ProfessorOwl_PhD [any]

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  • Article 3, part 8 (b) and © are the most clearly breached sections:

    8.The indiscriminate use of weapons to which this Article applies is prohibited. Indiscriminate use is any placement of such weapons:

    (a) which is not on, or directed against, a military objective. In case of doubt as to whether an object which is normally dedicated to civilian purposes, such as a place of worship, a house or other dwelling or a school, is being used to make an effective contribution to military action, it shall be presumed not to be so used; or

    (b) which employs a method or means of delivery which cannot be directed at a specific military objective; or
    © which may be expected to cause incidental loss of civilian life, injury to civilians, damage to civilian objects, or a combination thereof, which would be excessive in relation to the concrete and direct military advantage anticipated.





  • This is completely standard, Paizo have always given the rules for free and made you pay for the stories and lore.
    It’s not even a starter set, it’s the playtest, so you already need to be familiar with Pathfinder 2e in order to use the rules. Definitely not a place for a group to test the waters, they’re looking for serious dweebs to obsess over the maths and mechanics so they can refine it - the playtest adventure(s) are just playgrounds for them to do that it.





  • I think the issue is that really, this is research for research’s sake, and has no truly useful destination. In of itself it’s incredibly wasteful, able to only predict 60 frames of content from of 40 year old game, but the potential use of predicting frames for a game without using an engine is… What, exactly? Making games that are far more process intensive for the same results? Simulating real environments based off already existing images, which we can already do with those same images?
    We have limited resources and manpower to pour into research, but we’re using it to have computers do what people already do for fun, instead of concentrating it on applications that could free up humans to do those same things with much less effort. Each of those frames used more electricity than most people use in their entire lives, but there’s no potential in it to actually improve those lives. In a world with limitless clean energy and no major geopolitical issues it could be nice to have these kinds of treats, but we don’t live in that world, so it’s just a massive waste of resources that could be used to meaningfully improve the lives of billions of people around the world.