Kevin Casarez

@kevincasarez
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IT guy, dad gamer, and bowler.
@countablenewt same, kind of. I can still use what I would consider "standard" dice, but anything lighter than a D6 you might find in something like a good Backgammon game, and I just don't even want to roll it. I have some absolutely beautiful dice that I will never use because they're too damn light.
I unsubscribed from AT&T's notification emails because I was getting a lot of promotional material and nothing of any actual use. Today I got an email from AT&T inviting me to "opt back in" to find out all the great stuff I'm missing. Stop emailing me! That's the exact kind of stuff I opted out of in the first place!
@scottboehmer I saw this the other day, and replied to the other person's post, I think. But I was thinking about it more over the weekend, and one point the author makes pretty far down into the article has a lot to do with why AI is being used so much on both sides of the education process: education is increasingly becoming about *grades/scores* and not about learning. A good score is taken as the evidence of learning, but a score can be automated. Learning cannot.
@Da_Gut I feel like the biggest pitfall in this (and lots of other roleplaying, so not just this) is that players often conflate what they do (their action) with the outcome/result, usually in such a way that assumes success, even if success is unsure or even impossible. Then the GM either has to deal with the assumed success, or conflict with the player by negating what they said, or figuring out how to walk it back or rephrase it, potentially making the player feel like they've lost agency.
@Da_Gut I got this game in a Humble Bundle several weeks back. I haven't taken the time to read it yet, but it seems like an interesting mashup, as you say.
I retired from teaching 18 months ago, in part because it was becoming clear to me that the "AI" industry was undermining education in profound ways. This essay makes a convincing case that LLMs are a plague on learning -- and, not incidentally, higher education. https://www.currentaffairs.org/news/ai-is-destroying-the-university-and-learning-itself
AI is Destroying the University and Learning Itself

Students use AI to write papers, professors use AI to grade them, degrees become meaningless, and tech companies make fortunes. Welcome to the death of higher education.

@Printdevil Ooh, thanks!
@Printdevil Interesting. I'll have to see if I can find it to take a look.
@anderstallvik But... then they won't be able to fit three columns of text on one page like the sacred source books! #sarcasm #ttrpg

@Printdevil @strangequark

When using "they", the "they" refers to "the party members" as a group, but the subject is "the party members", not the party. "They bow in unison and blush as the king points out their mistake. They vow to find a cleric to add to their adventuring party so it is more well-rounded."

Native English speakers (especially Americans) tend to switch between referencing a group and its members all willy-nilly and expect the audience to know what they're referencing.

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