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I think the Soloist were talking about their boardgames here, not the ttrpgs. I've heard a lot of how their boardgames are a bit lacklustre from non-CR haters. And boardgames are a different skill to make good, so not surprised that they're among the 70% mediocre boardgame makers out there...

Not sure about that. They have a small team and the people doing CO things are the same people currently designing and writing Daggerheart — which obviously right now got the focus. At least I hope CO get some more support because it was pretty good when taken for what it was and not what one...

A bit of that is because Ellison was really litigious and a loud prick, where-as the estate of PkD wasn't. So only one inspiration got the spotlight that way.

There are quite a few short story magazines still out there, and not every author stops writing for them. Some of them like Clarkesworld, Uncanny Magazine, and Beneath Ceaseless Skies also have their back catalogue up on the web for free (epub for a cost)

Yeah but if the medium maps itself to Daggerheart? It's impossible to answer because the medium is comics and the genre variance within is vast — far bigger than in mainstream US comics. Could you do [specific comic] in Daggerheart can be answered with yes/no/perhaps. Because as I said above...

And even if one stays within the shonen market, JoJo's Bizarre Adventure and One Piece are very different from one another with very different ways of handling powers and they're also worlds apart from series like Haikyu or Bakuman. Trying to generalise is like going "I don't like how talking...

Outside of US, there is no Hulu or Peacock. Peacock content can be all over depending on regional differences, Hulu shows are on D+.

Will echo some: Only Murders in the Building, Slow Horse, Poker Face, Miss Fishers Murder Mysteries. Would say that Elementary is far superior to Sherlock. The Afterparty on Apple is a comedy of a murder each season and each episode is focused on one persons view of the events. It's really good.

I remember seeing how Midjourney had to stop accepting "afghan" an an input because when it was used, it only output images with that looked like variation of the Afghan Girl photo. And that has continued. So that whole "it doesn't copy" has a huge "*) except when it does" attached to it.

I don't think perfect pitch was a problem to be solved, but as with a lot of art what makes it is the really specific choices that goes into it. Both auto-tune and keyboards involves this — even when choosing not to, like how Caroline Polachek can mimic auto-tune amazingly with her voice which...

No, I read their point to be that AI art is the came as a learned craft and the naughty word it is.

...it's a learned craft. You do know that, right? Anyone can learn to make a table, but we pay for the work and expertise. Especially when we want it to be something that requires the expertise part.

Imagine how much boring the world would be if people didn't make music due to not having perfect pitch.

"Talent is a pursued interest. Anything that you're willing to practice, you can do." — Bob Ross Natural affinity gives you a push at the start but it doesn't define where you end up, only practice does that. "Pure talent" is people who have affinity and then pursued it as heck. We don't go...

Jeffro Johnson who handled the blog duties on Vox Day's publishing house? That's a bit concerning. (I'm not sure I can say anything about Vox Day that don't break the no politics rule except that he's a really really terrible human being.)

That was the monthly bestselling list. I also sorted after best selling last year and these are the top 60 there. Even less doom and gloom, there's some really good books. But once again: far too many Sanderson books imo.

Kindle Unlimited adds a lot of numbers, everyone that samples for free and don't finish is still counted. Looking at the top 24 at SF-bok — Swedish SF/Fantasy/Horror bookstore — one fourth of the books there are Brandon Sanderson. Three are Yarros but it's only two titles, one Maas, and well...

I'm probably not typical in that I tired to read the first trilogy in the beginning of the pandemic. I gave up because it was really not good. So for me it's a pass. I'm certain it's different with people who have nostalgia for it and who read it when they were 15 as opposed to in their 40s.