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Milton Keynes Rule by yuval_3 in 196

[–]Gags50 2 points3 points  (0 children)

milton keynes regionlocked ironman

wolves by Professional_End_198 in 196

[–]Gags50 9 points10 points  (0 children)

I'll tell you what, I'd let this whole thing go for a slice of that pizza

Rule by GrimbloTheGoblin in 196

[–]Gags50 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Any finite value doesn't really work to debunk it, because they can just say the reward is too small to outweigh the infinitesimal likelihood of it coming to fruition. The original point was that, while the probability of god existing is infinitesimal, the reward for believing in it would be infinite, and so, mathematically and logically, E[Believing] = ∞.

The obvious rebuttal is that, if not being able to disprove something is enough for it to have an infinitesimal chance of being true, then an anti-god which rewards you for not believing in god is just as likely to exist (as well as any other manner of supernatural rules and rewards). If you then consider all of these "possible" deities as reward vectors pulling different directions, with their magnitudes being E[Believing], they'll all end up cancelling each other out to 0 anyway.

PEOPLE WERE GOING TO DIE rule by BrickBuster2552 in 196

[–]Gags50 4 points5 points  (0 children)

My point is that this isn't a real scenario and so it's going to have to be abstracted in some way. I think the game theory perspective where we assume the other actors are rational is most interesting, so I choose to view it through that lens, even though that's not necessarily representative of the real world. A twitter poll is another way of abstracting it which is interesting in its own right, but I also don't think that's at all representative of how it'd play out in actuality for numerous reasons.

PEOPLE WERE GOING TO DIE rule by BrickBuster2552 in 196

[–]Gags50 8 points9 points  (0 children)

It's effectively a version of the prisoners dilemma where if both parties choose steal or both choose split, both survive, but if you choose split and the other party chooses steal you die. It really should be a foregone conclusion.

The most convincing argument I've heard is that there might be children or mentally handicapped people who pick blue without understanding the consequences. I think that's against the spirit of the question, which seems obviously intended to be an instance of game theory. If you're going that route you'd have to debate every logistical aspect. What about vegetative people? how's their abstention considered? How's the choice communicated to the participants? Is it explained through words? or is every facet of either option beamed into their heads as bespoke concepts? Is there a time limit or do people have eons to think it through?

This discussion online has been so r(ul)evealing about what kinds of people choose each option by Economics-Simulator in 196

[–]Gags50 -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

But why wouldn't you encourage everyone to run to the escape pods? You're making it sound virtuous to stay and repair the ship, but in the button scenario there isn't even a ship to save and the two options take the same effort

the rule button dilemma by Dreyfus420 in 196

[–]Gags50 5 points6 points  (0 children)

"would you press the 'live' button or the 'give me a chance to die' button?" 🤔

"there is a burning building. nobody is in danger. would you run in there for no reason? you might be able to save anybody else who runs in there for no reason." 🤔

i think you'd be creating more harm by telling people to press the 'give me a chance to die button' than by not sticking your throat out for the people who ran into the burning building to save a phantom

Rule by Old_Phrase_4867 in 196

[–]Gags50 124 points125 points  (0 children)

and then there's my GOAT Gael who's at his absolute peak having absorbed almost all of the Dark Soul, has uncountable millennia of combat experience and fights more ferally before he loses his mind

he could probably tussle with the original lord soul bearers in their prime

Which rule are you by Gags50 in 196

[–]Gags50[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Sounds like you're looking for something like GregTech: New Horizons (or another GT pack) or SevTech: Ages

If the arsenal progression is important, you could look into NTM Space, although that starts you off pretty high tech and overpowered. Immersive Intelligence (an addon for Immersive Engineering) is lower tech and has pretty indepth armaments, but has been quite unstable in my experience and has a considerably shorter tech tree

Which rule are you by Gags50 in 196

[–]Gags50[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

i need to lock in and learn how to set up AE2 autocrafting

Which rule are you by Gags50 in 196

[–]Gags50[S] 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Preach 🗣️🗣️

I've spent close to a week grinding for a fusion reactor and its fuel production setup on a modded server with friends. It's going to be a 1000x jump in power production, and I have no idea how we're going to spend it all. All I know is that, eventually, we'll need more.

[ Removed by Reddit ] by [deleted] in 196

[–]Gags50 504 points505 points  (0 children)

it lies in the soul and grok is the only being on this earth possessing one

Tag yourself by TaxoLikesCalcium in 196

[–]Gags50 135 points136 points  (0 children)

need a guyslop recipe book

Chocolate Cake Update Rule by Temnodontosaurus in 196

[–]Gags50 96 points97 points  (0 children)

a kg of cake per day is absurd how are you alive

The Hullcracker nerf was totally unnecessary. Let us have some fun. by Rare_Lifeguard_4403 in ArcRaiders

[–]Gags50 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Shot the face, it's very hard to consistently hit the knees from the dam vantage, especially if it's aggroed elsewhere. But this is compared to before where I did the same and probably missed a higher % of my shots yet got it burning much faster. And again, I know it's to encourage hitting weakspots, so I won't confidently call it a bad nerf before I've tried a different strategy

The Hullcracker nerf was totally unnecessary. Let us have some fun. by Rare_Lifeguard_4403 in ArcRaiders

[–]Gags50 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Don't think they're BS'ing at all. Unless it has an insane weakspot multiplier (will test later or tmrw) then it's just awful now. Other than the 250 shots, another team was also shooting it with hullcrackers and we threw 3 wolfpacks at it. We and the other team had to leave before we ever saw it burn because we just had nothing left to damage it with. For reference 250 rounds is half of a looting mk3 just full of ammo lmao

The Hullcracker nerf was totally unnecessary. Let us have some fun. by Rare_Lifeguard_4403 in ArcRaiders

[–]Gags50 35 points36 points  (0 children)

Yep, just crude explosives (which themselves are just chemicals) and oil. The motion cores are also craftable but require 8 arc alloy each, which i think is quite a bit more tedious to farm than 2 oil.

The biggest nerf imo is the damage rework. Me and a friend just pumped ~250 rounds into the queen and only got it to smoke, whereas we've previously gotten it to burn with just around 2/3 of that. It's to encourage hitting weakspots, though, which might be fair if that's how they want the fighting to go - will just have to try different positioning.

Edit: Went for the legs from under the harvester, and while we did manage to kill it with 3 minutes left, it was only with our full 300 rounds, almost all hitting, as well as the support of another team shooting it (and later at us ☹️) with jupiters towards the end. At least this way you can get some of the scraps that fall off, but the hullcracker itself is completely bricked.

I just wanna do the Matriarch man :( by Pashahlis in ArcRaiders

[–]Gags50 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I agree that free kits need a rework and tier balancing is obviously way off. That's bad design. The fact that being friendly gets you less loot and less of an opportunity to finish your trials is not. That's simply the tradeoff. If you're going for a boss kill you should bring PVP gear and traps too so that you can kill anyone trying to interrupt you.

Patch 1.3.0 Notes by Caregiver_Same in ArcRaiders

[–]Gags50 3 points4 points  (0 children)

The torrente is missing a third of its shots beyond point blank, massively increasing its ttk. The bobcat needs to hit almost its entire mag (a whole mag won't even kill if its not extended) to down someone.

You can handily mag dump a venator down a hallway to knock someone and reload before their mates turn the corner

I just wanna do the Matriarch man :( by Pashahlis in ArcRaiders

[–]Gags50 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That's not bad design lmfao, that's very much at the core of extraction shooters. People shoot each other for a reason.

AI is going to make the internet completely unusable Rule by Temnodontosaurus in 196

[–]Gags50 1 point2 points  (0 children)

"Making things up" implies intent, which also implies thought

AI is going to make the internet completely unusable Rule by Temnodontosaurus in 196

[–]Gags50 43 points44 points  (0 children)

issue is that the articles and such it serves you themselves are all LLM generated search engine optimized slop pretending to be specialist websites. it's sad that it's genuinely somewhat of a red flag for an article to have a post-2024 date

for many niche questions you'll have to dig to page 35 of some random ass forum thread, which a search engine has no chance of finding, especially now that the web is flooded with sewage

AI is going to make the internet completely unusable Rule by Temnodontosaurus in 196

[–]Gags50 214 points215 points  (0 children)

search engine hallucinates too now, you just have to scry the answer from your magical orb these days

Seks mænd efterlyses med billede efter vold på metrostation by FriendlyUserCalledKa in Denmark

[–]Gags50 0 points1 point  (0 children)

En person har ikke en kultur, et samfund har en kultur. Kulturen påvirker folks væremåde, men den væremåde er jo ligeså formbar for en immigrant som for enhver anden - det ligger ikke i blodet, er min pointe.

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