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S'okay. Those books wouldn't have been beamed out into space - "visitors" will not have read them.

It isn't hypothetical. When my Wild Beyond the Witchlight campaign ended, one of my players stepped up to give me a break and give me some time to work out what we'd do next! I describe myself as a "service oriented GM" - I have my most fun when I am giving payers what they want. So, rather...

Of course not! Because (duh!) - not much light has been shed on it yet! We use vague categories when we don't know much! The universe, and science, moves at its own pace, not yours.

That too many of us are too science illiterate to have any freakin' patience.

Hey. It isn't like they get to pick and choose. We don't get to plan this - the thing showed, up, and we have to use what hardware is available. Yep. In most pictures we can take, from anywhere, the nucleus is less than one pixel. That is exactly why we need to take as many pictures as...

It isn't "heading for Earth". It isn't going to come anywhere near Earth. It's closest approach is going to be some 1.8 AU from us - meaning 1.8x the distance between the Earth and the Sun. It is on the other side of the solar system from us!

I think you are packing into "nature" what I would put into "detailed composition". Comets, as we typically think of them, come out of our Oort cloud. There's variation, but also a lot of similarity, given that common origin. This thing doesn't come out of our Oort cloud, so its detailed...

(i) doesn't seem to me to be a development of the last decade - most of those concepts are older. Fate's approach with "Stress" is 20+ years old now. I was playing with "wound point" variants in D&D 2e. (ii) OD&D has initiative. What do you mean by this? These are parts of why I think of...

Vaguely. "True nature"? That's a weird turn of phrase in this context. It is a comet-like object from outside the solar system. While we will hopefully find some interesting stuff about its detailed composition, its nature as a comet-like object from outside the solar system is unlikely to...

At the moment, none. The D&D games I was running and playing have all completed. In the near-ish future? I wouldn't expect to run anything prior to 5e except as a nostalgic one-shot. The couple of friends who have talked about running D&D I would not expect to go back prior to 5e for their...

All terms are meaningless if you don't define them.

I don't think I usually consider whether individual mechanics are "modern". I think that's more a quality of broader game design.

Key points from the article The Real (Economic) AI Apocalypse is Nigh by Cory Doctorow a third of the stock market is tied up in seven AI companies that have no way to become profitable and that this is a bubble that's going to burst and take the whole economy with it. the topline growth that...

I don't. "Modern" is a question of date, not of mechanical focus.

Yes, and they put cancer warnings on cigarettes in 1965. It took about twenty years for the percentage of people smoking to drop 10%. A line of text in the small print does not overcome the rest of the presentation. Why? The technology is supposed to serve us, not the other way around. I...

Fair point. I was more considering technology development - NASA uses public funds to develop a ton of tech, and in making the patents for those available returns more value to the economy than the agency costs. That's before we get into the value of support of satellite operations t our...

Mod Note: Looking through the past couple of pages, I see folks getting a bit short and snarky with each other. I recommend folks cool the heck down, before someone says something truly regrettable. Also, this thread is not about Quebec.

You realize that the relationship between the space race and the public is nowhere near the same as the relationship between AI development and the public? In order for these to be comparable, you'd need a National Artificial Intelligence Administration - NAIA, comparable to NASA, with similar...