Doctors have been telling people that staying on the toilet "too long" increases the risk of hemorrhoids, for years. This isn't a doomscrolling issue. You could just as easily say that playing too much Tetris on the toilet increases the risk of hemorrhoids, and it wouldn't be a Tetris issue either. Nor would it be an issue with Kindle, if you like to read Kindle books on the toilet. It's a time issue, not a smartphone issue.

Sadly, this is just more of the same. It's as if the ghost of TSR has returned and started making terrible business decisions again. You can read all about it in Game Wizards by Jon Peterson, and Slaying the Dragon by Ben Riggs.

Nothing. That was just a flimsy excuse. I'm not a lawyer, but I don't see anything in OGL 1.0a that appears to prevent WotC from suing someone for defamation.

Despite being a tabletop and larp designer for years, and a player for much longer, I don't understand what the ORC will provide that the OGL and Creative Commons don't provide already. What is the point of a systems-neutral license specifically for games, when one already exists that covers all media? Is this just a publicity stunt?

The OGL allows you to say "this product is compatible with D&D" without having to include ridiculous language about not challenging anyone's copyright or whatever. That alone is nice to have.

Then you teach it how to eventually alter its own code, or at least you give it the ability to figure out that problem. That is a major precondition for AI developing conscious awareness, which this project seems pretty transparently designed to try to approach. Microsoft has been playing God for ages, we shouldn't really be surprised.

As does "unconscious bias is a thing".

"Fair share" contributions aren't union dues, but I agree with you that this part of union contracts is unfair to people who don't join. They can't count you as a member if you have to pay fair share contributions, but they are generally going to be less than the union dues, and they can still claim to be representing everyone in your department. I've seen some of the waste that unions can create, and I've also seen incredibly low worker morale that could have been fixed by having one. Every workplace is different.

Then again, "multiply published author understands writing better than me" seems to be a difficult concept for you.

That should have said "former", not "format".

I guess I'm the middle position here. I believe a journalist should trust that reporting the facts *is* effecting positive change in the world. That's what separates a News article from A&E or Features: the latter call for your personal opinion or aesthetic judgment, while the format calls for doing your best to leave it out.

More like I was establishing examples of why I might be good at things like critical analysis of written material, or spotting unconscious bias in writing. If you had read Howard Zinn's "A People's History of the United States" in high school, you might be socialist today just like me. Doesn't sound like you have enough empathy for that though.

Hi everyone. Just your friendly neighborhood psychology student and game writer here to point out that saying the union "claims to represent" a certain number of people implies that number might not be accurate, which sure looks a whole lot like pro-capitalist / anti-union bias from where I'm sitting. (Also took a journalism class and was on the school paper in high school, and this type of thing is a big no-no, right up there with scare quotes.)

Is there some reason we should doubt the veracity of the union's statement? Last I checked, unions are happy to publish lists of every company or department that affiliates with them, because doing so shows how popular and widespread the union is... which can only be good for getting more members. Kinda obvious when you think about it. I usually trust the BBC to at least try to be impartial when it comes to world news (which US news is, in Britain), but it seems that may be changing, at least where anything that resembles (gasp!) socialism is concerned.

Nice try, capitalist pig. Thankfully, critical thinking doesn't cost anything.

This approach might dramatically reduce animals' stress, if they can get milked immediately when needed. Relatedly, less stress means less cortisol, which means more nutritious, better-tasting meat. https://www.atlasobscura.com/a...

Agreed. I have ADHD also, and I study psychology. A learning disability is technically "mental illness", but no it didn't make anyone steal anything.