Or at least a suggestion.

corporate profits decrease very slightly

This is the thing that people will reflexively point to, but this:

quality of life increases

This is the real issue. If quality of life increases, workers are less desperate, and are less willing to put up with their employers BS. Moreover, if other jobs are also paying a living wage, it’s much easier to quit.

We have seen, over and over, that businesses are willing to spend money to exert control over workers. They’ll do it even if it means a decline in profits, or even in revenue. Because at the end of the day, if you have your needs met, any money left over is just power, and power is meant to be used to control others.

Is this guy Trump’s VP pick because he’s the only person he could find that talks like Trump? The guy’s a rotting word salad machine

That’s so sad. The people who have tried to move to making Pathfinder content got bludgeoned back to preaching the one true way of D&D by YouTube’s recommendation engine, too, meaning that there’s very little high production value PF2 content.

I can recommend Mortals & Portals, as an actual play.

And 4 first party monster books with so many dragons.

What it’s really lacking is dungeons.

It’s got plenty of latent sexism, much of it carried in the bestiary, and inherited from the original monster manuals. The fact that you don’t see it just means it doesn’t exceed your own internalized sexism.

Which is fine. We’ve all internalized sexism, racism, and other prejudices. But you not being able to see it is not the same thing as it not existing, and declaring it absent because you don’t see it is probably not wise.

No, this isn’t the casual sexism of the 70s. This is deliberate, rabid, reactionary misogyny that he felt OK to publicly publish:

I thought perhaps these folks were right and considered adding women in the ‘Raping and Pillaging[’] section, in the ‘Whores and Tavern Wenches’ chapter, the special magical part dealing with ‘Hags and Crones’, and thought perhaps of adding an appendix on ‘Medieval Harems, Slave Girls, and Going Viking’.

That’s specific, and directed hatred. Dude was engaging in standard Incel bullshit.

carve out Wizards as a community

I don’t know where the idea that WotC is worth saving keeps coming from. These are the MTG people. It’s a shock that monsters, NPCs, items, and feats aren’t purchased via booster pack.

D&D isn’t a game, nor is it a community. It’s just a brand. We can let it go.

Never seen an explosion on the surface of a stellar remnant*? This year, you’ll have your chance

I’ll be honest: I have very little patience for “you can homebrew this game that does’t do what you want, so you should never play something else” folks; it is probably the thing I hate most about 5e stans. This is the equivalant of telling someone not to give up on a show they don’t like because “you can always write fan fiction!”

Why should I recreate the game when I just spent $150 on it? Isn’t that what I just paid for? For people who actually know game design to supply me with a game that meets my needs? Instead of someome who doesn’t know game design and also paid for the experience?

There are so many games out there that could do what people want, but everyone’s way too invested in WotC maintaining a monopoly on people’s tables.

The point of 5e is to sell as many books as possible with nothing in them while convincing the customer that they’re game designers.

It’s an argument against seed patents and capitalism.

Credit where credit is due, if we define a generation as a 15 year period of time, and we decide that Gen Z started in 1995 (for easy math), you do, in fact, land on 1665.

I don’t know why the author thinks that Gen D doesn’t exist yet, when the pattern of X, Y (Millennials), and Z make a pattern that both implies that the Latin alphabet’s use is coming to an end for this purpose (ignoring that Gen X was named not as part of a sequence of letters, but by Douglas Copeland’s book, which was titled itself using an existing phrase), and that can easily be extrapolated backwards through time.

Damn, five figures. Nice! 912800 here.

I had the app on my phone, just to check in on my friendslist. None of them had logged on since about 2004 or so, at the latest.

Wow, JWST continues to impress on the desktop wallpaper front

Honestly the most impressive part of LLMs is the tokenizer that breaks down the request, not the predictive text button masher that comes up with the response.

Yes, exactly! It’s ability to parse the input is incredible. It’s the thing that has that “wow” factor, and it feels downright magical.

Unfortunately, that also makes people intuitively trust its output.

It “knows” as in it has access to the information and the ability to provide the right info for the right context.

It doesn’t, though, any more than you have access to the information in a pile of 10 million shredded documents.

BattleZoo came out with the Otherworlder class for Pathfinder 2e a while ago. It’s explicitly a “you fell into this d20 fantasy world” class.

Ooo, is it made by the people I work for? Because this story sounds incredibly familiar to me.

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