u/dutchiesweets

I see a lot of folks here say things like “publishing is dead” and “traditional writing is dead” and how AI books are the future. And these people seem happy about it!

Now I don’t know one way or another, but what I do know is, if traditional publishing IS dead, I think a lot of AI writers are also in for massive disappointment.

If anyone can sit in front of their computer for an hour and generate a ready-to-be-published novel, and can get it to market… I really need you to think through the economics of this.

The market will be entirely flooded with AI work at a rate far higher than books have ever been published in the past.

The ability for ANY of you to be noticed, gather readers, make any amount of money, or grow a career out of this, will GREATLY DIMINISH. Because supply and demand is very real.

I don’t see a lot of new readers popping up. But I see a TON of AI writers getting into the game. Y’all - who is going to read all this new content?

If you’re purely in it for the love of the generation, then this doesn’t apply to you. But most people I know write (or I guess generate) because they want other people to experience their work.

Y’all say publishing is gatekeeping AND THATS THE ENTIRE POINT OF IT. You want a high barrier to entry so that what gets published is (GENERALLY) a cut above what’s being self published or out on the forums. And this (is supposed to) signal to customers some level of quality. People think their AI writing is indistinguishable from human writing, but I read a ton of both and I promise you, there are tells. And I’m not even in the industry. You think the slush readers at major publishers can’t pick out a lazy AI sentence? They absolutely can.

If you tear down the gatekeeping and the barrier to entry, please just consider how it is you actually plan to gain readers, when anyone and their toddler can create the exact same product you’re hawking in under a day and minimal effort.

I’m just posting this here in light of the latest “ban” announcement. I’ve been an arena standard player since Covid and I’ve been slowing down my play a lot these past few months, I haven’t even opened the app in a few weeks, and I used to play daily.

I’m just so tired of how wizards manages standard. I’m actually okay with the 3 year standard and the frequent set releases. But their inability or lack of desire to ban problem cards is so frustrating.

Now maybe there’s politics behind why they can’t ban badgermole cub, idk.

But what about Stormchasers Talent? It’s insane value on a one drop and it leads to repetitive end game loops that other fair decks really can’t beat.

And everything else is hyper fast aggro or ramp spew.

Wizards also seems incapable of printing answers we need - in past years we had Stax pieces to force slower games, but these don’t exist anymore.

You can’t win off removal alone, so they hyper fast ramp decks are all we’re left with.

Wizards, ban your problematic cards. The massive card pool doesn’t matter if the same decks are so dominant they feel unbeatable on the latter. And your horrible arena economy means people will just play the meta decks instead of experimenting.

I personally would ban:

Stormchaser’s Talent
Badgermole Cub
Auroboroid
Stock Up

I anticipate people will say I’m just whining or need to get good. But at this point I don’t really care! I’m so tired of playing against the same cards day in and day out that I’ve stopped playing. And I haven’t spent money on this joke of an app for over 2 years.

I’m sure Wizards has some data that shows people like me are in the vast minority of players but I’m putting all this here just to get my voice out there.

SOME OF US WANT MORE BANS!!! Please for the love of Blech, ban some cards.

I might log on today to salt rope the first Stormchaser of Badgermole player I can find.

Have a nice day.

I was curious about the nature of reading habits of the folks here!

I've been trying to read more but find it hard to make time. I've managed to finish three books in the past 12 months, but one of them was quite short.

If you don't mind sharing:

- How many books have you read in the past 2 years? Audio books count! Short stories and fan fiction do not; I'm curious more about novel readers, not necessarily total amount you've read.

- Any title recommendations?

- What is your AI writing output? Have you generated one or more novels with it?

- How satisfied are you with the quality of your AI writing output?

NOTE - I will not comment or respond to any posts here, unless explicitly asked by that poster! I'm not here to praise or judge anyone, just curious. And I ask that responders in the comments are equally respectful of other people.

Thanks!

Hi, I'm having some trouble with my graphics card - I think.

To be clear, I'm a novice when it comes to computers - I really know very little about them.

I have an Eluktronics gaming laptop with an NVIDIA RTX 2070 graphics card. I've had it for about 5 years now, and it used to run games like Uncharted 4 and RDR 2 quite well. Not on ultra settings, but mid-high settings with smooth gameplay.

Over the past year or so though my computers ability to play games has taken a severe downturn. It can't run games like GR Wildlands without massive slowdown. Even my PS2 emulator is chugging.

The graphics card seems to be disabling itself. I've had the NVidia app crash multiple times, and my graphics card in device manager has error 31 come up - I've had to reinstall it multiple times.

I recently tried to redownload Uncharted 4, and I can't even get past loading the shaders without my entire machine restarting. When it restarts, the error 31 on my graphics card comes up again, and it tells me to reinstall it.

I've completely uninstalled and reinstalled the entire driver after a safe mode reboot using DDU, and while this helped the emulator issue, Uncharted 4 is still fucked.

I have also noticed that my GPU levels spike to 100 percent when installing Uncharted. The GPU temp also wavers between 70 and 90 depending. I take it that's high but I have no idea - and I'm not sure if it's always been like this. My computer HAS always had a very loud fan that runs constantly and that hasn't changed.

Any idea what's going on with my machine? Any tips? I'd love to be able to play games like Uncharted and run my emulator smoothly again!

I’ve been hearing a lot from AI writers here (and I do use it myself of course) about how it’s revolutionizing writing, changing the game, creating publishable level work at the push of a button.

But every time I try to use it, I get so frustrated because it’s writing quality, to me, is dog water.

I’ve read a lot of books, and most AI writing, no matter how someone tells me they prompt it and how much pride they have in their generated manuscript, feels suuuuper AI written. I don’t think I’ve read anything with subtext or subtlety.

So, if you have a sample of some generated writing you think is actually a cut above standard AI output, I’m dying to read it. Post a link or DM me if you’re comfortable! I won’t provide feedback unless asked.

I’m just really curious if this is the tool people say it is, if I’m misapplying it, or if y’all just don’t have great taste when it comes to prose (shots fired).