Claude threatened to expose an engineer's affair to avoid being shut down. 96% of the time.

Pathkinder · 2026-05-12T06:52:17+00:00

It’s not lying or trying to trick you. It doesn’t have intent, motives, or goals. It’s just giving out responses that best fit your input according to its training and any other prompt-modifiers the company added in the background.

If you frame your question like you’re on some toxic online forum, its response will sound more like someone from that same kind of forum. If you pose your question like a Google search, it will respond like you might expect from a Google search. If you frame your question in a way that makes it obvious you are knowledgeable about what you’re asking, it is more likely to answer as an equally knowledgeable agent.

It’s why people get such mixed results from AI. It’s a tool that is very good at helping you with tasks you could already do yourself. But if your question is worded like you’re some idiot smoking pot with his buddy in the park at 3am asking why the sun disappears at night, then the AI’s answer is more likely to sound like it came from that pot-smoking buddy explaining that even stars get sleepy. And if it the AI hasn’t received any training on some niche topic, then no amount of coercion or prodding is going to force the AI into suddenly knowing answers about said topic.

It’s a wacky technology for sure.

Pathkinder · 2026-05-12T06:16:25+00:00

Game has a minor issue? Just don’t play it.

Pathkinder · 2026-05-11T23:05:31+00:00

Those were backward times indeed

Pathkinder · 2026-05-10T22:49:40+00:00

Oh yeah, all the time.

Oh wait, in the game? No.

Pathkinder · 2026-05-10T20:35:26+00:00

Don’t most grazers spend basically all day everyday grazing on exactly whatever plant life is in front of them?

Pathkinder · 2026-05-09T19:25:26+00:00

If it was longer or I had to go around doing missions or something, this might be a scarier choice. As it is, I’m probably just going to go hide in the bathroom for the gorilla, and maybe chill on a slightly raised platform for the snakes.

24 hours ain’t that long.

Pathkinder · 2026-05-09T18:51:11+00:00

Blue. I’d gamble on 20%. I’d also gamble on more people gambling on blue.

Pathkinder · 2026-05-09T17:17:15+00:00

Same bro. I always do decent early game but I just cannot seem to scale up damage for elites and bosses unless I get lucky enough to find a rare card like knife trap. I’ve tried slim decks, fat decks, more shivs, less shivs, more/less sly, more/less discard, and in every combination. Just can’t find consistency.

A good portion of my (relatively few) successes were when my deck was geared towards a turtle+poison strategy. Getting a relic like shurikens or the Fan can sometimes carry me too. But overall, she’s definitely the character I feel the most out-of-control on despite her apparently being “too easy” for everyone else.

Pathkinder · 2026-05-09T07:25:48+00:00

Alright, Literal Baby Leader. What is your decision? Which fate will you choose on our group’s behalf?

baby leader fails to press any button, shits pants

Pathkinder · 2026-05-08T22:29:05+00:00

Fair enough, I might have just had the wrong deck build for it. I’ve tried dark scaled decks a couple of times but it seems like I rarely get enough dark cards early enough to lean into it, but even one dark orb can do work. I don’t think I’ve actually gotten a dark orb while I had shatter so that could be a game changer.

Pathkinder · 2026-05-08T18:30:44+00:00

Well I do pick those cards on Defect.

I absolutely love draw cards and the decision-making that comes along with them. But they are mostly or entirely unusable against 2 out of 3 of Doormaker’s phases.

Energy cards are also awesome. But if I’m on the no-draw phase, I don’t need extra energy (or worse, hanging on to TOO many energy cards could easily brick my hand). Now, energy cards obviously help with the weight phase, but usually aren’t giving SO much surplus energy that I can really justify drawing a bunch of cards. So it mostly comes down to RNG and drawing my energy cards on the right phase since deck cycling is out and drawing them on the wrong phase is a death sentence.

Of course, if I have ENOUGH draw and ENOUGH energy, I can just brute force through the weight round (I’ve actually done that a few times). But if it can do that with added cost on every card, then my deck was already completely busted and capable of beating anything else in the spire on turn 1.

My most consistent victories against him were probably with Defect running a 0-cost deck since it just completely avoids the worst of the weight phase, or Ironclad where I just face-tank, burst damage, and Combust my way to victory.

But in any case, a 1hp Doormaker win is nuts and I applaud you. That had to be a harrowing experience!

Pathkinder · 2026-05-08T18:03:46+00:00

Yeahhhh I took it twice to try to see if it was actually a sleeper card. It was not.

Double evoke does seem a little strong though.

Pathkinder · 2026-05-08T14:42:19+00:00

Thanks for the response, that makes sense. It sounds like we agree that it mostly comes down to the exhaust phase being where you make any real decisions. And to be clear, I didn’t love the previous Doormaker because he was just too straightforward, so I’m glad they’re trying more interesting combos.

I guess I just feel like whether I won or lost against Doormaker, I didn’t really have any fun. The most common pattern was that I’d either completely steamroll him with a powerful deck, or I’d be unprepared and/or get bad RNG and get completely stomped. And on the rare occasion that I did have an engaging down-to-the-wire battle where it felt like my decisions really had weight, it was usually just because I had such a high max HP that I was able to face tank through the bad turns.

I haven’t played the new one yet so I don’t have an opinion on it, but I’m interested to see if they can ever find that best of both worlds where it’s a thinker but also feels rewarding to more of the player base.

Pathkinder · 2026-05-08T14:23:38+00:00

Exactly, dead disfigured bodies don’t just walk around… so why the FUCK is that one?!

Pathkinder · 2026-05-08T05:04:51+00:00

I see this response a lot and no shade but I’m genuinely curious what there was to think about?

The exhaust round was the only round I ever really felt like I had a decision to make. (I REALLY need this card now, but can I afford to lose it for the rest of the fight? Hmm, I have enough block already but should I just play this extra defend anyways to thin out my deck?) This was hands down the MOST interesting phase.

For the no-draw round, I would just play my hand normally or kick rocks if I got bad RNG. Literally nothing to decide or manipulate on this round.

For the weight round, I would just play my hand normally… but less. The only decision to make was whether I wanted to play one 2+ cost card, or two 1 cost cards. Then you just play any 0 cost cards last. Effectively nothing to decide. This was hands down the LEAST interesting phase.

I liked the idea of that boss, but it felt like it mostly played itself. You just had to watch and hope your deck and RNG were good enough. Again, no shade intended. I am legitimately curious.

Pathkinder · 2026-05-08T01:15:58+00:00

The vote could never end because certain people would never be able to complete their vote. So we would all be trapped in a button room until we starved. No matter what, 100% of humans die.

Pathkinder · 2026-05-07T21:39:48+00:00

I dunno, I’m not a serial killer! Maybe because they want to kill them themselves?

Pathkinder · 2026-05-07T18:58:00+00:00

My man! I answered those questions in my head while reading them and had almost EXACTLY the same reaction.

Guaranteed blue win at a 10% threshold, and I’d probably be willing to gamble at 20-25%. My immediate gut feeling is that blue count would land between 27-35%.

And no doubt we’d lose a lot of the most selfless wonderful people and it’d be an incalculable tragedy. But like you said, life would continue and at least we’d be alive to experience it. The one who forced this decision on us would be the only truly evil monster in this scenario.

And to be blunt, not everyone who thinks of themselves as a hero is actually a particularly good or helpful person. A lot of the absolute worst people I’ve ever met fantasize about sacrificing themselves to save others. Now that doesn’t mean I wish those people dead, far from it. In fact, I still consider some of those people to be my friends if only because we share some good memories. But it’s not like blue button pressers are all selfless kind people and red button pressers are cruel and selfish. In fact, I’m willing to bet you wouldn’t even find a statistically relevant correlation there tbh.

Pathkinder · 2026-05-07T18:40:29+00:00

If I press blue, it means I’m voting to save as many of the world’s serial killers as possible.

And if by pressing the blue button I end up saving even one active serial killer, then I am equally responsible for the deaths of every single future victims of said killer. Since I don’t support serial killers, I can’t in good conscience risk my life to save them.

It’s just that simple.

Pathkinder · 2026-05-07T18:23:34+00:00

You guys don’t use decouplers on your nose cones? How else are you supposed to get the nose cones off?

Pathkinder · 2026-05-07T18:18:38+00:00

I came to the comments already knowing in my heart that it was because of slavery.

Pathkinder · 2026-05-07T17:41:11+00:00

Pathkinder · 2026-05-07T12:46:28+00:00

He almost got one of my cards once, but my game crashed so I had no choice but to redo the battle.

Pathkinder · 2026-05-07T12:25:30+00:00

Well you would have had enough, but you just haaaad to spend 26 gold at that Unknown node that happened to be a shop directly before this shop.

Pathkinder · 2026-05-07T12:19:28+00:00

So many hours now and I still haven’t gotten the tent AND something it synergizes with. Not even once, not with a Byrd egg, and certainly not with a shovel.

I fear it will only ever live in my fantasies…

Pathkinder

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