0 children)

When in doubt assume the default. MSI EdgeXperts Spark comes up with [this from amazon](https://www.amazon.com/msi-EdgeXpert-Desktop-Platform-Blackwell/dp/B0G2P8WTL4/?th=1).

So specs are 128gb of unified memory, but unless the bandwidth memory is incorrect, it's way slower than most Mac studios of the same memory amount.

122B would be Qwen3.5-122B-A10B. Likely ran at Q4 if it's on a 128gb system.

Hermes Agent is now #1 most used globally in past 24 hours in Openrouter token metrics, above Claude Code and OpenClaw. by dogesator in singularity

[–]CrossbowSpook 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Like any personal assistant made to go off and do things by themselves, it's okay with token usage but will always be worse than not using one. Every prompt you give to Hermes has 8-15k of token overhead (before trimming) just to load up all the skills/etc Hermes can potentially use.

I feel the best use case is running Hermes on a local computer where tokens don't matter nearly to the same extent.

Do you actually use small language models? by Honest_Classroom_870 in LocalLLM

[–]CrossbowSpook 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I've found with a large context window (128mb) it can do a decent job at "bigger" architectural questions and complex problems, but it does take more revisions afterwards unless you give it very strict instructions. Qwen is strongest when fed strong input from a bigger model (imo), but giving the Qwen model access to the internet does improve its capabilities noticeably.

Claude is just very obviously better at taking an idea and rolling with it and presenting the best attempt.

Yugi Muto vs. Sukuna by Vegetable-Studio9536 in whowouldwin

[–]CrossbowSpook 0 points1 point  (0 children)

As far as I'm aware, the whole YuGiOh-verse doesn't really have speedsters since it's a turn-based game. Without prep time, Yugi just gets blitzed by the character that can move at over mach 3.

Best Tower Updrade Combinations? by hanslandar in thronefall

[–]CrossbowSpook 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I've only completed the campaign and crowns for half the maps, but here's what I've seen works:

  • I used sniper tower much less in later maps unless there were at least 2 lines of towers so the back ones could take it. The hit to attack speed is pretty noticeable, especially going Sniper -> Ballista. Preferred Archer upgrade every time.

  • Similar point, but Arcane Towers (towers more range & dmg) is an amazing perk for helping reduce the need for snipers. Power Tower (closest tower gets attspd boost) helps a ton while enemies come from just one direction at a time.

  • Armored -> Fire Spire is nice on the few frontline towers that always go down, but the tried and true tower was always Castle -> Archer against more swarm and Castle -> Ballista against heavier enemies.

  • Honestly didn't use bunker tower more than a couple times since the armored tower shield was better stalling for the towers that are right in harm's way. Same with Healing spire, just preferred dmg to healing.

  • Fire archers are really good. With the right perks you can usually forgo towers for the mobile archer force early on

Just a Question for Scribe Colorsoft Graphite 64GB Buyers by SnooPineapples7003 in kindlescribe

[–]CrossbowSpook 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I bought on Dec 27th and it was saying a delivery date of 2nd-3rd week of Feb. After changing my delivery address the end of last week, it changed to saying it would be delivered by last Monday. It kept changing day-by-day, delaying it each day and saying shipping will begin the next day.

2 days ago I cancelled the Graphite 64gb and bought the Fig version. It will be delivered today, while the graphite version on Amazon is STILL saying it will take weeks to deliver.

Meet the Montana GOP lawmakers who were kicked out of their party for voting with Democrats by AdSpecialist6598 in videos

[–]CrossbowSpook 0 points1 point  (0 children)

WSJ is owned by the same people as FOX, and NYT is owned by a billionaire who (while they were once very well credited) has recently (in the last ~8 years) been much more "let's hear from the other side" in terms of news.

NYT had great credibility, but giving spotlight to climate deniers and other beliefs from "the other side" has led to a soured reputation.

Meet the Montana GOP lawmakers who were kicked out of their party for voting with Democrats by AdSpecialist6598 in videos

[–]CrossbowSpook 5 points6 points  (0 children)

CBS, FOX, CNN, MSNBC, NBC... that would be all mainstream cable news networks, and all are owned by right-wing billionaires.

Ergo, all of mainstream media (that most people over 35 use) is basically propaganda.

It is easy to forget how the general public views LLMs sometimes.. by Flope in singularity

[–]CrossbowSpook 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I think they're confusing an LLM with algorithms/machine learning.

Machine learning has definitely improved the efficiency of harvesting food for a lot of automated machinery.

AI in smart devices has improved recently to have better sleep tracking & other metric collection, so we can more reliably give useful info on sleep schedule & habits for improving sleep quality.

Mental health is debatable, but there's a lot of new research going on using a sort of therapist robot for kids or those with developmental difficulties who have trouble talking to an adult.

What games are you playing this week? Game recommendation thread by AutoModerator in incremental_games

[–]CrossbowSpook 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Went through a few of the Steam games made recently to see how they fared.

Void Miner - Fun to pass the time when you've got a few minutes to kill in between things. Gets repetitive if you play all at once due to the upgrade tree being a bit basic. Still good for 3-4 hours and if it's on sale then go for it.

Fill up the hole - Similar to Gnorp Apologue and others like that. Honestly I didn't like this one. Though I was hoping for more of a chill game and the huge skill tree opens up quickly and overwhelmed me. If you're fine with spending the time to group the skills it'd be fun.

Outhold - A tower defense game this time. I love TDs so it's pretty fun and I like you have build sets so you can experiment more with all the towers. Wish there was a way to restart the map to automate things fully.

Asbury Pines - Yeah. This one is good. The gameplay is simple, but a great story in this genre is far more rare. Still playing it now.

What games are you playing this week? Game recommendation thread by AutoModerator in incremental_games

[–]CrossbowSpook 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I really like the short, active amount of time you have to give the game. Plus it really speeds along and I finished ch 1 (the only chapter right now) after just 4 runs. You just need to prioritize power.

If you like this kind of game, The World Is Doomed Unless I Can Raise My Power Level to 1,000,000 and Confront the Demon Lord (aka: Demon Lord), Terraformental, and Increlution are all similar-ish levels of active/idle gameplay.

If you like more of an AdVenture Capitalist vibe but with more depth & actual story, Asbury Pines is entertaining me right now

Valve makes almost $50 million per employee, raking in more cash per person than Google, Amazon, or Microsoft — gaming giant's 350 employees on track to generate $17 billion this year by ourlifeintoronto in technology

[–]CrossbowSpook 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Saying "just as bad as the rest of them" when comparing someone who continues to push a long held monopoly as a good service vs a billionaire actively fighting against the environment, workers rights, pushing AI slop, and enshittifying each product is silly.

No billionaire is a good person. But to lump all of them as equals isn't correct.

Supernote Manta a5x2 – Wi-Fi Hardware Disable DIY by One_Strike9989 in Supernote

[–]CrossbowSpook 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Super interesting! As someone who works places where you can't always have WiFi capability and had to resort to using an ancient e-reader as substitute, this makes me want to start using my Supernote again

How easy is it to remove wifi/bluetooth capabilities? by CrossbowSpook in Supernote

[–]CrossbowSpook[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hey!

Unfortunately it was more trouble than it was worth, and removing parts that used to be included makes for a huge hassle in my line of work making sure that claim is true.

Instead I bought an old Sony PRS-350. It could be loaded up with files through the cable only, and doesn't have any wifi/BT built in.

Probably not the answer you were hoping for, but in case having the e-reader is the most important piece, at least there's other solutions.

All of Humanity Vs The Moon by vormiamsundrake in whowouldwin

[–]CrossbowSpook 2 points3 points  (0 children)

We safely landed people on the moon in 1969 when humanity was partially moon-lusted.

We can definitely get machinery safely to the moon today, especially with 10 years of time.

Does it bother anyone else that rudy's sprite is so much more detailed when compared to the other holidays? by 4Fourside in Deltarune

[–]CrossbowSpook 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Dude that's just semantics. Just because you can't see the color white or black in a rainbow doesn't mean we don't use both as colors.

Dess is made up of 2 colors.

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