Yeah. You're not the one I'm criticizing in my reply.

You're pointing out the hypocrisy of the regime on free speech issues... I'm pointing out the hypocrisy of the party whenever they talk about accountability and personal responsibility.

I said things when I was a "kid" twenty years ago, too. Things I'm not proud of, and things I'd be downright ashamed of if someone threw them in my face today.

I make games for a living, and I have to worry about things I said in 2005 affecting my life and livelihood in 2025. I don't make policy.

Dox them all. List them by name, and put their quotations next to the name. Support their freedom of speech by spreading their speech far and wide.

Not gonna lie, I also dream of living in a world where you're working full-time on Masters of the Universe alone.

Most exciting thing for me, even as a wannabe author myself, isn't what it can do for me or for successful authors trying to improve.

It's what it can do for writing students and writing teachers to *enhance* the next generation(s) of artists and authors instead of smothering them in their cribs.

If you're trying to find your voice, it can tell you what you already sound like. Who to study and imitate.

If you're trying to find your audience, it can tell you where to look for it and how to look like you belong there.

LLMs can't write your book for you. They can't have a voice, they can't have a message, they can't produce artistry.

But if you want to be an artist, and you want to put in the hard work of *BECOMING* an artist? LLM can make that hard work more effective. Lots of ways.

As a writer, it does a lot for me. It does more sub-professional labor for me than I can find volunteers for, for less money than I'd have to pay for pizza and beer to get my friends to do it.

It makes the jobs of the professionals I still need and still have to hire and pay for work easier.

Is it preventing a bunch of people who want to write from learning to write? Yes.

Is it smothering the market for self-published authors trying to find an audience and a market? Gods, yes.

Are CEOs drooling over the idea of replacing professional writers & artists with unskilled labor? Yes.

Obvious question receives dozens of obvious answers, pathological troll decides to piss off everyone he admires:

Is it a good tool for *writing*? Hells no. Is it a good tool for *writers*? It's an amazing tool for writers as long as you don't let it do your writing for you.

So... what you're saying is, it isn't just women who should think carefully before choosing the bear?

I don't, and I rarely use them except for... special circumstances... but it's a professional skill I need to develop, and on an artistic level, there are things about my playstyle that I want to promote commercially.

Yeah. You know, I might wish that WotC would have stopped reinventing the entire damn game... on a version of the rules I liked better... but I think it's probably still a good thing that they've settled on a more iterative approach to their systems and worldbuilding.

1x1 is a holy rune. I've never seen a Nazi using it, and I have one tattooed on my body.

2x2... take care not to mistake it for ᛟ. Nazis usually add the wings; non-Nazis usually don't.

Nazis use more crosses than Norse runes, but we only call those symbols of hate when they're on fire.

You're damn right.