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I think the biggest issue to deal with this would be getting player mastery/skills up in the right way without accidentally invalidating or rendering useless the knowledge they’ve gained thus far. So something like a challenge mode or a roguelike/lite structure would be the best fit imo
Sounds kind of like this game store.steampowered.com/app/2535950/... it’s by the Crying Suns devs, though I don’t think it’s fully “start with everything but bleeding down to nothing”
This just released. CRAB.
this one is an easy shot to take, i think youtu.be/tg51rOJS7n8?...
People are hating us more and more, folks, many are saying that we are perhaps the most hated ever. Strong men come up to me with tears in their eyes and say sir, they tell me sir, I fucking hate you
I'm a direct descendant of Myles Standish, and therefore the Platonic ideal of a "heritage American." So I feel comfortable saying to my fellow heritage Americans: Fuck off. Your ancestors were immigrants. The only "heritage Americans" who might be able to claim otherwise are Native Americans.
me, poking at the second trump presidency: "want to see a (soon to be) dead body?" youtu.be/ozvWGx_Re9A
they're not going to do this and don't need it, but as the white house's politics advisor, i am going to loudly insist that they keep repeating it
I think this paradoxically assumes a level of basic competence not present. More likely Leavitt has no idea and is just bullshitting.
But that was my point! He has plausible deniability but the statement carried the premise bsky.app/profile/talk... he could’ve very easily phrased it to keep it out of the binary realm and he chose not to.
This isn’t ‘binary thinking’ this is “don’t piss in my face and tell me it’s raining”. And frankly neither of you have given a single reason to think otherwise.
The ideas on display are just fascinating, I’m really curious to see how it continues to develop
Yeah, we really don’t have a solid understanding, just that we know it’s a thing.
*the thing you want to deny because it undermines your whole point. Yes.
Witchfire is really *Really* good! If you bounced off of Hunt or EFT, this one might actually do it for you!
Also, PSA: The entire classic Marathon trilogy is on Steam now, remastered, free, with integrated Workshop support and MANY full-game-length campaigns.
Apotheosis X is the most 'modern', but also:
Istoria
Phoenix
Rubicon X
Tempus Irae Redux
Eternal X
RED
Like Marathon? You've got OPTIONS, baby.
Circling back on this thought:
If you like nu-Marathon's aesthetics, you've got Cicadamata.
If you like old Marathon's combat & prose, you've got Supplice and Marathon mods like Apotheosis X. (SO GOOD)
But if you like the GAMEPLAY of nu-Marathon, this is the closest thing in single-player format.
You are familiar with the concept of unspoken premises, right? I’m not going to ignore dripping subtext especially in the context of a gotcha question.
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That’s a steelman of his position though. He wasn’t going “maybe idk”, he was making a much more aggressive assertion.
Well, we can revise that once the demons accidentally crack our brain jars
Yeah, so it seems weird to make a positive case for AI consciousness in that context. I’m not sure how this is not a good faith argument?
I can get that. I personally find it a useful shorthand for an LLM producing something delusionally false but that’s a fair position.
Absolutely the fuck not, we are not doing the “trump is sucking off bibi so clearly he loves Jews” thing here. The GOP has openly praised fucking hitler, it’s insane to claim they aren’t antisemitic.
How can you claim something has consciousness when we have no idea how it works? We know humans do have it but we don’t know why so we can’t really extrapolate that far.
I want to see the meltdown Dort has at someone posting “Nurse Dort” (his pfp with a badly edited-on candy striper uniform) at him
Indeed, which I think merited a response like Ed’s. However, Ed has an ulterior motive and is also just a prick in general so I think the both of them can piss up a rope.
