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The laws of thermodynamics, namely the third one, insist that given a long enough period of time, temperatures will stabilize across multiple systems as energy (heat) transfers to a system with more entropy (cold). Yet with a counterflow exchanger, you can bypass this to rapidly cool down (or heat up) fluids beyond their mathematical equilibrium! Steve Mould gets into it far better than I ever could, if you fancy learning something pretty clever.
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You have made multiple threads about this faction. They've all been graved, and you have had some very patient players spend their valuable time to offer you advice on how to handle these things, as well as explain why constantly laying out your personal struggles only paints a bigger target on your back by people who get enjoyment in knowing you react so negatively to them. This isn't the first incident of you crashing out in GD; I recall you posting rants about Global and how they went out of their way to take the piss out of you. Clearly the advice given you back then was unheeded.
At this point, you're either a troll larping mental struggles to antagonize the community for attention, or you're being honest about yourself and are demonstrating why a game about crime, backstabbing, deception, and generally being an arse is not fit for you. If it's the former, go kick rocks. Pretty messed up to weaponize people who do have such conditions for your personal entertainment. If it's the latter, please step away from the game and seek assistance from a capable professional. Torn is not a "safe" place for you to openly bleed your life story and struggles and this community will use every little bit of vulnerability to harass and teae you down if you let them.
I'm going to assume you're genuinely spiraling. All we can really do is ask you to please stop with this. It's not healthy and it's getting concerning how you keep going out of your way to invite such hostilities when you get so upset about it.
Edit: wurdz hrd awn moobill
Screenies or ask to grave the thread.
Also: Pervs will be pervs. And men are not inherently perverts. Pretty scuffed to sit there and throw men under the bus like that simply for existing while begging us to be your personal army.
05:17:41 - 01/10/26 You found a Drug Pack and an Injury Cache on your doorstep.
Inb4 permanent forum ban
There are, but it's all limited to your drug and booster CDs primarily.
Nerve: Points, Alcohols, cannabis and LSD, and certain company perks are the main way to replenish on the fly. You can spend 30 points to refill your Nerve once a day. Alcohols exchange booster CD for Nerve, with more expensive alcohols giving more Nerve when used. Cannabis and LSD use your drug CD, and certain companies let you exchange job points for Nerve. There are other ways to passively and actively increase it, such as merit and faction perks, as well as certain holiday rewards.
Energy: Points, energy drinks, FHCs, Xanax and LSD, and company perks are the main way to get extra energy. Pretty much the same as Nerve here; 30 Points for a once a day refill, cans and FHC exchange booster for E, Xanax and LSD use the drug CD, and certain companies let you exchange job points for E. And like Nerve, there are other ways to gain or keep energy, such as holidays, faction perks for specific actions, or certain weapon bonuses.
If you're willing to pay in game cash for donator packs, or real cash on a subscription, you can increase your maximum E and E regen speed by 50%. Bigger factions demand you be a subscriber/donator for this alone, but it's so useful and beneficial in the long run that if you intend to play Torn for a long time, it's worth the investment.
Happy: Candies, a myriad of consumables, ecstasy, or company perks. Same deal as the other two. Candies and other consumables use your booster, ecstasy doubles current happy on the drug CD, and some companies let you exchange JP for Happy at a fixed rate.
I appreciate the handcrafted, artisanal approach. R+ for that alone.
But brother, it's only 150k; that's like a bad day of Disposal jobs... Considering the scale of retaliation of a guy with 6 billion to his name, It's probably a safe bet that TTNO didn't mug you. Might not be a bad idea to step back and simply apologize, what with halloweek being a month away and all. Lots of people looking for easy targets to bully for candies.
Learning that the war page dynamically updates as people hop in and out of the hospital, and they have direct links to attack them beside their names. Spent more wars than I'd like to admit juggling windows to keep track of online players trying to escape in the middle of a push, and I felt very silly when one of my officers told me I was doing too much.
The guy poses with a presumably loaded stockless Kalash platform while thumb-fucking the trigger guard to look 'tuff'. It gets to a point where the term stops being an insult and becomes an observation instead.
what is true is that i'm a better cat freak than you'll ever hope to be, and your tall hat doesn't make up for it.
aww, multi mad they got pwned because they're too fucking stupid and couldn't keep their ops clean? lmao.
I want to see the chat logs! I fully believe you, but I can't resist screenshots of someone's buffoonery being laid bare for all to see.
Total NW:
Sept.19: 3,733,506,689
Sept.20: 2,396,040,442
Sept.21: 3,023,328,341
yeah that would explain the existence of this thread...
You had a complete and total meltdown over a mug during elims prior to your first post, calling people 'fucktards' and 'wenches'. This is cope and seethe from you and you can't convince anyone otherwise.
Schrödinger's Douchebag. Sincerity or satire based on the reaction of the audience. You meant what you said but didn't expect the pushback, so it's all a joke and we're the ones being butthurt and serious, right?
Anyways. Tell us more about why you have bounties saying you're mean to women. That's what I'm really curious about!
The seals wouldn't be clubbed so much if they stopped collecting bounties for either attention seeking or being raging hemorrhoids at every person who upset them in a text based video game.
OK. Wow. Hello again, Narcissius.
For the record, I'm not part of the 'GFX Lounge' and everyone who is will readily say so. As Ahmad said, I'm merely some random dipshit who lurks the forums when I get bored because it's a better alternative than the algorithmic drivel that is 2026 SocMed.
This is about the extent of the talents I'm comfortable sharing when it comes to visual artistry. Picasso, I am not. Lumping me in with the wonderful designers that tie their name to the GFX Lounge is really just another attempt by Ahmad to insult them.
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But since you can't keep my name out of your mouth after your attempts to bait me by mocking me in my DMs and by putting bounties on me for expressing my opinions of you in the forums and trying to collect on you (You know, playing the game)...
Would trying to publicly shittalk someone you blocked be considered harassment? I don't really care; I like it when things are out in the open for everyone to see, but it's goddamn weird.
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A lover of the 1st Amendment Ahmad is not.
A coincidence? Maybe, but I wasn't receiving non-war related bounties prior to my attempt to collect on Ahmad, and no one else had put significant bounties on me after him.
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Guess I'll have to clear up some things, because Ahmad's saying a whole lot of things about me regarding the way I think and how I conduct myself. And that's pissing me off a bit because of how utterly wrong he is.
Ahmad is only shittalking me because I have openly called him a plagiarist and an art thief. I'm too lazy to repost the thread clickies that prove Ahmad as a plagarist, but they're on my profile for posterity and to make sure Ahmad can't duck from what he did. Changed my mind. Clickies for you! I have never embargoed Ahmad. I have never disrupted his flights. I have never attacked his Happy. I have never reached out to his faction and job to get him thrown out. I have never engaged in any campaigns to stiff him of potential customers. All of this is slander that Ahmad implicates me with by putting my name in this pathetic attempt of a callout post. Again, I'm a fan of transparency, so here you go.
I very briefly considered ignoring him myself, but changed my mind because I was curious to see how he would respond to me. But outside of that, I've never gone out of my way to screw with the chump. I'm not in any services Discord like BHG, HIVE, other affairs, and I've never bought such services on an individual basis. Scout's Honor.
Truth be told, I was kind of thinking about dropping Ahmad as an enemy because after everything was said and done, I didn't really feel like spending more energy on them, thief as they are. But since they can't fucking help themselves and not drag people into drama... That plan's changed.
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OK. So you didn't bully him, Dispy. What's your point?
Beyond calling out a lying piece of shit art thief for the brittle spined scumsucker that they are, I mostly want to clear the air about my broader opinions about GenAI and its place here in TORN, since Dipshit McGee wants to cry and shout that the only reason I dislike him is because and ONLY because he uses GenAI.
I am not a neo-luddite as some of the clanker lovers want to espouse. In fact, I am a cybersecurity nerd by study and hobby. I'm also a pretty big literature and tabletop dork (If the account theme wasn't enough of a tipoff). By proxy, that has allowed me to meet many wonderful storytellers and artists over the years. The discussions about the prevalence of GenAI since the very early days of DALL-E is something I can't avoid in my social circles. And while I have expressed my general displeasure about GenAI elsewhere, allow me to let you in on a little secret. You ready?
You sure? OK.
I've cranked out prompts myself. Primarily through Midjourney, and mostly to help me get the broader details of a character I want to commission for a tabletop game, or the vibes of a scene I want to build upon with a friend of mine for their campaigns. But I've pressed the funny magic picture generator button. I'm a dirty clanker user too.
But that means I know what generating images entails. It's not an afternoon's worth of hard work involving esoteric knowledge of the LLM and constantly grinding away at fine details to get the perfect results. It is, at best, intermediate technical writing utilizing keywords and weights to shunt out broad depictions while you pick the best result to form the baseline for the next set of details and processing you want to crank out. It's a wholly uninvolved process that, with the right model, does every bit of legwork for you.
And that's not a good thing. It turns artistry into a rote, bog standard commodity. It strips away the exploration, the expression of the human mind and its intricacies ans processes and viewpoints, and exchanges it with... Generic dopamine. Generic dopamine shunted out by systems that, in a twisted, hellish irony, were built by the digital Smithsonians and Louvres and Alexandrias the creators so desperately want to burn down before paywalling the pale fascimilies that come after. And I find the narrative that this is something that should be embraced to be terrifying; exchanging the human expression for the convenience of machine learned genericism is a societal and cultural death that I don't think we should accept so readily.
But...
I also get it. I get why GenAI is used. And hells, while a lot of it is eerie slop that never looks right, I'll admit there's a certain je ne sais quoi to it when it's embraced with a sort of whimsy and lightheartedness to it. My faction has made pieces that have made me laugh and joke, and it does make playful banter in the game more amusing.
But it shouldn't be the stand-in for your individual expression and identity. It's OK to doodle; it's OK to slap together a few terrible image edits and post them as a meme in all the derailed threads in GD. It's OK to make your banners and profile pictures and forum signatures some early 2000s era digital color vomit that wouldn't stand out against a jarhead's Crayola lunch. It probably won't look great. Hells, it probably won't look good.
But it's yours, isn't it? It's yours and it's an expression of you and what you are, and I know this is gonna be some corny, rainhows-and-glitter type shit, but damn it that's beautiful and you should create more things because there are people who want to see it and will encourage you to keep going. There are people who will happily put the brakes on everything they're doing to give you pointers and guides on how to keep going. It's my understanding that the GFX Lounge is all about doing that.
GenAI isn't going to go away, I know that. But you don't have to use GenAI to make something meaningful and wonderful. Art only ever needs to be appreciated by one person for it to have merit. That person can just be you, you know.
But if that's too much, too early, I understand that too, and I won't blame you for asking your choice of GenAI to make something simply for your own enjoyment. Just don't be a bitter and vindictive plagarist who feeds the artwork of their critics into their LLM as revenge.
Don't be fucking Ahmad. Rotten inbred scrotum of a human being.
The only drug you should be using to boost your stats is Vicodin. And it's useless for Elims because you're always going to have people within range for you to fight and win against. Xanax should've been the only drug you took through the competition so that you could get way more attacks in for your team.
Ignoring that it's really easy to fly out even in the middle of an elim tourney, why were you at such a high addiction they felt it necessary to kick you? You only eked out 30 attacks and you only gained around 150k~ in stats over the past six months, so you weren't taking drugs to compete in Elims, or to grow... Nevertheless, unless you two agreed upon trains, I'm not sure why you're upset; most music stores don't pay a daily income; mine doesn't. And the gym gain bonus is so good for smaller players that it's almost enough to act as your 'compensation' as is.
are you implying that the players who do charge that much are using AI tools for the bulk of their work?
If I were a leader completely deadset on ensuring that the players in my faction had a guaranteed safe way to store their money, I'd gift them 50 points and tell them to buy access to the Stock Market. With 22 billion sitting around in the faction bank (Not even getting high volume assets and personal liquidity/investments), 50P is a rounding error on the accounting books. The concerns of 'safety' doesn't add up, especially considering that it's coming from a 10 year old account who's definitely been around the block long enough to understand that anything you don't have ready access to isn't 'safe'. It isn't even 'yours' in a tangible sense.