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Powered Descent posted:It's very simple. You can play as any of these characters: Its me, the guy quoting Pravin Lal when people bring up Neuralink. Except even the cartoon evil MMI of SMAC was a thousand times better than Neuralink lmao.
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May 18, 2024 03:58
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Facebook Aunt posted:Hasn't most of SA been indexed by google anyway? The few subforums that have always been closed to the public wouldn't be especially valuable. au contraire, thats whre the gold is
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May 18, 2024 09:57
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May 18, 2024 16:46
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Colonel Cancer posted:I was going more for, like, historically themed games making any kind of progress/win condition reliant entirely on wholesale conquest and colonization but that too lol Age of Empires and Civ always had other victory conditions in the default game mode, wonders, artifacts/relics and the space victory and that. And most of the time you're better off doing that rather than the tedium of chasing down every single foe for conquest victory.
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May 18, 2024 16:52
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Tulip posted:Its me, the guy quoting Pravin Lal when people bring up Neuralink. quote:Richard Baxton piloted his Recon Rover into a fungal vortex and held off four waves of mind worms, saving an entire colony.
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May 18, 2024 17:11
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Ghost Leviathan posted:Age of Empires and Civ always had other victory conditions in the default game mode, wonders, artifacts/relics and the space victory and that. And most of the time you're better off doing that rather than the tedium of chasing down every single foe for conquest victory. I always liked how those games did that, it made the game a lot more varied and it meant that winning wasn't always just spamming out the most military units or whatever. Sometimes those types of games have all this stuff for you to build and do and what not, but than the goal is always yeah just make a bunch of troops and kill everyone else. Think now days those sort of games are a lot better at that.
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May 18, 2024 17:18
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Ghost Leviathan posted:Age of Empires and Civ always had other victory conditions in the default game mode, wonders, artifacts/relics and the space victory and that. And most of the time you're better off doing that rather than the tedium of chasing down every single foe for conquest victory. Nobody plays those conditions in comp and I think it's total bullshit, if you build a wonder and defend it for a half hour you should win damnit.
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May 18, 2024 18:02
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Milo and POTUS posted:Nobody plays those conditions in comp and I think it's total bullshit, if you build a wonder and defend it for a half hour you should win damnit. Competitions, computer or otherwise, seem specifically designed to take all the fun out of games. 
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May 18, 2024 18:04
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tuning grok on the cool zone thread
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May 18, 2024 21:00
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Beyond earth had a victory where you could build a "liberation gate" and instead of sending armies to fight other forces on the planet you'd teleport them to earth so they could be freed from the burdens of the flesh. They also had one where you could pull in more earth refugees to settle like 10 loving colonies which was pretty good, some alien contact one, and some alien biosphere merging one. I remember the African, Middle Eastern, and Russian themed factions as playing extremely strong, but the oceanic ones being hard to play because you had to actually move the city to gain territory. A lot of it was pretty clunky tbh.
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May 18, 2024 21:47
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May 19, 2024 03:33
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Do you tip 18 or 22% on salvation
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May 19, 2024 03:41
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Tons of churches stopped passing an offering plate and switched to QR codes during COVID.
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May 19, 2024 03:59
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they have QR codes for the first time for saints and stuff on this year's orthodox calendar. they also print qr codes in the Sunday program they hand out.
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May 19, 2024 06:12
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I stopped buying indulgences because the machine asks for a tip now, buddy this is like pure profit u dont need a tip
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May 19, 2024 06:46
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Jesus would tip 20% just before he went full WWE on that table
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May 19, 2024 07:25
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gotta donate through the qr code and light my own candle smh you might as well ordain me
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May 19, 2024 08:49
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Ghost Leviathan posted:Age of Empires and Civ always had other victory conditions in the default game mode, wonders, artifacts/relics and the space victory and that. And most of the time you're better off doing that rather than the tedium of chasing down every single foe for conquest victory. I can't speak to every version of those games but in AOE 1/2/Mythology its definitely faster to go for conquest and in Civilization 3/4/5 on any setting even close to standard you could get conquest victories thousands of years before the tech for the non-conquest victories was even available. Civ 4 the best window for conquest victory on a lot of settings was "after you get bronze working before people get gunpowder" while none of the science etc victories were possible that early. There were ways to set up those games so that the alternate victory conditions were better, and Rise of Nations mercifully had "if you have 70% of the map territory it starts a victory timer of just a few minutes" (because Rise of Nations is the best AOE type game), but under the sort of standard settings people killing every unit was virtually always faster than anything else you could do. AOE2 even had a thing for revealing the enemy's map that was specifically designed for situations where you were hunting down like 2 guys. DACK FAYDEN posted:my favorite SMAC quote is the one about recon rover rick quote:It is every citizen's final duty to go into the tanks and become one with all the people. quote:Resources exist to be consumed. And consumed they will be, if not by this generation then by some future. By what right does this forgotten future seek to deny us our birthright? None I say! Let us take what is ours, chew and eat our fill.
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May 19, 2024 08:57
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In Civ V you can almost always do conquest fastest in number of turns/in‐game years, the exception being really big maps, but any of the other victory conditions are faster in terms of real time.
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May 19, 2024 09:11
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goatsestretchgoals posted:Jesus would tip 20% just before he went full WWE on that table 
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May 19, 2024 09:15
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hell yeahPlatystemon posted:In Civ V you can almost always do conquest fastest in number of turns/in‐game years, the exception being really big maps, but any of the other victory conditions are faster in terms of real time. i was big on korea in civ5, if you didnt get into a fight you could send the game win rocket into space in 1850ish e dumb, civ4->5 goatsestretchgoals has issued a correction as of 09:25 on May 19, 2024 |
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May 19, 2024 09:23
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mistermojo posted:the something awful trained chatbot would be a sight to behold I fine-tuned Falcon 7b to make replies using cspam posts a few months back. It's pretty good but likes to generate posts that would get a knock on my door. It really, really does not care for hillary clinton.
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May 19, 2024 09:32
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Pooky posted:I fine-tuned Falcon 7b to make replies using cspam posts a few months back. It's pretty good but likes to generate posts that would get a knock on my door. Even machines hate Hildawg 
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May 19, 2024 09:44
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SniperWoreConverse posted:Beyond earth had a victory where you could build a "liberation gate" and instead of sending armies to fight other forces on the planet you'd teleport them to earth so they could be freed from the burdens of the flesh. They also had one where you could pull in more earth refugees to settle like 10 loving colonies which was pretty good, some alien contact one, and some alien biosphere merging one. Beyond Earth had a lot of fun ideas but the core gameplay just doesn't really work nearly as well as even regular Civ, and it's got the problems they tripled down on in Civ VI being waaaaay too granular compared to V's refreshing outright Fischer-Price level easily understood UI.
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May 19, 2024 09:45
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Pooky posted:I fine-tuned Falcon 7b to make replies using cspam posts a few months back. It's pretty good but likes to generate posts that would get a knock on my door. At some point in the distant future LLMs will be developed that stick "in minecraft" to the end of every sentence. Until then the revolution must wait.
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May 19, 2024 12:19
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Tulip posted:I can't speak to every version of those games but in AOE 1/2/Mythology its definitely faster to go for conquest and in Civilization 3/4/5 on any setting even close to standard you could get conquest victories thousands of years before the tech for the non-conquest victories was even available. Civ 4 the best window for conquest victory on a lot of settings was "after you get bronze working before people get gunpowder" while none of the science etc victories were possible that early.
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May 19, 2024 12:45
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cowboy
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May 23, 2024 08:11
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 https://www.bellingcat.com/news/2021/05/28/us-soldiers-expose-nuclear-weapons-secrets-via-flashcard-apps/ lmao
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May 23, 2024 15:23
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also some amazing stuff going on at Google:   more great AI help: 
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May 23, 2024 15:33
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Finally, some feelgood cyberpunk https://x.com/typingloudly/status/1793649257490100452
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May 23, 2024 18:25
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MpBzHyCmYEs
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May 23, 2024 19:27
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LuxuryLarva posted:I volunteer a lot so sometimes I meet people who have lost jobs and I met this guy who lost his job at google and he used to work for the google glass division and then he started working in their AI division. After he got fired his girlfriend dumped him. One time when we were volunteering he told me that deer kept eating all the plants in his garden and I told him to get a goose because it would scare away all the deer. He got a goose egg and he got it to imprint on him and now the goose literally just follows him around his yard and it attacks his neighbors and the other day he told me that the goose scared away a date by flying into her and biting her face. I ruined this nerd's life with a goose. Computers should be illegal. Thanks for listening. I know this was like a year ago, but someone just sent the below to me, and it made me think of it, so I had to  , sorry. We now return you to your regular shitposting.
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May 24, 2024 04:11
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I'm a WFH goose farmer, Remote Goose Services saves a lot of time since i can check their feed from anywhere
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May 24, 2024 05:44
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May 24, 2024 12:26
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thats the good poo poo
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May 24, 2024 12:36
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Al! posted:thats the good poo poo peep that last paragraph: 
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May 24, 2024 15:50
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jesus christ
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May 24, 2024 16:02
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almost certainly mostly from 4chan
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May 24, 2024 16:02
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Al! posted:almost certainly mostly from 4chan I actually doubt it, cause 4chan deletes all its content after it falls of the first however many pages, and it seems like the first site you'd put on a DON'T INDEX THIS list. It's probably old reddit content from before the purge of all the pedo-content, or some other gross, dark corner of an otherwise normal website that got indexed.
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May 24, 2024 16:34
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spechtie posted:I actually doubt it, cause 4chan deletes all its content after it falls of the first however many pages, and it seems like the first site you'd put on a DON'T INDEX THIS list. it's adtrw
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