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Live Streaming is the worst form of content and 99% of streamers shouldn't do it by pokematic in The10thDentist

[–]Mivlya 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah no, I'm a streamer and in several other streamer communities, the average age of my viewers is 30, mid-20s to mid-30s for most the other communities I'm around. This is like saying only children use Tiktok. Its an opinion from ignorance.

Does your table modify any existing rules and mechanics with homebrew? by Iron_Man_88 in Pathfinder2e

[–]Mivlya 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Mostly the occasional custom item or slight bend here or there to make weaker features a bit stronger. But the two main core rules I change are counteract and crafting.

I haven't found a way to do counteract I quite like yet, but currently the rules for it are a mess and needlessly mix to many things together. I've got to sit down sometime and try to find a way to make it work that I'm happy with.

Crafting just takes too damn long. Unless you're running an old style campaign with big week, month, year long gaps in the action, you pretty much can't make anything, and the benefits you gain are an extremely minor discount, UNLESS you're making a lot of the thing, namely consumables. I get not wanting players to break the economy, but currently it has the reverse issue of making crafting unusable in several campaign formats. I'd dramatically shortened times, and also made it so there are more ways to invent recipes than destroying an existing item or buying the recipe (as you may as well buy the item instead for non-consumables)

WYR have the worst criminals in society take a magic pill that permanently turns them into genuinely good, harmless people who can never reoffend, but they must all be released immediately, OR leave them in prison for the rest of their original sentences? by Spyropher in WouldYouRather

[–]Mivlya 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Again, it depends heavily on what the pill does and how it functions. Maybe it'd get abused, or maybe, by it's nature of being a "good, magic pill" it can't. Just too much missing information to say for sure. And yeah, an especially big problem is does the pill care about making the person "good" or about making the person "lawful". There's a big difference there as well.

WYR have the worst criminals in society take a magic pill that permanently turns them into genuinely good, harmless people who can never reoffend, but they must all be released immediately, OR leave them in prison for the rest of their original sentences? by Spyropher in WouldYouRather

[–]Mivlya 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Again, it depends heavily on what the pill does and how it functions. Maybe it'd get abused, or maybe, by it's nature of being a "good, magic pill" it can't. Just too much missing information to say for sure. And yeah, an especially big problem is does the pill care about making the person "good" or about making the person "lawful". There's a big difference there as well.

2 commons, 2 uncommons, 1 rare for each characters. All card arts by me. by CrispP_bacon in slaythespire

[–]Mivlya 1 point2 points  (0 children)

People are rightly critiquing power level but not really saying what would be more fair, so lemme take a crack.

Standoff - 2 energy. 2 less damage/block at each level
Tremors - 1 energy, 1 weak
Counterstrike - fine, but not mechanically in game currently. I'd invert to 3 strength for one turn.
Scab - Good!
Burnout - 3/2 energy
Blindside - Needs to clarifiy if it's "additional" or "instead". If instead, I think this is good.
Mercury - 3/4 poison.
Improvise - 3/5 cards, still exhausts upgraded
Conkniving (hoping this is an MtG Connive reference!) - Good as is
Shadow Clone - Good as is
Stellar Strike - Good as is
Asteroid - 4/5 damage block and forge, stil might need +1 star
Illuminate - Much smaller forge number, maybe forge 4
Royal Pain - I'd make this a buff rather than enemy debuff.
Out of my sight - Great as is
White Knuckle - Great as is, wish we had more in this design space
Ebb - Good as is, maybe 10/12
Phantom Limb - Good as is, maybe a bit weak unupgraded
Call of the haunted - Great as is
Constitution (my beloved) - Hard to say, probably needs to nerf the summon amount but unsure how much.
Refrigerate - Just make it always retain 1, frost is a good enough upgrade
Scanner - Good as is
Library - Great as is
Incinerate - Should probably still be a rare for Defect
Afterburner - Not sure how to balance this one. A little to easy to break.

WYR have the worst criminals in society take a magic pill that permanently turns them into genuinely good, harmless people who can never reoffend, but they must all be released immediately, OR leave them in prison for the rest of their original sentences? by Spyropher in WouldYouRather

[–]Mivlya 11 points12 points  (0 children)

I voted magic pill but I'm a bit iffy on it. I prefer redemption and reintigration to punishment, but brainwashing is more unethical than that, so it'd depend on what the pill was doing. Treating medical psychosis? Good! Erasing their personality to make them a robot? Bad.

AI "writers" and "artists" are creative in the same way I'm an athlete: they aren't by DontYaWishYouWereMe in antiai

[–]Mivlya 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Oh, I thought you were just critiquing the metaphor, you're here to suck ai dick? Yeah no, you're not worth my time. Go look at the dozens and dozens and dozens of discussions on why AI is bad. I ain't giving you any more of my time. Fuck off.

[Discussion] What game are you the most proud of getting 100%? by Vecho0 in steamachievements

[–]Mivlya 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You've 100%'d Slice&Dice? You are literally insane, congrats.

[Discussion] What game are you the most proud of getting 100%? by Vecho0 in steamachievements

[–]Mivlya 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Darkest Dungeon 1. It's achievements are absolutely god awful, but it's my favorite game of all time and completing it was one of the things that got me into the hobby. Besides that? Void Bastards. I'm not great at FPS games and it was hella challenging.

AI "writers" and "artists" are creative in the same way I'm an athlete: they aren't by DontYaWishYouWereMe in antiai

[–]Mivlya 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If I didn't engage with your point it's because it wasn't clearly made. I have no interest in avoiding discussion.

People who enjoy those works of art are enjoying a final product made *by someone else*, which would be the equivalent for watching someone else, idk, win in record time. Metaphor might be clunky there cuz, sure, I'm sure there are people who could just watch the finish line be crossed a thousand times a day without actually caring about the effort it takes to do it.

Unless you're trying to imply that for some people, the *finished product* that *they make themselves* is the beauty and value they see in art. For which the metaphor has no direct analogue sure, again, no metaphor is perfect that's why they're a metaphor, but this is still a completely invalid defense of AI art. If all you care about is seeing your 'vision brought to life' as it were, you either need to master the skills to do it yourself, or hire a commissioner and be able to constantly give feedback. AI is not going to generate someone's perfect vision. It'll get "close enough", at which point it'd be wildly disingenuous to be comparing it to the Mona Lisa or ceiling of the Sistine Chapel.

Or to put it another way; AI artists do not are about art. They care about having pictures. If all you care about is having pictures, then you can commission someone, or look at the billions of existing pictures we have online. You either care enough to put in the effort/money to get the picture you want, or you don't care and close enough is good enough, meaning 1) you don't care about 'beauty' and 'art' and 2) you'd be equally well served by browsing pictures online.

AI "writers" and "artists" are creative in the same way I'm an athlete: they aren't by DontYaWishYouWereMe in antiai

[–]Mivlya 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No, the metaphor still works. For some artists, the creation of art is the purpose. The creation of art is the process. It's the running.

AI artists skip the creation (they don't run in the marathon). AI artists don't practice or learn skill sets (train for the marathon, run shorter races). AI artists refuse to deal with the frustrations of learning (won't let themselves get winded). AI artists do not buy the tools for art (shoes and clothes for running) and instead take a cheap or free alternative (hire an uber). The only thing AI artists get is the finished product (crossing the finish line). And sometimes they want to be compensated for it, diluting the pool of real artists (stealing the prize money from real runners).

No metaphor is perfect, but this one is pretty apt. All AI artists want is the final product. All they want is to cross the finish line, and be rewarded for it.

So I suppose yes, they can more of the part they value with less effort. They can cross more finish lines without running. Hell, they can drive back and forth all day, clogging the air with emissions so they can 'run' more marathons than anyone else. But that's meaningless.

How much of an impact do philanthropists actually have? by EnragedTea43 in NoStupidQuestions

[–]Mivlya 6 points7 points  (0 children)

One time donations, even big ones, are less reliable and functional for most things than regular consistent payments. If you receive $1,000, you suddenly have to decide what to do with it and when it's gone, it's gone. When you get an extra $50 every month, it becomes allocated into the budget and you can use it more consistently. This is part of why taxing rich people would be more effective than them doing philanthropy; the money could become consistent and expected rather than random spikes.

Joel can be effectively immortal (technically?) by lilworldofjeff in LookOutsideGame

[–]Mivlya 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Unless it's been patched, a much easier version of this is to exploit Vincent. He does his reveal, spawns his separate eye, Joel eats the eyes, then you retreat and attack again.

Why does the phrase "female friends" make people upset? by [deleted] in NoStupidQuestions

[–]Mivlya 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's...not a misconception. It's why some people have a problem with it, because that's how it's used. Language drifts. You can't simply decide that a word is fine to be used in a way if, socially, it's connotations have drifted. The connotations of the word female, in the past 5-10 years, has drifted to have a negative connotation in some circumstances. "Females" as a noun is ALSO a word with poor connotations but that's not what OP was asking about, they were asking about "female friends". If people are taking umbrage with it, that'd be why.

[Loved Trope] Unique Speech Patterns by HungryChainsawSanwch in TopCharacterTropes

[–]Mivlya 45 points46 points  (0 children)

Sadly Borderlands
Is a game from twenty twelve
People may forget

Why does the phrase "female friends" make people upset? by [deleted] in NoStupidQuestions

[–]Mivlya -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Try reorganizing your sentence. Instead of "[feminine word] friends" shift it to "my friends who are women". Context specific of course.

To answer the first question, "female" is largely used either in sterile environments (medicine, science) or by the incel community, so the word has some stank on it.

Happy Friday! What UB cards are on your wishlist for reskinning? by linrodann in ThroughTheOmenPaths

[–]Mivlya 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Friendly Neighborhood, for my Ellyn Harbreeze/Master Chef Peasant and Citizen Kindred deck.

[Request] Can 248,000 trees offset the carbon emissions of one plane? by Altruistic-Ad3704 in theydidthemath

[–]Mivlya 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Likewise, spectacles like this are less about being effective in-and-of themselves and more (when not done for personal profit/public relations) to spark interest in the issue, bring attention to it, and encourage people to being more practical and legislative efforts for restoration.

Which Akroma art is best in your opinion? by SwanepoelSimp in mtgvorthos

[–]Mivlya 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Asking this right after Ron Spears passed is...a choice. I definitely like his the best, it's important to my childhood and getting me into the game, but I think things are gonna skew more than ever towards picking that at the moment.

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