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    Hi everyone.

    Hail and well-met DanGreen Good to have you here. Leap on in and enjoy!
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    Got told AI did a better job than me.

    "Fudge Them!" would not have had the same impact...
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    Hello All

    Hail and well-met PinkerPunk Good to have you here
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    Hello

    Hail and well-met mcc1789 Good to have you here
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    What inspired you to write?

    As a child, I had a few issues. A therapist asked me to write down what was going on in my head. 50 years on and I'm still doing it. Though not with a therapist now
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    Howdy

    Hail and well-met Tuesday Good to have you here. Leap on in and enjoy.
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    Hey so our production team talked about this...

    I'd ask them to show you their reasoning. They may [or may not] be right. It could be that there is a beat or tone in the writing that needs to be fixed and as writers we are too involved to see it. I am most worried about the word "sell" Surely, if only to stroke a writer's ego it should...
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    Careful with your research

    Where I work, we know people are going to use LLMs to "help" their research, so they are asked to include the prompts they used. That way [it is hoped] we can see their critical thinking in action. Also as an extension to the plagiarism software that we also use, there is a feature that reverse...
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    Hi all!!

    Hail and well-met Evan Good to have you here.
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    I was just in the process of kicking a nasty hobbit and thought I'd drop in...

    Hail and well-met Perished Palantir [aka Martin] Good to have you here. The League of Gentlemen is a great film! And there is a remake in the works. https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/dexter-fletcher-tackling-the-league-of-gentlemen-remake-1236353876/
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    Does anyone know where I can get stats for city populations in years past?

    I'd say this would be a good use of AI. The information is probably out there, so let ChatGPT [other LLMs are available] do the legwork. Just make sure to check the sources it is citing. It might take a couple of tweaks to the prompt to get you what you want.
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    cultural differences

    Have a look at the works of David and Leigh Eddings [especially the Riven Codex]. They have fallen out of fashion over the years [for several reasons]. Their entire Belgariad world was a riff of different real-world cultures with a unifying mythos of Gods and magic.* There are takes on...
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    Stepping out of my comfort zone

    Hail and well-met Chukwuemeka C. Vincent Good to have you here Leap on in and enjoy!
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    Hi, nice to meet you all!

    Hail and well-met AlexS Good to have you here Leap on in and enjoy!
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    I just wanted to vent about something dumb real quick.

    Memory Companies like Corsair used to sell a SSD switching kit. It had the software, a little hardware and a cable that let you swap/clone an SSD. I haven't done it myself but know people that have.
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