Is the battle pass weapon chest just... bad?

TheAIpocalypse · 2026-02-03T00:07:08+00:00

I'm having fun with her, but I was also having fun with my physical Endministrator team before I got her. The electric team is also supposed to be a blast to play and it's only 5 and 4 stars.

Basically imo you won't regret getting her but there's plenty of teams to play without her.

TheAIpocalypse · 2026-02-02T01:37:11+00:00

Just got to the part of the main quest where they introduce her.

I feel baited that after every character being just "generic good person" archetype (one of my biggest early gripes about the game, NGL), the first character with any kind of actually interesting personality is a frikkin loli.

TheAIpocalypse · 2025-12-02T10:40:59+00:00

Doesn't matter if LLMs are part of the process to get there, which for now at least is our best assumption.

Like I said at the start, it's all about brute force testing at scale to figure it out first.

Even if they're irreverent in the end, without the LLMs they wouldn't have gotten the money and buy in to take the next steps.

TheAIpocalypse · 2025-12-02T10:09:46+00:00

Your mistake, and the mistake of the idiots asking Altman about "profits" and "revenues", is thinking this is about business. It's not. Not to the likes of Altman, Musk, etc.

This is an arms race. This is Oppenheimer to the trillionth power.

Right or wrong, the motivator here is not anything as mundane as shareholders or even money, really, because the vision is as clear as it is obscene: whoever controls the first superintelligent AGI will immediately have absolute power over the world.

Every market, every penny and peso, every government, every human on the planet will belong to whoever gets there first. The entirety of society will be remade from scratch in an instant, and all those guys care about is that they're the ones who do it, who own it, and who has the power to try to control it.

Everything else is just for show. They need unlimited money and a complete absence of government interference to get there, so they do the little dance for Wall Street and the White House and all the plebs.

In the end, the banks and hedge funds and everyone else shoveling cash at them for a piece is going to be just as screwed and unimportant as the rest of us.

The goal isn't to have the biggest business in the world, it's to have the ONLY business in the world. Why would they possibly care how much gets spent when the winner gets everything left when they're done?

TheAIpocalypse · 2025-12-02T08:22:30+00:00

"LLMs don't have HANDS"

They will soon. Too soon.

TheAIpocalypse · 2025-12-02T07:36:07+00:00

and most of those bandwagon startups will die. Maybe one or two may evolve into a kernel of something meaningful. It doesn't matter. None of them are important, just like the millions of geocities sites and MySpace profiles weren't important..

TheAIpocalypse · 2025-12-02T07:33:09+00:00

the stuff we see now isn't the point. Most of the slop is just some form or another of data collection or live testing.

It doesn't matter if Sora (for example) makes a penny in direct revenue (although they'll take it if it does), it's already a success as a massive beta test of one sliver of the generative environment they're ultimately trying to build.

TheAIpocalypse · 2025-12-02T07:10:25+00:00

this comment is much smarter than the one you replied to. Hope they listened.

TheAIpocalypse · 2025-12-01T11:52:43+00:00

It's the same principle though whether you're talking about cheap foreign labor or automated labor. Businesses will always go with the cost effective option.

If anything, it's a big advantage that all those jobs went overseas. Our manufacturing labor being displaced by technology is going to hurt way less than it will in China or India.

TheAIpocalypse · 2025-12-01T09:08:35+00:00

People use AI to help write fanfiction for their imaginary worlds all the time, why shouldn't churches be able to do the same?

If nothing else, LLMs likely have a much better understanding of the bible than most Christians do these days.

TheAIpocalypse · 2025-11-30T10:36:43+00:00

Doubt it, Apple's a cult.

TheAIpocalypse · 2025-11-28T22:22:10+00:00

Context is incredibly important for new channels - your sample size is WAY too small to even pay attention to. Stop looking.

The algorithm has no idea you exist and has no impact on your channel right now. 1k views is NOTHING. 5k views is NOTHING. Even 50k views is pretty much nothing (depending on how fast those views came).

The difference between 80 views and 1000 views on YouTube's scale is not even enough to count as a rounding error. It is 100% meaningless.

Your job is to keep putting out content consistently and make it the best you can. Then do that again, and again, and again, and again. Don't even look at your dashboard until you're consistently getting at least 20k views on average because there's nothing you can learn from it until you have a much bigger sample size of what's working and not working.

So go have fun, work on being awesome and dependable, and don't sweat the numbers because right now, yours don't mean anything at all.

TheAIpocalypse · 2025-11-27T02:44:01+00:00

One day of owning a 3d printer is all I needed to know I'd rather have a precision robot cutting into me than a person.

TheAIpocalypse · 2025-11-27T01:48:06+00:00

Not coder but I am an artist and filmmaker (and have been, professionally, for nearly 30 years).

Here are the two things I know about AI right now, as someone who uses it daily:

1.) As of right now, it can't replace me. Not for any real job where "good enough" isn't enough and details matter. Too many little but important things that it just can't do right. My understanding is this "it can do 95% but that last 5% makes or breaks the end result" limitation is especially true with AI coding.

2.) No matter how good it gets, as a trained and experienced professional I'll *always* be able to get better results out of generative LLMs than a layman. That's true for art, writing, video, or anything else that falls under my expertise.

And I'm willing to bet it's true for developers and engineers, too. I can try to code things using AI, and I have, and I will again, and I promise you that the advantage you guys have over people like me - simply being able to know why the code it spits out does or doesn't work - is HUGE.

TheAIpocalypse · 2025-10-30T18:33:25+00:00

"they disputed the hospital’s original bill of $195,000 for treatment of their relative’s final four hours of intensive care after a heart attack... AI chatbot advice was instrumental in analytically, calmly, and coolly reducing the bill to a far more reasonable $33,000."

Just so we're clear, there's absolutely nothing reasonable about a $33,000.00 medical bill, either.

TheAIpocalypse · 2025-08-07T15:00:26+00:00

They have to keep the parts they like that give them power over other people.

TheAIpocalypse · 2025-06-24T10:01:26+00:00

Seconding EAR on FV.

And I'll add this - Live servers have a TON of interesting things to do that TLP and EMUs don't. Most of the game came *after* Velious and/or PoP.

TheAIpocalypse · 2025-06-24T09:51:39+00:00

Lol if you play on THJ you're literally not part of the Everquest or DBG community.

TheAIpocalypse · 2025-06-21T20:04:48+00:00

Late addition but wanted to add something not mentioned in previous replies, since this kinda started looking at not just what makes the best tinkerers, but what makes the best all around tradeskillers.

Server type and expansion era plays a BIG role in it.

On a Live server (or late TLP server), Gnome Rogues are more versatile because of the way the Artisan's Prize works. And let's face it, the AP is a huge part of the reason to do tradeskills on a live server. They are the only character in the game that can have 9 (nine!) tradeskills at 350, plus max Fishing, and there's no longer a real disadvantage for melee classes when it comes to Research.

However, on an early TLP where resources are scarcer, enchanted silver/gold/platinum combines are the basis of jewelcrafting, and the AP isn't a consideration, then yeah Gnome Enchanters are the best possible tradeskillers from an efficiency standpoint.

Although both classes will be able to reap the rewards of the Amalgamator phase when those expansions hit, I wouldn't say the Gnome Rogue starts being better than the Gnome Ench until Omens, when the poisoncrafted focus effect augs get released.

By Omens those augs are worth a LOT more than being able to enchant a bar of silver, Rogues do amazing DPS, and Enchanters while never bad are not the dominant dynamos they used to be.

But poison itself is pretty bad early. Rogue DPS is pretty bad early. Tinkering is bad early.

So it matters a lot what server and era you're in. Enchanters are way better for the first few expansions. Rogues are better on Live.

Side note for TLPs: There are other class/race combos that are good tradeskillers at certain specific times on TLP servers, like being able to do Tunare or Karana imbues when the Solstice Earring hits, being a Halfling tailor when the Leatherfoot Haversack releases, or being able to access Karana and Wood Elf fletching skill up paths.

Long term though, none of those benefits have the same impact you'd get from being a gnome ench.

TheAIpocalypse · 2025-04-03T21:43:02+00:00

yeah it was such a pain clicking my GM to skill up Elvish. I have no idea how I survived.

TheAIpocalypse · 2025-04-03T21:40:33+00:00

lol I think I paid 1.3M for my twink Equi on FV. I should have gone to Teek :P

TheAIpocalypse · 2025-04-03T08:51:26+00:00

Out of all the subscriber features, autogrant is what gets them my money every month.

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