“Research really hard and you’ll get an arbitrary higher number on a paper so your parents don’t yell at you.”

“Research really hard and you’ll get to bring history to life for your friends, and even throw in some werewolves for good fun.”

Gee I sure know which one would motivate me too! LOL

Also, yeehaw, Deadlands!

Oh it’s okay I don’t need cyan :)

You’ve met a bugbear. Now get ready for BORG BEAR.

LOL. That one’s really clever!

I’m sure there’d also eventually be a raging debate at the table to whether pigeon poop, whilst technically being a “projectile”, counts as a “missile.” Then something like “Was the pigeon aiming for something?”

…In which case you could set that shield up in the town square and all the statues would be squeaky clean!

Band of Gorilla Repair: Once per day, can repair anything, or rather, will summon 1d4 (can be modified depending on the size of the job) massive gorillas who show up seemingly out of nowhere whenever anything near the wearer breaks or is heavily damaged. The gorillas can repair anything.

Those not expecting to see a bunch of repair-happy gorillas must make a fear check.

These mysterious gorillas are actually friendly and fix whatever thing was broken, but beware, their patience quickly runs out for anybody intentionally causing disrepair or destruction in their presence!

Yeah, it works just like this!

I hope while they were walking around, a projectile would just donk right into their shield on occasion, just to keep them on their toes. :)

Imagine if they rolled the whiskey thing whenever they tried to use it. Then at the local tavern “SHOTS! SHOTS! SHOTS! SHOTS!”

(Dice clatter)

TPK.

Sometimes you get lucky!

This sounds pretty exciting and I keep hearing more and more about piefed lately. I’m kinda excited for this new burgeoning era of the federated 'Net!

That’s a really cool idea actually. I never considered that you could use such a crazy low quant to, it sounds like, temporarily “train” it for the task at hand instead of having to use up countless watt hours training the model itself!

That’s how I use these things, too. Not to “help me code”, but as a fancy search engine that can generally nudge me towards a solution I can work out myself.

And the more it thinks, the more it stinks.

The customer has to figure out where every f****** bone belongs?

Well…

🎶The finger bone’s connected to the hand bone, The hand bone’s connected to the arm bone, The arm bone’s connected to the shoulder bone, Now shake dem skeleton bones!

Dem bones, dem bones gonna walk around Dem bones, dem bones, gonna walk around Dem bones, dem bones, gonna walk around Now shake dem skeleton bones!🎶

Oh geeze that one was just looping noise and screaming and you could hear the damn thing from across the entire warehouse. I felt so bad for the folks working there, it wouldn’t shut up.

…it was also late July or August…

I think the implication is that it’s also safer, since you’re not confronting strangers on their home domain and it’s a smaller area full of witnesses lol.

Although, on the whole, I think the paranoia over trick or treating has been about as productive as the paranoia on tabletop roleplaying games.

I’m sincerely glad you appreciated it. I worry I ramble a bit too much sometimes! :)

In some ways Lemmy can still feel like the “Old Internet”, for better and worse haha, but there’s still people like us that appreciate small moments of genuine connection with people.

We can be revolutionaries by making those positive connections in the communities we visit. :D

I hope you’re doing okay and have a good one today.

It’s calm rational takes like this that help me remain an artist and strive to be a creative despite these tumultuous times. Thanks for the hope boost. ❤️

Expertly explained. Thank you! It’s pretty rad what you can get out of a quantized model on home hardware, but I still can’t understand why people are trying to use it for anything resembling productivity.

It sounds like the typical tech industry:

“Look how amazing this is!” (Full power)

“Uh…uh oh, that’s unsustainable. Let’s quietly drop it.” (Way reduced power)

“People are saying it’s not as good, we can offer them LLM+ plus for better accuracy!” (3/4 power with subscription)

Oh, it’s right after Bonksday!

This is what I try to tell everybody who wants to do the whole “I can’t understand how to use computers” schtick, and it’s still often too much to handle.

Reddit definitely used to be! But sadly thanks to reddit, I think we’re seeing the damage from a disappearing internet when a lot of people mass-deleted their posts and it affects technical pages.

How do I fix this really niche technical issue?

Toasters lollypops groundhogs sport icecube I have scrambled all my reddit posts with a script because reddit sucks and Spez sucks.

Thanks! That’s EXACTLY what I needed! I’ve been looking everywhere for this solution. Have a gold, internet stranger sir/madame. I hope anybody else who has this issue comes here first so they don’t spend as long as I did before I saw your post!

💀