@Jennkryst said in MU Peeves Thread:
@lordbelh Pick a pic, describe the pic, wheee
I still don’t even know where to start for describing hair styles, facial features — what constitutes “angular” that I’ve seen in writing? — let alone clothing intricacies. It’s not for lack of trying; I just have nfc how people know this stuff.
@Third-Eye said in AI Megathread:
@MisterBoring said in AI Megathread:
Science AI model releases an open source schematic for a water powered drive system for cars that gets 450 miles to a gallon of water and can drive at freeway speeds. crickets
That’s not driving advertising dollars and making anyone’s money. ChatGPT does…somehow…
Honestly, I see a lot of promise in narrowly-tailored AI designed to wade through data and do pattern-recognition, but that’s not atm a money-maker for anyone.
And to say this (bolded part) is beyond ironic is a colossal understatement. How much money would be saved having a properly trained AI do the work of what would otherwise be thousands of data analysts? Part of the point of an AI is to be able to do the things a human cannot do, because a computer’s speed is significantly higher.
AI has potential, but oh boy are “we” more determined to churn out slop than quality with it, right now.
@Hobbie You mean you don’t want me to tell you your post was PoWeReD bY AI
like has been thrown at us for every. single. fucking. thing. that’s on a computer these days?
But on the serious, I’m 100% with you. Tired of seeing Gemini, Copilot, and all the others flung at me as if they’re trying to honeypot me with the latest tech buzzwords*. I don’t need AI to do my job for me; I do need AI to do things for me that are far beyond my capacity. Like massive quantities of data analysis and collation.
AI is way oversold and way underdelivered, and I dare say that the “AI” products being thrown out are not, strictly speaking and technically (pun!) actual AI, but more a heuristic algorithm like pathfinding algorithms such as A*.
* ETA - It’s so bad I just had this comparison come to mind: “They’re acting like MU* sex pests pretending not to be sex pests.”
I need to know what everyone who has finished Clair Obscur — Expedition 33 felt about the story right meow.
(No spoilers. FEELINGS ONLY.)
I had a lot.
33/10 story.
@DrQuinn said in Pretty Princess Simulator:
Just don’t ever have the Royal Heir played by anyone. No one has ever seen them. They’re off fighting a war/building treaties with other people/etc. And while they’re gone, their family has just decided to get them married.
Then they appear at the final event to select the person by…points, cards, gossip, whatever.
lmao
I’m just picturing this from the perspective of a BIG REVEAL scene at the end of the “season” so to speak.
Staff-played prince(ss) shows up all “YOUR MAJESTY I’M HOME!” “GREAT, YOU’RE NOW MARRIED TO <name>!” All of the court gasps at realizing this is who they’ve been scheming over. What that sentence means is the whole point I’m trying to make here.
I also like “the bubble.” It was one of the reasons I became really engaged in Concordia, for example. Coming up with Alistair’s cat was a happy bonus to that. That cat was a built-in bubble for me, because I could just make up vignettes/short stories about him. >.>
As to the “burst bubble” status, so to speak? I don’t think I could even opine upon this, to be honest, and I’d be preaching to the choir and/or broken-recording what’s already been said in this thread. The people that will stay, will stay, and for their own reasons: plot involvement, friends they enjoy IC and OOC interactions with, bar rp, and so on.
Personally, I don’t think a game should “entice” people into playing via anything other than the theme and any game-specific features/rules its runner(s) want to have.
In other words, the game should speak for itself.
@Snackness said in Real Life Struggles/Support/Vent:
We are trying to figure out if my mom is “actively dying”. Dementia fucking sucks.
;.;
There’s been some side-eying given to a family member in my case as well, because they have been saying and doing certain things that seem like a precursor to it, or outright misremembering if not forgetting certain things.
There are plenty of styles of online RP, from forum PBP to freeform discords to hybrids like Storium. What do you like about MUSHing specifically?
It’s a very selfish reason, in my case:
To try and prove I can write. I like the imagination component and the dynamic nature of RP with other people. It’s very stimulating to my brain when I really get into things.
Unfortunately, it has also made me something of a snob.
Recently finished FF7:REBIRTH for PC.
15/10 OST.
Can’t say more because don’t want to spoil anyone.
@Roz said in Celebrities We've Lost 2025:
Val Kilmer, Film Star Who Played Batman and Jim Morrison, Dies at 65
RIP good sir. I will always remember you from Willow as Madmartigan, let alone Top Gun.
@dvoraen said in General Video Game Thread:
Claire Obscur: Expedition 33 Release Date Trailer
Well, I know what I’ll be doing on April 24th.
I don’t normally endorse these kinds of videos, but…
XBox Deep Dive into Expedition 33
(ETA)“This team gets it.” is basically where I’m at. I mean, even just talking about why there’s a world map I was like: snap point(/ETA)
Also, I would go gay for the Creative Director because of his accent.
@Meg said in Meg's Mu* Mist:
Updated. Trying to get back into this lil hobby, this quaint what did you call it? RP? Are you sure? Well, if you are sure you want to call it that. Sounds a little sexual tho.
meg I couldn’t decide whether to do a “one of us” GIF or the “come play with us” creepy girls from the Shining to try and sound sinister. Please advise.
@Solstice said in General Video Game Thread:
@dvoraen It’s been quite some time since I saw a trailer, raised a brow, and immediately set a reminder for the launch date on my phone. That looks like it could be pretty damn rad.
Go back to my first post (in this thread) on the subject. This is how I feel about the score:
Does everyone remember, idk how long ago now, when “olestra” was the biggest thing to hit food and all over the news (and the various rumors about it)?
I feel like “powered by AI” is along those lines, and I’m like, “ok. In 2025 olestra is something I never hear about anymore, so when can we get past the excessive AI push that probably isn’t really AI or as revolutionary as they claim?”
Folks I’m concerned. I think @Rucket may have been taken over by an AI.
ARE YOU OKAY? Use 1 for yes, and 0 for no. Matrix code will be confirmation of needing to run anti-virus on you.
Claire Obscur: Expedition 33 Release Date Trailer
Well, I know what I’ll be doing on April 24th.
@Tez said in Unspeakables: The Politics Thread 2024:
@dvoraen There’s a place to put feedback related to the change. If you actually have feedback on things that are broken, they can go there. If you have any amount of searching to figure out how to fix it, that’s even better. Roz found the solution to the layout issue and posted it in that thread so I could implement it.
I do not get paid to do this. I’m not just an unpaid volunteer, I pay for the privilege of volunteering. I assumed you were joking and responded in that fashion, because the idea that you were being serious was too wild to contemplate. If I was wrong, and you were serious, then yeah, it was in piss poor taste.
To be clear, yes, I was trying to be completely facetious, because I could not for the life of me figure out what I was doing wrong for either one. The only reason I tagged you was because you probably would know the most and, tbh, I just did not have time to research it because I was posting right before my appointment for a surgery consult. (And to be fair, I did open the door to being whapped with a ‘git gud’, but my reaction to it was to sigh in all caps in my chair, but again, I didn’t treat it as serious. I just didn’t laugh or find it humorous as far as “it was not funny” was concerned.)
But yeah. I probably could’ve handled that better either way.
ETA:
@Tez Same to you Miss Upgrader! Fix my spoiler block to redact properly!
this isn’t funny
Neither is what you’re insinuating with this, particularly when you consider that the initial response to me was flippant – and also not really funny from my perspective, but I didn’t take it as malicious or intended to be insulting (nor was my response to it meant as such either) – especially since, as we clearly just saw with not knowing how to properly image link from imgur, it could’ve just been a simple matter of me simply forgetting how to do it correctly. Secondly, if I had any real issue with the forum upgrade, it would have been voiced by now and in a very different way.
That said, @Tez if that was in bad taste, I am sorry.
@Roz said in Unspeakables: The Politics Thread 2024:
@dvoraen said in Unspeakables: The Politics Thread 2024:
(@Tez WHY IS THIS NOT WORKING WITH IMGUR LINKS REEEE)
Were you doing it with just the regular Imgur URL from the URL bar or did you right click on the image and get the actual direct image link?
I think it was the imgur-provided link instead of the direct one, yeah.
@Tez Same to you Miss Upgrader! Fix my spoiler block to redact properly!
Here is me, trying to summon @Apos to dive in on this subject, for reasons that should be obvious to many of us who were on Arx. (inb4thisisnotanArxthreadreee)
For myself, I consider metaplot to be “a story that’s going on that directly affects (or will affect) the state of the world and the players.” Metaplot should not only be fluid, because of player involvement/actions, but multithreaded, because there’s no one story that meets the definition I gave, let alone the outcome(s) of that story which could spawn other metaplot(s).
I’m keeping it generalized, because I have not been a game runner, and I sure don’t make any claims to being a plotter/storyteller outside of my own head (i.e., my personal fiction that lives in there for non-MU* writing). But, that is how I see it as a player, and Arx had a great deal to do with arriving at that definition. 