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I'm getting downvoted simply for giving examples, thus proving my point. But if you need a concrete example, I once had a DM include a drag show in-game.

I believe you, but that's not the case everywhere. I've had DMs who have put drag shows in our game as part of tavern entertainment, for example. Even though I have no problem with…

Mostly political agendas that spill over from the real world, often surrounding themes of social justice and left-wing activism but sometimes right wing fascist themes as well. I j…

A problem with the X-Card concept is that it can only be used within the pre-existing Overton Window of the group anyway, so you might as well ditch it in favor of normal social ne…

I remember serious discussions about how we'd probably need to repave all of our sidewalks in the US to accommodate the Segway

I visualize some geographic location either in my home town where I grew up or in my current city. It's so vivid that I actually drive through some neighborhoods and can instantly …

I heard about this site on HN about 5 years ago (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21050636) and have been a regular user ever since. It's been down for a few days and I can't f…

Exactly, there are numerous reasons other than it's not possible. 1.Time-travel will never become possible. 2.Time-travel becomes possible. Their time travel capabilities are inade…

Bebe Williams published this idea in issue #14 of Strange Magazine (1994) and has published the book "Instructions for Meeting Time Travellers" https://www.artcomic.com/timetravel/…

It's just campaign rules for Chainmail, their medieval weapon combat rules invented for the already existing Elastolin and Starlux figures. It was a system for wargamers much more …

Let's try to calculate an optimal prepping strategy using a back-of-the-envelope Bayesian approach with expected utility. We need to estimate the probability of a societal collapse…

I got my Technicians license about a year ago but have struggled to find much to do with it. I check into my local nets every once and a while, but the repeaters are nearly silent …

No, I have it stashed in the basement. I made it through a natural disaster in my area in the middle of a global pandemic and wasn't even tempted to crack it open once. Hope I neve…

They didn't just start, they've been selling these off-and-on for years. I have a 25 year food bucket I bought right around the financial crisis 15 years ago.

5 years ago I was running GPT-2 and generating D&D content with it. I expected much better text prediction loop and here we are.

A text file of a list of people from December 12, 1981. Originally had it on a floppy for the IBM PC 5150 and it's made the leap somehow to every new system for over 40 years.

They simply used the wrong link, its not really a lack of account or hostile UI

Because the effects of my actions in this case have yet to be demonstrated, let alone shown to cause harm. The author claims there is expoititive harm to labor, the environment, an…

> I don't think this article even remote attempts this claim. It's in the first sentence, "AI output is fundamentally derivative and exploitative (of content, labor and the environ…

I'm not a fan of this hyper aggressive line-in-the-sand argumentation about AI that pushes it all precariously close to culture war shenanigans. If you don't like a new technology …

What's crazy is that the OSR movement itself is now 20 years old and is probably no longer a renaissance or revival but simply a bona fide style of D&D that people play for its own…

It gets colder in Minnesota during the winter. https://weatherspark.com/compare/y/68697~10405/Comparison-of...