@NotSanni Oh, for sure.

@NotSanni Ten bucks says this is the same guy who did this sad display a few weeks ago. This is totally alpha job-having behavior.

@Necro Nah. It’s the fact that the two accounts were made at the exact same time about fifteen minutes ago. Doesn’t take a genius. It’s really sad that you can’t find somewhere to scream online that has more than like ten active users. You’re basically the human equivalent of the stench of BO and crusty cum sock and it’s really funny that you think this is… anything.

Have your tantrum, I guess. Mwah.

@bnuuy That’s rich coming from a guy who makes multiple socks on a MU forum to upvote himself.

@Trashcan

Oh wow. He really pwned us.

@labsunlimited Can you imagine how cool he felt writing that, dick in his hand, Dread up on a TOR browser so he can feel like a badass hacker when it’s really just Reddit for losers

@Pavel I think it’s part and parcel. The overinvestment is both one of time and emotional connection. You see it in LARP as well – when people choose the imaginary life and identity over their real one, you get the recipe for Chernobyl-caliber meltdowns.

A game category that is missing is “people with weird powers in the real world”, my personal favorite genre that doesn’t really fit into any of those.

@Pavel I’m sure they have. People tend to do that. I’ve never been a WoD person and seem to have totally missed this.

Seanan McGuire? Really?

How did I not know this lore? Fuck. I love her books, but the more I think about it, the more her October Daye series feels like stolen MU logs for the first few. The entire tone and scope of the story changes wildly after like book three.

@Faraday Absolutely. I am always willing to learn and I am willing to admit when I don’t have the expertise to make a good call and adjust accordingly.

@Faraday Point absolutely taken. This conversation has, in a rare instance that I can’t recall seeing on the internet in many years, changed my understanding and stance on this.

Good points all around. I’m going to think on it and maybe just give summaries and bulletpoints going forward instead of full logs. Never really thought about it this way and I appreciate the feedback and food for thought.

@Tez Absolutely, and I don’t give it logs that I wasn’t involved in, either. It really has been great for “oh fuck, what was that NPC’s name again”, because it keeps an updated running list of both pc and npcs from my logs, and it automatically updates its analysis of their current relationship with my pc. my memory isn’t what it used to be and it saves me from me forgetting that i had, in fact, interacted with another pc in the past. if i can’t recall, i’ll ask it “have i had a scene with x” and if the answer is yes, i’ll ask it for a brief summary of the interaction.

Like I said, I use it as an extension of my brain, filling in the gaps that my own neurons don’t seem to be able to hold onto as well as they used to. I wouldn’t want to RP with someone who was just using a LLM to write their poses, either. I just was pointing out a utility that I’ve found.

When it punches up lines, it pulls on my own writing for inspiration, and yeah, it sometimes hallucinates, so that’s why I, an actual human being, use my discretion about what to take from its suggestions.

I’ll concede to Roz’s point about ethics. That can be a valid point, and it’s one I’ll think about.

@Tez

I never share a scene in progress, and I only share ones that are publicly viewable on the internet.

@Tez

I’m open about how I use AI. I don’t use it to write my poses for me, but I’ll occasionally ask it for suggestions to punch up a line that isn’t coming out the way I want it to. I’ll also ask it to generate scene ideas, suggestions for background npcs, things like that. It’s been really good for inspiration on those days when I have the time and energy for RP, but I don’t have any ideas popping out at me.

I mostly use it as a filing system so I can cross-reference things to make sure I don’t forget about something that happened in a scene two years ago. It took a while to train it up and make sure it understood game theme, but it really is helpful for my old-person brain.

I’d honestly take three months of good RP over a game that drags on and on past its expiration date

My hot take is that AI is good as an extension of your brain and punching up your poses. I’ve mostly been using it to catalog theme and plot stuff so my busy, tired brain doesn’t space out on things, keeping track of scenes I was in and the broad strokes, and occasionally asking it for suggestions to punch up a pose that I feel isn’t hitting the way I want. If it enhances the experience for your scene partner, I don’t think there is any harm.