Does anyone else increasingly feel like you have no time ever for recreation? Here’s an idea of my backlog, assuming I did full completions including postgame:

• finish Octopath Traveler I - 20h? (Postgame quests and bosses)
• Octopath Traveler II - 120h?
• Dragon Quest I-III (HD-2D) - 200h? <- hard to judge; probably higher
• Dragon Quest VII Reimagined - 150h? <- estimate due to 200h on DQXI
• Horizon: Forbidden West - 70h?
• God of War: Ragnarok - 70h?

Now let’s add in stuff just released or soon to launch that will undoubtedly consume focus!

• Windrose (EA launch) - > 50h easily I’m sure; depends on content.
• Soulmask (1.0) - > 100h if I commit to it

I’m doomed.

@Gashlycrumb This is why I have to stop typing conversations on my phone. Autocorrect catches a lot of things for me, but if I get even a HINT of distraction (or it scrolls off the screen from typing a lot) I will have some doozies of a “wut?” autocorrect spotting when I see the response.

Not a scene, but I have to give shoutouts to Arx staff because multiple action responses to me led to some of the most impactful character development I’ve ever had in MU*ing.

@tsar I am replying here to get your attention for no reason related to past posts in this thread.

I just want to say I both appreciate and over the facts I see when I peek at Crimson Compass’s site.

@hellfrog said in Web-based CharGen or in-game CharGen:

yeah applications are to tell you about the player more than the character, I think. "Name a non-fictional woman that is smarter than you’ would be a perfect application prompt.

I expect this for any hypothetical Arx 2 OC applications now.

@Yam has earned an achievement!

I don’t know what it’s called, but it’s because the topic got @Apos to post again after almost a year. (I was trying to think of a Zerg Lurker reference, but nothing achievement-worthy and/or witty came to mind.)

@Roz said in Other People:

the absolute worst thing you can be on a MU* is average height

Which makes the irony even funnier.

I wish I could answer this (OP) question.

I have come to realize I am very selfish about MU*ing, and I think that is one reason I am not playing any game right now, because I have not found a way to make it less about me.

I will be very interested in reading everything here when I get time.

I don’t know if this is from a generative “AI” or not (but some parts strongly suggest yes), but I had to get @tsar to see this as the resident expert on s.

This is screen-snipped from one of my Discords, and even if it’s fake it made me lol/happy.

@hellfrog said in Bad Stuff Happening IC:

Oh man, I took this as GMs being mean to characters. Are you ok with/do you like to be mean to players as a player is a whole other can of worms. And I do! I do not like the ooc assumptions that most often come with playing something other than 100% friendly

Who is/was your favorite Arx character and why is it Sapphire?

@Hobbie said in AI Megathread:

I work in fintech. We are involved with some big cranky banks. The current AI push driven by our CEO is several GDPR breaches waiting to happen and my security guy is sitting there pulling his… actually he has no hair so I suppose he’s pulling his beard out! I’m right there with him, both on the frustration and lack of hair.

Devs, infra, solution design et al, we don’t get paid to write lines of code, we get paid to write the right lines of code. That’s why we have PRs and reviewing them is where all the productivity maybe-gained is being absolutely-lost.

I’m not even on the dev teams, I’m in infra, and even I’m copping it from product people trying to push code to my repos now. UGH.

But don’t worry, the solution will be to train an “AI” to accept and deny the right PRs so that way it’ll eventually get it right and then you can work on more important things and let “AI” fill in the rest.

… Twenty years later, when maybe something marketed as “AI” learns enough to write proper code instead of parrot it. (And after “a few” lawsuits and payouts related to GDPR and other data leaks, company implosions all over the world, etc. etc.)

But I’m not going to hold my breath on this.

@Narson said in Star Wars Age of Alliances: Hadrix and Cujo:

I lost my login here for so long. And somehow this nonsense is still going on.

I wondered why you went all quiet.

Okay at this point I need to ask that people actually post new episodes of drama I want to read instead of turning on the reruns.

(I’m being sardonic and not serious about actually not posting in this thread. I just want something to sink my teeth into.)

@Tez I do find it interesting, for sure.

What I find a little “funny” (it’s not - I don’t have a better choice of words) is that you would think OpenAI and the other LLM providers would offer tools to detect their own LLM’s handiwork as a capitalistic venture.

This article made me think of the so-called “AI” detectors that I would contend venture towards snake oil, especially since they can generate false positives and negatives. The only people who could possibly make a “foolproof” detector are those who provide what you’re trying to detect. Even then, we’re getting into the whole schtick about random and pseudorandom number generation in computers, which is part of where LLMs get their “ideas” from.

@Tez said in Prove Tez Wrong:

@Jennkryst That explains a lot about my household, including the faking coughing and ‘boo, you whore’ earlier today.

aheh aheh i’m sick

@hellfrog said in Prove Tez Wrong:

@Yam said in Prove Tez Wrong:

@helvetica Lmfao ahahaha

ETA: TO BE CLEAR to everyone Tez abuses me with love, don’t worry. She’s not a forum despot.

she’s a forum little teapot

You must now provide a labelled diagram of Tez the Teapot.

Please submit this to action #20526 in a timely manner.

A response involving Mrs. Potts from Beauty and the Beast (OG animated movie) will be automatically approved, because Angela Lansbury is .

@InkGolem said in MU Peeves Thread:

Those ostentatiously self-impressed individuals who labor under the profoundly misguided delusion that composing sentences in this extravagantly baroque and needlessly loquacious fashion endows them with an aura of elevated intellect.

I’m reminded of a certain person who spoke in metaphor a while ago, who @Rathenhope won serious alt radar points for in calling out here.

I will not be invoking the name. I might accidentally start a horror movie subplot on here.

@Tez said in Prove Tez Wrong:

@Meg said in Prove Tez Wrong:

i have to come to you guys, hat in hand, and admit tez was right. short, but right.

and for that reason, i am rioting anyways.

So since you are apparently conceding this poll, I want to progress to the origin story of how the topic came up.

Because I have absolutely nothing better to do than make clips on Twitch and doze in my chair while lamenting my tweaked neck.

@Meg said in Prove Tez Wrong:

@dvoraen you’re not supposed to announce you’re playing each side. have you learned nothing.

Yes, but now everyone will question everything I do and try to find hidden meanings in it. Meaning I can take a nap and everyone will worry without me spending any calories on it the effort to get them that way.

:meow_devil:

(in theory)