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Sure, it’s just been “a decade away” for over thirty years with absolutely no sign of anything on the horizon that even might actually approach what people keep thinking is just around the corner. Nonsense. People think that JARVIS is going to happen because techbros and the media that loves...

“Low level” customer service workers are more valuable than an increase in the profit margin of an already incredibly profitable industry, especially when said increase also comes at the cost of the service or product dropping in quality. That you think it’s the same is just a result of...

It isn’t inevitable at all, unless by “knowledge jobs” you very strictly mean mindless computational tasks that humans could do but would be extremely time intensive. Computers won’t replace writers, even as they put writers out of work. We will just get worse and worse writing as humans are...

Yeah for sure. This seems like a fairly fine case of AI use. I imagine AI can improve QA in some video game cases, but like doing common things that break weaknesses in game systems and stuff like that, as well as the workflow and mindless “variation on a theme” generation stuff AI can do...

There is nothing creative that AI does remotely well without so much user input that the user could do the same thing without the AI. AI is literally just advanced “I see you’re trying to compose a letter, how can I help?” It’s a probability engine that someone fed art into instead of math...

Oh yeah the 4e gnome is the best gnome 1000%

The rogue scout is a good scout, I guess, but like…a whole reaction to move a fairly small amount when someone moves up to you? Thats your central active feature? Meh. And all they are is good at passing survival and nature checks….they don’t get extra anything from those checks.

That is the first D&D gold dragon image that has ever made me want to use gold dragons.

Very few fail to grasp the thesis. Youre facing disagreement, not incomprehension. A video about running dnd doesn’t need to talk about other games unless it is directly relevant. An example of directly relevant would be if Ginni thinks that the best way to fix player buy in wrt the game...

That reasoning was bunk then and it remains bunk. That reasoning instantly kills the fighter, for one thing. For another, the assassin isn’t just “someone who does murders for money or politically”, it’s a major heroic archetype with specific associated tropes, a long history, and many well...

Why should she, though? unless she thinks that Fate has tools that can be used in a D&D game, it’s pretty tangential to the video.

Not super relevant to the point, but those articles aren’t even at middle school level.

Then why quote the lore thing?

I mean, I won’t be using “but it’s in the lore” as an argument, which I suppose is the same thing as holding that same position, so…yes. 🤷‍♂️ The only time I have referenced old canon in an argument about what belongs in D&D is with stuff like the Gnoll, where people are specifically claiming...

In older lore, perhaps. But older lore isn't important if you’re playing the current game. There is no particular reason halflings need mechanical representation of lightfoot and stout and whatever else.

We have very different goals and desires for our D&D games, probably.

Yeah I think I bought like 2 books last year, and that was because we got a settlement check from our shifty former landlord after the CA AG’s office investigated them, and we decided to enjoy it a bit. I can’t afford to fix my vehicle, I’m not buying game books. In spite of me getting a $.55...

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Yeah, and like, I wasn’t even suggesting forcing any specific personality? Like, literally I was talking about incentivizing and inspiring. Most of my games just don’t have dungeons full of treasure. If a player isn’t inspired by the premises and story elements of the campaign in a way that...

Thats a wild take on what you’re replying to. Of course. That would make you the guys needing shooting. As one example, absolutely. But part of my point is that the empire is “even worse” than the rebels. The empire is evil and the rebels aren’t. Thank you. Like I said, it’s about what you...