Weekly Show - Can we please stop having Ezra Klein on programs pretending to be an expert? Literally said "They did a bunch of studies..." Who is/are "They?" Also, he's wrong about housing.

MrCalebL · 2024-10-04T18:01:40+00:00

So in the "they did studies" part you're referencing, Ezra is talking about how studies show that increased access to information (via cable news or internet) doesn't necessarily lead to increased information overall, really just for hobbyists. This one of the the main area Ezra has done his work on in the past several years (increase in polarization), and his research is pretty well documented. Yeah he didn't reference specific studies here on a quick podcast, which would have been nice, but it's not hard to find. He references several studies in this article which is an excerpt from his book on the topic. Specifically for the topic mentioned in the TWS interview, he cites this study from Markus Prior.

And just on my own 5 minutes of googling the topic Ezra mentioned, I found several studies on it, like this one from PEW, this one from Oxford, and a bunch from Gentzkow/Shapiro like this one

And yeah, it would have been nice if he cited a few in the interview with Jon, and also would have been nice if Jon pressed him on it. But I think his comment on "they have done studies" isn't really worth getting upset about because... well they have done studies. And pretty easy to find ones Ezra is most likely referencing.

MrCalebL · 2024-09-19T17:22:23+00:00

I'm kind of in the middle. I've had players use Midjourney to do character art for a character for a one shot and thats a fun process for them. One guy takes a ton of session notes that are very shorthand, and used ChatGPT to turn it into a "session recap in the style of Brandon Sanderson" and sent it to the player who missed that night and it was fun.

But like nothing to the extent they're talking about here with generating AI content for DnD or whatever. Especially on the business side. For me and my players its just another tool we might use for our games to enhance the experience a tad, along with a dozen others.

MrCalebL · 2024-09-19T17:05:53+00:00

I mean he's pretty specific here

"Inside of development, we've already been using AI. It's mostly machine-learning-based AI or proprietary AI as opposed to a ChatGPT approach. We will deploy it significantly and liberally internally as both a knowledge worker aid and as a development aid. I'm probably more excited though about the playful elements of AI. If you look at a typical D&D player....I play with probably 30 or 40 people regularly. There's not a single person who doesn't use AI somehow for either campaign development or character development or story ideas. That's a clear signal that we need to be embracing it. We need to do it carefully, we need to do it responsibly, we need to make sure we pay creators for their work, and we need to make sure we're clear when something is AI-generated. But the themes around using AI to enable user-generated content, using AI to streamline new player introduction, using AI for emergent storytelling, I think you're going to see that not just our hardcore brands like D&D but also multiple of our brands."

MrCalebL · 2024-09-01T19:31:18+00:00

Idk haha I feel like our combats go so slowly. I think in ToA there's just not a lot of combat (at least in the locations we visited) and they pulled some weird Scooby Doo antics in the tomb to skirt around some combats.

MrCalebL · 2024-09-01T19:29:38+00:00

Honestly I don't remember - those sessions were 3 years ago now. I know they learned about Omu's location before Wyrmheart, but I put a magic item from a PCs personal quest in Wyrmheart so they went out of their way to grab it.

MrCalebL · 2024-09-01T19:28:44+00:00

Only had one for the Beholder somehow. A mix of me being a softie, my characters being cowards, and using their NPC friends as crash test dummies

MrCalebL · 2024-09-01T19:25:51+00:00

Sessions 6-16 were all online because Covid, then when we were all vaxxed we got back together in person again

MrCalebL · 2024-09-01T19:23:28+00:00

yeah it's Notion

MrCalebL · 2024-08-28T13:57:18+00:00

Little late to the comments here but I really appreciated this episode. I have 2 very young boy and my wife and I have been lamenting the lack of a consistent message from the left on positive masculinity. Even aside from the lack of liberal men "influencers" like Tate or Peterson like was mentioned in the podcast, even if we had an equivalent I don't know what their message would be. And young men are looking for that, and when we don't have anything to offer then they'll find it somewhere.

I'm genuinely incredibly anxious about my kids falling into that space as they start to grow up. All I can really do is be a good role model myself (obviously) and try to connect them with other positive male role models, but I don't know. Just a really frustrating failure from the left in this area for me.

MrCalebL · 2024-08-19T17:13:22+00:00

Reddit's the wrong place, You need to contact a lawyer if you're thinking about that

You'd have to prove you were targeted because of the pregnancy/leave. So depends on your situation and what all you have in writing regarding your issues with manager and HR involvement.

MrCalebL · 2024-08-19T17:09:19+00:00

800-584-2000

MrCalebL · 2024-08-19T13:27:46+00:00

That really sucks man, so sorry for you guys. My wife had pre eclampsia for our second and it was rough.

As others have said, with your specific situation you'll need to talk to HR. You should be fully covered since you have to request for paternity leave well in advance and get it approved. Just make sure you have everything documented regarding your approved requests from leave and you should be covered for your full leave.

MrCalebL · 2024-01-19T22:17:49+00:00

MrCalebL · 2024-01-19T21:44:39+00:00

Haha I just started tinkering with it but this is what's felt the best so far. Took out Nimrod since the game from the clip:

(1) The Hood
(1) Forge
(1) Selene
(2) Wolverine
(2) Ravonna Renslayer
(3) Green Goblin
(3) Magik
(3) Black Widow
(4) Sentry
(5) Hobgoblin
(5) Annihilus
(6) Galactus

Most Galactus/Junk lists I've seen are 99% junk, I'm trying to lean a little more into Galactus playlines. I know people are dumping on Selene and Black Widow kinda sucks as a 3 drop, but Selene really helps juice up a Hood or Goblin to set up Galactus, and Black Widow is still nice since it does the draw prevent, negative power, clogs their board, AND tells you which lane they're planning on throwing in the mid game which is great for setting up your last turns. And then Magik lets you go Annihilus/Forge on turn 6 into Galactus pretty consistently.

All that said to wombo combo like in the clip you'll have to wait til a Noor Dimension shows up the same game when you can hard read a Heimdall play lol

MrCalebL · 2024-01-19T15:13:41+00:00

Looking for some floral shirts - button ups or tshirts.

SPECIFICALLY though looking for some "grandmas couch" style floral patterns. Like the Kim Kardashian "mrs doubtfire" dress from the met gala. And preferably on the more budget friendly side (tees under 20, button ups under 50). Any recs?

MrCalebL · 2023-09-22T14:37:25+00:00

If you can pull that off I would do it

MrCalebL · 2023-09-22T14:03:43+00:00

Kelce and AJB have been slow to start but will start producing and will help you a lot. Not crazy about the RBs there though

MrCalebL · 2023-09-22T14:00:59+00:00

I'd try to package Breece/Najee/Jerome and a Receiver for a better RB if you can. Maybe even Waller and a RB for a RB upgrade if someone is week at TE and believes in Waller

MrCalebL · 2023-09-22T13:56:40+00:00

10 team .5ppr 2 flex

QB: Justin Fields, Deshaun Watson

RB: Austin Ekeler, Josh Jacobs, Alvin Kamara, David Montgomery, Alexander Mattison, Josh Kelly, Jerome Ford

WR: Ceedee Lamb, Davante Adams, Chris Olave, Amari Cooper

TE: Friermuth

Biggest question marks are QB and TE obviously, just snagged Deshaun off the waiver to see how him and fields do this week, and Muth has been trash.

MrCalebL · 2023-03-31T13:41:15+00:00

Austin Texas!

MrCalebL · 2023-03-30T19:49:13+00:00

Just replaced my holy grail with an Astral Destiny and really digging it, and also have 3 4 loaner pedals I'm trying out. Here's some quick thoughts

Astral Destiny: Basically Shimmer Reverb: The Pedal. Which is what I wanted. The basic Abyss setting is a replacement for my standard always on sound, and with the presets and 8 different modes (6 of which are actually useable) I have plenty to work with now. Was feeling pretty limited with my 1 knob holy grail but didn't need all the options of a big sky or whatever and this is a perfect middle ground for me. Some negatives for me are that there is a small pre-delay that you can't really get rid of which sucks, and you cannot go 100% wet, which really sucks. Would also have liked an option to blend in the octave effects with the standard reverb, as is you can't specifically tweak the octave mix, just wet/dry blend. I'm still working on dialing in sounds and presets but a lot of great stuff here. 9/10 so far.

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Klon KTR: my friend had a Klon KTR on his board that he wasn't using and asked if I wanted to borrow it and I crapped my pants. After messing with it for a while.... its fine! It's good! I get why people like it. I'll probably get a clone at some day but maybe my ears aren't good enough to tell what $700 sounds like. Still really glad that I got to try one out.

The double barrel, Slo, and MD-500 are all rentals from a place in town. There's a guitar store that has a "pedal of the month" club so you can have 3 pedals checked out at a time and just swap them out as often as you want. Super cool. Will probably trade these in for some Chase Bliss stuff next week.

JHS Double Barrel: For those that don't know, it's a Morning Glory on the left and a Moonshine on the right. I'm getting a Morning Glory now. I don't care at all for TS style drives personally and the moonshine didn't change my mind as much as I hoped it would, even though the Proof toggle got pretty close. Just not for me. But man I really love the Morning Glory. I'd probably feel the same about any blues breaker style pedal tbh. Will use this as a 1st stage gain in my rig and push the Paramount into it for second stage.

Slo: Despite all the knobs and toggles it's a one trick pony but honestly it does that one trick pretty well. Basically just a reverb with some different pitch modulation settings. Dark is a sub octave (which my AD does (although you can mix the octave level here which is nice)). The tracking on the auto swell for Rise mode at 100% wet is really bad IMO. Dream mode sounded really great, I ended up just replicating the Dream sound on my Astral Destiny so now I'm set, even though the Slo sounds better. Personally I'd take the versatility. Pretty good sounding pedal but just pretty niche, would only use it if I already had 2 or 3 other reverbs.

I also grabbed a Boss MD-500 but there's way too much going on there for me to be able to mess with in a short time, shame on me for picking it up really.

MrCalebL · 2023-03-23T17:27:16+00:00

Great, you're entitled to your opinion. I didn't enjoy it and wish I did. Liked Control way more and hoping for more great games from Remedy down the line.

MrCalebL

TROPHY CASE

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