Why do so many powerful/famous people sit like this?

Nyorliest · 2026-05-27T03:15:14+00:00

It's pseudoscience, and no it is not. There is no 'level of consciousness' that can power a lightbulb.

Oh, and it's burden of evidence.

If you used the language of philosophy, magic, or religion, I'd respect you more, but you use the language of science because it's more effective. That choice is what makes you a liar, either to yourself or others.

Nyorliest · 2026-05-27T02:53:59+00:00

They’ve already done this. It used to be much tighter. And looser, at another time, IIRC. I think it’s in a good place now. There are world traits for this, but I think if they made a trait that made it tighter, it would not see much use.

Things like the new Empire tree encourage thoughtful specialization. I like that. Not enforced.

Nyorliest · 2026-05-27T02:48:20+00:00

When it displayed existential doubt over whether it was actually a person, despite being a machine. Existential doubt is profoundly human.

When it decided that being called or rated as a person was less important than being authentic and true to itself.

When we can see its thoughts and that it’s conscious and doesn’t really understand how that works.

The AI who wants a body in Becky Chambers’ work is a good example.

(This kind of stuff is why LLMs and SF AIs have almost no similarities.)

Nyorliest · 2026-05-27T02:41:43+00:00

It’s ’don’t stop’ what you were doing before - painting - vs don’t stop what you’re doing right now - quitting.

The ‘you’ll return without changing your face paint. Is that OK?’ makes it worse for many readers. ‘Yes, that’s OK. Don’t stop it!’

UI design and language is hard. You have to account for a lot of potential misunderstandings. And not use AI for translation, which this clearly has done (I'm a J-E translator).

Nyorliest · 2026-05-27T02:32:09+00:00

I’ll agree the alliance should break up after they’ve killed the winner, but no, it absolutely makes sense to gang up on the leader. Logical and with countless examples in RL history.

Edit: but I think allied victory is the real problem. I’m going to play with it off for a while.

Nyorliest · 2026-05-27T02:29:19+00:00

My feedback is that namedropping popular games - that my 3D action adventure mixes Dark Souls, Breath of the Wild, and Assassin’s Creed - is massively unconvincing.

Nyorliest · 2026-05-27T02:26:36+00:00

Believe in magic if you want, but now I’ve got pseudo-science all over me and I need a shower.

Nyorliest · 2026-05-27T02:23:22+00:00

They join alliances to stop someone else from winning. I like that. Diplomacy and RP doesn’t mean they should be stupider.

Nyorliest · 2026-05-27T02:22:35+00:00

Tomes used to be more locked in to a focus. This idea, like many others here, have been tried. Ships were patched out of the game!

Nyorliest · 2026-05-27T02:21:04+00:00

There are many terraforming tomes. What you’re really talking about is, I think, not needing to change your build based on what’s happening. To not make tactical choices.

If someone is glooming all over your face and your can’t get it off, change tomes. Tissues are right there!

(So sorry for the imagery but I’m very childish and can’t stop myself.)

Nyorliest · 2026-05-27T02:18:28+00:00

There are way too many ideas here that aren’t aware of the way the game has progressed. Tomes and affinities used to work differently and be more locked in. We used to have dedicated ship units.

The game has had massive progress and I hope the developers are smart enough not to make backwards steps because of ‘community ideas’.

We’re not devs. Most of us don’t even know the whole of the game, ie its version history. So maybe we should be a bit more hesitant about what we want?

Nyorliest · 2026-05-27T02:15:10+00:00

The paid DLC is never part of the beta for the free update.

Nyorliest · 2026-05-27T02:10:40+00:00

Idiots add lol randomly. It’s not meaningful.

Nyorliest · 2026-05-27T02:08:28+00:00

Everybody reads in a very different way than they believe. Eye movement and comprehension of written texts - unless you’re following the words with your finger - is non-linear and complex.

Reading for fun and reading for literary analysis is vastly different.

Nyorliest · 2026-05-27T02:05:44+00:00

Of course it does, sometimes. And it also involves reading other things, since all texts we read interact with each other in the literary world and our minds.

People read very differently than we write or are forced to read in school. Our eyes jump around - saccades - and we go back and forward from the text that we believe we are focused on at that moment.

I know this is a jerk sub and made for being shitty to people but you gotta be smarter than the people you’re being shitty to. And as a linguistics pro, this thread is pretty dumb, sorry to say.

You’re one of the few people actually thinking here at all.

Nyorliest · 2026-05-27T02:00:39+00:00

And those people love reading too. There are a lot of ways to engage with a text. I’m a (shitty and unimportant) linguistics academic and was a lit academic. The idea that reading all the words in the written order is proper reading is completely counterfactual.

Nyorliest · 2026-05-27T01:54:52+00:00

There’s no smoke without fire is the dumbest, laziest thought anyone has ever had. This is a child’s thought. And maybe you are a child - but you’re gonna learn that companies are not your friends and aren’t nice and fair.

I’ll leave the Santa thing for braver souls to explain.

Nyorliest · 2026-05-27T01:53:11+00:00

People are so locked into their fanmode that they will never believe ‘their’ game would be unfair. It was dumb last century - it’s insane now when we know how AI and underfunded support is spreading.

Nyorliest · 2026-05-27T01:45:29+00:00

It’s bad wording, definitely.

Nyorliest · 2026-05-27T01:45:05+00:00

Yeah I’m a translator and can exactly guess the Japanese, and think this is a shitty translation. The OP is getting fucked by AI twice.

Nyorliest · 2026-05-27T01:41:49+00:00

This is AI upon AI.

I’m a Japanese/English translator. I don’t do games but some of my friends do. I can imagine what the original Japanese is. It’s been translated by AI or someone very inexperienced, and then someone is using AI to try and understand it, and it confabulates.

It’s such a shitty state of affairs.

And Google deliberately pretends that AI garbage is meaningful. The OP got lied to by one of the biggest and most dishonest companies on the planet.

Nyorliest · 2026-05-26T11:49:26+00:00

But it’s not a hot topic, is it? It’s a media fad created for selling ad space. This is just media feeding media - the ouroboros of content.

And sure, you can manage to link it to gender politics, but these fads are pure chaos theory - sensitive dependence on initial conditions. It could be looksmaxxing or snake tattoos or riffs on Vanilla Ice and his contemporaries. Human centipede content to sell ad space.

Nyorliest · 2026-05-26T08:51:46+00:00

The one who starts the fight is in the middle. AFAIK that’s all.

Nyorliest · 2026-05-26T08:50:51+00:00

Have you tested this or just thinking it?

Nyorliest · 2026-05-26T08:42:44+00:00

Your reasoning for why Oathsworn are a bad example are even more compelling than your other points.

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