I thought Clockwork Revolution was set to release this year, but it looks like it’s 2027 now.

I broke this habit once growing when I decided to finish Mario and Luigi Partners in Time after a break. I had just reached the final dungeon, but before diving in I realized I had more money than I knew what to do with.

I went to the store, got like 99 of all the cool looking items, entered the dungeon, and went to town. Every turn was a question of whether to use a power flower, hammer, or what have you. I mowed through all those end game enemies and the final boss didn’t know what hit em. It was glorious.

I was talking to my friend the other week, and they described how their therapist explained the difference between guilt and shame. They said that guilt is feeling bad about an action that you’ve taken (or not taken), while shame is feeling that you are bad.

I think that it can be good to feel guilt for some things as motivation for positive change so long as that does not turn into shame.

I always trust my Mobilek! Why are they testing him?

I like how stilted the opening song is to jam in the extra syllables in America. It makes the point stand out like a sore thumb.

I had done a word find before responding, apparently I hadn’t expanded my view to all of the comments at that time. That’s a big mistake, but even if it was corrected, do you seriously think an LLM would print out a sentence as poorly formatted as that one? I thought the whole thing about LLMs is that they sound convincingly well written while containing false information. While it does contain a blatantly wrong fact, “a not only white skin and woman,” is not how a convincing machine would write because it’s just not grammatically correct.

I see OP’s account is new enough to be skeptical but there are too many basic writing errors for me to think it’s an LLM? What goes through your head when you see that? Do you think they’re using a basic model that’s more likely to make such mistakes? I don’t know, I don’t read much LLM output at all, maybe they make more writing mistakes than I was led to believe.

I’m so confused. Who said that? Why was the comment I responded to edited to say the same thing you just did?

I sincerely don’t understand what would lead you to think the post is AI written, I was enjoying reading people discuss Star Trek before coming across this AI thread, and after having my human written comment called AI not too long ago it bothers me to see what seems to me like earnest writing be called AI.

That’s where I’m coming from when I say that I’m willing to argue, but I follow the core tenets of arguing I learned in philosophy 101 to assume the other person (you) have something worth saying and that questions of meaning come before questions of truth. I’m open to being wrong, but I haven’t seen anything to convince me that I am.

After reading this thread I went back and skimmed through the first several lines of the post with an eye for AI/human indicators, and found three things that gave the impression of a human touch before coming back and writing my comment. First, there was a sentence in all caps, which seems weird for an LLM to do as I believe they usually go for a more neutral tone that’s antithetical to digital shouting. Second, 7o9_99 skipped the oxford comma in at least one place and a cursory internet search tells me that LLMs tend to make full use of that.

But the big thing that I feel bad saying but easily overlooked while reading it for the content is that the post is terribly formatted. My experience has been that LLMs write nice looking paragraphs, and if it does break things out into single lines it tends to do so with bullet points. This post breaks out each sentence into a new line instead of using any real paragraphs that reads to me like a person’s stream of consciousness rather than the more structured writing of an LLM. I guess you could argue they went through and hit enter everywhere to add the new lines but that seems like more work than an LLM user would be willing to put in.

Does that make sense?

Edit: The comment I responded to originally asked “Are you trying to understand or are you just looking to argue?” I’m not sure why they edited it and gave no indication that they did.

You’re surprised that someone writes differently when writing a long post about something they obviously care about vs responding to a baseless accusation that only warrants half a thought? Care to elaborate?

I wonder if Brandon Sanderson had read this when he was writing the Stormlight Archives. The main society seen in it has a caste system based on eye color.

Pasta sauce: The jarred stuff is loaded with salt. Get 2 cans of diced tomatoes (I get sodium-free petite diced) and one 6oz can of tomato paste. Dump them in a pan to heat up and add black pepper, basil, oregano, and whatever other spices you want to taste. It’s nearly as easy and tastes way better.

Omelet: I tried finding the minute long video that taught me this a few years back but it’s now lost to the sea of how to omelet videos out there. Crack the egg(s) into a bowl and nothing else. Blend them with a fork or whisk. Heat the pan on the stove to 3, 4 max. Lower is better. Then throw enough butter on to melt across the pan, maybe a tbsp. Cover the surface with the melted butter, then dump the egg blend on top. You should use enough eggs to just barely cover the pan about a half centimeter thick. Let it cook all the way through, it can take a bit on the low heat, but it’s worth it. As it finishes cooking through throw some shredded cheese, spinach, or whatever on top. Fold it over however you like. I really wish I could find that video because it’s a lot easier to see than to read.

All I remember from playing this DLC as it released was the eagle flight, lower feeling production values in things like animations, and how silly it felt to see an evil George Washington. It is a fun romp.

Your thought about the eagle ability being less fun makes me wonder if you’ve played or would like AC Syndicate. You get a grappling hook in that game that makes vertical traversal much easier.

Oh man, when I was just getting into acid I took a tab one Saturday morning and watched Fellowship of the Ring Extended in the frat living room. Felt like watching a DnD campaign. As it was ending one of the guys and his friend I hadn’t met walked in setting up tables and their PCs. I asked what was going on and he was like “Jaycifer, today is the LAN party, did you forget?”

I had, I played Quake III for the first time that evening. I had never really played a boomer shooter before, but that was one of the most intense multiplayer experiences I’ve ever had. I got my hands on a rocket launcher and I swear I had a sixth sense for knowing where someone was going to be to blow them up. I’m not normally one to trash talk, but I talked so much shit throwing out “get pwned” and “git gud.” It was so awesome!

Jumping between thoughts about a bunch of things to do that each take dozens of hours is, in fact, a terrible way to be motivated to do any of them! Pick one and focus on it for a while. Start small.

Several months ago I set a goal to write 15 minutes a week. Sometimes I have failed to do even that, but now I’ve written a little 5 page short story and a blurb for an epic upcoming moment in my DnD campaign so I get my wording right. I have a few pages more of the book I want to write but that’s a project I’m building up to, not something I just decided to do.

If you didn’t care about yourself you wouldn’t bother thinking about what to do with yourself in the first place.

All that said, I’ve been so close to hiding under the couch cushions lately. I’m barely keeping up.

Neat! Thank you for creating non-artist content!

Do you say you are an artist?

Je ne savais pas que cette discussion était en français ou à propos de la France.

Maybe it doesn’t come through in text, but that Liechtenstein question gives me zero impression that they’re trying to show off. It just seems like how someone would ask if they think they might know something but aren’t sure. What am I missing here?

A bunch of particles stuck together is called a glueball?! That’s too much, frick off physicists, that’s too silly a name :P

They’re probably using green to mean “not CO2 producing” given the context of the discussion being about CO2 emissions. As far as I’m aware nuclear energy fits that criteria.