Formerly /u/Zagorath on the alien site.
Your leave resets? That sounds illegal.
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It’s also worth noting that the “ZY” or “KSY” pronunciations might be misleading to English speakers. The “Y” in both of those is actually like the vowel in “fly”, not like in “baby”.
That’s going to always increase parentalmotivation.
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Ah I see. I’m not sure that’s technically possible, but if it were, that’d be great.
I think better would be simply outlawing any communication between a donor and recipient, if the donor wishes to officially remain anonymous. Not they “have no way” to prove their identity, but they’re not allowed to prove it—or even imply it.
I don’t know what you mean by
double-blind to the donor AND recipient
But to me that phrase kinda implies that the donor doesn’t know who they donated to. Which…no. It should be blind to the recipient. Entirely blind. But people donating can still choose where to donate to.
The only country whose opinion should matter here is Taiwan. If and when they decide they want to be recognised officially, they should be. Not before, and not after.
It’s not cropped, it’s a different photo. 5 separate photographers are known to have captured the event, who each took multiple photos. Many of whom were on different floors of the same hotel. Jeff Widener of the Associated Press took one of the more famous telephoto shots from the 6th floor of the Beijing Hotel, while this wider one was probably taken by Stuart Franklin of Time, higher up in the same hotel.
I see pros and cons to different systems, and ultimately I’d like to see different tournaments do different things.
One thing I might change to the draft system used in Wololo would be to have a blind pick before the bans. That way we still get to see every player’s best pick.
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I Google-searched “site:unbelievablefactsblog.com truck”, which turned up the right page. It linked to this site, which in turn links to this very detailed page.
Pinging @marduk@lemmy.sdf.org and @toaster@slrpnk.net.
I guess the way I’m thinking about it is that just because the third party doesn’t know it’s poly, doesn’t mean it isn’t poly to the people in the primary couple. It’s unethical and dishonest, but it is a situation where some of the people involved are being non-monogamous.
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I actually did bite my dm with explicit consent. because I was trying to argue that a ranger/barbarian’s bite would be d6+Strength Modifier. and not d4+Strength Modifier. and he was like lmao human bites aren’t even that strong. and I said bet. and he said well bite me then as strong as an 18 attack roll would be (the prison guard had 14AC btw) and we had to stop the game because he had to go get stitches.
also he didn’t wanna say he let himself get bit to win an argument that he lost so badly he’s in the emergency room, so he was like “a rat did it” and the nurse turns her head 12 degrees to the left and sees my bloody mouth. and goes “yeah okay that happens”
and we did get the barbarian bite attack to be d6+Strength Modifier. I’m also now engaged to this guy and this campaign I get to be the dm!
probablybadrpgideas Absolute rollercoaster, but congrats on the engagement - Paper
Not my OC. You’ve got all the information I do.
I thought it was a rather simple analogue, but I guess it was too complicated for some?
I said nothing about JavaScript or Python or any other language with my 1/3 example. I wasn’t even talking about binary. It was an example of something that might be problematic if you added numbers in an imprecise way in decimal, the same way binary floating point fails to accurately represent 1/10 + 1/5 from the OP.
A good way to think of it is to compare something similar in decimal. .1 and .2 are precise values in decimal, but can’t be represented as perfectly in binary. 1/3 might be a pretty good similar-enough example. With a lack of precision, that might become 0.33333333, which when added in the expression 1/3 + 1/3 + 1/3 will give you 0.99999999, instead of the correct answer of 1.
Oh that’s amusing. So it’s just a complete coincidence that you posted it shortly after midnight on Wednesday in the very earliest time zone, then?
Also you confuse me. French pronouns, on a German-hosted instance, and you say you live in Spain. Pick a country!
I find my games (~1100 Elo) rarely make it to Mythic, so his idea of ranking them according to comeback potential really strikes me as a good way to judge Mythic godpowers. Basically, in 1v1s, going to Mythic is most often used either to finish off a game you already know you’ve won, or as a last-ditch effort to save an otherwise lost game. And it’s that last use case where the relative powers are most important. (There are exceptions of course, like Survivalist’s 90 minute epic from a couple of weeks ago.)
I had a game a day or two ago where this kinda seemed to be the case. I was pretty solidly winning, and it was getting close to the point where I was wondering why my opponent hadn’t resigned yet, when he got up to Mythic (I was still in Heroic). Then he used Ragnarok. That made it instantly make sense why he’d hung on. Unfortunately he had already lost 2 TCs, including his starting TC, and was only surviving on one corner TC. And at the time he used Ragnarok, he only had about 60 food, so was completely incapable of rebooming behind it. So yeah, it didn’t work. But worth hanging on to try it out.
What wasn’t worthwhile was hanging on another 10+ minutes past that until his very last Gatherer…