Brand? Bic.

Not the Boo Box!

The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms, the Giant Claw, The Horror of Party Beach, Them!, The Deadly Mantis and others would like a word about how their death counts and destruction are overlooked. So would the various American Godzilla movies, and Cloverfield.

The biggest difference is that the Army moves fast in US movies, where the JSDF is always waiting until the last possible moment.

I would absolutely edit my timeline at several key points that would deanonymize me further if I pointed them out. But I do wish certain specific and immutable things could be different.

Oh no. You’ve brought back memories I don’t want to think about it.

FFS, why did you make me think of floppies that weren’t FAT?

Back when common decency mattered, before 9/11,

I still love telnet.

Nope. RCA > S-Video, HDMI, or FireWire. Any of the three would have worked at the time. And many VCRs had either HDMI, VGA, or S-Video out.

@contrefeu@akko.contref.eu Sorry, I don’t speak French, but I’m from New Jersey. I know the history of the Landlord’s Game. I assure you that Atlantic City is just as dystopian as it seems in the game. It’s a theme-park version of a city, and there’s a major attempt to hide all the problems that exist here in New Jersey. The game was never meant to be fun, and I think the house rules which make it less cut-throat and put money back into the hands of players ruin the spirit of the game.

I’d love to go somewhere genuinely warm right now. Normally it’s okay though.

Crafters are definitely up there, overall - but I think wargamers might beat them. Hundreds to thousands of models, paints, brushes, terrain, carrying cases, books - it adds up to a hoard of epic proportions. That’s just personal experience though. Lego fans can also get to be out there, and TCG players.

Found the prompt this time! Admittedly, that’s because I edited it from a ChatGPT response to the prompt:

Describe a cyborg version of the Egyptian God Sekhmet as a Power Rangers villain.

Sekhmet is depicted as a towering, fearsome figure, her body a menacing blend of advanced cybernetic technology and the primal power of a lioness. Her head is an imposing mix of a lioness and a robotic entity, with sharp, metallic features and glowing, fiery red eyes that burn with an intense, unrelenting rage. Her mane is made of flowing, molten-like metal tendrils that pulse with a fiery glow, giving her an almost volcanic appearance. Sekhmet’s body is covered in sleek, dark armor that glows with lines of molten orange, resembling lava flowing through cracks in the earth. Her armor is reinforced with layered, overlapping plates that resemble the scales of a serpent, providing her with both protection and flexibility. Her chest plate is adorned with a glowing, red energy core, shaped like a sun disk, symbolizing her destructive, solar power. Her arms are muscular and heavily armored, ending in massive, clawed hands that can extend into deadly, energy-infused blades. These claws glow with a fiery intensity, capable of slicing through even the toughest materials. Her legs are powerful and digitigrade, resembling the hind legs of a lion, allowing her to move with terrifying speed and agility. Each step she takes leaves scorch marks on the ground, a testament to her overwhelming heat and power.

I’d say the generator hit the brief.

This makes me feel nostalgic for a time and place I’ve never seen before. I love it.

Wow. If I was running any kind of horror RPG, I would definitely want to use those for monsters!

Yep. Definitely suits his role as a sun god. And the whole “dark sky/bright sun” thing was a detail I absolutely used to describe his descent on Angel Grove.

And I swear, that’s a codpiece under his tights. Because I sure didn’t prompt it with anything that wasn’t strictly PG.

Nope, just to generate the images for the named villains that aren’t canon Ranger characters. I have a tabletop game (mostly virtual, but nominally hybrid) that I run weekly using the Essence20 system. I use these as visual aids during the fights and encounters.

I have to admit, as much as this looks extremely cool, I didn’t plan for the Egyptian deity Ra to be an Evil Tommy, but the helmet has led me in that direction.

I’ve missed Sodaplay and Sodaconstructor!

I would say that I have used an LLM for productive tasks unrelated to work. I run a superhero RPG weekly, and have been using Egyptian & north African myths as the origin for my monsters of the week. The LLM has taken my research and the monster-creating phase of my prep from being multiple hours to sometimes under one hour - I do confirm everything the LLM tells me with either Wikipedia or a museum. I can also use an LLM to generate exemplary images of the various monsters for my players, as a visual aid.

That means I have more time to focus on the “game” elements - like specific combats, available maps, and the like. I appreciate the acceleration it provides by being a combined natural-language search engine and summary tool. Frankly, if Ask Jeeves (aka ask(dot)com) was still good at parsing questions and providing clear results, I would be just as happy using it.