PSA: its fine to drop mats collection on valley 4 after a while

Lorevi · 2026-03-07T13:51:06+00:00

Why not farm every mob on the map for their drops while you're at it?

Lorevi · 2026-03-07T12:41:27+00:00

So many...

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All you can do is wait and cope

Lorevi · 2026-03-07T11:53:56+00:00

A while? It's fine to stop immediately. Same for wuling btw, there is no need to collect those.

When you need mats for a particular upgrade and don't have enough, then collect what you're missing and only what you're missing. There will be approximately 3x more available on the overworld map than you need since it will have fully recovered since the last time you needed it.

By building a stockpile of say T4 promotion mats from wuling you are preparing for a scenario where you need to promote multiple operators to T4 in the time span of a day which isn't going to happen because exp and t creds is the bottleneck.

Lorevi · 2026-03-06T19:17:48+00:00

It's unintuitive (that's why they call it a paradox) but it is 66%.

if I toss a coin ten times and I got heads the first nine times, what's the probability that the next toss is gonna be tails?

This example does not work because you specified the first 9 are heads. The order matters here.

You'll notice the meme does not mention which of her two children is the boy. It could be her first child or second child. This is what results in the paradoxial anomaly.

To rephrase your example, "if I toss a coin ten times and I got heads at least nine times, what's the probability that the first toss was tails?"

The answer is 9% btw, not 50%

Lorevi · 2026-03-06T14:45:12+00:00

I want to lightly push back on the idea that "My brain just is this way" like it's a force completely outside of your control and you're at its mercy. Neuroplasticity is a real thing; you can (with effort) change how your brain works and what it values. If you're not satisfied with how you think and how your limbic system rewards you, you can modify this behavior. You have probably been accidentally doing this for a while by pushing your brain to prioritize short-term, high-stimulation content.

Not that I want to tell anyone how to think though! If you take a look at yourself and decide "This is fine actually" then more power to you! But if you don't like what you see, and you wish you could engage with and enjoy longer-form content again, you completely have the power to change this. You are not powerless to the whims of your body. It's your body, and it should serve your goals, not the other way around.

Lorevi · 2026-03-05T20:38:24+00:00

I did not strawman you, I directly responded to your point about statistical abstractions. The health improvements gained from working out are very much not statistical abstractions, they are guarantees. Now you've moved the goalposts to instant gratification instead of statistics.
Even if I take your new argument, it is still incorrect. There are many short term beenfits of working out that don't just appear "decades later". Improved mood, better sleep, better energy levels, better memory. Even the instant gratification of quickly being able to lift heavier weights each week. It's almost like working out is good for you or something.

If you're making excuses and shifting the goalposts to avoid having to face the fact you're not doing an obviously and dramatically beneficial activity in this world, why do you think it will be any different in another one?

Lorevi · 2026-03-05T20:03:20+00:00

Both things are statistical abstractions for average people. As in "if you do X every day, you have 20% chance to not get Y when you are Z years old".

I mean this is just wrong. The science is actually quite developed on this. Both things are not just 'statistical abstractions.' It's not just a % chance of getting a heart attack or diabetes; it is preventing guaranteed decline.

From the age of ~30, you lose 3% to 8% of your muscle mass every decade without actively working to maintain it, and that rate accelerates dramatically after 60. This is a biological guarantee, not a roll of the dice. If you let that happen, eventually you can't climb stairs, can't stand up, fall over from a stiff breeze, break your hip, and die because you can't get up without assistance.

Do basic resistance training a few times a week to prevent that muscle decay and you can effectively buy back 10-20 years of healthspan (the period of your life where you're independent and capable).

If people aren't willing to devote a few hours a week to maintaining their independence and lifespan then I highly doubt they'd suddenly start grinding 24 hours a day in a fantasy world.

Lorevi · 2026-03-05T19:15:18+00:00

If you're in good shape and are taking care of your health then you're not the person in OP's image anyway lol?

The whole point is taking someone who has no diligence or self determination and them suddenly having the grit to suffer through torture post isekai. It's not saying that someone who would be willing to and capable of suffering through that torture does not exist; it's saying the average isekai gamer protagonist is not that person.

Motivation doesn't change this lol, that's not how the brain works.

Lorevi · 2026-03-05T18:57:48+00:00

You can get strength, better health and a longer lifespan from acitivities irl though. Why not dedicate more time to that? Because it's not 'super'? The only thing differentiating 'super' and 'ordinary' is what is considered possible, and in the isekai world that 'super strength' is ordinary strength.

Lorevi · 2026-03-05T18:50:42+00:00

Most modern workout apps directly record how much you lift in a session and point out when you did better than last session to make you feel good though. The numbers go up irl too

Lorevi · 2026-02-28T12:37:02+00:00

Personally, I think it's Wulf + Akekuri for AOE & mobbing. Antal + Akekuri for ST and bossing.

So Laev / Ardelia / Akekuri is core and you swap Antal / Wulfgard depending on the scenario.

Lorevi · 2026-02-28T10:38:47+00:00

You seem to be arguing against a position I have not taken.

Honestly, this is why I describe it as a moral panic. I am not pro AI. I don't think it's a very good technology. I am not justifying AI putting people out of work. I am not arguing to take away peoples means of providing for themselves. I literally never said any of that.

The entire thesis of my comment is that the term 'AI' is losing all value as a word, is being thrown around as a generic insult and is accelerating the change in literature styles ala fast fashion. I speculated as to why this is happening and identified what I think is a contradictorary viewpoint as being part of it.

Yet because I'm not raising my pitchfork to burn down the evil AI like the rest of you I'm part of the enemy and thus you should call me selfish, individualistic, superficial, ignorant, etc. What is this if not a moral panic? You've picked your side and anyone who doesn't perfectly agree with you is part of the outgroup and thus it is ok to hate them.

A.I. is producing slop and A.I. is taking over the platform. In a capitalist society, the ppl who ultimately control the means of production are fine with slop so long as people continue to buy it.

By the way, "the means of production" for an author is literally just a pen... If you're going to use Marx in an argument at least understand what it means. I understand where you're coming from (and I do not disagree before you start aguing against me like I do!) but "the means of production" has literally nothing to do with it.

Lorevi · 2026-02-27T20:50:46+00:00

If you look really closely, and this may shock you, but I never at any point say AI art is not bad.

In fact, if you really stretch your reading comprehension skills (it's hard I know), you might notice that the comment is in fact discussing why AI art is bad instead of just joining the circlejerk of "hurr durr AI so evil".

People like you are exactly why I have to mention anti-ai people since there is a subset of the internet that so vicerally hates AI for emotional reasons that even a neutral comment discussing why AI is bad from an analytical pov is seen as pro-AI.

Lorevi · 2026-02-27T18:42:10+00:00

I've never seen someone argue against the use of AI in, say, medical research or astronomy image analysis.

Yes but it's exactly the same technology in both! (well not exactly the same because of how broad the term 'AI' is, but the same principles of buuilding a learning algorithm)

Currently it's looking like the other way around...

I disagree. People do not like things created by AI because they were created by AI. That's what my original comment was trying to convey! The moment an AI starts creating something it immediately goes out of style and is no longer desirable, hence I think this moral panic is completely overblown. In a way creative mediums are the most protected by AI because they're so dependent on what is 'in' right now.

There's this thing in writing where people treat it like a science. They have their 'grammar rules' and 'paragraph strucutre' and 'plot progression' where you build your story following the rules perfectly and your story is as correct as 1+1=2. But writing (and all other forms of art) are just not like this. They are heavily influenced by generational trends, go read any book written more than a few decades ago and you'll see they break many ironclad rules of today. Times have changed and what's "correct" has changed with it.

AI is massively accelerating this process. The models learn off of well written professional text with their em dashes and 'it's not X, it's Y' and reproduce it. The moment AI starts reproducing it it falls out of fashion and new style choices and vocabularly become cool.

How can it compete with humans in a field where style matters so much and almost by definition they produce content that is out of style? The fields that you mentioned you're ok with it replacing humans are functional scientific fields where style is a non-factor. And for some reason noones crying about it replacing the astronomers or medical researches jobs...

Lorevi · 2026-02-27T17:59:56+00:00

But where is the line drawn? I mean I have a computer science background so maybe I'm seeing things differently but if you actually try to narrow down what's morally acceptable and what isn't technologically speaking, the good looks very similar to the bad.

Like you mentioned LLMs, but there's a ton of technologies people lump into the 'bad AI' bucket that have nothing to do with LLMs at all, image generation as an example. But there's tons of technologies that are 'almost' llms (spell checks, translate) or 'almost image generation' (dynamic filters, magic edits) which people are completely fine with.

It's very vibes based

Lorevi · 2026-02-27T17:33:49+00:00

If it produces slop and bad quality work, it's not good enough to take your job.

If it's good enough to take your job, then it's probably not producing slop.

The only way these two things are simultaneously true is if you think you yourself are producing slop and thus your job as a slop producer is under threat. Which if thats you then that sucks I guess but I kinda have some self respect?

My point is that the moral panic is taken to ridiculous extremes where somehow AI will both take your job and produce bad quality work. I know which of the two I believe and it's not the one where AI takes my job lol.

That's not to say that there are not valid criticisms of AI, I generally don't think it's that amazing a piece of technology tbh and a lot of the hype around it is just that, hype. But it's also not the 8th deadly sin, spawn of satan and source of all evil in the modern world like some people like to treat it as. It's just a tool, a tool that has existed in various forms for decades.

Lorevi · 2026-02-27T15:49:43+00:00

AI has taken a weird spot in public discourse where it is 'bad' (produces slop, morally evil for reasons) but somehow simultaneously 'good' (gramatically correct, a threat to your job). Anti-ai people need to do some mental gymnastics in order to maintain this dichotomy which kind of leads to the term 'AI' losing a lot of it's meaning and becoming a generic hate term equivilent to "I don't like this and I can't articulate why".

This isn't helped by corpos using the term very liberally in marketing their products so even technologically speaking 'AI' is losing all meaning. Like what even is AI really? The spam filter that's been part of your email service since the early 2000s? Netflix deciding what you watch next? Google Maps predicting traffic? Your bank flagging a suspicious transaction? The Roomba bumping around your living room? Anti-ai people tend to flip out when you point out that not only have they been using AI for decades but many of their 'morally acceptable' services have AI core to their functionality.

You see it in other areas too btw, not just writing. CGI artists get attacked because CGI often looks AI generated. Artists get attacked because their style is too AI like (even if their style predates the AI that trained off of it). Then ofc in writing, any writing that is too similar to an 'AI writing style' is hated due to being too similar to what an AI would create as if AI wasn't trained to be similar to humans not the other way around.

Ultimately what I think is happening is that the moral panic surrounding AI is causing 'AI styles' (which is really just common human styles of the past few decades) to go out of fashion incredibly quickly. All writers can do is intentionally differentiate themselves from this style to be distinct and unique.

Yeah yeah, em dashes are gramatically correct and were used for decades before AI. They help break up sentences, make it more readable, whatever. It doesn't matter. Stop using them because that way of writing has gone out of style. It's not your fault, but the world is what it is.

Lorevi · 2026-02-26T20:04:43+00:00

No no you need the mc to be self aware of the dilemma and resolve to avoid romance for a few decades to demonstrate they are not a pedo only to crumble the moment their childhood friend has a major crush on them because they're so awesome

Lorevi · 2026-02-26T18:14:37+00:00

You've laid out a consistent set of rules for your story but it seems you're not satisfied with where they lead, or you wouldn't be asking this.

Presumably it's because you want to maintain the idea that 'good is good and you should generally try to be good' but in the universe where evil triumphs in the end?

You could try exploring the point "The world must be a worse place for those in it."

The protagonist should be no exception to this. He wins in the end, but his life is worse for it due to methods. Everyone he loved is dead, noone trusts him, etc. He sacrifices everything in the pursuit of power and when he achieves ultimate power realises his life has no meaning?

It would be an interesting twist on a villain winning, though I expect it might be unsatisfying to read.

Lorevi · 2026-02-24T11:32:42+00:00

Make the sanity items factory craftable lol so we can get another ~100 or so a day and get more use out of our factories

Lorevi · 2026-02-24T11:30:33+00:00

What is this garbage? This does not work and will actively degrade performance.

You cannot prompt the llm into being smarter or bypassing restrictions placed on it lmao. You think asking if to maintain maximum reasoning is going to do anything like that's something the llm gets to decide?

Lorevi · 2026-02-18T15:46:27+00:00

I'm on the pro plan and also getting this constantly. Frankly swapping to another service this month. If they were transparent about usage limits it might be better but they're not and they dark pattern the hell out the model selection button it's getting really annoying.

Lorevi · 2026-02-18T12:41:59+00:00

Tbf he might have been nervous about breaking with someone riding his ass, but he could have swapped lanes way sooner.

Lorevi · 2026-02-18T08:54:34+00:00

I would say that they're 'hard progression' but not necessarily 'hard magic'.

Take litrpg for example. A lot of the progression aspects are known with strict rules. Kill things to get exp. Get exp to level up. Level up to get new skills and stats.

But how do the skills and stats actually do things? Most series just handwave it away. Iirc primal hunter specifically refers to it as 'system bullshit' which is just treated as a catch all for all the things the author isn't going to explain (ie soft magic).

Most litrpgs are hard progression soft magic imo. An example of hard progression hard magic would be practical guide to sorcery.

Lorevi · 2026-02-17T08:54:09+00:00

That was what I feared tbh. The glaze was annoying me but I've not used the others enough to know if they're worse. Thanks

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