Noted and updated.

Sorry, don’t often post twitter links, didn’t realize it was that simple.

Skull & Bones is not a roleplaying game.

There are no impactful decisions you can make that change the storyline of the world / your character’s story arc, there is no character building, there is no roleplaying.

Skull & Bones is a mobile style gacha game, with tons of resources to seek and manage and use, minimal actual gameplay, tons of tiers of items to obtain.

Aha! Ok, that makes sense as well.

My Steam Deck is my child.

Maybe if I can get it to run a ‘good enough’ LLM, and also a robotics kinematics suite…

I can just start building DOG, with a Steam Deck for a face, instead of a Combine scanner bot.

So you make a claim and then immediately abandon it, and then throw out another non sequitur.

You really gonna pretend that the actual mechanics of the games bear no similarity, beyond aesthetics and theme?

In both, you are a captain of a pirate ship, who engages in pirate ship battles, for booty, to build up your base and ship and crew into a better or different ship with better or different capabilities.

In Windrose, you’re an actual person as an avatar, and can meaningfully engage in the world, mechanically, as a human… in S&B, you are the ship, your character as a human does not actually exist for gameplay purposes, they’re a customizable ornament for cutscenes and small explorable areas.

Theres the similarities and differences between a survival sandbox based around ships, and a mobile game based around ships, where the theme for both is pirates.

In the mobile game framework, there’s much less variety of gameplay, much of it is abstracted into extremely simplified mechanics, or just menus and cutscenes, mini walking simulator zones.

I’d argue that most people were expecting S&B to be essentially Black Flag, but multiplayer.

You know, you’re a person, who moves and jumps and fights and such.

Survival sandbox is a reasonable extrapolation of that.

Totally abstracting the human avatar into not actually being part of the game’s mechanics… is not a reasonable expectation of an expansion of a game where you are an assassin who also controls and fights on ships.

Bingo!

Performative asceticism, as a coping mechanism.

On the bright side, you probably still have both your kidneys.

Yes, the irony is certainly in great supply…

sigh

I mean, Tiktok has entire genres based around not using Tiktok, around lowering the level of engagement and use that you have with social media and just digital things generally.

They make and post videos on Tiktok, about not using Tiktok.

Its essentially perfectly absurd.

Tiktok is basically the ‘how much money would someone have to pay you to kill someone’ moral hypothetical, writ large.

The answer is that, with sufficient operant conditioning, human morality and logic is worth a few bucks a month, on average.

Gotta get them updoots, dopamine!

Perhaps ‘WiLBeR’ would be a compromise?

Its … basically following what I’m going to call ‘GLaDOS case’ rules.

???

Just sort of seems closer to the kind of silly spellings of robot names in a fair deal of movies and such?

Hell those people use an iPhone and nothing else lmao.

Extremely correct, and why I will never stop laughing at Mac users.

Nee-Dough:

Its… basically a squishy cube, presumably made of something resembling silicone.

Tiktok has been going apeshit over it the last few days, people getting into fights at stores to buy these things.

Sorry, I’m not entirely sure what you mean.

Did you mean to say:

“And need to have the best consumer GPU on the market, to run an LLM.”

… likely alluding to an RTX 5090?

So you would be saying that basically it is bullshit, the idea that everyone needs extremely expensive hardware, to run an LLM?

I’m basically just trying to say that the vast majority of users are very, very stupid, compared to a power user or actual dev.

Just think of everyone who bought beanie babies, funko pops, stanley cups, now I guess its ‘Nee-Dough’ or something.

Thats much closer to ‘the average user’ than you or me.

Marketing is unfortunately not about what you personally gaf about, its about mass appeal, what most people gaf about.

Users are fucking stupid, and will throw a fit over the most banal shit, for no explicable reason beyond ‘thing x gives me the ick’.

Tell a relative normie you use Fedora, they’ll mock you as a reddit dork mall ninja neckbeard.

I propose: WHARGRBL

I got Qwen 3.5 running on a Steam Deck.

It ain’t exactly blazing fast, but it does actually work.

(Reasonably fast if you go down to the 2B param model, I can get the 9B param variant working, though this makes Steam Decky very hot and bothered.)

Yeah, you absolutely do not need Nvidia hardware to run an LLM, but we get blasted with their propoganda suggesting otherwise just all the time in the English speaking West.

Because if you don’t need Nvidia, well, then, this whole AI bubble looks a lot more bubbly.

Right, it was supposed to be mobile slop game design, with AAAA graphics.

You still had to sail around and gather resources, its just that this was visually represented in a very goofy and indirect way.

… A stock with a negative price would be extremely funny, but no I’m pretty sure that’s not even technically possible, at least… not without high frequency trading fuckery.

Uh its just like that because of it being a webapp widget, trying to support as many possible different kinds of x,y ranges as possible, would be my guess, lol.

Ok, so, I still have CSPAN on, and almost every single caller in the last ~30 minutes has either alluded to the idea, or directly stated that they think this is probably some kind of false flag, or ‘Hollywood drama’, that this is some kind of manufactured event.

… It is kind of odd that the 3 people talking to the callers are all responding to callers with basically historical / personal anecdotes … its odd that none of them seem to be recognizing this obvious pattern that almost every caller thinks this was staged, and whether or not it was, its still notable that that is the instant reaction of so many people.

I’vr not played it, mostly just amused by AAA shooting itself in the balls, but I may have to actually give it a whirl, seems fun!