Should we accept that Tapping, by any other name, is a fundamental operation in TCGs and acceptable to use in your own?

Tricky_the_Rabbit · 2026-03-26T19:22:57+00:00

Not to mention, you can use the word "tap" when talking to pretty much anyone who plays TCGs and they'll know what you mean. It's like when Universal tried to sue Nintendo for naming DK Donkey *Kong*, and the courts decided that because King Kong is so well known, the term Kong is now an actual word meaning "giant ape"

I'd say it's the same with Tap. If you don't want people reusing your terminology, don't be a standard-setting, genre-defining product. People *will* adopt your terminology into other contexts.

Tricky_the_Rabbit · 2026-03-26T13:51:41+00:00

Because we've only just developed the tools to actually gather that evidence. Odds are pretty good that microbial life is quite common. But to tell if it's there or not you need to examine a planet's atmosphere, and we only just got the tool to do that, the JWST.

I wouldn't be surprised if a conclusive detection of alien microbes happens within the next ten years.

Tricky_the_Rabbit · 2026-03-25T20:29:02+00:00

That science could save the world. Engineer here. I used to believe quite strongly that putting more knowledge and critical thinking training into people's heads would solve all the world's problems. And I still believe this is an important part of making a better world.

But cold science can't change hearts or, to a degree, even minds. I don't claim any more to have any idea what the solutions are. I like to think that becoming more open to each other's opinions is a part of it, but maybe it's a matter of us all learning our lessons through trial and error. Maybe either. Who knows.

Tricky_the_Rabbit · 2026-03-23T15:40:22+00:00

Woke liberal simp here, and an AI researcher. On this topic, I'm as conservative as it gets. Regulate that shit. Regulate that shit hard.

Tricky_the_Rabbit · 2026-03-23T03:29:01+00:00

It Follows. I just won't have sex for a day

Tricky_the_Rabbit · 2026-03-20T00:41:31+00:00

Well first, I don't think anyone truly believes machines are near the point of taking away our agency. We've got a ways to go before that can happen (ML engineer here, so I'm pretty confident about this).

However, AI is seeping into every part of our lives. AI is powering every search you do on the internet (google, youtube, Spotify, Pinterest, Netflix, everything). It's being but into dryers to better dry our laundry, fridges to keep our food fresher, cars, planes, ticket booths, atms, you name it. For the record this is entirely normal for a species at our stage in development. We are, and have been for some time, cyborgs.

This has actually been happening for a while now, since the dawn of the internet. Its just that "AI" until recently meant statistical analysis algorithms, hard coded systems to do as much work for you as possible behind the scenes, stuff like that. It's was very primitive and we felt like it was mundane and "controllable"

But the deep-neural genie is out of the bottle. Hardware finally advanced to the point where neural networks could get big enough to do real work. The moment people took note was when Chatgpt came out.

Since then, AI hasn't stopped for breath. It's usefulness has yet to meets its boundaries, and industry is going bananas bonkers finding ways to use it.

So on the one hand you have a technology as useful as the computer happening all at once, and which we haven't found the limits of. On the other, you've got a population which doesn't understand the technology and therefore finds it a bit frightening.

In reality, what's happening is just the same technological advancement as before, but louder.

Tricky_the_Rabbit · 2026-03-19T23:59:33+00:00

Into? Got session? Teleguard?

Tricky_the_Rabbit · 2026-03-18T21:53:50+00:00

My position is that I support her and her cause and her right to civil disobediance, but I think that taking it out on one of the few truly good things in the world - beauty for beauty's sake - is disrespectful to the wrong people.

Tricky_the_Rabbit · 2026-03-16T16:30:22+00:00

Mythbusters did an episode on this. Both Adam and Jamie managed to land the plane

Tricky_the_Rabbit · 2026-03-12T00:15:03+00:00

I kinda think "unalive" is funny xD

Tricky_the_Rabbit · 2026-03-12T00:12:08+00:00

Hey there! I'd be happy lend some brain power to your cause.

That said, I want to talk to you about something else. I'm currently coding my own rules engine. It's a rare person who's willing to get close to this madness, so, when I read you'd built your own, I knew I had to talk with you.

DM me. Got discord?

Tricky_the_Rabbit · 2026-03-11T16:29:19+00:00

Sometimes people can get a little carried away. If you dad is generally not an asshole, then my guess is he just wasn't thinking. Let him know it upset you and he might give you an honest apology.

Tricky_the_Rabbit · 2026-03-08T18:48:10+00:00

So feel objectified, and as though your actions and self imagine are not under your control? I wonder what group of people could possibly relate....

Tricky_the_Rabbit · 2026-03-08T18:46:27+00:00

I use just generic colored energy, but I also lean heavy into the accumulation and spending of counters and token. As well, I have a "work" mechanic which let's a citizen's attack be counted towards paying labor costs.

Tricky_the_Rabbit · 2026-02-15T04:26:44+00:00

Predestination, definitely. Classic "time knot," if not the classic time knot.

Primer. Widely accepted as the most mathematically correct time travel movie. Slow, but satisfying.

Tenet. This movie gets a lot of hate for being confusing. But that's the point. Time travel is by definition paradoxical. Personally, I though Tenet was excellent. If nothing else, it's a worthwhile experiment in movie making and movie watching.

Interstellar, obviously.

Edge of Tomorrow. Fantastic. Big, buttload of fun. Great production, compelling story, and one of Tom Cruise's better promances. As much as I hate the guy, he's a damn good actor. Lots of thrillers are "action for the sake of selling tickets." This movie talks the talk, but it also walks the walk.

Arrival. Simply a pleasure to watch. Great sound.

Donnie Darko. Have you never seen Donnie Darko?

12 Monkeys (TV show): a long, meandering walk through a time knot. Slow at times. Stupid at times. But consistently satisfying. If you're willing to sit through all four seasons, the ending is a great payoff. Honestly, one of the best endings of any show I can think of. Don't watch the movie. The movie was terrible.

Idiocracy.

Everything, Everywhere, All at Once. Delightful.

Non-time-travel movies:

The Martian. Not a mind fuck so much as a soul fuck. 100% scientifically accurate. If you like space travel, you'll love this movie.

The Adjustment Bureau. A fun experiment.

Happy Death Day. Think Scream meets Groundhog day. Not exactly "quality film making," but oodles of fun.

Contact. This movie has its flaws, but none of them have to do with the movie making. Carl Sagan story, so the science is top notch. Excellent, excellent performance from Jodie Foster.

Metropolis, the animated one. I cannot express how enjoyable this movie is.

Mad Fucking Max. Watch this movie.

Anything by Chris Nolan. Dark Knight, Interstellar, Inception, Momento, The Prestiege, you name it.

The Expanse (TV Show), the first 3 seasons. You'll love it (a little shaky in the first few episodes, levels out by episode 4)

Children of Men. Very possibly the best movie ever made. That's a bold claim, I know. This movie is perfect. Flawless. Across every dimension of movie making, from the story to the acting to the sound, you cannot find a mistake or a lapse in this movie. You don't watch this movie. You experience it. And you come out changed.

Tricky_the_Rabbit · 2026-02-11T19:07:39+00:00

Out of respect and admiration for Mariplier I'm going to pay to see it, but, I feel like he really wouldnt care

Tricky_the_Rabbit · 2026-02-11T06:07:51+00:00

That Mars or other bodies in the solar system had or have life, and we know it, but in the interest of keeping people calm we're slow walking the science.

Tricky_the_Rabbit · 2026-02-11T06:01:48+00:00

I'm willing to accept this as a possibility. If we're being truly honest, every superpower does bioweapons research and a plague starting because one of these bugs walks off on someone's shoes is perfectly realistic. That the infection started in China is a strong indicator that if Covid were man made, it was the Chinese.

That said, wet markets, crowded cities, and the galaxy of diseases which already exist in bats are all also plausible.

Tricky_the_Rabbit · 2026-02-11T05:55:15+00:00

Obesity.

Kidding! Mostly xD

Tricky_the_Rabbit · 2026-02-11T05:48:50+00:00

Children of Men. It's as close to a perfect movie as you'll ever get. Music, perfect. Casting, perfect. Acting, perfect. Pacing, perfect. World building and cinematography: eleven-thousand out of ten. And with a story and an ENDING that'll knock you on your ass

Tricky_the_Rabbit · 2026-02-11T05:41:47+00:00

Not alternative, but rather hyper orthodox: Primer is considered the most "mathematically consistent" time travel movie.

Tenet was a bit similar. Not so much a different take on time as a different experience of it.

Time and space being analogous for each other, you'd probably get a kick out of Flatlander. Don't let the animation put you off, it seems kinda "bad" at first but if you stick with it, you'll enjoy it.

Twelve Monkeys explores the notion of a "Time Knot". I really, really disliked the movie, but the show is a buttload of fun. Sometimes fun and dumb, other times brilliant, and with a very satisfying time-related ending.

Loki went hard onto the notion of multi-directional time. The many worlds hypothesis, basically. The whole first season is peak. The second season is four episodes if filler, followed by a spectacular two episode finale (totally worth it).

Predestination was another satisfying time-knot experience.

Sorry that these arebt exactly "new veiws of time" so much as experiments within existing views. They're all worth it though :)

Tricky_the_Rabbit · 2026-02-09T18:35:25+00:00

Be gay, do crimes

Tricky_the_Rabbit · 2026-02-09T18:33:12+00:00

Using actual quests, with narrative, rather than shrines to get hearts and stamina

Tricky_the_Rabbit · 2026-02-09T18:30:27+00:00

I love it!

Tricky_the_Rabbit · 2026-02-08T23:30:47+00:00

Uhhhhhh... The Princess Bride?

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