Mnemnosyne

Cool. Results of this will be publicly owned via the government, not handed over to a private corporation to make profit off of, right?

Expanding the court requires the approval of Congress, which Biden won't get.

If they rule presidents are above the law, he could (and perhaps even should) simply kill them himself without any possible retaliation, but seeing as he'd never actually do that they don't have to worry about it.

I hope it's not too late, but I do fear that Republicans have been allowed to do whatever they want with no consequences for too long.

Come, Nerevar, come, and vote for me. Together we will change all of ~~Morrowind~~ Ghana.

This is actually what I look forward to most in gaming in the next decade or two. The implementation of AI that can be assigned goals and motivations instead of scripted to every detail. Characters in games with whom we as players can have believable conversations that the devs didn't have to think of beforehand. If they can integrate LLM type AI into games successfully, it'll be a total game changer in terms of being able to accommodate player choice and freedom.

I'd say I need to know enough to play a character that grew up in that world. Which means I need to understand the things that a person who grew up in the world would know. That includes things like:

• The biome and general weather conditions of the region I grew up in.
• Any particularly notable features of my region and its society.
• The local laws, structure of government, how much respect or obedience I must pay to my betters.
• General history of the last 25-45 years that affected my region of the world (increase timespan by 50 to 100 years if I am an elf or other long-lived race). This need only be the highlights and things that directly affected my people, not all minutiae.
• What gods are worshipped, and how are they worshipped. For example, does an average farmer pray exclusively to the god of farming, or do they pray to whichever God is appropriate for the situation they're praying about?
• Who are the most famous people in the world and why are they famous?
• Who are the most powerful known people in my region and how powerful are they?
• What kind of creatures are considered common annoyances, and what kinds are considered serious threats, to villages, towns, and cities respectively?
• Demographics of my region - what percentage of the population is demihuman, what percentage is of the monstrous humanoid races, etc.
• What races are considered normal in my region, and which are tolerated, which are reviled, which are kill-on-sight: basically, who are the people of my region racist against?

However, there are things people commonly write in homebrew world documents that I do not need to know. These include:

• Creation of the world and its gods.
• History of godly struggles.
• History of kingdoms and empires that existed more than a couple elven lifetimes ago.
• Geography of regions not immediately adjacent to my home region.
• Lineage of Queens and nobles, etc.
• Cosmology of the planes.

Some of these may be needed for specific characters, but most characters don't need this information because they would not know it.

I don't know my Greek mythology that well, but my instinct is Aphrodite. She wouldn't want her champion to be ugly, so she would make me beautiful (but not as beautiful as her).

Not a good damn thing, unless everyone with a higher standard of living than I do has already sacrificed enough to bring them down to my level. If I was anywhere near the top standards of living then I would be more willing to go first. But I am not going to be tricked into giving things up on my own, or even as a sizable group, while some individuals and corporations are continuing to make issues worse.

Yeah, people are too damn cowardly about the dumbest things.

Lol, if I was Gabe Newell, I'd troll everyone by, in about a year, removing this feature suddenly and without fanfare, so everyone's playtime becomes public again.

Yeah...I definitely believe in the principle of being innocent until proven guilty, and that should apply in all facets of life. I know legally that only restrains the courts and government, but in my opinion, it should apply for everyone - no one should be fired or otherwise treated as though they're guilty before it has been proven.

I'm not sure if they're more likely to become corrupt, but if they do they can be worse than other organizations. Religions have all sorts of special legal protection, and adherents to them usually find coming to the conclusion that they and their representatives have done wrong to be a much higher bar to clear.

So even if not more likely to become corrupt, they present a particularly large hazard if and when they do.

Only if no one challenges it, which is a big problem.

Patents are supposed to be given for new ideas, and also a certain degree of non-obviousness.

In the event that something has been done before by others, it should be open and shut to challenge the patent, but it still costs money. So it's often easier not to, and the patent doesn't get challenged.

I would hope that the response would not simply be 'ok welcome back' at that point, just as it would not be for the UK were they to ask the same from the EU.