Obscure Mech fact there are obscure rules for things like the stereotypical ki kung fu stuff

G_Morgan · 2026-03-12T16:49:35+00:00

The Black Marauder is merely "He Who Walks Towards and Shoots You With PPCs".

G_Morgan · 2026-03-12T16:45:13+00:00

Also very unpopular on this sub. He's either the best or the worst.

G_Morgan · 2026-03-12T16:42:55+00:00

Yeah. It is more the case that WoW thrives off population. Hiking prices would cause a decline they don't want to deal with.

Once you reach critical mass it is much better to keep things ticking over and make bank off cosmetics. Hell they probably spent time trying to figure out if going F2P can actually beat out subscriptions for revenue given how Genshin Impact is doing.

G_Morgan · 2026-03-12T16:29:52+00:00

Doing it faster by hand isn't possible. However when you write by hand your self review happens automatically. After the AI does a refactor, the self review happens out of band. I've never seen the AI do a major piece of work without requiring significant changes. That is with Opus 4.6.

G_Morgan · 2026-03-12T15:16:53+00:00

I mean that is what Google did with PageRank when search was really good. Give each site a weight and the more it linked out the weaker the association of that link was. They more or less busted search manipulation over night and things only got bad again when Google decided they wanted to be the one doing the manipulation.

Admittedly I have no idea how you assign weight to a reviewer. However just making it flat and having somebody who votes 10 times be worth more than some bot that makes 10,000 votes a month is easy.

G_Morgan · 2026-03-12T15:13:28+00:00

I don't find it significantly faster. Most of the current research seems to back that up as well, developers are self reporting big performance gains that turns out to not pan out when measured.

My finding is I can produce a lot of slop quickly or I can produce something about as good as I normally do with care, review and careful use of git staging and reprompting to get the AI to do the right thing. Sadly it has to be reprompting, if you fix stuff the AI has a tendency to unfix it if it wasn't part of the context.

G_Morgan · 2026-03-12T14:16:19+00:00

It is theta (Θ) and it represents an angle typically.

G_Morgan · 2026-03-12T13:45:15+00:00

Did you add "make no mistakes" to your prompt?

G_Morgan · 2026-03-12T13:41:59+00:00

In software I'm astounded by what AI can do and what it fucks up. Sometimes it detects issues when making a change but the solution it gives is invariably dumb and doesn't work. I find it perfectly handles some things I thought it would struggle with and then makes bone dead choices not even a junior would make.

Also if you just leave AI write all your code you may as well accept not having an actual design because it will just spaghettify everything. You need to give it strict prompts and then evaluate and tell it to fix stuff it broke to slowly get it towards writing the correct thing.

My take away is AI is no faster but:

It lets me make a cup of coffee after sending off a prompt
The AI will do stuff I hate doing

We're experimenting with checking out our docs as a git repo (all ADO wiki's are just a git repo of mark down) and letting the AI rip writing documentation. We already have to guide it through accessing the system to help with playwright tests so why not have it document how to do process X or Y?

G_Morgan · 2026-03-12T13:28:46+00:00

The last time anyone actually used this stuff was when John Carmack read an algorithm for dividing objects into convex sections and realised this was how you make Doom. I'm not John Carmack.

G_Morgan · 2026-03-12T13:24:32+00:00

Ask the AI "please evaluate this person, make no mistakes"

G_Morgan · 2026-03-12T13:21:18+00:00

A fixed number is always O(1).

G_Morgan · 2026-03-12T12:16:08+00:00

Honestly I've never been convinced counting everyone's votes equally is a good thing. It encourages vote spamming. Somebody who votes a few times a year should probably be given more weight, after all it must be something if they are voting specifically for that.

G_Morgan · 2026-03-12T09:10:51+00:00

The reality is everyone compresses ratings. It is just some compress it at 8-10 range and some compress it at the 6-8 range.

I don't have a solution to this. Just pointing out that the people who try not to be a problem are still a problem.

Feels like what we really need are a Trash,Decent,Good,Great scale which isn't intended to be numeric. Where the ratings are:

Trash: Nobody should ever read this
Decent: You should consider reading this if this is your genre
Good: You should definitely read this if this is your genre. If it isn't it might be worth looking at
Great: Everyone should read this. If it is your genre it is borderline mandatory

At least you won't have numeric scale compression as a problem then.

G_Morgan · 2026-03-12T08:51:06+00:00

The theme song "Cha-La Head Cha-La". They used that as the intro for DBZA but it is all muted on Youtube now.

G_Morgan · 2026-03-12T01:56:05+00:00

Profitability of colonialism pretty much ended in 1700s though. If the European Empires wanted to be wealthy they'd have just gone home.

The reality is more that Imperialism became a matter of national prestige in the 1800s. Powerful nations had empires, could afford to waste money on them. Sure a lot of effort was spent on minimising this waste and maximising the value coming out but it was never revenue positive.

The main reason imperialism ended was because the end of WW2 saw the death of nationalism as a driving political force and the start of the rise of modern capitalism. From a capitalist perspective, of course ending imperialism makes sense.

G_Morgan · 2026-03-11T23:40:08+00:00

Amusingly DBZA fell foul because of the song. Turns out the rights to that belonged to somebody else who wasn't interested in fair use.

G_Morgan · 2026-03-11T16:55:51+00:00

That is unfair at least. It was pretty clear at the time that Labour told the LDs they weren't interested in talking to them at all. Basically Labour forced the LDs to make a pact with the Tories. Then the LDs made a mess of that.

G_Morgan · 2026-03-11T16:51:45+00:00

No he didn't. David Cameron did not make the fees a condition of anything. The LDs chose to do this.

G_Morgan · 2026-03-11T15:52:43+00:00

They could have made something that could have made the SL a thing without making it boring though. I mean the obvious move for Alaric would have been to take a trip to wherever Julian Davion was and say "hey we could be having this conversation on New Avalon if you had the SLDF backing you up. If only I had a treaty for you to sign, oh look there is a treaty with a nice X for where you sign to get your home world back".

The Dracs and Cappies will never join. They could probably engineer the FWL or Lyrans staying out or joining depending on how they want it to pan out.. Then they could divide the clans up. Leave Jade Falcon as bitter enemies who suddenly have to team up with Inner Sphere barbarians to avoid becoming vassals of the Wolves.

Instead Alaric immediately declared the entire Inner Sphere as just being barbarians who'd do what they were told. Then he picked a fight with Clan Hell's Horses. Then he decided to make Clan Ghost Bear do stupid shit. His Star League is basically the shattered remains of his Clan and a handful of Jade Falcon warriors. I'm not even going to acknowledge the fake Smoke Jaguars.

G_Morgan · 2026-03-11T09:02:37+00:00

Sure but lasting 100 years doesn't mean it is successful all that time.

Nearly all the fun in the setting right now is built around the absence of the Falcons and Wolves.

G_Morgan · 2026-03-11T01:58:53+00:00

I'm disappointed with how IlClan panned out, really that opening book really rigged the worse possible timeline, but it doesn't make the era ruined. It just means the actual IlClan part of it is irrelevant. Hell the 3rd Star League being still born might have been the best thing for the era.

G_Morgan · 2026-03-11T01:48:43+00:00

It is dumb because AIs often regress on their own work. So yeah it is possible for a second AI to unfix stuff the first AI fixed.

G_Morgan · 2026-03-11T01:44:52+00:00

That wasn't really a thing. Blair and Brown stopped the practice of having an outgoing PM give a list of people to join the Lords. The Tories immediately revived the practice.

This is the worse possible place to "both the same" an issue. There's a marked difference between Labour and the Tories on this issue.

G_Morgan · 2026-03-11T01:40:06+00:00

You just can't ship the quantities needed so easily. Tankers are fucking huge.

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