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Nathan Dowdell, not cool enough to look away from explosions.
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He/Him. Professional Geek. RPG Designer for @Modiphius.
My opinions are my own - as are my neuroses - and don't represent anyone else.

#IDIC means #BLM and #TransRights.
Similar here. My first RPG was WFRP, not D&D, so for me D&D has always just been an RPG for me, rather than *the* RPG. I keep up to date on it because it's the biggest name, but I've never really felt a particular desire to play it over other games. I've returned to WFRP repeatedly, though.
November 18, 2025 at 12:15 PM
Just wait until *only* corporations count as citizens.
October 7, 2025 at 8:17 AM
And after nearly a decade of "New Trek" where there's been a large, vocal contingent of the audience bellowing and screaming in discontent whenever anything new is attempted, is it any wonder that the production is erring on the side of caution?
September 4, 2025 at 9:44 AM
It's a good deal. A good deal. A good deal for Britain.
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August 13, 2025 at 8:04 AM
Clearly, the ampersand is the most important part, oft-forgotten though it may be.
August 3, 2025 at 10:03 AM
The only movie I know of containing Nazis that I've never seen real Nazis try to coopt... is The Producers.
July 26, 2025 at 9:07 AM
Thanks. It's a big one, too: I turn 40.
June 27, 2025 at 2:26 PM
Star Trek fans: some are in it for the ships, others are in it for the ships.
June 16, 2025 at 1:46 PM
You could try that, but what happens if you try to get a duplicate like Thomas Riker and end up with split good and evil versions like Kirk in 'The Enemy Within'?

Is the world ready for good and evil Tuvixes?
June 16, 2025 at 1:17 PM
Reposted by Nathan Dowdell, not cool enough to look away from explosions.
"Generative AI" systems do not care about facts and truth, they care about you liking their output, and when the don't know the correct answer they will make shit up.

This is not the right tool for anything regarding naturalistic identification.
I keep putting stuff about the orders of representative illustration in daston & galison's 'objectivity' in my "gen AI" talks because the processes of truth-to-nature, mechanical objectivity, & trained judgement all require a type of intention to communicate Some truth that these systems don't have.
Over the next 6 months, iNaturalist will be participating in the Google.org Accelerator: Generative AI program to help build tools to improve the identification experience on iNaturalist. Learn more: www.inaturalist.org/blog/113184-...
June 11, 2025 at 4:37 PM
The Night Lords know right from wrong. They're very clear on the distinction between good and evil.

They just prefer evil. Their moral compass points south.
June 6, 2025 at 11:23 AM
June 5, 2025 at 12:21 PM
Hopefully it doesn't log who edited the page... hard to be anonymous when your gun is compiling a public list of your kills.
May 29, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Reposted by Nathan Dowdell, not cool enough to look away from explosions.
May 29, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Can we agree that the legal structures and duties in play here produce perverse incentives that are incompatible with human life and the proper function of society? If a company's duty to its shareholders is so great that it is compelled to be destructive to people's lives, that's a problem.
May 26, 2025 at 7:16 AM
Maybe going back to stock buybacks being illegal: they were regarded as a form of market manipulation prior to the 1980s, when suddenly they became OK.
May 24, 2025 at 9:27 PM
Well, on the same planet as his father's childhood home. It's not like they put Luke in slave quarters in Mos Espa.

They put him with Anakin's stepbrother. Much more secure and inconspicuous.
May 22, 2025 at 8:31 AM
The term 'hallucinations' is used when the AI conjures up things that aren't real... but it uses the exact same method to reach the correct answers. When the answers are true, it's still a hallucination, just one that is accurate by coincidence.
May 21, 2025 at 4:55 PM