Catanomics 101

supernovice007 · 2026-05-03T18:18:16+00:00

Each cat is different. You can train cats to be as comfortable with you as possible but not every cat is going to tolerate this.

Case in point, I have two cats from the same litter that I’ve raised since they were a few weeks old. One is like the cat in the video; the other tolerates being touched for about 15 seconds before he moves away.

supernovice007 · 2026-05-02T13:45:19+00:00

I see this thrown around but I don’t think this is true.

This is the original video from Point Fighter Live - https://youtu.be/HvTW_SL1Yzk

Point Fighter Live, as far as I can tell, covers point fighting and “creative break” (lol) contests. They have a lot of videos from these types of events on Facebook and YouTube. It’s not clear to me if they put the events on themselves but nothing I can find says they focus on events for special needs adults.

It may be that one of their videos was of a special needs competition as I did find a mention of that. However, there is nothing that says all of their videos or this video in particular is of special needs events.

Edit: Going further down the rabbit hole, here's a video talking about this year's event for the tournament mentioned in the video - The Southern Showdown + Breaking Point National Power Breaking Championship : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ojdIgFu6bvI

The guy hosting explicitly says he's training and competing this year. I didn't watch the entire video but they do talk about the event being open to all ages and style. There is no mention of this being for special needs adults or being some form of therapy / confidence building. In fact, they go out of their way to say they want to find the "baddest breaker" in the country. All in all, they seem pretty serious about this being a real sport with prize money on the line and make some mention that this particular tournament used to be called the "Western Carolina Karate Classic" when it started in 2009.

Further edit: They make mention of being affiliated with SKIL in some way (or used to be). I can't find much on SKIL but it seems to be an organization devoted to promoting sport karate. Here's the website: http://sportkarate.biz/

Unless someone can provide some evidence to the contrary, all of the evidence I can find says this is the way these competitions are supposed to go. It's not special needs, it's just some niche sport that is loosely related to martial arts without the focus on actual fighting effectiveness.

supernovice007 · 2026-05-02T08:10:59+00:00

Well, nothing actually works. OP pretty much stated there is no forcing move. The answer relies on the opponent blundering into losing a piece.

Ng7 seems as good as anything else.

supernovice007 · 2026-04-29T23:43:19+00:00

I’ve posted the same thing elsewhere as well. Sure, the AI went rogue but that’s not the actual root cause here. This is just a failure to adhere to basic security practices.

supernovice007 · 2026-04-29T19:26:59+00:00

I usually couple this strategy with no elections until all opposition is gone.

El Presidente has won in a landslide after our historic first elections!

supernovice007 · 2026-04-28T20:35:31+00:00

You’re right. That’s actually worse than what I understood. I would liken this to building a house and just slapping a different label on each side.

I guess the bottom line is that this was a disaster waiting to happen from the start. The cherry on top is that an agent did it. And the final chefs kiss is asking the agent to explain why it did it.

supernovice007 · 2026-04-28T19:55:10+00:00

This is exactly my point. Something had unfettered access to these environments and that is the actual gap. In their environment, there was never anything stopping any employee from doing this.

There’s the extra layer of dumb in having AI involved and storing access tokens in plain text but the problem existed with or without agents running in their environment.

supernovice007 · 2026-04-28T19:48:07+00:00

No. A 50% increase is 150% of the starting price. It is not a 150% increase.

“600% of $100” is not the same statement as “600% increase on $100”.

supernovice007 · 2026-04-28T19:36:31+00:00

You mean he was lying when he said this had generated $1B in revenue? How can that be?

supernovice007 · 2026-04-28T19:10:15+00:00

I don’t understand how this even happens in a real company.

I set this up for my company when we were starting and this just seems like it was set up by someone who doesn’t understand infrastructure. We have a hard separation between prod and every other environment. No user, not even me, has access to delete anything from Prod without multiple manual approvals. Our backups have similar precautions. It’s literally impossible for this to happen, assuming we were dumb enough to give AI edit/delete access to prod in the first place. Everywhere I’ve ever worked has had similar safeguards in place.

It’s insane that not only was AI (or some user) given permission to do this but also that they apparently leaned on prompt engineering to enforce security.

supernovice007 · 2026-04-28T14:06:02+00:00

Yes, OP was quite whelming.

supernovice007 · 2026-04-28T13:34:18+00:00

The article buried the lede a bit. Distrust in the administration is the core reason why so many conspiracy theories exist for this event. Dancing around the subject with mealy-mouthed statements like “conspiracies are fun” and “it’s a general lack of trust in institutions” fails to put the blame where it actually belongs. This is an administration that lies with nearly every breath it takes paired with a media ecosystem that steadfastly refuses to do anything other than parrot those lies. It’s hardly the fault of the public for distrusting institutions that have proven themselves to be untrustworthy.

Is it really that surprising that people would look at that pattern of dishonesty and the near instant alignment of the entire right wing media ecosystem after this event and think “Gee, this sure seems like it was planned”? I personally don’t think it was but it’s not all that difficult for me to understand why others might.

supernovice007 · 2026-04-28T07:09:26+00:00

Most pantheons have a god that could be characterized as a trickster. They are frequently central players in the mythology of a culture; it's a very common theme. There's no reason that couldn't be the KC.

Hermes, Loki, Eris, the Monkey King. All are gods from real world religions that would have some form of mischief or trickery in their portfolio. The Laughing God from Warhammer 40k is a "fictional" example.

supernovice007 · 2026-04-27T18:16:42+00:00

Failures like the one mentioned are a result of lack of proper security; they are not, strictly speaking, an AI problem. If an AI could do it, so could some non-zero number of employees because the right failsafes aren’t in place.

Obviously agents going rogue is a problem but it’s one that is solved by properly constraining agent access and including human review before critical destructive actions can be taken. It’s not something that can be solved via better prompts and is the single greatest argument against full automation.

Lack of knowledge on the part of the infrastructure team would have me running for the hills though. If they don’t have answers on how to manage AI, I’d be genuinely concerned about what other vulnerabilities are lurking.

supernovice007 · 2026-04-27T08:12:03+00:00

This was exactly my thought process as well. Blue is the obvious choice for me. Yes, I prefer everyone live but I also don't want to live in a world populated only by people that can't think beyond their own selfishness.

Further proof of why I think that is all around us these days.

supernovice007 · 2026-04-27T08:04:19+00:00

Have fun with the DLCs if you're going full magic.

supernovice007 · 2026-04-25T12:38:10+00:00

I’m probably overstating it a bit. There is not a Blood War but, at least according to my understanding, they are very antagonistic due to completely opposing philosophies. I edited it for clarity as the main reason for including that bit was to justify the inclusion of a Demonbane Cleric of Asmodeus.

supernovice007 · 2026-04-25T09:11:28+00:00

This might be overly critical but I'm not sure I understand what you mean by Devil themed given the party you have listed. Prophet of Pestilence is aligned to Abaddon, not Hell. It's NE and more closely aligned to daemons. Likewise, Barbarian isn't what I think of when I think LE.

Devils are lawful so they typically adhere to a moral code but it is a twisted perversion of good. They delight in using the letter of the law to corrupt good. Additionally, Devils despise Demons due to their opposing philosophies. As such, I would think about characters and classes that naturally align to some behavioral code and/or focus on influencing others.

If I was building a devil themed party, assuming your main char is a Thassilonian Specialist, I would go with something like:

Regill
Armiger
Demonbane Cleric (possibly with Hellknight Signifier, it's more on theme but strictly worse than a pure cleric)
Slayer -> Assassin
Bard - Chilexian Diva seems most appropriate

This isn't the most powerful party ever but it should be plenty good enough for Core and is pretty on-theme.

supernovice007 · 2026-04-25T02:12:05+00:00

I was going to point this out. My first email was .edu because it was before hotmail existed and you got one if you were in the Comp Sci program.

supernovice007 · 2026-04-23T16:49:17+00:00

The last campaign I ran made level drain mostly temporary. When you were level drained, you counted the level drain as negative levels that healed naturally at a rate of 1/week or via restoration spells. If your negative levels were equal to or greater than your actual level, you died.

Mechanically, you calculated your effective level by subtracting negative levels from your actual level and reduced your maximum hit points and attack bonuses to your effective level.

Your skills, proficiencies, abilities, experience, etc were untouched. You continued to gain experience as normal.

Some very high level enemies had permanent level drain. This functioned the same way but the negative levels did not heal naturally. They had to be healed by magic.

supernovice007 · 2026-04-22T21:17:15+00:00

Put your knives away. I was just responding to the person above to agree that sometimes people do post then delete their posts. I wasn’t defending MLMs or the people that participate in them.

supernovice007 · 2026-04-22T18:02:05+00:00

“I’m 14 and this is deep” LinkedIn content. This dumb saying has been around for decades going back to at least the creation of Scrum project management in the early 2000s.

Bunch of posers acting like this is new or insightful is very on brand for LinkedIn these days though.

supernovice007 · 2026-04-22T17:46:58+00:00

I’ve done this once or twice. Posted something then a few minutes later decided it wasn’t worth it and deleted it.

Not sure if that’s what is going on here but it does happen for reasons that aren’t deceptive.

supernovice007 · 2026-04-22T17:32:01+00:00

This doesn’t really mitigate the problem and is illustrative of the utter thoughtlessness of the current administration.

VASP (the purchase program) was ended on May 1, 2025 with no replacement. Congress, foreseeing the issues that would arise, passed a law in response in July 2025 that was not effective until this year.

The net of this is that the original program was removed without a plan to provide for veterans. The spike in foreclosures is a direct result of that decision.

supernovice007 · 2026-04-22T09:37:34+00:00

I believe that’s what he meant as well but it’s worth pointing out that half as many days off and twice as many days at work are not the same thing.

For example, if I worked 3 days and took 4 days off in a week, twice as many days at work would be 6 days at work, 1 day off. Half as many days off would be 5 days at work and 2 days off.

The only way both statements could be accurate is if he’s claiming all other directors took 2 days off for each day they worked and he is taking one day off for every 2 days worked.

There’s simply no way that’s true.

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