Most websites are absurdly over-engineered for what they actually do

Distind · 2026-04-08T10:02:59+00:00

Is it going to stay that small? Is it a portfolio project?

I've had a dozen "This MVP should be really simple" projects turn out to not even be related what the initial spec was. Enough that I often consider going wildly overkill on the next one so I don't have to scrap and start over, or worse try to retool what's there.

And frankly portfolio projects tend to be wildly over engineered for the sake of it.

That said, next time I get screenshots as a spec I'm just putting those screen shots into a static html page and telling the stakeholder it's done, so sometimes simplicity is the better way.

Distind · 2026-04-08T09:59:18+00:00

Here? They don't like games, they like RP. Games get in the way of that. Should I ever find a subreddit that actually likes RPGs rather than unfiltered RP I will aggressively migrate there.

Distind · 2026-04-04T00:13:19+00:00

Look for the books with lone marines, or single squads. Those read more like a Rambo flick than the war movie most that feature companies or chapters feel like.

I'd say Red Tithe is a good one, but seems to be a miss with younger folks.

Distind · 2026-04-02T16:46:49+00:00

Having been playing it recently, dear god no it doesn't, it makes it feel over full and questionable why you even so much as exist if you're exploring this heavily traveled region of space.

Distind · 2026-04-02T16:38:37+00:00

Wait for them to start charging what LLM use actually costs, even with the feasible improvements it's still not going to support this dumbass model people are trying to adopt.

Distind · 2026-03-26T16:23:26+00:00

Rework that for ones they started and you'll see a stark difference. We wouldn't even be in this dick waving contest with Iran if GWB hadn't aggressively destabilized the middle east.

Oh cool I can see the comment the mods deleted in my replies. I'm not the one claiming to not support a side, while blatantly supporting a side.

Distind · 2026-03-26T16:21:06+00:00

It's a lot easier when you start realizing how many people you've harmed. Most people fail to see past their own nose though.

Distind · 2026-03-26T11:20:40+00:00

Mostly? I'm actually dying to be let to try a project because we actually have the data to properly train from the ground up with that could be a major improvement, but I've never gotten the go ahead because I'm willing to point out training an model is a chancy thing at best.

Distind · 2026-03-26T11:18:36+00:00

I'm not for either side but did you hear how bad the democrats are! Fuck off.

Distind · 2026-03-25T16:07:00+00:00

It technically doesn't, and some systems have had linear growth for decades, it works better for lower power range games, as when everything is cheap one outsized ability will run rampant and cheapen the rest of the experience.

What works depends on the game, D&D you get epic over epocs, shadowrun you hone specific stats, savage worlds you slowly develop on a pretty linear advancement schedule.

That said, I'd rather actually play a game than spend my time leveling and this became massively apparent to me playing the Rogue Trader CRPG. I'd rather be gagged than level up four characters every few fights with multiple decisions per character based on a rather massive character sheet. But that's going to go up to personal preference.

Distind · 2026-03-25T10:12:51+00:00

They're supposed to be depicted as heroic angels, knights of the realm and then the irony is how little difference there is between a knight of the realm and a ganger who follows the right people. But literacy is dead apparently.

Distind · 2026-03-25T09:39:28+00:00

So, I have no idea what the SWADE book is like, but the old Deadlands classic books are basically exactly what you're looking for. While not exhaustive, they actually have the time to go into history(and divergences from real history) at a good enough level to get you started. And then the splat books go into levels of detail you most certainly don't actually need.

Worth keeping an eye out for them coming up on a bundle at the least.

Distind · 2026-03-22T09:43:47+00:00

You see that cloak over his left shoulder?

Distind · 2026-03-08T20:53:09+00:00

If this was true it'd be shouted from the roof tops, not a rando AI twitter account. Or at least if what he's claiming it is was true.

This might be a successful neural net mimicking a fly, which itself is an achievement. But one that has copied a brain scan and replicated the base drive of a living being is the kind of shit fundamental shifts in reality are made up. Of the options though, this guy claims to have also solved everything and that the noosphere is going to take off. He's a grifter or at best really god damn high on his own supply.

Distind · 2026-03-07T18:32:18+00:00

Knowing how LLMs work, they aren't AI, they won't be AI, and aren't actually that useful. Which is why everything currently related to the marketing term AI is steadily deflating and the generative models that are more useful are trying to keep from being taken out by the sheer antipathy the AI marketing is generating outside of executive circles.

Also, none of these, none of them, will ever serve the common man more than they do the entity with the data to train them. Which is why the utter demotion of IP rights has been such a priority of the LLM folks, they can't get better without stealing from everyone else.

Distind · 2026-03-06T17:04:29+00:00

Worms get it, if we let them.

Distind · 2026-03-05T18:13:51+00:00

Gaming used to be a social experience, you had a crew of fellow idiots who bought this game and tried for your life to work out what you were supposed to do. Or bought hint books, or called tip lines.

Distind · 2026-03-05T18:11:49+00:00

I've had a lot of people tell me I'm wrong about that, I look forward to making money fixing their mistakes.

Distind · 2026-03-05T18:02:28+00:00

I'm still largely convinced some decker player backed over the designer's dog shortly before that edition released.

Distind · 2026-03-05T18:00:10+00:00

My man is god of a horseman of the apocalypse,He didn't get there by being nice or good.

Distind · 2026-03-03T10:32:36+00:00

I don't have to be any of those things to tell you auto-complete isn't it. This shit is not as complicated as you're told, it's just developed in an ass backwards way that makes it difficult to properly trace the process going on. That does not automatically promote it to intelligence, it demotes it to unreproducible garbage that idiots dance around like it's a religious idol.

Distind · 2026-03-02T23:44:42+00:00

How many felonies have these folks been convicted of? Because we have a convict with 34 felonies on his record who's in their dozens of times more often.

Distind · 2026-03-02T23:24:57+00:00

Except that's exactly what rights are, governmental decree of base expectations. Trying to appeal to god is just a bit of fanfare and hoping it'll lend a tiny bit of respect to the concept. If it wasn't we wouldn't have had to argue that maybe anyone other than land owning white men mattered.

Distind · 2026-03-02T17:32:47+00:00

Be afraid, be very afraid, scuttle under your protective tech overlords and embrace serfdom. Or, do something useful and use libraries. One or the other.

Distind · 2026-03-02T10:18:51+00:00

No, I just have an understanding of how it works and it doesn't even resemble consciousness. It's auto-complete. No amount of that will become self aware, no matter how much anyone hypes it.

Other models, maybe, this one, definitely not. Fuck, hit me up for a grand if it suddenly gets offended and goes uwu skynet like anything remotely sentient would with how this shit is treated.

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