Voroxpete

The reasonable in-between is despising without presently fearing.

GenAI is a plagiarism engine. That’s really not something that can be defended. But as a means of automating away the jobs of writers it has proven itself to be so deeply deficient that there’s very little to fear at this time.

The arrival of these tools has, however, served as a wake up call to groups like the screenwriters guild, and I’m very glad that they’re getting proper rules in place now before these tools become “good enough” to start producing the kind of low grade verbal slurry that Hollywood will happily accept.

No words can express how little interest I have in Bill Gates opinion on how I should write.

Quite why NaNoWriMo needs to have an opinion about the use of generative AI is beyond me.

A major sponsor of NaNoWriMo is ProWritingAid, who are pushing their new AI Sparks genAI writing tool.

So, at a guess, I’d say that’s why.

Why do you care more about Donald Trump than all the people who’ve died as a direct result of both his policies and his rhetoric?

Agreed, and I think the context of saying “Something 2…” makes it entirely clear that it’s nothing to do with their fascist bullshit.

The meaning of words is always contextual.

It can both be true that Jill Stein carries water for Russia, and that America still needs third party candidates on the ballot. You shouldn’t cheer for a broken system just because it happens to lock out people you don’t like.

So noble. So majestic. SO STUBBY.

Absolutely deranged that American voters think Donald “Every business I’ve run has failed or been convicted of serious criminal fraud” Trump is the better choice for the economy.

I’ll bet your boot process is a lot shorter too.

Frankly, I think this is a very good thing. One of the worst things to happen to roleplaying was a generation of GMs thinking they have to be Brennan Lee Mulligan or Matt Mercer.

Stop worrying about how marketable your game is. Stop worrying about how good your writing and your performances are. Roleplaying games are, by their nature, intimate. Every single game is an experience shared between a small group of people. And that’s exactly what makes them so powerful.

I’ve lost track of how many times players have literally cried during my games. I’m talking “Grave of The Fireflies” kind of tears here, not “My GM is an abusive dick” tears. Just the other day one my players told me that I’m the reason they can’t listen to a particular song without crying, because it reminded them of a particular moment in one of my games. And that’s the sort of thing that makes you think “Holy shit, I should be recording/livestreaming this.” But if I did that, none of those moments would have ever happened, because my players aren’t professional actors, and they would have been so self conscious about performing to a crowd that they would never have lost themselves in their characters like that.

Enjoy the intimacy. Enjoy the imperfection. There’s nothing else like it.