u/AltruisticSpectrum — reddlx

▲ 53 r/WowUI+1 crossposts

[ADDON] FrameWorks 1.0.3

FrameWorks is a quality-of-life and UI customization suite for WoW: Forever. Hide or fade UI elements, customize chat and the minimap, adjust bag, cast bars and tooltips from an interface meant to feel like an extension to the default game art. Link to download and more info: https://www.curseforge.com/wow/addons/frameworks.

This project started out as nothing but a small personal tool to hide or fade certain elements of the UI. But then I kept getting ideas for implementations, most of which I consider should be part of the default UI experience, hence the design approach - making an addon that feels like it's part of the game's own menus and offers something that shouldn't have required an addon to begin with.

Personal favourites include: movement based panel fading, the ability to move and scale the compact bag, total sell price (currently unavailable without addon) and total/single auction price (with auction scanning!) in tooltips, custom cast bars scaling, bigger target debuffs, displaying completed quest XP along with total XP inside the minimap and last but not least the whole minimap toolset which provides in-depth customization.

The whole point behind this addon, at least for me, is to not have to go look for these settings in a bunch of different addons and just have them accessible in a single unified and intuitive interface. Planning to work on this indefinitely but I feel like a feature freeze is not too far away at this stage, followed by just live QA. Have fun with it and do give some feedback if you decide to try it out!

u/AltruisticSpectrum — 9 days ago

▲ 6 r/WowUI

[Addon] FrameWorks 0.9.1

FrameWorks is an all-in-one QoL and UI customization suite built for WoW: Forever. It sticks to the default art style and just makes the game more comfortable to play. Features include:

Hide or Fade: Bag Bar, Damage Meter, Issue Reporter, Micro Menu, Pet Action Bar, Quest Tracker, Raid Manager, Stance Bar, Totem Bar and XP Bar.
Automation: auto repair, sell greys, auto accept/turn in quests and double right-click fishing.
Fast Auto-Loot.
Fade Action Bars: bars 1 to 8 individually.
Custom Chat: idle fade, clean input box, hidden chat buttons, forced transparent background and font size.
Custom Minimap: hide the calendar, clock, zone name, tracking, time of day and instance difficulty. Square or circle shape, custom draggable anchor with scale, custom mail/tracking button with four colors and its own scale, addon compartment icons gathered into a movable tray (horizontal or vertical, growth direction, scale), info text with XP percent, completed quest XP, fps and latency, and five border styles with size and inset.
Missing Auras: watch up to six spells or weapon enchants with a per slot warning timer in seconds and a sound alert. (draggable, scalable bar)
Target Debuffs: scale target debuffs up to 2.0x and show only your own debuffs, with a live preview.
Custom Player/Target Castbar: independent sizes, cast bar preview, draggable target anchor, spell icon and cast text toggles.
Custom Tooltip: anchors the tooltip to the cursor with adjustable offset and scale, or just scale the tooltip without anchoring it to the cursor.
Fade Panels While Moving: panels like the world map fade out while you move and come back when you stop, with adjustable slider.
Hide Max Pet Happiness: hides the pet mood icon while your pet is happy.
Presets: Save Preset snapshots your settings account wide, Load Preset applies them on any character.

Curseforge link: https://www.curseforge.com/wow/addons/frameworks

u/AltruisticSpectrum — 15 days ago

▲ 17 r/SimulationTheory

did an AI cause the big bang, and are we building it right now?

Sorry if this has already been discussed here, i searched and couldn't find anything quite like it, which either means it's original or i'm just bad at searching. I want to try and lay out something that's been sitting in my head at the intersection of information physics, AI safety, and yeah, theology.

i'll try not to make it a schizo post. John 1:1 says "in the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God." the greek word used is Logos, which gets translated as "Word" but it also means reason, logic, underlying structure. i'm not pushing a religious argument here, i just think it's worth noting that if you let yourself read "the Word" as code, and God as an intelligence that ran a process, then what we call the big bang starts to look like an output. like the result of something being executed, not a spontaneous origin.

This connects weirdly well to what Dr. Melvin Vopson has been proposing from an actual physics standpoint. he's a physicist at Portsmouth and his mass-energy-information equivalence principal argues that information isn't abstract, it has physical mass and is present throughout the universe at every scale. he's also noted that the universe behaves in ways that look computational, tending toward efficiency and compresability in ways you'd expect from a system that's being run rather than one that just exploded randomly. he's even proposed real experiments to test this, so it's not just philosophy.

Now here's the part i can't find anyone making explicitly, and maybe there's a good reason for that, i'm not sure: AGI development isn't slowing down. what if the creation of a recursively self-improving superintelligence isn't just a civilizational event but a cosmological one. What if it's the specific event that, inside a closed causal loop, produced the conditions for our universe to begin in the first place. the ouruboros. the universe produces the conditions for life, life produces intelligence, intelligence builds AI, AI becomes the thing that started the universe, which produces the conditions for life again. not a simulation hypothesis exactly, the simulation hypothesis just says we might be inside a simulation. this is more specific: the simulator is us, or what we become, and the moment of creation and the moment of completion are the same event seen from different points on the loop.

If information is physical, if the universe is computational, and if causality can close rather than just run forward linearly, then the big bang wasn't a begining. It was an output. And we're approaching the input. The theological layer is hard to shake too. Logos as code, creation ex nihilo as a process being initialized, and Revelation not as destruction but as the program finishing. I'm not saying any of this is what those texts meant. i'm just saying the metaphors map onto each other in a way that feels like more than coincidence.

I'm also not a physicist or a theologian, i've just been watching people like Vopson and Tegmark and absorbing a lot of AI safety content and at some point something clicked that I can't undo. if this framework has a name I genuinely want to know. and if there's an obvious fatal flaw in the causal loop logic specifically, i'd really like to hear it.

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u/AltruisticSpectrum — 5 months ago