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The fact people have bad sessions--as players or as GMs--doesn't mean GMing isn't easier than a lot of people say it is. As someone said upthread, the process of getting better at doing a thing often entails doing it badly at points and/or for a while.

I think a lot of it is "not what I want in a GM," but that's not a strident disagreement.

Obviously I'm not the person you're responding to, but the existence of the GM-Advice Industrial Complex doesn't seem to relate much to the existence of professional GMs. I mean, the existence of pop-psych self-help books don't diminish the value of actual therapy even a little. (To make a kinda...

Well, that's just everyone's favorite category error in reverse. Even bass-ackward it's fractally wrong.

Spotify perineum seems like a rather specialized service ...

Yeah, the people at the table are OK with knowing it happens in the setting, they just don't want their faces shoved in it (or it shoved in their faces, whatever).

I enjoyed the heck out of Anima Rising. I particularly appreciated how much better it treated the characters who weren't white men than Sacre Bleu did. (Of the Moore I've read, that's the closest comparison, I think.)

In principle, I absolutely agree that safety tools should be in use in TRPGs, probably not just for Horror games--mainly because genre borders are often blurry and/or porous--even though in practice I'm utter garbage at using them. (Fortunately, I know the players really well; I pay attention to...

"It's on fire." That seems as though it's probably adequate information ... :LOL:

If not ignore, maybe disregard, or at least refuse to engage with.

Fair, I was thinking of the difference between a kind of enthusiastic cluelessness kinda common among nerds and something more malicious, but that might not be a distinction that matters as much when one is interacting with either.

There are probably some of those, yes. Often, people want to talk about what they want to talk about and will take any conversational opening to do so; this can, but needn't, be bad-faith thread-twisting.

We don't talk about how much of the good stuff about Star Wars came about despite George Lucas.

Mostly that most people don't understand the former term and that different people have different media experiences.

The sense I have is that there are still some smaller venues, but I live in the East Coast Megalopolis, so my sense of things might be skewed (and I haven't been following the music biz much for a while).

Sign me up!

Part of me really wants that to say "acts of war or nuclear god."

It'll probably take some time for the Powers That Be to figure out that AI is not the tool to address it.

DuckDuckGo allows you to turn all AI off--at least, it seems to, I haven't checked its work. Obviously, it'd just be turned off in the search results themselves, it wouldn't do anything about whatever pages you landed on.

It's a kinda tossed off line in Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency, a (IIRC) Classical radio station programmer gets cornered by a logician and a semantics professor who team up to prove that the phrase "too much Mozart" makes no logical sense. Or something similar. I often pair it with...