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[CubbyBuddy]

@CubbyBuddy! I miss seeing your silly tooth

So people actually play board games? I thought we all just went the single-player video game route because we don’t have friends IRL. Or do you usually play with family?

With fam. Though I need to find a place to make friends to play ROOT with.

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(I'm using Arcade bunny images for tone as a gimmick because why not?)

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Not irresponsible if you get your money's worth in entertainment hours longterm. Maybe make some friends too. Sounds like a win to me.

It's mostly the outrageous shipping charge that's irresponsible, but I also just need to get a life in general.

 

[BrodyPresto]

Not irresponsible if you get your money's worth in entertainment hours longterm. Maybe make some friends too. Sounds like a win to me.

King advice, my guy. I give crown reactions to people so they know they’re kings.

Time you enjoy is not time wasted, and money you spend on things you enjoy isn’t wasted either.

I think that’s something I once heard attributed to John Lennon, if I remember correctly.

 

[Xakorik]

I play board games on Tabletop Simulator.

 

[BrodyPresto]

Problem is, that it can be kinda useful for technical stuff, got a lot of emulators working in that place and links for stuff I wouldn't find in most places that easy, the people there ARE unfunny and braindead most the time but it was good using for bookmarking

I completely agree. Reddit is useful. I also used to value facebook for not losing touch with old contacts, Discord for... well, everything. But just couldn't continue to passively normalize and support their bad behavior, no matter how convenient or enjoyable I found those services.

Reddit really is useful for everything, man. Piracy discussions, game walkthroughs, media appreciation, all of it. Most of the time I just Google my question or thought and add “Reddit” at the end, and there’s usually someone who’s already asked it or shared their take.

 

[Paradigminant]

Reddit really is useful for everything, man. Piracy discussions, game walkthroughs, media appreciation, all of it. Most of the time I just Google my question or thought and add “Reddit” at the end, and there’s usually someone who’s already asked it or shared their take.

My exact method for getting good info on anything. Cuts through the AI slop, there's no other really reliable human-brainstorming forum. I suppose youtube, but text is quicker to search than video.

 

[CubbyBuddy]

My exact method for getting good info on anything. Cuts through the AI slop, there's no other really reliable human-brainstorming forum. I suppose youtube, but text is quicker to search than video.

Except for the part where Reddit is embracing the AI slop

 

[JunpeiDaMan]

Yo, you run emulators too? What system are you emulating? I mostly stick to GBA and GBC, and sometimes NDS. I bet you use yours to emulate Persona games haha. Do you play Pokémon?

lil bit of everything, I played Pokemon but very briefly but i do plan to get back once I stop getting distracted by something new

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I used to go the no-Gmail route and rely on ProtonMail for everything. I’d even wipe my accounts every time I factory reset my phone because I was paranoid about virus infections.

But I kept creating new social media accounts, and most platforms don’t accept anything less than ProtonMail. On top of that, Proton started locking me out if I made too many accounts from the same IP, and sometimes even flagged new ones if I used them too quickly to create socmed accounts like before they’d even had time to properly receive emails.

That’s why I eventually went back to Gmail. It’s just way easier to create accounts on your phone, even though it still has limits, something like under 100 accounts before it starts asking for a phone number.

I use atomicmail.io (if the places doesn't block it) for some shenanigans and Gmail for most things since it's just what i've been using since I was like 14,

Reddit really is useful for everything, man. Piracy discussions, game walkthroughs, media appreciation, all of it. Most of the time I just Google my question or thought and add “Reddit” at the end, and there’s usually someone who’s already asked it or shared their take.

Any place can have what Reddit has but since it's soo popular it tends to be the first place I look, and alas someone there already had the same problem before just like you said.

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it just works

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Except for the part where Reddit is embracing the AI slop

People can praise A.I all they want, but it will never be able to create perfection like this for itself:

Only the perverted mind of a Japanese man can create Marie Rose

 

[BrodyPresto]

People can praise A.I all they want, but it will never be able to create perfection like this for itself:

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Only the perverted mind of a Japanese man can create Marie Rose

Someone else also loves Marie Rose the way I do Another brother from a different mother and father. We’re more alike than I thought.

I know absolutely nothing about Dead or Alive, but I’m definitely a connoisseur of its “porn,” just like Overwatch.

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People can praise A.I all they want, but it will never be able to create perfection like this for itself:

Only the perverted mind of a Japanese man can create Marie Rose

Speaking of human-made stuff, do you also prefer handcrafted levels in games over procedurally generated ones? Do you like roguelikes?

I feel like AI has its place too. I usually use it for things like game suggestions; translating sentences into other languages, since Google Translate is only okay for single words and often loses context in full sentences; and sometimes just as a chatbot.

 

[JunpeiDaMan]

Someone else also loves Marie Rose the way I do Another brother from a different mother and father. We’re more alike than I thought.

I know absolutely nothing about Dead or Alive, but I’m definitely a connoisseur of its “porn,” just like Overwatch.

Shes sooo fucking hot, it's unbelievable.

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Speaking of human-made stuff, do you also prefer handcrafted levels in games over procedurally generated ones? Do you like roguelikes?

I tried rogue-likes like Dead Cells and The Binding of Isaac but I just can't have fun in the end, and that's coming from a Dark Souls and Ninja Gaiden fan, I get the appeal but these two just didn't work, I did Like Mothergunship maybe because it's was very fast and simple tho

I feel like AI has its place too. I usually use it for things like game suggestions; translating sentences into other languages, since Google Translate is only okay for single words and often loses context in full sentences; and sometimes just as a chatbot.

AI can stay the way it is now, i don't really mind, but making code, art or even voices/characters for serious things like games, movies or anime is just anti-human, i ain't gonna watch like a movie made in AI or play a game made in it, it's fine being used for jokes and some porn but when you start using just so you don't need anymore creative people around, that things just loses any value to me

 

[Hazbo]

It would also help to have a notification system that alerts you when your "Collect Interest" cooldown is up. Right now, you have to remember it yourself and keep checking the vault.

I would also appreciate something like this, as I was planning to collect mine yesterday, but the full 24 hours hadn't fully elapsed yet, and then I completely forgot about it. By the time I remembered, it didn't make sense to retrieve it, as it wasn't at a normal time that I'm usually on here.

I ordered $110 board game with $40 in shipping and fees because I am fiscally irresponsible.

Know how you feel. I just spent a whole bunch of money this weekend on non-essential items as well.

 

[JunpeiDaMan]

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i. can't. fucking. sleep​

 

[irh15gh]

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i. can't. fucking. sleep​

Have you tried sleeping?

 

[Degen Man]

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i. can't. fucking. sleep​

Go have a glass of warm milk and stop using your phone in bed.

 

[exlurker]

Go have a glass of warm milk and stop using your phone in bed.

Applies to everybody here...

 

[Autolycus]

Ah yes, the "anti-social" thread that's up to page 8544 now of people chatting and making friends

 

[LurkMcGurk]

Late night posting for tired gents. far far west is pretty fun, anyone else try it out?

 

[MattShizzle]

RIP ask jeeves. imo, it went downhill when they rebranded into just ask dot com.

It was never very good. Way back when I still watched The Simpson Bart Simpson once put in "why do you suck so much?" I tried that later and it put links to porn sites.


Good morning and happy Taco Tuesday. It's also Cinco de Mayo.

 

[jazzyjim999]

Shes sooo fucking hot, it's unbelievable.

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I tried rogue-likes like Dead Cells and The Binding of Isaac but I just can't have fun in the end, and that's coming from a Dark Souls and Ninja Gaiden fan, I get the appeal but these two just didn't work, I did Like Mothergunship maybe because it's was very fast and simple tho


AI can stay the way it is now, i don't really mind, but making code, art or even voices/characters for serious things like games, movies or anime is just anti-human, i ain't gonna watch like a movie made in AI or play a game made in it, it's fine being used for jokes and some porn but when you start using just so you don't need anymore creative people around, that things just loses any value to me

Agree. I don't AI will overtake the games industry any time soon.

 

[Emily.Everson]

So my completely unsolicited take on the AI debate, It makes art much more accessible for the vast majority of folks. Now most people can type a description and get a passable image, functional code, or a piece of literature. Accessibility means we will get more of these thing's, both good and bad. I imagine in the early days of posting hand drawn art, there was, and still is, a great number of individuals that never experience critique until what they presented as what they thought was a Monalisa that was actually just a stick figure. I imagine/hope that our current AI ecosystem is the early days of lots of folks learning that their AI artwork is in fact stick figures and will gradually drop in volume, leaving us with two district sub groups.

The first sub group, is the ones that will never learn what art is and that they will submit a description and post 10 carbon copies of the first thing the processor shoots out, ignore all valid criticism and just keep chugging along. I pray this group is small, so help me I pray.

The second sub group, is a group that would not normally have skills in the medium that AI now makes accessible to them, but are able to prompt craft and willing to put the time into refining the results and learning the art involved with what they are creating (I mean in the image world we have been doing this with photo shop forever and we consider it art still). This group is definitely one I feel it is worth fostering, as this will provide great works that would not otherwise have existed, that while not skilled in the same way we think the medium should be skilled, it was still something someone spent a great amount of effort and time creating using a different set of skills and mastery.

 

[exlurker]

I am creating my own thread system by linking my stories together, as the images are scattered between public and members+. I hope this does not get too complicated.