@RightMeow said: @Pavel said: @hellfrog It’s like dating. This must be why I’m not MU*ing anywhere right now. I understand. In this economy, who can blame you?

@Pavel I wanted to make a joke about Pavlovian responses and adapt it to "Pavel"ovian, but at 2:16am I couldn’t bring it all together. This is me putting you on notice that it might happen one day, or never.

@Tez said: @helvetica said in MU Peeves Thread: @Ominous said in MU Peeves Thread: @spiriferida For L&L, really play up the politics, intrigue, animosity between rival families, and management aspects to the level that no one has time to knock boots on screen. Demand characters have so many administrative skills, they become virtually unfuckable. Joke’s on you, I’m into that shit I mean, isn’t “admin assistant” office sex an entire genre as well? We all know who does the real work while ahem getting fucked over. (I’m being cliche. I don’t really think every admin assistant everywhere does everything for said admin while they do nothing.)

@Pavel I getcha there. But if the client is lying to you, you can’t really help them explore reality. And that’s not your fault. And one thing abusers often do is present things with the roles reversed so they’re the victim who needs validation. (My ex succeeded in doing with his therapist, and with a significant portion of my friends’ group. He soon began to abuse them, so they all went, “Oh shit, G was right,” and dropped him hard, but years later some of those friends are still ashamed and uncomfortable and this is sad to me because it wasn’t their damn fault.) I think for therapists it’s kinda like that thing where opiate addicts try to sue doctors who prescribed for them based on their lies about pain. The doctors turn around and sue them for fraud. (This is why, in more recent years, those transphobes who think it’s a gotcha to ‘prove’ that gender-affirming care is over/wrongly prescribed by lying about their gender to a doctor and getting a script, as if not having magical truth-detecting powers is malpractice, have just written dumb articles about their fraud where they don’t mention their informed consent form, and not gone to court.)

If there is gonna be an Arx 2, I honestly can’t wait.

@Ominous Someone did something like this once with uh, UFOs? it lasted something like LITERALLY TWO DAYS AFTER OPENING BEFORE THEY ANNOUNCED IT WAS CLOSING it was crazy I do feel though that like, a big major city works better than a remote military base, for the same reason everyone always leaves the base on Stargate: SG1, because you need other things going on? Like I think i’ve seen the ‘remote town’ thing before. It does help with an excuse to always run into each other. It does. It’s a solid base. I do think its been done a LOT though, and would miss out on 'I’m not with you, but since this is set in 1940s Chicago / Pittsburgh in the 80s / modern NYC / whatever, my character is a mobster/ordinary person who keeps stumbling into this stuff, and plots where things get ‘into the wild’.

@Tez said: back to the mines, tez. find a working gif button, tez. [image: giphy.gif]

We have officially been open for a week, and the game is booming! MoT has welcomed 21 new players to the grid already with a few more considering their character concepts. There are plots on-going and some on the horizon. Tensions on Daiyu are heating up as the sector’s Moff has gotten impatient and there is notable activity from the Imperial garrison. A devastating “accident” on Daiyu’s mag-rails has scatted metal and debris throughout the Ashhollow Expanse. Scavengers are looking to find riches to sell in the Scrapfield markets. How brave are they, now, to slip past Imperial patrols while the wreck is being slowly cleaned up? Rumors of a missing rebel cell leader is trickling out among the Coalition and Daiyu Partisans. Last seen heading to Beldarone which had a cell of its own that has gone quiet on the back channels. All four factions (Coalition, Partisans, Independent, and Underground) have plenty of members to mingle with and ample room for more. Come and say hello!

I refer to resolution systems outside of the standard resolution system that rely on player skill as “mini-games” like in video game design. I think of things like Yahtzee Locks in OSR D&D or using the Mastermind board game to resolve code breaking or hacking computers.

@junipersky My niece’s 13th birthday is tomorrow. I’m not prepared and yet as the aunt that colors my hair in vivids and owns a ton of makeup and stuff – I’m completely prepared. She’s come a long way from the 8 year old asking me to read her the boob chapter in the ‘my body’ book because you know, I have bigger boobs than the other adults around her so I must understand them better. Noted: I will remind her of this story tomorrow.

A couple of days ago I dreamed that I was part of a performance at some kind of arts academy, it was something like the big once-a-year performances those places do. For some reason I was put on the spot and asked to perform a couple of songs before the show started (many of my dreams have a focus on being asked to do something I’m not prepared to do) so I decided to change the lyrics to “Do You Wanna Build a Snowman” to something more thematic, which was nature, and sing that… Back in the waking world, I was on vacation with my family and thus we were all sharing a room. And that’s how my husband and son got woken up by me shouting “IT DOESN’T HAVE TO BE A SQUIRREL” out of nowhere at 8am.

@Aria said in AI Megathread: I’m pretty sure we’re all just living in the plot of Wall-E now and I hate it here. Wall-E and Idiocracy. Yup.

Kavinsky, French DJ and music producer, famous for the song Nightcall. https://youtu.be/MV_3Dpw-BRY

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@renaveleigh Naturally.

This Verge article is very on point for this: https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/967630/dave-eggers-openai-chatgpt-silencing-an-entire-generation

@Imagicka I’m sure @Jihgfed will eventually chime in, but it was not cancelled! About 25 people showed up to his in person presentation!