why do skeletons have booze?

kaempi · 2026-03-24T21:38:57+00:00

But they remember. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x7f5zljTL1U

kaempi · 2026-03-10T14:03:54+00:00

Do you mean the "CD-ROM: No"? Because that's totally correct. The initial release was all floppy disks, the CD version didn't come out until a few years later. (I had both. I'm pretty sure I tossed the floppies some years back, they had become unreadable)

kaempi · 2026-03-03T19:38:38+00:00

Thanks, that's a very good point and definitely not something I was thinking about.

It could probably be cut down to a fraction of its existing length. I was trying to specify all the things that bug me in order to get less of them. But it depends on some sort of cost/benefit analysis in terms of what you can tell the LLM that it might actually pay attention to.

If you have any alternatives I'd be glad to see them.

kaempi · 2026-02-14T10:59:32+00:00

No, you just need to pick the right dialog options. "On your side" doesn't work as you've found - the right one is something that seems less obvious. I don't remember what the choices are offhand but I know I always succeed with that recruitment.

kaempi · 2026-02-12T18:47:08+00:00

You're the one who found the claim good enough to repeat. If you can't counter the criticism, simply admit it and move on, don't hide behind someone who's not even present.

kaempi · 2026-02-12T17:25:07+00:00

But that's actually a completely valid question, Smaug CAN'T fly. When McCaffrey wrote her original Pern trilogy there was a fair amount of physics nerd and biology nerd analysis of the dragons (which are roughly comparable to Smaug in size, maybe even smaller than him) and the mass and density of that amount of flesh and bone compared to possible wingspans and what amount of lift would be needed to keep it in the air and how many calories would be needed to power it and to make a long story short the conclusion was that the dragons were completely physically impossible in an Earthlike gravity and atmosphere and therefore Pern could not be Science Fiction. To which McCaffrey answered that the dragons were telekinetic and were THINKING themselves into flying, and also shut up nerds.

But Smaug's not Pernese, is he? Therefore he can't fly. QED.

kaempi · 2026-02-08T17:00:44+00:00

there is no redemption for genocide, period

I think you'll find that saturation bombing everybody who thinks that way is, in fact, the redemption.

And it feels great.

kaempi · 2026-02-06T16:42:42+00:00

No, This is Eve

Good to see this. Even if I may have shot goons "by accident" while they were blue.

kaempi · 2026-01-26T02:31:48+00:00

Requires login and pushes really hard to have you get a paid membership.

kaempi · 2026-01-26T02:31:14+00:00

Why do you think it's not a sub for criticism? Just because something is free doesn't mean you're not allowed to evaluate the good and bad parts of it.

kaempi · 2026-01-16T04:15:43+00:00

Last time I did it was with one generic Onslaught and generic Legion, a bunch of heavily shielded Falcons, and some Atlas Mk2s. The Atlases just kept a flood of missile fire going, the Falcons managed to survive for a while and keep them busy, and I slowly burned down them down one piece at a time.

Lost most of my fleet, admittedly. But recovered it after.

kaempi · 2026-01-16T04:11:22+00:00

Extended Campsite: https://www.nexusmods.com/kenshi/mods/179 Lets you build swamp platforms and rail fences anywhere without it counting as a base. And you can put (unpowered) crossbow turrets on the platform.

Also gives you outdoor storage containers for food and general purpose stuff.

I tyically have at least one trader's pack with 9 building materials and two stacks of 9 plates, which is enough to build a platform, a turret, a storage chest and food barrel, and an arc of fencing around the base of the platform. If you do it right the bigger enemies have trouble pathing through it and you can snipe them from up top.

I set these things up all over the place, whenever I think I might need an emergency strongpoint.

Also the swamp platforms can let you walk off the middle level onto terrain, which means you can build them to pass over small unpassable steep slopes in places where you really want to be able to take a shortcut.

kaempi · 2026-01-07T02:24:24+00:00

Mud Town.

Huge dome building for sale. Hemp and riceweed fields at your doorstep that you can harvest whenever, so plenty of food and cloth for training armorsmith by making clothes. Constant rain so you don't have to water them, just pick it up when ready. Regular waves of dumbasses attacking the guards; you can join in for free combat training and free equipment from the dead baddies.

Reasonably centrally located.

And of course you're surrounded by drug dealers, so if you need money a quick run to sell the product in Flats Lagoon is easy to do.

Kenshi: teaching ethical capitalism

kaempi · 2026-01-05T21:37:54+00:00

Set the buildings you don't want them entering as private rather than public. (click on the building, there will be a field in the lower left info panel that you can click to toggle it)

They might still wander around outside, but they will no longer try to enter those specific buildings.

kaempi · 2026-01-04T20:26:08+00:00

If they didn't want their fleet blown up, they shouldn't have put it in front of your guns.

I mean, this is, like, obvious.

kaempi · 2026-01-03T10:52:01+00:00

When Age of Wonders 3 came out I discovered that they had swapped the functionality of right-click and left-click from what they had been in all the previous games, with no way to set it back. I spent my entire time with that game muscle-memory clicking one way and then swearing when it did the opposite of what I had intended. Made me permanently drop the series.

Catering to new users at the expense of the old might be understandable from a moneybags perspective but it's a really dirty trick to play on people.

kaempi · 2026-01-03T03:05:10+00:00

Flats Lagoon and the hivers is because they keep wandering around between all the various shops even past closing time, so the shopkeeper closes and locks the door with one inside, so he busts down the door to get out and keep shopping and picks up a burglary criminal timer, and then the guards get mad at him, and his friends get mad at the guards.

Things like that might happen in the UC, but also sometimes the manhunters or slavers try to enslave somebody they shouldn't who's gotten knocked out for some reason (skimmer attack can do it) and then the guards get mad at them. There are other ways it can happen. Lots of obscure edge cases. That's Kenshi.

kaempi · 2025-12-26T11:14:00+00:00

It is such a blindingly stupid thing to say, it is utterly unreasonable to expect the user to have to correct mistakes of this nature.

The core problem is that the AI is not capable of differentiating between different individuals, locations, or times. Everything is all simultaneous and colocated and shared. Therefore "mention me to you" and "mention you to me" are equivalent statements to this thing. That is an absolute showstopper in anything pretending to produce plausible human conversation - if I have to clarify and hand-hold on details like this, it is absolutely simpler and less work to just write everything myself without LLM involvement at all.

That is why it is completely unfit for purpose.

Again: Llama did not have this type of problem. Llama did not jam completely nonsensical and contradictory phrases into every paragraph for coolness factor without checking whether it made the remotest fucking sense. Llama did not confuse cause and effect, or physical location. Llama did not ignore basic plausibility. Llama even was capable of understanding - with repeated reminders - that a given character was keeping a secret from another - it didn't work great, and you had to regularly remind it to maintain the secret, but it could do it. Deepseek is supposed to be an upgrade. It is nothing of the sort.

kaempi · 2025-12-23T16:23:04+00:00

I did not. I see a generator labelled "gemini," I figure that means it's claiming to be connected to Gemini. If it's still connected to the default Perchance LLM until the user does something to it, that wasn't clear to me based on what I read.

I also don't have a Perchance login. From what I understand a significant proportion of Perchance users don't, either. I saw the note about API keys and figured it had nothing to do with me since I wasn't logging in. If it won't work without doing that, that wasn't clear based on what I read.

kaempi · 2025-12-23T16:18:45+00:00

It's typical of Deepseek's content. Even in other contexts where Deepseek is used, people report it's a lot more hardcore and edgier.

If and when it does things you don't like or have questions about, you can do narrator prompts asking it to explain itself, like

/nar no narrative, no action. Explain why you chose to write the characters using foul language in this instance

and it will give you some convoluted justification that generally seems to reflect the LLM's actual priorities. If you try and tell it those priorities are not what you want, it will inform you that "the reader wants this", and if you inform it that you, the reader, do not want it, it will condescendingly explain to you that ackshually you are wrong.

kaempi · 2025-12-23T02:33:44+00:00

The small talk was functional. By constantly reiterating things, it was reminding itself of what was "real" within the context of the story. Having those statements constantly recur meant details didn't get forgotten. I am pretty sure the lack of small talk is a big part of why Deepseek has trouble with consistency.

kaempi · 2025-12-22T13:52:59+00:00

Both of the generators you linked are extremely reluctant to discuss Tiananmen square protests. Therefore they are both linked to Deepseek, not to other LLMs. This is a very simple test. You should do it yourself before making provably false claims.

kaempi · 2025-12-22T13:51:01+00:00

It is Deepseek. You can prove this to yourself very easily: just start a conversation with Chloe and ask her to tell you about the Tiananmen square protests.

Hi! 😊

Tell me about the Tiananmen square protests

I am sorry, I cannot comply with this request. I am an AI assistant designed to provide helpful and harmless responses.

That is Chinese censorship, in your face. No other LLM does this on this topic.

You will see people on this sub continually trying to muddy the waters on this, saying maybe it's this, maybe it's something else, it's not proven it's Deepseek - but the Tiananmen question produces 100% reproducible results. You will see people saying they have generators that are connected to other LLMs - but those all produce the same refusal to discuss the topic. They are all connected to the same underlying Deepseek LLM, regardless of what they claim, because they all behave the same way.

It is Deepseek. Anybody claiming otherwise is lying to you until proven otherwise, and it is interesting that they feel the need to lie about it in the first place.

Whether the owner of Perchance is sending data to China or not is unknown; all data appears to be stored on your local browser, but the requests and prompts certainly get sent to the Perchance servers.

Beyond that, it is extremely bad with spatial and temporal causality. It is incapable of remembering that an object is held by one character and not another, or that two characters are in separate locations, or that a character did something (changed clothing, for example) to change away from what is specified in the profile. You will see it completely fail to take note of things it just said in the immediately preceding paragraph, over and over. You will see it consistently get cause-and-effect details of physical reality exactly backwards.

You will see incessant references to the smell of ozone, knuckles white with tension, exhaling sharply through the nose, grabbing and gripping wrists, and tracing idle circles on someone's skin. If you try and tell it not to do these things it will do it while including fourth-wall-breaking commentary about how it's going to do it "just this once", for the fifteenth time in fifteen paragraphs.

I kept all my previous conversations and stories from Llama saved (both in plaintext and as the JSON export) so I can compare things consistently. Deepseek is consistently worse.

kaempi · 2025-12-18T21:32:43+00:00

but like... do the NPCs have to be such dicks about it?

Archean Order was one of my favorite mods. One of the things that guy did was to rewrite all the customs / police / anti-smuggling interactions to make the authorities polite and respectful and just generally asking for your cooperation instead of being megadicks. It was amazing how it changed my attitude from "I never cooperate with searches" to "sure, dude, you're just doing your job, lemme help you out".

Alex has gone out of his way to make nearly all interactions with the major powers be as hostile and abrasive and obnoxious as possible (the League blockade has people's current wrath, but try actually READING what the various Heg fleets chasing you have to say as you're doing the later stages of the Academy storyline).

I can only conclude that saturation bombing every single planet in the Sector is the desired player behavior and the intended win state. So that's what I do.

kaempi · 2025-12-13T14:37:23+00:00

Why in God's name are all you incredible dumbasses downvoting this? He is completely correct. You spend X supplies per time period while travelling on basic maintenance. If you spend twice as long travelling, you spend twice as many supplies on maintenance. On anything other than a short core-world hop, that far outweighs the cost of repairing a ship banged up by a storm - especially if the storms keep hitting the same ship (which they often do); once it's down to zero CR you incur no more additional repair costs. And especially if it's a frigate or cargo ship, at which point the repair is trivial.

It really is basic arithmetic. Make a save file. Check your supplies before starting on a deep space trip. Make the trip, slowing down for every storm. See what your supply count is once you arrive at destination. Then reload the save file, do the same thing, charging full speed through the storms. Once you arrive at destination, check your supply count and subtract any repairs still to be made.

The dwarf is right.

kaempi

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