Right, that’s why they suggested the quarry. Entirely safe.

Also, while NPCs do destroy furniture, they now shove chests, so it’s also easier to find these paths manually.

I do like choices. Especially easy ones.

It became unlimited in HG/SS, which made it easier, but also more annoying for me when I had Platinum as my hub, because it meant I needed to catch a bunch of junk to trade over to my SS if I grabbed a Pokémon from the GBA games.

Such is life.

Although there are emulators that support loading the GBA games on DS, so if you want that pal park experience you can have it properly even on emulator.

I don’t think that’s actually all that important. It’s fundamental to an understanding of NFTs, but not their role in any sort of money-laundering, since you can also just make NFTs using some AI-generated art or make 5000 NFT’s from one low-effort art you do own.

All money laundering needs is the non-fungible part, which is easy to do, just stamp the corner with a limited-edition numbering mark and the 500 fungible digital tokens of a single art become 500 nonfungible tokens.

I remember trying to get my living Dex sent over to gen 4 via the pal park. It was before heartgold and soul silver, so 6 pokemon a day. I’d do things like get middle stage Pokémon ready to evolve by getting them one level away, or holding the stone they need, etc, then as soon as I got them in Platinum, I could evolve them immediately and go get an egg. Called it “compressing” them, because the pal park was such a bottleneck, it was easier to rebreed them. Level 31 bulbasaur, for instance, send it, get it to 32 for a venusaur, get two eggs, hatch them, get one of those bulbasaur to evolve into ivysaur, so then I could store the proper living Dex trio in gen 4. Good times.

You can also just never sell it, but buying it doesn’t help you launder your own ill-gotten money, just other people’s. The issue is creating it. It’s not that big an issue, but NFTs are way more efficient.

For Logan Paul, yes, he wanted it to go up.

But if this painting was laundering at work, the important part is that the seller can point to this transaction as “real”. The IRS or the FBI might be looking into his sudden gains of half a million dollars, but when they do, they find that he sold Logan Paul half a million dollars of art.

The NFT part makes it incredibly easy to generate said art. Before NFTs, rich people would mark up paintings, and those had to go up in value, because they would buy them at 100,000$ and sell them for 200,000$, so the government would see 100,000$ of profit, but the next guy with the painting, he’d have to sell it for 300,000, claiming 100,000$ in profit, and the next guy, 400,000$, you get the idea.

NFTs can lose value in a way real art isnt allowed to because anyone can claim that’s the price, and after the sale, they can be discarded as trash, essentially. New ones can be made in bulk for no effort, and its alright to sell 1000 NFTs at 100$ each, because you can just keep making them and “selling” them and no one has to care about their value in the same way because they’re mass producible without that crashing the market.

Not completely, at least with Skyrim’s rules.

But you could also brew something to do a little bit of healing over some length of time, with fire resistance.

It’s a little more complicated, but it is definitely achievable.

Although if we assume unbound atronachs have always been possible, an old-fashioned Oblivion potion can do the job easy.

You do realize that you don’t get time, generally speaking, to delete things, when a government legally demands your info, right?

As soon as any company sees a lawful order demanding information, deleting it becomes a crime.

If this same thing happened to mailbox.org, you heard about it immediately, and hit all the delete buttons you can find, mailbox.org will still hand over your info to them, as they’re legally obligated to do so. It’s not a gdpr violation or anything like that.

They are bound and cannot make decisions in that way.

The proof is in the conjuration master quest.

You can summon dremora, creatures definitely capable of speaking, consenting, etc, via “Conjure Dremora Lord” and they have no dialogue, cannot be ordered, and do not act as a follower in skyrim would, even an unwilling one. But, at conjuration 90, in the College, you can get a spell, “Conjure Unbound Dremora”, which summons a Dremora that is hostile, can speak, and can change its mind if you threaten it with violence. That dremora, once unsummoned, can then willingly (under duress) go get you a sigil stone, and carries it back with him.

Clearly, there’s a distinction here, the unbound version of the spell had no compulsion effect on it. This would be needed since after dismissing the spell, the compulsion ends, so they wouldn’t obey.

Logically, if we can make a “Summon Unbound Dremora”, we could make a “Summon Unbound Flame Atronach”, and that spell would repeatedly summon the same atronach with no compulsion, but the standard version of these spells summons things in a way that prevents consent.

A few years ago, blatant journalistic malpractice was a controversy.

Are people so lazy they can’t even bother to read the headline? Maybe an AI would’ve been useful here to generate its own defense.

I think humanizing them is a fairly trivial thing, in this sort of context.

Yes, it’s true, it didn’t “lie” about health.

But it has the same result as someone lying, it’s another bulletpoint in the list of reasons not to trust AI, even if it pulls from the right sources and presents information generally correctly, it may in fact just not present information it could have presented because the sources it learned from have done so in a way that would get those sources deemed “liars”.

Could write that out every time, I suppose, but people will say their dog is trying to trick them when he goes to the bowl 5 minutes after dinner, or goes to their partner for the same, and everyone understands the dog isn’t actually attempting to deceive them, and just wants more.

Same thing, to me at least. It lied, but in a similar way to how my dog lies, not in the way a human can lie.

No, they’re definitely also expanding.

Not all of them, certainly, but there are a few plans for new factories. Samsung, for instance, is rolling out a new chip factory, if you want something to search.

Simple, dissolve the whole package in one gallon of water, and then the solution is 110 times as potent as it should be.

Round up to 128 because watering it down a little more won’t hurt you, and that simplifies the math. You put one ounce of that gallon of solution into a second gallon of water, and you’re ready to drink. Repeat with a new gallon of tap water mixed with an ounce of your solution as needed.

It usually does, but it doesn’t have to.

They could, if they wanted to. This is somewhat an example of “if it isn’t broken, don’t fix it”.

A lot of that is the fact that Linux is run incredibly lean. Replicating that isn’t cheap. They absolutely can, but since Linux is free and they can even modify it to suit their needs, its far simpler to do that.

Android is the best example. Google wanted a phone OS, so they bought Android Inc, who was making one. They could’ve spun up their own with their own talent, hired more, etc, but just absorbed one instead. That talent was making a phone OS based on Linux, because, again, they could’ve delved into the details of OS creation, but it was far easier to take a free OS, change the bits you want changed (like adding touchscreen support, which to my knowledge, wasn’t in the Linux version Android started with), and run with the new version you’ve made.

It’s also worth pointing out that Google has spent a lot of money on Android, and other large companies spend a lot on developing their own custom Linux Distro. It’s not like they have one software engineer for Android who downloaded Linux once and changed it. These companies are willing to do what you describe, they just didn’t have to reinvent the wheel. The Linux kernel, thanks to the community behind it, is incredibly secure and efficient, and there just wasn’t any reason to change it or copy it when it exists and is free to use.

All that sounds great.

I personally like a good tank Tarrasque. The encounter is more puzzle than combat. The players are hardly noticed until they deal something like 10% of its HP. With a solid regen, that’s a significant scratch.

Of course, this version would be boring in a vacuum, so there’s a time pressure of it destroying a city.

This naturally gives it three stages. Stage 1, players are basically safe. They can try strategies, do shenanigans, and the Tarrasque will be at worst impeded, but likely relatively unaffected. The goal is just to get its attention at all. Any turns it spends targeting the players are turns the city is safe. Maybe give the city a magical artillery piece that needs to be set up.

Stage 2, they’ve delayed the city’s destruction. Now the problem is the Tarrasque is looking their way. Their main goal shifts to some form of “survive”. A clever party can lure the Tarrasque out of the city, perhaps into a trap if they had time. A lot of actions are spent maneuvering, escaping, setting up the trap if it exists. It’s likely the Tarrasque fully heals during this stage, although that doesn’t make it revert to stage 1. It may do so if it cannot get to them in any way, like a flyer 300’ up.

Stage 3 is whenever it catches them or springs a trap. This is a final fight. Unless they straight up run away, this is when the big damage comes out, when that artillery may show up, when the trap springs. If they cannot do consistent damage, they will run out of resources and lose. If they can, they’ll win, job well done, they get the keys to the city, a celebration, all that.

True I forgot that detail. Sacred flame would do fine, as well.

Those level 1 aarakocran clerics might die by being tapped and falling the whole distance but they’ll bag a tarrasque no problem.

As for the 2024 Tarrasque, they downgraded it to resistance against physical damage, instead of immunity to nonmagic physical. I mean, it’s nice that it resists magical physical, now, but any source of advantage to cancel the disadvantage of being in long range lets you kill with any bow/crossbow.

Repeating would still be ideal, for ammo usage, but it needed its regeneration back. At least if you needed 100 aarakocran to start reducing its HP meaningfully, it’d be beyond the scope of “first time player who thought flying sounded cool”.

Not with Wish, that’s for sure.

Ive heard it said that anything past level 15 or so, they just didn’t intend for real gameplay, and I have to agree. The Tarrasque is defeated with a Fly spell and a bow, Wish can technically be used for other things but really is just Lesser Wish from older editions, only spell replication, and capstones tend to be meh and really feel tacked on most of the time.