I recently watched the Simpsons Treehouse of Horror episode in which they did a parody of “The Island of Dr Moreau” and thought a mad scientist trying to turn people into animals could make for a fun minor character in my campaign. My players are en route to a dungeon and should be there in a few sessions, I’m thinking of...
Make them live in terrible conditions, and look like monsters at first glance. This way your players will react to them as standard dungeons & dragons monsters, by which I mean kill them all. Afterwards, they find council chambers, crude medical facilities, nurseries, etc that imply that their society was surprisingly egalitarian and had a budding democratic government.
Give just enough of a hint beforehand so that they could have resolved things peacefully if they had been paying attention.
I started a business with a friend to automatically identify things like this, fraud like what happened with Alzheimer’s research, and mistakes like missing citations. If anyone is interested, has contacts or expertise in relevant domains or just wants to talk about it, hit me up.
We’re providing review assistance and some types of automated replication to publishers for a yearly rate, and planning to sell subscriptions to individual researchers for $50 /mo.
With the lastest news of AI layoffs, I’m struggling to understand how the idea of a career still holds. If careers themselves effectively become gambles like lottery tickets, how do we maintain drive and hopes in the longterm endgame of our struggles?...
See what Hackworth said about the robots, also, there are multiple ongoing projects that hope to change the existing construction processes enough that android-style robots won’t be necessary. 3d printing houses, for example.
The jobs that will be safe longest are those that are both physical and unpredictable/non-standardizable.
A long time ago, I used to play a game called Tibia. Veteran players of the time knew that if someone ran up to you yelling “BR? BR?”, you either knew enough Portuguese to pretend you were Brazilian, or you ran, because they would kill you immediately if you weren’t from Brazil.
My favorite part of 300 is the bit they didn’t include - how Sparta eventually became a second-rate tourist destination where middle class families could go watch Spartans do local ceremonies and parade in their armor.
I haven’t tried to prove or disprove this statement, but it could easily be selection bias. If you’re in a bubble, you’re going to be very aware of violence done to people you sympathize with, and less aware of violence done to people you don’t.
Probably accurate. Anything that upsets the status quo, costs business owners money, or otherwise threatens reelection chances is going to be met with force. Or, more likely, a smear campaign, ridicule, and then force
Help me come up with some doctrine for a small society in my game.
I recently watched the Simpsons Treehouse of Horror episode in which they did a parody of “The Island of Dr Moreau” and thought a mad scientist trying to turn people into animals could make for a fun minor character in my campaign. My players are en route to a dungeon and should be there in a few sessions, I’m thinking of...
What's something weird and mostly useless that you can do with your body?
It's really not a big deal. (lemmy.world)
Innovation makes useful things smaller - overconsumption makes them bigger and more meaningless (norden.social)
Source: norden.social/
Name & shame. :) (mander.xyz)
In our post-AI era, is job security strictly mythical? Or How to believe in careers as a concept worth doing?
With the lastest news of AI layoffs, I’m struggling to understand how the idea of a career still holds. If careers themselves effectively become gambles like lottery tickets, how do we maintain drive and hopes in the longterm endgame of our struggles?...
Here's one for the nature lovers (lemmy.world)
BR? BR? (lemmy.world)
I'm new (lemmy.world)
studies need to start asking the real questions (lemmy.world)
Was playing around and created a DBZ villain (lemmy.world)
Interesting (jlai.lu)
Like The Animatrix? Have you watched Robot Carnival? (en.wikipedia.org)
cross-posted from: lemm.ee/post/32164428 in !likethismaylike...
Dots connected (lemmy.world)
AI 'godfather' says universal basic income will be needed (www.bbc.com)
It's okay, tankies love fascism, so they're not put out by the result (lemmy.world)
Politicians think a lot about their own interests and care little about the public (lemm.ee)
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