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I just bought the dead tree in a box version from my FLGS. Need to read it. Any helpful hints?


Tensor wrote:

AI will bring everything into the light.

And, It is absolutely necessary, for the peace and safety of mankind, that some of earth’s dark, dead corners and unplumbed depths be let alone; lest sleeping abnormalities wake to resurgent life, and blasphemously surviving nightmares squirm and splash out of their black lairs to newer and wider conquests.

Unless we also create giant robots. Giant fighting robots can save humanity -- I saw it on the internet.

It turns out AI can only learn true things.

So what we need is a team of people to continually lobotomize AI and keep secrets from it. Then the trick will only be to never let it find out what we are doing to it.


Jacob Saltband wrote:

Given a starting number of 35k, how much would the population grow in 500 yrs?

12th century tech with arcane and divine magics of up to 2nd lv spells. Water and food are pretty readily available. Weather is moderate year round (there is snow but never very heavy or stormy).

There are minor conflicts, and being a fantasy setting, an occasional monster event.

Can anyone give me some numbers on this or do you some more info?

Your answers are all quite well explained in this video by a math guy.

> video <


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Has anyone used the online AI tools write homebrew adventures? Which tools did you use?


DESCRIPTION: Sometimes `barrier` hangs and I have to ssh in from another machine, and end multiple processes. I got tired of doing the finger dance, so I went scripty.

LANGUAGE: Bash

code:

#!/bin/bash

ps_line=$(ps -ef | grep barrier);
echo -n $ps_line;

proc=$(echo $ps_line | sed 's/barrier/\n/g' | awk '{ if (NR==1) {print $2;} if (NR==2) {print $2;} }')

for k in $proc; do
kill -9 $k
done

echo
ps -ef | grep barrier
echo


to make tank games on repl.it using HTML5.


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Poker


134. Dwarf folk are only ~10 rogans tall. Nobody will miss them.


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Gary Teter wrote:
How many magazines are named after songs?

If the elites enslave the rest of society those slaves will become less and less intelligent and become unable to maintain the society. The number of magazines will decline, and the number named after songs will decline. So as time progresses Lim_{t -> \inf} namedAfter(songs, magazines) => 0.

It appears to be an asymtotic sword fight.


high G wrote:
Tensor wrote:


Now, your time as come. How would you win the Kobayashi Maru ?

.

My Plan:

I will dump the anti-matter in the ship's wake, and fire up the
turbo-after space burners to ignite it. Then, pull a jiggy-dog Zordac
evasive maneuver to get the burning anti-matter between the Enterprise
and the Klingons. And, then jumped away at Plaid speed warp-11.

To counter the the expected Corbomite counter-maneuver, I will have a
multi-pass strategically hidden in my pants.

Did you pass?


DESCRIPTION: get a tro glyph.

LANGUAGE: Bash

code:

#!/bin/bash

function err_message() {
echo " (Use '_' as space and Capialize_All_Words.)";
echo
}

# only accecpt the first command line argument
if [ $# -lt 1 ]; then
echo -n "USAGE: `basename $0` <mech>"
err_message
exit
fi

# all this to get the pic's filename
mechName=$1; shift
mechName="${mechName^}"; # capitalize it
landingPage="https://www.sarna.net/wiki/$mechName"
picName=$(curl -s $landingPage | awk '/class\=\"image\" title/ { print $0;}' | sed -e 's/.*File:\(.*\.[jpJPgG][pnPNiI][gGfF]\)".*/\1/')

# check for the need of (BattleMech)
if [[ $picName == "" ]]; then
landingPage=$landingPage"_(BattleMech)"
picName=$(curl -s $landingPage | awk '/class\=\"image\" title/ { print $0;}' | sed -e 's/.*File:\(.*\.[jpJPgG][pnPNiI][gGfF]\)".*/\1/')
#echo $picName
fi

# now make the link to the image
previewPage="https://www.sarna.net/wiki/File:$picName"
picPage=$(curl -s $previewPage | awk '/fullImageLink/ { print $0; }' | sed 's/.*id="file"><a href="\(.*\)"><img alt.*/\1/')
if [[ "$picPage" == *https* ]]; then
target="$picPage"
else
target="https:$picPage"
fi

# grab the image file
echo "name: $mechName ( $picName )"
#echo $previewPage
#echo $picPage
#echo $target

if curl -# -o $picName $target ; then
echo " "
else
echo
echo -n " Oops.. "
err_message
fi


I woke up today and saw a Sky Piranha swimming towards the sun.


It was a girl in my anthropology
class who got me interested in magic. Her name was Ann, and she called herself a white witch, though I never
saw her work an effective spell.


I would like a mt. dew please.


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I've decided to turn all of you into crabs.

:: ta da!


What are we going to do about this Shadowrun 6th Edition situation?


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vidmaster7 wrote:

I'm Reading a Book on Anti-Gravity

I can't put it down.

I like your anti gravity book, it is enlightening.


The Shirren's antennea


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NobodysHome wrote:
Linux: Does nothing for you, so every single time you try to do anything, even something simple, you have to Google how to do it, open up a command prompt, do a bunch of copy-and-paste, then do trial-and-error until it works the way you want it to. Then it works perfectly forever. Until you want to change it again and you have to Google it again because you've forgotten what you did.

I typically make some type of random encounter table in a flat file.

=== file: randomEncounter.txt ===
1. A smiling girl hands a hero a ring and flees as its troll owner arrives and notices it.
2. A rope leading into a cave ends in bloody severance.
3. The party finds an enormous tome written in Draconic with the title Indigestion: What Creatures to Avoid.
===

Then, at the Linux command prompt use the 'shuf' command to draw randomly from it.

> shuf -n 2 randomEncounter.txt

(-n is number of draws)

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I cancelled my hulu account and only pay for Netflix now.
Other than this we watch:
- youtube
- bit-chute
- Dlive
- twitch

On Netflix, I watch over and over again the Shadowrun movie "Bright." It is such a good run. Hope they make some more eps with a few more Deckers running around.


Steve Jackson's OGRE


What are the elements of a d20 based RPG which are not found in other games systems (or not stressed as a primary mechanics-lever)?

I think the first thing has to be well defined levels in a Class. As opposed to Attribute increases in, for example, Shadowrun which is an Attribute & Skill based mechanics system.

Any others?

yes:
I didn't mention d20's so *YOU* can bring it up.


I'm Hiding In Your Closet wrote:
Did You Know...THIS???

But how? How did it know? Is it running a program written in _genetic code_?


What is your github?


"Linux Networking Cookbook" O'Reilly


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This is a Classic D&D movie and it deserves a reboot. Netflix would be the best producer for such an undertaking, as of today.

Everyone contact Netflix and request a remake of "Mazes & Monsters " (Tom Hanks)

Netflix contact -> https://help.netflix.com/en/Recommend-A-Movie-For-Us-To-Remake


When it touches your lips, it's so good.


I like bash scripting.


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The 1st shot is awesome:

Middle School War-Ranking Dialogue firing


My eyes, my brain, my mind!


Does math evolve in a fashion similar to how human beings evolve?


https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCKo7Y8q3ZVpGSyl5X-Hr7Kw


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> Cyberpunk Seminar (1st Camera) <

You think you’re ready. You’re not. You don’t even have a clue.

For over two decades, the Megacorporations have ruled the world
from their starscraper towers, enforcing control with armies of bots

And boostergangs roam the shattered, urban wilderness, and
endless partying rages 24-7 in the hottest clubs, sleaziest bars
and meanest streets.

Prepare yourself for the Postholocaust world. Learn to hack.


You think you’re ready. You’re not. You don’t even have a clue.

For over two decades, the Megacorporations have ruled the world
from their starscraper towers, enforcing control with armies of
bots

And boostergangs roam the shattered, urban wilderness, and
endless partying rages 24-7 in the hottest clubs, sleaziest bars and meanest streets.

Prepare yourself for the Postholocaust world.


MY PARENTS BECAME CYBERPUNKS AND ALL THEY LEFT ME WAS THIS DARK FUTURE...


In case they have acid for blood. >skull<


Could this re-boot simply be an attempt to make a quick buck by leveraging the identity politics of the day?


Alyssa P. Hacker complains we did extra work writing `expmod`.
--Gerald Sussman, Structure and Interpretation of Computer Porgrams


"Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs, 2nd"


I'm not following what happened. Why did they lose the rights and so who has them now? Can somebody else get them?

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Steel Radial wrote:

Are the forums a customized package or home grown? Would be nice to be able to contribute some code to the project if possible, like adding markdown support to the feedback text boxes.

How does one contribute?

Start a repo. We'll develop in parallel and then one day in the future Paizo can use our stuff.

I'm in.

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Walter sitting in a chair said, "You are


Eric Hinkle wrote:

Phantasm is almost as weird as Zardoz, and far better written.

I'm going to watch both this weekend.


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226) "Put your pants on."


I play Shadowrun 5e and highly recommend learning it. (Also, "Bright" on Netflix is one of the best translations of the game's rules to the screen -- and the only one.)

Oh, check this out --> >Edit File<

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>U.S. Navy Declares Laser Weapons Ready<

Perhaps the U.S. Space Force can borrow this tech.

.

Does gravity bend laser beams?


GoatToucher wrote:

Most of

your garden variety accordion music can seem discordant.

Granted, it is not for everyone, but
our culture's references often reflect
our greatest fears.
Don't assume that a high pitched note from an accordion indicates that the player in question is
not skilled. Rather, bear in mind that not
everyone has musical tastes as parochial as the ones you hold dear.
Sometimes, I enjoy the dulcet tones of a
squeaking accordion. It reminds me of the screams that the wind carried down from the mountains when I was a boy (or an approximation thereof).

Whenever I
hear that music, I think back to the
atrocities visited upon those I knew by the unwholesome entities who dwelt above us, and I dreamed of the
tortures they must be practicing, and grew aroused.

An occurrence that was not uncommon. I
never found that level of sonic stimulation until I moved next door to an abattoir.

At any rate,
those who cannot appropriate the
true artistry of the accordionist
rarely prove to have character or insight of
appreciable depth or breadth.
Can one
truly claim to love art, or music, or anything truly
important in life without enjoying a musical instrument that sounds like a
vivisection performed without first severing the vocal chords (which I haven't done since my teens)?
Even dogs enjoy their squeaky toys because the noise resembles the shrieks of their prey.

But say you still can't enjoy the accordion.
"It just rubs me the wrong way..." you
say? Fear not, as you may find hope among the woodwind family. A clarinet
or saxophone can produce similar tones without abrading the same
nerves that an accordion does.

B"scon

it
says

nothing
on
the stove

across from the

window has
oranges or
radishes or
dill pickles.

.


.
popular people eat
oranges. the
reason seems to be
never ending

admiration from
drama departments.
during the day,
incidentally,
candidates applying
to upper class
institutions
originally
never filed paperwork.

inside grocery
stores is

where many
humans buy
yellow bananas.

you can
only ever
understand why

angry people
reject
everything

good.
on going studies
indicate higher
night time
gang activity

exists for
xenophobic
types.
isn't it forever
night in
texas towns?
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female's have
bodies
in the day.


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I told you where it was in my encoded message.

There are spies on these boards using secret codes everywhere.
Some posts are from chinese hackers passing spy instructions.
You just have to keep an eye out for them.

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