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I spilled a lot of (virtual) ink discussing how this is these companies laundering spyware in the guise of responsible behavior. Don't buy it for a second.

Realized I hadn't seen this yet. Seems important to the discussion on OpenAI and Copilot+ Recall at the moment.

If adding a single earring in FFXIV to my character there can cause me to rethink how it complements an entire look for like, a day, I can probably do a bit better with incrementally improving my Unity projects.

The temptation has been there to do super ostentatious edits and start over from scratch, but nah. Need to value keeping things current and making small adjustments over time.

This is weirdly informed by just adding stuff to my character in FFXIV. I've been whittling on the same character look for over 10y, so why not single avatars too.

Doing minor adjustments on an older avatar project ahead of Furality.

Decided instead of doing a whole new model, I'd revisit with a blendshape similar to what folks modding avatar bases do. Added a bit more volume and fixed some of the flatness of the original version.

@troodon
1. UBI is unequivocally needed in the US. Every study run shows it.
2. Blocking UBI and its studies is clearly a decision by capital to keep labor scared. Especially with their current obsession to try to convert knowledge workers back into peasants in a resource extraction and fasc economy, it goes hand in hand with Dobbs, trying to kill ACA, and looting all safety nets.
3. Hope to see tax from billionaires/millionaires moved to UBI, healthcare, and reversing Dobbs in my lifetime. Hell of a fight to get there, but very much needed.

@CoyoteTraveller Wildermyth is great! Also now "complete" according to the developer, who just wrapped up with Omenroad.

Haven't tried the new stuff yet, but loved my time with the game previously!

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@Metaph Less: I think a lot of folks undervalue how much of a storyteller role they have to take on to make rules engines fun or interesting, as well as how much of that would need to be laundered back even in limited cases.

@Metaph Putting it in perspective: when you think about a game like Dwarf Fortress, the rules are predictable and boring, as are rote outputs of it. A lot of the fun and feedback mechanisms come from what folks bring to it and the stories they're building/sharing.

So yeah, in the sense of rules arbitration, you'll get an approximation. But you start hitting limits for intrigue/novel story writing really fast, and need people to fill the gap to keep it interesting.

@Metaph Yes and no even for that space tbh. Rules space is limited, being able to get it to DM will kind of still need a referee/house rule to manage. So still requires people to get results from.

From generative spaces in roguelike (as in Rogue) games that don't use LLMs or thefty algorithms: biggest risk is learning the tone/modeling and predicting the output of the generator. Makes campaign bits start to blend together, needs people to make not boring too.

Charlie and some of the downstream replies state my fear on this better than I can.

Both of our political parties in the US are allowing/perpetuating a humanitarian crisis that needs to end yesterday. But only one of them we can actually fight past November; the other will kill protests and protestors dead with impunity, along with a whole lot of the rest of us.

I wish this were better. It isn't yet. Vote when and if you can, please.

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