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  • Multiple states here have the ban, not just Victoria because not only is it used to make pruno, it’s strong scent is used to hide it and distract sniffer dogs looking for drugs being brought into prison. This has been the case in state prisons for 20 years.

    I get what you’re saying and I don’t disagree fundamentally. Seeing how prisoners get treated in the US, I get the instinct of siding with prisoners. Also, he had his case heard and I think he earnest effort was met with earnest consideration being that he was heard and allowed to make his case. The fact remains that 1. Spreads can hardly be considered a human rights issue, at least specific choice of and 2. Being in prison in general, let alone for murder, means inherent limitations as that’s sort of the point of being imprisoned.

    Again, I agree that doesn’t mean “fuck ‘em treat them as poorly as you like” but lack of Vegemite is hardly a cruel and unusual punishment.














  • It’s potentially possible but becomes way more complex for the modder. They would also still have to write some sort of text/prompt addition for every quest end flag that was triggered. You’d also have to determine which flags would be “global” game world knowledge. Like you assisinate a specific gang leader for the FIB undetected in a covert mission. It would be weird for a random NPC to then be like “good job sniping John McCrimeboss in that job for the government”.

    Did it really take over 700 arrows to do the job?". Probably not super hard if you track weapon type and number of strikes.

    Again on paper, sounds easy but unless the game tracks that already, the modder would have to build these systems themselves which would potentially be beyond the ability/effort of vibe coders. Skyrim for example, why would the devs code in tracking how many weapon strikes, and of which particularly weapon it took to kill something if it doesn’t serve a game mechanic? So that would have to be built.

    The only game I’ve seen it somewhat work for is stalker, because of the game already having the PDA mechanic in it. So a lot of the game world events/triggers had corresponding text entries/details so they could be printed to the screen as message. E.g. when you shoot and kill a bandit with a SPAS12; “I just saw Joe stalker shoot a bandit with a shotgun, that guy owed me money” would sometimes be printed in the game global chat from an NPC. The only part that comes the game world/events is <player Name> and <Weapon type>, the rest is a template. So all the the modder to had to code was the LLM to be fed the printed message and occasionally generate a response based on it. All of which is simpler than being asked questions by the player. Which you could also do but was very limited (I think the PDA message history was included in prompts so the response could have basic knowledge of recent events if asked).


  • Unless it’s fed to them via their context window (text) no. Likely they’ll get randomly assigned one of few template personalities, maybe can remark on things that happen in the immediate area around them (game events that can be read and fed to them via text) and that’d be it. I’ve seen similar mods (though a while ago) for other open world games. It become pretty clear quickly that they’re only giving generic responses outside their pre-supplied info. The only exception could be story important NPCs that you could create a unique personality for that the LLM could reference for responses.

    Like asking a random shopkeeper in Skyrim if they know about a specific character you’re looking for. The NPCs have their essential status, schedules, their dialogue options and inventory. They don’t have any stat for “knows this character” or “is former X guild member” for example. If they’re married it’d be made apparent through dialogue to the player only.



  • CTDummy@piefed.socialtoFediverse@lemmy.world•Why do so few self-host?
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    13 days ago

    I get where you’re coming from but this is a pretty full on response isn’t it? I work in a technical organisation and plenty there don’t do it despite having the skill set. I assume this is more the framing of the question not “why doesn’t the average granny who worked as a teacher her whole life self-host?”


  • Man that fucking sucks, sorry to hear it. A static IP was an extra $5/month for my provider but we have a bunch of different providers here and this one is popular for being accommodating for stuff like that. According to their site you can just ring to request being removed from CGNAT. I should be grateful it’s competive. Even in my country I’ve heard about Comcast/Verizon malarkey.