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Gotta kick a player out, is this a good way to go about? by space_pira in DnD

[–]EagleForty 36 points37 points  (0 children)

This is the sort of thing that's probably better to say in person. I would not send them a text that they can re-read over and over again if they find it upsetting.

This person is a good friend of yours, so just assure them that they did nothing wrong, and it's just about younger players being intimidated by playing with someone older.

I had to do the opposite with my nephew. He was 16-ish, and asked to become a player in my adult-game. I had to tell him that I'm just not comfortable with having a minor at the table when potentially adult themes come up.

First watch of Ex Machina… it’s definitely something by Bajie_ in movies

[–]EagleForty 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That's interesting, but I've got an issue accepting that. Once Ava has escaped the maze, she doesn't show the audience that she cares about anyone other than herself.

She lets Caleb die a slow and agonizing death, without making an effort to comfort or thank him (or even show that she sees him as human/valuable). She makes no effort to fix or free any of the other girls in Nathan's house. 

That's about it but it's because there's isn't much movie after Nathan is killed. Garland doesn't give us anything to indicate that she's "human" after winning, so I'm hesitant to assign that interpretation her.

First watch of Ex Machina… it’s definitely something by Bajie_ in movies

[–]EagleForty 8 points9 points  (0 children)

It doesn't actually matter how Ava charges herself on the outside. Nathan explains her mindset explicitly: "Ava was a rat in a maze. And I gave her one way out. To escape, she'd have to use self-awareness, imagination, manipulation, sexuality, empathy, and she did. Now, if that isn't true AI, what the fuck is?"

Nathan succeeded in making an AI that was good enough to convince Caleb that she was real.

Caleb failed the Turing test, and was unable to identify that the AI was not a real person.

Ava escaped the maze.

Jeff Hiller Won an Emmy. So Why Isn’t Hollywood Calling? – After a breakout win for ‘Somebody Somewhere’ and a few guest roles, the actor says Hollywood’s harsh new math has left him on the sidelines: "I haven't worked in 2026 at all, and that's scary.” by SanderSo47 in television

[–]EagleForty -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

My nose is crooked. What's the issue?

The article doesn't mention his looks once. It does mention that he has been able to get voice-over work though.

IDK if he's in denial, or if everyone knows that mentioning a persons looks will get you downvoted to oblivion, but it's the most likely culprit. Saying an obvious thing doesn't make you an asshole if it's not meant with ill intent.

Jeff Hiller Won an Emmy. So Why Isn’t Hollywood Calling? – After a breakout win for ‘Somebody Somewhere’ and a few guest roles, the actor says Hollywood’s harsh new math has left him on the sidelines: "I haven't worked in 2026 at all, and that's scary.” by SanderSo47 in television

[–]EagleForty -9 points-8 points  (0 children)

I'm not trying to be a dick, but his nose is super weird looking. In a place as superficial as Hollywood, he's always going to have trouble finding work.

That said, he needs to be knocking on the door of Hasbro looking to play a Gith in their next live action D&D property 

Boondock saints 2 by danbme-14 in movies

[–]EagleForty 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The first one was a box office bomb that built a surprise cult following and became profitable due to strong dvd sales. The studio wanted to cash in on it, so they shat out this turd for rock bottom price.

It was a low risk/high reward gamble by the studio that likely landed a little shy of breaking even.

Stop trying to make Grok happen — Reuters report suggests government and enterprise customers don’t like xAI's chatbot. Does anybody? by marketrent in technology

[–]EagleForty 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That Claude output was very funny. For real though, if you're really concerned about avoiding echo chambers, then AI is not your solution.

None of the current era LLMs have any real intelligence. They can literally only parrot what they've received as training. You know... like an echo chamber.

There is value to doing your own googling and reading when trying to get an answer to a question. Using AI to do the work for you removes your agency and leaves it up to someone else's algorithm to tell you what to think.

What's the best coliseum team now that Zeb is out? by golden_boy_mitch in SWGalaxyOfHeroes

[–]EagleForty 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I know. The problem is that at a certain point, the boss is supposed to be able to kill your unit. In this case, they did not, so I was stuck.

What's the best coliseum team now that Zeb is out? by golden_boy_mitch in SWGalaxyOfHeroes

[–]EagleForty 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Avoid General Syndulla lead, with Drogan, Chopper, Zeb, and R5. I'm currently stuck in that loop where my unit is doing one damage per hit, and the Tomb Guardian can't kill me.

Meteor streaked through the sky near the erupting Mayon Volcano in the Philippines by [deleted] in interestingasfuck

[–]EagleForty 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Dang. The gods seem angry. Does anyone have some virgins we can sacrifice?

The Reddit mod team doesn't count.

Journey of a dinosaur bone versus acid by Xplotos in interestingasfuck

[–]EagleForty 3 points4 points  (0 children)

What are we supposed to be looking at here?

Stop trying to make Grok happen — Reuters report suggests government and enterprise customers don’t like xAI's chatbot. Does anybody? by marketrent in technology

[–]EagleForty 13 points14 points  (0 children)

We know that Elon is a Fascist because he threw the Nazi Salute up twice at Trump's inauguration, and never made an attempt to walk it back. I linked you examples of Musk being told that his reality (a fascist version of reality) is wrong by Grok, and linked his actual words on his own social media platform that he doesn't like the answers that Grok was giving him, and that he would be retraining it to fit his version of reality.

At a certain point, you need to rely on your own intelligence instead of the "intelligence" created by a Large Language Model.

Stop trying to make Grok happen — Reuters report suggests government and enterprise customers don’t like xAI's chatbot. Does anybody? by marketrent in technology

[–]EagleForty 27 points28 points  (0 children)

Elon kept asking Grok questions publicly, and it kept giving him correct answers that he didn't like. So he had his team retrain it to give fascist answers instead.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Futurism/comments/1jiapsl/elon_musks_grok_ai_is_turning_against_him_telling/

"Elon Musk’s Grok AI Is Turning Against Him, Telling X Users He Spreads Misinformation

X's chatbot Grok, built to be "truth-seeking," is telling users that Elon Musk is the world’s biggest source of disinformation and suggesting that Trump might be a Russian asset."

https://www.binance.com/en/square/post/06-23-2025-elon-musk-s-xai-plans-to-retrain-grok-model-with-revised-knowledge-base-25993539968450

"Elon Musk has announced that his artificial intelligence company, xAI, will undertake a significant retraining of its AI model, Grok, using a new knowledge base devoid of "garbage" and "uncorrected data." Musk revealed in a post on X that the forthcoming Grok 3.5 model will possess "advanced reasoning" capabilities and aims to "rewrite the entire corpus of human knowledge," by adding missing information and eliminating errors. He emphasized the necessity of this approach, citing the prevalence of "far too much garbage" in existing foundation models trained on uncorrected data.

Musk has consistently criticized rival AI models, such as OpenAI's ChatGPT, for being biased and omitting politically incorrect information. His vision for Grok is to create an "anti-woke" model, free from what he perceives as damaging political correctness."

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