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My personal headcanon is that there's a Power Word for every possible state a person can be in.
Sure, wizards focus on the combat useful ones like "Power Word Kill" or "Power Word Pain", but there's also "Power Word Mascot Costume", "Power Word Gay", "Power Word Having A Nice Cup Of Tea", "Power Word Bankrupt", etc.
Reverse of the usual pirate campaign: the party are stuck on an island and must deal with the assorted strange types who come to dock there (undead sailors, illithid brain-trawlers, smuggling gangs and spy rings making dead drops, treasure-hunting kobolds, the snurge, etc). Only at the very end do they amass enough ship parts to set sail themselves, after battling the antikraken (land-dwelling kaiju with a singular arm but dozens of hungering mouths).
as a chemist i would like to say BWAHAHAHAHAHA
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its a bit easier for astronomers
NO! Where’s the non-metals and metaloids?!
are they hydrogen or helium
oxygen, carbon, sulfur, xenon, iodine, neon, etc etc.
ooo okay i see the confusion. you're listing off a bunch of metals there
…. You’re breaking my chemistry nerd brain. Hhhuuuhhhh???
im an astrophysicist
but but, science is science?!
and different fields of science have different conventions and definitions for their unique contexts
me every day without fail: I'll do [chore] when I get home
me when I get home:
me every single week: I'll do it on the weekend!
me the entire weekend:
all of us rn
I'm just saying, if you're going to worldbuild magic being a "raw, primal force, akin to and interweaving with nature itself" you gotta explain to me why animals don't use it
I know the normal answer is "they just aren't smart enough for it" but idk I've seen enough media where a character uses a spell in a moment of brain-off panic ilI feel like animals could probably stumble into a spell or two like, accidentally
Also how funny would it be to see a completely normal regular bear cast magic missile outta nowhere
Also there is no way ravens wouldn't figure out spells, tbh
They're smart fuckin birds, I believe in them
Either through observing or just figuring shit out ravens could 100% learn how to cast spells I'm sure of it
Dogs can also cast Magic Missile but every time they do the projectile is shaped like a bone or a stick and they chase after it
group of wizards who ask this in-universe, and after extensive study learn to their surprise that animals are casting spells all the time, just that their magic is so fundamental as to be unrecognizable to humans. turns out the only reason acorns grow on trees is because squirrels keep wishing for them.
"It's good to have an idea where this NPC is going. Which is apparently France."
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Everyone in the reblogs
“xiv is for raiding” “xiv is for combat content” wrong. ffxiv is for playing dressup
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Think I'm giving up; I suspect I won't have the DPS for the Four Kings without going and beating Seath, beating Seath as a sorcery build is an arse (even with my ok dex and a +10 sword, I can't keep it up long enough to succeed), and I can't get past Ceaseless Discharge - there's a swipe I've not managed to really understand and the runback annoys me. Might see if a melee-based run does any better at some point.
FFXIV
Beat the latest extreme - first one on-patch! Unfortunately the weapons sound like farts and I'm not taken by the mount, so I think I'm leaving it there.
Also beat the first Extreme, which is very easy at this point - falls over by the end of first ice/lightning phase in a _bad_ group, let alone a good one. Need to get more consistent at that tankbuster though, but it's a mount I want so I think I'll have the practise :) (or swap to DPS, although I may need to gear those better.)
Also also been going through Heavensward on my alt, as simulated snow is better than nothing given the weather. Although I forgot just how slow the beginnings of expansions were - I've only just unlocked the first dungeon with a few weeks of on-and-off play.
Don't tell the players the rules.
They have to guess. The game can't start until they reverse-engineer the whole system through sheer luck.
Writing tips:
“You feel the bulge in his pants” - implies that you are feeling some guy’s penis, may be sexy depending on context
“You feel the bugle in his pants” - implies that this guy has a military horn in his pants, invites confusing questions like why does he have that and how big are his pockets
Both options convey that he's horny
How dare you be funnier than me on my own post
for the record im not technially 100% anti-AI, in the sense that its a broad category of tech being lumped under one umbrella term so it feels over-zealous to say i hate all of it all the time forever. but i also think trying to discuss what it actually IS good for is difficult right now when i cant take one step without something trying to convince me to use chatgpt to summarize my life and speed up my hobbies and turn my friends into chatbots and optimize my life into oblivion. i am certain there is nuance to the topic but can we stop cramming the square peg into the round hole before you start trying to sell me on the legitimate benefits of the square peg. please.
Neural Nets have existed for decades and are genuinely useful. It's a form of AI that recognizes patterns, and can do stuff like identify cancer cells, tell whether an egg is fertilized or not, detect fraud, and optimize routes.
Those are Expert Systems, tuned to do exactly one thing. If you (say) ask a medical expert system a question about financial law, it's useless. The autopilot that flies a 787 has no idea how to drive a truck on the freeway. A Coulter Counter is excellent at identifying lymphocytes in a blood sample but can't predict the next card in a blackjack game.
And so on.
The problem with so-called generalized AI (AGI) is that we don't have that yet. It doesn't exist. It MIGHT some day, but AGI has been "10 years away" since the 1980s. The goals keep moving as we learn more about how people and machines process data.
But the current crop of AI techbros have been selling generative Large Language Model AI (LLM) as AGI because generative systems do a good job of faking it. There's no actual thought going on, merely the illusion of thought via predicting the next word in a sentence accurately.
If you let a human toddler listen to 800 hours of YouTube car influencer videos, that toddler might end up sounding like a car influencer. They'd parrot horsepower numbers and 0 to 60 times, mention EV range and MSRP numbers.
But they wouldn't understand any of it.
That's ChatGPT.
And yeah, it's worse than useless because it doesn't even know when it's lying or hallucinating. It just babbles convincingly until you stop it.
But for techbros to make money selling that as "AI"? It's the perfect scam, especially if you don't understand how it works.
I fucking hate it.
the main thing that LLM chatbots are good at doing is statistically producing the sort of language that previously, a human would have to have produced.
language works by someone saying (or writing) something, and then another person hears or reads it, and understands the words and sentences and as part of doing that, they make an image in their own mind of the person who said or wrote that thing, to try to understand what they were trying to convey.
LLM-generated text doesn't have a speaker or a writer - it's been statistically generated - and so the image in your mind of the person who said or wrote that thing isn't of a person in the LLM, it's just in your mind. Because you are a person who is used to things you read or hear being writtern or said by other people!
anyway, much like chess computers showed that playing chess isn't beyond a machine and so doesn't mean something is intelligent, LLM chatbots are a good indication that producing writing that a human would think was written by a human also doesn't mean something is intelligent. the Turing test was a fun idea but it's not an indicator of intelligence.
remember when websites were written on purpose, and not generated by autocomplete in the instant you run the web search? anyway, unrelated, this webpage purporting to relay expert knowledge on which plants are safe for my snake's tank just told me I would know if he was biting them and getting irritated because he would start pawing at his mouth.
i mean, that sure would be a sign something was wrong
the plant that makes you grow extra legs
Evil cult are planning a summoning ritual to call forth their dark god to the realm. If the PCs fail to stop them, it turns out it doesn't do anything because the dark god doesn't exist. It was founded mostly as a tax evasion scheme.
Warlock who actually sold their soul to Asmodeous to resolve their game group's scheduling issues, and the whole eldritch blast stuff was more a helpful side effect
