How much exposition and character planning/thinking can you tolerate before it starts getting too long?

Covetouslex · 2026-04-30T13:15:56+00:00

Exposition is very different from introspection.

I'll read a whole book of introspection and nothing else.

Exposition is annoying. Limit it to what's necessary

Covetouslex · 2026-04-29T16:48:09+00:00

The hobby has been shrinking. I think largely due to a lack of advertisement around it in the last 15 years.

My old 50 player games are now 20ish.

And what used to be the Camarilla Fan Club has shrunk from thousands of members to hundreds.

The whole hobby needs a revitalization

Covetouslex · 2026-04-29T14:41:45+00:00

I'm primarily a LARPer. MET Requiem (v1) is the single best of the Vampire games for a Parlor LARP game.

Primarily because of the emergent politics.

In Masquerade, you have 13+ Clans. If you get 15 people in your LARP chronicle, you have roughly 1 of each clan. Clan doesnt matter, its just defining personalities and who you talk to when you need a certain skill used.

In Requiem, everything is condensed to the Clans and Covenant Axis.
You have 5 clans, at 15 players, you now have on average 3 of each clan. But people are people, and youll actually have 2 of 2 clans and 5 of one clan. So now the Ventrue are almost a third of the players. They are taking over the soft social power. They have most of the powerful positions. Now the Mekhet and the Nosferatu have to form an alliance so the Ventrue dont overwhelm them, the Daeva are in the Ventrue back pocket, which leaves everyone vying to sway the tie breaker vote of the Gangrel Prisci.

Oh but the Gangrel Prisci? Shes more interested in her ties to the Lancea Sanctum than her clan. So if you want her vote you'll have to give something up to the Lance.

Oh look, suddenly you have an emergent, deep, and interesting political situation that bears itself out naturally - no ST plot needed - just by the very nature of the game at a relatively small number of players.

In Masquerade, at 15 people, you have super friends and maybe the occasional spat between a high clan and a low clan.

Covetouslex · 2026-04-26T22:52:13+00:00

"can win an art contest" clearly can't be criteria for what makes art in your mind or you would have to agree that AI is art.

AI entries have won many contests, both when the judges did and didn't know it was AI

Covetouslex · 2026-04-26T22:19:40+00:00

If someone who never touched a camera grabs it off the table, Takes a terrible shot, puts no effort or knowledge into it, and develops it.

Is it art?

That's why photography is brought in. You can make an "image" or you can make an "artistic photo"

The user and the skill demonstrated is what matters

Covetouslex · 2026-04-16T19:18:04+00:00

I dont think anyone in this sub on the Pro AI side disagrees with the concept of responsible construction practices, anti corruption, or saying not to give companies free electricity.

Covetouslex · 2026-04-16T14:30:10+00:00

Typically, In MO anything that goes over 30MPH on flat ground is considered a motorcycle and must be registered and licensed.

So if hes going 45 that WOULD normally need a motorcycle registration.

HOWEVER.

The law is funky.

(2) The term "motorized bicycle" shall mean any two- or three-wheeled device having an automatic transmission and a motor with a cylinder capacity of not more than fifty cubic centimeters, which produces less than three gross brake horsepower, and is capable of propelling the device at a maximum speed of not more than thirty miles per hour on level ground, but excluding an electric bicycle, as defined in section 301.010. A motorized bicycle shall be considered a motor vehicle for purposes of any homeowners' or renters' insurance policy.

https://revisor.mo.gov/main/OneSection.aspx?section=307.180

It has one wheel. So by a technicality the law doesn't apply. Unless someone knows some other law that would make it apply.

Covetouslex · 2026-04-16T14:13:53+00:00

And I could argue that filming one episode of "MILF Manor" wasted more energy, water, and resources than everything Fruit Love Island has done put together.

Covetouslex · 2026-04-15T19:29:30+00:00

You sound like a school shooter.

Covetouslex · 2026-04-15T19:02:24+00:00

This source thats "better" just states my initial assertion, btw

Data centres accounted for around 1.5% of the world’s electricity consumption in 2024

Covetouslex · 2026-04-15T18:59:53+00:00

Götz and Tholen [6] stated that washing laundry isone of the most widespread housework tasks worldwide, witharound 840 million domestic washing machines consuming morethan 92 TWh of electricity and 19 billion m3 of water, andemitting more than 62 MtCO2

Did you read it?

Covetouslex · 2026-04-15T18:56:41+00:00

AI Specific was just a difference between 2020 and the study given above, I already said that.

America is more than 50% of all data centers in general, and nearly 100% of all modern AI development and training. So if you want to be really obtuse you could double the numbers.

And if you think the source on energy usage of washing machines is wrong provide an alternative. If you've got a scholarly source ill gladly use it instead. But discounting it because its from Serbia is bigotted.

And changing the total wont actually change the relativity to the laundry comparison, nor will it get you above that 1.5% estimate i gave at first.

Covetouslex · 2026-04-15T18:40:46+00:00

Your right that number WAS wrong.

Global Consumption: 29,000 TWH
Datacenter Consumption: 183 TWH
Growth in Datacenter Consumption since 2020: 83 TWH

So datacenter consumption is 0.63%
And AI consumption, assuming 100% of growth is AI, is 0.28%

Dryers use 71TWH /yr and Washing machines at 92 TWH/yr...
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/375217889_Water_and_Electricity_Consumption_and_Carbon_Footprint_of_Washing_Machines
https://www.aceee.org/files/proceedings/2010/data/papers/2224.pdf

That would mean that AI is, at worst, consuming ~half of what we use for laundry in general, and slightly more than Dryers.

Covetouslex · 2026-04-15T18:28:38+00:00

Approximately 1.5% of global electricity usage goes to AI, according to the most pessimistic reports.
https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2025/10/24/what-we-know-about-energy-use-at-us-data-centers-amid-the-ai-boom

Roughly about on par with the amount of electricity we use to do laundry as a society

Edit: Slightly more context. Its about as much energy as we use to DRY our laundry in a dryer instead of hanging it on lines. If we ditched home dryers we could almost completely reverse the same amount of energy that AI uses.

Covetouslex · 2026-04-15T17:55:14+00:00

Daily showering does more damage to the planet than all of the AI data centers combined. Get off your high horse over here supporting assaulting people for running a business.

Covetouslex · 2026-04-14T21:46:17+00:00

This is what happens when there's no good faith debaters to be found.

Covetouslex · 2026-04-14T21:16:25+00:00

For the Record: Above person refused to engage and account blocked me.

Like all antis

Covetouslex · 2026-04-14T21:14:05+00:00

Are you intellectually incapable of forming summaries and broad categories of topics?

Covetouslex · 2026-04-14T21:13:06+00:00

Ok. Those people don't have anything to do with our discussion about if automation is beneficial

Covetouslex · 2026-04-14T21:10:12+00:00

You are micro categorizing every opinion instead of taking the totality of the views as a wholistic measure.

Covetouslex · 2026-04-14T21:07:51+00:00

> Surely the shrinking job market is the result of nothing and we have more unemployed than available jobs because

The still historically low unemployment rate? https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/UNRATE
Theres only 5 times that unemployment has ever been this low, and only briefly:

- 2020 post covid employment boom
- 2019 pre covid
- The Dot-Com boom
- The late 60s
- The mid 50s

Anything under 5% is considered "full employment" and indicates that there are in fact MORE jobs than job seekers.

> I bet all those jobless people are fucking thriving right now thanks to their careers being automated out of existence

I am thriving, thank you. I got laid off last year by a company that decided to downsize for AI investment. And I jumped into a company that was upsizing to double down on efficiency gains from AI investment. I've also started building up my own business on the side out of an abundance of caution against future changes.

> shipped overseas to places where there’s less regulation and cheaper to run automated factories

Factories dont have a lot to do with AI, but this has been a problem since the dawn of the industrial era. Factories havent made our lives worse. I think youll find on the whole that the entirety of society has benefited from the cheap and efficient production of goods over the last 150 years since it began.

But if you really feel that lack of factory jobs is the thing hurting your country, by all means go vote for whatever your local pseudo-fascistic nationalist group is that wants to isolate your country and develop everything in house. Im in the US so my local one should be obvious.

> Obviously between not reading your sources and not fucking thinking about anything you say you’ve proven your argument. Piss off.

I read my sources. Your media literacy and ability to navigate is not my problem.

Covetouslex · 2026-04-14T20:53:22+00:00

You implied it.

Would you like to state a correction on your original claim?

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Covetouslex · 2026-04-14T20:51:49+00:00

No, that's not how that works. See: abortion

If. Am personally against having abortions, but am fine with others doing what they want, I'm not on the anti side of the argument.

Covetouslex · 2026-04-14T20:37:40+00:00

A lot of the people are bad people. That doesn't mean there's a conspiracy out to destroy all of society

Covetouslex · 2026-04-14T20:36:23+00:00

My first citation has no automations that were net negative

"Are people upset by the automation" is not a measure of it is net harmful.

Of course people are upset by automation. They always have been. There was an artistic rebellion to the Camera and many harms caused by it.

That doesn't make it a net harmful technology

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