It becomes less boring by the day though.

115 is not "average" lmao

On A0 stance dancing is not as important I would say – it becomes the go-to when hitting higher ascensions, and if you want to beat the heart. I won A20 with all kinds of decks, even very off Meta (had a deck once that was like 5 wheel kicks and 6 Just Lucky's lol)

Focus on card removes and damage, keep your deck small, remove defends early. Make it a challenge to beat enemies in the least amount of turns (with a bit of luck you can beat most fights in act 1 in turn 1 or turn 2 – if you're very lucky even bosses at times!)

Often you just need 1 Mental Fortress or Talk to the Hand to block effectively!

Watcher is a pretty cool character because you usually just need 1 of everything to get very far.

• Damage: 1 Blasphemy, or 1 Indignation, or 1 Crush Joints; combined with 1 or more Flurries, or 1 Tantrum, or 1 Sands of Time; even Brilliance does 12 dmg for 1 energy, which is a lot and can be A good pick in act 1 even if you don't go for a Mantra build
• AoE: 1 Conclude, or 1 Consecrate edit: or 1 Bowling Bash (is not AoE but still counts here I would say)
• Card Draw: 1 Rushdown, or 1 Inner Peace, or 1 Empty Mind
• Block: 1 Mental Fortress, or 1 Talk To The Hand for Mid and Late Game; 1 Decieve Reality, or 1 Wallop for early and mid
• Momentum: 1 Omniscience, or 1 Scrawl, or 1 Vault
• Scaling: 1 Fasting, or 1 Alpha, or 1 Lesson Learned, or 1 Meditate-Establishment combo

I agree, there are still good reasons not to use commercial AI products though.

https://www.anthropic.com/news/securing-america-s-compute-advantage-anthropic-s-position-on-the-diffusion-rule

https://www.mintpressnews.com/trump-killed-minerva-stargate-make-secret-more-dangerous/289313

A new AI/informational war arms race? Whatever, because...

I just don't like it

Clonk Endevour is not my favorite game, but I played it a lot with friends when I was younger. You can play with 2 or even more people, with just a monitor and a keyboard! Also it's so old it should run on any potato.

edit: real answer is Slay The Spire

edit2: ah shit now all of a sudden all the good indie games I played pop up in my head. Project Kat I enjoyed. Synthetik was awesome. Caves of Qud hasn't been mentioned yet (didn't play it much though).

Just an addition to all the long comments already here:

There are some games that don't work on Linux, mainly big corpo multiplayer titles. https://areweanticheatyet.com/

Windows 10 LTSC IoT might help. (This gets recommended a lot on lemmy I noticed) : https://massgrave.dev/windows_ltsc_links

It's not forbidden to set up dual-boot. I would recommend using Linux as your main OS though.

I hope they leave that experience the main focus.

Hmmm, so in the short Devlog on YouTube they ask "what do you wanna see in Subnautica 2?", and the top comment says

A personal wish of mine is to have proximity chat in multiplayer, with options such as radios to communicate from a distance

So the players want Multiplayer, but they also want the whole game to be the same "intimate" experience as Subnautica 1 – I was really worried about that because a big part of Subnautica 1 I feel like was this absolutely overwhelming loneliness/solitude. I never got this specific feeling in Below Zero.

I recently drank some bland black coffee and ate some grapes while/after that. Tasted kinda awesome and I don't know why. Give it a try

I do believe people should have the right to spent their money however the f they want, but this becomes extremely problematic if you don't at least regulate their spending behavior, either directly or indirectly.

So okay, now you have a society full of hopeless addicts, but at least nobody has to starve. Sound kinda... dystopian if you ask me

Oh it even has a name! Yeah I searched for "pink cloud", seems like not everbody experiences it. Curious.

My gut tells me it's unlikely but not impossible for this to be true. Is this more than just a suspicion of yours? There are far more effective ways of propaganda than fabricating posts and replies on lemmy.

Generative AI is something inherently different. It's a bias multiplication machine. Have you ever visited CivitAI?

Yes, the application is similar. GUIs like ComfyUI are sophisticated and grant a good deal of control and creative freedom, much like Photoshop, DAWs or Blender.

All these technologies you mentioned have one thing in common they do not have in common with generative AI though: you could use them to model after the real world. Photorealism (as in: an exact representation of something existing in the non-digital realm) is achievable with all of those. It is not possible to achieve it with generative AI. AI only has its own "space" where it snatches ideas from. Gen AI can never be a gateway to art by itself, but its also way too powerful to just be a new tool.

Also I don't get how open source gen AI will lead to the proletarianization of art. What people need to create art is education, pen and paper, health, and free time. Making those accessible to everyone is much easier than to make sure everybody who wants to do "art" gets their 1000$ GPU and tons of RAM.

Yes and no. Under communism, we would be able to have less AI and it would be developed slower.

My statement was incomplete, AI is not just an economic venture, the big players (maily The US and China) catched on about its massive potential for informational warfare and control over their population.

As long as there's states fighting over resources and power, any technology that can be utilized to get an edge over you enemies, not just AI, can and will be pushed forward, damn the consequences. Plus if you see capitalism as an entity itself, you could also argue that it's doing this for its own survival.

Communism is not the only vision of a stateless society spanning the globe, but one whose thoughts and ideas have been well established.

You point is that AI has inherent issues, just by existing. You are correct. But I believe if we limit the application of AI to non-military uses, if we decouple it from power struggles, its benefits may outweigh its undeniable cost.

I disagree. The hunger for chips, energy and water only got so big because venture capital decided to invest big in AI corporations. If we had another approach to ressource allocation we could slow down the rapid advancement and with it the ressource consumption.

This would also mean that there would time to discuss ethical/philosophical questions of AI and AI usage.

Those are literally the problems this post means. And all of what you mentioned could be described as a direct or indirect consequence/effect of capitalism as well (ravaging industrialism, culture industry, copyright for mee but not for thee). AI in this context is just a technological catalyst.

Did you read the Communist Manifesto yet? It's pretty short and a good starting point. Definitely more digestible than The Capital. It establishes and explains most well-known Marxist terminology, so you can put it into context if you stumble upon it elsewhere. You can find it on the internet pretty easily.

a gamble anywhere else

Are there even any communities related to creative writing anywhere on lemmy? Never stumbled upon any

I would much prefer an honest approach to generative AI over more culture industry corpo slop made by humans for profit, and the reduction of artists to mere service providers (which is where artists come from, I get that).