GeneralRetreat
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It’ll be funny if Georgia also gets off the pot and indictes too.
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Could this go in US News instead? Lemmy is broadly very US-centric already, so posting US politics here too drowns out other global stories.
You might want to take a look at Shadows of Doubt. It’s a sci-fi noir game where you’re a private detective in a procedurally generated dystopian city. You’re supposed to solve murders but usually just end up causing more of them.
NPCs have homes, workplaces, acquaintances and routines, and you have the ability to interact with (and disrupt) all of it. It’s an Early Access game so expect jank, but there’s a load of really good let’s plays on YouTube if you want to see if it’s your kind of thing.
Is that a Space Marine Chapel Barracks I see there?
Make rhino and then blow it up with TNT. Take away their metal boxes…
Well, one context I’m already familiar with is the counter-terrorism duty in the UK. There is a program called Prevent that is designed to tackle radicalisation risk that could result in terrorism or non-violent extremism.
These programs basically work by placing a duty on certain types of organisation to report concerning behaviours that could result in radicalisation. An example would be a teacher or social worker overhearing a teenager espousing violent ideological positions that they’d been exposed to online.
This then results in a referral to the local counter-terrorism police unit, who carry out an assessment to determine the level of vulnerability and risk. Far-right ideologies including fascism can be accounted for here. Depending on the outcome, this may result in the referral being closed, or a multi-agency support plan being developed for the individual.
In that narrow band of circumstances, determining someone’s susceptibility to fascism as an extremist ideology is warranted. That’s in the context of a reactive specialist law enforcement assessment, when there is a justifiable national security interest in the prevention of terrorism.
That said, this is very different to indiscriminate profiling on a population level. If everyone in the UK was subject to mandatory fascism assessments, that would be massively intrusive and disproportionate, and an enormous infringement of civil liberties - even if the government attempted to justify it on the same national security basis described above.
In what context?
Who’d be doing the identifying, how would they be doing it, and what would they be using that information for?
‘Should’ is a question of desirability, so the above is really critically important.
I’m convinced that Musk is involved in some kind of Brewster’s Millions situation with Twitter.
I also feel sorry for the CEO (well, not really) as they’re clearly being set up as a scapegoat for the inevitable failure that Musk’s erratic and short-sighted behaviour will cause.
One of my all-time favourites is Freelancer, 2003. Just a really fun arcade space sandbox with an engaging campaign and great multiplayer and modding scene.
Why would blockchain be necessary to do that? Honestly, 99% of the time blockchain is just a highly inefficient buzzword.
Usually there are better ways to achieve the same outcome, with the added bonus of not automatically attracting a cavalcade of Web3 con-artists and grifters.
Thanks for sharing - interesting to see a breakdown like that. Very much interested to see what next month looks like too, accounting for the Reddit migrations.
In the event that the runway did end up shortening for whatever reason, do you think it’s likely that registrations would be put on hold as a way of capping expansion until more funding could be secured?
Something else that can help with this too:
If you’re using Bing, it can read the web page you’ve got open and use that to inform responses as context.
It can’t read anything that’s gated behind an account like a Google document, but it can read a PDF if you open it in the browser.
Due to that, I created a single document containing setting info, plot hooks, NPC details, session recaps and party details etc.
When prompting Bing I’d ask it to refer to the campaign document and that cut out a lot of the parameters I’d otherwise have needed to repeat at the beginning of each chat otherwise.
It also means it’s got access to a much wider pool of material to iterate on. For example, if I ask it to generate more plot hooks for a particular district in my city-based game, it’d cross reference NPCs and plots from elsewhere in the city, rather than providing a tailored (but generic) output.