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This is the cool stuff I come here to read. Very interesting!

Honestly? I'd crank out the fictional settings I've been tinkering with for a long time (one a military-political science fiction setting, the other a dark fantasy one).

Part of the problem is that I tend to think and create visually, so I don't feel writing really captures either very well. I can picture, in my head, how I want to visually frame the most enthralling or emotional moments... but translating them to words never seems to capture it. So an AGI that could produce the media from my imagination on-demand is pretty much a dream come true.

Really glad I'm not the first to come here and say this. We're "firing" programs now? Come on.

I have actually heard the "original person" complaining about this... but the original person is also the kind of person who wants a picture-perfect ocean view every single day. Wind turbines? Visual pollution. Ships passing by? Visual pollution. Their neighbor has too many holiday decorations up? Visual pollution.

They just genuinely expect the rest of civilization around them to comply to their demands for a fantasy-perfect oceanside existence.

This is the problem I have as well. With a group new to D&D, it's not so bad - they're likely to take creatures which are cool, but not necessarily stealthiest or most situationally-fitting. It's okay to have the bandit ask "...wait, why is a raven this far into a giant underground mine?"

Then you have the veteran players who have invisible, indefinite, sometimes incorporeal familiars... the most egregious was one who would cast through his nigh-undetectable familiar, making many encounters moot as the familiar could just ping down stuff without ever being spotted in return.

I've been here since that time, and I'm pretty sure your guide to the Fediverse was a huge help in understanding how the Fediverse works. Thank you very much for it.

Politics-wise, I still frankly see some frankly rather alarming takes on here, but that just makes me more committed to building this up to be a better place. I'm certainly glad to see another friend here as well!

...and thus became fodder for Imperial Japan what-if wankery everywhere.

The nose and cockpit section of the fuselage is on display in the National Air and Space Museum in Virginia. "Other parts" are preserved in storage, although it is unclear if they mean the remaining fuselage, engine, and wings, or if those were destroyed following examination.

Well, that's an interesting question.

1. So this is frankly the easiest part. It wouldn't take much to design a flight suit that fits these requirements. In fact, for bonus points, they could probably put together a flight suit that would protect against supersonic flight and at sub-orbital altitudes. It wouldn't be much for shimmying down chimneys in, but like, you could get up and walk in it. Most likely flight controls would be primarily by neural interface.
2. Very doable. The stack would have to get stuffed into the sleigh during travel.
3. Now, this much is very doable. It's going to be somewhat larger than the typically-depicted "Santa sleigh", and not particularly stable in flight. But with some computer-controlled thrust-vectoring thermal jets - the same propulsion technology used in most VTOL aircraft - a flying "sleigh" could be accomplished.
4. This, on the other hand, is trickier. Reindeer definitely exist, and with some neuroelectronic surgery could even be given implants that'd make them tolerant of flight. But physically, the air velocity, low pressure, and temperature are still going to be very poor for Reindeer, and building each a flight suit with life support would probably make them too heavy. So I'm going to cheat and say, in fact, that they instead produce nine vaguely reindeer-shaped flight pods that are anchored to the sleigh by a high-tensility harness. In this way, various flight systems could be offset into the 'reindeer' modules.
5. This is actually pretty easy. Just strap a light to the front of one.

Okay, so we've got our sleigh, Santa, and reindeer (kinda). What about bonus stuff?

• Well, 'Santa' is a person, so talking to children (and eating cookies and milk!) are pretty easy.
• Getting into the house... well, if he can get out of the flight suit, it's probably doable.
• With considerable AI assistance, Santa could theoretically institute a digital analysis network that analyzes kids based on all available recorded data. It'd not be foolproof (and also viewed, in-universe, as a huge government overreach and civil rights violation). But it's doable.

This is actually a pretty big endeavor, as you're calling in some fairly high-end engineering firms for the flight modules. A lot of it is going to need to be adapted from high-end flight systems. But it is doable.

There's one big problem though: For all this effort, Santa is still bound to one world... and humanity is firmly an interstellar species in this setting. Getting Santa to go faster-than-light? That's a whole different question.

I don't know if it's something about the genetic or just the coloring, but voids always look like they're super fit.

This is a big thing killing my interaction with Lemmy as well. I want to like it, but I drop into a discussion thread and the top-engaged/boosted comments are spicy and almost designed to promote maximum anger. And I feel like, "Do I really, really want to spend significant time writing out a deeper comment to engage with this community...?"

Definitely enjoyed the first one, didn't notice any problems with it myself. What was remarkable to me, is that he manages to make the three-dimensional combat easily follow-able, something I see a lot of authors struggle with.

Especially the politics on here. I've seen some wild takes going completely unquestioned.

I have no medical background, but...

"[Patient in room 4B] has a urinary tract infection with Methicillin-resistant Staph now, on top of the massive pulmonary embolism post"... surgery, I assume? Not sure about the AB. Second sentence I don't get, but third is "...time to talk with Next of Kin about Do Not Resucitate. Will be burying them if they don't start recovering soon."

That pretty close?

It took me a few re-reads to track all the relationships between the proper nouns in this, but I think I've got most of the relationships pretty figured out now. With that in mind, a couple questions:

• Did the apparent 'death' of the Al'Modian deities have any significant cosmological impact in the world? Beyond the purely social ones you discuss here, I mean. Any major changes in 'how things worked'?
• As various Al'Modian nobility broke from the empire (either out of personal vendetta or pragmatism), how were they viewed by their newfound allies? Conversely, how did they view their new allies? Did they fear they might be turned on, or was it a fairly ironclad alliance?

Hah, fair enough. I thought it was just a joke about the "Ohio is terrible" memes, but that works too.

Easiest answer: Someone deployed a bioweapon. Maybe a "rabid runner zombie"-style bioweapon, or something that induces psychopathy. They're not a critical threat, as long as the wall is watched. But with civilization kind of broken down, nobody wants to risk a real outbreak.

So, what's up with the Ohio Exclusion Zone? I mean, Ohio is a rough place, but it's not that rough...!

I feel like this is one of those rules that's only really necessary if you have a player who cheeses it like that. If a player discovers it and uses it in moderation, well, that's less likely to break things. If you have a player who builds their character to exploit it...

That is a good firm look of "Man, I want attention, but I am far too lazy to ask for it. So I'm just going to flop, because I know you're a big sucker for it, aren't you?"

Floofy kitty? Black kitty? Check. Rolly kitty? Check!

This is a good kitty.

Eh. That seems more like typical out-of-control jargon and labeling ideology than any admin malfeasance. It's unfortunately something I've seen a few times - I had several debates with people who likewise insisted that even using it in the sense of 'to slow something down' was improper, or that using potentially insulting words in any context caused "harm". It's a mindset that goes beyond any Reddit issues.