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  • You could have the PCs be in service to an evil wizard or overlord, and just take any regular plot and give them the baddies’ role.

    You could have multiple factions in a city, like noble houses, and give them some sort of goal to accomplish in that context. Think Game of Thrones or the drow in Menzoberranzan.

    You could have them doing something “good” but with a “the ends justify the means” mentality.









  • Summary of my comment: the study showed that the AI tool in question was an effective tool for the task, nothing more.

    I didn’t read this particular article, but I recently read a different one about the same study. I also clicked into the study itself and read the abstract and everything else that was freely available. The study was paywalled, but as far as I could tell:

    • Performance immediately displayed a sustained increase of 24% relative to baseline while using the AI tool in question
    • Immediately after the tool was taken away (after using it for three months), performance was 20% lower than the baseline
    • The study did not check to see what level performance returned to after three months without it, nor when it returned to baseline levels
    • The study also did not compare performance drops after returning from a three month vacation
    • The study did not compare performance drops when losing access to other tools

    This outcome is expected if given a tool that simplifies a process and then losing access to it. If I were writing code in Notepad and using _v2, _v3, etc for versioning, was then given an IDE and git for three months, then had to go back to my old ways with Notepad, I’d expect to be less effective than I had been. I’ve been relying on syntax highlighting, so I’m going to be paying less attention to the specific monochrome text than I used to. I’ll have fallen out of practice from using the version naming techniques that I used to use. All of the stuff that I did to make up for having worse tooling, I’m out of practice with.

    But that doesn’t mean that I should use worse tools.


  • Edit: also i have a very strong suspicion that someone will figure out a way to make most matrix multiplications in an LLM be sparse, doing mostly same shit in a different basis. An answer to a specific query does not intrinsically use every piece of information that LLM has memorized.

    Like MoE (Mixture of Experts) models? This technique is already in use by many models - Deepseek, Llama 4, Kimi 2, Mixtral, Qwen3 30B and 235B, and many more. I read that GPT 4 was leaked and confirmed to use MoE, and Grok is confirmed to use MoE; I suspect most large, hosted, proprietary models are using MoE in some manner.










  • But do nontechnical users care about the “missing” features? A lot of nontechnical users prefer simpler apps.

    There is a version of Blender that was made for Android. It’s quite old, though. But if you’re competent enough with Blender that you’ve memorized all its keyboard shortcuts and workflows, you’re likely technical enough to get it working via Termux. But if not, Nomad Sculpt (on both iOS and Android), SpaceDraw (Android only), and several other apps can serve the same purposes.

    Not sure why you listed video editing software and two different specific video editors, but Android and iOS both have Lumafusion. I’m sure there are other decent editors but I haven’t used them because Lumafusion is great. iPads do have DaVinci Resolve, though, for what that’s worth. If you care about using a FOSS video editor then you should care enough to install it via Termux. But let’s be real, most nontechnical users are probably happy using CapCut.

    DJ software - Cross DJ is free. There are other alternatives. And there are web based DJ software apps like YouDJ.