Recent content by Dannyalcatraz

Sorry if I’m being dense, but this mostly sounds like what decent word processors have been doing for ages without AI (at least, as the current discussion goes). If so, isn’t using AI- and all the resources it requires- for this purpose kind of like hunting mosquitoes with B2 bombers?* *...

Are they following in your academic footsteps?

Then my Tick-inspired PC in the GURPS: V:tM playtest was probably one the designers would have liked! Because as silly as he was, he was also like 55 gallon drum of nitroglycerin. Pushed the wrong way, and he was likely able to destroy most of the PCs and NPCs in the setting. Only by the...

Unfortunately, I don’t know what happened to the plagiarist after getting failed in that course. As I recall, the events in question happened while my friend was teaching at a military academy, and that would be grounds for immediate expulsion. It’s possible, though, that those events got them...

In many ways, yes. In many ways, no. (Both sides of my family tree are nutty enough to be orchards unto themselves.)

You’re not the baaa-aaa-aaas of me!

In all honesty, it was stupider than I’ve made it out to be. Her dad was well known enough that the surname should have at least begged the question of familial relationship. But besides the family name in common, she occasionally taught from his books. AND she got her undergraduate degree...

Culinarily & flavor-wise, it looks like there would be a lot of crossover.

Another classic example! Tangentially, one of my friends followed in her father’s footsteps, and has become a respected professor in the same field he became notable in. AFAIK, she’s still using her maiden name in a professional context. One of her students turned in a final paper that...

FWIW, when I was playtesting GURPS: V:tM, my character was, in fact, based on a superhero. The Tick.

A true classic! One of my favorites.

I love the subgenre where they’re beefing/disagreeing with someone known to have actual experience & knowledge. There was one I first saw several years ago where “The Incorrect Dude” told the other poster to read some particular books. The person he was “correcting” had authored those books.

I’m’a root for the LOCAL kaiju over the AY-leen one!

TIL that the Duracell Bunny- the inspiration for the Energizer Bunny- is still being used in commercials outside of the USA & Canada.