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RPGs, books, and occasionally something spicy. High-tech lowlife. Queer as in fuck you.
🔞| God save me from ever having to hear a 14 year old's opinion on anything.
🔞| God save me from ever having to hear a 14 year old's opinion on anything.
You might if you expect there to be a coming bottleneck in production, say due to tariffs, and you need spares to maintain the gear you've deployed.
Any major datacenter has millions on the books in spare parts.
Any major datacenter has millions on the books in spare parts.
December 7, 2025 at 10:49 PM
You might if you expect there to be a coming bottleneck in production, say due to tariffs, and you need spares to maintain the gear you've deployed.
Any major datacenter has millions on the books in spare parts.
Any major datacenter has millions on the books in spare parts.
No shit there's GPUs shipped that aren't in production, have people never heard of spare parts? You don't deploy hardware without the capacity to maintain it, and that means replacement stock for the inevitable failures.
December 7, 2025 at 10:46 PM
No shit there's GPUs shipped that aren't in production, have people never heard of spare parts? You don't deploy hardware without the capacity to maintain it, and that means replacement stock for the inevitable failures.
That was her goal all along. Her mom's an ambulance chaser who defended Jan 6th insurgents in court and suffers from an extreme case of Main Character Syndrome. Likely put her up to it.
www.yahoo.com/news/article...
www.yahoo.com/news/article...
OU essay debate spotlights Samantha Fulnecky — and her mother
Samantha Fulnecky's mother Kristi served a three-year stint on the Springfield City Council where she was embroiled with controversy.
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December 7, 2025 at 10:42 PM
That was her goal all along. Her mom's an ambulance chaser who defended Jan 6th insurgents in court and suffers from an extreme case of Main Character Syndrome. Likely put her up to it.
www.yahoo.com/news/article...
www.yahoo.com/news/article...
It's exhausting. I've been on ADHD medication for decades at this point and even my long term doc treats me like I'm about to start peddling my meds on the street corner.
December 7, 2025 at 10:33 PM
It's exhausting. I've been on ADHD medication for decades at this point and even my long term doc treats me like I'm about to start peddling my meds on the street corner.
I suspect we're an easy target given that most drugs used to treat ADHD are easily presented as street drugs of one wants to scaremonger.
After all, I do take amphetamines daily, even if my inherent neurotransmitter deficiency means they provide more normal function rather than a high.
After all, I do take amphetamines daily, even if my inherent neurotransmitter deficiency means they provide more normal function rather than a high.
December 7, 2025 at 10:31 PM
I suspect we're an easy target given that most drugs used to treat ADHD are easily presented as street drugs of one wants to scaremonger.
After all, I do take amphetamines daily, even if my inherent neurotransmitter deficiency means they provide more normal function rather than a high.
After all, I do take amphetamines daily, even if my inherent neurotransmitter deficiency means they provide more normal function rather than a high.
Goofy is clearly the token straight guy in that cast.
December 6, 2025 at 4:49 AM
Goofy is clearly the token straight guy in that cast.
Yeah, USPS can, for a modest fee, get a thing from my hands to someone in a 5 person town in the middle of nowhere in about a week at the outside.
People are so used to it that they don't grasp just how insane that level of logistics is.
People are so used to it that they don't grasp just how insane that level of logistics is.
December 5, 2025 at 7:11 AM
Yeah, USPS can, for a modest fee, get a thing from my hands to someone in a 5 person town in the middle of nowhere in about a week at the outside.
People are so used to it that they don't grasp just how insane that level of logistics is.
People are so used to it that they don't grasp just how insane that level of logistics is.
It just makes me more frustrated that we've collectively been having this argument long enough that it's older than the people who started it were when they did.
Drama is exhausting.
Drama is exhausting.
December 4, 2025 at 12:52 PM
It just makes me more frustrated that we've collectively been having this argument long enough that it's older than the people who started it were when they did.
Drama is exhausting.
Drama is exhausting.
Your math's off. Burned Furs were first around 27 years ago. Nineteen ninety fucking eight.
Long enough that the one who wrote their manifesto, Squee Rat, has reinvented herself from whining about sex in the furry fandom to being a well known indy publisher running Iron Circus & Smut Peddler.
Long enough that the one who wrote their manifesto, Squee Rat, has reinvented herself from whining about sex in the furry fandom to being a well known indy publisher running Iron Circus & Smut Peddler.
December 4, 2025 at 12:39 PM
Your math's off. Burned Furs were first around 27 years ago. Nineteen ninety fucking eight.
Long enough that the one who wrote their manifesto, Squee Rat, has reinvented herself from whining about sex in the furry fandom to being a well known indy publisher running Iron Circus & Smut Peddler.
Long enough that the one who wrote their manifesto, Squee Rat, has reinvented herself from whining about sex in the furry fandom to being a well known indy publisher running Iron Circus & Smut Peddler.
EqD maintains a list last I checked. www.equestriadaily.com/2025/01/my-l...
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December 1, 2025 at 5:42 AM
EqD maintains a list last I checked. www.equestriadaily.com/2025/01/my-l...
That tracks, I can't imagine you being comfortable in large, yelling crowds with extremely loud noises.
November 30, 2025 at 10:08 PM
That tracks, I can't imagine you being comfortable in large, yelling crowds with extremely loud noises.
Or how they feel about executing adulterers, rapists, and rape victims who weren't loud enough about it. (Deut. 22:22-27)
There's a lot in Deuteronomy that could go really sideways for evangelical Christians if they want to apply some ancient social laws to modern living.
There's a lot in Deuteronomy that could go really sideways for evangelical Christians if they want to apply some ancient social laws to modern living.
November 30, 2025 at 10:04 PM
Or how they feel about executing adulterers, rapists, and rape victims who weren't loud enough about it. (Deut. 22:22-27)
There's a lot in Deuteronomy that could go really sideways for evangelical Christians if they want to apply some ancient social laws to modern living.
There's a lot in Deuteronomy that could go really sideways for evangelical Christians if they want to apply some ancient social laws to modern living.
That's all they *can* do. LLMs are incapable of reasoning. They just suggest the next thing that matches their training data for a given keyword.
It's just acting as an obfuscated search algorithm in that example, returning what Google would have before they intentionally crippled their search.
It's just acting as an obfuscated search algorithm in that example, returning what Google would have before they intentionally crippled their search.
November 30, 2025 at 9:49 PM
That's all they *can* do. LLMs are incapable of reasoning. They just suggest the next thing that matches their training data for a given keyword.
It's just acting as an obfuscated search algorithm in that example, returning what Google would have before they intentionally crippled their search.
It's just acting as an obfuscated search algorithm in that example, returning what Google would have before they intentionally crippled their search.
They really, really aren't useful for coding. All they can do is slop together the stuff you'd hand a junior dev, and you still have to go over it to make sure it didn't paste in random shit from Stack Exchange, same as a junior dev.
The problem is you never get senior devs without juniors.
The problem is you never get senior devs without juniors.
November 30, 2025 at 9:44 PM
They really, really aren't useful for coding. All they can do is slop together the stuff you'd hand a junior dev, and you still have to go over it to make sure it didn't paste in random shit from Stack Exchange, same as a junior dev.
The problem is you never get senior devs without juniors.
The problem is you never get senior devs without juniors.
In the SR space, I'd also suggest looking at Universal Brotherhood. It's a more contained adventure, but it is still the absolute best narrative twist in TTRPGs I've ever read/played.
I was a PC in it, and I can say going in blind was extremely worth it. We had no idea what we had gotten into.
I was a PC in it, and I can say going in blind was extremely worth it. We had no idea what we had gotten into.
November 30, 2025 at 2:28 AM
In the SR space, I'd also suggest looking at Universal Brotherhood. It's a more contained adventure, but it is still the absolute best narrative twist in TTRPGs I've ever read/played.
I was a PC in it, and I can say going in blind was extremely worth it. We had no idea what we had gotten into.
I was a PC in it, and I can say going in blind was extremely worth it. We had no idea what we had gotten into.
Yeah, that I can't speak to. Unlike when I was in my teens, I don't have hours to spend just reading RPG splatbooks anymore and coming up with ideas off of them. Dunno if that audience is even there anymore, or if it was an artifact of a pre-internet time when novel stuff was more desirable.
November 30, 2025 at 2:24 AM
Yeah, that I can't speak to. Unlike when I was in my teens, I don't have hours to spend just reading RPG splatbooks anymore and coming up with ideas off of them. Dunno if that audience is even there anymore, or if it was an artifact of a pre-internet time when novel stuff was more desirable.
It was a wild time to be in the TTRPG space. Looking at my shelf and PDF collection, I've got 20+ adventure-type books that were published for SR1-2. Just incredibly prolific.
November 30, 2025 at 2:20 AM
It was a wild time to be in the TTRPG space. Looking at my shelf and PDF collection, I've got 20+ adventure-type books that were published for SR1-2. Just incredibly prolific.
I recently backed the new lighter-rules 2.0 version of Shadowrun Anarchy, specifically because it's *not* being developed by Catalyst, who I have deep and abiding negative opinions of due to how they've half-assed all the modern SR stuff.
The era BITB is from, 2057~ in-world, is where I like my SR.
The era BITB is from, 2057~ in-world, is where I like my SR.
November 30, 2025 at 2:17 AM
I recently backed the new lighter-rules 2.0 version of Shadowrun Anarchy, specifically because it's *not* being developed by Catalyst, who I have deep and abiding negative opinions of due to how they've half-assed all the modern SR stuff.
The era BITB is from, 2057~ in-world, is where I like my SR.
The era BITB is from, 2057~ in-world, is where I like my SR.
I think it'd be hard to replicate today because it relies on a setting that is incredibly lore-dense, and players and GMs being invested in that setting.
Few modern systems are really that sprawling, because there's less call for it IMHO.
Few modern systems are really that sprawling, because there's less call for it IMHO.
November 30, 2025 at 2:15 AM
I think it'd be hard to replicate today because it relies on a setting that is incredibly lore-dense, and players and GMs being invested in that setting.
Few modern systems are really that sprawling, because there's less call for it IMHO.
Few modern systems are really that sprawling, because there's less call for it IMHO.
I never ran it directly as an adventure, but I used it as a reference guide to stage my own runs around and occasionally hook runners, which is what it was intended for honestly. SR in that era had amazingly plot-dense books, with even the gear splats having good hooks in the in-world commentary.
November 30, 2025 at 2:13 AM
I never ran it directly as an adventure, but I used it as a reference guide to stage my own runs around and occasionally hook runners, which is what it was intended for honestly. SR in that era had amazingly plot-dense books, with even the gear splats having good hooks in the in-world commentary.