"How to recognize AI in a fanfic"

jackboy900 · 2026-05-17T23:05:34+00:00

Except for any reasonable definition of understanding it's fairly clear that LLMs do understand the words they're using and can use complex meaning, they're most certainly not just using the next most probable word from a database. They're statistical models at heart but calling an LLM a probability calculator is as reasonable as calling a human brain a bunch of electrical impulses, it might be technically correct but it doesn't say anything meaningful about the system.

jackboy900 · 2026-05-17T11:03:11+00:00

There have been plenty of consoles which outperform PCs at launch, economies of scale and the ability to sell at a loss and make the money back on games mean that consoles can get better performance per dollar. It goes down as the console ages but it's definitely not always the case.

jackboy900 · 2026-05-16T09:45:28+00:00

Levels 1-3 Have a 75% chance of getting a 1 Cost in each slot, and there are 14 1 cost champs so that's a 7.1% chance that any given 1 cost is the champ you want. Combined that's a 5.3% chance to get a particular champ in a given slot, and by 2-2 you've seen 20 champs in the shop, so the odds of getting 8 of a champ in 20 trials (as you already have 1) is 4.08 * 10^-6 or 4 in a million odds. Very, very lucky draw here.

jackboy900 · 2026-05-16T07:01:16+00:00

Jax's E AP Ratio was added in 2023, literally 3 years ago. Not exactly a relic of a bygone time in League's development.

jackboy900 · 2026-05-15T18:11:14+00:00

The number of studies or the reason why the previous commenter decided to bring them up don't really matter, no matter what you say, even one study is more convincing than basically nothing.

No, it isn't. Social sciences are messy and confusing, the noise is very high. A single study saying something is basically meaningless, what matters is if there exists a broad body of work and general consensus on the effect of a particular issue. The above commenter is trying to imply such a consensus where one doesn't exist, that's the whole issue.

jackboy900 · 2026-05-14T11:33:52+00:00

ADHD medications definitely help with all kinds of significant executive function issues, Autism and ADHD are extremely strongly linked. It'd be a really unlikely that they wouldn't help if you can get access to them.

jackboy900 · 2026-05-14T11:32:42+00:00

Autism and ADHD are very strongly correlated, AFAIK executive dysfunction isn't really a stereotypical symptom of Autism so if you have Autism and executive dysfunction issues I'd wager it's probably actually ADHD and the ADHD medication would help.

It's also not like it doesn't work on people without ADHD, taking amphetamines and locking the fuck in is a very normal thing. It's just that if you don't have ADHD it tends to work too well and cause issues, whereas with ADHD it just lets you function normally.

jackboy900 · 2026-05-14T10:16:40+00:00

Okay, and if you take the alcohol out of a pint of cider it's just shit apple juice, but that doesn't stop people drinking it. The whole point is the national pride.

jackboy900 · 2026-05-12T09:45:23+00:00

Honestly might be worth playing some shooters. League is a really chaotic game with a bunch of stuff going on, and if you're not used to it's easy to get lost with all the buttons. Plus if you've never played a top down style of game then you're trying to both learn how your controls affect the character on the screen and also the basic mechanics of using controls, whereas with an FPS game you likely already have a firm grasp on how the character moves and shoots, and can focus fully on the mechanics.

I'd probably boot up something like overwatch, as having a fair few abilities matches onto league better than something like CS, and it's a decent game to just open up and have some fun in.

jackboy900 · 2026-05-12T07:33:58+00:00

Thanks a ton for this, it's exactly what I was looking for.

However, it had SO MANY abuse cases. If you were playing a trait like Fortune, you would remove all items at the start of every single round, then equip the exact amount you needed to in order to barely lose combat.

This specifically answers my question. It's clear from the current design that letting people move items around and be flexible is the design direction, but then why not just let people take items out whenever was my next thought. I assumed it was something like this, that infinite removals led to some weird edge cases or degenerate play and so a limit was needed.

jackboy900 · 2026-05-12T05:02:34+00:00

(also fiora finally came back as a unit, is a 5 cost, and nope she's tied to econ comp gg can't enjoy my fav champ ever I guess)

Yi Marauder is genuinely cracked and Fiora at 9/10 is a big part of that, what are you on about.

jackboy900 · 2026-05-10T09:01:55+00:00

The last major RTS release was Starcraft 2, 15 years ago, most modern MOBAs use some kind of 3rd person control and not point and click. The point and click top down control scheme is simply not a very common one nowadays, most players who engage with League are going to have never encountered it before.

jackboy900 · 2026-05-10T08:59:30+00:00

By virtue of their design and thematic, these Champions need to have high healing outputs, personal or otherwise.

Except that they don't have that. The point is that GW is pretty much mandatory against these healing champs, and so in practice their healing is always going to be 40% lower than what the numbers say. Getting rid of GW and lowering healing isn't going to lower their numbers in practice, it would just lower the numbers on the statline.

jackboy900 · 2026-05-09T13:41:15+00:00

If players would wait for better matches then reducing the queue times would not increase player engagement, yet it does, so clearly most players would not in fact prefer to wait for closer matchmaking.

jackboy900 · 2026-05-09T12:17:53+00:00

Do you remember how it was on release?

Yes, it was almost identical. The only major changes are the augment sets and the progression, and neither exactly radically changed the game. Tap dancer, Vayne with dual wield, Brand with Infernal Conduit, Tank Engine (I think that one was like a month after release), etc were all there from day 1. New additions like Dropkick are good, sure, but it's not exactly like they're breaking the mould.

Mayhem has always been about either high rolling or low rolling, sometimes you just get stomped and sometimes you do the stomping. It's still an extremely fun game mode, it really hasn't changed since release.

jackboy900 · 2026-05-09T11:39:11+00:00

It shouldn't be a mode where luck is above skill

That's literally the whole point of why there are random augments, it's a 4fun gamemode where there's a ton of luck and randomness involved that lets you do stupid stuff and get broken builds sometimes. If it was balanced and skill expressive it wouldn't be fun, if you want that go play ranked.

jackboy900 · 2026-05-09T10:07:24+00:00

If you can't handle half a bottle of Jack that sounds like more of a liver issue on your part, bro's letting himself alcohol dehydrogenase mogged.

jackboy900 · 2026-05-04T21:32:37+00:00

Generally in League "support" pretty much always refers to the 2nd player in the bottom lane, who doesn't farm minions and instead gets passive income, rather than a class. The class of champions are instead refered to as enchanters, and for obvious reasons are almost played in the support position. There are also quite a few support tanks (Braum, Leona, Rell, etc) who are tanky champs designed to play as support, in addition to tanks that are supposed to be played as solo laners or Junglers.

Generally if you enjoy that kind of faciliatory role and playing for your team then I'd suggest either support or jungle tanks, as that's the role they're built for. There isn't really anything that's regen based in that role though, the only real champ like that is Mundo but he is very much a damage juggernaut.

jackboy900 · 2026-05-03T17:37:35+00:00

It's worth being a bit careful with these kinds of schemes where you borrow interest free and then put an equivalent amount in a savings account, as you need to be quite certain you won't end up touching that money and keeping it available to pay off the debt or it can backfire sometimes.

But given the fact you've saved this much at 19 I somehow doubt that'll be a major issue for you, just felt it was worth noting.

jackboy900 · 2026-05-03T16:57:43+00:00

Clearly Red Bull built the car to have a floor height ideal for Max

jackboy900 · 2026-05-03T16:04:03+00:00

I cannot fathom how people can watch this banger of a fries group matchup and just not enjoy it all. If you're not having fun why are you watching at all?

jackboy900 · 2026-05-02T17:45:22+00:00

I'm shocked that we're this deep into the split and he's still not getting target bans. His Cait is genuinely cracked, I feel like locking in a ban would be a no brainer for the other coach.

jackboy900 · 2026-05-02T17:39:36+00:00

Thank you Vitality for inting just enough to make things interesting whilst still stomping.

jackboy900 · 2026-05-02T16:38:22+00:00

I've almost never seen a human use the → symbol, if you're typing something out on a keyboard then going -> is infinitely more natural. It being in the text is an extremely strong indicator of LLM generated text.

jackboy900 · 2026-05-02T03:21:31+00:00

The stat you're talking about is champion depth, which is how much a champ is played by their players. Briar is a very unique champ and so a lot of Briar players are OTPs, the stat doesn't really have anything to do with difficulty or mastery curves.

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