Tar_Alcaran

Exactly. Same in organic chemistry: very few things in the experiment will actually hurt you, but a lot of things on you will ruin the experiment.

This is basically exactly what Vintage Story does. And it’s working extremely well for them

Yeah ok, if you want good shoes, it gets expensive fast.

But if you know where to find cheap larp gear, please let me know.

Cheap? Mytholon. Cheap and good? Sorry, not really. I mean, Mytholon has great fabrics, but they’re not exactly sewn straight or neatly.

But a thousand bucks will get you there easily, depending on admission cost and food of course.

Edit: depending on what you want, Burgschneider is pretty great. Not super cheap, but definitely good and not crazy expensive

It’ll almost buy me three quarters of an 8 heddle loom, or buy me a nice benchtop milling machine to make said loom (and many other things).

It’ll buy a really great larp outfit, a barely acceptable reenactment outfit, or half of a suit of plate armor for either.

1000 bucks will get you a pretty awesome larp outfit, as long as you’re not looking for plate armor.

I know both, but I still went with “Duke Nukem isn’t a game” as my first thought

the bombing of Yugoslavia, Libya and the invasion of Iraq.

Those three aren’t remotely close to the same thing.

The bombing of yugoslavia was a UN authorized intervention against warcriminals killing civilians.

The bombing of Libya was a UN authorized intervention against a warcriminals killing civilians.

The invasion of Iraq (depending on which one) was a horrible farce led by the US to distract people from internal issues.

I’m not a machinist and the thought of making hexagons on a lathe makes me cry.

Honestly, just stamp out hexagons out of whatever sheet you have laying around, apply paint/lacquer or best yet, engrave a pattern. Pin it on a fabric backing, and presto.

No, it won’t drape, or be comfy, but it’ll be cheap and sort-of pretty. Actually, it would probably stab you in the neck several times during the 30 seconds you wear it…

The US isn’t bombing anyone, Israel is.

You should turn on the news

https://eu.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/06/21/trump-us-strikes-iran-nuclear-sites/84303364007/

https://www.bbc.com/news/live/ckg3rzj8emjt

Meanwhile, Europe isn’t actually bombing anyone, the US is.

I’m working on an 8 heddle (the things that make the string go up and down, it determines how complex your pattern can be), 80cm wide loom. They’re about 1200 euros to buy, and I really really want one.

It’s not really working well, tolerances are pretty tight, but I’m pretty motivated.

Best succesful project is probably an armor stand, handmade for husband’s larp armor. Not technically complex, but with a lot of cool hand carving

Well, when you’re used to privilege…

I’m a woman and the manliest thing I do is woodworking, the husband sews clothes (occasionally from fabrics I weave).

I also do bodybuilding, but that’s hardly masculine anymore, yay!

Even Cyberpunk 2077 ran perfectly on launch,

Liar.

Leftwing crypto fans are the epitome of the Horseshoe theory

It won’t happen while I’m alive. Current LLMs are basically parrots with a lot of experience, and will never get close to AGI. We’re no closer today than when a computer first passed the Turing test in the 60s.

That’s mostly because google search has turned to absolute shit. ChatGPT rarely returns anything useful either, unless you want the most absolutely mundane answers. Anything remotely niche or specific has a far too great chance of just being plain wrong.

LLMs are a way to turn hundreds of billions of dollars into mediocre slop content that nobody wants to pay for. Humans will generate mediocre slop content for a fraction of the cost.

There is no way LLMs of this kind will ever be remotely affordable, and I fully expect OpenAI to fold in a few years. Amazon and Microsoft are already bailing out on LLM, realizing they’ll never pay off.

In summer? Slight ew. A sports bra? Eeeewwww.

When it’s cool and you’re not sweating much? Meh, a week is fine…