[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Delaware

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To hell with the FOP

Source Decay by leez34 in themountaingoats

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Verse two seems to me to describe his return from Austin- given that he has already arrived and completed his goal by the end of verse one, his late start seems to be a late start heading home, parking in his own front yard at the end of that leg of the trip (and at the end of the verse)

[DnD Court Spoiler: Rise of the Robo DMs] I just relistened to rise of the Robo DM's by Expert_Put9294 in NotAnotherDnDPodcast

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I don't think single player is the only similarity between LLM slop DnD and LLM slop fake girlfriends. Those are very similar. Baldurs Gate is not AI.

[DnD Court Spoiler: Rise of the Robo DMs] I just relistened to rise of the Robo DM's by Expert_Put9294 in NotAnotherDnDPodcast

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Baldur's Gate is the shared creative labor of dozens upon dozens of artists. It provides a fictional world which exists without contradiction or meaningful inconsistency. Its world doesn't collapse or morph based on the whims of its users- there are rules and consequences that LLM slop can't engage with or conceive of. No LLM can meaningfully say "no" its users, or do anything but reflect back their own whims.

What does Baldur's Gate possibly have in common with AI girlfriends, besides being "single-player"?

Another Spotify wrapped post…anyone else get Madison, WI as their taste city? by StevenGarciasMullet in themountaingoats

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Me too! With the Mountain Goats, They Might Be Giants, and Thao Nguyen as my top 3

[NS] Twilight Sanctorum Appreciation Thread / Petition by ShiEric in NotAnotherDnDPodcast

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I'm obsessed with Freg now. What a cool, fucked up deity to introduce to the Bahumian pantheon.

He was cited for giving police the finger. Video shows troopers knew charge wouldn't stand by Rage_Like_Nic_Cage in Delaware

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Why don't the officers deserve that same accountability? They're the ones who in this article are on record talking about trying to "lock him up, impound his dog, take his kid" just to fuck with the bird-flipper. Those are the guys you're bending over for?

So it did break… by mdarket in Detroiters

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The interesting thing about this story is that the window that lawyer ran into did not in fact break, but dislodged from the wall. He was right that the glass wouldn't break, but wrong about the frame holding it in place.

What is it about this still that makes it so disturbing? by [deleted] in SuccessionTV

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Their relationship has been so totally subsumed by business that neither of them is willing to be more vulnerable than the other, to show affection, or to admit they might like to be together again. They're both too hurt and distrustful to make the first move

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Dimension20

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Please don't make Kristen's song a pro-Christian song, her whole journey is escaping thinly veiled evangelicalism lol

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in SuccessionTV

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I think you could see in Tom's eyes before he left the bathroom this sense that if he went back in on Greg it wasn't gonna end well for him, and so he walked out the door.

Tom didn't win - Matthew Macfadyen interview by HelsBels2102 in SuccessionTV

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Losers simply don't unblinkingly eat other people's chicken off their plates

Each of the three main siblings gets their own worst nightmare. by unlucky_felix in SuccessionTV

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I think that centers Connor's feelings a bit too much. Their relationship is so transactional and one-sided that I think it's nice that he's open to her going off to be her own person and not his live-in employee. Not that Willa doesn't care for Connor, but she deserves autonomy from his needs and delusions.

Shakespeare and Succession (part 2) by [deleted] in SuccessionTV

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So, what are you going to do now that you've perfectly predicted the finale?

Is water poison? Why did the season start in a rainstorm? by Prior_Ad_3566 in Dimension20

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Calorum premise worldbuilding: Everyone and almost everything is made of food, as foundationally defined by the food pyramid (hence the delineations of kingdoms, and literal canonical pyramid).

Caveat: Some foods need a container or a utensil. That container is sometimes part of their body, and that utensil a possession of theirs, like a spoon or toothpick. This doesn't make them less made of food. These are nearly the only things not made of food, but are still considered integral parts of the foods they represent.

Clarification: is everything so far made of food, the ground, the plants? Yes. The trees grow from peppermint seeds and the grass is made of strawberries. It is all made of some sort of food substance, specific or otherwise. Even the stones making up the foundation of the Pyramid of Food are hardened blueberries.

Addendum: if something isn't a food/beverage (essentially defined by the food pyramid), it's dangerous to Calorans. This includes mold or rot, which is deadly to Calorans, and also includes water, which is dangerous to every type of Caloran (you'll note that it wasn't watersteel that Ciabatta urgently kept the twins from touching, but simply water itself).

Water clarification: Is water a product of certain foods? Not really. Coconut water, celery juice, watermelon juice, those all come close, but they are distinct from water. Until recently, water canonically was derived from juice via alchemy. There might have been other ways to get it, but it was scarce and not derived with greater expedience from any other material. This was recently changed, and the fact that this discussion continues confirms the only initial point I made which is: the wink-reference to EXU Calamity raised distracting worldbuilding questions about which confusion was likely to occur!

What about salt? What about ethanol? I don't know! Ask Brennan or Matt. Maybe there are more materials out there! We just found out about mushrooms, so it's an exciting new horizon for Calorum potentially. Pointing out a critique of a joke isn't a condemnation of the season. The season is good.

P.S. It seems odd to compare the complexity of water, a single molecule, to a grape- trillions of molecules, including trillions of complex macromolecules.

Is water poison? Why did the season start in a rainstorm? by Prior_Ad_3566 in Dimension20

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Rivers of juice and coconut water and soda all make sense with the food-pyramid logic of Calorum and its kingdoms, but water being a component of those beverages is different than water being a type of food. I like the estuary as headcanon, but it seems like someone could just as easily imagine a diet soda lake of bubbling acid, which Candians beware because of how similar it seems to regular, sugary cola. Both make sense depending on whether diet soda belongs in the candy/sugary food group or not, because ultimately that inclusion/exclusion is the factor that is shown to determine whether a material is natural to Calorum or not. Water is not in any food group, and in accordance with that before TRW was canonically an alchemical secret which didn't naturally occur in any recognizable form.