makes you wonder if/how/by who its been used all these years

yeah, the timing is ‘interesting’

The most disappointing part of school is taking a 101 class and making a bunch of deductions based on what you learn, and then taking the 201 and learning that other people had the same ideas first.

I suspect this is incompetence, but once Oracle gets it the enshitification will be due to malice.

Yeah, not sure if its badly configured AI, or an employee not getting paid enough to care.

I wonder if their staff have a ticket quota system that lacks oversight of whether or not the ticket’s support needs were actually addressed before it was closed?

Are you suggesting that golf balls migrate?

eating a what?

Born of contraband smuggling?

mfw Bezos wants to build Mikoshi

Weakness to Magic stacks exponentially with itself when it comes from 2 different spells.

For example, lets say you have 2 spells with Weakness to Magic 100% for 6 seconds: Spell 1, and Spell 2.

Spell 1: target becomes 100% weak to magic
Spell 2: target becomes 2 * 100% = 200% weak to magic
recast Spell 1: target becomes 2 * 200% = 400% weak to magic
recast Spell 2: target becomes 2 * 400% = 800% weak to magic

And so on. After a few stacks of that debuff, and you can 1-hit-kill any foe with a spell that deals damage.

Weakness to Magic also works on the player character and it will amplify the effect of buffs. Stacking it before casting your buff spells lets you walk around with millions of health, stamina, and mana for short periods of time.

My experience of the game was similar. I’ve started to make a few characters and lost interest before character generation was complete. The D&D 5e rules just aren’t that interesting from a character creation standpoint. A couple times I did get to the spelljammer, even made it all the way through the prologue once, but then I found that managing progression for several additional mechanically uninteresting characters just made the game even less fun.

the school’s owner siphons off all the resources, leaving very little for the teachers, staff, and students to utilize.

2 guys cook cafeteria fare for the whole school - they don’t have time to get fancy. they want to make good food, even though they don’t get paid very well, but the ingredients they’re given are mid shelf cans of things purchased from bulk warehouse stores like Costco or Sam’s Club or whatever the local equivalent is. it tastes decent and checks all the nutritional boxes, but is less exciting than food you can make at home or buy from a restaurant.

They’re still talking about doing it if they can’t raise enough money to make it through the next R&D cycle. The deals with Nvidia and USA’s federal government gets them about half way there.

oh my how the turntables

What are the odds this would let them make better games?

Is it worse to be owned by vultures? Or to be a publicly traded company that’s legally compelled to maximize short term profit at the expense of long term viability?

eugenics

if the people human livestock who need medical treatment to live are allowed to die, then the babies of the survivors will be cheaper to maintain because they’ll need less medical treatment

link is broken:

“You cannot negotiate with authoritarians. You cannot negotiate with fascists. They don’t stop ̶u̶n̶t̶i̶l̶ ̶e̶v̶e̶r̶y̶o̶n̶e̶ ̶c̶o̶m̶p̶l̶i̶e̶s̶.”

FTFY.

Fascism requires an “other” to exist. When all the current “others” have been killed, they must invent a new one or perish.

The goalposts are ever shifting, and the in-group forever shrinking.

Its autocannibalism.

There is absolutely no chance a Toyota Corolla is slower than a Bugatti Veyron. There are so many more Corollas on the road!