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I mean, that's nice but $300m/month is a fraction of their costs, as Altman himself was pointing out recently whilst begging for more investment and muttering darkly about "bubbles". It's also not really that much money given how widely used it is, let alone how much has been poured into it...

I think this is an interesting juxtaposition because I've seen the latter distortions cause people to have different views re: the former. A specific example would be I have a friend who doesn't like to watch horror movies, or play horror videogames, but seems to really enjoy running certain...

Small e or big E evil though? Judge Dredd is absolutely small-e evil in most presentations of him, but he's usually contrasted against even worse people, people who range from the merely very dangerously stupid or greedy to extreme big-E evil, like Judge Death ("All crime isss committed by the...

I think this is a straightforward case of projecting your experience on to others, especially with the rather bold "top professional" qualifier lol. IT (particularly support-type IT) is an ideal case where AI is uniquely useful because it's read all the easily-accessible manuals and discussions...

To add to the post re: identity: You could possibly argue that Andor suggests (thought never outright states) that not having any clear cultural identity makes it easier for you to get sucked into either being part of the fascist regime, but even ol' Syril Karn does have a cultural identity...

The difference between Sorcerers and Wizards, in terms of actual theme is basically nothing. People can talk about like "inner power" and so but really they're basically interchangeable. 5E only made them closer after weirdly dumping an actually-differentiated Sorcerer who was in the playtests...

I think that's probably the right track, but also I think unless those first six levels take people, like, a long-ass time, you're probably not going to be able to fit that in reliably. But there are other ways which could be diegetic, especially if you have significant downtime built into the...

I mean, it's pretty much definitely deliberate, yeah.

I don't think it does really. I think it shows you can use cultural identity politics intersectionally to encourage groups into a more... clarified... understanding of where they stand. That they can be situationally helpful in forming a unified front on issues, and getting people involved who...

I think this is a pretty spectacular and complete misreading of Andor lol, especially if you know anything about Tony Gilroy.

I love all this except prestige classes being tied to diegetic achievements, which I want to love, but it is really, really tingling my Spidey-Sense. That's because unless you also have instructions/fairly strong suggestions for the DM to try to cooperate*, that's just going to lead to weird and...

Oh wow. That's an interesting one. One thing that helps WotC is the UA of course (no accident Daggerheart is copying it with The Void, which is kind of like an upgraded version of the same concept), because a lot of times some kind of serious balance issue that was overlooked got immediately...

People react based on the relative history of companies and do so in a dynamic way. WotC has a recent-ish history of stepping on rakes and making weird choices with settings. It's not a terrible awful history but it is a patchy and concern-inducing one. That could change. Two good setting...

Honestly I feel like the ideal would be almost all spells (or the vast majority) being unique to each class (albeit Sorcerer and Wizard should be the same class imho, just make one a subclass of the other). I know D&D has either never done that really (except 4E) and it doesn't really work with...

Yeah I'd ignored it on those grounds and casting Norton as a lead (also I mistakenly assumed he was playing William, glad to see he isn't) who chewed the scenery so ferociously in the later seasons of Happy Valley that for my money he completely annihilated any suspension of disbelief I could...

Omg I didn't realise he was such a renaissance man lol. Gotta stop underestimating how many pies he can get fingers in at once!

That's quite a cast also Simon Bird in Star Wars movie amazing lol. Long way from The Inbetweeners and Friday Night Dinner (the latter of which was so accurate to so many people I went to school with and their parents it was uncanny).

EIther way it's a serious problem and a WotC problem because that's a totally abnormal way for a book to be made, and frankly, not very plausible, because layout has to be done after text and art and then after that the book will be looked at by several people before it goes to print. This isn't...

But it is in a lot of magic-centric fantasy. The hard outer limits might not always be defined but there's often a clear rationale, things it can never do, things it's good at or bad at and so on. This isn't just modern either - it's true in A Wizard of Earthsea, for example. But in modern...

That's a total non-explanation. Just a dodge and nothing else. Totally empty of any meaning. You'd have to describe the force in some detail and put limits on it to make it have meaning.