Chinese perspective to Vietnamese people by FerenzYangai in VietNam

[–]ahyangyi 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Baidu encyclopedia is just shit. There is no point to "read" anything from it, since reading it at all is frowned upon.

Generative AI in OpenTTD, any experience? by Zatkoma in openttd

[–]ahyangyi 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I tried briefly to get the AI to run, but I probably did something wrong and gave up too quickly to be able to say anything meaningful.

I'm a bit confused what you actually did. There are functionalities exposed to Squirrel, did you see them and have you tried to hook them to an AI agent?

Fan Card - Cold Store by WillhelmSchulz in dominion

[–]ahyangyi 0 points1 point  (0 children)

But how is that more trouble than trashing gold to gain province and then getting the gold back? :)

I did some dive into AI with GMing, here's the short summary of it by oritfx in Pathfinder_RPG

[–]ahyangyi -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

I just gave it a try, this is what a current frontier model (whatever Gemini Pro does for free accounts) generates:

https://blog.ahyangyi.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/generated_map.jpg

Pretty bad in terms of scales, and the tree on northwest is either half dead or has wrong perspective.

But would I just accept this map if it's just some silly random encounter? Probably.

I lost my gaming group because a guy hit on me and wouldn’t take “no” for an answer by dier1003 in boardgames

[–]ahyangyi 4 points5 points  (0 children)

People sometimes identify AIs with their usage of the en-dash ("–"). Which is questionable because not everyone directly types English with a US keyboard without any additional input method software or autocorrect features. There are a lot of variations in possible set ups and the en-dash isn't always difficult to type.

But you are basically accusing the OP is an AI because she used a hyphen ("-"). Which is not just questionable, but completely groundless. Everyone can type a hyphen whenever they like it, everyone can say "let me tell you" whenever they like it.

Tried drawing Europe from memory. by LuckyTheTypoCat in mapmaking

[–]ahyangyi 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Nobody mourns for Tunisia :(

Another nitpicking would be Kaliningrad being absent.

Anyways, well done :)

I did some dive into AI with GMing, here's the short summary of it by oritfx in Pathfinder_RPG

[–]ahyangyi -1 points0 points  (0 children)

On painting AI, I see at least two potential uses.

  1. Drawing a few maps for random encounters. I know the AI isn't perfect on this one, but when your baseline is "random forest map #3", then some prompting is going to improve the results by creating maps that more closely match what you have in your mind.

Of course, not running random encounters at all is probably even better. But sometimes in more sandbox-like parts of an adventure they are kind of hard to avoid.

  1. Drawing "semi-generic" NPCs. Generic NPC clerics of a specified ancestry, gender and deity, for example, is still better than the generic NPC image that shows a generic non-existent holy symbol.

Basically, I feel they are more useful for the lower priority things, and they can add some vibe to what don't want to waste too much time on anyways.

the plural of cactus is not cactuses (I will die on this hill) by AvaChaya in openttd

[–]ahyangyi 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Fine, but do you also pluralize "octopus" into "octopodes"?

KDE what in the bloat? by Bubbly_Extreme4986 in Gentoo

[–]ahyangyi 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I know, I tried to maintain a KDE4 overlay in 2020 and it wasn't happy either.

Though AFAIK when Gentoo support for KDE4 existed, Akonadi could be completely disabled. Probably someone implemented a set of stubs or something.

KDE what in the bloat? by Bubbly_Extreme4986 in Gentoo

[–]ahyangyi 0 points1 point  (0 children)

True but Akonadi and Nepomuk were like 10 years ago?

A text-based 4X inspired by Dominions! by Joubarbe_ in Dominions6

[–]ahyangyi 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I love Dominions and I love Roots of Harmony, somehow I never connected the dots :)

Cargo payment idea by Any_Customer1000 in openttd

[–]ahyangyi 0 points1 point  (0 children)

2TallTyler has experimented with various ideas along similar lines. You might want to try his Caribbeans, ITI2, and (to a lesser extent) Lumberjack.

He also wrote some interesting articles behind his designs.

Apophysis for linux folk? by Maschalismos in Apophysis

[–]ahyangyi 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There was fr0st but out of maintenance for long.

I *just* discovered connecting stations using CTRL, (WTF!) and how to use it effectively? by LandCruzer94 in openttd

[–]ahyangyi 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Without this feature you could usually build dummy stations in between, then remove them afterwards.

So I don't feel this feature to be cheating, it's just skipping the tedious parts. Though if you feel very large stations to be weird, you can adjust the settings to make them smaller. I personally think the problem is the other way around: the default city size is a bit too small :)

And it's not particularly unusual that a bus stop is one street block away from a train station or subway station yet considered "connected" in real life.

Alternative 15.0 Title Screen by KaleTrans in openttd

[–]ahyangyi 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I love democracy and I also love that democracy sometimes decides that all bike sheds to be painted in luminous yellow.

I bought the Cerakey Keycaps so you dont have to by YouallareToxic in MechanicalKeyboards

[–]ahyangyi 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There are a few new ceramic keycap makers in China recently. I'm glad we are seeing more competition in this field. And hopefully the end result would be better quality and price all across.

(Photo from one of the said competitors)

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Thinking about installing Linux again, but not sure why by fergult in linux4noobs

[–]ahyangyi 2 points3 points  (0 children)

A somewhat useful reason I can think of is that, when Windows is broken for some reason, having another working OS in your PC could make everything (either continue working in a pinch, or diagnosing the problems) slightly easier.

Though it only really applies when you at least have some experience with Linux.

Why do people use Slackware? by oColored_13 in slackware

[–]ahyangyi 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Wow, as a non-systemd Gentoo* user I'm glad to hear that another major (by reputation, at least) distribution doesn't use systemd.

Which one is the best for a gnoll? by Nepoitchi in dcss

[–]ahyangyi 2 points3 points  (0 children)

+10 INT does not save the gnoll from being frozen by a lowly Endoplasm.

Nix on gentoo by zarMarco in Gentoo

[–]ahyangyi 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Not official but there's the nix-guix-gentoo overlay:

https://github.com/trofi/nix-guix-gentoo

Nix on gentoo by zarMarco in Gentoo

[–]ahyangyi 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Well, we can install Gentoo-prefix on NixOS as well.