Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet?

[prabe]

I recently saw someone advance the theory that it's a product of lead poisoning from vaping. Lead being leached from the internal components. And comparing it to lead exposure my generation had from gasoline (and prior had more from paint chips).

There's a fairly serious hypothesis that the spike in violence of the 1970s-1990s was at least in part because of kinds growing up with extra lead (and other heavy metals--elements, not bands) in the environment. I just recently read a book that made a pretty explicit connection between how polluted the places a lot of the Classic Era Serial Killers grew up in were, and ... uh ... their being serial killers. I'm not convinced that's the whole explanation in either case, but the correlations seem to be there.

 

[Umbran]

These AI companion things are going to cripple an entire generation.

Social Media -> Covid Lockdown -> AI Companions = decades of stunted kids unable to separate fact from fiction, or determine what reality actually looks like.

With respect, we have been living in a post-fact world for a while now.

Humans are more than willing to allow their fears and frustrations to stunt them, no AI required.

 

[Scribe]

With respect, we have been living in a post-fact world for a while now.

Humans are more than willing to allow their fears and frustrations to stunt them, no AI required.

Absolutely. Just like we can make fire with some sticks rubbed together, or we can spray gasoline on an already open flame.

Or, we could maybe not, and get back to reality and touching grass instead of amplifying insanity within the general population that is as you noted struggling for some time as it is.

 

[Snarf Zagyg]

My Wills & Estates professor, Stanley Johanson, emphasized using clear and concise language when drafting so that everyone involved was crystal clear on the rights and duties. He espoused prevention was better than cures, and felt that if your clients wound up in court, you probably had a flaw in the documents you drafted for them.

If you're the type of child who likes to build with Legos, you become a transactional attorney.

If you're the type of child who likes to play with matches, you go into litigation.

If you build it, I will come ... and burn it down.

 

[Ryujin]

My tangential gripe is that designers, GMs and players try to treat game rules like lawyers treat legal codes and documents .

1) Game rules aren’t written like legal codes.
2) (most) Gamers aren’t lawyers
3) Even trained legislators, judges & lawyers screw this stuff up- often because of “legalese”

My Wills & Estates professor, Stanley Johanson, emphasized using clear and concise language when drafting so that everyone involved was crystal clear on the rights and duties. He espoused prevention was better than cures, and felt that if your clients wound up in court, you probably had a flaw in the documents you drafted for them.

Same goes for game rules. Be clear & concise in your writing and word choices, and you’ll have more fun PLAYING your games than bickering about what paragraph 5 on pg 125 meant.

I'm rather surprised that more ambiguous wording isn't caught in either proofing or play testing, but there's so much of it that does make it through.

 

[billd91]

There's a fairly serious hypothesis that the spike in violence of the 1970s-1990s was at least in part because of kinds growing up with extra lead (and other heavy metals--elements, not bands) in the environment. I just recently read a book that made a pretty explicit connection between how polluted the places a lot of the Classic Era Serial Killers grew up in were, and ... uh ... their being serial killers. I'm not convinced that's the whole explanation in either case, but the correlations seem to be there.

A very serious hypothesis. It's helped by the fact that violence peaked and dropped off pretty much everywhere in the US at the same time, which suggests a wide-spread, even airborne, environmental factor that was phasing out of the environment about 20ish years before the decline. And that fits with lead starting to come out of most gasoline.
Seriously, my generation - Generation X - is warped in a number of ways that might stem from the fact that we're also the one with the most environmental lead exposure in the 20th century.

 

[overgeeked]

I'm rather surprised that more ambiguous wording isn't caught in either proofing or play testing, but there's so much of it that does make it through.

It’s not possible to jerk-proof game design. We’ve been trying for the life of the hobby. The solution is not more ironclad writing, the solution is not playing with jerks.

 

[Ryujin]

It’s not possible to jerk-proof game design. We’ve beenntrying for the life of the hobby. The solution is not more ironclad writing, the solution is not playing with jerks.

A little from Column A, a little from Column B..

 

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Landlines Are Making a Comeback and They're Helping Families in a Major Way

Concerned that screen time is taking over their teens lives, parents have turned to an extreme solution: installing landlines in their homes. And some parents say their kids communication skills are actually better.

www.yahoo.com

 

[Umbran]

It’s not possible to jerk-proof game design.

Also, you can make a system foolproof.
You cannot make it damnfoolproof.