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Anyway, if we do manage to achieve a utopia where everyone has infinite free time for their entire life.

What would you guys do?

Assuming I'm still alive, music, games, reading, talking to folks, spending time with family, volunteering with local things of particular worth, whatever creative endeavors catch the eye. Basically, y'know, all the stuff I'm interested in but work concerns get in the way of.

Honestly, I'd probably have been a lot more productive and active with my life up to this point if I hadn't had to spend as much time worrying about and trying to stave off starvation and homelessness.

I think you'll find that nobody was saying that. Just that music, performed by a human with interpretation and/or character, is better than music, performed mechanically perfect by a computer.

... this is just strange, to me. Whole discussion that's been along these lines has been. Are all of you really so unaware to the fact that a computer can be made to perform imperfectly? Usually with a fair bit of ease. Setting something up so minor variations (which is, y'know, all that interpretation and/or character is, mechanically) are introduced into playback is... not some kind of eldritch knowledge from beyond the stars. It's literally just an extra bit of code or a particularly designed bit of hardware. Games do it all the bloody time; the entire field of procedural generation is based around that exact concept. Dwarf Fortress is an example of some of the methodologies involved!

Don't think we're at the point we've got the software/hardware that can take a look at a crowd and improvise on the fly based on their reactions yet, no, but I wouldn't be surprised in the least if we do before I'll start being statistically likely to die of old age related complications. Y'all are seriously pigeonholing the technical capabilities of artificial music production and the (few) likely limitations on its future development.

Eh, I've read bits of the manga. Thing was mentioned enough curiosity got to me. It, at least, is not explicit, or what I saw of it wasn't. Still pretty fanservicey at points (with all that entails considering the ages involved), but not even at, say, To Love-Ru levels, much less anything that says t'blazes with it and goes full tits out and on parade or straight up porn. Wasn't very interesting though

But still, far as I'm aware it's not actually straight up loli hentai or anything. Just mumbling around fairly taboo themes.

They might be using an alias or sending the money through a proxy.  Look out for donors listed as BroAbdullahTheSecond.

Well, I am seeing some contributions from folks in South Jordan... Utah. West Jordan, too. Same state :V

Though, at least in the data I did manage to load, there are a handful of abdullahs. You'll have to load the data yourself if you want to check, though, heh. I really don't have the software for handling sifting through this much data on this computer, apparently.

How about you stop playing thread police. I'm tired of you telling people what they can or can't say.

Slus, I ain't telling anyone what they can or can't say. I'm just asking they say it somewhere else when it seems like folks are going off a bit too hard, particularly when it's a massive and historically volatile derail.

Please take this shit to some other thread. The israel/palestine thing has been tread over repeatedly, and ended up getting a number of threads locked due to folks that couldn't keep their bloody xenophobia in their pants. Let's not do that again, here, yeah?

Hadn't seen that first one, yet, so definite thanks, heh.

Had ran into the second, though. Actually the first LP I noticed. He... he was honestly the most painful to watch in combat, iirc. Spent all time maneuvering, basically no time fighting, massive losses that wouldn't have happened if the blighter'd just attack instead of prancing around like a git. Couldn't seem to grasp the concept of walking zombies into enemy lines, despite repeatedly stating the intent to do so, or something along those lines. Only about middle tier in terms of empire management incompetence, though, which was something. Still pretty painful, but not most painful. Unless I've got them mixed up and that's the one that wandered around like a chicken with their head cut off, doing nothing much at all, in a vampire campaign, in which case they were the worst I've yet encountered :V

Frumple:

1. That legend one was actually the one that broke my camel's back and led to me coming in and asking XD

Was watching the dwarf campaign stuff he's got up... haven't noticed any cheese in what I've watched so far, but he kept doing things that hurt to watch anyway. Cheese doesn't even particularly bother me (I was perfectly okay watching one guy pelt down tier 2+ vampire units with a fireball ring at range while the AI sat, unresponsive), I just don't want to constantly be seeing stuff that can only really be described as glaringly bad decision making. They ain't gotta' be good, just good enough I can't tell they suck. Though... yeah. If he hurt, you may never want to go looking for other ones. Like said, he was the least bad I've seen so far.

2. Ah ha, so there actually was a mechanical reason for that! Good to know for sure; half the reason I was asking was because I couldn't really notice a difference between the two arrangements.

3. Possibly! It had red arrows pointed at the ground instead of a specific unit, whatever it was, and acted like an attack-move command. Lack of a charge would kinda' make sense! I just wish I could say with any certainty any of the people I had watched were actually aware of that.

4. Upkeep'd make sense. Not a single one I've seen actually mentioned it, but it would be a good reason to hold off (or at  least immediately dump the hero, somehow). Still would think the item and the easy XP would be a good reason to hit early even if you did need to ditch the hero, but eh. That, and expensive or not, it'd seem like dumping maybe a squad or three of early chaff infantry or some shit for a unit that has a skill tree would be... smart? I very literally don't know, and also can't check, heh.

Though... speaking of heroes, how good of a thing is it to have 'm loitering around? The time or two someone used one they seemed pretty useful (even if only as a beatstick attached to an army), and there was at least one vid where the guy basically got his shit pushed in by two or three of the things wrecking havoc. Even outside their fancy action stuff, how would one match up to its upkeep worth of early infantry?

E: Ah, and @mach, thanks for the recs. Dunno if I'll check 'em out - I really am looking for ones o'this game, 'cause the vid or two I've seen of Call honestly looked like complete ass and I have less than zero interest in the non-fantasy parts of the franchise -- but thanks none the less!