that chris fleming bit about vibe dysphoria where the most toxic woman you know is always posting about how she’s like a cute little illustration of a mouse wearing a frilly dress but it’s the swaths of people calling themselves “just a silly little guy” who do not have a humorous bone in their entire body
Gnash, a raider living in the ruins of Charlestown, will flirt with male Vault Dwellers. The Vault Dweller can say they have a thing for bad boys with a Charisma 8+ check, regardless of gender. If the player is male, Gnash says the Vault Dweller and him have that in common and suggests taking them on a raid and celebrating after, then rewards a Psycho. If the player is female, Gnash will tell the Vault Dweller that they’re “not my type” and to take a cold shower, then rewards a Calmex.
When reading that “chatGPT lost a chess game against an Atari 2600” people need to remember that asking chatGPT to play against any chess-specific software, no matter how old, it’s functionally the same that trying to beat it to googling every move and just picking whatever result comes first.
(This is not an excuse for chatGPT, it’s a reminder that expecting any kind of intelligent behavior from an LLM is fucking bonkers, especially for non-deterministic problems)
“MAGA, like other iterations of authoritarian and fascist politics, thrives on the invocation of a vast and implacable enemy within that requires the dramatic exercise of emergency authorities and extraordinary measures to defeat it. But executing that invocation in the first place requires what’s technically known as “making shit up.””
