Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet?

[Dannyalcatraz]

alt txt: If you want to see true audacity, do an image search for 'Altoona-style pizza.'

I saw a video segment on that from someone’s local news channel (814 Eats).

While I haven’t had that, I’ve had something similar served to me in public school. There wasn’t any pepper, and ground meat was used instead of salami. Other than that, the deep dish, sweeter sauce and Velveeta or American cheese were all present. TBH, it was one of the better options at our cafeteria, so I’d often get it as a changeup from my usual.

 

[TiQuinn]

Sometimes I just really don't give a crap what the rules say. It's the English language - maybe the most ambiguous language out there?

 

[Ryujin]

Sometimes I just really don't give a crap what the rules say. It's the English language - maybe the most ambiguous language out there?

“The problem with defending the purity of the English language is that English is about as pure as a cribhouse whore. We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary.” ― James D. Nicoll

 

[Scribe]

These AI companion things are going to cripple an entire generation.

Social Media -> Covid Lockdown -> AI Companions = decades of stunted kids unable to separate fact from fiction, or determine what reality actually looks like. Its like the recommendation people had for managing social media 'oh just curate your feed' = form an echo chamber, but now the AI is programmed to form a nice little cocoon, an echo chamber custom built and containing 1 person and their delusional thoughts.

 

[payn]

These AI companion things are going to cripple an entire generation.

Social Media -> Covid Lockdown -> AI Companions = decades of stunted kids unable to separate fact from fiction, or determine what reality actually looks like. Its like the recommendation people had for managing social media 'oh just curate your feed' = form an echo chamber, but now the AI is programmed to form a nice little cocoon, an echo chamber custom built and containing 1 person and their delusional thoughts.

Is that how the Gen Z stare came about?

 

[Scribe]

Is that how the Gen Z stare came about?

I've seen that attributed to a combination of lock downs during key points of mental development and texting being the primary mode of communication so face to face social queues are lost/under developed.

 

[Mannahnin]

I recently saw someone advance the theory that it's a product of lead poisoning from vaping. Lead being leached from the internal components. And comparing it to lead exposure my generation had from gasoline (and prior had more from paint chips).

 

[payn]

I recently saw someone advance the theory that it's a product of lead poisoning from vaping. Lead being leached from the internal components. And comparing it to lead exposure my generation had from gasoline (and prior had more from paint chips).

 

[Ryujin]

These AI companion things are going to cripple an entire generation.

Social Media -> Covid Lockdown -> AI Companions = decades of stunted kids unable to separate fact from fiction, or determine what reality actually looks like. Its like the recommendation people had for managing social media 'oh just curate your feed' = form an echo chamber, but now the AI is programmed to form a nice little cocoon, an echo chamber custom built and containing 1 person and their delusional thoughts.

It was already bad enough that search engines based new results on past requests, meaning looking for new information frequently gives you opinions that already align with what you know. Now it's tailored even further to the point of potentially giving you 'hallucinated' results, that are based on that same previous data.

If I already knew, then I wouldn't be searching.

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

Sometimes I just really don't give a crap what the rules say. It's the English language - maybe the most ambiguous language out there?

My tangential gripe is that designers, GMs and players try to treat game rules like lawyers treat legal codes and documents .

1) Game rules aren’t written like legal codes.
2) (most) Gamers aren’t lawyers
3) Even trained legislators, judges & lawyers screw this stuff up- often because of “legalese”

My Wills & Estates professor, Stanley Johanson, emphasized using clear and concise language when drafting so that everyone involved was crystal clear on the rights and duties. He espoused prevention was better than cures, and felt that if your clients wound up in court, you probably had a flaw in the documents you drafted for them.

Same goes for game rules. Be clear & concise in your writing and word choices, and you’ll have more fun PLAYING your games than bickering about what paragraph 5 on pg 125 meant.