Moral grandstanding on the account of his political views and the fact that he does Nazi salutes on stage, on TV, for the world to see… might have something to do with it.
don't forget that Corp Por was not always the dominant combat spell. For instance there was the An Mani era of combat, and while i don't remember their names bot lightning bolt and meteor swarm were the dominant combat spell for a while as well
Aha, yes! And it looks like meteor swarm was Kal Des Flam Ylem).
Its time to shine was short lived, I want to say it didn't even last the entirety of October '94. At the time it was out of reach of most toons anyways, but each individual meteor was close to instakill, plus it was AoE. The downside of course was it was AoE and friendly fire would make you red.
I remember one time in that time range getting called in because an argument was brewing between some guild mates and another guild in some dungeon. I arrived, decided to end the argument with a meteor swarm, promptly killed literally everyone from both guilds due to the AoE, and was a dread lord for a while. Needless to say, not how I drew it up on the board!
Which ones? The wyrms or the big baddies? Dragons one-shot. I remember you needed protection, resistance to fire, and a healer/mage who could heal you consistently between volleys to stand a chance at taming, let alone killing one.
I think this changed during the Mondrian era but in my favorite era, SA/Renaissance, those were the baddies that made you run.
Oh, lol, not a literal dragon.
"Chasing the dragon" refers to inhaling vaporized drugs (like heroin or fentanyl) from heated aluminum foil, creating a moving, "dragon-like" trail of smoke. It is also an idiom for the elusive, futile pursuit of a high that matches the initial, intense experience, which becomes impossible due to tolerance.
It won’t handle serious tasks but I have Gemma 3 installed on my M2 Mac and it is good for most of my needs—-esp data I don’t want a corporation getting its hands on.
I run Qwen 3.5 30B MOE and it’s reasonable at most tasks I would use a local model for - including summarizing things. For instance I auto update all my toolchains automatically in the background when I log in and when finished I use my local model to summarize everything updated and any errors or issues on the next prompt rendering. It’s quite nice b/c everything stay updated, I know whats been updated, and I am immediately aware of issues. I also use it for a variety of “auto correct” tasks, “give me the command for,” summarize the man page and explain X, and a bunch of tasks that I would rather not copy and paste etc.
Nothing like coding, just like relatively basic stuff. Idk its hard to explain but I use AI so frequently for work that I have a sense for what it is capable of.
I should clarify that by small I mean in the 3-8B range. I haven't tested the 14-30B ones, my experience is only about the smaller ones.
In my experience, small models are not good for coding (except very basic tasks), they're not good for general knowledge. So the only purpose I could see for them would be, when they're given the information, i.e. summarization or RAG.
But in my summarization experiments, they consistently misunderstood the information given to them. They constantly made basic errors and failed to understand the text.
So having eliminated programming, general knowledge, summarization and (by extension, RAG, because if you can't understand the information, then you can't do RAG either, by definition) -- I have eliminated all the use cases that I had in mind!
That would leave very basic tasks like classification or keywords, but I think there they would be in the awkward middle ground of being disappointing relative to big LLMs for many tasks, and cumbersome relative to small specialized models which can run fast and cheap and be fine tuned.
Why in the hell is there so much social signaling? "I really enjoyed his work for <reasons and experience here>, but <you don't need to include literally any of this because it's taking a moral high horse and trying to promote ones ego/values>"
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