Well I think I pay something like $95 for YouTube TV +Max. Netflix is like 12? I’m on a sweet Spotify+Hulu for 9.99 promo for years, but I think it’s going up to $10.99. Disney is like $9. It may seem like a lot, but that’s all I spend on entertainment. I don’t eat outside the home regularly. I don’t go see movies at theaters. I don’t buy things like DVDs and stuff.

And to be fair, it’s for the household. We’re poly so there’s a variety of interests. And if you divide that by 5 adults, it’s cheap.

I cancelled cable a few years ago and now use YouTube TV. I love it because I can record everything, never run out of DVR space. I can run 5 tvs with different shows on each. I can watch TV anywhere on my phone and laptop. I can stop on one device and pick back up on another. Well over 100 channels now (but I only really watch a handful). Every channel also has an on-demand section. Like TCM has what’s live but also a huge library to stream from.

I have Hulu, Netflix, Amazon, Disney, Peacock, Max…but if I had to just use one service, it would be YouTube TV. It follows me, and is not tied to my house. If I go visit another state, it will even switch to the local news wherever I am. It has, by far, the most content in one spot for one price.

Not everyone watches US politics, or Fox News. I live in the US and don’t know her. I am sure there are famous faces you don’t know because it’s not your field of interest. Can you identify famous contemporary painters by face? Physicists? Composers? Game designers? Belittling someone’s education because they don’t know something you do is pathetic and says a lot more about you than it does the person you were mocking.

It may just be the weed, but for a moment I thought I was reading something off a Night City public BBS.

You can’t tell anyone this, but I have a friend who is deep inside the insurance industry. Some of the big guys have invested heavy into LEDs. So to maximize the LED investments, they give manufacturers safety discounts for every LED they can attach to their shit. Big guys make some extra zeros for their accounts, and sharpie and 3M get some splash, too.

I have not used it enough to tell. I asked it to make a one-shot for me. It set up the entire plot, created the stat blocks for the monsters, set up the encounters. Created the traps and the puzzles. It even made the magic items, along with detailed descriptions and lore. I’ve had it help with making a custom setting, including custom races and classes. It’s not copy/paste perfect of course, but good enough of a framework that I can easily go in and tweak stuff. Definitely saves hours of work.

Oh I did not know that. I thought it was a share link lol. I will copy the text to a file I can link

It is the log of my chat with openai.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ocuNIrl8lP13YQZrRGsCcWjcX-57CyDdNagB-7AyH1Y/edit?usp=sharing

EDIT: Copied the OpenAI chat to a Google Doc.

I find this more mildlyhumorous than infuriating. I’m looking forward to a new era where every news article no longer includes a string of embedded tweets. :) As a non-twitter user, this certainly doesn’t encourage me to bother making an account.

I love this. I especially love the “play at level 1 until it’s not fun”. Progression is secondary to a good story. Back when I was playing 1st and 2nd editions, new players would start as zero level characters, where we roleplayed short adventures around them being apprentices for organizations such as a thieves guild, a church, a fighter’s guild or for some wizard or going to an academy. The characters might end up meeting each other by having similar quests given to them and they become friends who evolve into adventurers.

The likelihood of someone quitting when their character dies is far greater than just randomly abandoning the adventure. But the longest I have done a daily PbP style online with a single group of three was about 2 months. Someday I will find the right mix of players.

I’ve been playing since 1st edition since the early 80s. I am a DM and a player. If I run something, I prefer my homebrew campaign. It’s inspired by some video games I love. Fallout and Horizon Zero Dawn. It’s a post-apocalyptic world, with a viking-esque culture. Pockets of magical energy cover areas of the world, killinging or transforming life. There are ruins of an ancient culture, mostly underground. The society is fiercely anti-magic. For example there is one group whose purpose is to hunt down and kill those who use it (or were born with magical abilities.

There’s custom rules, races and classes. It’s 5e ready. Been working on it since 2020 lockdowns. It’s brutal and death is always possible. Players who discover new races/classes can roll new characters as those if their current char dies. New chars are the last char’s level -2. You could be a twisted one (aka ghoul from fallout) or a magic hunter, for example.

I prefer a play by post, all text method using Discord, AboveVTT and Beyond D&D. With this method, each player makes one action post each day and we progress after every player has made their input. This is done in a 24 hour cycle, so basically you play every day for a short time that works for you instead of once a week at a specific time. If you skip a day, you do nothing that turn. It’s a slow game style. Not for everyone.

Im US on the East Coast. Also open to playing any game through Beyond D&D, as I’ve become comfortable with it.

If 99% of your posts are advertising your content, then you are not engaging with the community, you are looking at it as a free advertising opportunity. It’s no different than those people on social media who only post links to their onlyfans or some other side hustle. I don’t come here to read ads for content. I come here to interact with other gamers, to learn and share, not to profit off them.

Also, why do the rules for this community say “–Posts must have something to do with Texas” ?

That’s really difficult to do with a karma-like system. People posting in echo-chambers can post misinformation but receive many up votes.

Credibility is subjective. For example, people on one side of a political ideology will not think people on the opposite side are credible. So who can really determine an “attribute of credibility”?

We would have to agree on a standard first and that’s just not going to happen.

Former redditor. What do I call myself now? Lemming? lol But I also noticed that I don’t see some Karma score equivalent, which is a great thing to leave behind. Those imaginary points were just useless at best, and used against people who were new at the worst.

Let’s be honest, this price change was all about being able to charge the big corps mega money for access to their data in order to train new generations of AI. The price is absurd, yes, but the owners of reddit know that Google and Microsoft have deep pockets (among other global corps wanting the massive amount of data reddit has saved).

They never expected the third party apps to be able to pay this much and frankly, they don’t care. It’s HUGE profit from AI corps, and the losses, at least short term, will be overshadowed by the gains. Long term? I don’t know, this isn’t my area of expertise, but, like I did with Twitter, I have moved on so at this point, it’s no longer relevant to me.