Recent content by slobster

While I personally would definitely run an unbending lawful good character who was 100% convinced that Omelas was a utopia and the bliss of a whole nation could be weighed against the suffering of one (and you could make a lawful evil sonufab*** who proselytizes the same thing), your post is...

I might argue that strong moral relativism is pretty true neutral. (I might regret making that argument too, but let's give it a shot) It's not actively trying to maintain a balance between "Good" and "Evil", it's arguing that such definitions are actually highly subjective and constructed by...

IMO your launch cost could be 0, and it would still make no sense because you'd need to replace your whole data center every year as pieces burn out and can't be repaired and old hardware becomes obsolete due to the latest chips being released. Banks already won't underwrite chips in data...

This is super off topic, but I'm so curious about these supposed space data centers. Sure, electricity is a big cost in AI, but the other huge issue is cooling. In space, solar is abundant (but not cheap, because you have to build the same solar panels but then launch them into orbit, which is...

Fair enough, and sorry for sniping the reply lol. We're good!

I understand the snark, but afaik a low demand prompt like the ones I ask for typically produce CO2 on the order of microwaving something for a few seconds or...spending several minutes typing on a laptop. For some of my activities I'm particularly slow at, I bet I use less electricity on the AI...

I definitely wouldn't send like, pages and pages of stuff to read to a new player. AI generated or not! I'm more of a "2 pages of bullet points and some short paragraphs" kind of guy. I can see how several pages of AI slop would be an annoying thing to be expected to read through, but IME my...

I guess I'm one of the lonely GMs who actually does use AI for my games. Not usually for creative stuff (though it can be great for shaking me out of writers block in the same way that mad libs can provoke creative breakthroughs from utter randomness), but for example it's really useful for...

Book five is the last one I finished, I think I go a third of the way through the next one or so and then fell off. Which isn't knock against the book necessarily, as that also coincided with the end of the vacation where I'd been binge reading them, and by the time I found more time to read...

Oh things definitely happened with wider ramifications, it's just not a very good self-contained Dresden-style mystery adventure plot. IMO, of course. That's okay though, because it's not really a rip-roaring story of supernatural peril and intrigue this time, it's a story of healing and grief...

Just finished it as well. I'll have to think on it, but my first impression is, I really liked it. A very different pace, and very different book than we've been getting. Knowing a bit about Butcher's personal journey recently definitely makes it hit different. Overall, I'm just really happy...

I'd definitely have to classify Gilgamesh as "spicy", there's some NSFW content in there for sure!

Not to spoil too much, but the trajectory of this book seems to be quite a bit different. The second novel in the series (the first chronologically) also involved numerous murders throughout the plot and ends in a big life or death fantasy fight...though I don't want to spoil it for those who...

To add to the two above, this is the opening line to Brigands and Bread knives, that sequel to Legends and Lattes which was a founding part of this cozy romantasy subgenre: So yeah, that's the opening sentence, with the MC in mortal peril attacked on the road by deadly lizardmen. They get...

Not that I disagree with that necessarily, but I'd also just add that people can just generally be real jerks overall, especially to other people we don't consider our "in group" or when people are allowed to spew venom in an anonymous way, and that social media does an incredible job of...