… There are people on lemmy who think “AI” has merit? Almost everything I see is how shit it is. Which I thought was, well… because it IS shit.

We used roll20, and it sucked, and ruined the experience in a lot of our sessions. You’re all like role playing, getting into it, and you can’t cast your spells because of roll20. We put money into it, buying shit for our games. They put money into youtuber sponsorships instead of improving the platform. It’s personal. You finally get 4h of overlapping free time on a Friday and the adventure won’t load. Do you understand now? We switched, but we still hate it. Knowing that they still haven’t improved years later just feels like “yeah that’s about right”. Fuck roll20.

We did. I still hate roll20.

Roll 20 kind of sucks. They haven’t made tangible improvements in years for performance, and the gm and player tools are lacking compared to other options despite making money hand over fist.

I can’t look at text without my inner voice reading it to me

I can come up with answers or solutions to problem without it, but it’s there for a lot of stuff.

In my admittedly limited experience, LLMs don’t make that many grammatical mistakes. This is likely just bad work from a human.

Remember, do not prepurchase now

No, more like that one video with the Polish dudes lighting a trash can cannon in the street. At least for me.

Edit: Fucking thing also jolts me awake sometimes so it takes me a couple seconds to determine that no, in fact the building is not crumbling down.

“Sir, it is I who has jeopardized our friendship, not you. If you will overlook this incident I would like to continue to consider you my friend.”

It’s not one of the more popular ones because it’s not something you can quote in specific situations. I like the conversation a lot because it shows that sometimes people make mistakes and not every contradiction or error has to be a friendship ending event. In fact, you can admit fault, ask for forgiveness, learn from the mistake, and work together to move on. I could tell watching it that Worf didn’t not respect Data, but his familiarity with him and the habit of freely speaking his mind around him was the reason behind his behavior. Unfortunately, that doesn’t work when the chain of command has to work in a particular way. I think Data also handled it extremely well: he pulled his XO aside, and briefly but clearly spoke his piece. One person made a mistake, and both worked together to fix it.

I’ve tried to do the same at work. I like my coworkers and I’m a friendly guy so we banter and joke and all that, but if I raise an issue more than once and they don’t seem to internalize it, then I do the same thing. I pull them aside, we have a chat, and work it out together. I’m not interested in starting shit, or scolding another grown person, we’re trying to solve a problem together.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon_footprint#Shifting_responsibility_from_corporations_to_individuals

It’s a podcast. One of the stories in this episode talks about Swatch Internet Time, how the French tried to make the day be 10h, etc: https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/mini-stories-volume-17/

You also listen to 99% invisible?

I don’t use them and wouldn’t use them. I like food, and would rather cut into other things’ time to cook and eat.

I generally have a pretty negative opinion of the idea of “replacing meals” with soilent-esque products. I understand the various reasons people use these, and don’t blame them, but to me it’s treating a symptom rather than the problems that cause it.

That’s actually awesome

4/10

Discovery lacked the DNA of other Star Trek in my opinion. Note that I did not finish the series so some of these things may have improved in the last season or 2.

• It focused mainly around a few characters instead of fleshing out a great ensemble cast
• The visual language of the show does not match Trek IMO. It's too dark, too much blue, it looks like a Michael Bay thing
• The characters did not feel like professional officers. Excess PDA, emotional outbursts, cowboy lone hero nonsense, snark, overt arguments, constantly raised voices, etc. In previous Trek, raised emotions were exceedingly notable, and meant something really important was happening
• The klingons
• I didn't like many of the characters as people, including most of the main cast's characters

There were things I did like

• Great premise with the spore drive
• I liked some of the characters, like Stamets and Saru
• Great SFX

I'm sure I'm forgetting things, it's been a while since I've thought about this show

Bro I’m not reading this…

This comment speaks the truth

I’m not the OP but I got a bone to pick with the way you wrote this comment.

actually think I read them, but such a long time, I doubt you were even born yet

Lmao what a weird thing to say. Congratulations on being older?

it’s too bad you can’t enjoy a production of this quality on this scale

True, I can’t enjoy a low quality show that focuses on meaningless drivel between poorly written and acted characters.

just keeps getting incrementally better with every passing episode. It’s really good televison, and the best show on tv right now

I wholeheartedly disagree on this. Even if it were good, which it really really really isn’t, shows like The Bear and Severance are on an entirely higher tier.

People have no real obligation to engage in any specific way with posts, and your post didn’t give any context beyond the video, so it became “dont like video, dont like post”. I replied because I wanted to, that’s all

There are parts of this video I agree with, and parts I don’t agree with. “Real men” don’t have to be pseudo-militaristic officers to be “real men”. What Star Trek shows in older media isn’t necessarily something to aim for in your day to day life, but what they DO show is a degree of professionalism that is lacking in the newer shows. I do not agree that stoicism and self suppression are the hallmarks of manhood and adulthood, but I do feel that they are part of what a good officer might look like. Other parts also include a good sense of camaraderie and team spirit, and those are also things that feel somewhat missing from some modern media beyond big moments when the characters finally realize they must work together.

I’m partial to TNG so I will say that the crew of the Enterprise D felt like a team of trained officers who gradually became more familiar with each other and gradually developed friendships and familial relationships over time. The crew of the Discovery felt to me like a group of friends on an adventure, pretending to be officers. It also didn’t feel to me like they were real professionals. Professionalism to me implies a degree of decorum, and separation from private life. In TNG the intrusion of personal life in the work environment always felt like an intrusion (of various levels of importance and severity). In STD people openly show PDA while on the job and routinely make their personal problems everyone else’s problem too.

Of course, I recognize there are exceptions. Firstly, TNG had many flaws. Beverly Crusher did not need to fuck a ghost, but at least she was there to bury her grandmother. And at my workplace, there is some leeway in terms of mixing work and private life - but then again, we aren’t military.

I don’t think this post should be downvoted, let’s discuss it.