Reposted by Salty Moon Goddess (she/her)
So, though she passed a few years ago, here's to Jennell Jaquays!
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Jennell Jaquays, Who Unlocked Fantasy Dungeons for Gamers, Dies at 67
She created scenarios with myriad paths for Dungeons & Dragons, levels for video games like Quake II, and art that invited novices to try role-playing games.
![Encounter wrote that the use of AI in the community has sped things up to the point where it has become overwhelming to track human-led projects, and people using AI have taken existing, human-led AI projects and have created “hostile forks” of them, where open-source code written by humans is taken and “finished” by AI: “These kinds of hostile forks put little to no effort into meaningfully contributing to existing projects, tearing apart our community fabric.” Encounter added, “anyone with an AI subscription can manage to create a port or static recompilation that functions at a basic level […] While community members put in the effort to decompile a game, opportunists have frequently raced to release a half-baked, barely-functional port from it.”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:uypytbqy5palhmhbvvezgrww/bafkreife2edakbopwh7j77uxygurkeflnlnruu2xrvktyfixuyh2ndxg34)
