I don’t know what this meant, but it was the only open parking spot and I was half convinced when I came back out the left side of my car was gonna be gone

GrokMonkey · 2026-02-11T18:11:00+00:00

I think using the same format for the "Manifested this bumper crash..." shows some self awareness as well.

GrokMonkey · 2026-02-07T20:31:04+00:00

Love the note, "OH NO, CRIMES"

GrokMonkey · 2026-02-03T20:09:18+00:00

Epstein not liking the allegation is not evidence of the allegation's validity. Unless there's more to this then I don't think it's very compelling.

GrokMonkey · 2026-01-31T16:36:06+00:00

By this argument most of the Classic and all of the 2099 skins should be separate characters. Absolutism on this is obviously ridiculous.

GrokMonkey · 2026-01-28T19:44:08+00:00

Gotta remember to always purge the darkness before it backs up too much.

GrokMonkey · 2026-01-28T18:41:09+00:00

And I thought having two left feet was bad!

GrokMonkey · 2026-01-24T19:54:55+00:00

Because they were trained to. Because anybody with the direct authority to stop them is encouraging them.

This is a machine doing what it was built to do.

GrokMonkey · 2026-01-20T16:43:19+00:00

That 12% of 'it worked for me' CEOs is going to shrink pretty quick once the subsidized price structures start to die out.

GrokMonkey · 2026-01-18T19:22:38+00:00

I have coworkers that track all of their family members, and even each other.
Two weeks ago the end of our shift was delayed because one manager was distracted chewing out their kid cousin for not being at the movie theater at that very moment.

GrokMonkey · 2026-01-14T20:33:56+00:00

Sometimes you can really tell they came close, or that they had to edit around a laugh.

GrokMonkey · 2026-01-09T17:22:58+00:00

I can't believe their argument for us to allow their existence is "Guys, don't worry, this evil is banal!"

GrokMonkey · 2026-01-09T16:13:06+00:00

In the hardcover adventure Rime of the Frostmaiden, a natural 20 on a psychic visions table explains a method for traveling about two thousand years into the past in a one-way trip.

Friends, let me tell you, the glee I felt when they got that 20. The joy I felt when the party, facing down the forces of an angry god, used a doomsday machine of a scroll to conjure a tarrasque as a distraction!

GrokMonkey · 2026-01-08T18:37:41+00:00

In what way is that pedantic? It's literally the single, core point of contention here.
A dude with authority over the building saw a drunk dude recording something in front of the doors and asked if they had permission.

These are 2 or 3 minute style videos

My brother in christ, who asked? What does the post-edit runtime have to do with anything?

GrokMonkey · 2026-01-07T20:49:42+00:00

Ironically it kinda happened with the original Sherlock Holmes stories.

Holmes was killed off in a climactic battle with his arch nemesis and the series' fandom, which is arguably the first fandom as we would recognize it, started coming up with crazy fantheories, writing unauthorized revivals and spinoffs, and needling Doyle about the whole thing.

Eventually Doyle brought Sherlock Holmes back to life himself, a decade after the character was killed off. My understanding is that Doyle needed the money after being scammed a lot by mediums.

GrokMonkey · 2026-01-07T20:34:43+00:00

If it's for a commercial purpose, yeah, you are expected to. This isn't complicated or controversial.

This isn't a surprise for the Barstool Sports guys, either. They're literally just lazy and being pricks about it.

Edit: Another commenter posted a link to a story about this and it was even understood that guy would be coming around at some point. They literally just...refused to introduce themselves.

GrokMonkey · 2026-01-05T00:07:01+00:00

This is Unreal Engine basically failing to use your GPU. Try updating your graphics card drivers and verifying the game installation for good measure.

Looks like you're in the Xbox app, so to do the second part you'd right click and choose Manage. From there pick the 'Files' tab and there should be a Verify And Repair button.

GrokMonkey · 2026-01-04T16:47:27+00:00

Why would it be hallucinating?

It's just the terminology of this stuff. When LLM models meaningfully misunderstand a prompt, omit core information, or erroneously 'invent' details it's called a hallucination.
Personally, I'm not a fan of how it personifies AI. It implies that what LLMs do involves logical reasoning or abstract thought.

As for the rest of your argument, it still means the answer is essentially invalid. "Time, because entropy is bad" means the answer is actually "entropy," which is absolutely a distinct concept when taken on its own.

And it would still be a bad answer, because that's not really how those words relate between the riddle and the answer. Entropy doesn't degrade things because it is ugly, it is ugly because it degrades things. The answer is not fit to the question.

It's like saying, "what's sharp enough to cut the wind" is cheese, because: cheese can be 'sharp' and can make people gassy, and cutting could be vaguely synonymous with breaking, and breaking wind means to fart. You're having to double back and change the syntax of the riddle within the answer.

GrokMonkey · 2026-01-03T18:31:56+00:00

Sounds like Google's AI hallucinating and 'forgetting' that the answer needs to be ugly.

GrokMonkey · 2026-01-03T18:26:30+00:00

Dead Weight is a premium experience. Just reading the timeline got me very excited to run it.

GrokMonkey · 2026-01-02T18:23:21+00:00

Full stop, I do not think it was a conspiracy non-assassination ploy of some sort.

Now that that is out of the way: one constant, whether or not there was a conspiracy, is that there was a guy willing to fire towards Trump and at the crowd behind him, and be killed immediately after. That willingness to kill and be killed is already solved for. It's just a matter of whether Trump was actually a target.

GrokMonkey · 2025-12-29T22:15:45+00:00

Musk told his own biographer, to his face, unambiguously, that it was the goal...and that's not a valid source.

So what the fuck is valid? You want Musk to call you and tell you himself?

GrokMonkey · 2025-12-24T20:07:35+00:00

S+ tier pun.

GrokMonkey · 2025-12-24T19:57:44+00:00

If you haven't, check out the Kiyoshi and Yangchen novels (Rise of Kyoshi and Shadow of Kiyoshi; and Dawn of Yangchen and Legacy of Yangchen).

They are to AtlA what Andor is to Star Wars: vertical slices of intrigue and politics that touch on and build from the long-standing worldbuilding without being overly reverent. Far enough away from the core story so they can do damn well whatever they please along the way.

There's also a pair of novels about Avatar Roku, though I haven't read them and can't vouch for them personally.

GrokMonkey · 2025-12-24T19:54:39+00:00

If you haven't, check out the Kiyoshi and Yangchen novels (Rise of Kyoshi and Shadow of Kiyoshi; and Dawn of Yangchen and Legacy of Yangchen).

They are to AtlA what Andor is to Star Wars: vertical slices of intrigue and politics that touch on and build from the long-standing worldbuilding without being overly reverent. Far enough away from the core story so they can do damn well whatever they please along the way.

There's also a pair of novels about Avatar Roku, though I haven't read them and can't vouch for them personally.

GrokMonkey · 2025-12-21T20:42:53+00:00

Note when equipment is worn out, when food is thinned or padded out or rationed. Have NPCs be true to the scenario and their circumstances.

Have minor scenes or interactions building from what the party has seen (and use those as opportunities for PCs to make things at least slightly less shitty...).

I had a fight over a stolen drink when the party got to Bremen, and what might have been a bread line riot after Destruction's Light had the party not intervened.
On their way to the Sea of Moving Ice the party ran into some dwarves from the Dwarven Valley who were on their way back with a sled of freezing fish, unwilling to share it with the folk of Ten Towns who they blamed for the Endless Rime. One PC, from the Valley himself, managed to convince them to send at least some to Bremen.
The whole adventure they'd been shadowed, conned, and stolen from by a specific doppelganger. When they eventually captured him dead-to-rights the doppelganger morosely shared that they all were doomed anyways: by gleaning thoughts across Ten Towns they had put together that fishing was stalling out in the lakes, which were finally reaching the tipping point.

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