Recent content by robus

We're talking about the degeneration problem. AI can't consume its own content without going mad.

Agreed, I'm really not concerned about AI taking away my programming job because it has zero understanding of the problems I'm trying to solve. The only way it's producing code at the moment is because there's a ton of sample code fragments (created by humans) that its digested and is able to...

Well then we'd truly have artificial intelligence as it would be able to understand what it was experiencing. I think that's still quite a ways off. Believe me, I'm quite worried about Generalized AI, but I think we're not much closer to that despite the appearances. What we currently have is a...

Artificial Imitation. It is aping human creativity, it doesn't have a single original idea. Its entire process requires the seed of a human idea. It's even showing that when it consumes its own content it devolves into chaos very quickly. (Which is why I think this one moment of time is not...

I remember seeing Suzanne Vega there in the 80s. That place is huge.

It certainly seems like there's a massive sea change happening in the movie marketplace and HaT is just one of the storm tossed boats (and probably faired better than should be expected given the conditions). Movie theaters definitely seem like they're from the before times (like shopping...

This hobby seems to attract maniacs!

Hence my use of the term arsehole.

This hurts personally, as Rick was my doppelgänger in the 80s, back when I had more hair and less beard.

I’ve never been a redditor, the environment seemed quite hostile (at least those were the stories back in the day, I also heard it got better). For me it was the AngryGM who really pulled back the curtain on what a good DM is actually thinking about when running a game. It was a revelation and...

Biggest disappointment for me. Was looking for a story oriented boardgame dungeon delver, but the theme was just too grim, the mechanics unsatisfying and the PC options weird. It got to the table once and has since sat on the shelf. I was planning to paint the minis and sell it, but I‘ve had...

Yeah but that’s a silly bump in the road to minting more DMs. I can’t believe it has to be this way.

I can‘t believe how much stuff is obviously poorly presented in the adventures before it even hits the table. The encounters are generally fine, it’s the surrounding adventure that often makes no sense, mostly NPC motivations but also location design. I remember @pukunui and I trying to make...

I meant that the combat started organically without there being any combat swoosh, so things got real very quickly.

There’s nothing stopping you from asking for a fresh initiative at the start of an important combat, you could call it passive initiative vs dynamic initiative :). Edit: For me the smoothness of the transition was worth it and the “oh naughty word” feeling from the players when things kicked off was...