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Ian @tikael.bsky.social · 1d

It definitely had a place, probably still does, really. All the AI crap just doesn't.

Ian @tikael.bsky.social · 1d

The target audience for AI novels is people who don't read. So they'll buy the slop book and use their own slop summarizer to summarize the plot for them then hand that to their slop to speech tool so they can say they read ten books that week.

In essence, they've made Reader's Digest but worse.

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Ian @tikael.bsky.social · 2d

Belcorra is no more! Thank you everyone for tuning in and donating! We beat the entire Adventure path in just over 8 and a half hours!

Speedrun timer showing 8:38:25 as the final time for beating Abomination Vaults

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Ian @tikael.bsky.social · 3d

Last time I'm going to spam you all with this one. Join the stream when we start in less than an hour! We've got a ghost to kill and stuff to give away! Also donate to charity!

Noon EST

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Ian @tikael.bsky.social · 4d

Tomorrow at noon EST we finish this thing! Last week we got through the Beginner Box and book 1 of AV in about 4 hours. How long do you think book 2 takes us?

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Ian @tikael.bsky.social · 8d

Players may not be able to change that setting though

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Ian @tikael.bsky.social · 8d

In your combat tracker settings you can select the image to use for your turn marker.

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Ian @tikael.bsky.social · 9d

Session 1 is finished and the VOD is up! It'll be on Youtube later. Session 2 starts next week at the same time!

If you missed it, go watch us nearly die to a bunch of rats, see the rogue get one shot by a level + 4 enemy, plus we get revenge for all the parties who died to Volluk!

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Ian @tikael.bsky.social · 10d

Less than an hour away!

www.twitch.tv/pf2eonfoundr...

PF2eOnFoundryVolDevTeam - Twitch

This channel is for release announcements and other events as held by the Volunteers developing the free system implementation of the Pathfinder 2e TTRPG system produced by Paizo on Foundry Virtual Ta...

www.twitch.tv

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Ian @tikael.bsky.social · 11d

Tomorrow!

Ian @tikael.bsky.social · 15d

Time to speedrun a TTRPG.

Sunday, October 5th at noon EST we'll get started on tackling @paizo.com's Abomination Vaults very quickly while raising money for the Extra Life charity.

See the reddit post for all the details www.reddit.com/r/Pathfinder...

#pf2e #speedrun

a cartoon of sonic the hedgehog with the words gotta go fast behind him

Alt: a cartoon of sonic the hedgehog with the words gotta go fast behind him

media.tenor.com

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Ian @tikael.bsky.social · 11d

The players guide is in the PDF, but it unfortunately contains some spoilery things. I can say though that the premium Foundry module for Grave World will have a separate journal with spoilers removed from it. Hopefully Paizo follows that example and releases a standalone PDF.

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Ian @tikael.bsky.social · 11d

SF2e content is already available to add into your PF2e game on Foundry using the Starfinder Anachronism module.

Next PF2e system update shpuld even add area fire support for NPCs as we move closer to a full SF2e system.

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Ian @tikael.bsky.social · 11d

Just finished this one. Fantastic riff, incomprehensible film. What was this acid trip of a movie even about???

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JB_AU @jbau.bsky.social · 16d

This whole section really.

Finally: AI cannot do your job, but an AI salesman can 100% convince your boss to fire you and replace you with an AI that can't do your job, and when the bubble bursts, the money-hemorrhaging "foundation models" will be shut off and we'll lose the AI that can't do your job, and you will be long gone, retrained or retired or "discouraged" and out of the labor market, and no one will do your job.
AI is the asbestos we are shoveling into the walls of our society and our descendants will be digging it out for generations:

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Ian @tikael.bsky.social · 15d

We don't plan on dying! We're even going to save (most) of the town while we're at it!

A certain NPC will disagree with our choices, but that's his problem and he's a jerk anyways 🙂

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Ian @tikael.bsky.social · 15d

Time to speedrun a TTRPG.

Sunday, October 5th at noon EST we'll get started on tackling @paizo.com's Abomination Vaults very quickly while raising money for the Extra Life charity.

See the reddit post for all the details www.reddit.com/r/Pathfinder...

#pf2e #speedrun

a cartoon of sonic the hedgehog with the words gotta go fast behind him

Alt: a cartoon of sonic the hedgehog with the words gotta go fast behind him

media.tenor.com

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Ian @tikael.bsky.social · 16d

Pathfinder also has shoony, which technically are dog-people (well, pug-people)

But if you want a TTRPG with dogs in it then Pugmire exists.

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Ian @tikael.bsky.social · 21d

The actual, good uses of machine learning are largely going ignored by the public and investors while the machine that tells you your 4D math makes you a super-hero gobbles up investor dollars and natural resources like it's Kirby on a bender.

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Ian @tikael.bsky.social · 21d

The whole article is just junk. Generative AI is already at the point of diminishing returns and getting worse from model collapse as slop is fed into the hopper. There is no way to prevent hallucination, and we've known that for a while now. It's an inevitable part of how gen these AIs work.

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Ian @tikael.bsky.social · 21d

This tells me these folks don't know how LLMs work. LLMs don't *know* anything, they just reproduce text that looks like a plausible answer. That's it. They don't have ground truth or some way to actually "sift through information".

The late psychologist Daniel Kahneman of Princeton University won the Nobel Prize in Economics in 2002 for his insights into human judgment and decision-making, drawing on research in cognitive psychology. Kahneman proposed that people have two basic ways of making choices. The first, labeled System 1, is fast and based on intuition and emotion. The second, System 2, is slower, more logical, and more deliberative.

Riva and his colleagues call AI System 0 because, they argue, it precedes the other two and “forms an artificial, non-biological underlying layer of distributed intelligence that interacts with and augments both intuitive and analytical thinking processes.” An LLM-powered agent can take a user’s request, whether for a nearby restaurant or a travel itinerary, and present the requester with a pared-down set of options, based on its knowledge of the user’s preferences and past behavior. The person who made the request can then apply System 1 and System 2 in making a final selection. That decision will not be based on the world as a whole, but on the curated picture of the world presented by AI. “This is a big change because agents will shape the way in which you will experience external reality,” Riva said.

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ghost malone ergo propter malone @proptermalone.bsky.social · 27d

they don't have the capacity to compel obedience by the process of law.

they don't have the capacity to compel obedience by violence.

the only lever by which they can obtain obedience is fear.

do not offer it to them.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 27d

I came of political age hating the Bush guys and now I have to get in the trenches with them against the guy from the apprentice

I would like to file several complaints

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Ian @tikael.bsky.social · 27d

Canceled my disney plus. I suggest you cancel yours as well. bending the knee to the regime is unacceptable and they will never get a dime from me again.

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C. Robert Cargill @crobertcargill.bsky.social · Sep 13

To my fellow cishet dudes: when we are quiet about supporting the trans community, the only voices anyone hears are the Charlie Kirks of the world. Don't let accusations of being "performative" or "virtue signaling" shut you up - that's their whole point. Our voices are needed now more than ever.

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Ian @tikael.bsky.social · Sep 13

Just a typo. The AP changes are coming in 2026.

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