always with the metagaming…

“The big bump in core [inflation] was driven heavily by food prices, which have been running hot on a seasonally adjusted basis in the past three months,” Porter wrote.

That’s a nice hat.

Neat! I’ll have to take a look sometime. Thanks for the explainer.

I GM a fair bit, so the idea of a healthy collection of modules is compelling.

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who is theo?

Is Gonzo DMing this one too?

I haven’t played Pathfinder. Next time I pick up epic fantasy, I think I’d like to give it a shot.

Cool! Good luck with it. It sounds like a fun project.

Yeah. At this point I try to prepare scenes rather than plots, so hopefully I’ll be able to use my painstakingly prepared battlemap later, rather than not at all.

But it’s fun when the players throw a total curveball, and I need to come up with something on the spot.

This is starting to signs pretty awesome, tbh.

It’s like Uber, but for random violence.

just call it Boxing 2.0. It’ll be fine.

“Fortnite’s signatory company, Llama Productions, chose to replace the work of human performers with A.I. technology,” the statement added. “Unfortunately, they did so without providing any notice of their intent to do this and without bargaining with us over appropriate terms. As such, we have filed an unfair labor practice charge with the NLRB against Llama Productions.”

The filing itself says: “Within the past six months, [Epic Games], by its agents and representatives, failed and refused to bargain in good faith with the union by making unilateral changes to terms and conditions of employment, without providing notice to the union or the opportunity to bargain, by utilizing AI-generated voices to replace bargaining unit work on the Interactive Program Fortnite.”

It sounds like they’re unhappy with the behaviour of the studio Epic contracted the work to. I think.

When you’re saying “real world” you mean mobile devices where your actual position dictates your position in the game world, right?

I really like the idea of these. Ingress started out cool, but didn’t hold my interest. I think the actual play loop kinda sucked, but it built up a decent community around the novelty.

I’m not sure Hasbro, the Hensen estate, or Disney would approve where this is going. But I do.

We don’t do that here. The GM provides the model of physics the players accept and expect. If the GM just says “nah” when stuff is inconvenient, players don’t know what to expect, and the world becomes inconsistent.

A big part of the GM’s fun in TTRPGs is improving off that. Players always ruin my plans, but that’s part of the game.

Infrastructure users absolutely have to be segregated by speed. Cyclists and pedestrians each need their own space (which is separate from that of motorized vehicles).

It’s great to see cities being built that accept that reality.

Gonzo. Gonzo has his own view of the world, which is perfect for running a game.

ok fine.