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  1. ichabod

    The License Plate Game

    I'm almost always alone in my car. The closest I get to playing a game in the car is trying to figure out the prime factorization of the numeric part of the license plate in front of me.
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    D&D General Converse Releasing Limited Edition Dungeons & Dragons Sneakers

    I wear them almost all the time. I have three pair, and swap them out so I'm wearing different colors. I grew up with Chucks. My uncle was the manager of a Converse factory in New Hampshire, and every time we'd visit the whole family would get Converse shoes with his employee discount.
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    D&D 5E (2014) Help me design a scheming long-term nemesis for my new campaign

    When you said cat theme without being tabaxi, my first thought was a gnome who talks to animals, specifically cats. When you said warlock, I remembered the beast speech invocation. So he uses the cats in the city as his spy service. Perhaps he even has some awakened cats that are his best spies...
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    The "I Didn't Comment in Another Thread" Thread

    You are not alone, my friend.
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    D&D General The abandoned core monsters of D&D

    Check out Beowulf's Children by Niven, Pournelle, and Barnes. It's got giant lizard beavers on speed.
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    The "I Didn't Comment in Another Thread" Thread

    To give bread the consistency of rubber.
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    How Generative AI's work

    The problem here is that they don't have access to the training data. This is mentioned in the article. So how can they say that it's not in the training data if they don't have the training data? I did not find the description of their method very rigorous. They have created a layer of...
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    How Generative AI's work

    This is an old thing for AI, going back to SHRDLU in the late 60s. It allowed you to specify different blocks by shape and color and move them around. I don't think you could really connect them directly. Where ChatGPT might help is interpreting natural language commands given by a user and...
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    How Generative AI's work

    I found this article, which seems to be a pretty good overview of the energy usage issue. The brain apparently uses about 0.3Kw per day. That's 100 times what a smart phone uses, so putting the two articles together you could generate 100,000 AI images with the energy a brain uses in a day...
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    The "I Didn't Comment in Another Thread" Thread

    That's one utopia trope. Another is that utopia is a hidden, secret place, because if everyone finds it they will destroy it.
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    The "I Didn't Comment in Another Thread" Thread

    Hey, I'm in my 50s and I grew up on the Jetsons. I was promised a flying car.
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    D&D General The abandoned core monsters of D&D

    Screw the grue, give us a wumpus.
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    The "I Didn't Comment in Another Thread" Thread

    What makes you think they aren't already AI-powered bots?
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    The "I Didn't Comment in Another Thread" Thread

    No, but I'm currently watching a couple which have veered rather far off course, out of morbid fascination as to where they will end up.
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    D&D 5E (2014) If "Extra Attack" Was A Feat, What Would Its Prerequisites Be?

    On the internet, you can go anywhere.
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    D&D 5E (2014) If "Extra Attack" Was A Feat, What Would Its Prerequisites Be?

    I have actually written this feat already. It's called Second Attack, gives you two attacks with an attack action, and requires +3 proficiency bonus and either Strength 13 or Dexterity 13. Then there's the Third Attack feat, which requires Second Attack, +4 proficiency, and either Strength 15 or...
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    WotC Hasbro CEO optimistic about AI in D&D and MTG’s future

    To which management will respond: "No, they're just not happy that we're not transitioning fast enough. This indicates that we need to crank up the AI and the monetization."
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    Evil Monster Ancestries - Yay or Nay?

    That could be a campaign, though. Someone is born with an evil rune as a birthmark, and becomes a pawn in a power struggle between evil cults and knights trying to prevent the apocalypse.
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