Reading it again I can see the sarcasm oozing from it, but in the context of the comment before which seems a more sincere love of the guy (not least because it demonstrates someone actually watched his post–Top Gear content) I thought it was worth pointing out what a horrible human being Jeremy Clarkson is.

I honestly don’t know how I feel about his Top Gear castmates. On the one hand they seem much more genuinely good people from their own actions and content outside of Top Gear & its spiritual successor. On the other they did seem more than willing to get back on board with him even after he committed assault (on top of all the other shit).

I actually deliberately avoided mentioning the Troubles because I wanted to bring up cases where everyone today could fairly uniformly agree that we were discussing freedom fighters more than terrorists. Too many today would still say that the Provisional IRA were the bad guys (or at the very least that they were “as bad as” the other side). But the point I wanted to make was how given enough time, even terroristic actions can end up being viewed on the whole as coming from the “good guys”, if their cause is viewed as just.

I could also have mentioned American revolutionaries.

Ttrpg.network seems to work well. As does the Star Trek one, even despite serious problems with some of their communities’ moderators that the admins have failed to take action on.

I think it’s a format that can make sense especially if there’s a broad range of specific communities around a central topic. Like ttrpg.network can have communities dedicated to each RPG, one for memes, for art, for broader conversation about the hobby, etc. It means you know if you want something RPG-related, that’s the instance to look for.

In a way, you could even say all the various country instances, including my own home insurance, are doing the same thing. What is a country instance if not “entire instance devoted to one area”?

Are we really calling that racist homophobe who rails against road safety and assaults people a “role model” of any sort?

I just want to briefly make one point because I think most of the important points have been very well covered by others already.

What’s terrorism and what’s freedom fighters is determined by history. By the same standards that Hamas are being called terrorists, you could easily make an argument that 1910s Irish republicans, black South Africans under apartheid, and British suffragettes (not to be confused with suffragists) could easily be considered terrorists. Innocent civilians were killed by all these groups, but looking back on it today we almost universally say they were in the right, because they were fighting for their groups to receive rights denied to them by the ruling class. Their methods weren’t always as perfectly clean as we might ideally want, but the primary target was always someone oppressing them in some way. And right now and for the last half century+, Israel have been oppressing the Palestinian people.

2 hours a day is pretty crazy, depending on the intensity. I’m a dedicated amateur athlete and would have been under 10 hours a week training for a marathon, and woulda been barely over that even when doing my most intense triathlon training.

But a light run/walk most days with a harder gym session or run 3 or 4 times a week is a very different question.

If your goal is to get generally healthy, exercise is brilliant. Don’t be afraid to walk on your runs at first to allow you to recover and keep running.

If your goal is to lose weight, diet control is the most important thing. Exercise can actually make things worse if you aren’t careful, because your body will instinctively want to eat more. You’ll probably need to make sure that you don’t eat more kilojoules after starting exercise than you already eat now. But also as the other reply said, cut your carbs, add more protein (necessary to help your body repair itself after the damage that exercise causes) and veggies. Lots of leafy greens especially.

And what carbs you are eating would be better as whole meal and/or multigrain, rather than white bread/rice and plain pasta.

Punishment is about virtue signalling

Ooh careful. Don’t use that phrase. You might trigger the fascists!

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Wow. Unnecessary and rude. That’s a great contribution to the conversation.

Gonna be honest, I only vaguely recognise the name Patrick Swayze without knowing exactly what he’s famous for. An actor, I think? And I have zero idea who Paul Walker is. Anomalocarus I gather from context is an extinct animal of some sort, which is cool, but I lack the knowledge to know precisely why this specific species is highly valuable.

So Robin Williams gets my vote almost by default, even if I didn’t have more reason to choose him beyond that.

If you’re a fan of tieflings (based on your username), I’m curious, have you read Erin M. Evans’ Brimstone Angels series? The main characters are tieflings, and it’s where the quotes at the beginning of the race entry for tieflings and dragonborn in the 5e Player’s Handbook came from. Highly recommend.

I think your best option would be to find some data on biases of the different models (e.g. if a particular model is known to frequently used a specific word, or to hallucinate when asked a specific task) and test the model against that.

Oh that is adorable!

At this point, “crypto” is its own word short for “cryptocurrency”, and not for “cryptography” in the broader sense. It’s unfortunate, but that’s how people use it.

Haha yeah that was exactly my reasoning for switching too. First bought the book December 2022 amidst rumours of the upcoming OGL changes and after they’d already taken the action of ripping out pages upon pages of content from digital content I had bought with no way of getting that stuff I paid for back… Then it just took until around August '23 to actually start playing.

The fact that my players and I can get access to the full content completely free on AoN and in tools like Pathbuilder is also a pretty huge advantage compared to needing to buy physical and digital copies of each individual book completely separately and then additionally pay a subscription fee if you want to use the D&D digital tooling.

Oh huh. Until I read this comment I assumed it was written from the perspective of the weird alien things, and “bipeds” referred to the humans…

And my DnD group recently switched over to Pathfinder 2e

I suppose it’s been a little too long now for me to claim “recently”, but my group’s been playing PF2 for 13 or 14 months now. I’ve been loving it as GM. How has your group been finding it?

I’ve played a bit of Factorio and enjoyed it a little too much, but watching some video clips of Satisfactory a couple of years ago really didn’t grab me. Do you think it’s likely that either watching the game have a very poor sense of what it’s like (for someone already familiar with Factorio), or that the game has gotten a whole heap better over the last 2ish years?