That's why I like the PBTA approach. All the rules you need are right there on the character sheet and a couple of pages of quick references sheets.
Even with it's stripped down system, we spent plenty of time rulebook diving in Dolmenwood, where I've never needed to reach for the rulebook running Dungeon World. It manages to be very concise, but also massively more capable as a system.
I am sure those systems deserve a modern renovation, but as a general matter, I think the particulars of game systems matter less, overall, when it is not a mechanics heavy system like Pathfinder and DnD 5e...or Rolemaster. It mostly comes down to rulings over rules...which is why rules lite systems, e.g. Mausritter, Knave, Into the Odd, have play in the OSR/NSR scene.
I do not know where on the crunch spectrum the systems you mentioned fall,
Firefox on desktop renders as black text on white background. The link colors are yellow, which is not great, but still okay for me to read.
I use the "Dark Background and Light Text" add-on. Sometimes the add-on makes a bad website worse (like IMDB), but it can be switched off with a click.
Anthropic/Dario getting a lot of hate in this thread, but the argument he makes is rational if you believe for one second that AI is important to national security and that it can, or will soon be incredibly dangerous is misused. People pointing out that this position benefits his company might be overly reductionist in how they think the world works. I believe Dario and Anthropic about their belief that AI safety is paramount because they put serious dollars behind research to improve safety/alignment, not just lip service for others. Those resources could get spent elsewhere but do not. Certainly it doesn't at OpenAI to that degree.
Dario is a fascist who wholeheartedly believes Yankee exceptionalism and its divine right to brutalize anyone in order to achieve its goals. Anthropic's models have helped bomb innocents over and over and over again, and will continue to do so.
If you think he gives half a shit about safety you've had a dozen lobotomies too many and should reconsider every decision you've ever made.
Regarding words and their meanings, would you agree the current US regime is fascist in nature? What with the wars of aggression, the setting up concentration camps to put the undesirables to deport, using masked thugs with no badges to kidnap people in the street (and shoot people who protest), disregard for the Constitution and rule of law, curtailing of human and civil rights, ever increasing surveillance? Weird how people really close to the highest echelons of the regime keep getting in trouble for throwing Sieg Heils.
Would you not agree Palantir is at the forefront of this transition towards fascism?
What would you call someone who, as CEO, chooses to partner with said regime and Palantir? And not just in unrelated, innocuous shit, but in actively helping blow up innocents, including triple tapping a fucking school and killing hundreds of schoolgirls?
> So do you consider everyone who works at defense primes like Raytheon fascists?
They are collaborating with fascism, yes. Of course most of them worked in the industry before the current regime came in and made its fascist turn so they didn't set out to do so. Though the industrial military complex still was the main driver of US imperialism and so anyone who chooses to work in it is absolutely complicit in the mass murder of innocents the US has carried out. No idea about Boeing, can't comment on that.
Not that the agency of some working stiff is comparable in any way, shape, or form to that of the CEO of a private company valued at over a trillion motherfucking dollars.
> Fascism is a far-right, authoritarian, and ultranationalist political ideology. Its core features include a dictatorial leader, the complete suppression of opposition, and the belief that the nation or race is above the individual.
So no the current regime is not fascist in nature. There’s pieces that rhyme for sure but still words have meaning - the opposition isn’t meaningfully oppressed, we don’t have a dictator. Trump is awful but words still have meaning.
> Would you not agree Palantir is at the forefront of this transition towards fascism?
No more towards a surveillance state.
> Of course most of them worked in the industry before the current regime came in and made its fascist turn so they didn't set out to do so
So was Dario in his field?
So yes I don’t think there is a serious argument that Dario is a fascist.
> > Fascism is a far-right, authoritarian, and ultranationalist political ideology. Its core features include a dictatorial leader, the complete suppression of opposition, and the belief that the nation or race is above the individual.
All of those fit to a fucking T, except being a dictator which he hasn't yet managed. But he's been thoroughly undermining the constitution and limits on his power, has thanked Elon publicly for fixing the election, said he wants to run despite it being unconstitutional, and even that elections won't be needed anymore. He's fired was it Pam Bondi I think because she wouldn't persecute his political opponents as aggressively or vindictively as he wanted.
> No more towards a surveillance state.
My brother in Christ why the fuck would a democratic republic need a surveillance state. You're literally making my case.
> So was Dario in his field?
He was in AI sure. He CHOSE to partner with Palantir and lick the boots of the fascist US regime and its fucking department of war.
No skin off my ass though, it's your country. Enjoy the last dying gasps of your vaunted FrEEdUM. As we say in my country, nobody blinder than he who doesn't want to see.
I think we probably have a lot more in common than you think man, I am deeply troubled by things happening in the country and the world right now. That said, during difficult times it is more important than ever to think critically and not lose your head in a parallel reality.
Anyway, you really didn't make a point where it's fair to call Dario a fascist which was the point of this thread.
I believe forced exercise actually is counterproductive in terms of the facts that exercise usually has on depression, at least in animal models that have looked at the differences in forced versus voluntary exercise. There's a whole literature out there I believe.
The content was 'you need to get your head checked'. That isn't tone, that directly implying that if you hold that position, there is something wrong with you. It's rude and unnecessary.
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