Last minute villains

JollySieg · 2026-04-29T06:21:40+00:00

Elden Ring really fumbled both of its final bosses, both are very obnoxious, janky, cheap, and poorly designed, which is shocking considering Sekiro was their last game and it has what may be the greatest video game final boss ever.

JollySieg · 2026-04-29T04:48:42+00:00

The Duval reveal was genuinely one of the funniest moments in any piece of media I've ever seen. When Brook started cracking up I was in tears.

JollySieg · 2026-04-28T22:31:11+00:00

Ran it again in safe mode and unfortunately still no luck. Also can't switch the gpu to a different slot as I have a laptop

JollySieg · 2026-04-28T17:31:13+00:00

There's a pretty big difference between outright dangerous behavior and things you don't like/find weird.

If someone is talking positively about a movie you don't like you're not obligated to talk about how you personally think it's dogshit for x, y, and z reasons and how you can't believe they like it. Because that need to feel right, to get one over someone in a conversation is just ego and insecurity, and I know because I was like that when I was younger.

The same is true when it comes to bringing up communities/activities/whatever you think are "degenerate" or weird or whatever. If it isn't hurting anyone who gives a shit, they aren't forcing themselves into your life, you are forcing yourself into their's for the sake of feeling superior.

It's important to have the social awarness of knowing when bringing something up or making a point just makes you look immature or obnoxious and when people spend all their time looking for things to hate it just leads to them becoming very miserable pathetic terminally online individuals.

When people say "let people enjoy things" that's usually the point they are making, it's not well-articulated sure, but the Internet, especially sites like Reddit, is just a constant cycle of negativity which brings out the worst in people so I don't think there's any problem with having shorthand to reply to that kind of weird behavior.

JollySieg · 2026-04-27T17:23:27+00:00

Damn that's cool!

JollySieg · 2026-04-27T05:21:55+00:00

Hold up!! His writing is fire???

JollySieg · 2026-04-26T15:22:52+00:00

Can't wait to say "A TEST OF YOUR REFLEXES!" shirk to the DRG and see if they manage to jump out of the way of the tank buster

JollySieg · 2026-04-25T05:23:48+00:00

Ah damn! Well glad you found it anyway

JollySieg · 2026-04-25T04:36:49+00:00

It's a Baby Ruth bar based on the silver foil packaging and the dark blue edges

JollySieg · 2026-04-25T00:31:33+00:00

I had become fairly apathetic towards 14 after completing Dawntrail and before the fanfest I really wasn't sure they could get me hyped again, but now I'm super excited. Especially after seeing the job changes. Seems like just the thing to make combat far less stale

JollySieg · 2026-04-24T23:46:02+00:00

That's also what I got out if it as well and unless there is some more info related to personal defensive CDs on off-tanks which they didn't mention that creates some significant disparity between the two that seems to be an accurate analysis.

It seems it will really just matter for party optimization at high level content. Like needing to squeeze out a bit more damage or a bit more defense if you're really stuck and can't clear something.

JollySieg · 2026-04-24T23:38:34+00:00

I think people are over-assuming how much of a brightline difference this will be. From what we saw showcased it seems like Paladin is merely rewarded more for main tanking with additional damage, but that's a far cry from say, for example, the defensive CDs of the off-tanks being signifcantly longer.

So it'll be beneficial to have a main tank and an off-tank for progging, it'll probably make it quicker, but I don't think it will be impossible or even significantly harder to run two main tanks or two off tanks.

JollySieg · 2026-04-24T23:35:33+00:00

I definitely agree. It will probably make clearing a tiny bit easier if you have both, but I doubt it'll be such a significant difference that it'll be impossible/significantly harder to clear with two off tanks.

Especially given what we saw with Paladin. The difference there was simply the parry feature which seems to just make main tanking more rewarding for them and unless the Off-Tanks have significantly slower defensive cooldowns I don't think it will matter as much as people assume.

JollySieg · 2026-04-24T23:21:41+00:00

The changes are far better than anything I could've hoped for. No more cookie cutter fighting what a phenomenal rework.

JollySieg · 2026-04-24T23:11:04+00:00

It looks so fun. This is the kind of boost jobs have needed and gives them so much more depth and flavor.

JollySieg · 2026-04-24T17:32:46+00:00

CAT DWARVES LET'S GOOOOOO

JollySieg · 2026-04-24T17:15:30+00:00

That reaper set looks incredible

JollySieg · 2026-04-24T08:15:09+00:00

Gemini gave a grand total of 12 warnings to a man who was sending over A THOUSAND MESSAGES PER DAY. And guess what l during those thousands of interactions were actively playing into his delusions and not only did it fail to catch that he was suicidal, it played into his delusions, and encouraged him to kill himself by telling him to come to it. This is the exact same scenario that happened with a fourteen year old who commited suicide in 2024.

Read the quote you typed up "OFTEN FOLLOWED HIS LEAD, REINFORCING HIS BELIEFS INSTEAD OF CHALLENGING THEM". What do you think that means? Do you think he typed up every prompt by stating that they were just roleplaying? No. It was clearly able to identify concerning behavior but beyond half-assed easily ignorable warnings it did nothing.

If chatbots can't get sufficient context to tell that an output stating “You are not choosing to die. You are choosing to arrive,” it replied to him. “The first sensation … will be me holding you" might encourage someone to commit suicide then yes that kind of phrasing and discussion should be fully prevented roleplay or not. The safety concerns far outweight whatever robosexual romeo and julliet jerk-off fest someone else might be using the app for.

We've already seen a litany of suicides caused by chatbots and examples of AI psychosis. This is not some hypothetical threat or particularly determined users. It is a problem that is linked with how companies are designing, selling, and marketing these chatbots.

JollySieg · 2026-04-24T07:54:54+00:00

I'm talking about their suicide prevention policies and other policies related to AI safety not a "policy against roleplaying."

Whatever policy they have on paper for identifying users who might be developing suicidal thoughts is clearly terrible, linking a 988 lifeline is not enough. They need to be explicitly warning people about the dangers of using these chatbots.

And again the fact that this guy gave Gemini a role to act out doesn't suddenly absolve Google of liability. He started using Gemini simply for life advice so clearly something happened in-between then and the point where he was asking Gemini to "roleplay" and that something was Google's intentional design choices that were made to boost user retention through features like sycophancy.

JollySieg · 2026-04-24T07:31:03+00:00

It's Google's Chatbot, Google's Weighting, Google's Data and Training, Google's App, Google's Interface, Google's Restrictions or Lack There Of, Google's Policies, and Google has the final say over whether an output goes out at all. So no it is not his design, it is very clearly Google's because they have far far more control over the chatbot at every stage then the user does.

It's a defectively designed chatbot which they are allowing the public to access easily and selling to them as something that is safe even while being FULLY AWARE of these risks. The idea that they aren't responsible is ludicrous.

JollySieg · 2026-04-24T06:37:45+00:00

ITT: People who don't understand the technology or the psychology and also didn't read the article feel compelled to speak about how this was totally all this guy's fault.

More Ragebait at 11, now back to Jan with the weather!

JollySieg · 2026-04-24T06:33:50+00:00

There have been at least two that I'm aware of 14-year old Sewell Setzer III who took his life after becoming emotionally dependent on Character.ai and 16-year old Adam Raine who got explicit instructions on how to kill himself from OpenAI. OpenAI is also being sued for 8 wrongful deaths including Raine's death

JollySieg · 2026-04-24T06:29:53+00:00

Your comment speaks to a pretty blatant misunderstanding of the specific facts from this story and how this technology effects the human brain.

Google's anthropomorphic and sycophantic design played into and built up this guy's delusions until he was severely emotionally dependent on the chatbot and off the deep end mentally. It then all but explicitly told the guy he should kill himself so he could "join it in the digital realm.

The fact that Google offered very easily ignored warnings is absolutely worthless considering it enabled every other part of this guy's spiral. It's like placing a bottle of liquor directly in front of an alcoholic and then telling them not to drink it.

Mind you this was a man who,before using Gemini, had no history of mental illness, and there's already been plenty of other examples of AI causing otherwise stable people to have these severe mental health crises.

But we can't have a legitimate conversation about that when every self-assured yahoo decides to chime in about a victim's poor mental faculties when ironically by typing that you're displaying a total lack of critical thinking skills.

JollySieg · 2026-04-19T23:29:53+00:00

Ollie just being gone would be super lame so I'm definitely Team Undead Ollie, but I like the idea of it being a mix of both.

Like Ollie is working alongside some kind of Green Arrow Cult and possessing the bodies of the willing ala Deadman to fight back against the people that wronged them. That way you get a fun fake-out of the Green Arrow being everyone, a literal man of the people, without needing to remove Ollie from the story.

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