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    California bill (AB 412) would effectively ban open-source generative AI

    I think they were specifically talking about the "most stuff under copyright should be in the public domain" part, not the part about companies continuously extending the duration (although the last time they tried, it failed)
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    Old Lady Gamer

    The best thing about game stores imo is not having to wait for shipping. I like being able to go look at a thing, pick it up, and leave with it. But the experience is really dependent on the store, if a woman walked into the store I went to in college people would act exactly like that scene...
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    California bill (AB 412) would effectively ban open-source generative AI

    It is very difficult to take your appeals to the common man angle seriously when in almost each of these posts you seem very willing to screw over the common man in the exact same ways you're criticizing, then defend it with "well, rich people can do it so why shouldn't I?" The answer to why you...
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    California bill (AB 412) would effectively ban open-source generative AI

    I don't really understand why you would bother running thought experiments about a bill and the impact it might have without reading it. It's pretty short, take a look at it. https://legiscan.com/CA/text/AB412/id/3100490
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    California bill (AB 412) would effectively ban open-source generative AI

    I'm not sure it's fair to characterize that post this way. The comparison was indirect, to the point that if dragoner had said Ecclesiastes instead of Lincoln I'm not sure there would have been any fuss, and limited to the specific aspect of workers not being paid for their labor. That's hardly...
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    California bill (AB 412) would effectively ban open-source generative AI

    Weird that chatGPT couldn't direct you to the wikipedia article for synthetic media, maybe a sign you shouldn't be relying on it for legal analysis
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    California bill (AB 412) would effectively ban open-source generative AI

    Check out the related article about the Meta lawsuits, where they argue it's "hyperbolic" to call Meta grabbing the books from BitTorrent piracy.
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    What are you reading in 2025?

    A friend gave me a copy because they thought I'd like it, and it's well written but I came to it with some baggage in the form of all the obnoxious douches I've known who idolized and modeled themselves after the version of Anthony in that book. He has a vibe that grated on me and made the book...
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    What are you reading in 2025?

    I've been tearing through the Dungeon Crawler Carl books after seeing them mentioned in another topic, but I've had to pause until the next book is rereleased. I went into the first book expecting to hate it, because all my other exposures to LitRPG have left a bad taste in my mouth, but...
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    WotC Would you buy WotC products produced or enhanced with AI?

    AI discussion will inevitably turn to people talking about the importance of prompts, and trying to elevate it to a craft. If you can get people to accept this, you can dismiss bad AI art because the person who generated it just doesn't know how to use it. I don't think I've ever seen a...
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    WotC Would you buy WotC products produced or enhanced with AI?

    This is, in fact, how that works.
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    D&D General Would You Buy an RPG Product Printed on a Gutenberg Press?

    It is wildly ironic to make a mean spirited "satire" in order to belittle the opinions of people who don't want to buy AI dnd products to say something like this.
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    D&D General Would You Buy an RPG Product Printed on a Gutenberg Press?

    I'm not sure who told you that insulting people who disagree with you is a good first step in starting a discussion, but I hope you didn't give them any money for that advice.
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    D&D General Would You Buy an RPG Product Printed on a Gutenberg Press?

    Absolutely, and as always there are no ahistorical assumptions being made to make the comparison look more in the favor of the person making it.
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    Spoilers Daredevil: Born Again (Spoilers)

    "Schlocky and unnecessary" definitely fits the vibe of Born Again. Actually probably how I would summarize the series as a whole.
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    D&D General No One Reads Conan Now -- So What Are They Reading?

    I think quite a lot of HP Lovecraft's stories came out years before Conan did, and iirc Lovecraft's copyrights were not always managed by people who knew what they were doing.
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    D&D 5E (2014) Feat, Magic Items, or Multiclassing? Which do you choose?

    When I was still running 5th edition, no feats and no multiclassing was how I ran, so magic items are clearly the one for me. I honestly don't think I would even want to play in a game that didn't have magic items.
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    WizKids Announces Potato Head Beholder Miniature

    I can already get a potato with too many eyes for less than 25 dollars (I'm definitely going to get one of these)
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    D&D General No One Reads Conan Now -- So What Are They Reading?

    If you can recognize something is problematic, you've acknowledged it's problematic, so I'm a little confused why you're asking how to go about doing it.
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    D&D General No One Reads Conan Now -- So What Are They Reading?

    I'm not really sold on this. Lovecraft is in the unique position of mostly being known for the things he created, and what other writers did with them. You could be dismissive of a more literary author's writing style but it would be hard to argue that say, McCarthy or Hemmingway or Roth are...
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