Probably the round thing (a shield?) fooled us both. For me it looked like a two-hander.

Althoigh this sword\katana discourse is all known at that point, I can’t help myself but adding rapier at the western side to spice things up.

Would rapier\katana comparison work better?

Just how long is that? I struggle to calculate it from what I see.

Another failed coup\fraud attempts not having enough momentum. Mild persecutions for his chuds after a long time. Him dying from something preventable, probably respiratory or blood-related, while his trial is still going on. Republicans coming slightly back to the center because they can’t find another idol and want to appeal to a wider voting base, that’s until they find a younger Shapiro or Tate-type. Harris and Walz’re gonna do some better policies on equality and ecology no one would remember in four years. Ukraine has a bit more funding, Israel a bit less. Democrats won’t try to find another candidate because Kamala just worked right, that’d come unfortunate because she and her running mate are elderly know and lost a lot of their appeal.

Technically, yes, the offensive does consume like 3x of what is needed for defense the same position, but it works right only if that’s a war of equals. Ukraine was and is underpowered on it’s own, and even with the stuff other countries donated. Them gaining an edge in the warzone in the last years often involved either technological trickery or great insights and tactics using their limited resources.

One other thing that breaks that rule and makes this change in the narrative significant - is that russians could deploy their bombers, fuel, supply centers near the border, thinking they can’t get effecrively hit, that giving them a big boost whatever they do, and if this handicap gets denied, they’d have a harder time supplying another operation from further away.

What analogy? I didn’t draw any direct comparison, I think. Was there one?

Arms are given to Ukraine with every state dictating how they should not be used, with Ukraine being autonomous in their decision-making – as it sounds, they consult other countries, but decide things themselves. To my brief knowledge of past wars it was usually a ‘use how you want’ deal or a direct involvement and control from other party with boots on the ground, both don’t fit this exact situation. And it becomes even more unique since there are not one party, but a lot of them, all citing their own conditions on exact shipments, adding even more confusion to the situation.

I want to highlight the fact it’s one of the first very public case of countries donating weapons with such policies limiting their usage against enemy troops.

Every war is weird it’s own way, but that thing is probably unprecedented. How can a war-torn country fight having one hand strapped to the back with a country having 4x it’s population and resources? And still managing to resist after 2,5 to 10 years of warfare? Imagine that in fiction and you’d call it unbelievable.

I see screencaps from that show but can’t figure out what it is. May anyone guide me?

I wonder what new maps are. MachineHeads\NightDive did a solid job with Q1 levels. Also, Sigil is there too? That’s cool. Hope it’d make many new people experience these revolutionary games.

The guy in pink: 😞😣😢

I read that sentiment about quests a lot and have something for it myself, but I find it questionable.

Formulaic is what makes the quest work with the system. It should, just as a raw code, have a list of triggers for events, responses, all nailed to the system and the world that already exist. It needs to place an NPC with a question mark that has a fetch quest that updates your map\journal when you get it and correctly respond with an award when conditions are met. That’s on a basic level.

The LLM to create such complex and strict manipulations should be narrowly guided to generate a working fetch quest without a mistake. We’d basically kill off most of what it is good at. And we’d need to build pipelines for it to lay more complex quests, all ourselves. At this point it’s not easier than creating a sophisticated procedural generation engine for quests, to the same result.

Furthermore, it’s a pain in the ass to create enough learning material to teach it about the world’s lore alone, so it won’t occasionally say what it doesn’t know, and would actually speak - because to achieve the level of ChatGPT’s responses they fed them petabytes of data. A model learning on LotR, some kilobytes, won’t be able to greet you back, and making an existing model to speak in-character about the world it’s yet to know is, well, conplicated. In your free time, you can try to make Bard speak like a dunmer fisherman from Huul that knows what’s going on around him on all levels of worldbuilding young Bethesda put in. To make it correct, you’d end up printing a whole book into it’s prompt window and it would still spit nonsense.

Instead, I see LLMs being injected in places they are good at, and the voicing of NPC’s lines you’ve mentioned is one of the things they can excel at. Quick drafts of texts and quests that you’d then put into development? Okay. But making them communicating with existing systems is putting a triangle peg in a square hole imho.

On procedural generation at it’s finest, you can read about the saga of the Boatmurder in Dwarf Fortress: https://lparchive.org/Dwarf-Fortress-Boatmurdered/Introduction/

I mean… We had Daggerfall and Minecraft with procedural generation under the hood, and many others, for a very long time. Why we’d need a model that ‘learns’?

I ask about in-game applications, not the use of LLMs in production.

and near Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s private residence in Caesarea.

That’s weird.

MFW given a binary choice by an authority

Me: deciding if I’m gonna push through another day without a break or have an unreliable short nap right now

The birb chorus:

This fool is full awake,
Had problems with their sleep.
Whatever path they’d take
Their eepness’s runing deep.

NGL it’s cool wikimedia preserves a high definition scan of it. Thanks for your work too!

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One can also cut the middleman and donate feet picks.

Dream-like and energetic? Try Boris - Melody and their whole Noise album.