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[–] agamemnonymous 1 points 3 hours ago

They're really only suitable for huge print farms and market spaces, and even still they require a decent proportion of virgin material. Still, it's not totally dead end.

[–] agamemnonymous 2 points 10 hours ago

I'm not even "afraid" of them, my body just does not like them one bit.

[–] agamemnonymous 1 points 22 hours ago

Maybe once a month, typically to try to compensate for a drastic sleep schedule shift.

[–] agamemnonymous 41 points 22 hours ago (3 children)

Real answer is probably that they'd be used in addition to trees, designed to fit in places unsuitable for a tree.

[–] agamemnonymous 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Even Trocken is still sweeter than I'd associate with a Sauvignon Blanc, and if they're just calling it "Riesling" it's probably a Spatlese or something.

[–] agamemnonymous 2 points 1 day ago (3 children)

They're at opposite sides of the sweetness spectrum, they should be distinguishable by sugar content alone.

[–] agamemnonymous 3 points 2 days ago

Which is why the whole "lesser evil is still evil" schtick bothered me so much. Like yeah, we know, Dems are evil. But Republicans are more evil, and the race was not close enough to entertain alternatives.

[–] agamemnonymous 4 points 2 days ago

Looks like a reference to Dungeon Meshi. Laios is a character who had an almost autistic-coded love of adventuring and eating monster meat, and wields a mimic sword.

[–] agamemnonymous 7 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

If there is a next time, I will absolutely say to vote lesser evil again. Without a workable alternative, that is the option. I still see no workable alternative. Longshot third parties with ~1% polling are not a workable alternative. Vague revolution composed of ~1% of the population is not a workable alternative. When you have a plan, with reasonable chances of success, we can talk.

[–] agamemnonymous 13 points 2 days ago

If you didn't vote for Harris, you accepted that allowing genocide and converting Gaza into a Trump resort was preferable to voting for slightly less genocide. The genocide has only gotten worse because Harris lost. Clownshow ethics.

[–] agamemnonymous 9 points 2 days ago

"B-b-but, muh Marxist dialectic materialism requires that I vote ideologically and totally disregard all dissident opinions"

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Spoilers - S07 E01 (self.blackmirror)
 

Wife insisted on watching an episode of the new season, and I'm just left... whelmed?

First, as a Netflix original series the "Oh, we added ads to your tier, but you can upgrade to ad-free" felt super hypocritical. Ads started playing on our previously ad-free subscription at the beginning of the episode, so thanks for reminding me I guess.

Secondly, I feel like the heart of Black Mirror is that [insert technological development here] is supposed to be the central conflict which causes problems. This episode was about people bad with money suffering because they're bad at money.

They could've downgraded to a smaller place, their house was huge. Welding has pretty significant upward mobility if you train a few particular skills. And they were trying for a baby? Their budget was way too tight for that.

Most importantly, how do you not game Lux? You can dial up Tennis, or Parkour, or Nonchalance, or Serenity. Surely you can dial up something that can earn you at least an extra $1000 a month to justify it. If you can't figure it out, just get a booster to dial up Intelligence or Strategy so you can figure out a plan, then dial up Programming or Art or whatever your megabrain thinks of to generate more income. It seemed like Lux was straight monthly, not load based. It shouldn't be that hard to leverage your subscription to not only cover the cost, but turn a profit.

In fact, I think the premise would have been way more interesting if it went in like a Limitless direction: she uses Lux to be wildly successful, both causing conflict with her normal husband and generating a class gap between ubermensch Lux users and the Common users who subsidize their success.

It just felt like the tech didn't really cause problems itself. I mean, a person that would've been dead or comatose can be alive for $800/mo, or superhuman for $1800/mo. The subscription model is scummy, but it can easily be gamed. The tech just felt like a bolted-on afterthought in a story about people budgeting poorly. That's not poignant commentary on the relationship between tech and modern life, it's just a depressing vignette about dum dummies being dumb.

 
 

I've got an appx 12' x 24' space between my single story house and tall metal barn garage. The roof of the house slopes toward the space.

I want to convert it into a greenhouse so I can grow veggies without having to chase off critters. Ideally I should be able to install gutters that drain to a rain barrel.

I'm hoping some of you fine folks have resources and recommendations for this kind of project.

 

Looks innocuous enough at first glance right? Let's zoom in on the problem:

These don't go together. If the semicircle on the left is correct, then this is showing moon phases, and the symbol on the right should be of a gibbous moon:

If the cookie-with-a-bite-taken-out in the right is correct, then this is showing an eclipse, and the symbol on the left should be of a 50% partial eclipse:

It drives me crazy every time I look at it.

 

I'm considering pulling the trigger on an X1C but the waste is a huge turn-off. I know there are options for purging to infill or a sacrificial object, but last I heard there's still a considerable amount of purge/prime. Can someone who's played with the settings tell me honestly how much progress has been made in reducing waste?

 

Still pretty new to local LLMs, and there's been a lot of development since I dipped my toe in. Suffice to say I'm fairly swamped and looking for guidance to the right model for my use

I want to feed the model sourcebooks, so I can ask it game mechanic questions and it will respond with reasonable accuracy (including page references). I tried this with privateGPT a month or two back, and it kinda worked but it was slow and wonky. It seems like things are a bit cleaner now

 

Let's kick off some activity here with a question:

How much crunch do you, personally, like in your games?

Ultra Lite? Lite? Basic Set? Every book you can get your hands on?

Light on combat, heavy on skills? Vice-versa? Light overall with some aspects way more fleshed-out? Heavy overall with some aspects way more simplified? Are there specific mechanics you like to take full advantage of? Mechanics you like to gloss over?

No wrong answers, let's just get some discussion going

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