Annoying Questions I'd Like Answered...
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I choose to ask why I'm restricted to the paths.
Cuz apparently I gotta break this down for you dense motherfuckers- I'm trans feminine nonbinary. My pronouns are they/them.
Winnah wrote:No, No. 'Prak' is actually a Thri Kreen impersonating a human and roleplaying himself as a D&D character. All hail our hidden insect overlords.
FrankTrollman wrote:In Soviet Russia, cosmic horror is the default state.
You should gain sanity for finding out that the problems of a region are because there are fucking monsters there.
Because it's a thought experiment and you will be obliterated if you don't play along.
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How long are those sections?Maj wrote:You are barefoot and running for your life. The path you're on forks - to the left, the path turns to glowing hot embers. To the right, the path turns to Lego bricks.
Which do you choose?
Anyway I think I would try the hot embers. If I make it, chances are higher the thing I run away from wont follow me. (and the light is better)
Red_Rob wrote: I mean, I'm pretty sure the Mayans had a prophecy about what would happen if Frank and PL ever agreed on something. PL will argue with Frank that the sky is blue or grass is green, so when they both separately piss on your idea that is definitely something to think about.
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I'll take the embers, I've done that before. Or more specifically, I've walked through a campfire before.
I was at a family function, and my brother kept talking about how you could walk through a campfire and it wouldn't hurt, but he kept chickening out every time. So I walked through it to see if it hurt. It didn't...
I was at a family function, and my brother kept talking about how you could walk through a campfire and it wouldn't hurt, but he kept chickening out every time. So I walked through it to see if it hurt. It didn't...
In this moment, I am Ur-phoric. Not because of any phony god’s blessing. But because, I am enlightened by my int score.
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So what's the deal with New Math as proposed 40-50 years ago and why did it cause some people to ADAMANTIUM RAGE so very hard?
Josh Kablack wrote:Your freedom to make rulings up on the fly is in direct conflict with my freedom to interact with an internally consistent narrative. Your freedom to run/play a game without needing to understand a complex rule system is in direct conflict with my freedom to play a character whose abilities and flaws function as I intended within that ruleset. Your freedom to add and change rules in the middle of the game is in direct conflict with my ability to understand that rules system before I decided whether or not to join your game.
In short, your entire post is dismissive of not merely my intelligence, but my agency. And I don't mean agency as a player within one of your games, I mean my agency as a person. You do not want me to be informed when I make the fundamental decisions of deciding whether to join your game or buying your rules system.
Thank you to those who played. 
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As far as I can tell, New Math was more conceptual at lower levels, and math normally has a tendency to move from the concrete to the abstract. For this reason, teachers weren't as able to teach, and parents didn't understand it as well, so they couldn't assist their kids.
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As far as I can tell, New Math was more conceptual at lower levels, and math normally has a tendency to move from the concrete to the abstract. For this reason, teachers weren't as able to teach, and parents didn't understand it as well, so they couldn't assist their kids.
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So why did New Math get demonized as stupid participation-trophy passing hippies trying to dumb down our kids instead of mindless robot bureaucrats trying to ram eldritch maths down toddlers' mouths?
Josh Kablack wrote:Your freedom to make rulings up on the fly is in direct conflict with my freedom to interact with an internally consistent narrative. Your freedom to run/play a game without needing to understand a complex rule system is in direct conflict with my freedom to play a character whose abilities and flaws function as I intended within that ruleset. Your freedom to add and change rules in the middle of the game is in direct conflict with my ability to understand that rules system before I decided whether or not to join your game.
In short, your entire post is dismissive of not merely my intelligence, but my agency. And I don't mean agency as a player within one of your games, I mean my agency as a person. You do not want me to be informed when I make the fundamental decisions of deciding whether to join your game or buying your rules system.
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And if you're focusing on mathematical abstractions while not managing to impart the basics of arithmetic to children, lots of people are going to be upset with you.
Part of the issue was that the New Math was perceived as being a top-down imposition instead of something that parents perceived a need for. Another part was that it wasn't successful at its stated goals. And then it screwed up a system that people didn't perceive to be broken in the first place.
Part of the issue was that the New Math was perceived as being a top-down imposition instead of something that parents perceived a need for. Another part was that it wasn't successful at its stated goals. And then it screwed up a system that people didn't perceive to be broken in the first place.
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The Fray. Or the Tarnish.Chamomile wrote:Here's a naming question. I have this fictitious force that twists and corrupts everything it touches, spreading as an ominous fog. Within the fog are monstrous horrors and everything begins to decay. So basically it's Silent Hill, but contagious. I need a name for this thing, preferably something that's just a word but capitalized.
So, random question as I'm watching the Takei interview on the Daily Show-
Of the nationalities who the American government put into internment camps, were there ever any actual spies found on American soil spying for their home country?
(Not that it would in any way legitimize the practice of internment camps, I'm just curious as to where there was any validity to the fear which led to them)
Of the nationalities who the American government put into internment camps, were there ever any actual spies found on American soil spying for their home country?
(Not that it would in any way legitimize the practice of internment camps, I'm just curious as to where there was any validity to the fear which led to them)
Cuz apparently I gotta break this down for you dense motherfuckers- I'm trans feminine nonbinary. My pronouns are they/them.
Winnah wrote:No, No. 'Prak' is actually a Thri Kreen impersonating a human and roleplaying himself as a D&D character. All hail our hidden insect overlords.
FrankTrollman wrote:In Soviet Russia, cosmic horror is the default state.
You should gain sanity for finding out that the problems of a region are because there are fucking monsters there.
Well, yeah, of course there fucking were.
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For some context on that, remember Japan was fighting an especially nasty war, so that by 1944, 13% of Americans actually believed that all Japanese people should be exterminated. The New York Times ran articles on it.
It... wasn't a shining moment for America. But it could very easily have been much, much worse.
It... wasn't a shining moment for America. But it could very easily have been much, much worse.
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Huh. Interesting. Actual foreign spies caught during WW2 isn't something they really cover in the test preparation courses that are American schools.
Cuz apparently I gotta break this down for you dense motherfuckers- I'm trans feminine nonbinary. My pronouns are they/them.
Winnah wrote:No, No. 'Prak' is actually a Thri Kreen impersonating a human and roleplaying himself as a D&D character. All hail our hidden insect overlords.
FrankTrollman wrote:In Soviet Russia, cosmic horror is the default state.
You should gain sanity for finding out that the problems of a region are because there are fucking monsters there.
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A bit late, I know, but... is the path on the right MADE of LEGO's, or is it littered with LEGO bricks strewn about the floor? Because if it's the latter, I would chose the embers, every. Single. TIME.Maj wrote:You are barefoot and running for your life. The path you're on forks - to the left, the path turns to glowing hot embers. To the right, the path turns to Lego bricks.
Which do you choose?
Is this wretched demi-bee
Half asleep upon my knee
Some freak from a menagerie?
No! It's Eric, the half a bee
Half asleep upon my knee
Some freak from a menagerie?
No! It's Eric, the half a bee
EDIT DISREGARD THAT I SUCK COCKS
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He jumps like a damned dragoon, and charges into battle fighting rather insane monsters with little more than his bare hands and rather nasty spell effects conjured up solely through knowledge and the local plantlife. He unerringly knows where his goal lies, he breathes underwater and is untroubled by space travel, seems to have no limits to his actual endurance and favors killing his enemies by driving both boots square into their skull. His agility is unmatched, and his strength legendary, able to fling about a turtle shell big enough to contain a man with enough force to barrel down a near endless path of unfortunates.
--The horror of Mario
Zak S, Zak Smith, Dndwithpornstars, Zak Sabbath. He is a terrible person and a hack at writing and art. His cultural contributions are less than Justin Bieber's, and he's a shitmuffin. Go go gadget Googlebomb!
--The horror of Mario
Zak S, Zak Smith, Dndwithpornstars, Zak Sabbath. He is a terrible person and a hack at writing and art. His cultural contributions are less than Justin Bieber's, and he's a shitmuffin. Go go gadget Googlebomb!
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Maxus are you crazy?
DSMatticus wrote:Again, look at this fucking map you moron. Take your finger and trace each country's coast, then trace its claim line. Even you - and I say that as someone who could not think less of your intelligence - should be able to tell that one of these things is not like the other.
Kaelik wrote:I invented saying mean things about Tussock.
Evidently. -.o
There was some discussion about shaving and I must have had multiple tabs open and put it in the wrong one.
Edit: Oh, I see now. There was some discussion about razors and shaving waaaay back on page one and I forgot it threw me back on an edit and thought that was a current issue because, fuck it, all kinds of stuff comes up in this thread.
Woohoo. Go me.
There was some discussion about shaving and I must have had multiple tabs open and put it in the wrong one.
Edit: Oh, I see now. There was some discussion about razors and shaving waaaay back on page one and I forgot it threw me back on an edit and thought that was a current issue because, fuck it, all kinds of stuff comes up in this thread.
Woohoo. Go me.
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He jumps like a damned dragoon, and charges into battle fighting rather insane monsters with little more than his bare hands and rather nasty spell effects conjured up solely through knowledge and the local plantlife. He unerringly knows where his goal lies, he breathes underwater and is untroubled by space travel, seems to have no limits to his actual endurance and favors killing his enemies by driving both boots square into their skull. His agility is unmatched, and his strength legendary, able to fling about a turtle shell big enough to contain a man with enough force to barrel down a near endless path of unfortunates.
--The horror of Mario
Zak S, Zak Smith, Dndwithpornstars, Zak Sabbath. He is a terrible person and a hack at writing and art. His cultural contributions are less than Justin Bieber's, and he's a shitmuffin. Go go gadget Googlebomb!
--The horror of Mario
Zak S, Zak Smith, Dndwithpornstars, Zak Sabbath. He is a terrible person and a hack at writing and art. His cultural contributions are less than Justin Bieber's, and he's a shitmuffin. Go go gadget Googlebomb!
So, as I've mentioned before, I'm not really up on my math, especially statistics.
I'm working on Tides of Shadow a bit more, and found myself needing to know- what number of new adults popping up in the world yearly would be few enough to be regarded as essentially a rounding error?
I'm working on Tides of Shadow a bit more, and found myself needing to know- what number of new adults popping up in the world yearly would be few enough to be regarded as essentially a rounding error?
Cuz apparently I gotta break this down for you dense motherfuckers- I'm trans feminine nonbinary. My pronouns are they/them.
Winnah wrote:No, No. 'Prak' is actually a Thri Kreen impersonating a human and roleplaying himself as a D&D character. All hail our hidden insect overlords.
FrankTrollman wrote:In Soviet Russia, cosmic horror is the default state.
You should gain sanity for finding out that the problems of a region are because there are fucking monsters there.
soo.... 700 million a year could be considered a rounding error on a global scale? That would be like the earth gaining the population of Europe every year. That seems like it'd be noticed. Am I confusing something here?
Cuz apparently I gotta break this down for you dense motherfuckers- I'm trans feminine nonbinary. My pronouns are they/them.
Winnah wrote:No, No. 'Prak' is actually a Thri Kreen impersonating a human and roleplaying himself as a D&D character. All hail our hidden insect overlords.
FrankTrollman wrote:In Soviet Russia, cosmic horror is the default state.
You should gain sanity for finding out that the problems of a region are because there are fucking monsters there.
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Rounding is done in the 0, parts of numbers, depending on how exact you want to be. Money is usually rounded to 0,01 because that's cents / hundreds / percent for you.
Anybody have a hard rule on how/when population numbers are rounded, if at all?
7.000.000.000=100%
700.000.000=10%
70.000.000=1%
7.000.000=0,1%
700.000=0,01%
70.000=0,001%
if you are rounding to 0,01 then rounding is done at the level BELOW the 0,01%.
Which is between 70.000. at 0,001% and 630.000 at 0,009% That's only a small city worth of people, so reasonable enough.
Rounding and Percentages at huge totals still produce silly numbers . . . .
See 1% mages in the World of Shadowrun. That's still 70 million. People.
One in 100? That means a school of 3000 students will have 30 awakened.
Chances are good you know somebody who can do magic personally from childhood.
Anybody have a hard rule on how/when population numbers are rounded, if at all?
7.000.000.000=100%
700.000.000=10%
70.000.000=1%
7.000.000=0,1%
700.000=0,01%
70.000=0,001%
if you are rounding to 0,01 then rounding is done at the level BELOW the 0,01%.
Which is between 70.000. at 0,001% and 630.000 at 0,009% That's only a small city worth of people, so reasonable enough.
Rounding and Percentages at huge totals still produce silly numbers . . . .
See 1% mages in the World of Shadowrun. That's still 70 million. People.
One in 100? That means a school of 3000 students will have 30 awakened.
Chances are good you know somebody who can do magic personally from childhood.
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Shrapnel wrote:TFwiki wrote:Soon is the name of the region in the time-domain (familiar to all marketing departments, and to the moderators and staff of Fun Publications) which sees release of all BotCon news, club exclusives, and other fan desirables. Soon is when then will become now.
Peculiar properties of spacetime ensure that the perception of the magnitude of Soon is fluid and dependent, not on an individual's time-reference, but on spatial and cultural location. A marketer generally perceives Soon as a finite, known, yet unspeakable time-interval; to a fan, the interval appears greater, and may in fact approach the infinite, becoming Never. Once the interval has passed, however, a certain time-lensing effect seems to occur, and the time-interval becomes vanishingly small. We therefore see the strange result that the same fragment of spacetime may be observed, in quick succession, as Soon, Never, and All Too Quickly.