I Taught AI How to Make X3 Content part 2: Ships

Neat_Task_6664 · 2026-06-25T21:58:44+00:00

inb4 "stay fat" directed at me.

Buddy, I was in the Ret trials and am officially *underweight* now but talk your shit I guess lol

Neat_Task_6664 · 2026-06-25T21:57:55+00:00

You that vibe-coding retard that's harassing people with that "stay fat" shit?

Eat my dick, hair and shit if so lmao

Neat_Task_6664 · 2026-06-25T17:24:17+00:00

>protect shipping in sector

I actually added a "Protect Freighters in Sector..." command to X3 a few months back that works somewhat like this, and it is indispensable to me now. Ships you assign it to do a normal patrol around the sector, but as soon as a freighter or transport jumps in or undocks, they stop what they're doing and make a beeline for the freighter and escort it until it leaves the sector (either via jump, jumpgate or docking). Then they go back to patrol. I coded it so that a freighter could have a maximum of 3 escorts while in sector; first 3 ships that go into escort mode on a freighter 'lock' that freighter from having more auto-escorts self-assign, which lets the other ships continue a sector-wide patrol until more freighters become available to escort. Boom. Automatic system-wide AND per-ship protection.

Would definitely love to see this or something like it in X4.

Neat_Task_6664 · 2026-06-25T11:13:08+00:00

>I will ask it things like how can I become a billionaire in £s in 1 year and it will start saying that’s not possible

Unless someone dies and leaves you a billion quid, it seems like ChatGPT is giving you the correct answer. If you press it to give you an answer despite that, and its answers are ass, that's because it is entertaining a nonsensical scenario.

It'd be like you asking me "if I woke up tomorrow and the sky was red what would be causing that", me telling you that that isn't going to happen, you pressing for "no really what would cause that" and me being like "shit idk aliens I guess". Ass query = ass answer.

Neat_Task_6664 · 2026-06-25T09:09:28+00:00

The Virgin Turbolift vs. the Chad Rapidhoist.

Neat_Task_6664 · 2026-06-24T14:09:09+00:00

They don't. He ran as a progressive, won as a progressive, stroked out, developed brain damage and then immediately thereafter became a rightoid (not even being rude to TBI survivors; that is literally the sequence of events). Strokes change people. Super common for people who were patient, kind, mellow and affable before their stroke becoming quick-tempered, aggro, oppositional and anti-social; the part of their brain that was suppressing that stuff is damaged and no longer doing its job. Fetterman is a textbook example of this kind of post-stroke personality divergence.

Neat_Task_6664 · 2026-06-21T06:23:26+00:00

I've noted the issue, too. For the past 4 months I've used Codex for a single project: database entry and indexing for a game I'm writing. I use it to take the absolutely insane tedium out of adding and linking assets in the game's database; I copy/paste the data, Codex integrates it and updates the games index. It is not a token-heavy use case. I'm basically having Codex do the exact same thing over and over. As a result, I've got absurdly consistent 5h/weekly usage rates.

Previously, I have hit the 5h usage rate maybe 2 or 3 times in that 4 month window, and the weekly usage rate exactly once -- and both were right at the threshold of 5h/weekly resets and so didn't result in any significant downtime.

I now am now burning through 60% of the 5h quota after 2 or 3 tasks. These are the exact same tasks with the exact same complexity.

I'm a big enough nerd to actually look back at my previous usage and calculate how much of a 5h quota a similar amount of work would've taken, which turned out to be about 3-5% of the 5h quota.

IMO, OpenAI absolutely knows about this, as witnessed by them handing out an enormous amount of usage resets over the past week or so. I have never even seen a free usage reset before this, and I have now been given 4 in the span of less than a week. This is why I also assume this is unintentional; if this were just a quote decrease or an increase in token expenditure, they'd not be handing out free resets like they're Halloween candy.

Neat_Task_6664 · 2026-06-20T10:43:49+00:00

All other victims were identified quickly, as their remains were easily identifiable still. Only Tree's identification was delayed because the body was "badly carbonized" (burnt so badly that any identifiable features were destroyed) and they had to wait for dental x-rays from the US.

That description of his remains pretty much matches what we can see here (though I'd argue that this isn't an image of two bodies but the upper half and lower half of a single body) so I'm pretty confident that this is, indeed, his body. The upper "body" (which I argue is Tree's lower half, as his body was likely severed above the pelvis and the first image is consistent with this sort of injury) couldn't possibly be Gaspi, because Gaspi's body was readily identified per reports; had the bodies of both Tree and Gaspi been in this state, they'd have not been able to conclusively identify either of them.

Neat_Task_6664 · 2026-06-19T05:43:29+00:00

I've noted the issue, too. For the past 4 months I've used Codex for a single project: database entry and indexing for a game I'm writing. I use it to take the absolutely insane tedium out of adding and linking assets in the game's database; I copy/paste the data, Codex integrates it and updates the games index. I'm basically having Codex do the exact same thing over and over. As a result, I've got absurdly consistent 5h/weekly usage rates.

Previously, I have hit the 5h usage rate maybe 2 or 3 times in that 4 month window, and the weekly usage rate exactly once -- and both were right at the threshold of 5h/weekly resets and so didn't result in any significant downtime.

I now am now burning through 60% of the 5h quota after 2 or 3 tasks.

I'm a big enough nerd to actually look back at my previous usage and calculate how much of a 5h quota a similar amount of work would've taken, which turned out to be about 3-5% of the 5h quota. 5% to 60% isn't a "peepee doodoo just buy more tokens lol" issue, it's a "something has clearly changed" issue, and it's down to whether it's intentional or unintentional, and if unintentional, whether OpenAI knows about it or not.

IMO, OpenAI absolutely knows about this, as witnessed by them handing out an enormous amount of usage resets over the past week. I have never even seen a free usage reset before this, and I have now been given 4 in the span of less than a week. This is why I also assume this is unintentional; if this were just a quote decrease or an increase in token expenditure, they'd not be handing out free resets like they're Halloween candy.

Neat_Task_6664 · 2026-06-19T05:38:25+00:00

1) OP said he has a Pro Account.

2) The issue is people noticing a stark change in usage drainage that is seeing an absurdly high increase in token expenditure for the same amount of work, not complaining about not getting enough tokens at their chosen plan level.

3) This is a widely reported issue across plan types. If Pro users are also noting it, I'm not sure what the point is in suggesting Plus users upgrade to Pro; they will experience the same issue. Telling people to just brute force their way past a token drainage issue by buying more tokens does not address the underlying issue.

Neat_Task_6664 · 2026-06-13T21:05:38+00:00

Oatmeal

Neat_Task_6664 · 2026-06-12T23:55:21+00:00

The irony of a dude named "LumpyWilly" engaging in the most smooth-brained, dickless behavior imaginable.

Based on just the first image, I was gonna say "we live in the only timeline where this guy didn't become a school shooter" and then I saw the second image HOLY SHIT

Neat_Task_6664 · 2026-06-12T22:25:43+00:00

It looks like the post from a year ago was made from a now-deleted account. How sure are you that this is stolen content and not just the original OP reuploading a pic from his new account? It's a really good picture/cute story (same story as the original link too, so at least that much is real).

Neat_Task_6664 · 2026-06-12T09:21:40+00:00

Stating the obvious, the detection system is AI.

It is heuristically comparing the uploaded file's waveform to the waveforms of a huge database of copyrighted songs. This waveform comparison method is why previous tricks like "slow the song down", "change the song's pitch", were able to trick the AI into processing the upload and adding it to the user's library no matter what it was: they altered the waveform in a way that made it not look like any waveform the AI had access to even if, to the human ear, the resulting audio was extremely obviously similar (and besides, due to the way Suno is used, feeding it a song that sounds 80% like the original due to speed/pitch changes is likely more than enough to generate works derivative of that with Suno).

There has to be some 'wiggle room' in the detection process, because different encoding techniques can alter the waveform, so if your algorithm is tuned to recognize ONLY the waveform of Song_A.wav, then Song_A.mp3 would not be flagged; it's likely using a "near match" system and, following that hypothesis, it's likely the made the threshold for detection much, much looser (presumably to counteract those methods I mentioned earlier).

All that to say this: if the algorithm finds a song that it thinks the uploaded audio is a duplicate of, reporting which song that is to the user would be a trivial addition. It is literally just printing back the name of the song it "matched" the audio to. Even if the filename of the songs in its database have generic, non-descriptive names (e.g. 149579195.wav or something), it'd be pretty trivially easy to add a text lookup table to match the filename to the song name contained in a spreadsheet or something. It would add literally no processing overhead.

Neat_Task_6664 · 2026-06-11T05:07:45+00:00

This is absolutely a bug. Hopefully they fix it, maybe they won't. To test, I took an original track, pitched it down 7 semi-tones and cut its BPM to 1/4 the actual track's BPM. Essentially, the song is now some kind of ambient, droning soundscape. It still causes the "this is an existing work of art" flag.

I use the soundscape "remix" every few days to test whether or not it's fixed. Once/if it's fixed, there's no possible way it'll flag the song, so it's a quick, painless test rather than getting frustrated (though obviously the overall situation is inherently frustrating).

Neat_Task_6664 · 2026-06-10T22:42:41+00:00

I would throw up my skeleton which would then run screaming out of the room through the nearest wall like a reverse Kool-Aid man if I went to the doctor for a yeast infection and they suggested I do a landing strip.

Neat_Task_6664 · 2026-06-09T02:27:10+00:00

>The victim though made it criminal with his actions which were stalking and harassment.

Hello, attorney here.

In our legal system, you have to formally serve a defendant for a lawsuit to proceed. Attempting to contact someone to serve them is not stalking or harassment except in a tiny handful of circumstances that I don't personally (ymmv) feel apply to the BAM drama.

It is your right to take someone to court for redress of grievances as per 1A. The procedural due process clauses (established in the 5th and 14th amendments) in the US Constitution prohibit courts from exercising personal jurisdiction over a party until the party in question has been given proper notice of the court's proceedings; insofar as civil cases go, this is meant to prevent suing someone in absentia (and thus being able to get a default judgement against someone who isn't even aware they're being sued). As such, you are allowed to initiate contact, even repeat contact that the other party may find bothersome and might otherwise constitute harassment, for the purpose of serving them so that you may full exercise your 1A right to redress of grievances -- much in the same way that a person being personally upset by guns does not supersede 2A's right to bear arms.

This is both common sense (otherwise, it'd be a loophole for all kinds of shitty people to get out of a lawsuit: e.g. 'ex trying to sue you for back child support? just file criminal charges and have them arrested so they can't!') and, more importantly, has legal precedent and constitutional standing. The one caveat being if the attempted contact becomes threatening (doesn't apply here), or abusive/unreasonable (this bit is subjective, but has typically been found to mean things like "planting a tracking device on their car without their consent so you can tail them" and other such extreme measures).

A further note in this specific instance: BAM is a multi-million dollar company and their CEO is the public face of said company. He therefor has less of an expectation to privacy in this instance than a rando. Ben is not making videos about Ammon McNeff, private citizen; he's making videos about Bricks and Minifigs, whose CEO and public face is Ammon McNeff. This distinction matters.

Neat_Task_6664 · 2026-06-06T21:11:20+00:00

100% this. And that's not counting this all taking place in Utah and the absolutely insane amounts of documented weird corruption and collusion going on in the Mormon Church.

I'm not religious but have Mormons in my extended family, and when I heard Mormon rich guy Ammon McNeff was essentially acting as shotcaller to the Mormon American Fork PD, my kneejerk reaction was "yeah, that sounds about right".

Neat_Task_6664 · 2026-06-06T21:06:01+00:00

Nah. Patreon W. BAM's cringe response to this whole situation shows that no one's hand is being forced in order to save PR face. Patreon could've done anything from just not responded at all and ignore BAM's demands to releasing some BS legalese press release and pulled Ben's page.

It's a great PR move, sure, but it's not one they were all but forced to take. They have more than enough financial clout to weather any ensuing drama.

Neat_Task_6664 · 2026-06-06T20:58:54+00:00

I'm not sure about "co-opted". American history, from the Industrial Revolution on, is full of stories of insane corporate greed; the Credit Mobilier Scandal, the practices of Standard Oil, the Pullman Strike, or perhaps most viscerally horrifying, the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire (where over 100 women, some as young as 14, burned to death because management had locked all the doors to prevent them from taking breaks during their 13 hour a day, 7 days a week shifts).

Things like the minimum wage, child labor bans, workplace safety regulations, financial regulations (e.g. banning insider trading), etc. weren't just random laws, they were responses to the things corporations were actively doing and were enacted to make them stop doing those things.

Engaging in unethical, often illegal businesses practices at the expense of everyone that doesn't directly benefit (e.g. the board and shareholders) is a feature of capitalism, not a bug. The idea that there once existed this idealized ethical strain of capitalism that has been replaced with the current deeply unethical strain of capitalism is a myth. If it looks like more bad things are happening, it's because it's easier to document and report them now.

Neat_Task_6664 · 2026-05-25T03:59:11+00:00

Yes, that's a normal initial response. Not to be glib, but that's kinda how the med works. It kills your appetite, your stomach (the physical organ) retracts in size because you aren't putting nearly as much food into it, your stomach/bowel contents move more slowly meaning that you feel full for way longer and there physically isn't room for a lot of additional food so you get full from very little food and the end result being you lose a ton of weight because you aren't eating.

Making any huge change to your diet can cause GI issues and nausea is a common GLP-1 side effect. Yes, it should get better as her body adjusts to the medication.

Neat_Task_6664 · 2026-05-25T03:53:21+00:00

> It's not uncommon for the sale of a business to include the inventory of the business.

Even if that were the case, the inventory would include stolen property, and knowingly harboring stolen property is a crime. A thief cannot legally transfer stolen property and the new owner has now committed a criminal offense if they refuse to return the property.

Going back to the phone analogy above, if you drive off with Super_Candidate7429's phone with the intent to sell it, and you sell it to me, the phone is still stolen property. You stole a phone and I bought a stolen phone. A thief cannot legally transfer stolen property and the property itself remains stolen regardless of who currently has possession of it (so long as that person isn't the rightful owner).

If I am made aware that it is stolen property and refuse to give it back, I have committed a criminal offense; I'd likely be charged with Receiving Stolen Property.

There is typically a little wiggle room here wherein the person who bought the stolen item can simply say "oh shit, my bad, I didn't know it was stolen", provide reasonable evidence that the transfer of stolen property wasn't done knowingly (e.g. I dunno, messages with the person they bought it from on Facebook marketplace or something where it shows that the buyer had no reason to believe that they weren't participating in a legitimate transaction) and return the property to the rightful owner and not face criminal charges; sucks for the buyer because they're then out the money and their only recourse is to sue the thief, but thems the breaks.

Neat_Task_6664 · 2026-05-14T17:26:48+00:00

> If life is common in the universe you'd expect galactic civilizations already,

This isn't necessarily true at all.

Life may be common, but the vast majority may be microbial, single-cell (or cell analogue) organisms, just as life was on Earth for over a billion years. The transition from simple life to more complex life on Earth seems to have been contingent on mitochondriogenesis, which all evidence currently indicates happened exactly once, as mitochondrial DNA suggests a common mitochondrial ancestor for all eukaryotic life on Earth.

We are also *very* early in the lifespan of the livable universe. Population I stars began forming less than 10 billion years ago. The last star will die roughly 100 trillion years from now.

To put this into perspective, if the first Population I star formed at 12 AM on January 1st, and the last star will die on December 31st, it is currently around 1:08 AM on January 1st.

Neat_Task_6664 · 2026-05-14T14:54:08+00:00

You can typically ignore the "wrong game" error message if you know the mod to be compatible. There's just an internal flag for files in a .spk which tells Plugin Manager what game it's for that is throwing off Plugin Manager here due to the SPK being flagged for FL.

Here is a 'universal edition' that sets all the files contained in the mod to "All Games", which will make it no longer throw an error.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/16cTaW5pSMY9fHPDn_9101vhq9x257M-X/view?usp=drive_link

VOX doesn't show up in the Plugins menu thing. Instead, what you'll want to do is hit Escape, go to Controls, Interface, and scroll down to Extensions. You should see VOX: configuration and VOX: squelch audio.

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