I was sent a link to a post on the D&D subreddit (/r/dnd). The contents of the post aren't important, but my eye was drawn to the header. A beholder with the LGBTQIA++ BIPOC Trans flag and multicolored rainbow eyes.
To the mods and members of that subreddit, about Dungeons & Dragons, THAT'S the most important thing?
Also, of course, "No AI" is in the top 5 rules.
I know there are quite a few tabletop players here--is the entire community like this? I haven't played in some 20 years, and the last time I did it was mostly nerdy and edgy white and asian dudes. What happened??
Sounds like he's refering to something else with regard to "golden age".
For sharing ideas and discussing things that are outside the confines of what the establishment wants you to conform to, the past was the golden age. It was the Wild Wild West and it was fun.
However, if you need mainstream information for mainstream uses of said information then now is better for sure. I can find every recipe and cooking technique in a second. I can find detailed reviews on nearly every product or service in a second. We have tons of information now that's useful that we never had access to in the past but if I wanted to have a serious discussion about if society was a gynocracy, if we should change the laws because they're having a detrimental impact on quality of life and perhaps we need a more serious measure of QoL other than GDP and some wiki metric because of the inherent biases in them creating limitations in the usefulness of these measures... I can't really have it anywhere and the places I can have it at are now littered with Indians, governments, political activists and liberal mods who all have different motivations for throwing the discussion. Discussions used to be better even if every second user was a troll because the trolling tended to be intelligent in itself and proving a point with the trolling. The subtle art of trolling to actually add to the discussion was lost when the average IQ of internet users came down. And don't even get me started on like/upvoted and those systems that end up burrying real discussion from ever happening. The monetization of much of the internet has led to people fighting for hits rather than quality or serious nature of content. A problem Musk realized and has discussed but he lacks the capability of fixing.