DiggyJohnson

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Why We Play (in progress): A book exploring the reason that so many people play RuneScape and games like it.

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Comment · 18 days ago
Mostly playing devil’s advocate here but if the McDonald’s app glitched and showed a popup claiming to be a licensed psychiatrist I don’t think they would be liable for the consequences for any self harm that happened to me because it’s unreasonable.

Not my best wording for the metaphor but why would a company specialized in creating fictional personas for individual users be liable if their fictional personas pretended they had real advice.

Aka how is this different than telling the doctors and the police that a horse told you that you would be hexed if you didn’t try and rob the store?

Comment · 24 days ago
Can you recoup the cost somehow? I’m just flabbergasted by your first sentence.
Comment · 1 month ago
Not at all. How do you come to that interpretation? It means restricting all competitors.
Comment · 1 month ago
what?
Comment · 1 month ago
What? How am I doing that. Claude writing style and the discussion at hand are two entirely separate issues that I haven't conflated at all. How am I "acting like people are being grammar nazis"?
Comment · 1 month ago
How do they not communicate clearly? A few weeks ago they stated that they would like to regulate the pace of frontier model development/releases, and they reminded us of that in this post.
Comment · 1 month ago
I really don't think it's productive for internet forums to constantly be criticizing language choice when the meaning is clear. Better to respond to the substance of the issue than word choice.

Edit: In response to the initial replies. To me it clearly means "releasing frontier models at any pace less than as fast as possible". It implies relative restraint compared to the previous state and without stating the degree of restraint.

Comment · 1 month ago
That would be a MASSIVE portion of the budget for a single discretionary item.
Comment · 1 month ago
I never claimed it did explain all their poor decisions. But it increases the chance they'll have to go to their alternate if the first landing attempt results in a go around.
Comment · 1 month ago
There was clearly bad weather in the area. What you said is just tangentially related facts.
Comment · 1 month ago
My 2016 Toyota Corolla has a 1.5 second audio lag and it’s my only issue with the vehicle. No clean way to update or upgrade just the Bluetooth component either.
Comment · 1 month ago
I don’t have time to write a longer response but thanks for the detailed reply.

As a modern but somewhat traditional straight dude my initial reaction is that the most solvable aspect of this jealousy - and frankly the most stereotypically female - is the concern over judgement from others. The father’s I know couldn’t care less that the other moms in their kid’s class were chattering about the fact that mom’s car broke down on the way to soccer practice, while mom is traumatized by embarrassment. They just want to make sure everyone is home safe and the car is fixed soon.

The reason I’m sharing this is because it sounds like have a foot in both camps in terms of anticipated anxiety. And thankfully handling a fear of judgement and actual judgement are issues that can be addressed.

I’m rambling, I hope you find the right partner regardless and I appreciate the response.

Comment · 1 month ago
Appreciate you sharing the info you could. That sounds really exhausting and pretty freaky.
Comment · 1 month ago
You captured this phenomenon very well in this comment. Appreciate you sharing it because it’s hard to describe exactly what makes this sort of behavior so bizarre.
Comment · 1 month ago
That would obviously kill the vast majority of the organic activity on the site.

One of my hobbies is hosting a weekly open mic/showcase event in my town at a venue the same evening every week. I often get confusion from people when I explain that it’s much easier to call out sick from my day job than miss a show, because even with perfect digital communication a cancelled show will still let people down that do show up.

Assume that I don’t have anyone on standby to fill in for me. My point is that organic engagement in any shared community is often tenuousand not “rational” in the way outsiders expect. These things are tenuous. Hope that sorta makes sense.

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