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..I was just going to reply to Mad Jack with a remark about handedness and how for some reason I'm lefty just for throwing frisbees. But now I'm just pausing and taking a couple of deep breaths. Hang in there.

While it's a vivid cautionary example, don't the same concerns and cautions here apply broadly to internet search tools like Google? Are LLMs more worrisome because they involve less work sorting through results, and thus fewer obvious points for the user to read critically and assess the sources?

One of the perennial issues I've had with D&D is how Fighters and other high-HP characters take longer and more resources to heal up than do M-Us and other low-HP characters. We squint past it, but it seems more plausible and intuitive that for any given injury (whether actual/physical, or...

Back to the gym last night for dumbbell bench, dumbbell inclined curls, dumbell behind the head skull crushers, and dumbbell seated lateral raises. Felt good, and added a couple of reps here and there. Yesterday morning I was dragging ass, because the only time I can normally hang out with my...

Dyson also has some free stocked dungeons and adventures on his site, in addition to Dyson's Delve. Of them I've run Goblin Gully and Burial Mound of Esur the Red, which are short ones, and they've both been fun. https://dysonlogos.blog/downloads-games/

25 years old(!), and I've got the 20th anniversary revised and updated edition. I'll try to check in here with some thoughts mid-stream.

Finally finished Gary Alan Fine's Shared Fantasy, which closes with some more dense sociology, where the beginning and middle of the book have more relatable ethnography of gamers and amusing anecdotes. Still, even through the end there are still interesting historical insights into gamer...

You know, I'm of two minds about this.

Does that one give you a pun/old school D&D reference?

A big feature of Tarantino's movies is routinely to subvert the genre while also celebrating it. Reservoir Dogs is a "heist movie" where we never see the actual heist and even the "planning scenes" skip virtually all the details of the actual crime and are mostly just about the characters...

Still common for camping, though I see it a lot with fire dancers/spinners. It's the main fuel they use with those implements.

The shark first appears what, 80 minutes into Jaws?

Yup. The movie took enough time to introduce the setting and characters, establish stakes and make the audience care.

Yeah, I'm starting to understand that better. Always best to just compare numbers on a given machine against that machine. It's annoying, though. :LOL:

I did, though I didn't go too hard and am feeling some soreness this morning. Smith machine barbell inclined bench three sets with a couple of drop sets, machine triceps extensions likewise, and tried out cable lateral raises, three sets each side. The weight I could do was substantially...

I only played 1st and 2nd editions, and I agree completely that the superheroes with fangs power fantasy was too indulged by the system. It would have worked better if Generation wasn't an available Background, so you had to start 13th Gen (the youngest and weakest vampires), and if Diablerie...