by aramis

BenjaminPierce wrote:

I will say this: the very fact that my question provokes this suspicion is the single most eloquent demonstration to me of the level of antipathy that AI has garnered for itself--and just what kind of deviousness it suspected of. I can say that I have learned what I sought to know.

There are some of us who don't think AI's gotten that good yet...
I'm glad you read the room... but understand there's been one shitstorm after another with certain posters in this thread constantly taking extreme views on the ethics of AI... You retriggered the same argument been cycling for the last year here. Some of the voices are the same as on ENWorld; others are not.

Personally, I find it unethical in that most of the art AI has been trained on still-in-copyright artwork without the IP owner's permission. It only takes one to make it unethical, let alone the thousands of images needed to train AIs...
I also find the AI datacenters to be a problem due to climate impacts; that part's solvable - migrate them to Orbit. And put a satelite launch tax to help pay for space telescopes.

by JugglinDan

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Aww, shucks. I'm enjoying your game too, while undergoing physio for my Achilles tendon rupture. We can be solo Traveller physiotherapy buddies!

by Brass Jester

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Agree completely. I've varied from established Charted Space many times. For me, the established setting is the starting point, not the end.

Yes. As I said at the start, I was a bit leery about using the OTU as SOOO much had been written about it over the years (I think every hex in the Regina subsector has had an article about it - even the blank ones.) Traveller was the second RPG I owned (I had the LBB for my 18th birthday) I bough a few supplements at the time and ran Shadows and the Kinunir (but my FTF group were D&D's and didn't like it.)
Now I'm retired I can indulge and buy (slowly) all of the missing books on PDF as well as JTAS/ Freelance Traveller etc. It's actually fun to trawl back through all of the stuff to see if:
a) anything has been written about the location
b) how much of that I want to use or what can I modify

P.S: Following the knee operation I've got even more time in between bouts of physio

Dan: Your Game is great to read - I've actually cut and pasted it into a Word doc to make it easier to read

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I spent Friday afternoon and all of Saturday at Zzap! Live, a Commodore computer convention. I had my two Amiga computers there and hd a great time chatting to people about both machines and what they were capable of. I also chatted to the new Commodore International guys who were there with the shiny new C64 Ultra.

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Flea market plant cuttings, always a surprise. ^^