Quality explanation.

Computer needs practice to get program right.

I’m betting a corporate slavery jihad of environmental degradation.

Look out, San Diego!

What am I seeing here?

It’s a really strong lock. It has to be.

might drink and drive gallop

Or the AI on shopping websites saying “I’d recommend this model…”

We don’t have a pronoun for “this non-human unit”. LLMs are marketed as conversational, so they need to conform to the limitations of English.

One could argue that “we” or “one” would be more appropriate, but that would sound stilted in many contexts.

I’d prefer linguistic markers to distinguish between people and machines, but we haven’t gotten there yet.

Don’t do catnip. Not even once.

The meh humour cheapens the tiddies.

Without a fan he will become uncomfortable and begin to smell

I really like the treatment of metahumans in the earlier editions. I really like orcs getting the short end of the stick in terms of lifespan and appearance. It makes a dark setting even darker.

no way to verify it isn’t beyond “trust me bro” and I don’t trust them

If the verification service is structured like oauth, then the request could be passed through the browser as signed plaintext. You could verify that the requesting site is only passing a minimum age request to the service. That would be as straightforward as viewing the interaction in your browser’s debug tooling.

If you say that you don’t trust the signature, and that it could be used to smuggle identifying information across, there’s a couple of ways to deal with that: open source and audited provider governed by legislation; information theory that would show personally identifying information wouldn’t fit into a field of that size; and “personal auditing” where you can try throwing data at the service to see if you can trick it into accepting invalid input (that really goes with the previous point, because the only field you can usefully vary is the signature).

I can’t speak to Germany’s system, but there’s no need for a site to tell the verification service its identity. If it just asks “is the current session authenticated to someone over 16” and gets an answer back. Identity of both parties remains secret.

And no real humour. I realize it’s in the eye of the beholder, but this stuff is just meh with tiddies.

I fucking love Shadowrun.

My group doesn’t like magic with their cyberpunk dystopias, so I’m stuck playing Cyberpunk RED. Which is fine. I’ve picked up a bunch of the fun non-magical stuff from SR, and borrowed a few of the megacorps.

We’re still having fun, but I still want metahumans and magic.