Kichae

@Kichae@kbin.social

Astronomer & video game data scientist with repressed anger

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Kichae ,

Using chatgpt for searches

I cannot stress this enough: LLMs are not, have never been, and quite likely never will be search engines. You may as well ask your a auto-complete questions.

Kichae ,

Yeah, I haven't been able to access it for several months now. It still seems to be running, frustratingly enough, which makes it seem like it's an issue of absentee admins who just haven't really noticed.

But maybe my experience with it has been uniquely frustrated.

It's a shame. I was really hoping for there to be an active -- if quite small -- Pathfinder community here. The subreddit is... Not my cup of tea.

Kichae ,

My guess, based off of absolutely nothing, is that they expected stronger growth out of the gate, given the rate at which r/Pathfinder2e had been growing, and hoped to see that community choose the Fediverse. But the mods there crated their own forum that drew very little traffic in its own right, a bunch of people shifted to the discord, and then everyone quickly filtered back to the subreddit when it became clear that there mods had no will to actually do anything beyond the symbolic.

So, they lost interest.

But that's naked supposition and conjecture.

Kichae ,

Did one of your spellcasters know the Gate spell? If so, what stopped the PCs from pulling the BBEG out of their lair and beating them up from the comfort of their homes?

Anti-magic field?
The BBEG has taken great efforts to hide their true name?
Private Sanctum spell?
The fact that Gate is an inter-planar spell, and not an intra-planar spell?

As the GM, one of your jobs is to present challenges for the party to overcome. That means actively countering their abilities list just as often as it means giving them a bone and letting them shine. The big moments of flexing mean a hell of a lot less when all they do is flex.

Kichae ,

I was under the impression that the whole thing has been about Tencent wanting to license the digital product rights to D&D, not the actual game. I'm not sure why that's caused an uproar over the actual IP ownership.

Kichae ,

Huh. I asked it to make me a level 5 Wizard for PF2e, and it spit out... python code to generate one myself???

Kichae ,

And Tencent has a minority stake in, like, every functioning software company that's ever done an investment funding around at this point. They make it a point to diversify their holdings across basically the entire software industry at this point.

They're fairly hands-off in those endeavours, since they're doing it to protect themselves against shifts in the market.

Their in-house made stuff, though, is... Well, let's just say it's efficiently monetized.

we shouldn't promote individual responsibility *instead* of corporate accountability. we should promote individual responsibility *because it leads to* corporate accountability ( slrpnk.net )

Not my OC but what I've believed for years: there's no conflict between reducing your own environmental impact and holding corporations responsible. We hold corps responsible for the environment by creating a societal ethos of environmental responsibility that forces corporations to serve the people's needs or go bankrupt or be...

Kichae ,

Yup.

The flip side of this, is, of course, that voting with your wallet means that people with bigger wallets get more votes, and that results in the rich always getting their way.

Kichae ,

No one on threads is going to be interacting with Lemmy communities in any meaningful way. It's an incredibly janky and annoying experience following groups from microblogging interfaces.

Kichae ,

This also just is the time defederation happens most. When populations grow faster than people can manage.

Taking on the responsibility of hosting a community website means doing what you think is best for they community. For a place with clear rules and established norms, that means upholding those rules. And if you can't uphold them against the sheer number of people flooding in, then it means reducing the number of people.

No one website is responsible to the network. This is not a power trip. Though this is about people protecting their "precious communities", as you so judgementally put it. Because they set up their site to create a coherent community.

If you way to be a part of it, you can apply to join. If you don't, then you're not entitled to interact with them.

Kichae ,

the idea that my account is hosted at an individual Lemmy server and that other servers trust that one to validate my account

I can't stress highly enough how much this isn't how it works.

You basically never directly interact with other servers. Instead, when someone on your host site first subscribes to a community hosted on a other site, your instance pulls in some recent posts from that remote site and then requests that all future content from that group be forwarded along to it. Then, people on your local site interact with that mirrored content, and your local site sends local additions back to the original host for syncing.

Your account only exists locally. You're always reading locally, and you're always acting locally. Everything else is servers mirroring and forwarding content.

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