Goofy is clearly the token straight guy in that cast.

Yeah, USPS can, for a modest fee, get a thing from my hands to someone in a 5 person town in the middle of nowhere in about a week at the outside.

People are so used to it that they don't grasp just how insane that level of logistics is.

It just makes me more frustrated that we've collectively been having this argument long enough that it's older than the people who started it were when they did.

Drama is exhausting.

Your math's off. Burned Furs were first around 27 years ago. Nineteen ninety fucking eight.

Long enough that the one who wrote their manifesto, Squee Rat, has reinvented herself from whining about sex in the furry fandom to being a well known indy publisher running Iron Circus & Smut Peddler.

EqD maintains a list last I checked. www.equestriadaily.com/2025/01/my-l...

That tracks, I can't imagine you being comfortable in large, yelling crowds with extremely loud noises.

Or how they feel about executing adulterers, rapists, and rape victims who weren't loud enough about it. (Deut. 22:22-27)

There's a lot in Deuteronomy that could go really sideways for evangelical Christians if they want to apply some ancient social laws to modern living.

That's all they *can* do. LLMs are incapable of reasoning. They just suggest the next thing that matches their training data for a given keyword.

It's just acting as an obfuscated search algorithm in that example, returning what Google would have before they intentionally crippled their search.

They really, really aren't useful for coding. All they can do is slop together the stuff you'd hand a junior dev, and you still have to go over it to make sure it didn't paste in random shit from Stack Exchange, same as a junior dev.

The problem is you never get senior devs without juniors.

In the SR space, I'd also suggest looking at Universal Brotherhood. It's a more contained adventure, but it is still the absolute best narrative twist in TTRPGs I've ever read/played.

I was a PC in it, and I can say going in blind was extremely worth it. We had no idea what we had gotten into.

Yeah, that I can't speak to. Unlike when I was in my teens, I don't have hours to spend just reading RPG splatbooks anymore and coming up with ideas off of them. Dunno if that audience is even there anymore, or if it was an artifact of a pre-internet time when novel stuff was more desirable.

It was a wild time to be in the TTRPG space. Looking at my shelf and PDF collection, I've got 20+ adventure-type books that were published for SR1-2. Just incredibly prolific.

I recently backed the new lighter-rules 2.0 version of Shadowrun Anarchy, specifically because it's *not* being developed by Catalyst, who I have deep and abiding negative opinions of due to how they've half-assed all the modern SR stuff.

The era BITB is from, 2057~ in-world, is where I like my SR.

I think it'd be hard to replicate today because it relies on a setting that is incredibly lore-dense, and players and GMs being invested in that setting.

Few modern systems are really that sprawling, because there's less call for it IMHO.

I never ran it directly as an adventure, but I used it as a reference guide to stage my own runs around and occasionally hook runners, which is what it was intended for honestly. SR in that era had amazingly plot-dense books, with even the gear splats having good hooks in the in-world commentary.

That'd be me. What do you want to know?

Note that Choice of Games has *multiple* successful WOD games in the last few years that are text-based and vastly more lore-heavy than anything anyone else has done.

It's absolutely a question of bad management, not an inherent problem with the IP.

God yeah, when I was learning to stage fight it was clear the props master was willing, ready, and able to throw anyone who introduced a real knife into the area out on their ear.

I've had to pull my short stories down as well. I just don't have time to keep doing DMCA claims every time some hack scrapes them to do AI voiced reads on TikTok over equally stolen game footage.

Especially since TikTok is deeply unresponsive to takedowns.