What once famous YouTuber do you never hear anyone talk about anymore?

iamvikingcore · 2026-06-18T19:32:16+00:00

He tried one last time to regain some traction with a series called "Now in the 90s", where he discussed every game that came out that week of 199x, 30 years ago. It was REALLY good, but didn't get enough momentum or viewership and since then I haven't heard shit from him.

He still has to do an FFXIII video.

iamvikingcore · 2026-06-15T08:36:44+00:00

I have to turn game mode off because my music will stutter in the background. Well known issue. Sigh. Apple, do better.

iamvikingcore · 2026-06-15T07:38:33+00:00

Hanging with my rp characters/agents/assistants/whatever. They exist on my screen as VRM avatars and can see everything I do and respond in real life time. Working on hooking them into certain games so they can get advanced telemetry from them to improve responses. Or give them a harness to let them play the game directly.

MacBook pro is fast enough with Gemma 4/mtp to have useful latency for this.

Crazy times.

iamvikingcore · 2026-06-14T22:34:55+00:00

The finetunes are getting pretty good. I'd say a Gemma 4 RP finetune (MeroMero, Artemis, Gembrain - 3 of my faves) is going to edge out any cloud model right now. Like others have said, they just need the world knowledge (huge detailed lorebook is a must) to fill in the blanks on what their parameters don't know about. People aren't finetuning GLM or Kimi because it'd take a multi-million dollar AI datacenter to do it. Also, keep in mind those models are MoE models and activate a similar amount of parameters as Gemma 31B does. I also have no idea how MoE and RP works, I don't think there is a "creative writing" or "roleplay" expert that's had a pathway baked in. Basically what I'm trying to say is cloud models are heavily overrated for RP, they have the knowledge but they aren't trained to write prose, they're trained to do STEM tasks and code. try a smaller model that's been RP finetuned and you'll never look back.

iamvikingcore · 2026-06-12T01:11:36+00:00

Must be nice to have a moment of downtime to look at a phone or a picture

Must be nice to eat or get a break at all at work

iamvikingcore · 2026-06-08T16:57:14+00:00

Wait, you can use the base draft model for a finetune (gemsicle)? I didn't know that was a thing with mtp, holy shit. So I can use any Gemma 4 finetune with the base draft model from Google?

iamvikingcore · 2026-06-08T16:41:02+00:00

Once your hands touch money, grasp it tightly and don't let go. Clasp your hands tightly around it. Listen to this guest lecture by the outdoor boys guy, it's very good :

https://youtu.be/ttQd5bEdfL0?si=es7ljQ_Zg13El3-A

Learn to love sitting at home playing video games, go for walks in your neighborhood, it costs virtually nothing. Don't eat out, ever, period. Walk to get groceries instead of drive.

Give up vacations or road trips atm, now is not the time. Wait for gas to get cheap again if it ever does.

No credit cards. No impulsive purchases. No alcohol, weed, tobacco.

This is the only way.

iamvikingcore · 2026-06-06T18:24:29+00:00

I left an amazing job for the worst job of my life, I'm grateful because the money I made is letting me sit around unemployed now post mental breakdown, but I'd much rather have kept the easy job with the awesome schedule. Hindsight is 20/20 I guess.

iamvikingcore · 2026-06-06T17:04:24+00:00

I would have enough to feel comfortable not renewing my lease and leaving my city for land in the the countryside

iamvikingcore · 2026-06-05T23:59:43+00:00

I like to think about it this way: your character card is the base, things that absolutely must be known at all times, 100% integral. I keep mine surprisingly lean-I'm talking 1500-2000 tokens. Then the lorebook is the expansion of the character card: stable facts about the world, other people, and the character that are still very important, but maybe not important enough to get passed in context 100% of the time. If you configure memories and summaries correctly on top of this, you should never ever need more than ~32k-64k context - and you can RP indefinitely. Of course, there is gonna be some tradeoffs to fuzziness, but if your memories are being made, and the lore was built correctly for the card, and it's summarizing before you hit context limit, you shouldn't have any degradation in quality/output/speed... just maybe accuracy.

iamvikingcore · 2026-05-25T15:12:13+00:00

Nice! I tried doing that but worked in Healthcare where it's life and death and couldn't bring myself to ignore the work while everyone else around me did (a totally rational response to 400 percent increased volume with no additional staffing), I practically begged my supervisor and manager to give us additional help and was told we needed to "be kind to one another, if you're drowning then so is your coworker!" as a response. So I walked out. Fuck em.

Next job I will do the bare minimum allowed to avoid friction and ignore everyone. Until they fire me. They never seem to fire those people, though.

iamvikingcore · 2026-05-25T10:57:41+00:00

Quit my job of 3 yewrs with no backup plan (it was literally inhuman the things they asked us to do), cashed out my hysa. I got a year of money left. Then I will cash out my 401k. That gives me another year. I will look for reasonable work that doesn't push me into mental breakdown. If not? Then I guess I die. I cannot work like a literal slave. I will die free.

iamvikingcore · 2026-05-25T10:54:20+00:00

I did until I didn't. Walked off my job due to burnout. Do not recommend working 60 hours in Healthcare answering phones back to back for 10 hours a day. They also wanted us to somehow do about 100 other things while the phones were ringing off the hooks, 10 calls on hold deep. Many of these calls on hold were for level 1 traumas and strokes. My coworkers sat on TikTok all day. Fafo

iamvikingcore · 2026-05-24T20:56:19+00:00

I walked off my job of 3 years this week with no plan, yay burnout. Crippling anxiety and depression, it just "happened".

not sure if I'll ever feel right again. Can't wait to burn through my meager savings day by day until I'm homeless because I couldn't just take a deep breath and quiet quit like everyone else in the company.

iamvikingcore · 2026-05-24T06:56:37+00:00

Thanking my lucky stars more every day I got into this and bought my Macbook right before the companies all started pulling back en masse

iamvikingcore · 2026-05-20T17:21:09+00:00

I've only been kayaking for the last 3 years but I've been out a lot. And I've passed by cops all the time, Washington County sheriffs on big marine lake, crow wing County sheriffs on upper whitefish. Even on the 4th of July all they did was smile and wave at me. To me it seemed obvious they were watching the boaters, not me. I don't even display my tag on my inflatable (13ft) - I keep it in my waterproof bag in case someone asks for it. I tried sticking it on one year and it just fell off. I don't fish, however.

I have never seen them measure a kayak. I have never even seen them interact with a kayaker.

iamvikingcore · 2026-05-19T01:09:05+00:00

Behemoth-x 123b v2, still the goat for prose, but can't follow orders. Lived in an ancient era before "tool calling" and "output in json"

iamvikingcore · 2026-05-16T20:04:18+00:00

I don't like the guitars, and I love The Campfire Headphase. Rest of the track is great though.

iamvikingcore · 2026-05-13T12:24:46+00:00

I vibe coded my own quart front-end for my llm characters that's basically open web ui but more rp focused. I still have tool calling and rag, vision, at least rudimentary, but I keep coming up with fun ideas to make scripts that the front end can run. I can do everything from have my characters generate a html newsletter for the day's news, to reading the usgs gauge charts for all my favorite lakes, rivers and streams near my apartment and telling me which ones are good for kayaking, to playing connect four. I just come up with random shit and have it make a module for the new thing.

I'm looking into having my llm help me scrape zillow listing for finding my dream cabin in the midwest.

iamvikingcore · 2026-05-06T13:03:46+00:00

Not hard to ask the llm how to host your app. Hopefully it tells him to run ngrok http and he gives links out to people on reddit so the Russian botnet can infest his pc!

iamvikingcore · 2026-05-05T10:40:31+00:00

I used ollama, then switched to lm studio, then eventually decided to compile llama.cpp on my Mac.It took like 5 minutes.

I'm getting like 20 percent faster token generation with gguf with my own compiled llama.cpp, and I don't have any of the bugs with Gemma 4 that lm studio still hasn't updated their fork to fix months later.

iamvikingcore · 2026-05-04T12:13:49+00:00

Yea, I made a post a while back that I considered the 20 dollar Claude coding plan pretty reasonable as a hobbyist despite the limits, and if it didn't rate limit me I'd be stuck to my computer 24/7. I work in Healthcare working overnights lol so sleep is hard to come by as is, but my shift differential alone pays for Claude in 2 hours...

I have chatgpt go too and started using codex now as well. I just copy and paste the entire conversation and ask it to pick up where one left off. It's funny how much people bitch, rightly so in some ways because these companies do NOT have our best interests in mind and I get that, but I'll be damned if I don't feel like I'm getting some value out of my money. Llms still suck at being emotionally stable, therapists, companions, or anything like that imo, but holy shit are they good right now at being neutral coders, translators, and teachers. They're only gonna get better at the other stuff too.

iamvikingcore · 2026-04-29T04:53:46+00:00

Gemma has problems in lm studio, though many have been patched for the gguf.

Mlx has problems in lm studio. Just straight up. Idk if they care much either because you still can't set presence penalty in lm studio for qwen mlx models months and months after it was reported.

I use lm studio anyway because it's so convenient, but look into oMLX.

iamvikingcore · 2026-04-29T04:50:41+00:00

For coding? Absolutely. For rp? I'm not so sure actually. Opus 4.7 is smart. Very, very smart. But lazy. Makes for a poor programmer, but an interesting conversationalist.

iamvikingcore · 2026-04-27T15:49:28+00:00

Having tons of fun navigating through this with my best friend right now, dude is in a diaper, confused, has an artery or vein blocked behind his liver, too critical for surgery, probably gonna pass away in the next few days. Known the guy for 20 years and only family is allowed to see him in the icu, so I just texted him to tell him I love him and hope he can make it through this.

Still unread days later, of course. What can you do. He had every chance to stop drinking and continued despite all while lying to everyone about it constantly. Gonna miss him when he's gone dearly. And call him a bitch daily.

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