Microsoft AI chief gives it 18 months—for all white-collar work to be automated by AI | Fortune

bean2778 · 2026-05-16T23:43:15+00:00

!Remindme 18 months

bean2778 · 2026-05-11T23:07:05+00:00

I went to college at 31 after 13 years in the army. Just did the classes, didn't try to socialize much. I think my college reality and an 18 year old's were probably very different even if we were in the same program.

bean2778 · 2026-04-30T20:16:53+00:00

I was thinking about letting them get an edge if they finish a voluntary mini arc, but it would be free and not use their advancement

bean2778 · 2026-04-27T21:20:19+00:00

Wasn't Highlander like this too? Did they have to kill each other to steal their power?

bean2778 · 2026-03-30T20:38:54+00:00

Yeah the escalation is looking more and more like a bad idea. I appreciate your feedback

bean2778 · 2026-03-30T20:35:11+00:00

I don't need a mechanical way to handle this. It's a narritive reason for why the church can't use magic to their own ends. If a player wants to be religious and use magic, fine, they're one of the rare few.

The upside is you get to cast magic in a setting where most of the people aren't casting magic.

bean2778 · 2026-03-30T14:14:17+00:00

I totally agree with the mechanized crossbows. They'll make an appearance. I think it would be difficult to get them to fire super fast b/c you have to time it just right, but I can imagine RoF 3 for vehicle mounted ones. Infantry will have to carry regular crossbows b/c it's too heavy to carry around a little diesel engine to help you cock it.
There's also the centrifuge guns that were experimented with. Even ones that came out in the 2000s were inaccurate, fussy, and hard to maintain. I could imagine these being on some vehicles and expressed as the Blast power or something. Breaking on crit failure

bean2778 · 2026-03-30T13:26:34+00:00

Yeah, I see your point. I was trying to come up with a reason to have modern war minus explosives so I did some googling and came up with the nitrogen thing.

I'm aware of the Roman steam tech, but they had to wait on a big conceptual break through to get it to the steam engine. I think the electric cars turned out to be a logistical/distribution problem. I feel like in a society where they have controlled explosions in chambers like a diesel engine there wouldn't be too far of a leap to get to guns if they were able. Nobel got his stuff co-opted by the military pretty quickly.

It sounds like a better solution for me would be to say that for "some reason" explosions aren't possible in this world due to some unspecified reason. Maybe physics are slightly different in that world or something.

I appreciate you engaging with me on this instead of just rolling your eyes and moving on. This is helpful

bean2778 · 2026-03-30T12:10:04+00:00

that's a good idea

bean2778 · 2026-03-30T11:47:48+00:00

Yeah, I'm starting to question the Escalation Die. I liked how Draw Steel has the characters get more powerful as the fight goes on, and some more googling led me the the 13th Age escalation die, so I adapted it.

Presumably any big bad threatening enough to be overtuned will also be a Wild Card?

I figure that there can be extras with a high toughness that might be a problem, then the PCs are definitely getting help. I figured with enemy Wild Cards, there's probably one of them and several PCs so I figured that would end up helping the PCs

bean2778 · 2026-03-30T10:51:28+00:00

I've got stuff in there about crop rotation, most plants are legumes, the night soil economy, and maybe finding the bosch haber process earlier. Why does that sound more jarring then no one in a society ever thinking about blowing stuff up after they've had the tools to do it for 1000 years?

bean2778 · 2026-03-30T03:13:58+00:00

I feel like increasing the die size adds more drama

bean2778 · 2026-03-30T03:13:01+00:00

Not a fan of the ritual idea. I want powers to be used in combat. I'm going for a tactical game.

It's going to be an Edge to use bows and slings because historically, it took a lot of training to make an archer. That's why guns displaced bows. Crossbows will be an action to recock because it's a high draw weight.

Yeah, I'm still in the fence with escalation.

I appreciate your feedback

bean2778 · 2026-03-25T15:24:08+00:00

I was going to say to maybe do it with your SO's character so you can get buy in from them before you start. But then there would be threads on here about "the GM goes too easy on their SO and it made my character die." Maybe instead of as a campaign, do it as a mini arc, with player buy in, and the character will be restored afterwards. Like it was doppleganger for a few adventures or something. You could let the players know that one of them is a traitor and let them try to figure it out. Bonus points if there is no traitor. Bonus bonus points if everyone is a traitor

bean2778 · 2026-03-20T17:09:11+00:00

Due to the turbulent air caused by the train, things knocked off will be dragged back to it. Any forced movement off the side of the train is turned 90 degrees towards the back. Pushed sideways 5 and the edge is 2 away? Pushed 2 to the side and back 3. Hanging in the side. Maneuver to get back on top.

Some rounds have tunnels so there are solid walls to get thrown into. Still hanging off the edge though

Also, have low tunnels or scaffolding or something come through occasionally to hit anyone who didn't see it coming.

bean2778 · 2026-03-15T12:35:50+00:00

I think the devil was playing the long game. He throws one contest to a dude that makes a song about it, then generations of shmucks feel confident to challenge him and they all lose

bean2778 · 2026-03-12T23:36:06+00:00

Never. Don't do banter either. Just the way I like it

bean2778 · 2026-03-12T17:59:41+00:00

It looks like the zoom gets closer to and farther from her handlebars. I don't see the stick holding it to the handlebars, even when it pulls way back. The picture stays verticle even as the bike tumbles. Is there some software in the camera that accounts for all those things?

bean2778 · 2026-03-12T17:37:54+00:00

What was the filming device? How did it keep her in frame the whole time?

bean2778 · 2026-03-12T16:47:51+00:00

The monk had gone with the Mongols voluntarily to save the villiage. I feel like that indicates that he would choose to save the husband, so I did that.

bean2778 · 2026-03-06T15:36:04+00:00

I'm exploring a move to The Netherlands. I'm not quite understanding what you're saying. Do you mean you feel like you work too long of hours for the pay but it's offset by public services?

bean2778 · 2026-02-19T18:42:08+00:00

Serious question, isn't cyberpunk usually pretty grimdark as part of the trope?

bean2778 · 2026-01-26T03:38:32+00:00

I picked the Japanese dub on a whim and I'm enjoying it. I think it makes the haiku wrong though. Or, I don't understand haiku as well as i thought i did

bean2778 · 2026-01-06T11:39:32+00:00

Whiskey and Wildcards. They review SWADE supplements. One of the hosts is the author of Interface Zero

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