Random Number God

IIRC, I was the fist one on rec.games.roguelike.angband to use it to refer to the mercurial temper of the RNG

How’d you do that?

(For me, I believe I’m responsible for the name of a TVTropes page)

In the early 90s, it was so prevalent at bridge clubs that someone in my area ran the “non-smokers’ bridge club”

Still easier than mount fay. Probably no more fun though

Of course, even skipping half the ascent just means I get to the next vanishing-platforms segment with no checkpoint, because fuck you

It really was from “credit card fraud services”, just a different meaning of the phrase.

my name is cow
and wen its nite
and when a star
is shiyning brite

and three wise men
give me the nod
i walk up close
I lik the God

I have now seen it and I have to say the hallmark of this era for me is that I expect the worse from him at all times, just the worst humanity has to offer, but I am never capable of anticipating the weird and inhuman way he will choose to be the worst.

The people pushing the LLMs and other generative tech love conflating it with other, actually useful,machine learning systems.

ChatGPT will never cure any cancer. Machine learning systems that take up way fewer resources might.

It’s possible to be too old for an AOL address

And you just know it’s going to end with him as antipope.

“Now we own the brand-destruction machine” is definitely the end of a Despicable Me flip chart meme I’m too lazy to make

There’s no way OpenAI’s lawyers would agree to that, I would’ve though

One can tell Disney management have gone all in on the AI hype, because otherwise OpenAI would be the ones paying Disney.

I just looked at his Wikipedia page, and why do people still give him work?