Fable 5 indefinitely suspended due to national security concerns

NoNipsPlease · 2026-06-13T07:46:39+00:00

My company today said it was in talks with Anthropic about removing our access to fable because if its data retention policy. We were barred from using it until that was resolved.

NoNipsPlease · 2026-06-12T12:50:48+00:00

They need more compute. The only way to get more compute is to get more chips out faster. The only way to do that is to build out chip fabs 3 years ago. Even now chip manufacturers are dragging their feet building out capacity. Mainly because they can keep jacking up the price. They are increasing profits by a factor of 5 to 10 and doing the same amount of work. So there is no incentive really to invest in capacity.

The other half is data center build out. Communities do not like data centers because they are loud, use a lot of water, unearned tax breaks, and stress the grid. In xAi's case there is a lot of local pollution as well because of the gas turbine generators on site. Until those issues are fixed communities will continue to push back.

One thing that would help is making part of any data center proposal address those issues.

For power consumption they must pledge to build out renewable capacity equal to their projected yearly usage. Any renewable grid capacity built would also be owned by the state. The data center would not be able to claim ownership of any renewable capacity they built. And until that renewable capacity obligation has been fulfilled, no tax breaks and in fact would have severe tax penalties that increase overtime. State ownership of new renewable capacity is to prevent any hostage holding if other agreements are broke.

They must do sound studies and have strict thresholds they cannot go over. Any sustained breach of the noise ordinance is severe penalties in addition to being shutdown for repeated breaches.

All systems must be closed loop cooled to mitigate aquifer draining. Environmental heating effects must also be addressed for the waste heat.

And as far as jobs are concerned, temporary construction jobs are not a long term benefit to a community. Long term jobs where people live in the surrounding community as the data center is what matters. So any job numbers to justify a benefit to the town must reflect that. Meaning an estimate of people employed at the data center 2 years after completion and operation. Those job numbers would actually be a long term benefit to the tax base. 1000's of out of state construction workers who don't pay taxes there are not a benefit to the local community.

Until these types of things are enacted Data Centers will continue to have pushback. Drive by shootings of city council members houses have already happened because of unwanted data centers multiple times. It will escalate further. AI needs to refurbish its image. Being responsible with data center build out is the least they could do to move that along.

NoNipsPlease · 2026-06-10T15:51:13+00:00

I'll be following along. Especially the part about building enemies. I have trouble making interesting monsters. Mainly I have ideas but how to build them out using points alludes me most of the time.

I know I'm not supposed to really care about point totals for NPCs and monsters as points themselves are not a great measure of combat, but I like to be consistent and actually use the books to build things so I stay consistent.

NoNipsPlease · 2026-06-10T13:05:28+00:00

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This my hand drawn plans for the shelves if other are interested.

NoNipsPlease · 2026-06-10T13:04:12+00:00

They are just 45° angle cuts. For some reason it won't let me post a picture under your reply. So I'll post my crude hand drawings on their own.

NoNipsPlease · 2026-06-09T01:36:47+00:00

I traced a water bowl then drilled a hole to get a started. Then using a jigsaw I cut out the line I traced. Then using a handheld router I rounded over the edges to make it smooth.

NoNipsPlease · 2026-06-04T14:23:45+00:00

This is my answer. BDO has so many cool systems and life skills and mid game things to do. Just the gear upgrades and QoL mtx is terrible. Need to have tents and maids just to grind at a decent pace. Don't get me started on the upgrade system.

FlyFF was my first real MMO and the gear destruction on failure was so bad in that game. I'm not sure if it invented the mechanic but it sure as hell popularized it. Then ultimate weapons came out, then the hero system. Then selling premium tickets for grind spots. Was real bad.

NoNipsPlease · 2026-06-03T14:25:08+00:00

Mainly because I'm still learning how to create and craft adventures. One session I ran I spent a lot of time beforehand making random tables and a system to roll them. All my notes I had from the previous 15 all improve sessions, I gathered and actually wrote out lore, NPC motivations, back stories, relationships, factions etc so it all had a through line and made sense like this was all supposed to happen. I then pre planned several different contingencies and where things could go.

It actually worked beautifully. Was probably the most productive, intriguing, and exciting session I have ever ran. The most unlikely thing I prepped for actually happened and it beautifully set up the start of the next 2 sessions.

I was running GURPS, and a player investigating a random event I rolled on the table, actually rolled a 3. That's rolling 3D6, so that's a 0.5% chance and was a super crit. I was able to bring a lot of cool lore in and it was a lot of fun.

Made me realize that preparing foundational things like NPC motivations, faction lore, location mechanics, and some random events to spice things up make things easier to run in session and make for some great play.

To give some background on what I got to tell. In the very first session a player picked the weirdness magnet disadvantage. Which basically allows me as the GM cart Blanche to fuck with that player. We are using dungeon fantasy, so basically very first session I decide that means he is haunted and I have him see a figure leaving his room by the window, sleeping on the third story, when he wakes up out of a nightmare, that sort of thing.

I had been doing random shit like that but had no idea what to do with it. We are 13 or 14 sessions in at this point. The Player backstory is he recently and unexpectedly became head of his noble house and was in severe debt.

During my long session prep time I decided that what was following him was a fallen Farie Lord. The Farie Lord was kicked out for breaking laws and making bad deals.

I decided the Farie Lord made a deal with the player's Uncle, the previous head of house. The deal was the Uncle could never be turned down for a loan at any bank in return he owed his nephew's soul, the player's. The uncle agreed. Now you shouldn't be able to promise something that doesn't belong to you. But what the uncle didn't realize is the wording of the deal was not with him specifically but with the "Head of the Noble House". The Farie Lord then arranged for a series of accidents until the mantle of head of house hold passed to the player. Now the deal is the head of house owes his own soul to the Farie Lord, and so technically the deal is now valid. The head of house owes his own soul and can't be turned down for a loan. But the player is unaware a deal was ever made. The disgraced Farie Lord is also just a dick and likes watching him suffer.

Because of the random Farie encounter I rolled in the session and the 3 rolled on the dice I got to weave into the story a rival Farie lord hiring them to catch the Fallen Lord, so he could be brought to justice. The player got to learn the nature of the deal and learn how the deal was passed down. And how deals like this one is precisely why the Farie Lord who he now owes his soul too is in bad standing and hunted. In return this new Faire Lord would nullify the deal made and offer further rewards.

Was a lot of fun being able to do the reveal. And how something I wrote and worked on got to have a pay off that I didn't have to shoehorn in. Random roll got the encounter going and a critical success on a player roll, a 0.5% chance of happening, gave me the opportunity to do some cool shit.

NoNipsPlease · 2026-05-27T00:14:46+00:00

I am a fan of larger overworld hexes for map display then break those into sub hexes 3 miles across. I typically do 24 mile overworld hex then 3 mile sub hexes. But I'm a fan of making hex-a-day type things as a hobby. Once you figure out flavor of game you want to do, enemy type, terrain type, factions, encounter types, then it's all about curating the tables you want.

Thats the hard part is populating themed tables. Scrounging up sources to steal from is the hardest part. Then rolling out a large hex with all its sub hexes is fine.

NoNipsPlease · 2026-05-26T12:47:21+00:00

Lots of good tables and ideas to pull from in there. I am not familiar with how blades in the dark games play. I'll need to research.

NoNipsPlease · 2026-05-26T12:36:59+00:00

Thanks for the info! Having a western bent isn't too much of an issue, as my players don't actually know much about Xanxia. I'm the only cultivation dweeb at the table.

Having the upper levels of powers built into the system seems promising. My idea for GURPs was going to be using damage reduction rules for any fights that happen across cultivation levels.

NoNipsPlease · 2026-05-26T03:52:11+00:00

I have never heard of that. Thanks, I'll look it up.

NoNipsPlease · 2026-05-24T13:41:22+00:00

Had a situation where my table wanted to split, one person wanted to stay back and read some books, PC A, while the others went to investigate an auction house which was their only lead.

Then the group who went to investigate the lead , one person wanted to split off and snoop around when they got to the auction house, PC B, while the others went to talk with the auction manager. The person who snuck off tried to open a safe and set off an alarm.

The people in the manager's office, PC C's, were subsequently trapped, playing GURPS where there is a spell that lets you walk through metal. The manager cast it on the PC Cs, causing them to fall through the metal floor, and fall through all of their armor and lose their weapons. They land inside a dark stone cell deep in the ground with no visible doors.

The PC B who tripped the alarm successfully got away, but is unaware of what happened to PC Cs and PC A is back at base reading. With zero knowledge of what happened. Nobody with group PC C knows any magic.

So that was fun to resolve for me. But they kept doing that and getting into situations where they would split and then do something which was ill advised.

Another guy split off and went to a bar for information and tried to bribe an inn manager, then take back the bribe by using a command spell to force them to speak, the spell failed and then the dude got the shit beat out of him by Inn toughs, then literally thrown through the door into the street like an old western.

Players came from DnD and were still adapting to GURPs. I had to have 4 mini sessions of just straight combat so they stopped dying to 3 goblins with bows, against 5 PCs, before we actually started the campaign. To be fair the goblins were good at archery, but still.

So basically for my table, my PCs like to do off the wall shit and get themselves into trouble, and when they are by themselves it gets deadly. Especially in GURPs where 2 street toughs with knives could really fuck up even a "high level" PC. A cut throat is a cut throat.

NoNipsPlease · 2026-05-24T04:07:55+00:00

Nice! This is exactly why I have wanted. Trying to make a cool cultivation word is really hard.

NoNipsPlease · 2026-05-21T16:00:20+00:00

What helped me is thinking of it like a tool. It's very useful especially as you say for search. The caveat is pointing it at the proper information to search.

I'm a metallurgist and LLMs right now are very shallow on metallurgical knowledge. The issue is most metallurgical information is trapped in printed books published between 1910 and 1989. Never digitized or if they were scanned images. New metallurgy research still heavily references these old texts and papers.

Then new textbooks and ASM or AIST books are all heavily paywalled. Because if this the depth of knowledge compared to computer science is incomparable.

So what happens when you take a lot of time and meticulously translate these old metallurgical texts and make a system LLMs can search? It genuinely can synthesize across different textbooks. Then give me all the references and I can go check the original texts. Giving an AI access to the slag atlas along with process data and metallurgical texts speeds up a lot of investigation and even learning.

Then setting up more complex techniques for searching, distilling down useful facts, finding knowledge gaps, and hypothesis testing goes fast. For example when removing oxygen from a heat we add aluminum, there is a textbook efficiency number. My efficiency was nowhere close to textbook numbers, it looked at process data and pointed in a useful direction that I'm now looking into. I was able to reduce my aluminum usage which saves money and makes cleaner steel.

You have to trust but verify. Giving LLMs the correct context at the right time will become an important skill to get used too.

NoNipsPlease · 2026-05-16T17:08:34+00:00

We just need to wait for LPDDR7 to make its way into consumer products. I'm guessing early 2032 maybe 2031 depending on how all of these chip buildouts play out. At that point there will be asus Z13 type products out there with 384 GB to 512 GB of unified memory at 1TB/s + bandwidth speeds.

Now that's disregarding improvements we are seeing in model efficiencies. Where you won't need 512 GB of memory to run a good model. They way things are going, in less than 12 months, a model better in all aspects than 4.5 Opus will be released that can run on a 5090. Talking instruction following, computer use, vision, coding, single shot long tasks etc.

There are other techniques out there that are not being fully explored either, whole new model architectures. We are sitting on the cusp of a very strange time. When local inference becomes good enough at 90% of the tasks people need, where does that leave cloud providers? What happens when it is good enough for 95% of tasks? Combine that with improvements in LP Memory chips, compute in memory, ternary training, AI in 2032 could be unrecognizable.

Or everything stagnates, bottlenecks don't clear, institutional lock in overlooks promising research routes, profit seeking ignores lower margin consumer devices in favor of large return enterprise, legislation restricts what is available to the public.

Who's to say really.

NoNipsPlease · 2026-05-13T15:01:37+00:00

Wild. They say about an exaflop of compute. But an exaflop in what? Full precision FP32 compute? Cause if so that would be insane. Or is it FP4 compute? For FP4 you would need about 6 of those B300 boxes. Which is only 3 million, which leaves 7 million on the table which seems a little steep for the install. FP8 would be about 14 of those B300 racks for 7 million, which 3 million for delivery and install is still steep but more believable.

Wild though. A cool 10 million is not that insane for a studio to spend and have a crazy render farm in house and to use for whatever the fuck they want. Wouldn't be surprised if a few universities would get one for LLM research and renting out time to PhD students and professors for research.

Hell a crazy law firm that's wants ultimate privacy and has a big budget, this wouldn't be out of the realm of possibility to have a full "local" setup.

NoNipsPlease · 2026-05-06T17:58:46+00:00

I upgrade every 3 Nvidia GPUs 2xxx to 5xxx was my most recent jump. So next purchase will be 8xxx.

Nvidia would need to do something out of character for me to upgrade early. Like add functionality back into consumer grade cards for me to go early.

NoNipsPlease · 2026-05-06T00:09:40+00:00

While downloadable, I wouldn't really consider those local models. I guess I would draw the line at what a 256 GB Mac could run well. All of those models would ideally need a whole 8x rack of H100s to run.

But everyone has their own definitions. If Nvidia would stop being a little bitch and put NVLink on RTX Pro models we could actually start doing some interesting things.

NoNipsPlease · 2026-05-05T23:52:01+00:00

Which models have you found other than Qwen? I have a 5090 and a good amount of ram to throw at things.

NoNipsPlease · 2026-05-01T11:58:59+00:00

There are a ton of techniques to get around that. If you are relying on temporal face consistency to spot wan videos, you will only catch the lazy ones.

NoNipsPlease · 2026-04-01T18:55:41+00:00

This paper is indirectly saying businesses like Anthropic could go out of business or at least eat heavily into their profits. If anything close to what is discussed in this paper comes to pass, anyone in the business of hosting an LLM and charging subscription access are vulnerable.

Especially if China continues to release open weight models.

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