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- Untitled May 5, 2024 3:56 pmSigh. Kids. Trying to get them to go out and play in the fresh air got delayed so much by various arguments that the outing got sunk by a thunderstorm when we finally managed to get to the place they could agree on.
- Untitled May 5, 2024 12:42 pmI never actuall read the Feist novels either. maybe I should
- Untitled May 5, 2024 12:41 pmlooking towards adapting City of Carse for my games. I've had it for ages, but when I last checked it it didn't suit my campaign's mood. Now I think I am going to have a look at it again. Will have to remove the Midkemia references though.By the way, did you know that Reymond E. Feist's Riftwar novels started out with a #dnd campaign (which crossed over with #tekumel?)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_City_of_Carse#ttrpg
- Untitled May 5, 2024 11:33 amI think what I find most offensive about the whole discussion I had earlier was the use of #AI to flood the discussion with autogenerated drivel that the other wanted me to put time and effort into. It makes me really, really angry. And I think this will become much more common soon enough. Can't find any argument? Just generate 10 responses you didn't put any effort into. Drown out the other voice. What is their opinion against your skill to open #chatgpt?
- Untitled May 5, 2024 11:08 amactually, I am not categorically against nuclear power, I am just against nuclear shills that try to minimize the dangers it has with bad faith arguments.
- Untitled May 5, 2024 10:44 am...especially no argument that includes putting a glorified steam engine into your area that might make your whole region uninhabitable if it blows.
- Untitled May 5, 2024 10:37 amif i noticed something when talking with outspoken pro-nuclear people it's that you really can't trust anything they say. they are intellectually bankrupt, will use all kinds of shady argumentation tactics, ad hominems, and can't even be bothered to write their own arguments (instead using AI for that)but they do expect you to provide sources. I wouldn't trust anything from them#nuclear
- Untitled May 4, 2024 9:26 pmTo be fair, the guy I was responding to is clearly a shill account. His timeline consists of inspirational quotes alternating with shilling for nuclear energy. Stuff like "oh how dumb were the people of Fukushima to evacuate when the radiation dose would totally have been survivable"
- Untitled May 4, 2024 9:18 pmIf you decide to foist AI generated drivel on me to win an argument I will do you a favor and discard it.If you can't be bothered to argue yourself I don't feel I need to bother listening to you.(You might also have to realize that flooding a conversation with that drivel to drown out dissent is not exactly a way to convince me)
- Untitled May 4, 2024 9:10 amyeah, the future of online discussions has arrived in the #fediverse as well: found the replies of a guy regarding #nuclear energy to be a bit too suspiciously samey sounding, so I checked with an #ai detector. lo and behold!(is there maybe a browser plugin to detect this stuff automatically?)#mastodon
- Untitled May 4, 2024 8:32 amhere's an interesting thing I found you can do with the #irc webportal The Lounge: you can easily add parameters to the link for it to drop someone nearly directly into a chat.wanna have a quick discussion regarding the #fediverse? go to http://ereborbbs.duckdns.org:9000/?join=fediverse and you can connect to the chat. the only limitation is that the chat already needs to exist.
- Untitled May 3, 2024 9:01 pmhmm... so systemd and pulseaudio both were created by Lennart Poettering?That... disturbingly makes much more sense than it should. I guess you can sometimes recognize the writer's voice even in software design. (they both replace services that worked fine with "improved" services that take hours of tinkering to get running as they should)#linux
- Untitled May 3, 2024 8:12 pmI find it interesting how many #dnd articles The Guardian publishes latelyhttps://www.theguardian.com/games/2024/may/03/dungeons-and-dragons-wizards-of-the-coast
- Untitled May 3, 2024 1:57 pmah, today good old Jonathan Harker left the west and entered the east, collecting recipes for paprika hendl on his way. seems he has a very nice new employer...#books
- Untitled May 2, 2024 11:34 amit's interesting that sometimes some of the userpages from the old net are still around in places. one of my players found some #shadowrun 3e houserules on a webpage of the University of Michigan. I wonder how long these will be around until they notice they still are there.
- Untitled May 2, 2024 11:09 amOther distractions: Internet Relay ChatI have beenfutzing around with my old Raspberry Pi lately, and a lot of my energy went into that. That and talking on the usenet. My main project actually started out as making a nntp-based forum, but on the way I got distracted by all those other shiny terminal apps that I met along the way. Well, I say shiny.https://gmkeros.wordpress.com/2024/05/02/other-distractions-internet-relay-chat/
- Untitled May 2, 2024 8:58 am3 meetings in a row and the kids are home with me and arguing, and at 11 I finally get my first coffee.this has been a long day already
- Untitled May 1, 2024 8:45 pmMet a celebrity on my walk. Look everyone, it's Sonic!
- Untitled May 1, 2024 2:26 pmhmm, I just assumed the Zutons had at least some stuff out the last.... checks... 16 years. But it turns out no, they just disappeared. The Zutons - Creeping on the Dancefloorhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7qHsONa0XOg#music #rock #songoftheday
- Untitled May 1, 2024 11:22 amon the one hand nice weather and the first of may and there's stuff for the grill in the fridge. on the other hand that demands to get out of the front door...choices choices
2 responses to “Campaign Starter: The Retinue”
@gmkeros.wordpress.com Oh, I like this, that's fun 🙂
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@JubalBarca @gmkeros.wordpress.com I think it might be a cool way to start something with. there should be lots of variations on that theme.
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