TIL that Where Winds Meet lets you do the 10-man co-op raids with bots instead of having to do them with other players, and you can do a mixed human+bot party if you want. The bots know how to do all the mechanics mostly correctly, so it's a relaxing way to get the rewards and learn the fight.

I'm just a reader, not writer.
Beside the blog I don't really "write."

or even the very last thing he posted after a long time:
rsbakker.wordpress.com/2025/09/22/a...

I come (almost) entirely from Bakker's breed:
rsbakker.wordpress.com/2012/07/04/l...
the cynical part is not that AI is not as smart as humanity, but that humanity is not as smart as it thinks

people are the enemy of AI, and everything will be done to eliminate them (the people, not the AI).

And, obviously, not because of an AI mastermind, but because people are intrinsically stupid.

imagine reading a story that is THIRTYFOUR Lord of the Rings long

grew by 1.7M in the last 12 months...

from my blog in 2013

this, incredibly, ends up being VERY annoying to me.
It's cool but I don't care much about signatures and collecting books.
But this is the ONLY signed book I've ever had. And I WRITE on the books while reading.
How can I bring myself to write on this, now?

but I guess he might have signed the whole first edition, or some initial batch?

accusations seem to be proven false, since people were mocking him for not being American since at least June (see link above), therefore the recent "country dox" of X would be completely irrelevant.

while it all seems weird, it also does seem fake, see here:
bsky.app/profile/pale...

alternatively:
xcancel.com/0ffTh3Chain/...

yeah, I also think it's a matter of costs and not being sustainable. Even Genshin already shown signs or is likely about to wind down in some way.