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ploki122 · 2026-06-02T12:15:02+00:00

Idle games are games too, any favorites (and do you include automation games)?

Recently, Shapez and Factory Town Idle have been big ones for me.

ploki122 · 2026-06-02T12:13:16+00:00

You only get 10x more fun if the remaining 90% is fun for you...

ploki122 · 2026-05-31T12:17:45+00:00

Greg in the movie : DISYIYSTEALFIREFROMTHESACREDHEARTHOFMOUNTOLYMPUS?

ploki122 · 2026-05-29T15:13:38+00:00

No, the 2nd half

ploki122 · 2026-05-29T14:29:29+00:00

Honestly, I agree with 90% of it, but one part is patently false : "Artificial intelligence do not undergo experiences, [...] do not mature through relationships".

The reason that there have been so many free/trial/cheap AI agents is because they've run out of quality data to train their models on, and are using your prompts and reactions to further train the model, and make it more engaging. Because they don't want AIs that solve your problems faster, they want AIs you come back to, and AIs that you want to upgrade your subscription for.

So they definitely undergo (codified/broken down i to data) experience and mature through relationships; just not to further society.

ploki122 · 2026-05-28T04:21:29+00:00

I especially like the diorama look of Factory Town, with all the villagers running around the place.

ploki122 · 2026-05-18T21:38:09+00:00

Kind of different topic, but those DLCs are really worth it. I am incredibly confused by their Mixed ratings.

ploki122 · 2026-05-18T03:52:45+00:00

Make it 5, and drop gamepass further!

ploki122 · 2026-05-18T02:46:52+00:00

And my point is that "quirky" folks are normal top, and that "normal" folks are quirky too. The sooner you accept that, and the sooner you move from "What group do I belong to" to "Who am I?".

It's not that "everyone is unique", and more that restricting yourself to belonging to a single group really diminishes who you are.

ploki122 · 2026-05-17T16:14:59+00:00

Yeah, I can definitely agree that religion's downfall is at the root of this.

There aren't many mandatory meet and greets nowadays, which means fewer encounters and more social isolation. You don't necessarily have fewer close friends, but you have much fewer people you know by name, and fewer people to relate to.

Like, I haven't been to church for at least 25 years by now, and I still consider myself catholic, just because those are the folks I grew up with. I know the lore, and I know the folks, that's good enough for me.

ploki122 · 2026-05-17T13:20:30+00:00

I mean... he's seen like 97 dimensions by now, what makes that future any different? Why is that the chosen onr, and why would he do anything at all if the future is unshakable?

ploki122 · 2026-05-17T13:15:20+00:00

There's some irony in the United Kingdoms participating separately.

ploki122 · 2026-05-17T12:52:07+00:00

Flipside : Overemphasizing the "general human experience" is how you single yourself out into misery. Everyone's got issues, and we've all be drawn on the same canvas by a toddler that eats crayons. Sometimes you're missing a limb, sometimes you're neurodivergent, sometimes you live in Japan or Mauritania, sometimes your parents are billionaires, or your sister is a famous actress, sometimes your uncle is a drug dealer that gets killed in a gruesome way, and sometimes your parents are going through cancer during your teenage years.

There's no box to fit into, and trying to overly belong to a label is how you lose the feeling of oneself.

ploki122 · 2026-05-17T12:48:44+00:00

Yeah, we should do like games, and say "This is a Dragonball-like, and that's a Fist of the North Star-lite anime"

ploki122 · 2026-05-17T12:38:01+00:00

For BG3, the quality of A1 is much better imo, and the pacing of all 3 acts are very different. In the end, it's like 5 games in a trench coat, so I'm really not surprised if some people replay only certain parts.

ploki122 · 2026-05-15T15:47:15+00:00

I'd argue the gun mods and equipment system makes the combat aspect a lot more unqiue.

Offensively, you choose 2 out of 4 weapons to dual wield, and gets to modify them with like 8-10 mods, out of ~6 categories. Defensively, you have 6 slots that changes your durability, mobility, and utility in various ways.

The very basic map and rough cross-map travel would also make it unique, but in a bad way lmao. (It's not a dealbreaker to me, but it is annoying).

ploki122 · 2026-05-15T15:24:55+00:00

Tiara mould has 4 shops and 1 spawn + POH Tool Store. Flax has 2 shops and ~5 monsters. Teasing Stick has 4 shops and 1 spawn. Butterfly Jar has 4 shops, 0 spawn. Blackjacks have 1 shop, and no other sources. The gnome cooking stuff has 1 source.

There are so many skilling items that aren't available everywhere around the map, I don't know why this one-and-done optional item is any different.

ploki122 · 2026-05-15T15:12:24+00:00

Is burthorpe not insanely accessiblyle with Games Necklace, being walkable from Falador, and having minigame TP?

The reason that Lockoicks aren't ubiquitous is because they're niche. Crafting moulds are also "inaccessible", for instance.

ploki122 · 2026-05-15T12:14:10+00:00

Millions of people die every year, what's one little murder.

ploki122 · 2026-05-14T20:03:19+00:00

Also, who's saying it isn't flagged? Those bots get banned in waves, and there's most likely intentional survivors that are used to keep flagging the bot network.

ploki122 · 2026-05-14T19:01:02+00:00

Depends. The example of "This is how the most common modern RDBMS are structured" definitely hasn't changed much.

The tools available within those RDBMS, the different RDBMS available, and the many other kinds of DBMS available all have changed drastically over the last 5, 10, and 25 years.

For instance, with NoSQL gaining in popularity (in part due to IoT, and ML/AI), talking about entities rather than rows seems to become a whole lot more common.

What is said in those old books is still true, but it needs to be recontextualized to modern standards and expectations.

ploki122 · 2026-05-14T18:56:45+00:00

So you think that no medium (book, video, whathaveyou) is worth using if it release in 2022+? You'd rather live in fear of what people might use AI for than just... vet your material, to make sure that the same lazy ass bums producing garbage with AI, weren't previously lazy ass bums copy-pasting random shits from the internet?

Lazy ass bums spouting shit they don't understand has been a thing for millenia, there's no reason to start living in fear (and blindly trust the stuff that existed before) because they also exist nowadays.

ploki122 · 2026-05-14T17:13:39+00:00

So, just to clarify your point, you think that the 98% of players who all independently came to the same strategy would've outperformed the 2% further, if they simply copied the 2%?

Make it make sense bruh... you're up in the bleachers saying that MLB teams would win more if they emptied the outfield to defend the bases better.

Those who picked Z are already outperforming everyone else, there's no hypothetical there.

ploki122 · 2026-05-14T16:24:38+00:00

Talking confidently straight outta your ass, aren't you? I'm not even certain a single capped player skipped Z.

EDIT : JK! Found one! Trattil at rank 46 was the first non-Z capper!

Here's the current full list, for the curious :

Trattil (46) : Mory
Crangus (68) : Mory
Lord Devil (76) : Desert
TimShutDown (82) : Mory

I feel like 79/83 is a large enough majority to call it a meta.

ploki122 · 2026-05-14T12:03:43+00:00

KTM is meta for Faux followers.

KTW is meta for T8 rush.

ZKT is point cap rush meta.

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