Coopr8

The greatest twist of all, all the friends are actually five generations of the same line of chronomancers all on their 18th birthday coming of age quest to seek wisdom and power from their ancestors. Disturbingly, they all have an ancestral patron in the squad.

why should anyone post a comment?

["While individual women have spoken out before about forced birth control, the practice is far more widespread and systematic than previously known, according to an AP investigation based on government statistics, state documents and interviews with 30 ex-detainees, family members and a former detention camp instructor. The campaign over the past four years in the far west region of Xinjiang is leading to what some experts are calling a form of “demographic genocide.”

The state regularly subjects minority women to pregnancy checks, and forces intrauterine devices, sterilization and even abortion on hundreds of thousands, the interviews and data show. Even while the use of IUDs and sterilization has fallen nationwide, it is rising sharply in Xinjiang."]( https://apnews.com/article/ap-top-news-international-news-weekend-reads-china-health-269b3de1af34e17c1941a514f78d764c#:~:text=The Chinese government is taking,majority to have more children)

To clarify, do I think the Uigers are being massacred at population scale? I don’t know. Do I think they are having their culture forceably erradicated and medical population control forced on them, and intentional han population being moved into the region to make them into a population majority to take away any regional political or social influence the Uigers might have? Absolutely.

You’re absolutely right about sattelites, that’s why we have extensive evidence: https://www.tearline.mil/public_page/xinjiang-nighttime-1

Many people said the same of Berlin, Hamburg, and other German cities while Jews were kept as slaves in factories and trained out to camps to be gassed. A nice looking city says nothing about the treatment of minorities. In fact many of the “nicest cities” in the world were built on the blood and bones of indigenous inhabitants.

It would incite specific nostalgia, and avoid the headache inducing slop-vibe which I still don’t fully understand myself but is definitely a real thing, having generated plenty of images myself.

I’m not completely against AI, I just hadn’t seen it creeping into this community much, so figured a challenge was worth the conversation.

There are litterally thousands of these “dark fantasy” generated memes that could be reposted, and that ways lies a poison pill to community engagement.

We good with AI slop then?

Brilliant! What book is this from?

Windat

If only I were the king of the world!

I think what you are arguing for is hardcoding requitement for signatures with an “age appropriateness” ranking into the OS. How does this change the current situation where adult sites and apps are legally required to have an age verification popup/warning? Whether signature based or graphically based, what is at issue here is age verification which means referring to some “repository of truth” outside the will of the user. The problem is that the effect of this is to link government ID directly to web traffick, as to truly verify age requires verifying identity meaning abolishing anonymity on the web and enabling complete tracking of dissent.

I could see a version of what you are describing akin to the way physical cryptographic keys are used to manage DRM on high end enterprise software, where identity/age verification would need to be done by the hardware vendor and not the software/site, the problem with that however is the aftermarket and multiple-user devices. You could say that the “age key” would be a hardware device sold to adults using physical ID akin to spirits or tobacco, something like a SIM Card but preferably with NFC rather than having to be installed in the device. “Adult Access” would then be enabled on sign-in by scanning the “age key”, enabling onboard software to serve software and sites that don’t have an “all ages signature”.

Honestly as I write this, it isn’t the worst solution, the main thing would be keeping the Age Key as an interchangeable, replaceable device that only interacts with the OS and isn’t referenced by other software, so it doesnt just become another Digital ID proxie.

Nice, shame the assistant isn’t on Windows.

Don’t go giving them ideas. That way leads to Digital ID at birth, which should be avoided at all costs.

Our party uses Roll20, but mostly due to sunk cost of content, it works fine.

We tried Foundry VTT but from.time to time there were connectivity issues. I’d say be sure your connection is very stable and you understand how to work your network/firewall/proxy settings before hard committing to Foundry. That said, it is a pretty nice system overall.

Now a couple of options you should be aware of are AboveVTT which is an extension that converts D&D Beyond into a full VTT people really like, good if you already rely on D&D Beyond.

Then there is the FOSS option MapTool, which is a full featured self-host VTT akin to Foundry, but totally free. If you like this kind of projected don’t mind community built documentation, this is a legitimate contender.