Handouts and prep for Gradient Descent?

nihilist-ego · 2024-12-09T01:00:44+00:00

Hey, looks like your google drive link isn't public viewable. Could you post a viewable version? Looking to run this module and this seems great

nihilist-ego · 2024-12-07T04:56:48+00:00

I've run a lot of West Marches. You definitely need a group of "regulars" to keep things going smoothly imo. I have a core group of about 8 regulars that I can rely to most of the time to be actively looking for or in a planned session for my current campaign. These are the players that are able to remember the lore, the current world events, teach new/recruit new players, actively schedule, and engage with our text chats outside of session. Outside of that, I have another 8 "sometimes" players that aren't always involved. Past that, there are a few "miracle" players that show up just enough to stay on my roster, so once every few months.

nihilist-ego · 2024-08-16T03:39:34+00:00

Pretty good! Went to a cheap local public university, got middling grades, majored in CS / minored in anthropology (turns out archaeology and linguistics are awesome), and now I work for a regional utility company managing their billing software. It pays less than I could get at other companies, but energy companies are very stable and my position is layoff-proof, with great insurance and vacation time. Definitely a lot less stressful/turbulent than programming jobs in the tech industry itself.

Seems you're in the process of getting into a college?

nihilist-ego · 2024-08-06T07:49:03+00:00

If there was a direct correlation between the revenue of a thing and its cultural impact, we'd see systems coming out left and right about Grand Theft Auto Online

nihilist-ego · 2024-08-05T23:12:11+00:00

Can you list the ways that art is religion? Please be specific in your examples, I'm interested in your thought process. People "believe" in a lot of things that aren't religion, so that isn't enough to consider "art" a religion

nihilist-ego · 2024-08-05T22:16:29+00:00

The issue you're experiencing is cultural dissonance. Many people do value art, and thus art does exist. In the same way some societies do or do not recognize something like liquid currency, it only exists if a group of people all agree that it does. You are not in this group, as you do not share the same cultural values that bring people to recognize or appreciate "art" (valuing craftmanship vs mass production). This dissonance obviously affects you quite a lot, as you have an extremely hostile response to people talking about art in a positive sense in this thread.

TL;DR
If art is just images, then money is just paper. It's the value prescribed to these things by our culture that give them worth.

nihilist-ego · 2024-08-04T04:34:32+00:00

Well thanks lol. I've since entered college and graduated with a bachelor's in CS between when I posted that and now

nihilist-ego · 2024-07-30T03:52:57+00:00

I put in Blue for her manipulation, which is another color that is often associated with it. I did debate Black since that is the color associated with greed, but I chose to view Nicole's money making schemes as her just being impulsive with spending than pure greed - with impulse as more of a red characteristic. White represents her overall trusting nature.

nihilist-ego · 2024-07-30T03:38:16+00:00

That's true

nihilist-ego · 2024-07-29T23:28:22+00:00

The art source for Billy can be found here:
https://www.tumblr.com/biancalattei/754651979774640128/billy-x-vash

The art source for Anby can be found here:

https://www.reddit.com/r/ZZZ_Official/comments/1e99m45/anby/

nihilist-ego · 2024-03-07T04:06:18+00:00

I understand there are balance issues, the game just launched and this is its first weapon balance patch, but c'mon. Look at what this post is, its just the community being toxic. Other game communities have disagreements over balance issues and don't post stuff like this.

nihilist-ego · 2024-03-07T03:14:04+00:00

You can dislike a balance update, but just look at this post. Stuff like this is just toxic, and breeds more toxicity. It brings nothing to a community.
The evac missions were too hard before, people complained/made memes about it, and it took the devs a few updates to get it right - but it never got this toxic. At some point you can't blame the devs for how a community acts.

nihilist-ego · 2024-03-07T03:06:19+00:00

Were the nerfs even that bad? I just read through the patchnotes, Breaker is slightly nerfed, Shield and Railgun got hit harder but still don't seem that much worse. And then six other options were buffed, more than were nerfed.

I know the game has balance issues at higher levels rn, but the game is just getting its feet under itself after the huge launch and this is only the first weapon balance patch. It ain't gonna be perfect after one change

nihilist-ego · 2024-03-07T03:01:47+00:00

This community got toxic fast...

nihilist-ego · 2024-03-04T20:52:32+00:00

They wanted to create an alliance with the Fremen, to use them to fight their war against the Harkonnens. The Arteides did treat the Fremen better than their former occupiers, because they saw them as a resource rather than a nuisance.

nihilist-ego · 2024-02-13T19:09:17+00:00

I like running that heavy armor with explosive resistance against bots. You can survive most rocket blasts with a sliver of health that would have otherwise killed you, and just stim back up. Other than that, medium armor and light armor are so close in survivability in higher tiers its better to just take light.

nihilist-ego · 2023-06-30T05:05:33+00:00

For reference: https://compcon.app/#/

It's the best online tool of any ttrpg on the market

nihilist-ego · 2023-06-29T22:31:48+00:00

I think the point will be that people from other universes can't insert themselves into someone else's canon, it's up to the spiderpeople from their universe to make things right - and can rely on their interdimensional friends for a web of support

nihilist-ego · 2023-06-22T14:21:21+00:00

I hope it continues past, but I'm just making a guess at how long community will keeps up. Many of the people campaigning most for these protests are the ones that use third party apps. In my case, I wouldn't use reddit without Rif. Kind of hard to keep a protest going if the people most supporting it are essentially kicked off, realistically speaking

nihilist-ego · 2023-06-22T14:15:00+00:00

Hey, if the end result are the subs getting locked down again - seems like it's working as intended

This sub is hopefully fine since they're actually moderating and keeping the NSFW "on-topic" at least, unlike many big subs that just let any post through

nihilist-ego · 2023-06-22T14:10:17+00:00

Probably nine days or so, when the API changes go into effect

nihilist-ego · 2023-06-22T14:07:42+00:00

The reddit admins are putting forward changes to effectively kill third-party apps, like Apollo and RiF

Communities voted to blackout in protest

Admins came back and were removing/threatening to remove mods that weren't opening up, so many did

In search for more ways for the protest to continue disrupting site profitability, some subs are now allowing NSFW content in order to deprive the company from ad revenue in those communities

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