Recent content by J.Quondam

Given what part of the country you live in, the answer is pretty obvious to me:

This bit really concerns me: Are we looking at the possibility that AI slop threatens to drown even the legal system just because it's too "embarrassing" to deal with? I'm envisioning bad actors exploiting an already creaky system in very detrimental ways.

I've usually just told the whole group, and don't worry about it too much. Most groups are pretty good about keeping PC knowledge separate from players, and even if they don't it's fine. I think people have more fun when everyone is listening to what happens to everyone else. (It's also less...

Heh, I just recently watched the old Kolchak TV series a few months ago. I'd never seen it, and never thought to watch it until @Ryujin, i think, mentioned it here several months ago. I'm currently slowly making my way through the 1970s Japanese TV series Zatoichi. A couple years ago, I...

Barbarians of Lemuria, etc, uses a 2d6 attack roll plus attack skill (eg, Melee or Ranged) minus the opponent's Defense skill versus a constant target number, 9. Armor subtracts from damage, ie, soak.

3:10 to Yuma (both movies) is a pretty good story about transporting a prisoner from a little local jail to his trial several days' ride away while his gang tries to rescue him, along with a little twist that makes it a bit more than just "fend off the people trying to take our prisoner." I...

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I've adapted well to my unsightly ear hairs, and use mine like a cat's whiskers whenever I need to shove my head into small spaces.

Back in high school, i had a friend whose big sister got a boob job. Not long after, he and I were out in his backyard when this sister decided to use their trampoline. The phrase that still haunts me is, "Ow! Ow! They're going everywhere!"

I'm seeing the same thing. In fact, I'm not seeing any pop-ups at all, such as when I mouse over a user name.

Yep, me too, with both Firefox and Opera on Android.

The intersection of AI and law is a perfectly cromulent topic for the Geek Talk forum.

Funny how often someone who's "just asking questions" is so rarely looking for actual answers.

Yeah, I'm always a little distressed when I learn that someone I think of as a "kid" has kids in high school.