JohnBrownsBussy2 [she/her, they/them]

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Cake day: March 24th, 2023

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  • The intrusion of capitalism into sleep is a final frontier of absolute exploitation. Why work 8 hours a day when you can work 24 hours a day? Why use vast banks of computer servers to run AI models when you can capture the most efficient and powerful ‘computer’ to ever exist: the human brain. Why provide for housing and recreation when you can lock people in permanent dream states, where they can provide intellectual labor and live in dreamworlds while their physical brain is kept alive through an IV drip.

    I am skeptical that any technology trying to directly interface with the slumbering subconscious could work, but I have no doubt that such attempts would be damaging to human health, and would be used to push material imiseration to impossible heights.
















  • Hasbro has no clue what to do with the game since their games-as-service, closed ecosystem plan went kaput after they backed down on the OGL revision (which would have been necessary to shut out other VTTs and ensure player & DM subscriptions). I think the recent lay offs of senior people in the D&D related teams suggests this as well. This article doesn’t seem well sourced at all, but a shake-up would be very interesting at this point.

    Side-stepping some of the speculation and impact on the traditional market/fanbase, I am curious about the interest in D&D in China, as a Tencent acquisition would presumably make it much easier to market the game there. From the searching I’ve done, there doesn’t seem to be a ton of interest in D&D, and there’s no official translation into Mandarin. The movie didn’t do great at the Chinese box office, although Baldur’s Gate 3 did fine? Obviously, if Tencent does put together a subsidiary to design a version for the Chinese market, I’m not sure if they’d want to start by translating/adapting existing books or using the ruleset to design a bespoke version (either with a fantasy setting or based on relevant Chinese IP.)


  • Saw this post in my federate feed, so not a lemmygrad native but thought it was interesting. Depending on how confrontational you want to be:

    • You could have the paper premise be on “both sides” of the conflict making claims. I.e., “both Ukrainian-aligned and Russian-aligned accuse each other of genocide during the 2014-present day conflict in Ukraine/Donbas. How do they justify those claims and how do those claims hold up against international law concerning genocide?”
    • You could just make it more focused on the 2014-2022 period. “Did the violence in the Donbas in the post-Maidan, pre-invasion period rise to the level of genocide?”

    IDK about your professor, but most professors should be accepting of such a research paper as long as you present a “neutral” outlook as opposed to a polemical one.