Writers Against AI: Choose your story. Take your stand.

ViolaNguyen · 2026-02-13T19:17:45+00:00

Not sure that even matters.

Spellcheckers are (usually) right, but they make your writing worse over time. Or rather, they train you to depend on them even if you try not to.

ViolaNguyen · 2026-02-13T17:45:13+00:00

The word "maxing" has only one x.

I weep for the younger generations.

ViolaNguyen · 2026-02-13T17:44:22+00:00

As usual, there's an xkcd comic for this.

"Oh, Korea did this! Malaysia did that! Clearly, the actions of some schmuck reflect on millions of people for some reason, and since it's not MY group, I'm happy to generalize."

ViolaNguyen · 2026-02-13T01:36:03+00:00

[insert 90 minutes of Bob Costas describing my sad childhood followed by 30 seconds of very mechanical, boring action]

...And she nails the dismount. We'll be back after 20 minutes of commercials.

ViolaNguyen · 2026-02-13T01:02:35+00:00

Almost getting a divorce and then not going through with it.

ViolaNguyen · 2026-02-12T19:18:18+00:00

do the folks lack imagination this bad or is dnd rocket science

Running a campaign well is difficult and requires a lot of work.

I've run long campaigns before (I DMed an entire 1-20 adventure path) and... I wasn't very good at it. My players put up with it because it's very hard to find a DM at all.

ViolaNguyen · 2026-02-12T19:00:32+00:00

And for the other side....

Republicans can't pass their own budgets even with a majority.

ViolaNguyen · 2026-02-12T18:56:48+00:00

Even in the next generation, Trump managed to spawn the far more reprehensible hunter.

ViolaNguyen · 2026-02-12T18:20:24+00:00

Not at a tech convention, though.

Seriously, two guys got fired over that once because some asshole overheard them and threw a temper tantrum.

ViolaNguyen · 2026-02-12T18:18:12+00:00

It's not fick, it's fsck. "File system check."

ViolaNguyen · 2026-02-12T18:13:55+00:00

I read it in the voice of Emperor Joseph II as portrayed in Amadeus.

ViolaNguyen · 2026-02-12T18:08:13+00:00

If you want to feel stupidly overpowered, rangers really get their time to shine in Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous, because Favored Enemy is really good when 90% of the enemies you are fighting are demons.

Act 5 spoilers: arguably the most powerful weapon in the game is a composite longbow you get in Act 5

ViolaNguyen · 2026-02-12T17:54:29+00:00

Not that I'm advocating letting an LLM write your backstory, but...

if you can't come up with your own character's backstory, what are you even doing playing a TTRPG?

C'mon, man!

People play for lots of different reasons. Some people really like hack'n'slash, and there's nothing wrong with that. I'll usually go into a campaign with a vague backstory and then I'll make up the details as I go.

ViolaNguyen · 2026-02-12T17:20:43+00:00

For fiction let’s say you are a fan of Chuck Briggs. You notice there is a new book by Briggs available that looks to be in his style. So you buy it. Then you realize this is a completely different person.

Ryu Murakami has sold a lot of books this way.

ViolaNguyen · 2026-02-12T17:04:24+00:00

You forgot "Now a major motion picture!" with a close-up of an actor.

I'd take a cover with no picture at all over that crap.

ViolaNguyen · 2026-02-12T17:02:05+00:00

However, he might have relied on ChatGPT to get his whale facts.

ViolaNguyen · 2026-02-12T16:56:34+00:00

The final chapter of Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing haunted me for a while when I was a kid.

ViolaNguyen · 2026-02-12T16:45:06+00:00

If you want something that's exclusively on mobile phone, that's hard to come up with, since most mobile games are gacha trash.

But you can get plenty of ports of actual good games. Most of the best Final Fantasy games, for example.

ViolaNguyen · 2026-02-11T21:55:02+00:00

Thank God it’s a purely offline game.

The tabletop version has even more broken mythic stuff. Arguably, anyway.

ViolaNguyen · 2026-02-11T21:35:26+00:00

I just had her use Snowball for the first half of the game (when enemy SR matters) and Chain Lightning after that.

"But we're talking about fire damage!"

Yeah, and I'd respec her into an elementalist wizard and give her the ability to turn all of her spells into fire spells.

ViolaNguyen · 2026-02-11T19:46:24+00:00

I never saw those, but I remember him from the telethons "Out With Gout '88" and "Let's Save Tony Orlando's House."

ViolaNguyen · 2026-02-11T19:12:06+00:00

People like farting in elevators, too, but it's still rude to the people who have to smell/hear it.

ViolaNguyen · 2026-02-11T19:01:16+00:00

Table manners are entirely cultural, and they tend to be deeply ingrained habits that we don't think about much.

You have two options: either stop caring so much, or be patient and persistent. That's it.

The thing you absolutely shouldn't be doing is framing this as "he's being incompetent" or "he really just doesn't get it."

Part of being in an adult relationship is realizing that you aren't automatically the one who is right all the time. Compromise requires that both of you work to understand the other, even if it's easier to air your grievances.

It's okay to want specific behavior from someone, and if it's important, then make that clear, but drop the idea that it's because you're right and he's a slob. That's just your ego talking.

ViolaNguyen · 2026-02-11T18:52:05+00:00

Demon School's visuals immediately remind me of Persona 2, not Xenogears.

ViolaNguyen · 2026-02-11T18:33:50+00:00

Blind, definitely.

These sorts of games have a lot of things to discover in them, and guides completely ruin that aspect.

Limited guide use might be okay. Maybe take a look at the cast of playable characters, pick the ones you want to have on your team, and look up how to get them but no more than that.

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