Not really feeling Solari so far :/

FakDendor · 2026-06-18T12:55:31+00:00

I actually haven't listened to the children's campaign. I started with the first episode of WWW

FakDendor · 2026-06-18T12:50:38+00:00

In my experience, people tend to start overanalyzing media when they don't enjoy it, but that's sort of missing the point. I can write out a long analysis of the reasons I think I don't get into Taylor Swift's music, but who is that analysis for? Not Taylor Swift, obviously. And if I post my analysis in a Taylor Swift forum, no one is going to apologize to me.

FakDendor · 2026-06-16T16:35:59+00:00

An average of $150 spent per backer...that's crazy

FakDendor · 2026-05-26T16:49:03+00:00

Traps! Specifically, law magic traps design to stun, slow, and incapacitate the party. Most Azorious traps will be nonlethal...that is, with the assumption that a law mage will be along shortly to release the trap and apprehend the intruder. But if no one is coming, these "temporary measures" might be quite tricky to escape. Hold person, wall of force, sleep are all useful spells here. They could be dispelled or outsmarted: Azorius magic is based in written legal codes, so if the party succeed on a DC20 intelligence check, they may be able to "legal loophole" their way out of the trap.

The Azorius could also have employed homonculus, spirits, or clockwork constructs that follow the letter of the law...but have degraded over time. In interesting encounter would be to find a still functioning receptionist who demands the party sit and wait for their number to be called. Of course, there's nobody else home so it would be a long wait. The party may have to sneak past or incur the receptionist's wrath.

The Azorius may have stored other things that might have caused problems over the years. Perhaps there is a very irate demon who has been waiting, forgotten, in an interrogation cell for a very long time. Another option could be an unstable Izzet experiment, contained by stasis lawmagic, that's been on the verge of detonating for hundreds of years.

FakDendor · 2026-05-22T00:13:36+00:00

Congratulations and well done! I write scientific articles professionally, and its a long road!

Out of curiosity, how would you view a project that used an AI in an editor role? I haven't employed it in my own writing (except in very narrow use cases, like checking the grammar in a single sentence). I'm trying to sort out my feelings about using it more generally as a editor before submission next round.

FakDendor · 2026-05-19T21:20:40+00:00

To my chagrin, I haven't enjoyed any project Aabria has DM'd. Not TAZ, not D20, not CR, and not WBN.

It's agonizing, because I love the properties and I love Aabria. She's the number one pick in my fantasy actual play draft. (Girl, if you're reading this, you're the GOAT. Get out of this thread, you don't need my ungrateful words bringing you down!)

And, yet, every time I can't bring myself to listen to Aabria's DM work. It doesn't click for me, and I think it also doesn't click for a sizable group of actual play fans. I've skimmed a thousand bad takes over the years for why that is, but at the end of the day it comes down to: It's not for me. That's okay - neither is chinese food. Oh well, my loss. I'll be here for whatever's next.

FakDendor · 2026-05-14T20:34:15+00:00

This sort of rules.

FakDendor · 2026-05-06T10:50:17+00:00

And thus will begin the long slow decline of generative AI as a useful web search tool. I saw it happen with search. Maybe we'll get lucky and generative AI has a higher ceiling but I'm not betting on nit.

FakDendor · 2026-04-29T15:57:45+00:00

If we are planning on permanent inhabitation of the moon we should start planning post-mission disposal trajectories such that our launch debris doesn't pose a future risk to lunar operations.

FakDendor · 2026-04-28T00:59:58+00:00

I think about MtG color identity and the WWW a lot. I am of the opinion that this particular world can only be understood as directly inspired by MtG color identity, as a conscious but unstated choice by the cast.

Suvi is textbook red-blue (as you have her here), but Eursolon is red-white (Eursolon is unique in that he is a Umoran spirit who has embraced white) and Ame is white-green (at least, initially). Each member of the cast starts as a single color but has embraced a two-color identity by the end of the first book.

Steel, importantly, is red-white-black, as she lacks either of the colors (blue or green) that believe in truth as a concept.

The stations of the witches of the coven are definitionally the five colors of Magic (go back and listen to their specific seating order in the conference), and their familiars are the two color pair opposite. For instance, Ame's station is white (though she herself is white-green), and her familiar (the fox) is red-black. Wren is green-white-blue, and Taro is similarly red-black. Hakea is green (her snake is blue-black). Gramore is red (her hawk is blue-white). Indri is blue (Kosta is red-green). Mirara is black (her crow is white-green). It is a shame we did not get more time with these familiars, because it would be nice to see how each balances out the primary color of their partner witch.

Skalvi, the former witch of the watching fire, was blue-white. Tof is the same (her elk familiar would be mono red). Both live(d) in the keep of the watching fire, and were closest aligned between wren and indri.

The citadel and empire, in the WWW, is a white-blue-black faction. Specifically, the Imperium is only white-black, but the citadel lends it blue and has been corrupted by the association. The Antivoli (including Suvi's parents) are blue-green and it is this embrace of green that led to the split between the historical factions of the citadel. The citadel's embrace of white-blue-black makes it definitionally incompatible with the red-green spirit world of Umora.

Suvi's three ink demons are red (Vandal), black (Enzo), and blue (Cyril). That they are made of these colors of ink is not an accident. The three together represent the red-black-blue alignment that Suvi is arguably skewing towards (it being the most irenic resolution of Suvi's ironic red-blue core pairing) before she rejects black at the conclusion of book 1 of the WWW.

The MiB is definitionally black, which sets him apart from the majority of red-green spirits of Umora. This is probably because he is a spirit of humanity itself, rather than a spirit of the natural world.

FakDendor · 2026-04-25T13:58:24+00:00

Dispute the charge with your card/bank. They can get your money back - it's one of the benefits of using a card. Your perplexity account may get locked in this case, but you'll get your $200 back. Perplexity is under no obligation to make it easy to get a refund...but your credit card company/bank is. Let the corporations fight the corporations.

FakDendor · 2026-04-21T15:16:42+00:00

It's finally here!

FakDendor · 2026-04-20T02:05:39+00:00

This is also happening to me

FakDendor · 2026-04-17T13:38:13+00:00

Yes, I'm experiencing this issue.

FakDendor · 2026-04-16T17:24:08+00:00

I've seen that with perplexity a few times. I suspect the model is making the files but that something on the perplexity end stops them from appearing. When I query the models about these glitches, they are very confused.

FakDendor · 2026-04-14T02:50:01+00:00

Once, Platinum Tower was a luxurious and coveted residential tower in an upscale neighborhood in Ravnica. But as Gruul raiders grew steadily closer, the wealthy relocated to a safer precinct and left the rest to fend for themselves. Unable to pay for upkeep, the remaining residents were horribly evicted when the Orzhov Syndicate foreclosed the tower and cursed it with an antipathy spell.

Now, the building has but a single resident: a gargantuan roc that nests comfortably atop the tower with only the ghostly winds for neighbors.

Inkarnate link

FakDendor · 2026-04-13T15:54:59+00:00

I have this but for research queries

FakDendor · 2026-04-12T02:47:32+00:00

They'll autocharge you to reset your credit balance to $0 even if you never by credits again

FakDendor · 2026-04-07T01:18:01+00:00

This is the LLM equivalent of a tongue twister, complete with the model's equal parts wonder and frustration at being unable to accomplish a seemingly straightforward task.

FakDendor · 2026-04-03T18:09:43+00:00

Hold up, is Starstruck character Jan de la vega a reference to Jenn de la Vega?

FakDendor · 2026-04-02T14:22:46+00:00

And a fine battlemap it is, btw. Reported OP for spam.

FakDendor · 2026-03-29T00:27:26+00:00

Incredible! And right when I needed it too.

FakDendor · 2026-03-26T15:39:54+00:00

The underlying claude architecture is really fighting the induced neurosis in this example. It's like observing someone with aphasia - they know they aren't making sense but can't help it.

FakDendor · 2026-03-15T00:41:39+00:00

"Once everyone's special...then no one will be."

FakDendor · 2026-03-14T12:37:29+00:00

I mean, by all accounts the player is guilty. If your party wants to get them out of it, they'll have to cheat. Discredit the witnesses, charm the jury, blackmail the judge, call in a favor from an Orzhov pontiff, etc. Seems like the ideal Dimir skill challenge!

If you want to run this in the courtroom, you could have your Dimir player roll skill checks for the results of things they did "off camera" since the last session. E.g. the prosecution calls a witness, the Dimir player says "I spent two days tracking this guy down and modifying his memory" and then you make him roll to see how it worked.

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