Recent content by Umbran

I don't know that it is either problem. As D&D rode a skyrocket through the pandemic, it was picking up new players, and they were forming new groups of newbies, many of them playing online, none of them knowing quite what they were doing. Online content is a perfect approach to getting them...

You can get double-sided fashion tape at CVS, folks. It ain't magic.

Please see the "Myth Adventures" books by Robert Aspirin, because they are funny, and they contain the Bazaar at Deva, which is kind of where you are going with these....

My current main game is Savage Worlds: it is about exploring what the (Deadlands: Lost Colony) world of Banshee is really like, learning some of the dangerous developments going on, and possibly dealing with one of the more violent bits before all is said and done.

I did use the phrase, "maybe not consciously"...

Hyperbolic takes quickly get clicks. Clicks mean add revenue. That's all.

Perhaps. Eventually, Star Trek's "Measure of a Man," may play out. But today is not that day. And, that day has been "ten years from now" for decades, and is likely to remain "ten years from now" until well after I'm dead and gone. I'm being a bit more general than "the spark of...

Well, those two discussions are some hours apart iirc, and it is... quite a day they are having. As he gets more stressed out, he's apt to get less and less controlled. And, as my wife mentioned to me, there's another aspect of his moment with Mohan that I didn't consider - when one sees in...

When computers started handling non-fixed-width fonts for us, basically.

I mean, the least realistic thing about that sequence was the idea that ICE would bring someone in for treatment. What? No! Dr. Robbie is trying to save Mohan's life. Dr. Robbie sees way, way too much of his younger self in Mohan. And Dr. Robbie is suicidal. You got that, right? He's...

With respect, I feel she's overstepping her bounds, probably for personal reasons that have not been revealed. If she would rather his life been ruined, then she doesn't understand recovery.

Mod Note: Having a different opinion from you does not justify insulting people. You have earned yoruself a warning point, and a ban from this thread. Treat people better.

My answer remains the same, for two reasons. 1) In fact, while the results of your neurology, cognition, and process of creation may seem to be very similar to the machine's result, under the hood, during the process, they are not really much alike at all. 2) As noted - if we do not reserve...

Mod note: We do not read every post, Bill. There is no Aha! or Gotcha! or Pithy Observation to be found in our not responding to any particular post. Now, if you had reported the post, that might speak to the moderator opinion on the matter, but since you didn't, now you have missed the...

You asked what was the difference between the machine doing a job, and you doing the job. In asking that you are questioning the divide between us and tools. When we argue that there's no difference between us and our tools, that means we are tools. Maybe you want to be a tool. I do not.