Recent content by overgeeked

For me, every literature class involved assuming there was meaning to these kinds of details and arguing about what they meant, either in class or on paper. This is one of those things I hate with the fury of a thousand burning suns.

Why not both?

Which time? I have two bachelor’s degrees and two master’s degrees. All of which are literature and book related. How about you?

Every lit class I was in assumed they were. So much so we had to argue about them for hours and write long, pointless papers on them. At no point was, "No, these details aren't important," an option while remaining in the class and earning credits for various literature-related degrees. Yeah...

"We'd go out of business if we had to obey the law" is a great line. Tells you everything you need to know about “AI” in one go. A whole lot of other businesses, too.

Yeah. Analysis like this is a literary Rorschach test. There's nothing solid there to grab onto but you're supposed to "see" something in the details. It's you projecting onto the text. Which is fine. But when people want to make it into something more than that, or worse, something "important,"...

That mirrors my experience through high school, college, and grad school. Analysis like this comes in two kinds. Either you're free to argue any damned thing you want and get an A for effort or you agree with the teacher or fail. Teachers seem to love this stuff though as it eats up class time...

So you don't assume the writer means anything important by having the curtains in scene 103 be blue? Cool. So then there's no disagreement between us. Cool. Then I'd say you were incredibly lucky to get a teacher like that. They're rare as hen's teeth.

There are several threads here about how hawkish WotC/Hasbro management is about “AI”. If he's going to end up anywhere in related industries it's going to be somewhere hawkish about “AI”.

The bolded words are the keys. It's all speculation of what something might mean. But it assumes those details have meaning in the first place, which the most likely don't. It also assumes those meanings are important, which they most likely aren't. That's the problem. You're assuming something...

Even across state lines in the US you're not part of the same environment. Being raised with different ethnic and financial backgrounds will separate people's environments. Etc. Or they do have liberal arts degrees but recognize this kind of analysis is pure nonsense. It's mostly guess work and...

The curtains in the room they were writing were blue. They saw a blue object moments before writing that line. Their grandmother's curtains were blue and something about the scene they were writing reminded them of their grandmother. Just because the curtains being blue might mean something...

Yes. Absolutely, yes. Publicly crap all over the creativity and talent of your entire company and industry. Get immediately fired the next day. Open licenses are great. That basically 99% of the industry is D&D product is the worst possible outcome.