Scott Ruggels

Watching The Blacklist with my mom. James Spader plays a master villain who offers the FBI a list of names of wanted criminals, but only if he works with a specific female agent who may be his daughter. The show is tense, and Spader is a joy to watch but he’s definitely not a good guy.  On Netflix. 

Intuitive Machines Odysseus Lander makes a successful landing on the Moon.

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Yeah physical THerapy was kind of a bitch after the bad sumer of 2018.

THe difficulty I see, is that like Duke says, in Hero you get what you pay for.  It seems like the bane of "soft Magic" is the utility and appearance of consistency of the spells. Similarly, technology is mostly marked by it's consistency (See: Machine guns). THe loose soft feel, that inconsistency would confer just doesn't work with the mathematics of Hero. I leaned into it, set a list of nust have, and can't haves to the advantages and limitations of each culture's magic, to flavor them differently, but they were consistent tools used by the people who could wield it. THe only nod to the airy fairy tuypes of magic were some cultures had invisible power effects and indirect on them. Brandon Sanderson's meditations on magic systems clarified a lot of what I have thought about.  The current campaign has no magic at all, but the characters dont know that as a lot of them are superstitious priimitives (Except Alchemy works, so there are healing potions available, otherwise people get too cautious).

7 hours ago, Old Man said:

 

For this specific tool?  Depends on the law and the people who run the company.  But as I explained to a family member who is also in cyber, it is not possible to stop development of AI any more than it would be possible to stop development of, say, video games.  The U.S. government could ban AI tomorrow and AI development would promptly move to India or Mexico.

 We could not do "Gain of Function experiments in the U.S., so a few scientists talked to Chinese colleagues, and We spent two years in lock down anyway.

1 hour ago, Gauntlet said:

 

Problem I have found with multiform is skill, knowledge, and even disadvantage wise have a tendency to not be the same. Now if you were like the Hulk or a Werewolf who are completely different people when changing multiform is the best way. But when someone has the ability to take another shape with some abilities but still has all of the exact same personality and skills then shapeshift with linked powers may work much better (and require less work from the G.M.). 

That's a fair point especially with the first character I built with it. But one could construct it so the skills, abilities and some of the disads cross over, though adding new ones would probably be necessary due to the new form. But it ads to the flexibility of a build, so one can build to their concept either way. Just be firm with the concept and don't succumb to feature creep?

Oh definitely. We did a brief "All Powered Armored Suits, All the time, and though the campaign was short it had a unified feel, like a Television show. It was a lot of fun. Cold War, so it was the U.S. Versus the Commies, and the occasional villain group or malign corporation.

There is a new Ai bot called Sora. The prompts can now generate up to one minute of full motion video. Take a look:
 

This is under a company lock down, so it's not yet available to the public, but it would be a useful tool for generating B-Roll for YouTube, It as of now cannot generate Porn, celebrity look alikes or graphic violence. How long does one think those restrictions wil stay in place?.

Nultiform has been nerfed since it's origin in Fantasy Hero, It didn't used to need a power framework to be affordable, just points.

There was a Robert A. Heinlein book that might be worth raiding for ideas. similar premise.

For some reason I have been on a Traveller kick, lately and this stuff seems to fit. EDM band out of Wales. 

I am completely unfamiliar with the source material. What is this front. 

On 1/10/2024 at 3:11 PM, unclevlad said:

I vaguely remember having a ZIP drive for a while...but really just vaguely.  

 

And I never saw a tape format I liked...or trusted that much.  

 

Another blast from the past.  1200 and 2400 baud modems.  Those were painful at the time, mind.  I remember finally getting a 57.6 kb, and thinking, man does this help!

2400Baud US Robotics Modem atttched to my Macintosh Plus to access the BBS with the champions Play by Post that Tom Tumey was running. THe funny thing is that site seemed to run better if accessed by a C64. THat Macintosh also had a hard drive that the Macintosh sat upon with a rather thick SCSI cable stuck in the back

2 minutes ago, Susano said:

I need to hear from Jason first.

 Understood.

 Congratulations, and I would like to see the martial Arts .