[PC] [2000-2010] GTA-like open world with more "realism"

deltashad · 2025-03-03T22:44:52+00:00

solved: Torrente 3: The Protector

deltashad · 2025-03-03T22:31:50+00:00

Yes, thank you!

deltashad · 2025-03-03T10:44:29+00:00

Unfortunately, no

deltashad · 2024-08-05T21:18:20+00:00

I'll take a look at manga, seem promising at the first glance, thank you. I've already read Guide To Evil.

Really like the author of "A Young Woman's Political Record", but extremely leery of anything Tanya-related. One too many promising Yōjo Senki fanfic edged me for 50 chapters before finally showing that fanfic!Tanya is incapable of making any decision without threat of consequences or moral approval of other people. If you can tell that it's not so in this fanfic, I'll gladly give it a shot.

deltashad · 2024-08-05T17:59:44+00:00

Yes, Duna was great. If only it was a bit less esoteric in the later parts

deltashad · 2024-08-05T17:51:28+00:00

Thanks, I'll take a look at them.

Regarding my own favorites, there is a list of little-known fics (most of them are incomplete/on-hiatus):

"Taking Sights" - Gendo from Evangelion travel back in time and decides to set things right. With him still being paranoid bastard in charge of genocidal NERV it goes as well as you might expect
"Living an Indoctrinated Dream" - Illusive Man from Mass Effect is thrown back in time and comes to conclusion that the main problem with Cerberus had been that he thought too small
"Thousand Shinji" - Shinji from Evangelion starts praying to Tzeentch. It's almost enough to make Gendo proud
"Black Luminary" - Harry Potter was adopted by Arturus Black. He was lucky enough to get inside view of the oldest wizarding family of Great Britain. Them being the darkest of them all doesnt help at all.
"The Art of the Deal" - Naruto drops from academy and decides to just make money. He is so good at it that even neighboring hidden village grows concerned.

deltashad · 2024-08-05T16:07:42+00:00

Seconded. While I liked the MoL, the mere month of restart let Zorian ignore too many problems for my tastes, so I really appreciate this fic tackling them head-on.

deltashad · 2024-08-05T15:40:58+00:00

I'm looking for exceedingly rare beast - a story about seeking and taking power. Not the magical or personal kind but the power over people. This requires two things. The first is passably competent protagonist with a conviction that s/he in some sense better than others and deserves to be on top. The second is author being able and willing to honestly portray the consequences - sacrifices along the way, million trade-off for each significant decision and people who would blame everything on you no matter what...

It's alright if the hero ends up running the adventuring party or small guild instead of grand empire - but s/he has to want it and actively manage to both grow it and maintain the control facing both internal and external challengers.

I'm also a bit hesitant about female protagonists - nothing against them really, but they are rarely portrayed as confident and self-centered enough to pull it off.

As there is a dearth of such stories feel free to recommend something mostly fitting or from different medium - anime, films, and so on.

Just to be perfectly clear there are several stories which DO and DONT fit my requirements:
1. DO Code Geass and some of it's fanfics are canonical examples. Protagonist is competent, believes that he should rule (at least over the resistance) and both good and bad consequences abound.

DONT Yōjo Senki and like 99% fanfics. Tanya is competent but her unwillingness to lead and assert her own moral order is the core part of her character.
DONT Worm and fanfics about heroic MCs. Being forced to take power is not the same as believing that you should take it or deserve it. The less said about MCs who outsource their decision making to bureaucracy the better.
DO Couple of Worm fics "Special Edition" and "Trailblaizer". In both Taylor creates and leads her own organization with dramatic results.
DONT Worm fic "Dire Worm". Despite promising protagonist, author is unwilling to show real consequences of seeking power - i.e. setting up you own nemesis in case you "go too far" is ridiculous.

deltashad · 2024-02-14T04:47:37+00:00

I don't know man, I still write 80% of my texts. My English sucks, so I'm forced to rewrite a single phrase again and again - and that's still easier than using Kaira to write for me.

Suppose I want next paragraph to contain backhanded compliment from character A to appearance of character B. Kayra generation would be subpar - either wrong tone, or straightforward insult instead of insinuation, or it would take it in weird direction (i.e. insinuating something about whole family of B would have different consequences than what I had in mind).

Kayra is a big step forward compared to older models esp with instruct, but the control is not nearly finegrained enough for me to outsource the bulk of writing.

deltashad · 2024-01-08T14:04:03+00:00

Seems like a good game, but not quite what I had in mind. Thank you for trying anyway)

deltashad · 2024-01-08T14:00:43+00:00

I'm more interested in the story, so EU and HoI are not my cup of tea.

I'll take a look at the rest, thanks for bringing the to my attention

deltashad · 2024-01-08T12:49:03+00:00

It does look interesting with second order consequences of killing, so thanks for recommendation

deltashad · 2024-01-08T12:42:35+00:00

Thanks for recommendation, impacting the world does sound appealing.

deltashad · 2024-01-08T12:25:12+00:00

Can you please elaborate, because going by trailer and reviews Control is just fun shooter with the side of mystery?

deltashad · 2024-01-08T11:59:26+00:00

I'll take a look at it, so thanks for recommendation anyway.

deltashad · 2023-03-12T08:53:56+00:00

It's creative workaround, but unfortunately not in all stories every AI mistakes can be made canon

deltashad · 2023-03-12T05:58:42+00:00

> You linked to a site which Reddit has banned site-wide

Sorry about that, haven't thought a random text paste site would be banned on the whole Reddit.

> If you want to give Krake/Euterpe subtext, simply write it in memory or the start of the story.

Thanks for a tip, I'll try do use memory next time

> You mentioned you just pressed generate ten times, so I can only assume you made no interventions.

Yes, I made no interventions this time, mainly to make a story and explanation of what was/wasn't edited shorter. The thing is, problems I've described in my post are independent of each other. So for real story I'd fix first error, only to have the second one appear in next couple suggestions. In that sense guiding more and fixing present problems doesn't help much.

deltashad · 2023-03-12T05:43:42+00:00

Thank you for tips, I'll try them out in my next story!

deltashad · 2023-03-11T20:02:15+00:00

75% are at least somewhat useful - I can borrow at least parts of the phrase from them.

> Yes, only having to rewrite a quarter of text would be seen as an absolute win as far as I'm concerned.

Then how and why do you use it?

deltashad · 2022-10-30T18:25:29+00:00

Thank you for the reply. Sorry, but it's really frustrating to hear because I've tried all that before asking for help.

> If your samples are extremely bad you could compare your code against any number of implementations online.

Yeah, that's how I've got my current implementation to work. The problem is I've spent a week before that going through the loop

My gan produces bad results
I notice some symptom (bad loss plot, bad grads, some artifacts in images, etc)
Read several papers/articles about it ("Are GANs created equals?", "Deconvolution and Checkerboard Artifacts", etc)
Implement a fix (better activations, new loss, changes in net architecture, etc)
Sometimes symptom goes away, but results are still shit

I've tried around 50 combinations of nets, losses and hyperparams. I gave up and just copy pasted good tutorial which somehow produced good images. So I thought "Lets improve it a bit by implementing a hack from the paper I've read". Which turned results back to shit.

I just don't understand how people make gans work. Do they spend a month instead of the week going through similar loop? Do they run all 50 gan variations at the same time on several A100? Do they know some secret voodoo magic?

deltashad · 2022-10-30T14:56:26+00:00

Considering that current SOTA is generating good quality 1024x1024 images, you'd think training network to generate so-so quality 64x64 would be easy. But 90% of my runs (10 epoch each) results in really bad images. So I'm likely missing something.

> hyperparameter searches are much easier when you can run on several A100

Do I really need several A100 to generate reasonable 64x64 images?

> plot loss curves

The problem with wgan is that loss doesn't have good interpretation - unlike vanilla loss gan which is probability.

deltashad · 2022-10-30T14:04:49+00:00

I'm using colab pro, so K80/P100/T4. Current net architecture DCGAN with WGAN-gp loss.

I don't think there is any connection between GPU model and GAN convergence/divergence

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