It’s harder for female characters because it always wants to add giant gazongas, but eventually you can get it to generate a normal looking character.

I would put phrases like “small-breasted woman” or at one point, in frustration, “small-breasted, and by this I mean SMALL, not LARGER THAN HER FRICKIN’ HEAD YOU HALLUCINATING DIGITAL PARROT!” into the prompts.

I always got breasts that were a sizable fraction of the head size. Often larger than the head size. Except for that last frustrated prompt. That one got me huge breasts with parrots sitting on them.

This is what happens when you think your “AI” is “neutral”. It isn’t. It’s filled with all the biases of society, only with a patina of neutrality slathered on top.

I played Star Realms with a student I’m tutoring. And I usually play one or more games of Xiangqi every week.

I’ve never seen it. I’m sure it can happen in theory, but it doesn’t seem to be an issue in practice.

I got them from Taobao. I can’t imagine that they’re only available in China, though.

Apologies in advance for the quality. I suck at videography even more than I suck at photography.

Would “hit” not be defined by sales? Do we have sales figures?

… by my testing seem to be more than sufficiently random …

In style they’re very similar to ancient Chinese d18s, so … it could be that these are actually Chinese in origin.

Nobody cares “how it works” and “what really goes on”. They care about the outcomes.

And the outcomes are a festering pile of half-truths sculpted to meet a pre-defined narrative.

If I open up any news site anywhere in the world and read what it has to say on subjects I know something about, it takes little to no time to start racking up a large count of egregious errors of fact. And note here: errors of fact, not simplifications, etc. Outright incorrect information.

So when I extrapolate my findings in my own areas of expertise into the areas I lack expertise in, I have zero confidence that what I’m being told is correct or truthful.

So it doesn’t matter how things work. It doesn’t matter what really goes on. Whatever goes on and however it works, the output is factually incorrect and narrative-furthering. Apparently being “one of the most self-critical professions there is” isn’t helping.

Time to change how things work and what goes on, no?

I have no need for the sheer number of dice I have, but I have desire.

I got my literal gem dice (as in machined form semiprecious stones) because they were gorgeous. The same applies to my dichroic prism dice. I have my metal sets because I just like the feel of them; the heft in the hand and the satisfying *thunk* as they hit the dice tray from out the dice tower. I have several sets of dice because the colours appealed to me. (I tend to give these out to new players as I introduce them.) I have speciality dice (FUDGE/Fate dice, various Chinese dice, etc.) for the times I need them. And in the end it winds up with me having way more dice than I strictly speaking need.

But I regret none of them.