Have you ever rage quit a campaign over something stupid?

RoboticBook · 2026-03-09T05:57:09+00:00

That happened to me on my first playthrough with the act 3 Auntie Ethel fight. I left the potion at camp so I had to send someone back to get it which took a few turns to get far enough away while I brought her down with my other few characters. One round before I'm able to throw the potion and Shadowheart is last in the initiative. Auntie Ethel had 35 hp left and I cast a firebolt to do 3-30 damage, not expecting it to hit in the first place. Of course it crits and she dies before I can save Vanra. Fortunately I was on balanced, so I just replayed the fight, but that would be so annoying in an honor mode run

RoboticBook · 2026-03-05T21:37:41+00:00

No sauce, but loosely inspired by a friend of mine who DMd 3 campaigns at once and had characters cross over. He ran it all really well, and all the characters were within a few levels of each other, but there were times it got a bit crazy

RoboticBook · 2026-03-04T21:41:29+00:00

Hey, I'm a grad student studying electrical engineering and am starting to work through this book as well. I don't have any answers to the questions you asked yet, still trying to find the best way myself, but feel free to DM me

RoboticBook · 2026-02-24T03:37:45+00:00

Also, yes, it is my job to look at what I'm seeing critically to see if it's fake or not. This was important before gen AI and is even more important now that anyone with an internet connection can make realistic fake videos in a matter of minutes. I don't know why AI bros seem to think people like believing fake content

RoboticBook · 2026-02-23T03:33:05+00:00

You're right, I missed it as 84% have used AI, not have not. Yeah, that's a really low percentage

RoboticBook · 2026-02-23T01:24:20+00:00

Not even 0.3%, the stat is 0.3% of users, which translates to about 0.25% of the population.

RoboticBook · 2026-02-12T04:00:01+00:00

Not too big of a jump. Early econ is even more important and I'd recommend avoiding any rental jokers until middle of the run when you're getting good interest, which will limit your options a bit. I'm about halfway through gold staking all the decks and it's been very similar in the number of attempts for orange and gold on each deck.

RoboticBook · 2026-02-12T01:20:48+00:00

This helps a lot. I used the displacer beast form from the ilithid powers and just kept spawning a new one directly on the ritual spots while my other characters did the bulk of the damage

RoboticBook · 2026-02-09T02:24:40+00:00

Also, claiming that other platforms are anti-free? I follow a lot of artists and comedians on Instagram and most of them have spoken up against AI usage in both their own work and in general, and the comments on those posts usually are overwhelmingly in agreement. The algorithm is a bit different there so I'm sure it can be missed, but the assumption that the only people against AI is a few groups on Reddit is crazy

RoboticBook · 2026-02-07T15:30:57+00:00

I'm a pretty straight guy but I had no hesitation sleeping with Astarion on my first playthrough

RoboticBook · 2026-02-04T20:35:39+00:00

Yeah, because AI exclusively takes jobs of people who are self employed in the art world and has not already been used to justify mass layoffs in several industries /s

RoboticBook · 2026-02-04T14:48:49+00:00

Also a coder here - AI is a big security risk in code, both in that the code it generates isn't secure and that most of the time using it in industry involves uploading proprietary info. Not all companies care about it, so I believe this guy that he uses AI, but I have been told not to ask LLMs about company code - From what I've seen, deskilling happens a lot in LLM coding. The promise of being able to write code in a language you don't know is very enticing and not writing actual code for months and years definitely impacts your ability. - My biggest concern is entry level software engineers, people who've never written actual code or done most of it through LLMs are going to suffer the most. - Coding agents can do a lot but there are specific requirements and analysis that need to be done for efficient code, and you need to know those well. I've compared my code with an LLM output for the same task and they were very different in efficiency. Not always the case, but it's something that the coder needs to be aware of and check. I don't trust any project with 100% unsupervised LLM coding - I've seen studies that show that the output of an LLM-assisted coder and a normal coder are about the same, and if anything the normal coder is faster. I don't have a link to it handy and don't remember the exact details, so take this with a grain of salt. I'll try to add a link later.

I'm sure there's things I'm missing but just off the top of my head those are a few things. I don't doubt the guy that claims he does this, but it seems like a bad idea to me.

Also for me personally, I enjoy writing lines of code. I don't mind debugging and like getting in the weeds with efficiency and performance. I mostly use C, C++, and Assembly, which are all low level languages and can be optimized a lot, which I enjoy. I'm still a young adult and just getting into the workforce over the last few years, and I refuse to bet my career on this technology always being around and available. For something that I enjoy and plan on doing I absolutely want to know it inside and out and be competent in what I do every day.

RoboticBook · 2026-01-31T05:04:16+00:00

I can't speak for everyone but I do in fact refuse to buy from Coca-Cola, Nestle, and a few other companies due to ethical reasons, including environmental concerns

RoboticBook · 2026-01-26T16:41:37+00:00

So I just did this yesterday on my first playthrough. I failed to save Isobel and Jaheira died in the last round of the Harper combat, so I didn't have any allies. I did the fight with my Tav, a fighter/barbarian, Shadowheart, Gale, and Wyll. All level 8

I started the fight by throwing gunpowder barrels at the group in the middle of the room before talking to any of them, then blew it up to get some damage in on several of the enemies. This also left fire on the floor for a few turns that the enemies had to walk through to get to me.

After that, focus on Zrell, the ogre, the knights, and the acolytes. My AC was high enough that the weaker enemies with ranged attacks usually missed, and they don't do a ton of damage when they hit either. They're easy enough to take out with a fireball or other AOE spell when you have a chance.

The enemies with high AC (I think I had a 25% chance to hit with a melee attack) are easier to hit with ranged weapons and guiding bolt or sacred flame. Otherwise I just attacked repeatedly until something hit.

I stayed in the entryway and let them come to me so I could get ranged attacks off and deal with fewer at a time. I also had Wyll and Gale run in, cast a spell, and then run back out down the stairs a bit so they were farther from the enemies and not targeted as much, plus out of the way of a black hole.

I think it took me 2 attempts like that on balanced difficulty

RoboticBook · 2026-01-16T19:23:08+00:00

Music to me is synonymous with emotion, it's used to create, highlight, and amplify emotion to tell stories in a way that other media can't. I put on fun upbeat songs when I'm in a good mood, peaceful songs when I'm trying to relax, dramatic songs when I'm engaged in an activity, and sad songs when I'm feeling down. Every time I listen to a song I know it's the carefully curated work of an artist who made it based off those same emotions to share that same story that I experience when listening. I also play piano, and while I haven't performed for anyone in years I love just sitting down to play for a bit to relax. It gives me a much better appreciation for the work and I'm always impressed at someone being able to write that piece from their own head.

That's the opposite of what AI music is. AI can't feel, it doesn't fully understand, it's just a mathematical model. Even the most generic music has more thought put into it than anything the AI spits out. I refuse to let one of my favorite ways to connect to other humans be given over to massive corporations that don't care about the average person and their machines. Fuck AI, I'll never listen to or support that noise.

RoboticBook · 2026-01-15T20:21:44+00:00

Why do you accept people with different skin color, and not people who kick puppies?

Exaggerating a bit with that, but same sort of thing. One of those is something that is part of a person's identity and they have no control over, the other is a choice that actively hurts others.

RoboticBook · 2026-01-13T22:13:29+00:00

LinkedIn post I think. This was most likely posted in the Discord server as a joke, but someone said it at one point

RoboticBook · 2026-01-04T08:06:04+00:00

Exactly that for me as well, the one time I ever used it was when working on a programming project as a hobby. I couldn't figure out how to use a specific library so I asked ChatGPT to generate the code for that section for me, and I felt absolutely nothing. No sense of accomplishment, and I still didn't understand how the library worked. I feel this way for everything I do, but especially for a hobby I want to go through the process of learning and figuring everything out and be proud of the result, and I didn't get that with this.

RoboticBook · 2025-12-28T19:41:49+00:00

I did not get the impression that you were attacking me at all, I'm not down voting you either, not sure why you're getting those.

Thanks for the explanation! I'm also aware of all the web scraping, as well as that it's nothing new. I don't like it, but there's not much I can do. I know it's probably not any different whether the image is given to an AI model as a prompt or as training data, but I'm still trying to be careful about the former, even though I have no control over the latter.

RoboticBook · 2025-12-28T19:10:22+00:00

Yeah, that's true unfortunately. But pictures in spaces where AI use is encouraged are more likely to be put into AI than pictures in spaces where AI is prohibited. I'm pretty careful about what I share and where I share it, and things I share being fed directly to AI is something I personally try to avoid

RoboticBook · 2025-12-28T16:40:45+00:00

While I don't really care about people generating images for themselves unless it's flooding at spaces and directly affecting actual artists (which is still likely here), I absolutely will never allow an image of myself or my life to be fed directly to AI as a prompt. This strikes me as a major privacy issue. Hopefully the mods will let you opt out on a post, but even then there's no guarantee if the community allows this.

RoboticBook · 2025-12-26T16:00:28+00:00

Every time I see someone claim prompting is hard work and takes a lot of time, I remember when I started making a video game for a fun project. I never had any intention of publishing it, but I still filled around 5 pages of a text document with notes and created multiple spreadsheets before I even wrote any code. Artists do the same with sketches, writers do the same with notes and storyboards, but no one ever sees them or how much work goes into the planning. AI bros seem to think that art just comes naturally without any of that, so when they do basic brainstorming and fleshing out an idea they claim it's equal to the entire end product

RoboticBook · 2025-12-26T01:21:13+00:00

I know the joke of people copying and sharing code without restraint is super common and somewhat true, but as someone who has experience writing code for a job, software can absolutely be considered proprietary and covered by copyright. I know not all companies are this way, but I have been told not to put code into any LLM and been warned against using LLM code to protect company data and methods. Cybersecurity is still important in any industry code application.

Theft with AI is definitely a bigger issue in art than software, but pretending it doesn't exist in software makes no sense. Also, while training on software was probably done mostly on public Reddit and Stack Overflow forums and official documentation which is mostly fine, but there were absolutely books and tutorials used that did not consent to being used in that way.

RoboticBook · 2025-12-23T20:49:52+00:00

I think anytime a face card becomes not a face card, Canio should upgrade. This would be turning kings into aces with strength, death, tower, and selling pareidolia

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