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That's the big question, i suppose. If the observations suggest that the greater universe is infinite in extent (and I defer to your astrophysics expertise over mine!), then I can't argue your reasoning there. But I wonder: are "all outcomes of evolution" finite, and able to fit in the...

Fwiw, here's a link to a more science-y article on the topic: https://arstechnica.com/science/2025/04/skepticism-greets-claims-of-a-possible-biosignature-on-a-distant-world/

(That's kind of my point.)

I would never suggest anything of the sort!

Sure, given enough time in enough places, civilization might be a certainty. But does anyone really know if that cosmic scale is "big enough" compared to the scale of all potential possibilities of evolution? If the likelihood of the evolution of civilization:life is smallish like 1:1000 or...

To be sure, to be alone wouldn't necessarily mean we're "special". We're working from a single data point, so we really have no idea what "special" even means. I mean, if civilization is "certain," then surely it's valid to claim that there must be something "special" about civilization, right...

Heck, as far as anyone knows, there's nothing that requires that "civilization" - much less "technologically advancing civilization interested in space exploration" - is a necessary outcome of life. That's not how evolution works.

This. There's 25 years of stuff out there under OGL: some in active development, some abandoned; some D&D, and some completely different systems and/or genres.

The more defects I discover about my parents' house in their crappy small town, the more I suspect that the seller, the real estate agents, and the inspectors were all cousins.

That's good to know. I know they backtracked when they brought it up, but it wasn't clear to me how much of that was "legal reasons" versus "bad PR."

"Final Expulsion" sounds like an amazing cult 1980's action flick.

As long as they just don't resurrect talk of revoking the OGL again. Not sure what it would entail, but just some sort of explicit assurances regarding the OGL would be nice, especially for the sake of retaining the "openness" of orphaned OGC, and for the sake of active rpg communities using...

Yeah, there are ton of them! I haven't looked at nearly all of them, but a few I've enjoyed are Secrets of Cats (FAE, you play cats), Weird World News (Core, think "Scooby Doo"), and Uranium Chef (FAE, like gladiator games + Iron Chef, but in space), among others. Really just pick a genre and...

If you'd like to check out some Fate examples, Evil Hat produced a two-volume set called "Fate Worlds" (vol1, vol2) each containing a half-dozen or so short settings in a variety of genres on a particular theme (eg, Worlds on Fire includes settings about modern day firefighters, WWI-era mechas...

"Let's take Shadowdark classes!" Best. school. ever! ... Just don't let your torch go out before recess is done.

Yeah, time will tell. (That's why I'm careful to say "current" gen AI.) But to be fair, I didn't bring up scale; you did. I said current gen AI and humans are fundamentally different in ways that are not attributable to scale. E.g., throwing more images at a human doesn't make that person a...

Really? Body horror has been a thing onscreen for decades, and far more imaginative that any of those pics. And people have been imaging weird hybrids since they started inventing mythology, albeit not crossing puppies and blueberry muffins (though I wouldn't be surprised if there's an anime out...

No. If mere scale was the issue, then a gen AI should be millions of times "better" than a master artist because it swallowed millions of times as much data as that artist. Likewise, by your reasoning, a blind human artist should not exist, because a gen AI that can't train on image data can't...

Is there a single human being who has ever ingested petabytes of art data, processed it at a 10-100MW, then generated perfect imagery within seconds of a request? No; that's not how we do it. Yes, I am 100% certain of that. Might some future form of AIs mimic human ability? Perhaps. But what...