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_The Golden Khan of Ethengar_

Fantasy Mongolia. Unfortunately, the NPCs, adventures, and campaign outlined here require close integration with the highest corridors of power and there's not much else to do. This one falls pretty flat.

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<AI is just a bunch of if-then statements> is the kind of stupid take that you have to have an above average IQ to fool yourself with.

Screwtape has a normal one.

[User was turned into a centipede for this post.]

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Ugh, I've been POV-pilled and its an infohazard.

Thank goodness my exposure is rare.

I call on @POTUS to declare that the full-time work week is now 30 hours and that all weekends are three days by default.

Me: how would you have felt yesterday if you didn't eat breakfast?

Kid: I didn't eat breakfast yesterday.

Me: Okay, the nature of my concerns has radically shifted.

My stress has reached the reclusively useless level.

I'm so stressed that I'm spending all my time on being stressed and none on doing the things.

I like tea.

I do not like the smug implications that tea is somehow good for you. (But not in any kind of way that could actually be traced to health or medicine.)

A solution is technical if it is precise enough to be goodharted, and social if it's so cryptonormatively imprecise that it can be used to coalitionally extract value

Mai and Hakase exchange art.

(A handful of sketches here have continuity with previous sketches! Shocking!)

Mio has a close encounter with her crush.

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Yuuko faces the music for her lax homework habits.

Hakase goes for a walk and gets scared by dogs. Yuuko and Mio try to help and get bitten.

(Several other sketches feature rare characters that I am too lazy to introduce at this point.)

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It kidnaps the president of the World Chess Federation to get him to revise the official rules of chess to say <chessmaster always wins>.

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Chessmaster is an AI designed to win at chess. It builds Terminator-style robots that hold a gun to your head and force you to play the Fool's Mate.

If you are policing people's "likes" on Twitter, you are a loser and should rethink tour life choices.

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