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Cake day: June 16th, 2023

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  • Yeah, I remember that. I didn’t like how it felt tbh. Spend 3 points to get a what, +4 on a d20 roll? That feels real bad when the d20 rolls high and didn’t matter or rolls low and doesn’t matter. And it doesn’t matter 4/5 of the times so at the end of an adventuring day if you spent all your might on bonuses it could only pay off once.

    I mean sure, you get discounts as you level up, and yes, it really pushes you to use cyphers to actually solve problems, as trying for things directly was always a toss up, and that does push you towards the main themes of exploiting random artifacts all the time but I still didn’t like it.






  • The way I think about this is somewhat novel I think.

    Suppose we have two universes, everything the same, except one has free will and one doesn’t. Would an observer be able to tell them apart? I don’t think so. Maybe I just lack imagination, but I don’t see how free will would actually make a difference.

    Your decisions determine what kind of person you are and what kind of person you are determines what decisions you make. They are self reinforcing and tied up together in a big path dependant knot.

    Wanting to be a better person also only works if you let it change your decisions, bringing you one step closer to being a better person.






  • For the purposes of this Act, news content is made available if

    (a) the news content, or any portion of it, is reproduced; or

    (b) access to the news content, or any portion of it, is facilitated by any means, including an index, aggregation or ranking of news content.

    21 An operator must participate in the bargaining process with the eligible news business or group of eligible news businesses that initiated it.

    39 An arbitration panel must dismiss any offer that, in its opinion,

    (b) is not in the public interest because the offer would be highly likely to result in serious detriment to the provision of news content to persons in Canada; or

    © is inconsistent with the purposes of enhancing fairness in the Canadian digital news marketplace and contributing to its sustainability.

    Sounds a lot like the named companies aren’t even allowed to say “no I don’t want to display links at that cost anymore.”. And it includes indexing for searching, even if you only included the headline with no preview link, or allowed people to like/upvoat posts with links to news sites in them.

    So you have to negotiate if named, and the news sites reject your offer, you go to arbitration, and of the arbiter doesn’t like your offer (and by the text “I don’t want to show news anymore” MUST be rejected) then it goes to whatever the news corps offer was.

    If it just said “hey, we decided your previews generate too much value and violate copyrights, you need to pay royalties or else show the bare links” well, that would be dumb but fair. But being forced to transact seems bad.