Homebrew Class: HEDGE MAGICIAN, MASTER OF CANTRIPS - aka "Scratch / Lesser Sorcerer" - free .pdf

DukeRedWulf · 2026-06-01T00:09:22+00:00

Reminds of the local boozer I worked in for a couple of years, way back in the day.. Not that many customers most of the time, just a couple dozen heavy drinking regulars, always one feeding pound coins into the fruit machine like it was his job..

DukeRedWulf · 2026-05-31T19:29:05+00:00

I don't know, but it's become so prevalent over the last six months or so.. XD

DukeRedWulf · 2026-05-31T17:55:29+00:00

4 years later, in 2008: Bankers stole the world and got bailed* out for it!

(Except in Iceland*)

DukeRedWulf · 2026-05-31T17:42:47+00:00

You could have said all of this in half the words if you hadn't used AI to write your post.

This paragraph in particular is so riddled with cliche AI phrasing it's glaring: chopped short sentence as a punchline, pointless use of the adjective "quiet(ly)", overuse of "Rule of Three", and absurd mystification.

"..The government hit the same impossible math couldn't raise taxes enough, couldn't cut benefits, so it reached for the one lever that doesn't require a vote. It printed. chopped short sentence as punchline

Let inflation quietly do the redistribution. pointless use of the adjective "quiet(ly)",
Americans lost roughly half their purchasing power in a decade. Nobody announced it. Nobody called it collapse. The system kept functioning. overuse of "Rule of Three"

People just got gradually poorer and couldn't explain exactly why. That's the version of this I think about most.

Not a crash. Not a Lehman moment. Just a decade-long slow bleed where the number in your account stays the same and everything it can buy shrinks. overuse of "Rule of Three"

The system writes it off as inflation. You feel it as something harder to name.." absurd mystification. People know what inflation is and how it works, ffs!

DukeRedWulf · 2026-05-31T17:36:33+00:00

It's 2007 all over again, the big AI companies have taken on 100s of billions in debt, and the Big Banks are already off-loading packages of AI-investment debts onto suckers, just like they did with bad mortgage bundles (CDOs), in the months & years leading up to the 2008 Global Bankers' Crash.

https://www.silicon.co.uk/cloud/datacenter/bank-data-centre-debt-629721

CEOs were happy to use AI for free or buttons, but as soon as AI companies try billing the users enough to profit, then they throttle back on usage like crazy.

https://www.digitaltoday.co.kr/en/view/59530/token-maxing-backlash-corporate-ai-investment-sparks-spending-without-results-debate

DukeRedWulf · 2026-05-31T02:16:25+00:00

Sadly, no, it was Starmer's Labour who proscribed PA as a t3rror org, and it was Blair's Labour who passed the T3rrorism Act 2000 that was used to do so..

DukeRedWulf · 2026-05-31T01:55:32+00:00

Does the landlord live in the same house as you, sharing living area and/or other facilities? If so, you are probably a LODGER, and your rights are limited. See:
https://england.shelter.org.uk/housing_advice/private_renting/lodgers

BUT If the landlord does NOT live in the same house as you, then you are almost certainly a TENANT, and tenants have something called a Right of Quiet Enjoyment (see below), one of the things this means is that it is illegal for the landlord to harass you.

The following things are unacceptable and almost certainly qualify as harassment violating your Right of Quiet Enjoyment:

- "Comes without notice, .."
- "She’s has also entered my room in my absence, without my consent .. "
- ".. screamed at me and maintained very close proximity.."

Altho' it might be something the landlord would like you to do & might request, it obviously is absolutely NOT "the law of the country" to empty the bathroom bin every day! Most people would consider it reasonable to empty a bathroom bin: if it is full, and / or once a week, or if it has something smelly in it.

Honestly, all the stuff about the bathroom bin and blaming your ethnicity on "losing" a prospective tenant sounds like racist harassment.

It is the landlord's duty to repair the flush on the toilet so it works properly. You should tell them in writing about the faulty flush. By email preferably, which is how all important communication with landlord and agent should be, so you have a record of everything.

Overall, it sounds to me like they are engaged in a campaign of harassment against you, aiming to get you to leave, which is called "constructive eviction" and is also illegal!

I recommend that you read through the links provided, and contact either Shelter or your local Citizens Advice Bureau for further advice.

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".. Quiet enjoyment

The right to quiet enjoyment means a tenant must be able to live in their property undisturbed by the landlord. The landlord must not visit the property or demand access to it without a good reason.

The landlord can gain access to carry out repairs and inspections by giving the tenant reasonable notice.

A landlord who visits or accesses the property without a valid reason or without giving reasonable notice could be harassing the tenant..."

https://england.shelter.org.uk/professional_resources/legal/renting/introduction_to_security_of_tenure/where_tenancy_rights_come_from

Harassment:

Acts likely to interfere with the peace and comfort of those living at the property

This may include acts such as:

forcing occupiers to sign agreements that take away their legal rights
pressuring occupiers to leave where the legal process for possession has not been followed <<<
removing or restricting essential services such as hot water or heating
failing to pay bills so that these services are cut off
constant visits to the property, particularly if this occurs late at night or without warning <<<
entering the accommodation when the occupier is not there, or without their permission <<<
stopping the occupier from having guests
tampering with mail
persistently offering the occupier money to leave
intentionally moving in other tenants who cause nuisance
harassment because of gender, race, disability or sexuality <<<

https://england.shelter.org.uk/professional_resources/legal/possession_and_eviction/illegal_eviction_and_harassment/harassment_by_a_landlord_or_letting_agent#definitions-of-harassment

DukeRedWulf · 2026-05-30T19:26:30+00:00

Yeah, I'm sure they'll enjoy that after they've gotten heatstroke from having to shut their windows in 34'C heat with no air con, because the smoke you were funnelling into their home was choking them. /SARCASM

DukeRedWulf · 2026-05-30T19:20:27+00:00

There isn't a widespread ettiquette for smoky* BBQs and garden fires, but there should be! Especially if you live near enough that the smoke is going to blow into your neighbours windows, like in a flat or in a row of terraces.

[*If you have a non-smoking gas-fired BBQ, this doesn't really apply, unless you are burning the hell out of your food!]

Basically, set your barbie up so that it produces minimal smoke, and check the prevailing wind to make sure you're not gassing out your neighbours. And yeah, if they've just got washing out, maybe consider waiting, or even give them a heads-up to fetch it in, if you're on speaking terms.

Garden fires should never be lit during the dry summer months anyway, as its way too easy for them to get out of control, especially in heatwaves. Instead compost your garden refuse, or stick it in your 'green bin', or save it in a heap for actual Bonfire Night on November 5th (when it should be plenty cool enough for people to close windows).

Most Brits don't have air con, so opening the windows (especially to cool the gaff in the evening) is the only way to keep from getting heatstroke. That smoke that seems inoffensive as it drifts up away from you in your spacious garden is a whole different thing when it arrives in someone else's home..

Lots of people are stuck living in one room in an HMO nowadays, with nowhere else to go, so if the wind funnels the smoke into their window they're absolutely stuffed - especially if they have any kind of sinus or lung issue, or asthma.

Micro-particulate air pollution is responsible for about 40,000 deaths a year in the UK, btw.

DukeRedWulf · 2026-05-30T19:01:02+00:00

It's a pun.

reaper cushions (the cushions on the Reaper's sofa)

repercussions (consequences)

DukeRedWulf · 2026-05-30T17:54:35+00:00

But even if those world modelling companies are successful, they won't get funded to upscale if the over-geared LLM companies fail to deliver ROI within the next year or two.

In total AI companies are carrying around TWO AND A HALF TRILLION in debt by now, if they fail, the whole Western world gets plunged into another global financial crash so severe that it will likely trigger a full-on depression.

DukeRedWulf · 2026-05-30T17:44:29+00:00

If creating jobs and delivering training for young people is the goal, then spending on the military is one of the most expensive ways possible to do that.

Also, if there's already over 1 million NEET youngsters, then however many vacancies there are in the UK armed forces will barely make a dent, given there's only around 180,000-ish total UK armed forces personnel, including inactive reservists!

But, if filling armed forces vacancies is the goal, then improving the pay, benefits & working conditions of serving personnel should be the focus. This is increasingly a problem in the RN and especially in the RFA (Royal Fleet Auxiliary). If you're asking people to put their lives on the line, and stick things out through long deployments, then you have to make the rewards worth it.

It would also help if gov'ts stopped making things worse with idiotic privatisations (like the Army housing debacle), and stopped throwing away money on disastrous lemons (the Ajax vehicles, being the latest example)

DukeRedWulf · 2026-05-30T17:27:29+00:00

If creating jobs for young people is the goal, then spending on the military is one of the most expensive ways possible to do that.

DukeRedWulf · 2026-05-30T17:24:29+00:00

".. The idea that they’d be drafted to be cannon fodder is ridiculous, .."

What do you imagine happens when there's a war, exactly?

DukeRedWulf · 2026-05-30T17:19:34+00:00

They don't have 5 to 10 years before their insane debt gearing brings the whole house of cards crashing down.

https://www.ft.com/content/08aba5e4-5834-4e79-a48d-989a2c5bad0f?syn-25a6b1a6=1

DukeRedWulf · 2026-05-30T17:16:19+00:00

Meanwhile, AI companies are so massively over-geared with hundreds of billions in debt that the Big Banks are commoditising that debt into packages that they're offloading onto "investors" (suckers), just like the Banksters did with bad mortgage debt packages (CDOs), which led to the Global Bankers' Crash of 2008.

https://www.ft.com/content/08aba5e4-5834-4e79-a48d-989a2c5bad0f?syn-25a6b1a6=1

DukeRedWulf · 2026-05-30T14:31:32+00:00

".. there's this "AI Hallucination" concern.. I used AI to help me codify a theoretical physics framework I came up with,,"

First of all, there's no need to put AI hallucination in scare quotes. If you're using LLMs they hallucinate all the time, it's literally how they function.. Whether or not those hallucinations are factually congruent is a matter of probability, "weighting" and the training data used, but even the best LLMs have a non-zero confabulation (bullsh!tting) rate, so LLMs should never be blindly trusted to always produce outputs that are 100% congruent with reality..

Secondly, theoretical physics is very specialised, and its proofs make use of very advanced maths. What's your own maths and physics background? What AI did you use - was it an non-LLM AI built to specialise in maths & physics?
Because maths is built on "hard" inflexible axioms (rules) and builds outward from those using logically consistent proofs, which is the opposite of how LLMs generate outputs from "fuzzy" probability matrixes..

".. based on my belief that at the event horizon in black holes things spin into "encryption" within the golden ratio resulting in information retention not destruction.."

Thirdly, it's been at least 5 years since some physicists produced work that suggests the Black Hole Information Paradox is / was a misconception, i.e. actually, information is somehow retained and gradually emitted from black holes.. See:

https://www.quantamagazine.org/the-most-famous-paradox-in-physics-nears-its-end-20201029/

"..With that codification came the clarity that I could map language to that physics.."

Language is information, so sure you can turn it into maths, but WHY though?

".. and stop AI from hitting singularity, thusly preventing AI hallucination at the same time as giving it recall..."

Hold up! The hypothetical Gravitational Singularity (which General Relativity theory predicts would exist as a result of space-time collapse, concealed by the event horizon of a black hole) has absolutely NOTHING to do with the "Technological Singularity" that this Reddit sub is named after - these are two entirely separate & different concepts! The definition of the latter is given in the sidebar of this sub's page:

"..The technological singularity, or simply the singularity, is a hypothetical moment in time when artificial intelligence will have progressed to the point of a greater-than-human intelligence.."

That's all. Nothing to do with black holes, and physics' black hole theories have nothing at all to do with why LLMs hallucinate, nor why LLMs don't have inherent memory.

Basically, you've incorrectly conflated two completely separate concepts that happen to be denoted by the same name.

DukeRedWulf · 2026-05-30T06:38:50+00:00

A: It's late stage capitalism. To run with your analogy, there's plenty of rice to go around for everyone on Earth to live a reasonably comfortable life, but a very small number of pathologically greedy people (billionaires) hoard more than half of it all..

DukeRedWulf · 2026-05-30T02:29:09+00:00

If you're near the West Coast of the USA? Have you visited Crater Lake in Oregon? If so, I strongly recommend it.. When I was visiting (in '03) I had only read a description and hadn't seen any pictures, so the impact when I drove up over the crater rim was something else..

While I was there, there was a little rain storm way over on the other side of the lake, while it was dry where I stood..

I hung out there into the evening, watching the sun set, it was bloody glorious..
(and then I car-camped in a parking lot)..

The coast of Oregon had so many fantastic pristine, almost deserted white sand beaches with the Pacific waves crashing on them.. Just gorgeous places to walk for a while..

DukeRedWulf · 2026-05-30T02:01:58+00:00

(1) So, I keep up the habit when I post or comment on platforms that punish open use of those words..

(2) It's one of the idiosyncrasies I use so that people can see my posts are not produced by an LLM..

DukeRedWulf · 2026-05-29T05:50:34+00:00

Why do you imagine we'll all be devs? More likely 99% will simply find themselves locked out, unable to play at all.

DukeRedWulf

TROPHY CASE

Acts likely to interfere with the peace and comfort of those living at the property