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mikertrice

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Lecturer in Rhetoric. Parageographer. So very many children.

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Looking to commission some art in a variety of genres for some RPG projects. Are there some go-to venues people like to use?

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Oh. Canada.

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@SJohnRoss NHL

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So the D&D and STEM series has 8 scheduled interviews.

Folks, I'm gonna need to name this series.

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@SJohnRoss There's some variance, though D&D is extremely common so far. So far.

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@SJohnRoss However, D&D in my toot was more a lazy shorthand than a confirmation it would be all D&D. I know at least one roboticist really into Cyberpunk Red.

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@SJohnRoss I mean, I'm a trailer park kid with a doctorate, so I rule nothing out!

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@SJohnRoss That sounds like quite the story! I was the scholarship type, though I lost it after two years and became the retail scholarship type. Luckily state schools were more affordable in the the late 90s.

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Asked ChatGPT4 to give me 12 dwarven names with short back stories and a hook each.

All 12 names were from the Hobbit.

Asked it to try again with no Tolkien names.

3 of the 12 were from the Hobbit.

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@Tim_Eagon It's weird because D&D dwarven names really should make up a larger percentage of the dataset.

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@Tim_Eagon Flint Fireforge lacks the cultural capital of Thorin, but he definitely has more books out there with his name in them.

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Also, the backstories are cliched nonsense. Apparently this society is 70% soldiers and mercenaries. Not a single farmer nor rancher. The only craft worker: a blacksmith.

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@Tim_Eagon True. It really raises a lot of questions about training data.

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@Tim_Eagon This society would collapse fast.

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@Tim_Eagon Yep. Which is fascinating as it suggests a lot of Gen AI is blog content.

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Looking for scientists and engineers who play to interview for a new audio series.

PM if you're interested.

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Keep trying to think of an IP where I genuinely care about the canon, and all I come back to is if Shakespeare improved via adaptation, how am I supposed to care about canon?

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Wayfair sells thrones and I want to buy one for the office that students can sit in during conferences.

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I watched the third episode of The Acolyte last night, and I see today that its online reception has been very contentious. I thought it had it's share of problems in the pacing and acting department (with the exception of the girl who played Leia in Kenobi, Star Wars has not had a good track record with child actors), but the writing was deliberately vague and ambiguous to preserve the season's larger mystery, so I'll reserve judgement for now to see how it plays out.

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@DM_Zeppelin @Tim_Eagon I would have preferred if the series maintained its detective series vibe without the flashback, but I get that it is Star Wars, so have to get our lore dump. It was subpar ep for me in a fine, cheesy series.

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@Tim_Eagon @DM_Zeppelin Interesting (and a staple of more recent detective stories), but I hope not because the framing feels all wrong for that at this point.

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@DM_Zeppelin @Tim_Eagon 75 year old spoilers ahead! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rashomon

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@Tim_Eagon @DM_Zeppelin I certainly hope we don't get two more episodes in a limited run doing that. But it's possible.

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One niche that I'm thinking about leaning into is doing 15-20 minute interviews with scientists, engineers, and researchers who play . Talk about what got them into gaming and also what they work on.

Good fit for me. No clue if there's an audience.

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@Tim_Eagon dozens of us! Dozens!

Fortunately, it would just be fun to do, so it'll likely happen to some degree.

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I still enjoy the oddity that, in my two gaming groups, I'm about 15 years younger than the average in one and 15 years older than the average in the other.

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@Tim_Eagon Moving across country just before 5E broke big.

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Sometimes those three hour D&D battles are a nightmare. Other times, like tonight, they are an absolute hoot with sooooooo many death saves and moments of genuine suspense. Battle of Yester Hill was one of those.

Paladin, druid, & mage kept the foes engaged while the rogue infiltrated to steal the magic gem of grape growing. It took the rogue over 10 rounds to pull this off, and the prolonged distraction battle was tooough. Paladin went down twice & at one point stabilized on a 2-2 split

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@Tim_Eagon Barovia needs its wine!

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This morning, as I was laying on the couch watching my son draw, I was reading a review of an adventure by Bryce Lynch. While criticizing florid prose, he wrote "Adventure writing is technical writing and has a different set of rules for how to present information." I'm inclined to agree with this statement, even though I've never really thought about it in those terms. Thoughts?

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@kirasha @Tim_Eagon Back in 2003 I landed my first tech writing job with a portfolio that included work from Dragon.

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@kirasha @Tim_Eagon Largely in agreement with your sentiment here, though, like with recipe technical writing, there's fluidity in the genre and what different audiences want from it.

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I actually get why a lot of people might be disappointed in The Acolyte, but if you always wanted a late-90s Star Wars tv series, you are in for one hell of a treat. Digging the SG1 or Farscsape-light vibe.

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@Tim_Eagon @bedirthan I do think the Volume plays a key role. It's unfortunate we'll never see what Kenobi would have looked like without it.

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@Tim_Eagon @bedirthan Yes, the volume turned every issue to 11. Given Star Wars is more a visual medium than even most other sci-fi, I would have liked to have seen it with fair cinematography.

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@Tim_Eagon @bedirthan Definitely the writing, but I do think the Volume is a visual director's nightmare.

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Tubi is streaming UHF, right?

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Just gradually morphing into that wizard from the unearthed arcana cover.

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Revisiting Star Wars prequels

Phantom Menace: Fine for 6-year-olds.

done

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@Tim_Eagon It was Middle's 2nd favorite car ride movie after Aladdin back in the day.

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@Tim_Eagon Though she never moved on to the next two films.

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Druid in Ravenloft game: "I dunno, these servants of Strahd don't seem as tough."

Six seconds later half the party is unconscious.

(They managed to secure the winery in the end.)

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@Tim_Eagon It was pretty funny. Their first real battle through hordes of smaller adversaries, so the resource drain horizon was a surprise.

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@Tim_Eagon Mage had just accessed fireball. Paladin was enjoying his second attack per round. Lots of early success before they found themselves in rough bottleneck.

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Kinda surprised by the lack of Haslin memes with this bear-man discourse.

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@Tim_Eagon must. not. make. pun.

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Student: "So I work with ablative heat shields. How familiar are you with that concept?"

Me: "I've played all versions of Masters of Orion."

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I would love to sit and chat with a focus group of people who like Rebel Moon.

Just getting to know people with that alien a perspective seems fascinating.

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@Tim_Eagon I still think Superman and Watchmen were solid B+ action flicks. Far from perfect but enjoyable. Army of the Dead is also fun. Real slump since Superman, though.

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Series of films that are Matt Berry and Alan Tudyk as increasingly bizarre buddy cop pairings:

robots
chickens
salt
themselves

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