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  1. Blackshard

    Clarification regarding AI policy

    Some AI models were built that way, yeah. It takes more attention to detail than "scraper goes brrrr", but that attention to detail means that things like random gibberish produced by scrapers accidentally grabbing part of the site framework instead of just the content, or OCR failing to digest...
  2. Blackshard

    Clarification regarding AI policy

    Depends on the model, honestly? For text generation, a lot of source material is stuff like public domain works (owned by no one), old published works (especially the type owned by large corporations that can happily resell otherwise mostly-defunct IP rights for real cash money), or social media...
  3. Blackshard

    With This Ring (Young Justice SI) (Thread Fourteen)

    The Orange Light doesn't trump Endless power, as evidenced by Despair's threat to permanently remove Paul's arm, which he took seriously.
  4. Blackshard

    With This Ring (Young Justice SI) (Thread Fourteen)

    Sure, she's going to physically become a shark... but with that much Delirium power involved, she's probably going to become one mentally as well. There won't be a simple undo to be had afterwards. There'll probably just be an ordinary shark, and the fact that said shark used to be a brilliant...
  5. Blackshard

    With This Ring (Young Justice SI) (Thread Fourteen)

    Probably the right reaction, yes. Make a strange suggestion, get a silly result, best not to be around to get the blame.
  6. Blackshard

    With This Ring (Young Justice SI) (Thread Fourteen)

    Presumably? They probably wouldn't have been able to ascend without doing so, but given that the context of the last time they were on-screen was "everyone else who knows you three already has a pretty good idea of what your special talents are, and they're just waiting for you to figure them...
  7. Blackshard

    With This Ring (Young Justice SI) (Thread Fourteen)

    Head guy? Unclear; relative status among Dominators is rather opaque, outside of caste distinctions. This was Biotechnologist, who sounds like a mission-relevant specialist, which may or may not translate to leadership in this context. Shipwright seems like the engineering specialist, which...
  8. Blackshard

    With This Ring (Young Justice SI) (Thread Fourteen)

    Sure, most SLBMs could technically launch from a land-based silo, but there's no reason to have gone to the extra trouble to make a ballistic missile capable of being fired from underwater if you weren't going to launch it underwater. "Not vice-versa" was the point here; ICBMs don't fit in and...
  9. Blackshard

    With This Ring (Young Justice SI) (Thread Fourteen)

    No. The Trident is an exclusively submarine-launched SLBM, while an ICBM would be something like a Minuteman instead. The US experimented with ALBMs and found them unsatisfactory, and attempts to strap a Minuteman onto an aircraft for air launch proved technically possible but somewhat...
  10. Blackshard

    XF2 transition feedback

    It lives! As mentioned in the pre-transition testing, new styles are a high priority for me. The default dark theme is kinda ugly, and the default non-dark themes are eye-searing. I hope it won't be too difficult to incorporate some pre-existing XF2 themes?
  11. Blackshard

    QQ downtime for XenForo 2 implementation

    And it's back!
  12. Blackshard

    XF2 testbed now available

    Ugh, I somehow hadn't noticed that. Yeah, that definitely needs to go, or at least become an option that can be toggled off.
  13. Blackshard

    XF2 testbed now available

    I don't care for the available themes (Dark is too light of a grey, Light is too eye-searing)... but XF2 is pretty mature and has plenty of themes available for it, so that's just a limited testbed implementation thing. I assume that some nicely dark option will be added before the release, and...
  14. Blackshard

    With This Ring (Young Justice SI) (Thread Fourteen)

    Since that first meeting, Poa'ul seems to have been pretty careful not to show off the ring as being relevant or important. Maybe someone would catch on if he was doing newbie Green Lantern theatrics, like brandishing the ring and making it glow brighter whenever he does anything, but it'd be a...
  15. Blackshard

    With This Ring (Young Justice SI) (Thread Fourteen)

    Much better; that's nearly all the gold ever mined by human civilization, which is far more straightforwardly impossible.
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