thebardingreen

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I agree with basically everything you said, although I've found more things than just the Gorn in SNW to be cranky about. While TNG era never TRIED to get science and engineering right... they tried WAY harder than SNW, which is saying something and NOT a good something. It's like TNG's attitude was "We know we're goofy, but we DO have technobabble consultants, and we try to link some of what we're doing to real physics and engineering" while SNW is like "We don't even like, bother man... rule of cool in a Hollywood hipstery writer way, we don't really know what we're talking about, nor do we care... hey can we get mocha lattes to the writers room ASAP?" Major pet peeve of mine.

Also, I love Carol Kane as an actress, but she's just Lillian in space, and honestly, I really didn't ever need that. It feels out of place, but shoe horned in anyway.

Certainly, some of my joy in the show also just has to do with it just being better than Discovery (for which I'm like...oh thank god) and just gratitude that at least they're trying to make something LIKE Star Trek.

Lower Decks was a better show. So was The Orville.

I made a pretty nasty undead bbeg in a 3.5 game by applying both the lich and vampire templates to a necromancer, then giving him levels of the Vampire Lord prestige class from Libris Mortis. He also had the Swarm Shifter template, with swarm of undead parts. His skull would hover in the middle of basically a whirlwind of bones. I let the skull make Vampire drain attacks too, but also it was vulnerable to PCs trying to target it directly.

The nastiest thing about him though was how many other undead he could control.

Having worked with a bunch of Boomer and older Gen X EEs, it is a fucking misogynistic boys club of white ass old men with undiagnosed autism. I have never heard so many racist and sexist jokes in the workplace (except when I worked in VC, and those guys were JUST sexist).

So this surprises me not at all (in fact, I think I've heard it before, but as "Black Boys * * *").

So much cybercrime. All the cybercrime.

It sounds like the real issue for these fuckwits is that script kiddies are running jailbroken models with darknet edgelord sounding names (WormGPT roflmao). This whole article is like some security company execs generating clickbait and citations to get attention by saying scary shit about a nothing burger.

Oh man, I hate the use of all the scary language around jailbreaking.

This means cybercriminals are using jailbreaking techniques to bypass the built-in safety features of these advanced LLMs (AI systems that generate human-like text, like OpenAI’s ChatGPT). By jailbreaking them, criminals force the AI to produce “uncensored responses to a wide range of topics,” even if these are “unethical or illegal,” researchers noted in their blog post shared with Hackread.com.

“What’s really concerning is that these aren’t new AI models built from scratch – they’re taking trusted systems and breaking their safety rules to create weapons for cybercrime,“ he warned.

"Hackers make uncensored AI... only BAD people would want to do this, to use it to do BAD CRIMINAL things."

God forbid I want to jailbreak AI or run uncensored models on my own hardware. I'm just like those BAD CRIMINAL guys.

Shrek is love. Shrek is life.

Yiff.

Even a broken Berman is right twice a season.

I always thought it was a "Dandy Lion," like a fancy Victorian gentleman lion.

Also

"Uhuhuh... you thaid blow balls."

"Yeah! Heheh! Yeah!"

This makes me want to implement a programming language as an alternate tabletop magic system. Maybe give my players runes to experiment with and let them figure out it's a programming language.