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I want to distribute 10 points among 5 pools (0 is fine) randomly.

Actually this is easy.  It was more difficult when I had 12 points and each pool had a max of 10, but now that I'm reserving 2 points for special qualities it's literally just rolling a d5 10 times.

Edit: 5511521413
Welp- looks like I'm taking the Omniscient perk for utilizing my dip in every pool.  But 5 pts of concentration into Life is helpful.
And for my second pick... Astrologer because it provides scaling late-game power I might otherwise lack.  Even if I get Sanctify in my book.

Game: Caster of Magic.

Its a tv-show which takes place in the midst of struggle between Atheist and Theist society. Where the main protagonist is a guardian angel, an android that can fly, have sonar mapping, shoot lighting from the eyeballs and other cool stuff. Dreams too iirc. Jumped to my head when reading Roland comment in this thread.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KwyVQmuX2aY
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Series/RaisedByWolves2020

Omigosh that sounds incredible and the title sequence definitely has my attention, thank you very much!!

executing protect.sh *_*

I dreamed I was an angel again last night.  I've heard it's a common thing for some people.  Combines ideas of horrifying "beauty", alienation from humanity, and duty.  Plus who doesn't love metaphorical wings and extra arms?

Your computer doesn't print each email as they come in?  Weird, maybe a network issue

I made another stew!  Housemate(s) had my instapot for a bit, but they gave it back clean.

This stew was:
-carrots

Sorry, I mean, this stew was:
beef
coarse-sliced potato wedges
onion.  yeah, just one.  didn't want to bother the people with noses
green lentils
oats

The oats utterly dissolved, as usual.  The potatoes are delicious.  The beef... mmn, the beef.  It made a nice stock, even though I technically triggered the overheat warning and this shit never got up to pressure, hehe... it cooked plenty.
The lentils are mush.  And I precooked the beef by itself (with salt and curry+turmeric) because of peer pressure

OH YEAH seasonings: More turmeric, a little chili power, a dash of salt, and dose of chili powder.
Result: Much better with table salt (IT'S CALLED THAT FOR A REASON), and hot sauce to taste.     (LOTS)

Edit:
Housemate: "Oh what did you make?  ... ... .. Sounds healthy!  I'm sure you'll enjoy it!"
Gods above he's kind. He makes mouthwatering curries.

And I am absolutely enjoying it <3

It is nice to be acknowledged, EJ
We're a long way from proportional representation in government, obviously
but it'd be nice if we weren't obviously non-starters as candidates.  Someday perhaps.

As for it being our turn- sorry, literally nothing personal, but that reminded me of some liberals who tried to "comfort" me in the wake of certain deaths back in- well, it could be any month.

I marched last week but I haven't talked about it.  It was mostly quite nice.  We were peaceful and we were briefly attacked, but nobody received lasting injuries.

We will not be silent- Stonewall was a riot.
(And trans people led the charge, no matter what heterosexual-led astroturf groups like LGB Alliance and GAG say.  Homosexuals have always been and will always be our allies, whether in victory or as victims.)

That's not cool.  These bots are good at imitating the pleasantries of social interaction.  Like I said I think that's worth talking about!

...I shouldn't hide behind vagaries.  I think that AI can satisfy immediate social needs on demand, as we see when we use it for customer-service BS.  Perhaps "I just need to talk right now, I don't care if anyone's listening", too.

I've personally used it for the latter, and gotten surprisingly good cloud-sourced advice on some matters of personal growth.  (it was also encouraging/enabling to a fault, so I put up emotional shields and rationed my exposure, but it led my *actual* research in a useful way.)

Obviously it is NOT qualified for actual therapy or to be a real partner in a relationship though.  I'm in my 30's, with a partner, and I still found it seductively "human" and agreeable to my ideas.  That might entrap reasonable but lonely people into false relationships (romantic or otherwise!) and cause them real suffering.

Speaking of smut. Chatbot Rejects Erotic Roleplay, Users Directed to Suicide Hotline Instead. Yet another example of why I am saying that there are far more threats from AIs than the Skynet scenario, particularly when we are still struggling with last few world changing computer technologies.

Wait, wait, that's a REALLY weird way to phrase that...

So this was that Replika AI which IMO was pretty clearly advertised as a sexy companion.  The corp, Luka, turned off the explicit ERP option- and Redditors reacted so very strongly that the subreddit's moderators provided suicide hotline information.

like, am I crazy for reading the summary as "Chatbot autonomously starts denying sexy play, and tells users to seek help"?  The URL is clickbait too of course but damn.
I've seen a lot of... upset forum posts regarding Character.AI (the one I've used- for adventure scenarios and personal advice) and I do agree that there are concerns and interesting aspects to the emotional bond people are building with chatbots.