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I read an article online that said AI authors are, on average, more handsome, intelligent, and better lovers than human authors. Wait a minute, do you think that was written by AI???

Another related thought is that our hobbies often bring us great joy. But sometimes any strong emotional reaction also scratches that itch. So folks get caught following a hobby that makes them feel angry or frustrated or outraged because they are still getting a strong emotional reaction from it.

It's very frustrating because I found out that my future self has the book but is unwilling to tell me anything about it until my present catches up with his. He says that sharing info would impact the stability of the time stream??? So annoying.

I think this is a good post and a good point Reynard. It makes me think about how my wife and I both enjoy dumb movies, but in different genres. I love dumb movies that involve monsters or really silly humor. She likes dumb movies that have romance. When we watch a romantic comedy together, I...

Good to know that I enjoy a stupid concept! Where in D&D does it say what a god must be? Why can't an aboleth be a god? A dragon? A snarling bunch of tentacles deep inside a cave, where locals bring their sacrifices?

I guess my understanding of what a god is comes more from pulp stories like Conan. Sure, no one is going to be fighting Crom, but there are plenty of other weird, little gods to fight out there. People are always worshipping the Weird Thing in the Well, the Divine Sorcerer, the Bear God. In my...

I definitely prefer a mythic mindset over a scientific one. The moment we get into discussing genetics or DNA, I feel pulled out of the fantasy setting.

The Religion in D&D thread made me think about how much I enjoy the RPG storyline of killing a god. It could be a minor god, a big animal like in Princess Mononoke, a tentacled thing from beyond the world worshiped by a cult, or facing off against a major god in their own plane. These stories...

Your next enemy needs to throw a zucchini on the ground and force Chee-tor to make a Save vs being Frightened.

I usually default to two competing forms of religion: One is the worship of small gods who are usually physically present in the world. This ranged from giant animals or dragons to the worship of natural phenomena like a waterfall. This is very inspired by Studio Ghibli films. The other is the...

I voted for Conan, Willow, and Clash of the Titans (Harryhausen). These are three fantasy films I watched growing up that are definitely reflected in my homebrewed campaigns. Conan can be seen in the general unlawfulness of my campaign worlds. I'm not interested in running campaigns with huge...

I'm sure the mods are on it, but in the meantime if you ignore the posters who are posting them it cuts down on the spam.

Are there any TTRPGs that play around in the medium of abstraction or absurdity? Raymond Queneau's Exercises In Style takes a single short story (about a man riding the bus) and retells it in 99 different ways. The Boy and the Hero is a recent Studio Ghibli film that I would definitely...

I'm a little lost in your argument here. Are you saying the history book should not have prefaced Gygax's writing by acknowledging that he included sexist ideas?

I read that Ridley Scott set the first Gladiator in the "cinematic history" of Rome- that is, the Rome of movies, not of history. This one seems to be doing the same.

I love the original, and this also looks super fun. The end actually made me laugh out loud.

I believe this is the disclaimer they used: Is that really an attack on the author and material?

I understand wanting to bring the community together... But coming into a thread and calling everyone hateful is just not a way to do it.