You can also tell by zooming in and looking at the focus/detail/resolution difference between the card’s art and the wood of the table along the edge of the cut-away hole. That slightly jarring difference of resolution is a dead giveaway for a photoshop.

10K at the low end.

If it makes you feel any better, the wood grain in the hole doesn’t line up with the wood grain of the rest of the table. It’s a slightly sloppy photoshop.

Sorry, I stole his wallet and it just had a pocket lint collection in it. Really varied fabrics in there though, kinda impressive

There’s a series of novels kinda based around that idea. Magic 2.0 is the name of the series. Basically various hackers from different time periods discover a file that controls the whole universe and learn how to edit it with code/macros and become wizards because of it

Oh they absolutely are the worst.

I’m sorry to hear that, those types are so much trouble to deal with. I had a deeply narcissistic roommate in college who felt they always knew what others were feeling/thinking. They got quite abusive by the end and it really messed me up for a while. All that to say, I know that type of pain.

I think maybe narcissistic types tend to seek out patient, understanding people. Maybe consciously they think they’re looking for love and understanding, but unconsciously it seems like they’re looking for people they can reliably abuse when they’re having a bad day, y’know?

I don’t put up with those sorts anymore, it makes life much simpler.

As an allistic person who also puts lots of effort into being understanding and prefers to be conscious of and verify/disprove my assumptions, I agree that most people are maddening when it comes to this crap. I can have a full, detailed breakdown of my internal state ready to go and they’ll just project onto me if they’re riled up enough to not really be listening.

I’ve found the best trick you can pull when somebody does that is to find what you agree with them about and talk about that for a while. Once their head cools off a bit more and the conversation cools back down to normal emotional temperature, you can calmly tell them how you were really feeling and how it hurts to be misunderstood like that. Usually that elicits an embarrassed apology, from adults. If it doesn’t, they probably don’t want to be your friend, they wanted to be your abuser, and you their punching bag.

All just in my experience, of course.

That’s a femboy, friend

Hopefully without the rampant, proud misogyny and racism

IMO, this is an issue specific to 4e and 5e. In 3.5 and older, it wasn’t as expected that D&D would always be balanced with winnable fights. Often you’d have horror moments in modules/campaigns where you were expected to run away or die.

At least the way my dad taught the game to me, 2e was almost survival horror for lower level characters.

Nah, XP was peak. The last time the backwards compatibility worked with any sort of consistency

NVME SSDs vs HDDs, perhaps?

If your top priority is connection stability (and latency is right behind that), consider going wired with a USB extender and a big USB splitter at the couch-end. You’ll save a bundle and the connections won’t ever drop

No, that’s a queue. A coup is what detectives are always looking for when they’re investigating crimes.

I believe commercial LLMs have some kind of watermark when you apply AI for grammar and fixing in general, so I just need an AI to make these works undetectable with a private LLM.

That’s not how it works, sorry.

Quantized with more parameters is generally better than floating point with fewer parameters. If you can squeeze a 14b parameter model down to a 4-bit int quantization it’ll still generally outperform a 16-bit Floating Point 7b parameter equivalent.

It’s gonna be more like 4K, I suspect. It’s an iterative improvement for crap like voice assistants, photo enhancement, and justifying spying on users, so it’s gonna keep getting pushed.

Second one seemed more like a flex than for the lulz, but yeah. Definitely a “because I thought it’d be cool”, which is a wild reason for self-surgery

No, I was genuinely guessing at what you were getting at, since you were alluding to one particular unnamed nation that relies heavily on slave labor. IDK if you opened that article, but it’s from last month and is a major report by the AP, so US slave labor’s been on my mind because I read the news.

You then seemingly got annoyed at my guess and decided it was some sort of debate. I pointed out why my guess was reasonable and now you’re trying to take a victory lap because I apparently annoyed you by not being a goddamn mind reader.

Seriously, you’re acting like I’m the one with the attitude here and all I’ve done is reflect yours back to you in one comment because you acted like I don’t know what slavery is. But I’m the one being an asshole?

Hard to say for certain, per a recent AP report, privacy laws protect the info of which private companies specifically are using prison labor at any given time in several states.

Seriously though, check out that article. Wild.

Have you read the 13th amendment? Prisoners in the US are legally allowed to be used for slave labor. That’s what I thought you were referencing