It’s actually insane to think about what could have been accomplished with the capital investment that has collectively gone into generative AI, public ledger blockchain, and metaverse VR projects. IIRC its over a trillion dollars. There are credible plans for more or less ending world hunger for under ten billion. Yeah, those plans come with a ton of asterixes, but the point is, if that’s what ten gets you, imagine what you could do with a hundred billion? Now think about what a trillion could do. It’s honestly sickening.

There’s still a metaverse budget?

I’m aware. That’s not what I meant by “This is not a joke.”

Also the hint is that OP said they meant it as a joke. But, yeah, everything you said too.

This is not a joke. This is genuinely what a significant number of flat earthers believe.

Some guy named Alton Brown recently started posting videos. He only had two up so far but he shows promise.

/s, or are you one of today’s lucky 10,000?

Exactly. The reason why there’s so much heat on this particular incident is simply because there’s zero grey area. Like, in general the blowing up “drug boats” stuff is almost certainly a war crime, but it at least falls within the “Lawyers can argue it in court” realms. Whereas killing survivors of a sunken ship is literally the textbook definition of a warcrime in the US military’s own manual on this stuff. It is so cut and dried that they use it as an example of a de facto illegal act.

It’s the exact example given in DOD guidebooks of a clearly and unquestionably unlawful order.

I seriously doubt that any of the decision makers involved in this process actually watch anime.

Anyone in management who cared probably didn’t have enough pull / authority to do a damn thing about it.

1. Internal review also takes time and expertise. Those things cost money, and the whole point of the exercise is to not spend money.

2. No one uses generative AI because they actually care about the quality of the end product.

But even allowing for those points, it’s entirely possible that they did, in fact, do quality review. Extensively. But at some point the generation costs exceeded their allowed budget and this is what they settled on. This is the thing that lurks behind bad quality AI art; the fact that what we see is often the best result out of many, many tries. The Coca Cola holiday ad had to be stitched together from hours upon hours of failed attempts. Even the horrendously bad looking end product wasn’t as bad as many of the failed outputs they got.

OK. How does it wash your ass?

Just seems like a lot of downside for a $350,000 device that can barely do the job of a shower.

“The user lies down…”

How does it wash your back?

If you want to do tonkotsu the easy (eg, very much non-traditional way), here’s a hack for you; make a classic pork bone stock - being sure to give the bones a boil first to remove any scum, and adding some chicken wings to round out the flavour - in your slow cooker or whatever, then take the finished, strained broth and run it through a high powered blender.

The reason tonkotsu is cooked at a rolling boil is to emulsify the fat into the broth, creating the signature creamy texture. But chefs in Japan didn’t have high powered blenders back when they invented that method. Turns out you can emelsify fat very easily with one of those. If the texture and colour aren’t right you can add a little bit of pork lard to get the consistency you want.

Obviously for proper tonkotsu flavour there are some additional steps needed, like using konbu water to make the stock and having the right mix-ins, but just getting rid of the need to babysit the stock at a rolling boil makes the process significantly easier.

It’s actually a brilliant monetization model. If you want to use it as is, it’s free, even for large corporate clients.

If you want to get rid of the puppygirls though, that’s when you have to pay.

They didn’t say it’s not defined, they said it’s not a valid name. Most languages don’t allow function names to start with a number, so 5 literally cannot be a function if that’s the case.

But that’s assuming this isn’t some really obscure language.

Depends what you want to do with those character sheets.

If you just want a text file that people can paste their character sheet into, this will work: https://foundryvtt.com/packages/taf/ If you want to actually build full custom character sheets, you probably want something more like this: https://foundryvtt.com/packages/universal-tabletop-system/ Or this: https://foundryvtt.com/packages/custom-system-builder/

There’s also a general purpose PbTA system that’s meant to be customised into different PbTA hacks: https://foundryvtt.com/packages/pbta/

I guess in the sense that you have to load some kind of system to play, there’s a requirement to use some sort of plugin, so maybe that’s a dealbreaker. But it’s generally not an issue. While premium content for Foundry exists, it’s mostly in the form of rulebooks and scenarios that have been ported into it by the people who make and sell those games. The actual systems are all free, with literally only one exception (Brambletrek, for some reason).

A really good way to thicken your ramen is to mix a raw egg with about a tablespoon of mayo. Put this in the bottom of the bowl before pouring in the noodles and broth. It’ll mix in and create a more creamy, silky broth.

So, it seems like the plugins don’t really affect you either way then? If you don’t want that added functionality, you’re good to just not use it, right?

Can you help us to understand why the plugins to add games is a problem for you?

Maybe I’m missing your meaning here, but it reads kind of like you’re expecting some kind of situation where a single VTT would somehow support every game system out of the box?

For the record, this might not be a win for the GOP.

The thing about gerrymandering is that you get wins in places you wouldn’t by stealing your safety net from places where your win is assured.

As long as everything goes well, that gives you some extra seats.

But if the math changes - say, because you’re calculating your odds off of a massive swing towards your party from Hispanic voters that has completely evaporated in the year since the election thanks to the president’s horrific immigration enforcement policies - you can end up losing not only the seats you tried to rig in your favour, but also the seats you stole that safety net from.

This is why other states with plans to gerrymander additional seats suddenly suspended those plans after Nov 4th. If things continue the way they are this plan could see the GOP almost wiped out in Texas.

The fact that those words came out of her mouth and she didn’t immediately stop and go “Oh, fuck, I’m the bad guy here” is completely insane. How cooked does your brain have to be for you to even be able to say something like that in the first place?