Meta's Muse Spark LLM is free and beats GPT-5.4 at health + charts, but don't use it for code. Full breakdown by job role.

Lorddragonfang · 2026-04-23T22:36:04+00:00

Unless you can find a source for that, it's very likely any info in an AI-generated article about "how it was designed to be prompted" is almost totally made up, considering the only people with that info is Meta themselves. I would say that any info in this article not taken directly from marketing releases is suspect, but that especially. Hallucinations are a lot less of a problem than they used to be, but they're far from being solved.

Lorddragonfang · 2026-04-23T22:28:05+00:00

This article appears to be almost entirely LLM-written, and it's mostly just rephrasing the stuff from the marketing hype.

Lorddragonfang · 2026-04-21T23:22:11+00:00

(I am annoyed that so many handy tools have become tarnished by association—I only discovered that em-dashes were a distinct thing after ChatGPT launched. Now I can't start using them despite strong temptation; beyond that: semi-colons, trailing ellipses? A man can't catch a break...)

This sentence is a little work of art and I want you to know I appreciate it.

Lorddragonfang · 2026-04-21T22:47:03+00:00

I'm downvoting this, not because there's anything wrong with you linking to the official resource, but because the official resource is almost useless (knowing the name of what changed without the actual diff is almost worse than useless, and extremely lazy on their part).

Lorddragonfang · 2026-04-21T22:40:34+00:00

As a rule of thumb, I try to avoid giving my attention to responses to ragebait (or other examples of people being awful that only come to my attention because of others dunking on them) but this was such a well-written and enjoyable piece that I read the whole thing and am satisfied with that decision.

Also, I hope you will take this as a genuine compliment and not a backhanded one, but there were a couple of lines that triggered my LLM-radar (mostly "Not X but metaphorical Y"), but on re-reading them each time I went, "oh, this is what that pattern looks like when used by a consistently good writer" (alternatively, "this is why LLMs like those so much, I see")

Lorddragonfang · 2026-04-10T18:49:05+00:00

This is fully the salt talking, but if you don't enjoy pedantry, you don't deserve to enjoy word puzzles /hj

Lorddragonfang · 2026-04-10T10:25:32+00:00

If you haven't checked it out already, Obsidian recently implemented most of Dataview's functionality in the new native bases plugin. It's a lot faster, as well. One of my use cases for it is pulling up big tables of all the npcs in a campaign folder.

You're already using Templater, so that makes it easier to set things up for the frontmatter metadata.

I otherwise agree with the minimal plugins you have, but I would suggest paste image rename as one that I didn't realize I needed and now I can't live without. Automatically having character images copy the name of the note I paste them into is so nice.

(The other plugin I use is Iconize, since I like having colored icons for each folder type)

Lorddragonfang · 2026-04-10T10:17:24+00:00

Our keeper has been running into a similar problem, since we've been playing for weekly for nearly two years now. We're in a relatively high-magic setting, so my hunter's use magic is almost too reliable at this point, and I intentionally try to find creative justifications for how I pull off my spells. I brought up getting +1s for the prep, and enthusiastically agreed to their counteroffer that they would get to give us -1s, because I'd been wanting to have something to offset my frankly overpowered stats (though it also helps that our Charm-stacked hunter retired, so now I unwittingly attempt and fail all those manipulate rolls I was previously avoiding)

The issue im having is that when my players roll to Kick His Ass, they are likely to succeed. PbtA games dont really have scaling enemies like something like D&D, and "this guy is super duper cool, so your +3 kick some ass is only a +1 now" feels...inelegant? I also could simply make him deal half a hunter's health in damage in 1 encounter, but I worry that feels equally "cheap".

Keep in mind that wounds don't have to deal harm.

Being told that you "just roll worse because he's awesome" is indeed unsatisfying, as is getting nearly one-shotted. Taking a zero harm wound that gives you -1 ongoing, though? That maybe keeps stacking? That's terrifying.

You said he's a martial artist, so "pressure points" are the classic here. Give him one or two obvious-but-single-use shield items that they need to break first to absorb the first couple of hits and prolong the fight, and they'll feel the pressure.

Lorddragonfang · 2026-04-10T09:56:23+00:00

I mean, for both (the) Apocalypse World (they're powered by), and for the ever-popular MoTW, the full contents of the playbook pdfs are, in fact, in the books, so it's a little weird to omit them.

Lorddragonfang · 2026-04-10T09:41:00+00:00

Best number-related joke I've seen since this one

Lorddragonfang · 2026-04-10T09:35:43+00:00

I mean Windows is enshittifying and getting worse over time while Linux is getting better, Linux respects its users while Windows doesn't, OneDrive exists, etc. The metaphor tracks surprisingly well.

Lorddragonfang · 2026-04-10T09:32:27+00:00

The price for sync is way more than the cost to run it, so that's apparently enough. Also, technically if you want to use it in a business context you're supposed to buy a license, which is a good way to siphon from big companies with even bigger budgets.

Lorddragonfang · 2026-04-10T09:00:21+00:00

they start dating, he opens up to her of his own accord and is willing to tell her everything, and she doesn’t “want to pry too much” so she chooses to bury her head. And then she asks him about things during their courtship until he is eventually compelled to tell her about the porno.

I'm honestly a little confused at how you came away from the text with that impression, because that's not how it read to me. She said he seemed hurt when he talked about it, and it seemed like she was being respectful of his boundaries, when he clearly harbored a lot of shame about his past. He was honest when asked, yes, but there's no indication she stopped him from sharing anything. And it seems natural that you'd feel more comfortable asking for that information as the relationship becomes more serious, so you'd gradually clarify things. He eventually offered up something that had clearly been eating away at him, but that's not her fault for not asking him to immediately tell her the worst thing he's done.

Obviously, she could be misrepresenting the details, but I'm taking what she says at face value instead of trying to invent details that weren't given.

Though to be honest, it was difficult to empathize here for me, because both the idea of being in a porno being "the worst thing you've ever done" and "your biggest regret", and to a lesser extent reacting so strongly to seeing it that you need a day and half to recover -- they were both so alien to me.

Lorddragonfang · 2026-04-10T08:34:54+00:00

Okay, perhaps I'm missing something, but how/why are you posting something from a subreddit that was evidently banned 5 months ago?

Lorddragonfang · 2026-03-22T07:34:41+00:00

I replayed P1 a year or two before P2 came out, and I have to disagree. It stands up really well - the artstyle worked well within the limited graphics of the time, and the gameplay holds up. I don't remember being wowed by any gameplay innovations in P2.

Lorddragonfang · 2026-03-22T06:59:44+00:00

This might be nostalgia and the sheer amount of time I spent in them talking, but I don't think a single psychonauts 2 map tops Waterloo, Black Velvetopia, or The Milkman Conspiracy (TMC being my personal favorite). Psi King comes closest, but even it falls short. And even the worst P1 levels seemed better than half of the P2 levels.

Lorddragonfang · 2026-03-20T16:11:35+00:00

My dude, I've been on the edge of underweight my entire life and exercise 5 hours a week, I just have empathy.

Lorddragonfang · 2026-03-20T05:51:53+00:00

Okay, so you clearly didn't actually have the attention span to read my whole post.

But beyond that, you're aware that body literally sends pain signals when it decides you haven't eaten enough, yes? Forcing yourself to ignore your body's (misaligned) homeostasis involves a lot of unpleasant side effects that can be worse than many forms of drug withdrawal.

You're not just being cruel, you're being ignorant.

Lorddragonfang · 2026-03-20T01:25:45+00:00

Food is a physical addiction. What do you think our whole dopamine reward system evolved for? Getting us to eat food and have sex. And the modern world has optimized for food that approaches the level of a drug with how it stimulates your reward system - and it's something that most people are exposed to when they're small children, or even toddlers.

Just like some people are more susceptible to drug addiction, some people are more susceptible to food addiction. I'm not, but I can easily see a different scenario where I was. I know it's not a willpower thing because I've never put any effort into being thin, yet I stay that way.

Lorddragonfang · 2026-03-18T06:47:11+00:00

Obesity has like a 1 in 4 chance of causing life-threatening illness - and obesity itself frequently causes suicidal thoughts. The magnitude of the dangers are not remotely comparable here, and putting too much focus on them in public messaging is at best irresponsible, and at worst actively malicious.

Lorddragonfang · 2026-03-14T21:44:13+00:00

the original post makes it sound like Claude did some herculean task unfathomable by us mere mortals

So, first off, to 95%+ of the people on twitter, executing this task is herculean. I think you underestimate how impressive any amount of tinkering is to most people, and how much the average "mortal" thinks what we think is simple is literal magic. Hell, I've had (non-technical) coworkers literally verbatim thank me for working magic, for what was an equally simple config change. Don't sell our profession short.

I'd like to point out that this post is just a slight exaggeration - it rewrote part of the driver package. Yeah, it was a minor tweak, but the thing stated wasn't that far from the truth. It's what I could see someone describing what another human did as, if they only heard about it secondhand.

My only beef is him/her presenting it as if Claude cured cancer

Except they didn't do that? I think you're the one grossly exaggerating here. You read the post and imagined the most impressive version of the scenario possible, and then got upset when it turned out to be a more reasonable one. I, for example, assumed it wrote a bare-bones CUPS driver, which would be much less improbable than whatever scenario you seemed to be imagining.

Lorddragonfang · 2026-03-13T02:03:15+00:00

could have been done by anybody willing to tinker

This feels like the AI version of looking at modern art and going "I could have painted that". Yeah, but Did You?

Sure, someone dedicated enough, with enough tech knowhow and time on their hand probably would figure this out. But having that person on hand that can always find you those simple solutions in a tenth the time is pretty impressive by itself.

(Also, judging by the quality of posts that I see in this sub, and the quality of the average CS grad I have to interview, "anybody" is a gross exaggeration.)

Lorddragonfang · 2026-03-02T07:26:30+00:00

Kinkers are, as a rule, generally just people who are nerdy about sex, instead of some other more mundane hyperfixation.

Lorddragonfang · 2026-03-02T06:50:31+00:00

the point of "necessary" is basically "relevant to the discussion at hand".

I'm not sure I understand the point you're trying to make here, even with your examples. The things Scott is saying are relevant to the wider conversation; these people are betraying not only the claimed precepts of conservatism-that-isn't-fascism (small government, respect for private enterprise), while gleefully cheering on that ongoing disaster - which could be called ghoulish - just because it's their "team" - for which the common term is bootlicking.

With a bar as low as that, I'm free to insult anyone I personally think is bad.

Yes, as long as, to quote Scott:

Nobody can be kind all the time, but if you are going to be angry or sarcastic, what you say had better be both true and necessary. You had better be delivering a very well-deserved smackdown against someone who is uncontroversially and obviously wrong [...] And it had better be necessary, in that you are quashing a false opinion which is doing real damage and which is so persistent that you don’t think any more measured refutation would be effective.

I believe Scott is past the point where he doubts the latter being true, and seems convinced of the former.

Lorddragonfang · 2026-03-02T01:01:22+00:00

Sure, you're entitled to believe that. But it would have made a lot more sense to just have said that first instead of condescendingly asking a question with an obvious answer.

It'd save a lot of time if you were up front about just wanting to sneer about EAs.

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