AdrianTheFrog

I think it looks decent with a white or black skin, I'm not really a fan of the silver look

Plot twist: the assasin was one of the Etsy witches

Silksong was primarily developed by 3 people. For comparison, Baldur's Gate 3 was developed by around 300. There are probably more than 700 people making Battlefield 6.

Communism is a term that means nothing nowadays because there's 3+ completely different interpretations that do not agree with each other at all. That just kinda defeats the purpose of communication

I was thinking about this a bit and I think this specific sort of thing could be a positive. The law needs to apply to everyone, when you make a stupid law you shouldn't be able to say "actually this doesn't apply to our political allies or white people". The federal government should have to experience the consequences of their choices. If we get local governments etc to take the new policy literally and be deporting people from Britain and Isreal and whatever allies we still have that we actually care about, then something's going to have to change - we'll either have to say the quiet part out loud, that these laws actually only apply people we're racist against, or we'll have to stop randomly deporting people without warning. Or that's my random thought at least.

the main joke of the post is that the average screenwriter doesn't realize the standard audience will fall for the coolness factor over morals. It's also making fun of the formula being overused with these specific archetypes, the lack of morally complex heroes, etc.

Although what another commenter said stood out to me more, the fact that a lot of lower quality media will make a character with obviously good aims who also does random evil stuff for no reason just so we still know he's supposed to be the bad guy. It's like they're trying to make a morally complex villain, but put in none of the effort and just create a nonsensical villain instead.

So combining those ideas, I think the situation is that writers try to create a charismatic villain to fit with the norm and maybe add complexity to the experience. Except they don't give the villain an adequate reason to do evil things - They just come up with 1 common sense point for the villain to make and say "oh he took it too far and somehow murdering orphans is the natural result of that, don't question it". So in the end the audience sees a charismatic villain with a decent point who's only flaw is the random evil stuff they do for no reason. And it comes across as a lazy bad decision because that's what it is. People just aren't given a reason to dislike the villain when the evil stuff seems more like something the writer made them do than something that would actually occur.

A higher effort example that doesn't mess this up is the new superman movie as another commenter said, the villain is also charismatic and also does comically evil things but the audience is actually given an understanding of him and how he thinks, which is convincing enough for people to accept that the villain really just is that evil.

the pain of the Farseeir trilogy, or the pain of the stuff with Bee? idk what u mean

i just read the first trilogy a month or so ago tho and it's peak, it's incredible how much she gets you to care about the characters

this is kinda the vibe I got from the Star Wars prequels. like how tf does Anakin go to "well the sith could stop people from dying, and the jedis are kinda corrupt" to "let's kill random children!" in literally one scene with almost no convincing?? It seems like they think because he appreciates the sith's stated goal he'll do something obviously evil for them because "thinking that the people we want to be evil aren't evil == evil". The only way I can explain that bit away is if the sith guy did some sort of evil mind control thing in his moment of shock after accidentally hurting that jedi. IDK i know there are much more direct examples of what you're saying (like what hbomberguy was talking about in that rwby video) and this connection is kinda loose I just want to rant about that scene because I feel like I don't often hear people specifically talking about how little sense that bit makes...

Speaking of interesting sensing capabilities there's also the sea turtles that can detect magnetic fields, although I don't think people understand the actual mechanical parts yet

https://uncnews.unc.edu/2025/02/13/sea-turtles-secret-gps-researchers-uncover-how-sea-turtles-learn-locations-using-earths-magnetic-field/

ollama is the usual one, they have install instructions on their GitHub i think, and a model repository, etc

You can run something on your cpu if you don't care about speed, or on your gpu although you can't run any more intelligent model without a decent amount of vram

For models to use, I recommend checking out the qwen distilled versions of deepseek r1

I made a little desktop app in Godot once for sorting through D&D monsters, can't really release it tho because it requires you to have the whole official monster manual saved as jpegs for it to work

I was able to get the layout pretty nice, but it still kinda breaks with some resolutions because I didn't write any custom layout code