its fucking easy - just shit, piss and bleed over the produce at every opportunity.

Everyone shitting their pants right now deserves it if they don’t work towards abolishing this crap

LoL it wont stop a those 5 builds, i can tell you as much haha

Occultist has always been my favorite secondary class - there’s something for everyone in there ;-)

I disagree regarding the “generic reply to Anti-ai”. Discourse nowadays simply ignores locally run models - they do not exist outside of a sphere of technically adept users. Making sure more people know that you don’t have to finance OpenAI, Anthropic, Meta or the Neoclouds should be way more accessible information.

This tech and what is happening currently should not be conflated. If Big Tech used up all global stockpiles of bubble gum because they wanted to create the worlds largest chewing gum bubble, it doesn’t mean that you with your single pack of gum is even comparable to what they are doing.

The only question in your comment i can see is the concern about energy cost while training a model. Those costs are a static amount - not ignoreable, but finite. The longer you use that model, or increasing the amount of people using it, reduces the cost per instance. Use a model long enough and the energy cost of creating in in the first place converges towards zero. It’s another point for local LLMs - nobody needs the aggressive update cycle Anthropic and OpenAI are running, and those can’t stop because the moment they do, investor money will stop flowing.

For what it can be used: well obviously it is a great tool in all areas where you can automate checking if what it did meets a specific criteria. That’s the reason why Mythos has Business entities like Microsoft scrambling like mad just right now - checking to see if Mythos managed to escalate privileges or run remote code is trivial, and Mythos is showing up security issues all over their software, up to the point that MS is scared that even if they patch the really ugly shit, Mythos might still chain multiple low level vulnerabilities to fuck them over, and all that is needed from Joe Shmoe are the words “go hack Onedrive”.

I personally like to use them to calculate stuff where i know it can be calculated because of my experience, but where i do not recall the specific formulas needed. I also use it for creating regular expressions on the fly, teaching myself how to create useful bash scripts (all my knowledge about sed and awk comes from a local LLM), among other things that are not the business of anyone.

I’ve got thousands of hours in this one! It’s my all time favorite ARPG. The only thing that even gets close to this is Last Epoch, but that’s a completely different feeling to play.

Yeah, Berseker/Nightblade gives a huge amount of mobility, even if not leaping into the fray; just combining Pneumatic Burst and Rallying Cry makes you zip across the screen :-)

Good for you - for me cloud saving introduced stutters, which were caused by the way they handled updating the cloud saves; always felt like it feels if your HDD i/o is too slow to cope with something and the whole thing starts grinding down, while being installed on a NVME drive. Disabling the cloud saves made those issues disappear.

I realized that quickly. I only play hardcore in ARPGs, and the character show in in the screenshot is already populating my graveyard, something that hasn’t happened to me that quick in a long time (most of my chars die somewhere in the transition from veteran to ultimate)

Oh my fucking god it is marvelous trash! There is enough cringe in there to fuel the shame of multiple generations of teenagers!

Thank you so much for this tip! It is sexist while making it clear who actually is the problem, it is offensive while deservedly pissing on the morality nazis, i love it!

I’m gonna watch this trash tonight, thanks for the rec!

Wanted to say that - this poor gal needs a very strong hex to get a fraction of Elviras might.

You mean he probably lied regarding his vax status, therefore forging documents.

You might use something like Syncthing to synchronize the prefix data, making cloud saves unneccessary without much effort.

Nowadays there’s Diablo 2 Resurrected which runs fine under Linux using Proton.

Also, there is a long running community mod (since 2016) for Grim Dawn called Reign of Terror which tries to replicate the D2 feeling in Grim Dawn - just be aware that although it already has been updated to work with the new expansion, there might currently be some unexpected issues around.

Yeah, Bandcamp is great if you already have a following, but discoverability is subpar.
I like Tidal, but as you said, user experience is also subpar to other platforms.

I am using Deezer - Discoverability is good, User experience is as expected, they pay the artists that drive their income more than the basic rates while cutting out shit that tries to grab money, and with deemix-gui i can grab whole discographies for download to make sure the stuff i like doesn’t disappear into the void. When on the road i use Deezers app so i can discover new artists, while sorting it out at home and finally downloading whatever really hits my taste.

Cloud saving was always wonky in Grim Dawn, including inducing performance problems; i would advice you to disable it if you don’t need it,

Yeah, it is not directly comparable in the case of Youtube. You might get by providing some static background or a loop for the video part, but let’s be honest, if you are subscribing to Youtube for music, you expect full blown music videos, and it will hurt your numbers if you don’t provide that.

sorry, i switched up tidal and qobuz. fixed now. Youtube is below because it is a music video platform, meaning that the amount of work you have to put in is quite a bit larger.

Non-technical people should not have a say in security at all. Just as the opinions of Joe Shmoe should be disregarded in sectors like public health, science, law and politics. We have to start to purge the people knowing shit in all important areas. Crap like a shitstorm on X (aka nazi central) or something should be used to target the participants in those campaigns to mark them as unreliable bums.

Edit: more extreme people than me might propose a system that is close to the Black Mirror episode “Hated in the Nation”, but not with killing the fuckers participating, but by taking away their talking rights on online platforms. Humanity would be better off this way.