I looked at the “DC20” KS. It claims to be an evolution for ttrpgs, but I don’t see anything new. It uses action points and mana points, which seems to be the main “new” things when compared to D&D. Those have been around a while.
It looks crunchier than 5e, which is already too much for my tastes. YMMV, but it’s a pass for me.
They are using the ORC license, so there may be stuff worth hacking out of it.
@deinol I think the term that used to be used for these is "fantasy heartbreaker".
The '90s was full of "the next step in the evolution of ..." games, and they were invariably (pre-3.0) D&D with minor rules "fixes". It was painfully clear that these "next step evolution" game designers hadn't cracked open a non-D&D game, like, ever. Nor read APAs like Alarums & Excursions.
I see posts calling for folks to write/email/call/smoke signal/wire/semaphore their representatives about the security fuckery of Windows Recall.
I'm more of an "act locally" guy. Email your place of employment's heads of legal and IT stating your concerns, and send them this article. Hell, throw in your local schoolboards and universities to boot.
If I was a university prof and a student's parent contacted me demanding that I change their grade I would get my mom to write back to them & tell them to leave me alone
@MeltingPenguins@tayledras@mitten@ElleGray The resulting baconmania was the product of a very well-designed and well-managed (second only to DeBeers) marketing campaign. It wasn't gentrification. It wasn't organic. It was cynical manipulation.
@MeltingPenguins This was just straight-up cynical manipulation. (Indeed if you wanted to do a deep cut, you could go back to the '20s when "bacon and eggs" became "breakfast food". It was pitched as what hungry farmers ate ... despite them eating no such thing. But the actual MANIA started in the late '90s/early '00s.)
The sad thing is bacon isn't even all that good. There's much nicer things you can do with pork bellies that don't involve carcinogenic nitrates and the like.
@unlucio@ElleGray Or, as it has happened at least four times with AI in the past, not to mention the total failure of a plethora of tech (remember when VR was going to take over the world … IN THE NINETIES?), the tech fades out into an embarrassing whimper and is politely forgotten until it's resurrected again by another sociopath doing pumping and dumping.
@unlucio@ElleGray That would be why I didn't reply to the billboard pic and instead replied to text that literally said "the problem is not technology".
When the marketing and business narrative reeks of desperate pumping and dumping FROM THE OUTSET, I'm pretty sure the tech behind it is utter shit and its practitioners know it.
It has the same stench that "BLOCKCHAIN ALL THE THINGS!" had: people who put money into something that was failing around them desperately trying to bolster its fortunes long enough to punch out with a profit.
@unlucio@ElleGray Let's make a bet. I'll bet an RMB against whatever unit of currency you use. In one year's time we'll get back together and see who was right.
My prediction is that this round of AI will be forgotten like the previous (minimum!) four rounds of it.
Your prediction is that the tech is just fine and will progress by leaps and bounds.
In a year one of us will be paying the other. See you in that year. (I'll be muting you until then because you have nothing of interest to say.)
@MeltingPenguins I'm pretty sure that the term "bacon" used before the 1920s campaign for breakfasts was not what we call bacon today. Up into the 1890s at least (and probably farther than that) "bacon" was used for any cured pork product, not specifically cut and processed pork belly.