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It sounds like Frodo will not be a character in this film, and that the other three will be some amount of older than they were at the end of ROTK

[attempt to insert Colbert "GIVE IT TO ME NOW" gif fails]

I saw this story covered over at Dark Horizons, and it says this film will be "...set fourteen years after the passing of Frodo. The hobbits Sam, Merry, and Pippin set out to retrace the first steps of their adventure. Meanwhile, Sam’s daughter, Elanor, has discovered a long-buried secret and...

This dovetails with what I posted about monsters - if theyre just going to port standard 5.5E monsters into a new setting, for me that really reduces my interest level.

This might be a side-issue, but going forward I would monsters to be fairly different in a not-FR setting. Not just "this monster is more common, this one is less", but "these monsters are rather different in this setting, there's different versions of this monster, these have different...

I would say no one wrote it. However, the "who" here might be the problem, or the wrong question. I will let someone with more knowledge of LLMs, source-scraping technology, rights issues, and whatnot answer this, if they want Human experience, understanding, intelligence, and the like? As...

Even having the idea for the cool rhyme in the first place means you had all kinds of stuff in your head, which your mind - consciously or unconsciously - put together to form the idea. Yeah - even if you write a 1000-word prompt for an "AI" to write a 20,000 word novel, you did not write that...

I'm not a musician, but I'm not sure such a thing is possible - to play from sheet music with no interpretation whatsoever.

Just wanted to "ditto" this. If the rationale for using "AI" "art" is that you have to in order to compete with big publishers who use "AI" "art", in the long run you actually are making things harder for yourself and for anyone who creates without "AI". You are reinforcing the idea that you...

Having worked as a comic book colorist, imagining "AI" coloring choices makes me throw up a little bit in my mouth.

Yeah, he's probably over-correcting, from "people who know I'm Spider-man might get hurt, so..." to "I asked for no one to know I'm Spider-man" to "I will be lonely forever and not even tell people who can protect themselves."

It's both surprising and refreshing to see a movie Spidey costume that doesn't [seem to] have lots of raised textures and detail (beyond the core detail of the black web lines). It's flat and sleek - and even ripples in the wind!

Although I've always loved the idea of the GL Corps, I wound up staying away from GL comics for the same reason I generally stay away from X-Men, Batman, and Marvel's cosmic comics - there's just too much going on, like it's a mini comics line all its own. So, I'm looking forward to this! And...

I go back and forth on skills. On the one hand, as a GM, without PC skills you're looking at the PC's class or background or such to figure out if they would know how to do X. I find myself spending too much time or mental energy making these decisions - I get decision exhaustion pretty easily...

If the stories are well-told, I kind of don't care that I know how it winds up afterwards. Yeah - "A thing isn't beautiful because it lasts."

How I Would Be 5.75

The callouts and pop-up reference is by far the greatest strength of DDB, for me. (The one thing I wish the DDB character sheet would let me do is customize the order of the screens (abilities, saves, etc; skills; inventory; etc) - or even eliminateone or more - when I'm using a small browser...

Sounds like you're prepared to focus on the potential benefits. I was pointing out the drawbacks, and I think I was pretty clear, but I've taken that as far as I care to.

I was pointing out a reason to not read on a Kindle. They will push what they want you to read, not necessarily books by authors you've enjoyed. You can look up what you've read, but will that be accurate? Who knows. And I clarified my general point above, in the post you quoted. I mentioned...

Amazon doesn't care if you remember the name of the book you're reading on your Kindle, or the author' name. They will remind you of other books by that author if they think doing so will make them more money, or of books that are "similar" (i.e. that they want to sell or rent to you). My...