Steven Damer

I think "system doesn't matter" was a reaction to the experience of having a great time playing games with a system so bad that the DM routinely had to ignore large chunks of the rules in order to run an enjoyable game.

I just finished reading that

Y'know, I used to think that the AI bubble was driven by people trying to make money from the inflated stock prices, but now I realize that it's to prop up the claim that those pictures are fake.

The real question is whether they'll be able to prevent people from using it to generate porn. My money's on 'no'.

Yeah. I get being an artist and being able to see flaws in your work that non-artists can't see, but you're definitely at the point where your photography is objectively good, even if it's not objectively perfect and you want it to be better.

I moved to California from Minnesota and man, I miss that weather.

I think Vance would be a big supporter of Ikea law. I hear you're allowed to have multiple couches.

I get a pain in my neck.

Maybe those prongs are sprues, for twisting a line of them apart?

Lawn darts and kinder eggs don't have the amount of capital behind them that LLMs do 🫤

The weird thing is though, it can. If he spent 5% of his money putting up free medical clinics across the country in places that needed them he'd get a lot of love. It's hard to hate somebody who's taking care of your family. The thing is though, he'd have to actually spend the money.

I don't care about the cake. I don't care about the tea. That pottery is amazing, and I'm sooo envious.

North shore?

You have a table of random events, items, or other things to inspire creativity, and it has more than 20 entries

Credit card worked for me

I want somebody to ask ICE whether they've considered using sandwiches as a crowd control weapon. After all, being hit by one doesn't cause injury but from their reports it sounds like it was extremely traumatic.

That was me. I'm afraid it was just a misclick.

Ok - I looked through the list of recipients; on the whole there are more people that I recognized who deserved it (MLK, Jimmie Carter, Nelson Mandela etc.) than not, but it's close. It has also been given to organizations, which seem to have a better record than the people it's been given to.

Is there anyone they gave it to who deserved it?

Who buys life insurance for a kid? Why is that even legal?

I wanna know what a laser lever is. It sounds really cool

It's giving me Voyage of the Dawn Treader vibes.

It was designed to store pictures of giraffes; when they extended it later they kept the original pronunciation

GIF stands for Giraffe Interchange Format, so it's pronounced with a soft G, like giraffe. It would only be pronounced with a hard G if it stood for something silly, like Graphic Interchange Format

I want him to win the lawsuit, and then, as a condition of the judgement, have ICE be required to carry portable stereos playing the imperial march.

I like the implication that we're not reading novels because the modern man prefers Fordyce's sermons

Hang on guys. Don't give up on Platner yet - maybe Sue Collins has a tattoo of a rat's anus!

I remember when I was in college and I worried about he-said/she-said. That it would be too hard to disentangle two conflicting accounts. Now it seems every damn me too accusation when you read the _guys_ side of the story it's obvious he's guilty as hell.

Fiasco would work, if you wanted it to get really dark.

People have such a strong drive to identify good guys and bad guys. If the Spanish were doing bad things in America (and hoo boy were they) then, by process of elimination the Aztecs must be the good guys.