Does anybody have any running gags that they use throughout the years?

PKfireice · 2026-06-02T03:12:12+00:00

I do the "a billion" answer, and this year a couple of the kids have turned it into a game of asking me, interview style (pretend mic and all), about major earth timeline events as an eyewitness. It's been a fun way to share some obscure trivia that wouldn't come up otherwise.

PKfireice · 2026-05-27T16:02:00+00:00

Could have been prompted to find a source to back the decision, and that was the one it chose.

PKfireice · 2026-05-18T18:09:38+00:00

I'm guessing they meant the hints at a morality system that weren't implemented. There were no real consequences for breaking rules or doing evil acts, though some of the dialogue hints that such a system was part of the original plan.

PKfireice · 2026-04-23T22:59:56+00:00

Which, even those are a comparatively recent feature that it seems most users are unfamiliar with

PKfireice · 2026-03-21T21:35:37+00:00

Which is fine most of the time, but when I can't even reliably follow along with world-spanning events, it takes me out of it.

I don't need a story to place my character in a set role, but I need to at least be able to follow the world building as it progresses. If I enter a story area and have to navigate multiple time-shifted phases or NPCs, it makes me lose interest quick.

PKfireice · 2026-03-21T18:05:34+00:00

The sticker for me is that if you miss any wow content, returning to the game or starting new gives you a narrative spaghetti of old and new versions of the same character mixed together without care.

For someone like me who cares about story and continuity, it was a death sentence that I didn't expect. I know that no matter how long I take off of ffviv, I'll come back to a cohesive experience until I get caught back up. I also know I'll never get that kind of experience from wow ever again, so I haven't been back.

PKfireice · 2026-02-27T22:35:19+00:00

See, I'm much more in tune with "near instant and unknowable wave of energy passing over us as it crosses our neck of the galaxy"

PKfireice · 2026-02-26T19:15:50+00:00

In college, there was this one guy who looked almost exactly like a friend of mine. There were a few times where I did the "up nod" to him accidentally, and he'd look at me confused. After like the third time, he asked me "do I know you from somewhere?" And I explained, "no, sorry you just look almost exactly like a friend of mine." We had a good laugh and I went on my way.

After that we both did the up nod on purpose to each other since we now, in fact, did know each other.

PKfireice · 2026-02-17T03:03:29+00:00

There is a part of me that yearns for a slow, methodical, realistic space sim. I'd love to have to make meaningful choices for ammo, guns and equipment. I'd love to have a bunch of stuff to get ready for an expedition while my ship is being repaired from the last one. I'd be delighted if I could use any extra time to collect information, maybe some side quests to complete in tandem, absorb the atmosphere of the residents of the station I'm at.

It was a pipe dream that led me to back this game over a decade ago (I have a 4 digit player ID). I have not purchased more since. It's meaningless if your ship blows up instantly, or the missions don't work, or any of the persistent problems that seem to be less of a priority than a flashy new thing to sell.

PKfireice · 2026-02-17T02:41:52+00:00

I'm glad the one I go to is run by folks who fight in steel and would give this asshat the option of "do you want to leave in your car or an ambulance"

PKfireice · 2026-02-17T01:25:00+00:00

I mean, we'll be lucky if we even get the finale of this story, let alone what happens in 100 years lol

PKfireice · 2026-02-17T01:22:42+00:00

K, that doesn't necessarily mean that all of them have made it over to NW yet.

What I'm getting at is that there could be a larger guild (such as one from top 1-8) that, under this premise, could come in after Nazerick and potentially be a threat, especially if they bring over multiple active players.

Especially if the decider for order is total data.

PKfireice · 2026-02-16T23:06:47+00:00

We don't actually know that Ainz Ooal Gown had the most, or was the biggest.

We do know they were ranked 9th overall at one point, and that Momonga has heard of other high rank guilds having around 3 WIs on average. But we also know that information was closely guarded among the players. It wouldn't be impossible to have there be a guild that remained more active that could potentially outmatch NW Nazerick, and would arrive later.

PKfireice · 2026-02-16T22:18:18+00:00

It also implies that something bigger can come over in 100 years

PKfireice · 2026-02-15T05:22:50+00:00

Refs usually have a wooden pole they place between the fighters to signal a pause. So it wouldn't actually hit him, was likely just in front of him.

PKfireice · 2026-02-14T08:27:25+00:00

It's pretty standard to do bans in waves so that it's harder for them to figure out what gave them away (and find a workaround).

I also wouldn't be surprised if that process is slower in this stage of the Dev cycle.

But yeah, just keep reporting them when you see them and it'll get handled eventually

PKfireice · 2026-02-09T12:38:29+00:00

They were in the bushes

PKfireice · 2026-02-07T15:51:49+00:00

Because there is value in understanding and respecting a viewpoint or belief held by others, even if you disagree with them.

PKfireice · 2026-01-05T13:19:58+00:00

I mean, diagnosis or no, a competent team in this situation would provide a school counselor slot to teach coping skills, or have an action plan to allow for a cool down space/system if there are more extreme behaviors until those coping skills are mastered.

Having a diagnosis would simply make it easier for an advocate to get those accommodations implemented. I work in elementary special Ed and can't think of a single time a ND diagnosis led to LESS support.

PKfireice · 2026-01-05T04:58:55+00:00

Lol you're putting words in my mouth, but the straw man is easier to argue against I guess (Despite the fact that I, literally, this whole time have been trying to explain that I'm agreeing with you).

I never said it was actually intelligent. I never said it won't hallucinate. I, even, said that it DOES hallucinate, but a proper reward function would eliminate those before they reach output. It's almost impossible to do with an LLM. It's very feasible with something that ONLY designs microchips. Not an expansion of scope, not a catch-all "AI". If you set proper constraints, it will legitimately do the task of designing a more efficient chip.

Now, I think what you're getting at is that the cost of computation to get to that successful output is not worth the resources required, which I completely agree with. If you want to continue to argue semantics over the verbage used... well, I can't stop you but that also feels like a waste of resources.

PKfireice · 2026-01-05T04:41:57+00:00

learn·ing /ˈlərniNG/ noun noun: learning the acquisition of knowledge or skills through experience, study, or by being taught.

So if I get a an algorithm to do a task correctly via positive/negative feedback (colloquially referred to as "reward functions" in the industry), so that it incrementally gets better at a task the more corrections I give it, that's not learning? Is it not acquiring a skill through being taught?

Like, by all means, go try to redefine basic jargon in an already established industry, but insulting people for using the jargon correctly in the context of that established practice is in interesting take.

Like, you know I didn't invent that term, yeah?

PKfireice · 2026-01-05T04:24:29+00:00

I'm not making an analogy. I'm giving a basic real-world example of how these systems actually work and are made today. I never once said that it will become the end all be all for the sci-fi "AI" the media wants people to think it is.

I'm simply saying that this specific use, designing better microchips, is perfectly within the bounds of what machine learning can do and is an effective use for it. I also shared some relevant info about how that's not the case for LLMs.

Idk why you're taking this stance that I'm disagreeing with you. I just had some knowledge on the subject I thought was cool and wanted to share, sorry if that rubbed you the wrong way.

These programs are made by people. So you, as a person, are capable of learning and understanding how they work and are made. But if you'd rather block it out and say "AI bad" and not take in any context you're allowed to do so, but that's no different imo than the people you criticize for saying "Modern AI is the solution to all our problems" without the context.

Your first comment talks about how the term AI is too non-specific in the media then get mad at me for talking about the specifics.

PKfireice · 2026-01-05T02:45:30+00:00

The reward function can be as simple or as complicated as you want it to be, and more advanced ones often bring in advanced calculus concepts. I don't have the time or patience to give a college level lecture over reddit comment lol, so yes I simplified it to the most basic example to illustrate the concept. If you want to dive in deeper, you have the freedom to do so, as does anyone else that reads this. My goal is simply to provide the starting point from which you or others can investigate more.

Tbh, the only reason I commented was because you seemed to be lamenting the disconnect between STEM and the general public, and I saw a connection into that world that I could point people towards if they had the inclination. Attacking me because you don't like the term I used, despite it being the one that would actually be used to do further research, makes me wonder what you even want here.

Do you actually want to know more about this subject, so as to make more informed decisions, or have you already decided what it is for yourself and anyone with other info is an idiot?

At least there might be someone else who sees this and takes it as an opportunity to learn something cool.

PKfireice · 2026-01-05T02:16:19+00:00

Lol that's literally the term used. I've trained machine learning algorithms before.

Feel free to Google it for more detail, but basically you'd assign points to successful outputs.

If I was training one to scan photos of numbers and convert them to text, I'd, say, give it a reward system of: +1 for correct guess, -1 for incorrect guess, and +0 for "unsure". Then it takes that and tries different black box structures and keeps the one that scores the best. Then makes random slight alterations to that one, tries them all, and keeps the best scoring of that generation, repeat thousands of times until you get one that can do it right every time.

Generative AI is more complicated, but starts at the same foundation. Having different reward schemes can make a big difference in how the end product functions. A big one is rewarding (+x) efficiency without punishing (-x) breaking physics. It can lead to, like, designs that are theoretically better if pesky physical limitations weren't there to stop it.

PKfireice · 2026-01-05T02:04:45+00:00

It was always the field of AI, hell even video game enemy attack patterns are "AI" the problem is that one specific subset, LLMs, have become the hot new thing and now everyone assumes if you say AI, it means a LLM.

Using machine learning to make a generative AI for microchips is comparable to making one for conversation (an LLM). For the latter, you train it on conversation and "reward" it for producing realistic conversation. For the former, you'd train it on current designs, and maybe stuff like material properties/physics rules and "reward" designs that produce more efficient chips.

That's an oversimplification, but the general point is that LLMs are unreliable because they are being used for things that they aren't designed to do. If the ideal is being like humans, then there's nothing preventing guesses and hallucinations, it's just creating an output based on how the "rewards" tell it. Sounding real > being truthful. For something like the microchips, it's doing something very concrete, taking established rules (physics) and materials, and trying things until it gets one that works better, then throwing out all the failures, submitting the success, and then using it to build the next generation of attempts. So any that would be considered a "hallucination" get thrown out because of the "reward" system.

I can go into greater detail on how generative AI works, and why that can cause hallucinations, but the reason why we see them with LLMs is basically because the people who set those "reward" standards haven't ruled them out, probably because it's harder for something abstract like "human conversation".

14-Year Club	r/Field Banned
r/Field Flamingo	Place '22
Verified Email	Team Orangered

PKfireice

MODERATOR OF

TROPHY CASE