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The Firebird reacted to Clint_L's post in the thread California bill (AB 412) would effectively ban open-source generative AI with
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Okay, can we not equate LLMs to actual slavery? I assure you, the slaves had it worse, and it's a pretty appalling equivalence to make... -
The Firebird reacted to Clint_L's post in the thread California bill (AB 412) would effectively ban open-source generative AI with Like.
Read this article this morning - it's a fascinating perspective on the rise of LLMs from the perspective of natural language processing...
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The Firebird replied to the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting.."Make the world respond based on established fiction" is a heuristic. I gave you some specific examples of this for the example of the...
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The Firebird replied to the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting..Yes, the DM of a sandbox makes decisions to adjudicate the world. Is this the sticking point? As I said before, for you "the DM...
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The Firebird reacted to Lanefan's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
Indeed. On my setting map there's an agricultural supply and market town of about 2000 people called Demetres. To the best of my...
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The Firebird reacted to Lanefan's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
There's four or five sites on the map the players see. There might be thirty on the DM's map. :)
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The Firebird reacted to Lanefan's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
Whilst I personally think this is great stuff to have happen now and then, there are (sadly) some here who would take umbrage with such...
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The Firebird reacted to Lanefan's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
With apologies for my amateur mapmaking, are you trying to tell me the maps linked from this page...
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The Firebird reacted to Lanefan's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
My question is how do you do the latter on any sort of ongoing basis without having it come across in play that the setting or game...
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The Firebird reacted to Lanefan's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
Indeed. In my eyes, the best session is the session that runs itself because I've done all my homework right, meaning I can just sit...
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The Firebird reacted to SableWyvern's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
Where are you getting this? My next sandbox will most likely be setting the 1e Forgotten Realms Savage Frontier. There are plenty of...
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The Firebird reacted to SableWyvern's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
Please see the disclaimer I included at the end of my post in the (clearly misguided) hope it would prevent exactly this kind of...
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The Firebird reacted to Maxperson's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
This is what you said. Stop trying to play at it being about something else. "Whereas in the "sandboxes" being talked about here, the...
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The Firebird reacted to SableWyvern's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
Probably they didn't even consider that someone might actually ask if the sandboxes we're talking about are literally filled with sand...
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The Firebird reacted to Maxperson's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
If you are saying that the players didn't move the story, you are wrong. You can figure out which metaphor is which.