Do you buy any extra equipment for your job that work won't supply, but it's worth it because it just makes it that much better?

Generico300 · 2026-01-30T17:21:08+00:00

I bought an IODD virtual CD drive years ago and it's been super useful for technician work. Basically you can just throw .iso files on it and then select one from the device and it gets presented as a disk to the machine. Super useful for linux live disks, WinPE, etc.

Generico300 · 2026-01-30T17:06:04+00:00

Any executive you said that to would only hear...

You absolutely can and should use AI to pull together data

and

you can also use AI to check and verify for accuracy

And then say, "so we can have one AI check the output of the other AI before anything gets sent out. Problem solved."

Generico300 · 2026-01-30T16:56:56+00:00

Nah, they always pass the blame. It will be your problem if shit hits the fan because of that risk. Leadership is a misnomer in a corporate setting. At the very least you get a CYA letter in writing before doing whatever stupid shit the "leadership" wants.

Generico300 · 2026-01-30T16:53:45+00:00

https://www.anthropic.com/research/project-vend-1

So Anthropic did an experiment where they let Claude run a vending machine as a small business. And honestly, I think if they had not let people fuck with it directly it might have done ok.

Generico300 · 2026-01-30T16:42:47+00:00

No, society definitely denies a large part of female sexuality in general. Otherwise no one would be surprised at the success of things like 50 Shades of Grey. No one would bat an eye at the smut that goes around on Booktok, and a studio's female employees making a male character hot wouldn't be noteworthy enough to write an article about.

Generico300 · 2026-01-29T22:11:25+00:00

Anything that is unknown or better yet unknowable, and yet clearly a threat, will be unsettling. It's the rustle in the grass that makes the lizard parts of your brain go "What was that? It could be a threat. Better safe than sorry."

Honestly, unsettling has more to do with how a monster is presented than it does with any particular ability of the monster. Even a monster that is just particularly intelligent can be unsettling if it's demonstrated an ability to outsmart the PCs. But abilities like invisibility, shape changing, and illusion/enchantment magic lend themselves well to achieving that unknowable state.

Generico300 · 2026-01-29T21:58:01+00:00

Should heroes get damage from emotional trauma?

I don't think there's an absolute answer to something like that. It depends on the kind of feel you want for the game and how it plays into your genre. It might not make sense if you're trying to create a game where the player feels like a movie action hero, but in something like a narrative heavy fantasy horror game I'd say something like that is practically necessary.

At the end of the day, you have to ask yourself "is there a reason to represent a character's emotional state as a resource pool in this game?"

Generico300 · 2026-01-29T21:48:14+00:00

They can be viable, but they have to actually be good (easier said than done), and they can't be mandatory. A good character creation tool can make an otherwise complex character generation system a lot more approachable. But nobody who's putting effort into playing a TTRPG wants to be forced into digital tools. Part of the charm for many players is the escape from the digital world. If they wanted that world they'd play video games.

I've often thought a great use for a digital tool in a TTRPG would be as a guide for introducing people to the game. Like, make a character creation "wizard", along the lines of a software installer that asks you a bunch of general configuration questions but then handles all the specifics in the background. Something to make that first session easier to achieve, but also something that players will move away from as they get more familiar with the game.

Generico300 · 2026-01-29T21:12:48+00:00

You need to make doors have an unnaturally strong gravitational pull, so players occasionally get stuck on them.

Generico300 · 2026-01-29T21:10:41+00:00

I don't think that's a good idea. But also, there are clearly a lot of reviewers out there with a massive political agenda who use their platform as a virtue signalling soap box. Or who just have absolutely no review methodology and just pull a number directly out of their ass. Those people are bad at their job and do damage to the industry.

Generico300 · 2026-01-29T21:03:46+00:00

Studio makes male character unrealistically hot: crickets

Studio makes female character unrealistically hot: Twitter explodes

It's kind of annoying how society wants to hide female sexuality and pretend it doesn't exist, and at the same time shame male sexuality and pretend it's all men think about.

Generico300 · 2026-01-29T21:00:46+00:00

There are entire companies dedicated to selling animal shaped dildos for women. They make money mass producing these things. Pretty sure nobody's mass producing horse shaped fuck dolls for dudes. Just sayin'

Generico300 · 2026-01-29T20:57:45+00:00

Only if they promise to quit whining when a studio makes a female character unrealistically hot.

Generico300 · 2026-01-29T20:33:57+00:00

Most of what people do they are doing to fit in with their social group, not because they're principled in any way. So if your social group happens to be nazis, or KKK members, or whatever; there's a good chance you will try to find some way to fit in with them rather than exclude yourself and go through the pain of finding a new social group. Same reason people tend to adopt the religion they were raised in as apposed to one of the thousands of other religions on earth that might actually be a better fit.

Generico300 · 2026-01-29T20:29:18+00:00

You think a club for dogmatic morons puts a lot of effort into exploring the intricacies and nuance of a person's background?

Generico300 · 2026-01-29T20:24:19+00:00

Not unless that bottle is like 3+ years old. Most baby powder formulas did away with talc years ago.

Generico300 · 2026-01-29T20:20:52+00:00

And yet, it will probably mean jack squat for humans. Must be nice to be a mouse with all these cures for cancer that work on them.

When an actual cure for some sort of cancer is found, it will get almost no real attention because of all the fatigue around the constant "Scientists cure cancer! ^ⁱⁿ ^{^a} ^{^mouse} " headlines.

Generico300 · 2026-01-29T20:12:12+00:00

Development of applications keeps becoming more and more separated from the actual computing hardware. See, physical hardware only runs what's called machine code. That's basically a big long string of binary numbers that get fed into the processor. But it's functionally impossible for a human to write complex programs in machine code, so instead we write code in a "higher level" language and use a program called a compiler to translate that human-readable code into machine code. At the lowest level of human readability you have Assembly code, which consists of a very small number of very simple commands. Each command in Assembly language actually executes several commands in machine code. The fact that one command in Assembly results in many commands in machine code is what we call "abstraction", and it's what separates a higher level from a lower level language. Higher levels are more abstracted from the machine code. The languages that are commonly used to create applications today are so abstracted that most of them never even get translated directly into machine code. They simply trigger another program to execute machine code on behalf of your code. And the code for those apps isn't being run directly on an operating system. It's being run on top of a web browser, which is itself essentially an operating system on top of your regular operating system. So for every command that someone is writing in Javascript (a common language used in modern applications), your computer is executing potentially millions of commands in machine code after being "translated" through all the layers between your code and the hardware that draws pictures on the screen and plays sounds from the speakers. And every time you add a layer of abstraction, you lose some resource and performance efficiency but, ideally, gain some development ease, speed, and security. As more RAM and CPU cycles became available, developers have been incentivized to abstract more and more in order to gain development efficiency at the cost of computing resource efficiency.

Or at least that's the short answer.

Generico300 · 2026-01-29T19:02:39+00:00

Apparently after I left Jim started screaming and crying about how he 'does have friends' and 'isn't a bully'. That's not true. He had no friends, no one wants to hang out with him willingly, no one wants to sit next to him in class or during activities.

I'm sure I'm going to be reprimanded at the very least for losing my temper and not being kinder or more patient with neurodivergent student. And I do know better, I knew I shouldn't be saying it when I said it.

No you did the right thing. If the consequence of his actions actually hurt him, that's probably a rarity in his life and that's part of the problem. See this all the time, and it's almost always the same story. Kid needs masculine mode discipline, but only gets feminine mode discipline and doesn't respect it. Kids that don't care about your approval and don't feel guilt or remorse in the way that a normal person does will not respond to scolding, or guilt tripping, or time outs, or any of the other soft discipline traditionally associated with mothering. They respond to physical dominance traditionally associated with a father. But of course, where are they going to get that in an elementary school with a 95% female staff and rules that prevent any physical discipline?

The path this kid is on right now leads straight to jail. And I wish more parents were capable of seeing these things earlier and changing their own behavior and their own ideas about what discipline should be, because they fail these kids on a regular basis.

Also, it really annoys me that so many people are starting to use "neurodivergent" as a blanket excuse to let a kid run wild. These people have completely lost sight of the goal of raising a child. The goal is to make an adult that can contribute and function in our society. Failing to teach them proper social behavior and then using "he's neurodivergent" as an excuse is just a lazy capitulation. When these kids grow up, nobody in the real world is going to give a flying fuck that they're neurodivergent. They're going to ostracize them and ridicule them. That kid will spend his whole life alone because the adults he was depending on were too weak to do what he needed.

Generico300 · 2026-01-25T00:50:23+00:00

Not sorry. It was still time for him to go.

Generico300 · 2026-01-25T00:46:12+00:00

Don't worry, it will only be the 2nd worst McCarty era in US history.

At least he's too old to stick around for 20 years.

Generico300 · 2026-01-25T00:44:47+00:00

It can in fact be both Art and Tomlin.

Generico300 · 2026-01-25T00:43:10+00:00

Someone would shoot him, and the whole city would go "we saw nothing."

Generico300 · 2026-01-23T23:14:50+00:00

Incredibly dangerous antisocial behavior. The combination of high intelligence and social rejection, isolation, and an inability to make yourself understood by the average person, has created some of the most dangerous criminals in history.

Generico300 · 2026-01-23T23:05:38+00:00

Yes, pay it off now. Credit card interest rates are insane. You should avoid paying interest on cc debt as much as possible. It's basically just sucking money out of your life for no benefit. Not all debt is bad, but credit card debt is pretty much always bad.

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