YES THANK YOU.

Every time I see someone trying to sell a cybersecurity thing "POWERED BY AI" I have to stop myself from saying "it's just pattern/anomaly recognition that has bruteforced the realization that a workstation that starts running MS Word macros at 3am has probably been compromised"

The revolution of computing was being able to reference and refine verifiable facts at increased speed. Generative AI is about fabricating barely plausible bullshit at extreme cost. It's a big step back unless all Gen AI output is handled as 'toxic waste data'.

Evidence that she is mentioned in the book

I hope Jimmy and the Hamlin Hamlin & McGill law firm can lawyer and/or scam me out of being kidnapped. Otherwise it might get messy if Mike and/or Nacho have to intervene.

I'm also interested in hearing actual lawyers weigh in on this, because I know several countries and US have it illegal to record someone without their consent—which Clips is ripe for doing. Add in users from multiple countries in the same call, and just how illegal and messy does this get?

The freeware application O&O Shutup 10++ will also turn off all Copilot/AI stuff if you apply recommended settings.

www.oo-software.com/en/shutup10

A "No devices, no distractions" policy is also a common discussion point I hear about offline groups and is loosely in effect at my own table. So printable character sheets are also helpful for offline groups that don't want to open the door to distractions for players.

This feels a critical hit in regards to the issues with corporate-driven fandom cultures - we're at a point where all the big "nerd culture" fandoms are owned by megacorps and relatively few customers admit that. What worries me is that the non-admission may be core to a lot of fans' experience.

I've found your advice has worked for every non-D&D game I've run - including Call of Cthulhu, Mage: The Ascension, Death in Space, Exalted, Pathfinder 2e, Shadowrun, Adventure!, and Things from the Flood. D&D being used in your examples has never made applying your advice to other games any harder.

I have a degree in Creative Writing. I went into IT help desk right out of college (I had experience from a campus job). Across 15 years, I've moved up from help desk to Linux sys admin, and then into information security. Currently, half of my job is hacking and the other half is writing reports.

One of my favorite campaigns I ever ran involved a group of evil PCs fighting against stuff that was way worse than they were - the PCs were ruthless and self-serving, but the villains were world-ending horrors.

The PCs' pitch was basically "Call us when fighting fair doesn't beat Cthulhu"

Sumatra is so far above anything else I've ever tried for reading PDFs (especially graphics-heavy TTRPG book PDFs) that when I switched my daily driver laptop to Linux, I installed Wine just to use Sumatra. It's the only PDF reader that's fast enough when I needed to look up a rule while GMing 🤣

I cannot express how strongly I agree with this. I've never written or bought a scenario that was so airtight that my players didn't find some undefined but interesting thing that I needed to detail on the spot.