icosahedron

joined 2 years ago
[–] icosahedron@ttrpg.network 2 points 3 weeks ago

also colorado here. just rained where i'm at for first time in a couple weeks, still getting above 30c most days

[–] icosahedron@ttrpg.network 19 points 1 month ago

Own a musket for home defense, since that's what the founding fathers intended. Four ruffians break into my house. "What the devil?" As I grab my powdered wig and Kentucky rifle. Blow a golf ball sized hole through the first man, he's dead on the spot. Draw my pistol on the second man, miss him entirely because it's smoothbore and nails the neighbors dog. I have to resort to the cannon mounted at the top of the stairs loaded with grape shot, "Tally ho lads" the grape shot shreds two men in the blast, the sound and extra shrapnel set off car alarms. Fix bayonet and charge the last terrified rapscallion. He Bleeds out waiting on the police to arrive since triangular bayonet wounds are impossible to stitch up. Just as the founding fathers intended.

[–] icosahedron@ttrpg.network 7 points 1 month ago

no i don't think this is real. all his truth social posts are archived here, and it doesn't seem to be listed

[–] icosahedron@ttrpg.network 3 points 2 months ago

i like it. helps dilute all the depressing politics in my feed

[–] icosahedron@ttrpg.network 34 points 2 months ago (1 children)

i think it's easy to forget that nazis have been in america for a while now https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1939_Nazi_rally_at_Madison_Square_Garden

[–] icosahedron@ttrpg.network 4 points 3 months ago

yeah i love doom eternal and you're completely right here. i think it's definitely more noticeable at higher difficulties, but the game absolutely demands a certain rhythm

[–] icosahedron@ttrpg.network 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Hi there, gen Z person here. Things are bad but remember that, as always, you only see and hear about the vocal minority. No matter how poor American education standards are, it is irrefutable that Trumpism could not exist without idiots from all generations. The education paradigms we are emerging from cannot possibly be worse than those which produced tens of millions of conservatives and hundreds of millions of nonvoters. This is specifically because of those gen X leftists and millennial teachers you mentioned. We aren't competing as generations--failures of the past become the lessons of the present because older generations also have smart people. So how do you know gen Z won't do even better? Everything else aside, growing up under fascism creates widespread discontent. I'd say from personal knowledge that for every one gen Z kid that believes in the system are five who at least recognize it's broken.

Now, I won't pretend to be particularly optimistic either; things are bad. However, I also want to believe that we can and will do better. And maybe I'll be wrong, but at least I haven't given up hope.

[–] icosahedron@ttrpg.network 1 points 6 months ago

collabora doesn't provide a frontend and isn't meant to be a standalone document editor. the "ok" is expected behavior and indicates the server is functional. you need a different service that supports collabora integration, such as nextcloud. then you just enter the address of your server and it should work

[–] icosahedron@ttrpg.network 1 points 6 months ago

that's why i ran every request in a different chat session

[–] icosahedron@ttrpg.network 11 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (3 children)

i was curious so i tried it with chatgpt. here are the chat links:

overall it didn't seem too bad. it sort of started focusing on the ecological and astrobiological side of the same topic but didn't completely drift. to be honest, i think it would have done a lot worse if i made the prompt less specific. if it was just "summarize this text" and "expand on these points" i think chatgpt would get very distracted

[–] icosahedron@ttrpg.network 2 points 7 months ago

correct, but the part shown here is for a transposing instrument. it sounds a fifth lower than it is written. so though it is written as A and E, in concert pitch, these notes are actually D and A

 
 

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