Recent content by Gladius Legis

shudder To their credit, both Descent into Avernus and BG3 itself make valiant attempts to walk that back.

I get it's a different author, different times, even a different publisher (i.e. not WOTC themselves), and all ... but man, I still have PTSD from the Baldur's Gate 1 and 2 novelizations.

This is pretty massively overstated. Strength melee had the better feats in 5.0 and still does in 5.5. And STR melee is even better off vs. DEX melee in 5.5 due to having a much more flexible range of Weapon Mastery options. DEX melee is largely restricted to Vex and Nick.

It's two whole classes (three if you count Druid's Wild Shape options) and one subclass each of four others. I don't think that qualifies it as "really common." Regardless, I don't mind. The mechanical ceiling is still much higher for characters who wear armor, both for AC and for other...

They sort of teased this as a possibility for the future with Avatar Karlach. Unlike the other origin characters, Karlach has her own voiced internal dialogue when you play her as the Avatar. Being the last origin character to make it into BG3 had one advantage there, at least.

Having recently come off a major Final Fantasy Tactics kick (via the Ivalice Chronicles remaster) ... I want an honest-to-God FFT sequel.

BG3 toned that down considerably, both from DOS 1 and 2 and from its own Early Access.

Reinstalled and tried to play Tekken 8 after the recent Season 3 patch. Because "back to basics" ... LMFAO. The game is still a disaster. Season 3 even made it worse than Season 2 in some ways.

Many of us might have moved on to Divinity by that point, at least in early access if not full release.

No, because you are not the one creating that image. You're just telling a third-party creator, in this case an AI, what to do. It's no different than standing over a human artist's shoulder nitpicking at what that artist is painting until it's to your specifications. You did not paint that.

I would hesitate to call it a skill, because you don't have to be anything resembling a polished writer for a prompt to work in an LLM. At best, you can argue that you just need to write enough details of what you're imagining. But the AI is still doing all of the work after that. Unlike the...

Not true, because the photographer still has to physically operate the camera. The photographer has to know how the camera works, and what settings to use in whatever situation or lighting that exists. The photographer has to know things like shutter speed, ISO, exposure, f/stops, etc. The...

A prompt is: you tell the genAI to make the thing, and the AI is the one making it. Your involvement with the process ends after your prompt and only begins again once you issue a new prompt. Beyond your prompt, whatever it does is out of human hands. OTOH, operating a machine that manufactures...

Silly comparison on its face. People still have to be present to actually operate the machines that make T-shirts. AI, OTOH, is specifically programmed to remove human input altogether. Once you understand that simple concept, you might finally understand the reasons for all the objections...

So meaningless that Microsoft threw a hissy fit over it as recently as earlier this month.