Recent content by bsss

So it's not about the authenticity of the creative vision, but that the games you want to play are owned by corporations, and those executives are motivated by money? And now DLSS 5 allows them --- dwarfing consideration of any other executive decisions they could make and that are made every...

Well, hang on here. If the artists (or their studios) choose to use/enable this feature of DLSS 5, are they erasing their own work? Is this the objection, that such an output is considered unauthentic, and if so, whose authenticity are we talking about?

So, in terms of the outrage in the OP, let me ask something: if a developer says "utilizing this feature in DLSS 5 is my artistic intent", is this still the worst thing to have ever happened to video games? If you retort, "no developer worth any money would turn on this feature in DLSS 5", is it...

I don't think I really have anything I disagree with in what you're saying, but would you not say that "playing their character in-genre" and "players [ignore how their characters would interpret the results of the rules, and play] like the genre dictates" is part of what is the "meta", as it...

I don't think this is absolutely true. CoC characters don't know they exist in a world where it'd be extremely unwise for them to investigate any oddity they see and read the odd journals or play with the odd objects they find. If they did, they'd just stay home and only engage with their...

Coming up with names is literally the hardest part of GMing for me. I'll conjure whole adventures out of the ether while we're sitting at the table if I have to, as long as nothing needs a proper noun.

On "boogeyman": I don't think the common person in particular is to blame when other forms of the AI field get mixed in with generative AI and LLM garbage because "AI" is the latest hype buzzword. If Nvidia just said "neural networks" and "deep learning" far fewer people would have leapt to the...

The other thing I'll add to (or reiterate in) this discussion is that it's not like Nvidia is going to Kool-Aid Man crash into every game's visuals at the driver level and crap up all the developers' artistic visions. It's a feature that games have to include, so if they don't like the results...

I'm a pretty heavy skeptic towards generative AI, especially when misused to replace human output, but yeah, my original thought on this was "I remember when this was known as "applying neural networks" or other machine learning, and people were impressed". A lot of the outrage coming hot on...

It takes caring about maps (which can be a big ask depending on the overall shape of the game), but my favorite iteration of this is "we need to find something we can't find, and our maps make it look like there should be a room somewhere around... here". Really ties a bunch of dungeon concepts...

For 1, they are choosing whether to prioritize timely progress vs. finding everything in every nook and cranny. The decision is not completely informed, but it is at least partially, I'd say, probably about the value of finding things vs. the risk of extra combat or failing their mission (if...

I think your approach to the lock picking would have worked for both of your Awareness issues, too. They could rush through the section with hidden stuff with no checks (maybe applying a passive check if that makes sense) and no indication if they missed anything or not, or take their time, let...

To have fun playing a game that includes the tropes of the desired genre without necessarily getting personally uncomfortable.

Additionally, at a table that cares about consent, triggering a phobia to the point of anxiety or fear would probably be off the table, further limiting the options in this playstyle that favors player emotion over character roleplaying. I don't even think a player should ever be made truly...

Maybe so and maybe people are just digging in on their preferences, but I do find it incredulous that someone would have expectations of reaching fear in a completely different context than reading a book, and then when faced with a GM saying "I need some tools and buy-in on those tools to help...