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It has a lot of frustrating things in it. You lose EXP if you die. The quests have a maximum level you can do them at and still get credit, and the monsters are designed to be too strong to solo. Items break down over time, so you need merchants to make stuff for you. Anything not in your inventory or a safehouse chest goes poof at maintenance. Just yesterday I was doing a quest to follow a treasure map and I got the message "a gust of wind blows your treasure map away!" and I had to start over. It's certainly hardcore in a lot of respects.

While the difficulty is challenging, what pisses me off is two things:

1. A lot of the monsters are low quality. Meaning they have weird names, and no detailed description when you look at them. They also aren't fully simulated creatures like the player is. Meaning they don't actually have guild levels, they don't have skills or spells like the player does (even if it appears they do) and they don't have mana, so they never actually run out of juice to "cast spells" (which are just a type of attack they use). That's right spellcasting monsters don't actually cast spells. They all roll a dice that determines what attack they use each round, and if it's a "spell" it just types a line similar to what a spell would be, and sticks on some damage. They mimic the appearance of a character in the game but they aren't fully formed characters like players are.

I would love to play a MUD where all the monsters and NPC's are fully simulated and detailed!

2. The game is piecemeal and doesn't have consistent quality in its zones. I think different people made each zone and each zone has a wildly different aesthetic. Some places will have evil monsters and demons, and be really dark and foreboding. Other places are like Wribble Village where you have to save the cute pink wribbles from the meanie blorts who are bullying them. It's weird and breaks immersion when you visit different areas that feel like they belong in a different game entirely. What's worse is the cutesy areas just don't fit with the hardcore game mechanics. The game is designed to be as brutal as possible - death is painful. Your items break down, you lose progress, you're constantly struggling. Then you have to do a quest to save cute cuddly pink things in a barney the dinosaur style level.

That said, I suffer through it because it's an established MUD with a large playerbase, lots of online resources and documentation, has a client on Steam, and I like the character customization and multiclassing system. You feel genuinely unique with all the race class options. Different backgrounds, different guild combos. Very few other MUDs have this much character customization.

No that's not how it works. AI models don't carry a repository of images. They use algorithms. The model itself is a few gigabytes where as the training data would be petabytes - far larger than I could fit on my home desktop running stable diffusion.

It actually is close to how humans do it. You're thinking "it's copying that image" and it's not. It's using algorithms to create an image in a similar style. It knows different artistic styles because it has been fed a repository of millions of images in that style and can generate similar images in that style.

As for copyright, it was recently all over social media that AI could copy studio ghibli's art style. To the rage of social media and their fanbase, this is allowed. Studio Ghibli can't copyright an art style, and that's why AI image generators continue to include the option to generate art in that art style.

It's not an issue to me, and is completely befuddling to begin with. Training an AI on copyrighted material doesn't mean the AI violates that material when it generates new artwork. AI models don't contain a copy of all the works they were trained on - which could be petabytes of data. They reduce what they learned to math algorithms and use those algorithms to generate new stuff.

Humans work much the same way. We are all exposed to copyrighted material all the time, and when we create new artwork a lot of the ideas churning inside our heads originate from other people's works. When a human artist draws a mouse man smiling and whistling a tune, for some reason it's not considered a copyright violation as long as it doesn't strictly resemble mickey mouse. But when an AI generates a mouse man smiling and whistling a tune? Suddenly the anti-AI crowd points at it and screams about it violating Disney IP.

It's not an issue. It never was. AI training is a strawman argument manufactured by the anti-AI crowd to justify their hatred of AI. If you created an AI trained on public domain stuff, they would still hate it. They would just clutch at some other reason.

Are you kidding?

A few days ago there was a thread on reddit about a kid wandering onto a track and an athlete sprinted into him. I think it was in r/kidsarefuckingstupid and I made the comment that in roman times, they likely would have fed the kid to the lions (which is something they did to people in the colliseum)

Got slapped with a site-wide ban. I appealed, and explained that I wasn't wishing harm upon the kid, just making an observation that his behavior wouldn't have been considered acceptable in the old days. I apologized.

Nothing. No response. I suspect the appeal page doesn't even work. I don't think they read it or care about it.

I've tried creating alt accounts but they all get banned almost immediately. I think I basically have an IP ban.

The fact that they ban me, for making a snide comment that is twisted into a "threat" but then don't actually ban people for making real, legitimate threats? That's fucking wild.

Same thing happened to me. I admit I'll rage post sometimes and sure I might deserve a subreddit ban here or there. But I've never done anything worthy of a site-wide ban. But the reddit admins act like dictators on a power trip. They LOVE to slap people with site-wide bans. For no good reason, and I don't understand it. The admins have turned the whole site toxic, and places like Lemmy are a direct response to their insane powertripping.

Right now it sucks. Reddit is still the most popular forum on the internet. I pray that someday it won't be.

I don't understand the sarcasm. Reddit isn't run by conservatives. The left is pro fascist and does throw their money around like oligarchs.

the part about people being able to afford things?

I love it. Frieren is hot and I love seeing her show off some skin!

I know this is late, but I've been playing BatMUD a lot recently. My character is Iofhua and I'm a level 28 Ent Tzarakk. I've been trying to collect zinium for the rexx-tec event. I want to get over 300 zin so I can make an indestructible backpack. It's been hard. I don't know how to get most of the items to turn in for zin.

Right now I can't afford a car. The USA is over 30 trillion dollars in debt and can't provide quality employment for its own citizens, yet keeps importing illegals in mass because our business owners are desperate to exploit people for less than minimum wage.

We're heading towards a collapse at full speed, with or without AI. I think a collapse is necessary. The current system so completely corrupt and self-serving and causes so much harm for the majority of our citizens that I think the best thing to do is burn it to the ground and start over with something different.

All I can say, is that I take note that humans seem inherently unable to govern themselves effectively. Our history is a long line of failed nations and we have never built a government that won't collapse into bloody revolution. We have never built an economy that won't concentrate all wealth into the hands of a despot or oligarch, and we have never had truly compassionate government that actually cares about the people. Nor do I think we have ever had true representative government, and that every republic has worn the veil of democracy all the while empowering a class of super-wealthy oligarchs.

I think there is merit in creating a new government run by AI. No emotion, no greed, no smug self-entitlement. No scorn for the lower classes. No institutionalized classism. A government run by entities that operate according to pure reason. It would be the closest thing to Plato's original vision for a society run by philosophers.

I'm still using an ancient version of Winamp. I think it's some version of winamp 5.

If it keeps working I'm going to keep using it. Your mp3 player doesn't need to go online it just needs to play your mp3 files. Why would it ever need to be updated?

I am strongly pro-AI, but right now I would say it's not as good as a one-on-one experience with a knowledgeable human teacher. A human teacher can still see where you are struggling and help you work through the difficulty. Right now AI can belch out a correct answer, even write entire essays and computer programs, but can't as easily work with you one and one, read your body language, see the confusion in your eyes, and help you understand the thing you don't understand.

But it will happen. Eventually we will get AI-powered androids. I can't wait for the day I get my fembot, with a body built for loving and a head full of all the knowledge of the internet, able to teach me anything I want, help me with my studies, teach me new skills, and also cook and clean. Life will drastically change for the better for all us miserable antisocials, social rejects, and autists.