Oddly enough he was super inclusive of women, even had a section in rules book on "pronouns".

Kuntz/Robilar is the last living founding member, he's speaking out on the real story though and he's pretty based.

https://x.com/threelinestudio

They use those to hide them loading all their crap lazy bloatwear libraries loading in the background. It's like how apple loads a screenshot of the desktop first to disguise the load time.

I kinda think the French parts of Canada might do on. They don't accept immigrants nor anyone... unless they speak French.

Gold and Gunpowder on YouTube. Great sense of humor and actually researches all the topics well.

You are correct, but probably not the way you think. These companies own the US debt, and the interest payments are going to them.

Solar and wind are useful and viable in certain limited applications, but indeed should be abandoned as a large scale "solution".

That's exactly why Chernobyl 2.0 will be counter productive. Culture will have to change first, then energy, unfortunately

So do airplanes.

I used to think nuclear was the way, but I don't anymore. As evidence I point to Boeing, etc.

They will put the DEI hires in charge of design and maintenance and it's basically Chernobyl 2.0 at that point.

Don't hate the player, hate the game.

If everyone did this we'd be closer to getting rid of it. I am Spartacus.

Yeah it's crazy considering their roots as edgelord throwing gratuitous naked women into games. Similar to the decline of Mortal combat

Dreamers?

I guess I had figured most surrogates were unwashed third worlders but maybe I'm mistaken.

Critical Role was fine, as they actually play other characters.

The "modern audience" doesn't want to do that. They want to play themselves or a perceived aspect of themselves in a mostly modern world representation but with magic. That's why you have to have a wheelchair mechanic, and race no longer reflects anything of importance.

This focus on "self exploration" has infected not only the players, but the creative teams as well. As someone noted below, many of the dwarves are probably self-inserts. We also get such releases as: "D&D’s Strixhaven campaign has mechanics for ‘what a hot mess college life can be’".

Thus all fantasy productions will just be "L.A., right now, but with some magic.... kind of"

R.I.P. DnD. You follow other greats like star wars and Indiana Jones to Valhalla while the corpos wear you like skin suits.

This is the correct answer. Others here don't seem to understand the grift that is government.

AI has nothing to do with this. These are human controlled for now. Yes, it will likely change in the future.

There is a good sci Fi video about it though:

https://youtu.be/O-2tpwW0kmU

Mojeek is worth a try, I have had some luck using it.

The goal is to get people to care less and less about the IP. They must destroy your mythology to implement their utopia.

Lennon's "imagine" laid it out pretty well.

But there are supposed to be black elves...

Drow. Evil. Killed on sight.

Same can be said of what they eat.

Ooof. Yeah. Probably at least 3-5 years before the rot becomes terminal, at least judging by Blizzard timeline.

It's almost worth it for entertainment value of watching groups of people who hate me tear each other apart.

It's like a really expensive pay per view fight.

But if we support both sides, maybe they'll keep killing each other?

On that note, I subscribe to Wirth's law saying software is getting worse faster than hardware is getting better. So much software is just bloated and wasteful these days. I think it will accelerate with AI calls to the cloud, and I hope the bottleneck will make it unmanageable for blanket deployment (though cities are probably fucked as others have noted)

I have been noticing it for a while. I think it's because the larger Muslim population.

I think that's fair and appreciate the concern. I guess my opinion is if it's on the Internet, opsec is already out the window and you can be identified if they really want to. Especially with everything being on mobile devices these days.

In this case all you need is the game however. Coordination with other players will be tough, but not impossible.