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When a company gets past a certain size many, if not most, people may like their jobs but it's rarely something they're "passionate" about. Do you really think that the accountant who's job is critical to the company or the janitor or the guy figuring out logistics is "passionate" about what...

Yet it rarely is, especially once a business grows past a certain size. Besides, people can be passionate about something and still want to get paid.

How much profit, and what changes are allowed, before people claim a company is sacrificing to maximize profit? Because it seems like every time WotC does something some people don't personally care for the accusations of 💥💥💥 MAXIMUM PROFIT 💥💥💥 start getting thrown around. There are a lot of...

People do like to get paid for working. People that fund them like to get money back from their investments as well. Wanting to make a profit on a luxury item like a game is not inherently a bad thing.

My local grocery store did carry it for a while but I managed to successfully ignore it. I'm not a zero sugar zealot but I avoid Dew with real sugar because I don't want to get hooked again.

It's probably a good thing I can't get Mountain Dew with real sugar in the US ... when I was in Norway a few years ago I made the mistake of buying some. It was amazing but I'm better off sticking with tea. :coffee:

As analogies go, this is probably better than "She grew on him like she was a colony of E. coli and he was room-temperature Canadian beef."* Both surprisingly specific analogies that do indeed provide evocative and specific imagery that doesn't necessarily apply but can still spark...

Same, but only if I could get it in a glass bottle.

If it's all snake oil then it will burn out like NFTs and it's not a big deal. Good news is, if you wouldn't find it useful you don't have to use it. Meanwhile it's useful for a lot of people. Yes, sometimes people will ask for suggestions or generate a background. They'll chuckle, roll their...

The same has been said about almost every new technology ever invented. The long ago agricultural revolution and civilization as we know it was bad for people in many ways but I don't idealize the hunter-gatherer societies of our ancestors and I wouldn't want to go back to that. Very few, if...

Given the correct prompts an AI can create ideas (and imagery) that random tables simply can't. I have a friend that uses AI for work and his campaign, he was able to feed all sorts of random campaign documentation from his home game and the AI spit out a 100 page booklet detailing all of the...

A random table is going to have a far, far more limited list than an AI can draw on. That's the point. It's not that you're ever going to have an AI do everything (at least not with the tech we have now), it's that it can generate suggestions that act as a springboard. AI is very good at some...

LLMs may be the mother of all random tables when it comes to helping to come up with ideas, but we use random tables for a reason. They can help get the thought processes going. If what they come up with doesn't make sense, we just try another one.

I don't know if it needs to be said, but what we call AI is artificial but it is not intelligent. It's amazing at taking input, throwing it all into a blender and then spitting out something comprehensible. But it does not think and many people do not see a path towards it ever "thinking", at...

They said they weren't going to use it for art in their books, they may have said they weren't going to use it to write modules but I don't recall. There are a lot of other potential uses of AI such as a DM aid. Perhaps mod writers are using it for inspiration and a starting point so they can...

The replacement of software developers, in particular, has been predicted for decades. The job has changed and people have become more efficient but that just means they do more and can add more value to the businesses they support.

I'm just relaying information I've seen online. There are ongoing lawsuits from publishers such as the New York Times in addition to your friend, I don't think anyone knows what the ultimate resolution will be. It's certainly an ethical and fairness issue.

If a giant suddenly appeared in downtown Vancouver, it is likely their legs would instantly break from their weight as their physiology doesn't support their size. Once you get about 8 foot tall for humans, our bodies shape just doesn't work well. Most "giants" of legend were well under 7 foot...

It's difficult to prove and there is a fair use law, you can include parts of legally protected documents as long as you don't quote the entire sections. Some companies are suing but what's been done is kind of unprecedented. So far (at least as I know and I couldn't find any updates) nothing...

So now you're using a wish to control a sun eating dragon? Since this is an uber-powerful charm effect and the target of such a spell generally knows they were manipulated and who did it, get ready to be killed by a dragon with god-like powers. :devilish: