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Generally speaking I prefer for a GM to try to learn the players names at a con game. But it's more for signaling reasons. The GMs who don't ask are often still great. But when I get a GM who is not very attentive to the players, they also don't ask for names.

This was not how I read @Lanefan's post. Ime, I have not encountered people who have an issue with gay NPCs or pronouns. But I have encountered people who want to make every game into a political revolution of their chosen variety. That's what I hear when I read "contaminate the fiction with...

There's something to the concept, but similar stories are so common nowadays that it will feel formulaic. And it reduces some of what is unique about Star Wars into a more generic mold.

Yeah, even though my AI workflows don't really touch creative stuff, I am hesitant to say I used AI in many parts of the RPG community. I don't think I'd get death threats but there are many negative responses.

Currently, I use it mostly for formatting. It's quite easy to generate a nice looking document for Overleaf or something like that. Then, I have a workflow to make 'monster tear sheets'--basically a condensed spreadsheet with stats for the monsters I'll use in a session, so I don't need to...

You've lost me, and this is now more heated than I have any interest in.

That was true a year ago. But it is no longer a reasonable argument. Cybersecurity, for example, has demonstrated impact. You see people specifically saying AI is going to write great novels? Then you are seeing different discussions than I am; and I'd suggest that the pro AI people holding...

There has been an increase in production, but not for things like novels. Programming, various bureaucratic tasks...the stuff ai is actually good at. I gave several examples above. I've not encountered this claim. Probably there is someone out there who believes it. But phrasing it as such...

Not to be overly cynical, but one solution is that many things people do is also crap

Because the types of barriers AI removes are not the ones preventing an author from writing infinite jest...

You lost me.

There is a big difference between "reducing barriers to entry and helping execution" and "writing the next Infinite Jest"

I don't think this creative potential exists. AI augments people's creativity in a similar (but not identical) way to random tables. It isn't world changing. It is better in that it is easier to access and more specifically calibrated to your world, but worse in that the default outputs are...

The complaints you have are relatively common ones with D&D. I think you'd be well served by looking for different gaming styles which favor more grounded adventure over self-insert characters. OSR games are a good place to look for this because they generally favor more emergent storytelling...

Expect to see stratospheric aerosol injection or other geoengineering efforts before the civilization destroying stuff. Those have their own risks, which in many cases are substantial.

It always seemed to me much more the engineering that got people exciting than the science. Everyone has seen the pictures from Cassini, but not many could tell you about it's science objectives.

Methane in particular is concerning, because its short term effect is substantial and there is a lot locked up in permafrost. Some heating will release it and cause a powerful positive feedback on a short timescale.

If energy is that abundant, the landscape will look very different in terms of possible responses!

The number I used (240 w/m2) is only that absorbed. If you include the part that is reflected, it is about 340 w/m2. What specifically are you imagining? The boiling oceans claim is the one I was responding to.

How I wish! I've some firsthand knowledge of this process. That's exactly the point of my comments. It is being funded more for reasons of national prestige than scientific output. That doesn't mean it is a bad thing, or a poor investment--I'm happy the mission is going on! But it is good to...