I appreciate the offer, someone else has already done so 
Incorrect, they destroyed the group by liking it. Their moral failings do not reflect upon you.
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am i just a piece of meat to you
Its funny going from a pale cream cat to a dark tabby, I can barely see Mr. Typhon except his white socks.
Just practicing internet safety: deny you know anyone and provide no information.
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Its okay, I now have my 2nd cursed pig.
ā¦ maybe i should rethink naming my first one Amanda after the Saw character, especially because the character who has her appears in my book.
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dish the 
I got a link in my email from a store that they have the new D&D rulebook in stock and that itās being offered at a discount, so I shared it in the group chat for those that were interested in getting it. I was asked why I didnāt seem interested in getting it (Iām not running any D&D games and nobody bothers buying the non-D&D books for the games I do run that they play in, which is alright but it shouldnāt be surprising I then feel the same about D&D!). I explain why Iām not particularly interested in getting anything new from WOTC because of the way theyāre handling the whole thing (trying to monopolize + doing weird video game-y early access/gold edition packages, trying to push their exclusive VTT so they can push microtransactions, etc.) as well as their hyperfixation on using AI more and more in their products being pushed from the top down
This sparked a discussion about AI during which I learned that aside from enjoying generating AI slop at least one of them used AI to generate what his character would do between sessions, when I asked for input on what everyone wanted to do next/focus on next in the group chat last time (in order to prepare some stuff), and I donāt think Iāve ever felt more hollow about the effort I put into preparing stuff vs someone not even thinking of a response, themselves, when asked to engage outside of when sitting at the actual table
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I think I would have to kill them
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if you donāt care enough to think about what your character is doing, then why are you even here my guy
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WHY WOULD YOU DO THIS?!
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the unlimited potential of using gen ai to enhance oneās creativityā¦
while im sorry for the loss of your group youve my admiration for sticking to your guns on it
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This doesnāt just suck from an AI perspective, but from just like a investment in the game thing. Like, the GM is putting in all this stuff week on week between and during sessions and you canāt even be arsed to engage your cogitator for five minutes?
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I agree with Kora, if you donāt care to be creative-- why are you in a hobby that requires creativity?!
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if youāre stumped for ideas, talk to the GM or other players! they would literally love to help you brainstorm!!
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i have convictions and i stick with them usually, for better or worse 
but yeah itās basically this. I donāt like AI image slop but like, people generating that sort of stuff about their characters or the game is very much people at least feeling engaged with it and thatās cool at least
that was the entire thing that I was prompting in the first place that apparently caused it to be used!!
I think I need to figure out how to proceed because Iām absolutely not rolling onward as is, but also some people are very engaged and enthusiastic, so I think itās going to be a case of either continuing onward with some new people and some the same, or starting something new up (with or without some of the same people involved)
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I wouldnāt really say that at all. The Limsa/club crowd arenāt roleplayers, theyāre basically just XIVās Goldshire - I still curse the WoW content creators who came over and painted the picture that this was all FFXIV RP was (even more so those who painted it in a positive light).
in FFXIV Iāve had far more engaging storylines, character development and all around good writing than Iāve ever experienced in WoW, itās just harder to find naturally and basically does require you getting involved in the umbrella Discord servers for Chaos/Light. Much like in WoW, the US servers have much more tolerance for lore-breaking and the like, so those who go to Balmung inevitably get burned.
While Iād love more walk-up random RP in XIV, I also canāt say I really miss it anymore - every time Iāve tried this in WoW I end up coming across a worgen necromancer warlock death knight using growth pots threatening to murder me in broad daylight - FFXIVās RP scene, and the gameās accommodations for it, have some real flaws - but I really think itās been portrayed inaccurately to the world at large.
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I thought this was going to be about generated samey animesque character portraits and itās so much worse oh my stars. Literally letting the computer write your RP for you. Iām in actual pain and morally offended.
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Speaking of tabletop stuff, my Pathfinder paladin is magically immune to all kinds of fear but I still want him to have a fear of the dark for backstory reasons* - how do I square that circle?
(*his family was assassinated at night when he was a kid and he has Trauma about it)
Mr. Typhon is not sure aout the plastic hairbrush, but he likes being brushed with it.
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