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Random Stuff Part IV
« on: December 13, 2017, 02:23:23 pm »
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Since Part III has gotten too cumbersome to do a view all, and the weird bug of starting at the second new message has been happening for a while. I considered naming it Part IIII because I'm a monster.

Speaking of monsters, what monster would store a magic marker next to a dry-erase marker by the whiteboard? Fiends.
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Re: Random Stuff Part IV
« Reply #1 on: December 13, 2017, 02:29:37 pm »
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(me, filing my taxes) "wh- wait, this is a dry-erase marker! where did i leave m- oh no"
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Re: Random Stuff Part IV
« Reply #2 on: December 14, 2017, 01:30:54 am »
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Re: Random Stuff Part IV
« Reply #3 on: December 14, 2017, 01:40:01 am »
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Relevant thread:

http://forum.dominionstrategy.com/index.php?topic=11311.0

That was Mafia Games.  Here we use true numbers.

(I almost said real numbers, but realized how wrong that could go)
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Re: Random Stuff Part IV
« Reply #4 on: December 14, 2017, 04:28:40 am »
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That was Mafia Games.  Here we use true numbers.

Roman numerals are fake numbers, they don't even have a zero.
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Re: Random Stuff Part IV
« Reply #5 on: December 14, 2017, 05:35:39 am »
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Relevant thread:

http://forum.dominionstrategy.com/index.php?topic=11311.0

That was Mafia Games.  Here we use true numbers.

(I almost said real numbers, but realized how wrong that could go)

well, we are using real numbers.

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« Reply #6 on: December 14, 2017, 09:19:55 am »
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My friend found this weird white humanoid plastic clip/binder clip type thing with a jackal or cat-ish head, but I can't find it online anywhere. Does anyone know what I'm talking about?
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Re: Random Stuff Part IV
« Reply #7 on: December 14, 2017, 09:22:37 am »
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My friend found this weird white humanoid plastic clip/binder clip type thing with a jackal or cat-ish head, but I can't find it online anywhere. Does anyone know what I'm talking about?

it's actually more like a clothespin, now that I think about it
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« Reply #8 on: December 14, 2017, 11:48:38 am »
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I drew a picture, how do I upload it from my computer?
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Re: Random Stuff Part IV
« Reply #9 on: December 14, 2017, 12:13:31 pm »
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I drew a picture, how do I upload it from my computer?

1. upload it somewhere, e.g. imgbb.com
2. when you've uploaded the image, find the page with the original image in original size without any watermarks (on imgbb, you can do that by clicking the thumbnail)
3. when you have the original image open, right click on it and choose "copy image address" or equivalent
4. if you want to create a link to that image, use the url tags
5. if you want to post the image directly on the forums, use the img tags (and you can use the width parameter to make the picture smaller if that's necessary):


You can quote this post to see how to use the aforementioned tags if that's unclear.
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Re: Random Stuff Part IV
« Reply #10 on: December 14, 2017, 12:21:11 pm »
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Thanks!

https://ibb.co/dzyRH6

The img tag still wasn't working for me though
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Re: Random Stuff Part IV
« Reply #11 on: December 14, 2017, 12:28:29 pm »
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Thanks!

https://ibb.co/dzyRH6

The img tag still wasn't working for me though

That's because you're not using the link to the image file, you're using a link to the web page that displays the image. In order to get the link to the picture, you actually need to right click on the picture and choose the option to copy the address of the image.
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Re: Random Stuff Part IV
« Reply #12 on: December 14, 2017, 12:29:08 pm »
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It's the wrong link. Yout link goes to a page with the image there, not to the page of just the image. You need to use this link: https://preview.ibb.co/iFLvAR/IMG_8575.jpg

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Re: Random Stuff Part IV
« Reply #13 on: December 14, 2017, 12:30:12 pm »
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It's the wrong link. Yout link goes to a page with the image there, not to the page of just the image. You need to use this link: https://preview.ibb.co/iFLvAR/IMG_8575.jpg

This link is better: https://image.ibb.co/bBxxPm/IMG_8575.jpg
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Re: Random Stuff Part IV
« Reply #14 on: December 14, 2017, 12:35:46 pm »
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Man I thought I kind of knew how to do things. Thank y'all for your help
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« Reply #15 on: December 14, 2017, 01:49:38 pm »
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« Reply #16 on: December 14, 2017, 02:01:13 pm »
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Re: Random Stuff Part IV
« Reply #17 on: December 14, 2017, 02:18:37 pm »
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Re: Random Stuff Part IV
« Reply #18 on: December 14, 2017, 02:21:06 pm »
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Already sold out at least 6 auditoriums for Star Wars tonight. Would it be unreasonable for me to call off due to "dread"?
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« Reply #19 on: December 14, 2017, 08:28:30 pm »
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Re: Random Stuff Part IV
« Reply #20 on: December 15, 2017, 06:24:10 pm »
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« Reply #21 on: December 15, 2017, 07:46:31 pm »
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The temptation to click on the STAR WARS thread is strong.
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« Reply #22 on: December 15, 2017, 08:36:14 pm »
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The temptation to click on the STAR WARS thread is strong.

There aren't any blatant spoilers there that aren't blacked out... but man will that stay true before I get to watch the movie!
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« Reply #23 on: December 15, 2017, 09:01:30 pm »
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The temptation to click on the STAR WARS thread is strong.

I've been going there and haven't been spoiled yet.
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« Reply #24 on: December 16, 2017, 01:33:40 am »
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I'm terrible at reviewing movies, and also don't care if someone spoils it for me, so I just don't bother saying anything at all.
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« Reply #25 on: December 17, 2017, 07:56:50 am »
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The temptation to click on the STAR WARS thread is strong.

There aren't any blatant spoilers there that aren't blacked out... but man will that stay true before I get to watch the movie!

I feel like once I'm there the temptation to hover the blacked out spoilers will overcome me.
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« Reply #26 on: December 17, 2017, 11:46:17 am »
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The temptation to click on the STAR WARS thread is strong.

There aren't any blatant spoilers there that aren't blacked out... but man will that stay true before I get to watch the movie!

I feel like once I'm there the temptation to hover the blacked out spoilers will overcome me.

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« Reply #27 on: December 17, 2017, 10:18:41 pm »
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I've been avoiding the forum entirely. Now that I've seen it, I can go there now.

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« Reply #28 on: December 18, 2017, 12:58:38 am »
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I don't even know if that was supposed to be Star Wars, but if it was, keep it in the relevant thread, please.
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Re: Random Stuff Part IV
« Reply #29 on: December 18, 2017, 09:24:17 am »
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I don't even know if that was supposed to be Star Wars, but if it was, keep it in the relevant thread, please.

That was indeed a mispost. Sorry.
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Re: Random Stuff Part IV
« Reply #30 on: December 27, 2017, 05:41:30 pm »
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There was a discussion about typing speed in the previous thread. For reference, I got 104 WPM with my laptop's keyboard at the time (was probably the best result out of a few tries).

Since then, I have bought a gaming keyboard (Steelseries Apex 100 to be specific), and after about a month of getting used to it, I'm getting around 110-125 WPM now. In all fairness, my laptop's keyboard is particularly crappy, but it still goes to show that the gaming stuff is really nice to have even if you're not a gamer.
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« Reply #31 on: December 27, 2017, 06:37:53 pm »
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I get 95 wpm with a terrible technique of using 6 or so fingers and jumping way too much. If I type properly with 10 fingers I get about thirty less. I still haven't managed to just make myself type with 10 fingers all the time and get used to it. I've been trying to do that years ago. I wish I could just make my keyboard give me an electric shock every time I do it differently... I'd probably get it right in a few weeks.

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« Reply #32 on: December 31, 2017, 05:52:02 pm »
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« Reply #33 on: January 01, 2018, 03:53:49 am »
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« Reply #34 on: January 02, 2018, 04:44:47 pm »
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Man, we shifted our policy so that everyone has to work at least until 4:00. I adjusted my schedule for that, and I'm feeling so antsy sitting here this late in the day. It's going to take some getting used to.

I also don't like coming in late at 7:30. All the good parking spaces are taken. *whine*
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« Reply #35 on: January 02, 2018, 05:33:19 pm »
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« Reply #36 on: January 02, 2018, 06:04:20 pm »
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Man, we shifted our policy so that everyone has to work at least until 4:00. I adjusted my schedule for that, and I'm feeling so antsy sitting here this late in the day. It's going to take some getting used to.

I also don't like coming in late at 7:30. All the good parking spaces are taken. *whine*
I either work 10-6 or 5-1. I'm usually in bed sometime around 2-3am daily.
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« Reply #37 on: January 04, 2018, 09:33:43 am »
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I've been away from before Christmas until just now. Did I miss anything interesting on F.DS over the Christmas period? Or was 90-93% of it just      moat?
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« Reply #38 on: January 08, 2018, 07:45:04 pm »
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Has anyone here ever played the board game Diplomacy two-player? I just did so against my dad over the weekend, after years of not having played Diplomacy at all.

Though, I've played A Game of Thrones: The Board Game recently, which is essentially the same thing.
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« Reply #39 on: January 09, 2018, 05:02:11 pm »
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Today I took a different route while driving home to avoid a congested exit (well, I was also in the wrong lane and decided not to try and push over into congestion). I ended up on a magical journey around my part of the city during rush hour, in which I got to:

* Attempt to navigate home based on mostly unhelpful road signs that pointed to other cities rather than places in my city

* Do a ton of hill starts every 5 metres due to aforementioned congestion - which is great, since I needed to practice them anyway. I think I only stalled a single time, and it wasn't an issue whatsoever because of - you guessed it, congestion meaning I wouldn't have gotten anywhere anyway.

* Drive about 20 down down a 30 road that was a dual carriageway because I thought it was another road and was looking for the turn off I recognised and wasn't entirely convinced it was even a dual carriageway due to a tree line on the right blocking line of sight to the other carriageway.

All in all, it was... kinda fun I guess? I eventually found my way back to familiar territory, having spent maybe about 15 minutes extra driving.
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« Reply #40 on: January 09, 2018, 05:06:45 pm »
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I just realized that we have both chairs and tables on f.ds!

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« Reply #41 on: January 09, 2018, 06:24:07 pm »
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I just realized that we have both chairs and tables on f.ds!

Wow. How long have you been here?
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« Reply #42 on: January 09, 2018, 06:44:47 pm »
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« Reply #43 on: January 10, 2018, 12:24:57 am »
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« Reply #44 on: January 10, 2018, 02:33:05 am »
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Fun fact: Chairs first post was made to correct a post of mine - although as it turned out IIRC I was correct anyway, or at least his correction also needed further correction. I'm somewhat confident therefore that Chairs named himself because of me.
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« Reply #45 on: January 10, 2018, 02:36:06 am »
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Wouldn't he be named YouEatChairs, or something like that then?
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« Reply #46 on: January 10, 2018, 03:03:57 am »
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Fun fact: Chairs first post was made to correct a post of mine

Wouldn't he be named Mint then?
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« Reply #47 on: January 10, 2018, 09:26:01 am »
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Grammar nerd in me is sad. I requested a form element to be changed from "SOP's" to "SOPs." I've been informed that someone else created that element, and we're just reusing it rather than creating a new one.

I wish we could create a new one, but it's out of my hands. I just have to stare at that ugliness for, like, ever.
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« Reply #48 on: January 11, 2018, 06:12:10 am »
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I'm only a couple weeks from my 5 year anniversary date.

Wow, I'm here since 6 1/4 years, insane.

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« Reply #49 on: January 12, 2018, 01:42:13 am »
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« Reply #50 on: January 12, 2018, 03:58:07 am »
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I'm only a couple weeks from my 5 year anniversary date.

Wow, I'm here since 6 1/4 years, insane.
I just checked and I'm nearing 6 years as well. Pretty crazy considering I hardly even play Dominion anymore.
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« Reply #51 on: January 12, 2018, 08:38:41 am »
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Fun fact: Chairs first post was made to correct a post of mine - although as it turned out IIRC I was correct anyway, or at least his correction also needed further correction. I'm somewhat confident therefore that Chairs named himself because of me.

Actually as far as I can tell his first two posts were to /in for Mafia games, although this is relevant:

do you know Tables? :P

No, but that name -was- the inspiration for my own.  I was reading the guild preview, saw his username, and decided if we had tables we must need chairs.
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« Reply #52 on: January 12, 2018, 02:27:57 pm »
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I'm only a couple weeks from my 5 year anniversary date.

Wow, I'm here since 6 1/4 years, insane.
I just checked and I'm nearing 6 years as well. Pretty crazy considering I hardly even play Dominion anymore.
We're coming up on the 5 year anniversary of isotropic shutting down (which happened on March 15, 2013). So soon, anybody who came here from isotropic will have been here 5+ years.
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« Reply #53 on: January 12, 2018, 02:47:45 pm »
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I'm only a couple weeks from my 5 year anniversary date.

Wow, I'm here since 6 1/4 years, insane.
I just checked and I'm nearing 6 years as well. Pretty crazy considering I hardly even play Dominion anymore.
We're coming up on the 5 year anniversary of isotropic shutting down (which happened on March 15, 2013). So soon, anybody who came here from isotropic will have been here 5+ years.

March 2013? Really? It seems I registered here in January 2013. There was a period of time where I was on Isotropic but not on F.DS, but I figured I was on the forum for longer before Iso closed down. Weird.
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« Reply #54 on: January 12, 2018, 06:55:38 pm »
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Yeah, i showed up right after Donald X went away from the forum for a while just as iso was going down and goko took over unopposed.
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« Reply #55 on: January 13, 2018, 11:57:03 am »
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I'm going to be doing a lot of driving this weekend, can anyone recommend a good podcast or audio book? I've never been into either of those things and have no idea what I'm looking for, I just figured it might be more entertaining than listening to music for hours and people here probably have similar interests to mine.
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« Reply #56 on: January 13, 2018, 02:21:43 pm »
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I enjoy the Future of Life podcasts – you can download them free – but you might prefer something more light-hearted. This is also a source for (similarly serious) podcasts.

The audibooks I like are all in German ...

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« Reply #57 on: January 13, 2018, 05:56:34 pm »
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I'm going to be doing a lot of driving this weekend, can anyone recommend a good podcast or audio book? I've never been into either of those things and have no idea what I'm looking for, I just figured it might be more entertaining than listening to music for hours and people here probably have similar interests to mine.
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  • I listen to a number of other podcasts but they're either very inconsistent or quite specific in interest. (If you mention some interests then I can see if there's something I can recommend.)


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« Reply #58 on: January 13, 2018, 06:12:48 pm »
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My mom was wondering, what's the translation of "Sizilianisches Jagdlied"?  She thinks it's Sicilian Hunting Song, but she just wants to be sure and google translate isn't perfect.
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« Reply #59 on: January 13, 2018, 06:35:41 pm »
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« Reply #60 on: January 13, 2018, 07:06:56 pm »
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My mom was wondering, what's the translation of "Sizilianisches Jagdlied"?  She thinks it's Sicilian Hunting Song, but she just wants to be sure and google translate isn't perfect.

Sicilian Hunting Song is correct.
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« Reply #61 on: January 14, 2018, 04:54:37 am »
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My mom was wondering, what's the translation of "Sizilianisches Jagdlied"?  She thinks it's Sicilian Hunting Song, but she just wants to be sure and google translate isn't perfect.

Did she ask you to ask the random stuff thread?
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« Reply #62 on: January 14, 2018, 03:47:24 pm »
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My mom was wondering, what's the translation of "Sizilianisches Jagdlied"?  She thinks it's Sicilian Hunting Song, but she just wants to be sure and google translate isn't perfect.

Did she ask you to ask the random stuff thread?

No, but I suggested it, for fear of being wrong.  Even though it wouldn't have been me that was wrong.
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« Reply #63 on: January 15, 2018, 04:07:26 pm »
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I had a dream about this site/dominion, which is weird because I hardly actually play and I've been away for a while. there were a bunch of new threads about a new card, called vaccinate, but it was always written as V*CCINATE. I'm not anti-vax
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« Reply #64 on: January 16, 2018, 09:51:01 am »
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I'm only a couple weeks from my 5 year anniversary date.

Wow, I'm here since 6 1/4 years, insane.
I just checked and I'm nearing 6 years as well. Pretty crazy considering I hardly even play Dominion anymore.
We're coming up on the 5 year anniversary of isotropic shutting down (which happened on March 15, 2013). So soon, anybody who came here from isotropic will have been here 5+ years.

Isotropic is going down?! What???
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« Reply #65 on: January 16, 2018, 09:51:46 am »
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I'm going to be doing a lot of driving this weekend, can anyone recommend a good podcast or audio book? I've never been into either of those things and have no idea what I'm looking for, I just figured it might be more entertaining than listening to music for hours and people here probably have similar interests to mine.

I highly recommend Harmontown.
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« Reply #66 on: January 16, 2018, 04:59:09 pm »
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I have 4 GB RAM and this processor. What is more likely to be the bottleneck factor of slowing my computer down when I do things like have a bunch of firefox windows open and a stream running and play a 2d game, or at worst play prismata?

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« Reply #67 on: January 16, 2018, 05:07:31 pm »
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I have 4 GB RAM and this processor. What is more likely to be the bottleneck factor of slowing my computer down when I do things like have a bunch of firefox windows open and a stream running and play a 2d game, or at worst play prismata?

The RAM, but can't you just confirm this by opening task manager and checking how much of RAM and CPU is being used by each program?
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« Reply #68 on: January 16, 2018, 05:14:23 pm »
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I have 4 GB RAM and this processor. What is more likely to be the bottleneck factor of slowing my computer down when I do things like have a bunch of firefox windows open and a stream running and play a 2d game, or at worst play prismata?

The RAM, but can't you just confirm this by opening task manager and checking how much of RAM and CPU is being used by each program?

... it's the RAM!

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« Reply #69 on: January 16, 2018, 05:52:43 pm »
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I'm only a couple weeks from my 5 year anniversary date.

Wow, I'm here since 6 1/4 years, insane.
I just checked and I'm nearing 6 years as well. Pretty crazy considering I hardly even play Dominion anymore.

Almost 7 years here.  I was here on day 2? 3?
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« Reply #70 on: January 17, 2018, 12:03:13 pm »
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frick, I remember why I have so little ram. I used to have twice as much but one of the sockets seems to be broken so I removed one of two bars. And indeed, I just tried putting the one into the other socket and nothing worked...

so not only do I have to replace the RAM I have rather than adding to it, but I have to do a 1-bar setup.

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« Reply #71 on: January 17, 2018, 04:13:31 pm »
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frick, I remember why I have so little ram. I used to have twice as much but one of the sockets seems to be broken so I removed one of two bars. And indeed, I just tried putting the one into the other socket and nothing worked...

Well, that makes sense. I was actually a bit surprised that you had that processor with only 4 gigs of RAM.
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« Reply #72 on: January 25, 2018, 01:25:05 pm »
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« Reply #73 on: January 25, 2018, 02:15:23 pm »
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« Reply #74 on: January 25, 2018, 03:23:20 pm »
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i have 5000 boyfriends

They can't be all that impressive. Awaclus won't even open their e-mails.
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« Reply #75 on: January 25, 2018, 03:42:13 pm »
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i have 5000 boyfriends

They can't be all that impressive. Awaclus won't even open their e-mails.

Most of them work at YouTube, too.
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« Reply #76 on: January 30, 2018, 05:07:33 pm »
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I think it's probably been over a year since I played Dominion Online. Not because I think ShIT have done a bad job or anything, just... I've never really felt the urge to do so. It's kinda weird, in a way. I still play Dominion face to face occasionally, but I'm probably pretty mediocre at the game now due to lack of practice.
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« Reply #77 on: January 31, 2018, 01:54:05 pm »
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I'm doing a production of Spring Awakening. I may be in over my head. That music is actually quite tough.

Oh well, it'll be exciting, and I get to portray a horny teenager. Fun times.
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« Reply #78 on: January 31, 2018, 06:26:18 pm »
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« Reply #79 on: February 01, 2018, 04:22:02 pm »
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My armchair conspiracy theory based on very limited observations: Red-light cameras are more prevalent in poorer neighborhoods because drivers in affluent neighborhoods are more likely to fight the citations, which diminishes the revenue raised by the red-light cameras. I'm ready to be refuted.
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« Reply #80 on: February 11, 2018, 06:28:25 am »
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A friend of mine is having dental work done on Valentines day. I need some good wisdom tooth related puns to annoy her with. Possibly to make into a faux valentines day card as well for extra amusement.
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« Reply #81 on: February 11, 2018, 02:47:23 pm »
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« Reply #82 on: February 12, 2018, 09:31:11 am »
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A friend of mine is having dental work done on Valentines day. I need some good wisdom tooth related puns to annoy her with. Possibly to make into a faux valentines day card as well for extra amusement.

Back when I could afford to remove only one wisdom tooth, I was awake for the whole thing. It sounded horrible as the doctor broke the tooth. You could say that nobody deserves a break-up on Valentine's Day.

Probably unlikely your friend's getting gassed. Missed opportunity for saying she's left breathless (thanks, Futurama).

But if she's going under, then there could be puns about being swept off her feet or being dizzy.

And I would only recommend this if she has the darkest of humor since this is making light of a legitimate problem. Leave a card for her to wake up to with hearts on it and the caption, "Was it good for you?" Actually I feel bad suggesting that now, but I don't know how black your friend's humor is.
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« Reply #83 on: February 13, 2018, 12:45:15 pm »
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That last one is hilarious. Sadly I'm not actually going to be seeing her tomorrow, so a card for right after wouldn't work, but she'd definitely enjoy it (the card, that is) - plus as you say I don't think it's going to be a general anesthesia, just local.

Anyway, on more unrelated, random stuff notes, yesterday I watched part of an ISIS recruitment video (as part of training to prevent people being radicalised, just to clarify). It was REALLY not what I expected. Very ordinary looking (probably would be like PG13 if it was rated), with it's own catchy theme song they've written about joining a holy cause etc. Heck, even the guy doing the training said that they "sometimes find themselves singing it around the office". Note that I don't recommend trying to look up the video, unless you want to be on a list somewhere, plus you probably won't find it outside of the dark web.
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« Reply #84 on: February 13, 2018, 01:04:46 pm »
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I've also seen an ISIS recruitment video (as a part of being an edgelord on the Internet, just to clarify). Honestly they made it sound pretty appealing, it could have easily been an ad for a company that provides some sort of military-themed recreational activities.
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« Reply #85 on: February 13, 2018, 02:18:47 pm »
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I've also seen an ISIS recruitment video (as a part of being an edgelord on the Internet, just to clarify). Honestly they made it sound pretty appealing, it could have easily been an ad for a company that provides some sort of military-themed recreational activities.

Well yeah you don't radicalize people by screaming death to infidels or the holocaust was a hoax, you gotta put a nice face on it. And some production value doesn't hurt. Smile, be courteous, and offer something people feel they're missing. A sense of community, or validation, or even just a fun adventure.
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« Reply #86 on: February 13, 2018, 02:41:50 pm »
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scientology also has pretty nice videos on their website.

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« Reply #87 on: February 13, 2018, 07:52:03 pm »
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Back when I could afford to remove only one wisdom tooth, I was awake for the whole thing. It sounded horrible as the doctor broke the tooth. You could say that nobody deserves a break-up on Valentine's Day.

I did the same thing, but with all three of my wisdom teeth.  (Fear of general anesthesia, and the gas sent me into a terrible panic, so local only.)  I actually thought the cracking and stuff was pretty cool!
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« Reply #88 on: February 13, 2018, 10:41:20 pm »
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I had six wisdom teeth! I had them put me under. Really don't think I could have handled being awake for that... I'm a weenie.
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« Reply #89 on: February 14, 2018, 10:19:53 am »
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Back when I could afford to remove only one wisdom tooth, I was awake for the whole thing. It sounded horrible as the doctor broke the tooth. You could say that nobody deserves a break-up on Valentine's Day.

I did the same thing, but with all three of my wisdom teeth.  (Fear of general anesthesia, and the gas sent me into a terrible panic, so local only.)  I actually thought the cracking and stuff was pretty cool!

Aw man, one tooth was good enough for me to go through it with local. I did the other three when I had insurance, so I was able to afford going under. It was my first time experiencing a flexible needle though. I remarked on how I didn't even feel the prick, and he explained to me the new needles. Then he wiggled it around while the needle stayed in. That probably alarmed me most of all watching him wiggle the IV delivery shaft while experiencing no pain.

The future can be pretty awesome.

Another possible valentine wish for someone with wisdom teeth extracted could be, "Your mouth is full of cotton to soak up all that blood, and your face is so numb you can't feel how much drool you're dripping, but I would kiss you anyway, valentine."
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« Reply #90 on: February 14, 2018, 11:32:26 pm »
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I had six wisdom teeth! I had them put me under. Really don't think I could have handled being awake for that... I'm a weenie.

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« Reply #91 on: February 15, 2018, 05:44:01 pm »
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« Reply #92 on: February 15, 2018, 06:30:41 pm »
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« Reply #93 on: February 16, 2018, 09:52:55 am »
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Fun game about an AI taking over the world with a paperclip factory. Sort of like candybox but better.

That was pretty fun, took me 4-5 hours to complete.
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« Reply #94 on: February 17, 2018, 11:53:13 am »
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Fun game about an AI taking over the world with a paperclip factory. Sort of like candybox but better.

That was pretty fun, took me 4-5 hours to complete.

Yeah, about the same for me. Lots of changing mechanics as the game went on.
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« Reply #95 on: February 20, 2018, 03:56:27 am »
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« Reply #96 on: February 27, 2018, 10:17:50 am »
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I don't know if it's age or what, but I'm finding myself more and more growling at myself that I already had a bowel movement less than 24 hours ago. I don't want to have another one so soon afterwards.
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« Reply #97 on: February 27, 2018, 10:18:59 am »
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I don't know if it's age or what, but I'm finding myself more and more growling at myself that I already had a bowel movement less than 24 hours ago. I don't want to have another one so soon afterwards.

Maybe that kind of stuff is random.
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« Reply #98 on: February 28, 2018, 02:36:28 pm »
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« Reply #99 on: February 28, 2018, 05:33:06 pm »
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I had six wisdom teeth! I had them put me under. Really don't think I could have handled being awake for that... I'm a weenie.

I only ever had three :-(

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« Reply #100 on: March 08, 2018, 08:52:15 pm »
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The recent Nintendo Direct reminded me of a bold prediction that I wanted to put in writing somewhere (which I'm putting in spoilers in case you want to watch the Nintendo Direct first):

I suspect that at least one (probably two or three) battle modes from Kirby Battle Royale will appear in the next Smash Bros game. If I had to guess which ones, I would guess Apple Scramble and Dream Theater are the most likely, with Flag Ball maybe coming in third. In all cases, they will be completely re-themed, but mechanically similar to their Kirby counterparts.

My reasoning:

Hal regularly recycles mechanics (and even sound effects! see Melee and Kirby Air Ride) between Kirby games and Smash Bros. The co-op in the Subspace Emissary in Brawl is heavily modeled after Kirby Superstar; the Smash Run mode on Smash 3DS was clearly based on City Trial from Kirby Air Ride; Master Hand is Wam-Bam Rock from Kirby Superstar. After a few weeks of playing Kirby Battle Royale the idea occurred to me that the game might have been partially developed as a "test run" for certain battle modes in a Kirby game, to see what would be popular, so they could decide which ones to implement in the next Smash Bros. game (which will get magnitudes more plays than a Kirby spin-off game). The Smash series is always looking for new modes that will help prevent people from saying "this is just like the last one with a few more characters", and adding more "party-style" mini-games would help accomplish that.
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« Reply #101 on: March 09, 2018, 07:41:25 am »
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Random question: Where did the meme "We are all Wandering Winder" originate from? Can't find where it all started.. :/
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« Reply #102 on: March 09, 2018, 09:30:25 am »
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Random question: Where did the meme "We are all Wandering Winder" originate from? Can't find where it all started.. :/

Pretty sure Wandering Winder started it.
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« Reply #103 on: March 09, 2018, 11:40:58 am »
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« Reply #104 on: March 09, 2018, 02:03:27 pm »
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The recent Nintendo Direct reminded me of a bold prediction that I wanted to put in writing somewhere (which I'm putting in spoilers in case you want to watch the Nintendo Direct first):

I suspect that at least one (probably two or three) battle modes from Kirby Battle Royale will appear in the next Smash Bros game. If I had to guess which ones, I would guess Apple Scramble and Dream Theater are the most likely, with Flag Ball maybe coming in third. In all cases, they will be completely re-themed, but mechanically similar to their Kirby counterparts.

My reasoning:

Hal regularly recycles mechanics (and even sound effects! see Melee and Kirby Air Ride) between Kirby games and Smash Bros. The co-op in the Subspace Emissary in Brawl is heavily modeled after Kirby Superstar; the Smash Run mode on Smash 3DS was clearly based on City Trial from Kirby Air Ride; Master Hand is Wam-Bam Rock from Kirby Superstar. After a few weeks of playing Kirby Battle Royale the idea occurred to me that the game might have been partially developed as a "test run" for certain battle modes in a Kirby game, to see what would be popular, so they could decide which ones to implement in the next Smash Bros. game (which will get magnitudes more plays than a Kirby spin-off game). The Smash series is always looking for new modes that will help prevent people from saying "this is just like the last one with a few more characters", and adding more "party-style" mini-games would help accomplish that.

I think it seems likely. Smash Bros. has a ton of mechanics borrowed from games Sakurai worked on. It's frustrating that he seems to be a bit of an auteur and insists on including his own work so heavily in a game that's really more about the diversity of Nintendo in general. Not just in mechanics (although tripping was definitely something we all loved, right?), but you can see it in things like how much KI stuff was included in Smash 4 (3 characters, one of which had the largest custom move pool of any character) and Kirby before that. I'm hopeful the next smash will be different but I'm not expecting it.
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« Reply #105 on: March 09, 2018, 08:06:48 pm »
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Inb4 “where did the WW meme come from” becomes a meme.

It has already been in the Cards Against Humanity deck for quite a while.
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« Reply #106 on: March 15, 2018, 03:15:38 pm »
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« Reply #107 on: March 15, 2018, 04:12:24 pm »
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Is 1/3+1/3 equal to 2/3?

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« Reply #108 on: March 18, 2018, 05:11:45 am »
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This is probably the most convincing joke explanation I've seen. It has citations to 8 different sources and all.
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« Reply #109 on: April 18, 2018, 08:47:26 am »
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I find it interesting how there's a tendency to overstate the amount of time we wait.

For example, I was walking into work and was behind my co-worker by about 15-20 seconds. I could see him up ahead in the parking lot, but he quickly vanished from view. When I arrived at the elevator, the doors were already shutting, and he was whisked away to our office.

When I arrived, he told me that he was standing in the elevator lobby for what must've been 4 minutes before anyone realized nobody pressed the call button. I literally followed him into the building and was certainly not 4 minutes behind him. I don't think he was attempting to lie. I've seen this happen a lot, including in my own tellings. We'll say that something took a long time when it might have only been 30 seconds.

I think it's for dramatic flair. While 20 seconds is a long time to wait before replying to someone's question, it's more dramatic to say, "It took Bob 5 minutes to tell me my ass didn't look big in these pants." It's not as grandiose to say that I waited 20 seconds for a response. That doesn't sound long at all.
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« Reply #110 on: April 18, 2018, 08:58:53 am »
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I find it interesting how there's a tendency to overstate the amount of time we wait.

For example, I was walking into work and was behind my co-worker by about 15-20 seconds. I could see him up ahead in the parking lot, but he quickly vanished from view. When I arrived at the elevator, the doors were already shutting, and he was whisked away to our office.

When I arrived, he told me that he was standing in the elevator lobby for what must've been 4 minutes before anyone realized nobody pressed the call button. I literally followed him into the building and was certainly not 4 minutes behind him. I don't think he was attempting to lie. I've seen this happen a lot, including in my own tellings. We'll say that something took a long time when it might have only been 30 seconds.

I think it's for dramatic flair. While 20 seconds is a long time to wait before replying to someone's question, it's more dramatic to say, "It took Bob 5 minutes to tell me my ass didn't look big in these pants." It's not as grandiose to say that I waited 20 seconds for a response. That doesn't sound long at all.

This is something I've thought about before too. My guess is that people slightly overstate lengths of time to make sure that their claimed length sounds impressive; but then people start to think of what is actually 20 seconds as being 25 seconds, so they then try to slightly overstate what they think of as 25 seconds (which is actually 20 seconds), so now 20 seconds gets labeled as 30 seconds; and this process iterates until today when people are now referring to seconds as minutes.

What's even more interesting to me is that I suspect there's an upper bound (e.g. I don't think we will ever reach a point where 20 seconds gets referred to as 4 hours); and also that it seems like we don't get this far off when measuring longer units of time. (People may refer to 30 seconds as 5 minutes, meaning they're off by a factor of 10; but I don't think anyone ever refers to 1 hour as 10 hours). Maybe this is because people are more likely to actually measure longer periods of time by looking at a clock?
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« Reply #111 on: April 18, 2018, 09:42:32 am »
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I think people just dramatically underestimate how long 30 seconds actually is.

This is super prevalent in writing. Even high prestige books commit this fallacy fairly often. For example, in Harry Potter #5, there is a scene where a character looks at another for a full minute before (I think) starting to laugh. 10 seconds would be an appropriate amount of time that feels really socially strange and unnaturally long. 20 seconds would be seriously pushing it. 60 is nuts.

Well, and it seems to me that people just do the same thing, to a lesser degree, when they talk. They think 'long time' and then put out the 4 minute number. Well, it was a long time; 20 seconds, in this case, is long. It's just not 4 minutes.

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« Reply #112 on: April 19, 2018, 02:08:47 pm »
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I think the over-exaggerating phenomenon is actually due to social preference. Most people when telling a story or relating a bit of information are actually trying to convey and emotion to the other person, not facts. In Kuildeous's situation it happens because for realistic purposes Kuildeous does not care how long their co-worker waited for the elevator. That is literally a useless fact that has no relevance to Kuildeous's life. The only two reasons to relate that information to Kuildeous is to 1) make kuildeous laugh at the ridiculousness of a bunch of people waiting around and realizing they hadn't pushed the button, or 2) receive empathy from kuildeous for the time he had to wait for the elevator and to accomplish either of those goals it is helpful to exaggerate the time spent waiting. Compare this form of discussion (non factual but conveys an emotion) to strictly factual conversation (small talk) and people greatly prefer exaggerated conversation. Of course the goal would be to have a strictly factual conversation that also conveys an emotions but that is rare and usually requires the conversing parties to have a close relationship.  In the end I think this form of communication has become more prevalent in modern times (especially in america) because people feel the need to converse much more often. If the need arises to converse and one has an option of small talk or exaggerating a story to convey an emotion they will go with the exaggerated story every time.
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« Reply #113 on: April 19, 2018, 05:39:26 pm »
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I agree with silverspawn, people often are bad at estimating measurements.
For example, I recently ordered something 20 centimeters long, and it was less than half the size i had imagined.
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« Reply #114 on: April 19, 2018, 05:49:47 pm »
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Random body part estimates:

Your elbow to your fingertips is roughly 40cm
Hold out your arm to the side. The distance from fingertips to... somewhere around the opposite side of your neck is about 1 meter.
Hold out both arms to the side. The distance from fingertip to fingertip is roughly your height.
Stretch apart your thumb and little finger on one hand. That's about 15-20cm.

Rather ironic using body parts to estimate metric lengths, I know, but these come in handy sometimes. Of course, your kilometerage may vary depending on your height/lengths/body shape.
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« Reply #115 on: April 19, 2018, 06:55:29 pm »
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My problem with estimating centimeters is that because I'm in the United States, the only time I use centimeters is in science, and in those cases the actual values they quantify don't really matter, and I end up thinking of centimeters as short inches.  However, I've noticed that in my mind I sometimes think of it being about 1.5 centimeters to an inch, not 2.5 centimeters to an inch...
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« Reply #116 on: April 20, 2018, 03:43:13 pm »
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My problem with estimating centimeters is that because I'm in the United States, the only time I use centimeters is in science, and in those cases the actual values they quantify don't really matter, and I end up thinking of centimeters as short inches.  However, I've noticed that in my mind I sometimes think of it being about 1.5 centimeters to an inch, not 2.5 centimeters to an inch...

Wait... WAIT. I know the US uses a lot of Imperial units, but do you seriously like not even use cm and m on a daily basis? Like, do schoolkids not have standard 15cm/30cm rulers? Do people not know doorframes are about 2m high? Is it not common knowledge that 1 mile is 1 kilometer, 609 metres, 34 centimetres and 4 milimetres? Okay that last one is maybe not common here either but still, this blows my mind that you guys are using feet and inches for... most things?
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« Reply #117 on: April 20, 2018, 04:10:52 pm »
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My problem with estimating centimeters is that because I'm in the United States, the only time I use centimeters is in science, and in those cases the actual values they quantify don't really matter, and I end up thinking of centimeters as short inches.  However, I've noticed that in my mind I sometimes think of it being about 1.5 centimeters to an inch, not 2.5 centimeters to an inch...

Wait... WAIT. I know the US uses a lot of Imperial units, but do you seriously like not even use cm and m on a daily basis? Like, do schoolkids not have standard 15cm/30cm rulers? Do people not know doorframes are about 2m high? Is it not common knowledge that 1 mile is 1 kilometer, 609 metres, 34 centimetres and 4 milimetres? Okay that last one is maybe not common here either but still, this blows my mind that you guys are using feet and inches for... most things?

Yep, its awful. Our rulers are 12 inches across the top and then it has 30cm flipped on the bottom. If you are a runner you are somewhat aware of distances because races are 100, 200, 400, 800, 1600, and 3200 meter distances though it is assumed those last to are one and two miles.

But yes I measure my height as 6 feet 1 inch, 9 feet ceilings are a common measurement. Legal descriptions for properties are described in feet. Survey's of land use feet. It's really only the scientific fields that use metric units. It is an extremely depressing fact.
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« Reply #118 on: April 20, 2018, 04:23:46 pm »
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Wait... WAIT. I know the US uses a lot of Imperial units, but do you seriously like not even use cm and m on a daily basis? Like, do schoolkids not have standard 15cm/30cm rulers? Do people not know doorframes are about 2m high? Is it not common knowledge that 1 mile is 1 kilometer, 609 metres, 34 centimetres and 4 milimetres? Okay that last one is maybe not common here either but still, this blows my mind that you guys are using feet and inches for... most things?
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« Reply #119 on: April 20, 2018, 04:28:50 pm »
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My problem with estimating centimeters is that because I'm in the United States, the only time I use centimeters is in science, and in those cases the actual values they quantify don't really matter, and I end up thinking of centimeters as short inches.  However, I've noticed that in my mind I sometimes think of it being about 1.5 centimeters to an inch, not 2.5 centimeters to an inch...

Wait... WAIT. I know the US uses a lot of Imperial units, but do you seriously like not even use cm and m on a daily basis? Like, do schoolkids not have standard 15cm/30cm rulers? Do people not know doorframes are about 2m high? Is it not common knowledge that 1 mile is 1 kilometer, 609 metres, 34 centimetres and 4 milimetres? Okay that last one is maybe not common here either but still, this blows my mind that you guys are using feet and inches for... most things?

Oh yeah, very little metric happens in America. There are some exceptions.

As stated, there are races that are measured in meters. You can buy a 2-liter bottle of soda, but don't expect anyone to figure out how much soda is in 300 milliliters.

Many wrenches are sold in two sets to account for cars (and whatever else) built with metric bolts.

I always hear of street drugs being sold in the realm of grams, but I don't have firsthand knowledge of that. But a lot of medicine lists ingredients in milligrams.

When people aren't up for running a marathon (26.2 miles, I believe), they may sign up to run a 5K or a 10K. 

Aside from the scientific community, everyday life in America is almost exclusively imperial measurements. Unless I'm washing down 500 mg of ibuprofen with a 2-liter Coke after running a 5K, Americans would just stare at me blankly if I try to use anything metric.
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« Reply #120 on: April 20, 2018, 04:37:12 pm »
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If you really want to have some fun, go to any discussion group of the Pathfinder RPG (based on 3rd edition of Dungeons & Dragons) and suggest that the game should be published in metric. People will spiral into a frothing fit to tell you why metric is a bad idea in their RPG.

My favorite "argument" is that if the game changes so that each square is 2 meters instead of 5 feet (which the Star Wars RPG actually did do BTW), then the iconic "5-foot step" would have to be renamed to the "6.56-foot step" and that's too hard to memorize. Some people are so entrenched in imperial that they can't even fathom renaming it to a "2-meter step." Yes, 5 feet sounds like quite a large step; it's not a literal single step.

I'm pretty bad at metric, but I've had some practice with the Torg RPG in 1990. It used metric even when it was an American publisher. Now that it's owned by a German publisher, metric is even more natural.
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« Reply #121 on: April 20, 2018, 04:40:00 pm »
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I always hear of street drugs being sold in the realm of grams, but I don't have firsthand knowledge of that. But a lot of medicine lists ingredients in milligrams.

In all fairness, I don't have any idea how much is one milligram.
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« Reply #122 on: April 20, 2018, 05:08:31 pm »
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My problem with estimating centimeters is that because I'm in the United States, the only time I use centimeters is in science, and in those cases the actual values they quantify don't really matter, and I end up thinking of centimeters as short inches.  However, I've noticed that in my mind I sometimes think of it being about 1.5 centimeters to an inch, not 2.5 centimeters to an inch...

Wait... WAIT. I know the US uses a lot of Imperial units, but do you seriously like not even use cm and m on a daily basis? Like, do schoolkids not have standard 15cm/30cm rulers? Do people not know doorframes are about 2m high? Is it not common knowledge that 1 mile is 1 kilometer, 609 metres, 34 centimetres and 4 milimetres? Okay that last one is maybe not common here either but still, this blows my mind that you guys are using feet and inches for... most things?

I remember those 15/30cm rulers having the other side be in 6/12 inches, and so 30cm is approximately a foot. That's like the main instance of me being able to understand imperial. After that you have one yard equal to three feet, and then the conversions stop being easy.
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« Reply #123 on: April 21, 2018, 03:10:39 am »
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As far as I'm concerned, one yard = one meter and one foot = the distance that sound travels in 1 ms. They're both off like by 10% but that's close enough.
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« Reply #124 on: April 21, 2018, 04:43:02 am »
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If you really want to have some fun, go to any discussion group of the Pathfinder RPG (based on 3rd edition of Dungeons & Dragons) and suggest that the game should be published in metric. People will spiral into a frothing fit to tell you why metric is a bad idea in their RPG.

My favorite "argument" is that if the game changes so that each square is 2 meters instead of 5 feet (which the Star Wars RPG actually did do BTW), then the iconic "5-foot step" would have to be renamed to the "6.56-foot step" and that's too hard to memorize. Some people are so entrenched in imperial that they can't even fathom renaming it to a "2-meter step." Yes, 5 feet sounds like quite a large step; it's not a literal single step.

I'm pretty bad at metric, but I've had some practice with the Torg RPG in 1990. It used metric even when it was an American publisher. Now that it's owned by a German publisher, metric is even more natural.
Well RPGs are an area where I actually kind of get this, especially if the setting is medieval where you wouldn't have a standardized system in-world anyway and people would use their actual feet etc. to measure things.
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« Reply #125 on: April 21, 2018, 11:46:25 am »
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The metric system is the tool of the devil! My car gets 40 rods to the hogshead and that's the way I likes it!
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« Reply #126 on: April 23, 2018, 08:54:23 am »
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Well RPGs are an area where I actually kind of get this, especially if the setting is medieval where you wouldn't have a standardized system in-world anyway and people would use their actual feet etc. to measure things.

I think you may be giving them too much credit. If they were really in it for the verisimilitude, then they would have different measurements of feet based on the king of the land they are visiting. Then you get into funky physics like an arrow being fired in Kingdom A at only 2/3 the distance of it being fired in Kingdom B.

I think this really boils down to grognards. Especially in Pathfinder, which exists solely because D&D players did not want to leave behind D&D 3rd edition, so they published their own rulebook of the open license rules and continued using the same rules for another 10 years. Pathfinder players are not known for being progressive.
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« Reply #127 on: April 23, 2018, 10:03:51 am »
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Well, in TTRPGs, it's probably best to use the units you're the most familiar with. If you have to do conversions in your head, that breaks the immersion much more than using a unit which realistically couldn't be used by the characters of the setting but every player understands perfectly.
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« Reply #128 on: April 23, 2018, 11:21:42 am »
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Well, in TTRPGs, it's probably best to use the units you're the most familiar with.

This is true for everybody. We work best with what is familiar to us. I still use feet and pounds in everything. I recognize that it would be easier overall if America switches to metric, but there would be a period of growing pains. I'm guilty of this too. If we suddenly went metric I'd be thrown off if someone told me to drive 800 meters and then turn left. I'm actually pretty bad about being told to turn left in 300 feet too, but it'd be worse if it were metric for me.

So yeah, it would be easier to use the units people are familiar with in TTRPGs. Seems like RPGs would be the best place to change systems since it's not that important to get the units right in a game. Not like getting confused cooking something or sending directions.
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« Reply #129 on: April 26, 2018, 08:59:20 pm »
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« Reply #130 on: April 26, 2018, 11:30:13 pm »
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« Reply #131 on: April 28, 2018, 06:41:53 pm »
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« Reply #133 on: May 05, 2018, 01:29:15 pm »
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What in the multiverses was that?

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« Reply #134 on: May 05, 2018, 11:08:52 pm »
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http://brainchip.thecomicseries.com/comics/first/

Check this out, it's awesome.

Well, shit, now I'm sucked in.

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« Reply #135 on: May 06, 2018, 01:56:06 am »
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I had a dream where someone made this big, complicated graph deciding whether or not something should be posted in Random Stuff or if it should go in a new thread.  It kind of reminded me of those phase diagrams posted a while back, and it included criteria such as how interesting it is, how much discussion you are expecting to get from it, and how exciting/exhilarating the topic is.
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« Reply #136 on: May 06, 2018, 04:09:30 am »
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http://brainchip.thecomicseries.com/comics/first/

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« Reply #137 on: May 07, 2018, 08:47:41 am »
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http://brainchip.thecomicseries.com/comics/first/

Check this out, it's awesome.

I don't feel the payoff at the end was worth it. It became a jumbled mess IMO. But having a protagonist shift is an underused device, and I feel that was successfully done here. It was remarkably consistent in its worldview, even bringing back older elements we had forgotten about.

And the opening was pretty fun. It makes me wonder if this was one of the inspirations for the Rick and Morty episode with splitting possibilities, though the ability to talk with your other selves is a nice touch, especially since it helped get Ulf out of some sticky situations.

The Buddhist virus makes me wonder if the artist knew what Buddhism was or if they simply chose something absurd to offset the Christian virus. It was not subtle in its disdain for religion though.
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« Reply #138 on: May 16, 2018, 07:19:46 pm »
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In 2011, someone made a thread called "1-card Combo" on f.ds.

The card in question was Farming Village.
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« Reply #139 on: May 17, 2018, 09:49:58 am »
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In 2011, someone made a thread called "1-card Combo" on f.ds.

The card in question was Farming Village.

Even though the OP way way wrong; I feel like the welcome to a new poster could have been more welcoming. No idea why Theory locked that thread.
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« Reply #140 on: May 17, 2018, 10:07:33 am »
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« Reply #141 on: May 17, 2018, 12:39:13 pm »
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I linked the card alchemy revealtion in a non Dominon Discord and forgot this post was in it:

I hope this is the first thread someone finds on f.ds.

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« Reply #142 on: May 18, 2018, 10:48:48 pm »
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« Reply #143 on: May 19, 2018, 03:19:49 pm »
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What have we done...

Thanks for posting this. Otherwise I'd have missed out on a lot of funny posts.

Totally unrelated – what is the common English term for the person doing a lecture or tutorial at a university that works in both cases? That person isn't always a professor. Lecturer?

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« Reply #144 on: May 19, 2018, 05:01:17 pm »
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What have we done...

Thanks for posting this. Otherwise I'd have missed out on a lot of funny posts.

Totally unrelated – what is the common English term for the person doing a lecture or tutorial at a university that works in both cases? That person isn't always a professor. Lecturer?

Instructor
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« Reply #145 on: May 19, 2018, 07:39:57 pm »
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What have we done...

Thanks for posting this. Otherwise I'd have missed out on a lot of funny posts.

Totally unrelated – what is the common English term for the person doing a lecture or tutorial at a university that works in both cases? That person isn't always a professor. Lecturer?

Sometimes Lecturer.  Depends on the college.
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« Reply #146 on: May 19, 2018, 07:42:45 pm »
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My problem with estimating centimeters is that because I'm in the United States, the only time I use centimeters is in science, and in those cases the actual values they quantify don't really matter, and I end up thinking of centimeters as short inches.  However, I've noticed that in my mind I sometimes think of it being about 1.5 centimeters to an inch, not 2.5 centimeters to an inch...

Wait... WAIT. I know the US uses a lot of Imperial units, but do you seriously like not even use cm and m on a daily basis? Like, do schoolkids not have standard 15cm/30cm rulers? Do people not know doorframes are about 2m high? Is it not common knowledge that 1 mile is 1 kilometer, 609 metres, 34 centimetres and 4 milimetres? Okay that last one is maybe not common here either but still, this blows my mind that you guys are using feet and inches for... most things?

I'm sorry you had to find out this way.  It really is terrible, especially for those of us who actually prefer metric.  Maybe by the end of my life it'll change; I'm trying to teach our kids to use metric.
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« Reply #147 on: May 19, 2018, 07:44:47 pm »
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I agree with silverspawn, people often are bad at estimating measurements.
For example, I recently ordered something 20 centimeters long, and it was less than half the size i had imagined.

Was... was this supposed to be a dick joke?
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« Reply #148 on: May 19, 2018, 09:07:38 pm »
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I don't know anybody who uses metric units over here. I agree that it's troubling, but then it's hardly the only anti intellectual trend in the US.
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« Reply #149 on: May 20, 2018, 08:54:37 am »
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What have we done...

Thanks for posting this. Otherwise I'd have missed out on a lot of funny posts.

Totally unrelated – what is the common English term for the person doing a lecture or tutorial at a university that works in both cases? That person isn't always a professor. Lecturer?

Instructor

"Tutor" would be okay in a lot of settings, and I think it has more academic connotations than "instructor". It's true that in the UK, "professor" is usually reserved for tenured professorships, whereas in the US it tends to mean almost anyone with an academic teaching post. It also depends on what you understand by the word tutorial :-)
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« Reply #150 on: May 20, 2018, 11:59:29 am »
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What have we done...

Thanks for posting this. Otherwise I'd have missed out on a lot of funny posts.

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Instructor

"Tutor" would be okay in a lot of settings, and I think it has more academic connotations than "instructor". It's true that in the UK, "professor" is usually reserved for tenured professorships, whereas in the US it tends to mean almost anyone with an academic teaching post. It also depends on what you understand by the word tutorial :-)

I've only ever heard tutor used for one-on-one teaching.
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« Reply #151 on: May 20, 2018, 12:01:38 pm »
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What have we done...

Thanks for posting this. Otherwise I'd have missed out on a lot of funny posts.

Totally unrelated – what is the common English term for the person doing a lecture or tutorial at a university that works in both cases? That person isn't always a professor. Lecturer?

Instructor

"Tutor" would be okay in a lot of settings, and I think it has more academic connotations than "instructor". It's true that in the UK, "professor" is usually reserved for tenured professorships, whereas in the US it tends to mean almost anyone with an academic teaching post. It also depends on what you understand by the word tutorial :-)

As an instructor, I never heard the word tutor used for the speaker of record at an educational meeting. "Tutor" usually refers to somebody who works with a student one on one.

That said, if the question is "what should I call this person verbally to get their attention," then the answer is that if they do not have a PhD, you either say "professor" or "Mr./Mrs./MS. Name."
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« Reply #152 on: May 20, 2018, 01:08:17 pm »
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I've only ever heard tutor used for one-on-one teaching.

I'm using "tutorial" in this sense: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tutorial_system -- as I mentioned to silver, it really depends what he means by "tutorial" :-)

I came through the Oxford system as an undergraduate, and then tutored for a couple of years as a grad student too. Tutorials were almost always either in pairs or threes, though I had a few on my own because of the way some stuff worked out as a third-year undergrad, and I found those the most terrifying! I think as a student, I had maybe 3-5 tutorials per week during the intense bits of termtime, on top of 10+ hours of lectures.
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« Reply #153 on: May 20, 2018, 01:15:03 pm »
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At German universities tutorials are usually acompanying a lecture and are held by more advanced advanced students once or twice a week with groups between 5-20 students.
Students do exercises about the lecture material at home, and the tutorials discuss the solutions to those (after the students have worked on them themselves) furthermore. students can ask the tutor if they have trouble with understanding parts of the lecture during these tutorials.
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« Reply #154 on: May 20, 2018, 01:36:27 pm »
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As an instructor, I never heard the word tutor used for the speaker of record at an educational meeting. "Tutor" usually refers to somebody who works with a student one on one.

That said, if the question is "what should I call this person verbally to get their attention," then the answer is that if they do not have a PhD, you either say "professor" or "Mr./Mrs./MS. Name."

It depends where you are. Here in the UK, most people doing teaching are not correctly called professors, because "professor" is only the very top tier of the academic hierarchy, with readers, lecturers and research fellows below that (while still holding a PhD). If you address all of them "professor", you may just sound like you're trying to suck up, or are generally ignorant/unobservant. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_academic_ranks)

I'm assuming silver wanted to know for  fanfic-writing purposes, and I'm relatively sure that he leans towards US English for that, but on the off-chance his interest is academic, I figure it's worth covering all bases :-)
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« Reply #155 on: May 20, 2018, 01:46:29 pm »
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I've only ever heard tutor used for one-on-one teaching.

I'm using "tutorial" in this sense: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tutorial_system -- as I mentioned to silver, it really depends what he means by "tutorial" :-)

That's exactly what I meant! Which is also what Watno said.

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« Reply #156 on: May 20, 2018, 02:02:31 pm »
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I've only ever heard tutor used for one-on-one teaching.

I'm using "tutorial" in this sense: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tutorial_system -- as I mentioned to silver, it really depends what he means by "tutorial" :-)

That's exactly what I meant! Which is also what Watno said.

Umm, that article talks about goup sizes of 2 to 3, whcih is not what I said.
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« Reply #157 on: May 20, 2018, 02:04:18 pm »
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I confess to only reading a few lines and concluding it was what I meant. What you said, then, sizes of 5-40

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« Reply #158 on: May 20, 2018, 09:39:37 pm »
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As an instructor, I never heard the word tutor used for the speaker of record at an educational meeting. "Tutor" usually refers to somebody who works with a student one on one.

That said, if the question is "what should I call this person verbally to get their attention," then the answer is that if they do not have a PhD, you either say "professor" or "Mr./Mrs./MS. Name."

It depends where you are. Here in the UK, most people doing teaching are not correctly called professors, because "professor" is only the very top tier of the academic hierarchy, with readers, lecturers and research fellows below that (while still holding a PhD). If you address all of them "professor", you may just sound like you're trying to suck up, or are generally ignorant/unobservant. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_academic_ranks)

I'm assuming silver wanted to know for  fanfic-writing purposes, and I'm relatively sure that he leans towards US English for that, but on the off-chance his interest is academic, I figure it's worth covering all bases :-)

In my experience teaching undergrads and talking to people in confusing academic or administrative roles, whenever someone addresses us as “professor”, we just assume they are confused (which, to be honest, even actual professors don’t get it right). If they keep addressing us as “professor” after you’ve repeatedly signed your emails as, say, “Kevin”, THEN we assume they are sucking up.

We would only make fun of a student if they started an email as “hey professor Jim” or some such.
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« Reply #160 on: May 22, 2018, 08:15:11 pm »
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Does anyone think it's odd that our mouths are used for so many functions? If you were going to design a person would you have separate facilities for eating, breathing, speaking, etc. Also I feel like we could end up just dropping verbal speech.
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« Reply #161 on: May 22, 2018, 11:18:45 pm »
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Does anyone think it's odd that our mouths are used for so many functions? If you were going to design a person would you have separate facilities for eating, breathing, speaking, etc. Also I feel like we could end up just dropping verbal speech.

You want to design several organs?  We would probably poop out of our mouths if it weren't for the fact that it's not sanitary.
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« Reply #162 on: May 23, 2018, 01:39:42 am »
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It’s funny when you are randomly browsing the internet and you recognize someone. Our favourite mod got comment of the week in a pretty well-known blog (don’t want to give more details in case that’s doxxing).
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« Reply #163 on: May 23, 2018, 06:18:44 am »
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Does anyone think it's odd that our mouths are used for so many functions? If you were going to design a person would you have separate facilities for eating, breathing, speaking, etc. Also I feel like we could end up just dropping verbal speech.

You want to design several organs?  We would probably poop out of our mouths if it weren't for the fact that it's not sanitary.
Yep, it's defnitely best to keep the number of openings where problematic stuff can enter to a minimum. When you design a spaceship, you don't drop airlocks all over the place for different functions [this is me speaking from my vast experience in designing spaceships].
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« Reply #164 on: May 23, 2018, 09:33:17 am »
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I think it makes a lot of sense to have multi-purpose body parts. In many cases, it's easier for an existing body part to evolve to perform another function in addition to what it was already doing than for a completely new body part to emerge. For example, mudskippers use their fins for walking on land, because that's easier than growing a pair of legs or something.
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« Reply #166 on: May 24, 2018, 04:16:11 pm »
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Does anyone think it's odd that our mouths are used for so many functions? If you were going to design a person would you have separate facilities for eating, breathing, speaking, etc. Also I feel like we could end up just dropping verbal speech.

You want to design several organs?  We would probably poop out of our mouths if it weren't for the fact that it's not sanitary.
Yep, it's defnitely best to keep the number of openings where problematic stuff can enter to a minimum. When you design a spaceship, you don't drop airlocks all over the place for different functions [this is me speaking from my vast experience in designing spaceships].

I think it makes a lot of sense to have multi-purpose body parts. In many cases, it's easier for an existing body part to evolve to perform another function in addition to what it was already doing than for a completely new body part to emerge. For example, mudskippers use their fins for walking on land, because that's easier than growing a pair of legs or something.

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« Reply #167 on: May 24, 2018, 05:39:16 pm »
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« Reply #168 on: May 24, 2018, 05:40:46 pm »
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« Reply #170 on: May 24, 2018, 08:08:16 pm »
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Does anyone think it's odd that our mouths are used for so many functions? If you were going to design a person would you have separate facilities for eating, breathing, speaking, etc. Also I feel like we could end up just dropping verbal speech.
Fun fact: newborn babies can breathe through their noses while suckling using their mouths. We lose this ability at some point later.
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« Reply #171 on: May 24, 2018, 09:18:47 pm »
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Does anyone think it's odd that our mouths are used for so many functions? If you were going to design a person would you have separate facilities for eating, breathing, speaking, etc. Also I feel like we could end up just dropping verbal speech.

You want to design several organs?  We would probably poop out of our mouths if it weren't for the fact that it's not sanitary.
Yep, it's defnitely best to keep the number of openings where problematic stuff can enter to a minimum. When you design a spaceship, you don't drop airlocks all over the place for different functions [this is me speaking from my vast experience in designing spaceships].

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« Reply #172 on: May 24, 2018, 09:19:49 pm »
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Does anyone think it's odd that our mouths are used for so many functions? If you were going to design a person would you have separate facilities for eating, breathing, speaking, etc. Also I feel like we could end up just dropping verbal speech.
Fun fact: newborn babies can breathe through their noses while suckling using their mouths. We lose this ability at some point later.

They also don't need to make smalltalk. Babies seem to have it made.
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« Reply #173 on: May 24, 2018, 11:26:09 pm »
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Does anyone think it's odd that our mouths are used for so many functions? If you were going to design a person would you have separate facilities for eating, breathing, speaking, etc. Also I feel like we could end up just dropping verbal speech.
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« Reply #174 on: May 25, 2018, 12:06:15 am »
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« Reply #175 on: June 04, 2018, 01:56:11 pm »
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Netflix will take over the world with the skip intro button. It's now a better product than having an entire show on the harddrive.

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« Reply #176 on: June 04, 2018, 04:06:53 pm »
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Netflix will take over the world with the skip intro button. It's now a better product than having an entire show on the harddrive.

Having an entire show on the hard drive has had that feature ever since mkv chapters.

EDIT: Looked it up, chapters were introduced into mkv in 2003-08-04.
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« Reply #177 on: June 04, 2018, 07:30:06 pm »
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Netflix will take over the world with the skip intro button. It's now a better product than having an entire show on the harddrive.

What's worth watching on Netflix these days?
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« Reply #178 on: June 04, 2018, 11:17:07 pm »
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Netflix will take over the world with the skip intro button. It's now a better product than having an entire show on the harddrive.

Does that mean they got rid of the thing where it automatically skips the intro? Because for some shows it automatically does (or did) skip the intro whenever you watch more than one episode at a time. And sometimes, like with Series of Unfortunate Events, the intro differs from episode to episode and I want to see it, which means I have to rewind. Which is annoying when I'm watching on the Wii U (which is the Netflix device I have hooked up to that TV), and the controls are sometimes unresponsive.
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« Reply #179 on: June 05, 2018, 03:34:04 am »
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Does that mean they got rid of the thing where it automatically skips the intro? Because for some shows it automatically does (or did) skip the intro whenever you watch more than one episode at a time.

No, it still does that

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« Reply #180 on: June 05, 2018, 01:08:30 pm »
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Netflix will take over the world with the skip intro button. It's now a better product than having an entire show on the harddrive.

What's worth watching on Netflix these days?

Lost in Space looks promising, though I've only seen the first couple episodes.
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« Reply #181 on: June 05, 2018, 02:27:33 pm »
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Most DVDs have always had a skip intro button, called next chapter. Though sometimes DVDs have poor chapter divisions where that doesn't work. In which case fast-forwarding for a few seconds does the same thing, but takes 3-5 seconds instead of 1 second.

And yeah, it's annoying with shows like Family Guy, where they will occasionally have a joke stuck in the middle of the opening credits. It's only happened like 3-4 times in the first 14 seasons, but you still have to watch (or at least fast-forward through) all the credits just in case.
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« Reply #182 on: June 05, 2018, 02:34:57 pm »
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Does that mean they got rid of the thing where it automatically skips the intro? Because for some shows it automatically does (or did) skip the intro whenever you watch more than one episode at a time.

No, it still does that

Netflix will take over the world with the skip intro button. It's now a better product than having an entire show on the harddrive.

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for you ... uh ... s03e06 of black mirror if you haven't seen it. maaaybe the series of unfortunate events or jessica jones.

Hmm.. not a fan of Black Mirror overall, though that's going on the first season or two mostly, and I haven't seen more than the VR spaceship episode of the most recent set. They clearly like playing with "edgy" ideas, but not enough to think very far through the implications for those overall in society, so I feel like it ends up as a series of seemingly controversial but fundamentally empty statements. Also I think I like things better if they come in lots of installments like GoT. You were the one who convinced me I should give that a try, so now I'm looking for a recommendation that's at least as good :-P
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« Reply #183 on: June 05, 2018, 05:08:48 pm »
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Also I think I like things better if they come in lots of installments like GoT. You were the one who convinced me I should give that a try, so now I'm looking for a recommendation that's at least as good :-P

Well, let me know if you find something, because I've certainly never seen any show as good as first 5 seasons of GoT. The four or so shows that I think come somewhat close are all things that I don't think you'd like, including Black Mirror. But Black mirror episodes are standalone, so you can just view s03e06 as a 70 minute long movie without bothering with the rest.

I don't think Black Mirror is generally trying to have a message. I think it's mostly depicting possible futures and then sets a plausible story in them.

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« Reply #184 on: June 19, 2018, 05:38:42 pm »
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There's this song that gets played a lot on local radio at the moment. 2002 by uhh Anne something or other. It's an okay song, terrible music video (I regret checking).

The song is weird. It's about the year 2002, when the singer was 11. I don't even know if the writer of the song realised, but despite being released this year, the song is actually set in 2009. Basically: The first verse is about 2002, when the singer was 11, and is in past tense. Then the second verse is when she's 18, and is in present tense. So... yeah. It's set in 2009, despite being released this year.
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« Reply #185 on: June 20, 2018, 08:42:42 am »
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Maybe it took 9 years to finish the song?

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« Reply #186 on: June 20, 2018, 01:40:04 pm »
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« Reply #187 on: June 20, 2018, 02:00:07 pm »
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I had fun with a learning module we're developing. It is superhero-themed. Spent an hour laughing maniacally and uttering villain lines if the learner chooses the side of evil.

I kind of worry that the training might be off a bit as people may choose the wrong answer just to hear what the villains are saying. Certainly more fun that the hero speeches.

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« Reply #188 on: June 20, 2018, 08:43:52 pm »
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It's also worth noting that the narrator in a song/poem need not be the same as the author.
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« Reply #189 on: June 21, 2018, 05:35:29 am »
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I rue the fact that we don't say rue enough times.

I feel like that's not how 'rue' is meant to be used...
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« Reply #190 on: June 21, 2018, 08:55:59 am »
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I rue the fact that we don't say rue enough times.

I feel like that's not how 'rue' is meant to be used...

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« Reply #191 on: June 21, 2018, 11:49:15 am »
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I rue the fact that we don't say rue enough times.

I feel like that's not how 'rue' is meant to be used...

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« Reply #192 on: June 21, 2018, 11:16:57 pm »
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« Reply #193 on: July 13, 2018, 04:12:12 pm »
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So, I had a random idea for a board game a few days ago, while trying to think of a good semi-mathsy game for the end of school term (still trying to think of something if anyone has ideas, only one week left now!). I think it might actually be... interesting, sorta. The following is a brief description, and likely vague because it's just an idea, but I'd like to know if people think it sounds reasonable. I'll add uncertainties in brackets.

The game takes place on a square grid (possibly with obstacles/holes/walls on it for interest). Players are trying to place as many tiles on the grid of their own... colour/symbol (since tiles are shared, not sure how this would be tracked easily). There is a random selection of available tiles which are replenished every time one is played, of varying shape and size. Some tiles have a special mark on them, allowing you to place them over other players/your own tiles, otherwise each tile must fit into its own space (maybe own space or over your own tiles only).

Not sure how this bit would work yet, but play would not be circular but rather using a quick bidding system. Players start with some number of counters (maybe 15) and can hold some number in their hand secretly each round to bid on getting a turn. Highest bid takes a turn, ties broken as closest player clockwise to last player who made a move. Somehow counters should be refreshed during the game - could be that counters are shared among other players (e.g. give your winning bid out one to each player clockwise until you run out) or similar. I'd probably need some extra mechanic to keep the game moving quickly, since having a bid every single round would be slow. Maybe the bids determine entire order of the round? I dunno yet.

Winner is the player at the end of the game who has the most territory covered. Or maybe some kind of points system - covering space earns points, achieving certain goals earns points, having counters left earns points etc.

Anyway, feel free to poke holes in the idea, suggest games that already have similar mechanics (I know it already has some similarity to Patchwork, a 2 player game by some prolific designer I've forgotten in the moment), or otherwise suggest things to make it not too stale. It'll probably go nowhere but ehh, maybe it's a nice idea.
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« Reply #194 on: July 13, 2018, 09:30:52 pm »
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I think you want some mechanic that gives long-term repercussions to tile placement, right now it sounds like where you place a tile is not important, as long as you actually placed it.

Can you place a tile partially covering other tiles? It’s not going to lat flat on the board if some of the spaces it’s covering already have a tile on them, while others don’t.

I am terrible at bidding games, so nothing to add there.

Blokus is an interesting tile placement game, if you haven’t heard of it.

EDIT: if I was making the game, I would do away with the bidding, and do something like:

6x6 board
A common pool of grey tiles, each being 2- or 3-spaces large. Three are available at any time, they get replenished as they are used.
Each player has a private pool of 4-space large tiles in their colour (think Tetris)

Each turn, a player places a grey tile, then they may place one of their own coloured tiles. Tiles can only be placed if all the spaces they cover are the same “height”. Grey tiles can only cover other grey tiles, or tiles from the active player. Player tiles can cover any colour, but they may not perfectly overlap another player’s tile.

Game ends when a player cannot place a grey tile during their turn or grey tile pool is exhausted. Players get one point per space covered by a tile in their colour.
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« Reply #195 on: July 14, 2018, 05:30:21 am »
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Blokus is an interesting tile placement game, if you haven’t heard of it.

But I have heard of it, so is it interesting in this situation?

Anyway terrible logic jokes aside, you might be right about where you place a tile isn't too important - that's why I was considering there being points for objectives, e.g. building a 3x3 square is worth some amount of points, or making a continuous path from one side of the board to another, or other similar things.

Regarding the overlapping problem, what might be possible to do is something like... rather than placing the shapes onto the grid, you place 1x1 tiles based on e.g. the pattern on a card? That way if you can overlap someone, you just remove their tile and place your own, which is much easier to manage.

I do actually quite like the idea of there being a common gray and personal coloured pool. That could work.
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« Reply #196 on: August 07, 2018, 12:09:30 pm »
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My university (University of Eastern Finland) was/is under a pretty large scale phishing attack, which I found somewhat amusing and it also demonstrates a pretty important lesson about modern cyber security, so I thought I'd share the story.

The attackers sent out a bunch of phishing e-mails until someone opened the link (which was presumably a fake site that looked like the UEF login page) and gave them his/her login credentials. After that, the attackers were able to use that e-mail address to send out even more phishing e-mails whose sender appeared as "UEF Help Desk" with an uef.fi e-mail address, which made the e-mails a lot more convincing. All of this happened after the working hours, so it took the university a while to react to the attack, which they did by sending out an announcement by e-mail where they basically described what had happened and urged people to change their passwords. After the announcement, the attackers sent out a bunch of their own e-mails about how there had been phishing e-mails, with a link that you could click to change your password, presumably leading to the exact same fake site, as well as e-mails about suspicious activity from Brazil being detected on your account, also with a similar link.

This all started roughly 2 weeks ago from what I can tell, and according to a (real) announcement by the university today, it is likely that the attack is still ongoing. They haven't published an estimate about how many accounts have been compromised, but I, being a random student, have seen people get these fake e-mails from at least 10-20 different compromised UEF accounts so that's a very conservative lower bound. It's pretty easy for native Finnish speakers to get suspicious about these e-mails that contain very poor Finnish, but UEF has a lot of international transfer students who are very vulnerable to this kind of an attack, and in fact all of the different compromised accounts that I was able to confirm did belong to people with foreign-sounding names.

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« Reply #197 on: August 07, 2018, 03:59:22 pm »
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« Reply #198 on: August 07, 2018, 04:43:32 pm »
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Ugh, I'm the worst at these. How do you escape yetis without shooting at them?
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« Reply #199 on: August 07, 2018, 04:54:14 pm »
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from the same guy who made the awesome trans-dimensional brainchip webcoming

I seem to be bad at this. I think most of the time there was something creative you ought to do and I didn't find it.

I had to undo twice (once because I accidentally did something I didn't mean to do in the first place unlocked a door that I had just locked, not realizing it was the same door, and once because of a game over). I'm usually bad at these types of games, but I feel like this one worked the way I expected almost every time.

Ugh, I'm the worst at these. How do you escape yetis without shooting at them?

You don't. I think there are two opportunities to deal with a yeti before it catches you, and you have to take at least one of them in order to not run out of bullets.

EDIT: that's actually wrong, there must be more opportunities to deal with yetis without having them catch you according to the "amusing things to do" option after the game but I haven't figured out more than two so far

EDIT 2: I figured out another one!

EDIT 3: Figured out another one!
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« Reply #200 on: August 07, 2018, 05:16:22 pm »
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I actually managed to beat it first try with one shot left. It's not too difficult, but the challenge to try to do it on your first try is what ups the stakes, because you aren't sure whether you still have time to figure out the solution, or if the yeti is about to kill you.

You do need to shoot at least two times    to beat the game. I managed to "perfect" it on my second try, was fun :)
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« Reply #201 on: August 07, 2018, 05:27:29 pm »
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I actually managed to beat it first try with one shot left. It's not too difficult, but the challenge to try to do it on your first try is what ups the stakes, because you aren't sure whether you still have time to figure out the solution, or if the yeti is about to kill you.

You do need to shoot at least two times    to beat the game. I managed to "perfect" it on my second try, was fun :)

Yeah it's very easy to beat if you use undo. I also just figured out the remaining way to save a bullet.
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« Reply #202 on: August 08, 2018, 03:17:17 am »
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guah I made it on the third try with zero shots left  :'(

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« Reply #203 on: August 08, 2018, 10:09:00 am »
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guah I made it on the third try with zero shots left  :'(

Do you want tips?
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« Reply #204 on: August 08, 2018, 11:09:35 am »
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I'd like to know what you can do about the thin and fat yeti. the fact that they're thin and fat has to mean something, but I couldn't think of a way to use it. On the third try I went into another room and waited a while, then one of them was gone and I had to use only one shot instead of two, but I'm assuming there's a better way.

Also about the boss, what non-shooting thing can you do besides using the coffee?

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« Reply #205 on: August 08, 2018, 12:36:15 pm »
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I'd like to know what you can do about the thin and fat yeti. the fact that they're thin and fat has to mean something, but I couldn't think of a way to use it. On the third try I went into another room and waited a while, then one of them was gone and I had to use only one shot instead of two, but I'm assuming there's a better way.

Also about the boss, what non-shooting thing can you do besides using the coffee?


1) There isn't, that's one of the two scenes where you actually have to use a shot.
2) You can push the bookshelf on him and push the chair out of the window.
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« Reply #206 on: August 08, 2018, 12:38:11 pm »
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A bit less spoilerific than Awaclus, who gave away the answer:

If you have finished the game, you know that you need to shoot at least twice to beat it. As far as I could tell, the only reason those two yetis are different is so that you can specify which one you are shooting if both follow you to the chopper, but I may be wrong.

As far as the boss, you can beat him without shooting even once. Check the description of his room a bit more closely. There is unfortunately some guess-the-verb involved but nothing too bad.
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« Reply #207 on: August 08, 2018, 12:57:21 pm »
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I actually did try to push over the bookshelf, and it didn't work. I must have used the wrong verb. I didn't try using the chair, though.

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« Reply #208 on: August 10, 2018, 10:32:03 pm »
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« Reply #210 on: August 13, 2018, 09:43:14 am »
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Argh! My one weakness: A stupid Facebook message with people answering a simple math problem by applying addition before multiplication. Why can't I quit you?

This time, it's a screen shot of a poll asking people to answer 2+2*4.Not only did a distressing majority answer that the correct answer is 16, but the correct answer isn't even listed in the poll. I'm suspecting a troll poll. Then there's a caption that wonders if it's scarier that so many people answered 13 as the correct answer. I can actually see that. It's the closest to the real answer, so these are likely all people trying to point to the correct answer. At least I really hope so.
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« Reply #211 on: August 13, 2018, 10:04:55 am »
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This time, it's a screen shot of a poll asking people to answer 2+2*4.Not only did a distressing majority answer that the correct answer is 16, but the correct answer isn't even listed in the poll. I'm suspecting a troll poll. Then there's a caption that wonders if it's scarier that so many people answered 13 as the correct answer. I can actually see that. It's the closest to the real answer, so these are likely all people trying to point to the correct answer. At least I really hope so.
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« Reply #212 on: August 13, 2018, 09:47:51 pm »
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Obviously, those people knew that

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« Reply #213 on: August 14, 2018, 08:54:54 am »
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Obviously, those people knew that

x*y = y/x^2 + xy + x.

I'm pretty sure I'm seeing some cleverness happening, but I fear it may be too inside of a joke for it to register with me.
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« Reply #214 on: August 14, 2018, 12:25:09 pm »
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Obviously, those people knew that

x*y = y/x^2 + xy + x.

I'm pretty sure I'm seeing some cleverness happening, but I fear it may be too inside of a joke for it to register with me.

x=2, y=4, Witherweaver is suggesting * from 2+2*4 is a relation, mapping (x,y) to y/x^2 + xy + x. So 2*4 = 4/2^2 + 2*4 + 2 = 11, and hence 2+2*4 = 13

Less of an inside joke and more just a subtle mathematical one. Well played Witherweaver.
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« Reply #215 on: August 14, 2018, 01:12:29 pm »
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Obviously, those people knew that

x*y = y/x^2 + xy + x.

I'm pretty sure I'm seeing some cleverness happening, but I fear it may be too inside of a joke for it to register with me.

x=2, y=4, Witherweaver is suggesting * from 2+2*4 is a relation, mapping (x,y) to y/x^2 + xy + x. So 2*4 = 4/2^2 + 2*4 + 2 = 11, and hence 2+2*4 = 13

Less of an inside joke and more just a subtle mathematical one. Well played Witherweaver.

Ah, I didn't realize he was justifying the answer as 13. Very nice indeed now that I am aware of that.

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« Reply #216 on: August 14, 2018, 02:17:27 pm »
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Recent Facebook hell now has me scrolling through answers for the question of how much money did a store owner lose if you stole a $100 bill from the register and then used that bill to buy $70 worth of merchandise. I'm more forgiving of this one because for some people, it can be tricky to follow along. At least it's not flat-out ignoring order of operations.

Well, you can't give an accurate answer to that question if that's the only information you are given. Does the money in the register belong to the store owner and is the store owner directly gaining all profits from sales? If not, how much does stealing the $100 correlate with the store owner getting paid less, and likewise for the profits? Were you going to buy that merch anyway or did you only buy it because you had an extra $100 after stealing it? If you weren't going to buy it anyway, was someone else going to buy it anyway or was it just going to sit there? If someone else was going to buy it anyway, but at a later date, what is the inflation rate? If you bought $70 "worth" of merch, presumably that means you're paying $70 for it but the store probably paid less than $70, so how much did the store have to pay for the merch? Depending on the answers to these questions, the store owner could lose anywhere between nothing and $100.
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« Reply #217 on: August 14, 2018, 02:50:21 pm »
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Drop the owner part. How much did the store lose?

The markup is an important distinction, though lost revenue is a thing, but just like many textbook questions, this doesn't figure into the calculation.

My favorite is the woman who talked herself into stating that the store lost $270. Her being wrong was nothing special, but the magnitude in which she was wrong is pretty amazing.
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« Reply #218 on: August 14, 2018, 03:12:40 pm »
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Paul Erdos refused to believe the solution to the Monty Hall problem.

A lot of academics refused to believe it as well:
http://marilynvossavant.com/game-show-problem/

I didn't accept it at first either, but I at least wasn't a petulant little dick about it.

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« Reply #222 on: August 14, 2018, 05:25:13 pm »
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Drop the owner part. How much did the store lose?

The markup is an important distinction, though lost revenue is a thing, but just like many textbook questions, this doesn't figure into the calculation.

My favorite is the woman who talked herself into stating that the store lost $270. Her being wrong was nothing special, but the magnitude in which she was wrong is pretty amazing.

Even ignoring the salary vs profit bits; it IS necessary to know if money gained by selling stuff counts as actual money gained; or whether it only counts as transferring assets from goods to cash.

In other words, if the theft hadn't happened, and someone walked in and bought $70 worth of stuff, would we say that the store made $70? There's 3 equally valid answers to that question:

1. The store made $70, because it has $70 more cash now than before.
2. The store didn't make anything, because although it has $70 more cash, it no longer has the items that could be sold for $70.
3. The store made whatever profit was made depending on the cost basis of the goods that were sold. So more than $0 but less than $70.

Which of the 3 answers you give to that question will determine the answer to "how much did the store lose in the theft?"
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« Reply #223 on: August 14, 2018, 05:47:23 pm »
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« Reply #224 on: August 14, 2018, 05:49:59 pm »
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Paul Erdos refused to believe the solution to the Monty Hall problem.

A lot of academics refused to believe it as well:
http://marilynvossavant.com/game-show-problem/

I didn't accept it at first either, but I at least wasn't a petulant little dick about it.

I ate crow when someone suggested expanding the puzzle to 1000 doors. Made me re-examine the math while acknowledging my blinders.

I still think it makes much more sense to ask what the probability is when you first pick, and realize that that probability doesn't change when the host opens another door.
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« Reply #225 on: August 14, 2018, 06:00:46 pm »
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Paul Erdos refused to believe the solution to the Monty Hall problem.

A lot of academics refused to believe it as well:
http://marilynvossavant.com/game-show-problem/

I didn't accept it at first either, but I at least wasn't a petulant little dick about it.

I ate crow when someone suggested expanding the puzzle to 1000 doors. Made me re-examine the math while acknowledging my blinders.

I still think it makes much more sense to ask what the probability is when you first pick, and realize that that probability doesn't change when the host opens another door.

But the exact problem is that so many people's intuition tells them that the probability does change as a result of getting new information. The trick is to make them realize that they didn't actually get new (meaningful) information.
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« Reply #226 on: August 14, 2018, 06:36:34 pm »
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But you can just iterate through the cases. However counterintuitive it is, there's your answer. Why wasn't that enough for Erdos? It's a sad comment on how people work.
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« Reply #227 on: August 14, 2018, 07:29:43 pm »
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The one that I prefer is to rephrase the problem - you pick a door, then Monty asks you whether you want what's behind your door, or what's behind both other doors. Assuming the goat has zero value to you, then it winds up being the same result, which means you definitely get twice the chance of winning if you swap.
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« Reply #228 on: August 14, 2018, 07:54:42 pm »
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The funny thing is that, if the door that is revealed to have a goat was chosen randomly, then it doesn’t make any difference whether you swap doors or not, you have a 50% chance either way. It’s only because the host guarantees that he will open a door with a goat behind it that the odds are skewed in favour of swapping doors.
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« Reply #229 on: August 14, 2018, 09:08:22 pm »
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I once had an internship at this tech company, and the IT guy was trying to convince me that since it could either rain or not rain (two outcomes), the chance of rain was always 50% and weather reports were nonsense.
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« Reply #230 on: August 15, 2018, 03:08:11 am »
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The funny thing is that, if the door that is revealed to have a goat was chosen randomly, then it doesn’t make any difference whether you swap doors or not, you have a 50% chance either way. It’s only because the host guarantees that he will open a door with a goat behind it that the odds are skewed in favour of swapping doors.

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That's exactly right. And if it is unspecified how the door was chosen, the problem actually doesn't have a right answer. Wikipedia acknowledges this (at least by now).

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« Reply #231 on: August 15, 2018, 07:50:16 am »
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I once had an internship at this tech company, and the IT guy was trying to convince me that since it could either rain or not rain (two outcomes), the chance of rain was always 50% and weather reports were nonsense.
You can extend that kind of reasoning to prove that there is life outside our galaxy.
Chance of Cows outside our galaxy? Don't really know, two options, call it 50%.
Chance of Pigs? 50%
Chance of Trees? 50%
...
Chance of lifeform n? 50%

Chance of none of them? Well that would be (0.5)^n, which tends to 0 as n increases.
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« Reply #232 on: August 15, 2018, 09:14:54 am »
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The funny thing is that, if the door that is revealed to have a goat was chosen randomly, then it doesn’t make any difference whether you swap doors or not, you have a 50% chance either way. It’s only because the host guarantees that he will open a door with a goat behind it that the odds are skewed in favour of swapping doors.

*upvote*

That's exactly right. And if it is unspecified how the door was chosen, the problem actually doesn't have a right answer. Wikipedia acknowledges this (at least by now).

There are reasonable assumptions you can make though. The puzzle presumes that this always happens in all scenarios. Since 2/3 of the scenarios would involve having the car behind one of the two doors, the revealed goat cannot be randomly chosen.

But if the scenario is such that the car can be revealed by the host, then that does imply that the door is chosen randomly.

It boils down to whether there are reasonable assumptions for the puzzle. Since this is based on a real event, has there ever been a case where the host reveals the car?
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« Reply #233 on: August 15, 2018, 09:19:08 am »
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I still think it makes much more sense to ask what the probability is when you first pick, and realize that that probability doesn't change when the host opens another door.


I agree that it makes sense, but it isn't intuitive for many people. Even I refused to believe it. The math was right in front of me, but I was so certain I was right that I was ignoring what made sense and looked for evidence supporting my belief (so pretty much human politics). It took the hyperbole of several doors to make me question those beliefs and re-examine the probability. I was a lot more accepting of it at that point.
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« Reply #234 on: August 15, 2018, 09:57:22 am »
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The funny thing is that, if the door that is revealed to have a goat was chosen randomly, then it doesn’t make any difference whether you swap doors or not, you have a 50% chance either way. It’s only because the host guarantees that he will open a door with a goat behind it that the odds are skewed in favour of swapping doors.

*upvote*

That's exactly right. And if it is unspecified how the door was chosen, the problem actually doesn't have a right answer. Wikipedia acknowledges this (at least by now).

There are reasonable assumptions you can make though. The puzzle presumes that this always happens in all scenarios. Since 2/3 of the scenarios would involve having the car behind one of the two doors, the revealed goat cannot be randomly chosen.

But if the scenario is such that the car can be revealed by the host, then that does imply that the door is chosen randomly.

It boils down to whether there are reasonable assumptions for the puzzle. Since this is based on a real event, has there ever been a case where the host reveals the car?

It's the difference between the host saying:
(i) "I'm going to open this door here... oh look, there's a goat, that's interesting."
(ii) "I'm going to open this door here which has a goat behind it."

True, the host does always reveal a goat, so they are in fact doing (ii), but it might not be clear to a first-time viewer whether the host is doing (i) or (ii).
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« Reply #235 on: August 15, 2018, 10:10:44 am »
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I once had an internship at this tech company, and the IT guy was trying to convince me that since it could either rain or not rain (two outcomes), the chance of rain was always 50% and weather reports were nonsense.
You can extend that kind of reasoning to prove that there is life outside our galaxy.
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Chance of Pigs? 50%
Chance of Trees? 50%
...
Chance of lifeform n? 50%

Chance of none of them? Well that would be (0.5)^n, which tends to 0 as n increases.
Therefore it's pretty much certain there's at least one lifeform existing outside our galaxy... what do you mean 'they're not independent'?!

No, you see, because our two options are whether there is life or not, it's just 50%!
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« Reply #236 on: August 15, 2018, 10:12:39 am »
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« Reply #237 on: August 15, 2018, 07:03:56 pm »
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« Reply #238 on: August 15, 2018, 07:53:25 pm »
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Does anybody have suggestions on things like Skype that are entirely browser based?  When I google I just get things like chat roulettes.

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« Reply #239 on: August 15, 2018, 08:58:09 pm »
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Does anybody have suggestions on things like Skype that are entirely browser based?  When I google I just get things like chat roulettes.

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« Reply #240 on: August 15, 2018, 10:33:26 pm »
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Does anybody have suggestions on things like Skype that are entirely browser based?  When I google I just get things like chat roulettes.

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« Reply #242 on: August 16, 2018, 10:26:42 am »
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The funny thing is that, if the door that is revealed to have a goat was chosen randomly, then it doesn’t make any difference whether you swap doors or not, you have a 50% chance either way. It’s only because the host guarantees that he will open a door with a goat behind it that the odds are skewed in favour of swapping doors.

Right, this is the premise behind Deal or No Deal. Because each chest is opened randomly, you actually do gain new information with each opened chest, and the expected worth of your chest changes each time.
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« Reply #243 on: August 16, 2018, 11:36:00 am »
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Right, this is the premise behind Deal or No Deal. Because each chest is opened randomly, you actually do gain new information with each opened chest, and the expected worth of your chest changes each time.

And the mathiness of Deal or No Deal is pretty neat too. Not as controversial as Let's Make a Deal obviously.

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« Reply #244 on: August 16, 2018, 11:42:45 am »
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Right, this is the premise behind Deal or No Deal. Because each chest is opened randomly, you actually do gain new information with each opened chest, and the expected worth of your chest changes each time.

And the mathiness of Deal or No Deal is pretty neat too. Not as controversial as Let's Make a Deal obviously.

Fun fact: I happened across the show while flipping channels and got sucked in by mistake. The contestant was deciding which box to open, and her family was behind her encouraging her to take her time in making such an important decision. So much math rage that day.

I think those types of things are more people being bad with superstition than people being bad with math. They feel like a certain number is a lucky winner (or loser); not that a certain number actually has a mathematically better chance.
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« Reply #245 on: August 16, 2018, 02:25:24 pm »
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Hi, I am using this thread to unlock my full potential as a forum user.

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« Reply #246 on: August 16, 2018, 03:01:28 pm »
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Hi, I am using this thread to unlock my full potential as a forum user.

To distract you from my true purpose I will distract you with a depressing thought:

The average person spends 6 months of their lifetime waiting on a red light to turn green.

Now I will back myself out of this conversation...

I've already spent 9½ months of my lifetime shitposting on f.ds, it's not that depressing in comparison.
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« Reply #247 on: August 16, 2018, 03:16:35 pm »
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The average person spends 6 months of their lifetime waiting on a red light to turn green.



Once we waited for a stop sign to turn green...
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« Reply #248 on: August 16, 2018, 03:22:52 pm »
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That's almost certainly untrue when taken literally. The median person doesn't own a car. It might be true when we restrict it to just a few regions.

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« Reply #249 on: August 16, 2018, 03:28:35 pm »
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That's almost certainly untrue when taken literally. The median person doesn't own a car. It might be true when we restrict it to just a few regions.

Pedestrians also wait for red lights to turn green.
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« Reply #250 on: August 16, 2018, 03:30:08 pm »
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Last night I sat for about 9 minutes at a red light. Not just what felt like 9 minutes, I actually started timing it after a couple minutes. The sensor or whatever was broken; eventually a car pulled up behind me, and the light changed almost right after they arrived.
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« Reply #251 on: August 17, 2018, 10:42:49 am »
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The sensors are located about a car length back at certain intersections. Sometimes it's optimal to back up if you are the only one waiting to turn.
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« Reply #252 on: August 17, 2018, 10:57:36 am »
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The sensors are located about a car length back at certain intersections. Sometimes it's optimal to back up if you are the only one waiting to turn.

Yeah, I was getting ready to try that when I saw the other car approaching.
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« Reply #253 on: August 19, 2018, 10:42:01 pm »
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Last night I sat for about 9 minutes at a red light. Not just what felt like 9 minutes, I actually started timing it after a couple minutes. The sensor or whatever was broken; eventually a car pulled up behind me, and the light changed almost right after they arrived.

Maybe you're a cop in Fargo.
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« Reply #254 on: August 21, 2018, 06:49:40 pm »
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Anyone else in here a Pokemon Go player? In particular, any of the Mafia bunch I actually kind of know? :-)
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« Reply #255 on: August 22, 2018, 08:54:43 am »
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Anyone else in here a Pokemon Go player? In particular, any of the Mafia bunch I actually kind of know? :-)

I don't play Mafia, so I'm not part of your crew, but I'm doing Pokemon Go. Not as serious as others, but the research gets me more involved than before.
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« Reply #256 on: August 22, 2018, 01:38:02 pm »
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« Reply #257 on: August 22, 2018, 03:35:06 pm »
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Does anyone think it's odd that our mouths are used for so many functions? If you were going to design a person would you have separate facilities for eating, breathing, speaking, etc. Also I feel like we could end up just dropping verbal speech.
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« Reply #258 on: August 22, 2018, 03:54:00 pm »
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You can breathe while swallowing?

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« Reply #259 on: August 22, 2018, 03:59:16 pm »
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Does anyone think it's odd that our mouths are used for so many functions? If you were going to design a person would you have separate facilities for eating, breathing, speaking, etc. Also I feel like we could end up just dropping verbal speech.
Fun fact: newborn babies can breathe through their noses while suckling using their mouths. We lose this ability at some point later.

So, I'm the only adult who can drink water continuously and breathe through my nose at the same time?

Well, this sample size of 1 cannot maintain that over here.
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« Reply #260 on: August 23, 2018, 06:20:14 am »
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So Elon musk supposedly has done an hour long interview with the NYT about stuff.

I tried to find the actual interview. What I found was countless articles talking about it and how people reacted to it and what have you. I also found lots of articles claiming that the NYT published the actual interview. The sentence then links to another whatever article of the NYT where some snippets of the interview are quoted, but not to the actual interview.

Either I am for some reason incapable of finding the supposedly available interview or it hasn't in fact been published. If so then every article claiming it has been published is total bullshit. Are they all just making stuff up? This is so stupid. I'm so frustrated right now.

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« Reply #261 on: August 23, 2018, 10:54:08 am »
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You can breathe while swallowing?

Yeah, I just tried it to be certain. It requires some concentration and I'm pretty sure I can only do it from a bottle like container where there is a very small opening and the flow is relatively small and easily controlled. I essentially just pour the liquid down my throat and breathe through my nose. I think with some practice I could possibly even breathe through my mouth while doing it. The basic idea is to pour the water down the esophagus while breathing through the trachea. Complications occur when liquid enters the trachea or the swallowing action of the esophagus closes off the trachea. Both complications can be mitigated with some concentration.
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« Reply #262 on: August 23, 2018, 11:02:34 am »
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I assume you are alternating breathing and swallowing? Not actually doing both at the same time? Like, water might be continually flowing into your mouth, but it’s only being swallowed intermittently.
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« Reply #263 on: August 23, 2018, 11:44:19 am »
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GendoIkari has 6969 posts on the forum.

Nice.
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« Reply #264 on: August 24, 2018, 03:59:09 am »
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« Reply #265 on: August 24, 2018, 04:33:19 am »
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After a discussion with my girlfriend, we did some calculations and concluded that the circumference of the Earth is approximately 300 megapenises. Just thought you should all know.

Or 300 000 000 000 000 micropenises.
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« Reply #266 on: August 24, 2018, 08:51:36 am »
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After a discussion with my girlfriend, we did some calculations and concluded that the circumference of the Earth is approximately 300 megapenises. Just thought you should all know.

Damn metric system. Everyone knows that it just makes more sense to explain 300 megapenises as 849 omniscrotes.
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« Reply #267 on: August 24, 2018, 09:20:20 am »
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Goomba is a micropenis.

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« Reply #268 on: August 24, 2018, 09:34:05 am »
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« Reply #269 on: August 24, 2018, 09:37:17 am »
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Now the topic of Nintendo suddenly seems gross.

What's your problem with micropenises?
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« Reply #270 on: August 24, 2018, 10:21:01 am »
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I was going to talk about Super Smash Bros Ultimate and how I'm hyped for the game since the inclusion of King K. Rool from the Donkey Kong Country series. Now the topic of Nintendo suddenly seems gross. Dsell, I would appreciate if you took your porn elsewhere.

I am excited for Ridley!
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« Reply #271 on: August 24, 2018, 10:47:56 am »
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Now the topic of Nintendo suddenly seems gross.

What's your problem with micropenises?

Why is everybody asking me that these days?

I was going to talk about Super Smash Bros Ultimate and how I'm hyped for the game since the inclusion of King K. Rool from the Donkey Kong Country series. Now the topic of Nintendo suddenly seems gross. Dsell, I would appreciate if you took your porn elsewhere.

I am excited for Ridley!

Yes, me too! Ridley's inclusion was the point where I realized that they really mean it with that "Everyone is here" catchphrase.
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« Reply #272 on: August 24, 2018, 12:05:49 pm »
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GendoIkari has 6969 posts on the forum.

Nice.

Just saw this. And apparently posted many more times before I did.
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« Reply #273 on: August 24, 2018, 12:22:59 pm »
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« Reply #274 on: August 24, 2018, 01:49:08 pm »
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« Reply #275 on: August 30, 2018, 02:55:19 pm »
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Theory has just passed me for second most threads created.
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« Reply #276 on: August 30, 2018, 07:15:10 pm »
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I just realized how fucked up it is that if, in the Harry Potter universe, you get thrown out of school, you aren't allowed to use magic again for the rest of your life. In reality, this would just make these people leave the country.

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« Reply #277 on: August 31, 2018, 07:13:18 am »
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I found today's xkcd appropriate for this forum:

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« Reply #278 on: September 07, 2018, 06:18:42 pm »
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« Reply #279 on: September 19, 2018, 09:28:24 am »
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Had a talk with someone about how in a couple of decades, people will be able to fairly accurately guess someone's age by which Star Wars films they saw first.

This got us talking about other benchmarks to measure someone's age.

First Batman
First James Bond
First Doctor
First Tim Currey character

Though my measure of Doctor is a bit off because I didn't start watching until Matt Smith. If I had watched Doctor Who as a youth, I'm sure Tom Baker would be my first. Doctor Who isn't quite as mainstream as the other benchmarks.
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« Reply #280 on: September 19, 2018, 10:20:53 am »
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This got us talking about other benchmarks to measure someone's age.

First Batman
First James Bond
First Doctor
First Tim Currey character

The Dark Knight
None
What's that?
Who's Tim Currey?

So how old am I?  :D

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« Reply #281 on: September 19, 2018, 11:55:38 am »
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Had a talk with someone about how in a couple of decades, people will be able to fairly accurately guess someone's age by which Star Wars films they saw first.

This got us talking about other benchmarks to measure someone's age.

First Batman
First James Bond
First Doctor
First Tim Currey character

Though my measure of Doctor is a bit off because I didn't start watching until Matt Smith. If I had watched Doctor Who as a youth, I'm sure Tom Baker would be my first. Doctor Who isn't quite as mainstream as the other benchmarks.
Hey, I can actually answer those...that's not normal for these kind of measures for me.  I'll be a test subject for the accuracy of this age-measure:
Keaton (the Batman)
Brosnan (Goldeneye)
Eccleston
Butler in Clue
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« Reply #282 on: September 19, 2018, 12:43:43 pm »
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It's:

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« Reply #283 on: September 19, 2018, 01:06:22 pm »
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Had a talk with someone about how in a couple of decades, people will be able to fairly accurately guess someone's age by which Star Wars films they saw first.

This got us talking about other benchmarks to measure someone's age.

First Batman
First James Bond
First Doctor
First Tim Currey character

Though my measure of Doctor is a bit off because I didn't start watching until Matt Smith. If I had watched Doctor Who as a youth, I'm sure Tom Baker would be my first. Doctor Who isn't quite as mainstream as the other benchmarks.

Batman Begins
Casino Royale
Haven't seen Doctor Who
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« Reply #284 on: September 19, 2018, 01:24:20 pm »
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Had a talk with someone about how in a couple of decades, people will be able to fairly accurately guess someone's age by which Star Wars films they saw first.

This got us talking about other benchmarks to measure someone's age.

First Batman
First James Bond
First Doctor
First Tim Currey character

Though my measure of Doctor is a bit off because I didn't start watching until Matt Smith. If I had watched Doctor Who as a youth, I'm sure Tom Baker would be my first. Doctor Who isn't quite as mainstream as the other benchmarks.

Your idea of mainstream is probably a bit culturally-dependent! The Doctor one is the only thing I think might date me accurately, since I don't particularly care about Batman, and was familiar with Bond mainly from TV re-runs than any current films as a kid. Like silver, my first thought for Tim Curry was "who's that?", though looking at pics, I admit he's a familiar face.. I'm just not sure where he's familiar from!

How come "which Star Trek were you most into growing up" doesn't make the list?
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« Reply #285 on: September 19, 2018, 02:52:41 pm »
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How come "which Star Trek were you most into growing up" doesn't make the list?

That's another good option. Plenty of good options out there, especially when you have to rule out certain lists because someone hasn't been involved with that (such as Bond). Could also include first Stephen King movie, first Disney cartoon, and first time being excited about the Super Bowl.

Though now looking at the answers, I feel kind of old because my list is more like:
Star Wars: A New Hope
Batman: Adam West
Bond: Roger Moore
Doctor: Matt Smith
Curry: Annie, technically, though I didn't know him until Rocky Horror
Star Trek: Kirk
Stephen King: The Shining
Disney cartoon: Harder than I thought; probably Sleeping Beauty
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« Reply #286 on: September 19, 2018, 02:56:55 pm »
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« Reply #287 on: October 10, 2018, 03:49:48 pm »
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My job duties have switched to being the resource coordinator. I assign training programs to certain rooms and qualified trainers. It's an interesting jigsaw puzzle, especially when I have multiple programs vying for the same trainers. But I do fairly well at it.

The new manager of the trainers was astounded at how I was able to move swaths of training around to accommodate these requests. I was about to tell her it's what I do in my spare time, but I stopped myself because that seemed weird to say.

Then I realized why I wanted to say it. It literally is what I do in my spare time because I'll play resource-management games a lot. And worker placement, though that is not quite as relevant as the name suggests. All those nights maximizing my points in Terraforming Mars and Power Grid have prepared me for my current job. Thanks, board games!
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« Reply #288 on: October 12, 2018, 06:53:10 pm »
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This is one of the least plausible apparently true things I've ever seen

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« Reply #289 on: October 13, 2018, 07:51:26 am »
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There's an explanation here but it's not easy to understand

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« Reply #290 on: October 13, 2018, 09:37:05 am »
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This is one of the least plausible apparently true things I've ever seen



"True" is such a strong word when talking about math. It's a man-made system to reflect nature and, while less confusing than e.g. roman numbers, it still has some ugly wrinkles.
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« Reply #291 on: October 13, 2018, 02:04:11 pm »
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« Reply #292 on: October 13, 2018, 10:50:06 pm »
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This is one of the least plausible apparently true things I've ever seen



This is one of my favorite "are you kidding me the pattern breaks down" examples. I've never looked into why exactly it breaks down, but basically it happens because 1 + 1/3 + 1/5 + ... + 1/13 < 2 and 1+ 1/3 + 1/5 + ... + 1/15 > 2. If I remember it right, you can use any arbitrary sequence of positive real numbers that aren't increasing, and it'll evaluate to pi/2 if they sum to < 2 and something else if they don't. Not only does this pattern not hold, it lets you create arbitrary length sequences where the pattern holds for k terms and then fails on the k+1 term.
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« Reply #293 on: October 14, 2018, 12:55:54 pm »
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This is one of my favorite "are you kidding me the pattern breaks down" examples. I've never looked into why exactly it breaks down, but basically it happens because 1 + 1/3 + 1/5 + ... + 1/13 < 2 and 1+ 1/3 + 1/5 + ... + 1/15 > 2.

That was the only thing I took away from the longer explanation I skimmed. But I wouldn't use the term 'because' here. The fact that the integral isn't off in the other direction for sums < 2, but is exactly pi/2 for sums < 2 and off for sums > 2 feels only slightly less insane than the original result, at least for me.

(At one point there was some talk in this thread about patterns that break down late, but those didn't seem as counter-intuitive as this one.)
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« Reply #294 on: October 16, 2018, 02:27:14 pm »
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The explanation is amazing. But once you think in terms of the Fourier transforms and realize that the denominators can just be anything not this sequence of odd integers and still give pi/2, it feels a lot less striking.

(Basically not a sequence any more... you could have missed a term in the multiplication and get the same pi/2)
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« Reply #295 on: October 17, 2018, 07:18:36 am »
+4

Something different I encountered today: check out this sentence. It has both correct grammar and sensible meaning

The complex houses married and single soldiers and their families

this was incredibly confusing to me, I'm not sure if others have an easier time with it. Resolution: [The complex] houses [married and single soldiers and their families]

Somewhat less confusing: The horse raced past the barn fell. Resolution: [the horse (that) raced past the barn] fell. Apperently they're called garden path sentences.

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« Reply #296 on: October 17, 2018, 07:42:27 am »
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Something different I encountered today: check out this sentence. It has both correct grammar and sensible meaning

The complex houses married and single soldiers and their families

this was incredibly confusing to me, I'm not sure if others have an easier time with it. Resolution: [The complex] houses [married and single soldiers and their families]

Somewhat less confusing: The horse raced past the barn fell. Resolution: [the horse (that) raced past the barn] fell. Apperently they're called garden path sentences.
[the house (that was) raced past the barn] fell.  The way you have it has a different meaning than the original sentence.
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« Reply #297 on: October 17, 2018, 07:50:39 am »
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Something different I encountered today: check out this sentence. It has both correct grammar and sensible meaning

The complex houses married and single soldiers and their families

this was incredibly confusing to me, I'm not sure if others have an easier time with it. Resolution: [The complex] houses [married and single soldiers and their families]

Somewhat less confusing: The horse raced past the barn fell. Resolution: [the horse (that) raced past the barn] fell. Apperently they're called garden path sentences.
[the house (that was) raced past the barn] fell.  The way you have it has a different meaning than the original sentence.

The house?
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« Reply #298 on: October 17, 2018, 02:35:30 pm »
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Something different I encountered today: check out this sentence. It has both correct grammar and sensible meaning

The complex houses married and single soldiers and their families

this was incredibly confusing to me, I'm not sure if others have an easier time with it. Resolution: [The complex] houses [married and single soldiers and their families]

Somewhat less confusing: The horse raced past the barn fell. Resolution: [the horse (that) raced past the barn] fell. Apperently they're called garden path sentences.
[the house (that was) raced past the barn] fell.  The way you have it has a different meaning than the original sentence.
Now yours doesn't make much sense. How can a house be raced anywhere?
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« Reply #299 on: October 17, 2018, 03:11:33 pm »
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Now yours doesn't make much sense. How can a house be raced anywhere?

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« Reply #300 on: October 17, 2018, 04:37:49 pm »
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« Reply #301 on: October 17, 2018, 04:44:00 pm »
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The old man the boat.

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« Reply #302 on: October 17, 2018, 05:36:19 pm »
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« Reply #303 on: October 17, 2018, 06:02:06 pm »
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« Reply #304 on: October 17, 2018, 06:05:39 pm »
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« Reply #305 on: October 17, 2018, 06:13:04 pm »
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« Reply #307 on: October 17, 2018, 07:55:52 pm »
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The old man the boat.

Ah, I see you read the the Wikipedia article as well ;)
It's possible I have? I also know about garden path sentences.
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« Reply #308 on: October 17, 2018, 08:07:33 pm »
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It's not a garden path sentence, but I always liked "Flying planes can be scary". Is that in a Wikipedia article? I forget. I think we talked about it in a linguistics class I took.

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« Reply #309 on: October 17, 2018, 10:15:02 pm »
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Something different I encountered today: check out this sentence. It has both correct grammar and sensible meaning

The complex houses married and single soldiers and their families

this was incredibly confusing to me, I'm not sure if others have an easier time with it. Resolution: [The complex] houses [married and single soldiers and their families]

Somewhat less confusing: The horse raced past the barn fell. Resolution: [the horse (that) raced past the barn] fell. Apperently they're called garden path sentences.
[the house (that was) raced past the barn] fell.  The way you have it has a different meaning than the original sentence.
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« Reply #310 on: October 17, 2018, 10:43:43 pm »
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Apropos of nothing, but one of my favourite boat races is the Henley-on-Todd, in Alice Springs. Possibly the only boat race that gets cancelled due to the river they race in having water in it.
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« Reply #311 on: October 18, 2018, 02:11:39 am »
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« Reply #312 on: October 18, 2018, 02:30:11 am »
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« Reply #313 on: October 19, 2018, 07:35:32 am »
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It's not a garden path sentence, but I always liked "Flying planes can be scary". Is that in a Wikipedia article? I forget. I think we talked about it in a linguistics class I took.
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« Reply #314 on: October 19, 2018, 09:12:13 am »
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It's not a garden path sentence, but I always liked "Flying planes can be scary". Is that in a Wikipedia article? I forget. I think we talked about it in a linguistics class I took.
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« Reply #315 on: October 19, 2018, 10:14:49 am »
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I dreamt up a card last night. Unfortunately it was horrible:

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« Reply #316 on: October 19, 2018, 01:07:24 pm »
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« Reply #317 on: October 31, 2018, 04:04:55 pm »
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« Reply #318 on: November 06, 2018, 02:07:10 pm »
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You know what really grinds my gear? When experienced people, level over 50, complains about luck in chat. THERE IS NO LUCK IN DOMINION, ONLY VARIANCE. To attribute any single game to anything is completely nuts, to yell at the opponent about it it's ridiculous. Ok that newbs may e annoyed about it but how have you come to lvl 50 and beyond without seeing most outcomes arbitrary amount of times? Why do you play this game even if you cant just suck it up? YMOYOSL god dammit. argh... 

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« Reply #319 on: November 06, 2018, 03:00:06 pm »
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I'm not really sorry to tell you this – there is actually an enormous amount of luck in dominion, and it can absolutely be correct to attribute single games to luck. Over many games, luck will equal out, but not over one game.

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Part of the fun is weathering the luck.
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« Reply #321 on: November 06, 2018, 05:35:46 pm »
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I'm not really sorry to tell you this – there is actually an enormous amount of luck in dominion, and it can absolutely be correct to attribute single games to luck. Over many games, luck will equal out, but not over one game.

I disagree, although maybe only in the semantics. For me, variance means in practice that a better strategy won't win every time. It's expected to lose x amount of times naturally. To compare with poker, it's not lucky to beat AA with 2-7, it's  just hitting the variance. However, wouldyou do that in the final all-in hand in the headsup of a tournament that is something I would deem lucky.

A single game on Dominion Online is never something I would consider lucky, there is no real stake at risk at all. Even if something absurd happens you are merely just hitting the variance that is built in into the game.

In this case though, even if my game was in a league match I wouldn't consider myself lucky at all. to hit province four times in a row with my deck wasn't unusual at all and it annoyed me quite a lot to be scoulded at because of it.

Anyway, this might be just my pet peeve and that is quite alright. I most likely have this distinction between the terms to not go mad when my decks refuse to collaborate...

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« Reply #322 on: November 06, 2018, 05:37:14 pm »
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« Reply #323 on: November 06, 2018, 10:53:47 pm »
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A single game on Dominion Online is never something I would consider lucky, there is no real stake at risk at all.

Why would the stake at risk be relevant? Either way, the outcome of many things in Dominion is determined by random chance, and that's what people are referring to when they talk about luck.
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« Reply #324 on: November 06, 2018, 11:11:56 pm »
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I'm not really sorry to tell you this – there is actually an enormous amount of luck in dominion, and it can absolutely be correct to attribute single games to luck. Over many games, luck will equal out, but not over one game.

I disagree, although maybe only in the semantics. For me, variance means in practice that a better strategy won't win every time. It's expected to lose x amount of times naturally. To compare with poker, it's not lucky to beat AA with 2-7, it's  just hitting the variance. However, wouldyou do that in the final all-in hand in the headsup of a tournament that is something I would deem lucky.

A single game on Dominion Online is never something I would consider lucky, there is no real stake at risk at all. Even if something absurd happens you are merely just hitting the variance that is built in into the game.

In this case though, even if my game was in a league match I wouldn't consider myself lucky at all. to hit province four times in a row with my deck wasn't unusual at all and it annoyed me quite a lot to be scoulded at because of it.

Anyway, this might be just my pet peeve and that is quite alright. I most likely have this distinction between the terms to not go mad when my decks refuse to collaborate...

It's not clear to me from this what you mean when you think of "luck". What you describe as "variance" is what other people are calling "luck". In general, "contains luck" is another way of saying "contains randomness". I suppose you can call it "variance" as well, but that's still the same thing as either "randomness" or "luck".
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« Reply #325 on: November 07, 2018, 06:04:03 am »
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I'm not really sorry to tell you this – there is actually an enormous amount of luck in dominion, and it can absolutely be correct to attribute single games to luck. Over many games, luck will equal out, but not over one game.

I disagree, although maybe only in the semantics. For me, variance means in practice that a better strategy won't win every time. It's expected to lose x amount of times naturally. To compare with poker, it's not lucky to beat AA with 2-7, it's  just hitting the variance. However, wouldyou do that in the final all-in hand in the headsup of a tournament that is something I would deem lucky.

A single game on Dominion Online is never something I would consider lucky, there is no real stake at risk at all. Even if something absurd happens you are merely just hitting the variance that is built in into the game.

In this case though, even if my game was in a league match I wouldn't consider myself lucky at all. to hit province four times in a row with my deck wasn't unusual at all and it annoyed me quite a lot to be scoulded at because of it.

Anyway, this might be just my pet peeve and that is quite alright. I most likely have this distinction between the terms to not go mad when my decks refuse to collaborate...

It's not clear to me from this what you mean when you think of "luck". What you describe as "variance" is what other people are calling "luck". In general, "contains luck" is another way of saying "contains randomness". I suppose you can call it "variance" as well, but that's still the same thing as either "randomness" or "luck".

Sure, but in the context of an opponent getting a rare outcome I think it' simply wrong to consider them "lucky". They really isn't, they is
just playing a game with variance. In experienced (and civil) poker players don't call each other lucky when they win far out hands. It wouldn't be possible to play the game without tilting constantly if you saw it any outer way that those things happens, constantly. Same in Dominion. Sure, if a random game is important to you tilt away, but it's silly to me. I simply would expect more of players that know the game on some higher level, and I would say that the term "luck" is something that blocks certain players to think clearly about the game. But if not and you use luck and variance interchangeable, this doesn't really matter. It was only a rant after all.   
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« Reply #326 on: November 07, 2018, 07:37:46 am »
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But if not and you use luck and variance interchangeable, this doesn't really matter.

You're the only person I have heard of who doesn't use them interchangeably.
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« Reply #327 on: November 07, 2018, 08:45:37 am »
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But if not and you use luck and variance interchangeable, this doesn't really matter.

You're the only person I have heard of who doesn't use them interchangeably.

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« Reply #328 on: November 07, 2018, 10:30:47 am »
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I'm not really sorry to tell you this – there is actually an enormous amount of luck in dominion, and it can absolutely be correct to attribute single games to luck. Over many games, luck will equal out, but not over one game.

I disagree, although maybe only in the semantics. For me, variance means in practice that a better strategy won't win every time. It's expected to lose x amount of times naturally. To compare with poker, it's not lucky to beat AA with 2-7, it's  just hitting the variance. However, wouldyou do that in the final all-in hand in the headsup of a tournament that is something I would deem lucky.

A single game on Dominion Online is never something I would consider lucky, there is no real stake at risk at all. Even if something absurd happens you are merely just hitting the variance that is built in into the game.

In this case though, even if my game was in a league match I wouldn't consider myself lucky at all. to hit province four times in a row with my deck wasn't unusual at all and it annoyed me quite a lot to be scoulded at because of it.

Anyway, this might be just my pet peeve and that is quite alright. I most likely have this distinction between the terms to not go mad when my decks refuse to collaborate...

It's not clear to me from this what you mean when you think of "luck". What you describe as "variance" is what other people are calling "luck". In general, "contains luck" is another way of saying "contains randomness". I suppose you can call it "variance" as well, but that's still the same thing as either "randomness" or "luck".

Sure, but in the context of an opponent getting a rare outcome I think it' simply wrong to consider them "lucky". They really isn't, they is
just playing a game with variance. In experienced (and civil) poker players don't call each other lucky when they win far out hands. It wouldn't be possible to play the game without tilting constantly if you saw it any outer way that those things happens, constantly. Same in Dominion. Sure, if a random game is important to you tilt away, but it's silly to me. I simply would expect more of players that know the game on some higher level, and I would say that the term "luck" is something that blocks certain players to think clearly about the game. But if not and you use luck and variance interchangeable, this doesn't really matter. It was only a rant after all.   

Ok but how do you define luck? By your definition, winning the lottery isn't lucky either. So... what IS an example of luck? You still haven't defined what you mean by "luck", or given an example of something that involves "luck". It sounds kind of like you are saying that "luck" is just a whiny way of talking about variance.
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« Reply #329 on: November 07, 2018, 11:26:45 am »
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« Reply #330 on: November 09, 2018, 10:21:24 am »
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I'm not really sorry to tell you this – there is actually an enormous amount of luck in dominion, and it can absolutely be correct to attribute single games to luck. Over many games, luck will equal out, but not over one game.

I disagree, although maybe only in the semantics. For me, variance means in practice that a better strategy won't win every time. It's expected to lose x amount of times naturally. To compare with poker, it's not lucky to beat AA with 2-7, it's  just hitting the variance. However, wouldyou do that in the final all-in hand in the headsup of a tournament that is something I would deem lucky.

A single game on Dominion Online is never something I would consider lucky, there is no real stake at risk at all. Even if something absurd happens you are merely just hitting the variance that is built in into the game.

In this case though, even if my game was in a league match I wouldn't consider myself lucky at all. to hit province four times in a row with my deck wasn't unusual at all and it annoyed me quite a lot to be scoulded at because of it.

Anyway, this might be just my pet peeve and that is quite alright. I most likely have this distinction between the terms to not go mad when my decks refuse to collaborate...

It's not clear to me from this what you mean when you think of "luck". What you describe as "variance" is what other people are calling "luck". In general, "contains luck" is another way of saying "contains randomness". I suppose you can call it "variance" as well, but that's still the same thing as either "randomness" or "luck".

Sure, but in the context of an opponent getting a rare outcome I think it' simply wrong to consider them "lucky". They really isn't, they is
just playing a game with variance. In experienced (and civil) poker players don't call each other lucky when they win far out hands. It wouldn't be possible to play the game without tilting constantly if you saw it any outer way that those things happens, constantly. Same in Dominion. Sure, if a random game is important to you tilt away, but it's silly to me. I simply would expect more of players that know the game on some higher level, and I would say that the term "luck" is something that blocks certain players to think clearly about the game. But if not and you use luck and variance interchangeable, this doesn't really matter. It was only a rant after all.   

Ok but how do you define luck? By your definition, winning the lottery isn't lucky either. So... what IS an example of luck? You still haven't defined what you mean by "luck", or given an example of something that involves "luck". It sounds kind of like you are saying that "luck" is just a whiny way of talking about variance.

Well, the lottery isn't really a game of variance is in the same way as poker and Dominion is it? There is no way you can tamper the odds and you can not have any strategy at all. You just blindly go for it and if you win with those tiny odds it is indeed lucky as I see it. Betting is more in the borderline, I would say, since you are basically guessing what's going to happen. Then again, those who are able to make a living out of betting is merely exhausting the betting companies mistakes when setting the odds rather than actually playing the "game of betting". Still wouldn't mind to call winning big hits there lucky.

I guess I'm against the term because it's so often used as something that is actively working for or against you. "It's impossible to win against that luck" as my opponent stated. No it isn't. Next few turns you just might get that lucky outcome and my straightpaved way to victory might be turned to absolutely nothing. Luck has connotations of superstition, whilst variance is a term for gaming in my mind. It works for me, so I don't bother if I would be alone to use the distinction meaningfully. 

   
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« Reply #331 on: November 09, 2018, 01:33:31 pm »
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I guess I'm against the term because it's so often used as something that is actively working for or against you. "It's impossible to win against that luck" as my opponent stated.

Really, that's the other person's fault for using "impossible" incorrectly. What's impossible is buying a Gold in the first two turns of a base game. But when you have a crap-ton of curses and ruins, then it's not impossible to get the 8 coins for the final Province. It's just improbable.

But then I think that people use "impossible" hyperbolically to express their frustration. I might see a huge traffic jam and say, "It's going to be impossible to get home," but that is not technically true, and I know better.
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« Reply #332 on: November 09, 2018, 01:37:09 pm »
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Really, that's the other person's fault for using "impossible" incorrectly. What's impossible is buying a Gold in the first two turns of a base game. But when you have a crap-ton of curses and ruins, then it's not impossible to get the 8 coins for the final Province. It's just improbable.

But if you have a crap-ton of Curses and Ruins and you still hit the 8 coins for the final Province while your opponent keeps hitting $7 despite not having any Curses or Ruins, then he is absolutely correct that it's impossible to win against your shuffle luck.
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« Reply #333 on: November 09, 2018, 03:36:08 pm »
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Really, that's the other person's fault for using "impossible" incorrectly. What's impossible is buying a Gold in the first two turns of a base game. But when you have a crap-ton of curses and ruins, then it's not impossible to get the 8 coins for the final Province. It's just improbable.

But if you have a crap-ton of Curses and Ruins and you still hit the 8 coins for the final Province while your opponent keeps hitting $7 despite not having any Curses or Ruins, then he is absolutely correct that it's impossible to win against your shuffle luck.

Well, yes, when you impose conditions, then you are able to declare certain scenarios as impossible.

But in general, it's not impossible to win with a bloated, inefficient deck. Just really improbable.
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« Reply #334 on: November 09, 2018, 03:44:54 pm »
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I vaguely remember a game where my opponent had a bloated deck and kept discarding 5+ cards at a time with farming village and then redrawing good hands, in a way that seemed comically unlikely, and I think they won from a huge deficit. I wish I had kept the log.

Really, that's the other person's fault for using "impossible" incorrectly. What's impossible is buying a Gold in the first two turns of a base game. But when you have a crap-ton of curses and ruins, then it's not impossible to get the 8 coins for the final Province. It's just improbable.

But if you have a crap-ton of Curses and Ruins and you still hit the 8 coins for the final Province while your opponent keeps hitting $7 despite not having any Curses or Ruins, then he is absolutely correct that it's impossible to win against your shuffle luck.

You have a text console, it's almost certainly theoretically possible for you to persuade them into resigning  :P

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« Reply #335 on: December 20, 2018, 11:19:14 am »
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Gamers can be an oddly conservative bunch. They get into a specific routine, and any change to that is met with hostility. Many gamers are pretty adaptable, but the ones who aren't will often make their displeasure known.

My recent observation on this is how gamers generate a number from 1 to 100. If you don't already know this, it's been established since at least the '70s that you can generate this number with two ten-sided dice (d10). You declare a die as the tens digit and the other as the ones digit. Whatever you roll in the tens digit, you multiply by 10. Then you add the other die. But there are a couple of tricks that we use.

First, when rolling 1-100, the 10 on the die actually counts as a 0. Most d10s on the market are printed this way. It is actually a source of bemusement among new players when they roll the d10 and proclaim they got a 0 and not a 10. So, for example, a roll of 8 and 4 becomes 84. A roll of 0 and 6 becomes 06. And a roll of 2 and 0 becomes 20. This gives a range of 00 to 99, so any roll of 00 is counted as 100.

It's a bit convoluted, but it works. You have an even distribution of 1through 100.

Fast forward to around 1992 (the earliest I've heard someone claim he had one) and the introduction of the percentile dice. This is a pair of d10s, but one of them is numbered differently. Instead of 0, 1, 2, it is numbered with 00, 10, 20. The idea being that you no longer declare the tens digit. It's already established by this die. You roll a 20 and an 8, and it's 28. But the rule of 0 still applies, so 30 and 0 gave you 30, while 00 and 0 gave you 100. New players could especially be confused if they roll 10 and 0 and are told that is not indeed 100.

It occurred to me that you don't need to use that method with the percentile dice. Instead, you could take the dice at face value. First off, you have to acknowledge that the 0 on a d10 represents 10. In most games, that counts as a 10, but for 1-100, people tend to automatically think of it as 0. Of course, if the die is printed with a 0, that makes the shift easier. For a d10 that is printed with a 10, then adding the dice works pretty well.

And this is where the clash with traditional gamers happens. Because now I no longer view the dice as 40 and 0. Now I view them as 40 and 10, which is actually 50 and not 40. I don't have to mentally switch from 10 to 0 or from 00 to 100. I can roll as low as 00 and 1 (for 1) and as high as 90 and 10 (for 100). The vitriol is alarming, even by internet standards. It produces a range of 1 through 100 evenly distributed, but because it wasn't in a way that people first learned (and I have 30+ years of that habit in me), some people have taken offense.
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« Reply #337 on: January 09, 2019, 09:33:28 am »
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Gamers can be an oddly conservative bunch. They get into a specific routine, and any change to that is met with hostility. Many gamers are pretty adaptable, but the ones who aren't will often make their displeasure known.

My recent observation on this is how gamers generate a number from 1 to 100. If you don't already know this, it's been established since at least the '70s that you can generate this number with two ten-sided dice (d10). You declare a die as the tens digit and the other as the ones digit. Whatever you roll in the tens digit, you multiply by 10. Then you add the other die. But there are a couple of tricks that we use.

First, when rolling 1-100, the 10 on the die actually counts as a 0. Most d10s on the market are printed this way. It is actually a source of bemusement among new players when they roll the d10 and proclaim they got a 0 and not a 10. So, for example, a roll of 8 and 4 becomes 84. A roll of 0 and 6 becomes 06. And a roll of 2 and 0 becomes 20. This gives a range of 00 to 99, so any roll of 00 is counted as 100.

It's a bit convoluted, but it works. You have an even distribution of 1through 100.

Fast forward to around 1992 (the earliest I've heard someone claim he had one) and the introduction of the percentile dice. This is a pair of d10s, but one of them is numbered differently. Instead of 0, 1, 2, it is numbered with 00, 10, 20. The idea being that you no longer declare the tens digit. It's already established by this die. You roll a 20 and an 8, and it's 28. But the rule of 0 still applies, so 30 and 0 gave you 30, while 00 and 0 gave you 100. New players could especially be confused if they roll 10 and 0 and are told that is not indeed 100.

It occurred to me that you don't need to use that method with the percentile dice. Instead, you could take the dice at face value. First off, you have to acknowledge that the 0 on a d10 represents 10. In most games, that counts as a 10, but for 1-100, people tend to automatically think of it as 0. Of course, if the die is printed with a 0, that makes the shift easier. For a d10 that is printed with a 10, then adding the dice works pretty well.

And this is where the clash with traditional gamers happens. Because now I no longer view the dice as 40 and 0. Now I view them as 40 and 10, which is actually 50 and not 40. I don't have to mentally switch from 10 to 0 or from 00 to 100. I can roll as low as 00 and 1 (for 1) and as high as 90 and 10 (for 100). The vitriol is alarming, even by internet standards. It produces a range of 1 through 100 evenly distributed, but because it wasn't in a way that people first learned (and I have 30+ years of that habit in me), some people have taken offense.

I find this confusing, but perhaps you over-explained.

One issue is that the die says "0" on it, so you do have to mentally change that "0" to a "10" if you roll it, don't you?

But really, I think the only real issue is expectation... the method that will be used for generating the number needs to be clearly established before the die roll. If everyone watching you roll thinks that a roll of 30 and 0 should equal 30, and you roll it and declare that you rolled a 40, then of course people will cry fowl.
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« Reply #338 on: January 09, 2019, 12:23:09 pm »
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My VLC player tends to have some trouble increasing the playback speed. Does someone know a player that can play videos at double speed without lagging?

That super depends on your specs, the videos that you're trying to play at double speed, and your codec settings, but in general, VLC is not a very good player for a multitude of reasons and you should be using either MPC-HC (which is easiest to get running by installing a codec pack such as the K-Lite Codec Pack) or mpv depending on your operating system.
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« Reply #339 on: January 09, 2019, 01:24:58 pm »
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Gamers can be an oddly conservative bunch. They get into a specific routine, and any change to that is met with hostility. Many gamers are pretty adaptable, but the ones who aren't will often make their displeasure known.

My recent observation on this is how gamers generate a number from 1 to 100. If you don't already know this, it's been established since at least the '70s that you can generate this number with two ten-sided dice (d10). You declare a die as the tens digit and the other as the ones digit. Whatever you roll in the tens digit, you multiply by 10. Then you add the other die. But there are a couple of tricks that we use.

First, when rolling 1-100, the 10 on the die actually counts as a 0. Most d10s on the market are printed this way. It is actually a source of bemusement among new players when they roll the d10 and proclaim they got a 0 and not a 10. So, for example, a roll of 8 and 4 becomes 84. A roll of 0 and 6 becomes 06. And a roll of 2 and 0 becomes 20. This gives a range of 00 to 99, so any roll of 00 is counted as 100.

It's a bit convoluted, but it works. You have an even distribution of 1through 100.

Fast forward to around 1992 (the earliest I've heard someone claim he had one) and the introduction of the percentile dice. This is a pair of d10s, but one of them is numbered differently. Instead of 0, 1, 2, it is numbered with 00, 10, 20. The idea being that you no longer declare the tens digit. It's already established by this die. You roll a 20 and an 8, and it's 28. But the rule of 0 still applies, so 30 and 0 gave you 30, while 00 and 0 gave you 100. New players could especially be confused if they roll 10 and 0 and are told that is not indeed 100.

It occurred to me that you don't need to use that method with the percentile dice. Instead, you could take the dice at face value. First off, you have to acknowledge that the 0 on a d10 represents 10. In most games, that counts as a 10, but for 1-100, people tend to automatically think of it as 0. Of course, if the die is printed with a 0, that makes the shift easier. For a d10 that is printed with a 10, then adding the dice works pretty well.

And this is where the clash with traditional gamers happens. Because now I no longer view the dice as 40 and 0. Now I view them as 40 and 10, which is actually 50 and not 40. I don't have to mentally switch from 10 to 0 or from 00 to 100. I can roll as low as 00 and 1 (for 1) and as high as 90 and 10 (for 100). The vitriol is alarming, even by internet standards. It produces a range of 1 through 100 evenly distributed, but because it wasn't in a way that people first learned (and I have 30+ years of that habit in me), some people have taken offense.

I find this confusing, but perhaps you over-explained.

One issue is that the die says "0" on it, so you do have to mentally change that "0" to a "10" if you roll it, don't you?

But really, I think the only real issue is expectation... the method that will be used for generating the number needs to be clearly established before the die roll. If everyone watching you roll thinks that a roll of 30 and 0 should equal 30, and you roll it and declare that you rolled a 40, then of course people will cry fowl.

QWERTY keyboard vs. DVORAK keyboard seems like a more notorious example.
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« Reply #340 on: January 10, 2019, 08:45:43 am »
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I find this confusing, but perhaps you over-explained.

Possible. I tend to do that.

One issue is that the die says "0" on it, so you do have to mentally change that "0" to a "10" if you roll it, don't you?

But really, I think the only real issue is expectation... the method that will be used for generating the number needs to be clearly established before the die roll. If everyone watching you roll thinks that a roll of 30 and 0 should equal 30, and you roll it and declare that you rolled a 40, then of course people will cry fowl.

Which is why I'm making the switch to d10s that read from 1 to 10. Then if I need to roll percentile dice, then it obviously is not a 0.

The expectation is key here; you're right. If this ever comes up (I am not currently playing any games where percentile is important), then I'll declare that I'm adding the dice as I roll them.
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« Reply #341 on: January 10, 2019, 11:43:09 am »
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I find this confusing, but perhaps you over-explained.

Possible. I tend to do that.

One issue is that the die says "0" on it, so you do have to mentally change that "0" to a "10" if you roll it, don't you?

But really, I think the only real issue is expectation... the method that will be used for generating the number needs to be clearly established before the die roll. If everyone watching you roll thinks that a roll of 30 and 0 should equal 30, and you roll it and declare that you rolled a 40, then of course people will cry fowl.

Which is why I'm making the switch to d10s that read from 1 to 10. Then if I need to roll percentile dice, then it obviously is not a 0.

The expectation is key here; you're right. If this ever comes up (I am not currently playing any games where percentile is important), then I'll declare that I'm adding the dice as I roll them.

What would make most sense to me is one die that has 00, 10, 20, ...,90 and another that has 1,2, ..., 10, then just add them. This gives a range of 1-100 without any "Aces high or low" confusion on the 0 or 10.
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« Reply #342 on: January 10, 2019, 11:48:46 am »
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I find this confusing, but perhaps you over-explained.

Possible. I tend to do that.

One issue is that the die says "0" on it, so you do have to mentally change that "0" to a "10" if you roll it, don't you?

But really, I think the only real issue is expectation... the method that will be used for generating the number needs to be clearly established before the die roll. If everyone watching you roll thinks that a roll of 30 and 0 should equal 30, and you roll it and declare that you rolled a 40, then of course people will cry fowl.

Which is why I'm making the switch to d10s that read from 1 to 10. Then if I need to roll percentile dice, then it obviously is not a 0.

The expectation is key here; you're right. If this ever comes up (I am not currently playing any games where percentile is important), then I'll declare that I'm adding the dice as I roll them.

What would make most sense to me is one die that has 00, 10, 20, ...,90 and another that has 1,2, ..., 10, then just add them. This gives a range of 1-100 without any "Aces high or low" confusion on the 0 or 10.

One issue is that while those dice may work great as a substitute for a d100, I'm not sure they make as much sense for any other situation where you need a d10. It's weird if one part of the set effectively is 0-9 while the other part is effectively 1-10.
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« Reply #343 on: January 10, 2019, 12:16:50 pm »
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A mean why not just have a range from 0-99?
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« Reply #344 on: January 10, 2019, 01:15:20 pm »
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What would make most sense to me is one die that has 00, 10, 20, ...,90 and another that has 1,2, ..., 10, then just add them. This gives a range of 1-100 without any "Aces high or low" confusion on the 0 or 10.

That's exactly what I was saying. Gendo's right that I overexplain things. I just wanted to give people who didn't know what a d10 was an idea of what I'm getting at. I probably should've assumed everyone knew it and just explain when someone asks for it.

Just get rid of 0-9 altogether. I've only seen one RPG that requires a roll of 0-9. I've heard that there may be some war games that use 0-9, but I don't know them.

And 00-99 is a perfectly cromulent use of percentile. When you roll for a 27% chance, say, then only rolls 00-26 succeed. In essence, roll under the number and not under or equal that number. But it runs into the same issue of stating your intent so people don't call bullshit on you. But it is also consistent, and that is pleasing.
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« Reply #345 on: January 10, 2019, 01:41:46 pm »
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Of course, you can also just get an actual d100.

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« Reply #346 on: January 10, 2019, 02:03:50 pm »
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« Reply #348 on: January 10, 2019, 03:16:51 pm »
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I think I continue to use VLC out of years of accumulated spite from people telling me that VLC is a shitty media player.
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« Reply #349 on: January 10, 2019, 05:12:37 pm »
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I've been using VLC for years and have generally been very satisfied. The design is simplistic, it hides its advanced options well, it's straight-forward to install, and it usually works. The apparent fact that it's rather inefficient -- playing stuff faster and introducing big subtitle delays both seem to bring it to its limits -- doesn't matter very often. But, well, in this case it does.

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« Reply #350 on: January 10, 2019, 05:19:21 pm »
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Yeah, I don't have an real problems with it, but I hate to watch stuff sped up.

I sometimes slow stuff down a bit (we watched parts of Tatami Galaxy while eating.)
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« Reply #351 on: January 10, 2019, 06:48:55 pm »
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I've been using VLC for years and have generally been very satisfied. The design is simplistic, it hides its advanced options well, it's straight-forward to install, and it usually works. The apparent fact that it's rather inefficient -- playing stuff faster and introducing big subtitle delays both seem to bring it to its limits -- doesn't matter very often. But, well, in this case it does.

The problem with VLC has never been its design or installation process. The problem is that it has limited customization options, worse quality (especially with subtitles and upscaled video), worse compatibility, as well as the fact that it's rather inefficient.

It's been a while since I last did this comparison, so for the sake of science, here goes. I'm using the most recent version of VLC and the K-Lite Codec Pack and the [Fancutfags] v2 release of Madoka, which is a good test subject because it uses pretty advanced mkv features that VLC has traditionally struggled to support, it uses ASS subtitles, it comes in two different resolutions so I can test both upscaling and regular playback, and I know exactly what it's supposed to look like given that I made it.

Upscaling 720p -> 1080p:

https://dl.dropbox.com/s/jwlwlp4uqcsznv7/mpc-hc%20quality%20test.png
https://dl.dropbox.com/s/9r6dp5639ljz7al/vlc%20quality%20test.png
VLC is blurrier and displays the subtitles slightly incorrectly.

Playing 1080p:

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The difference is smaller here, but it's still there. The subtitles are actually pretty good looking on VLC this time — as in, they're pretty much identical to how MPC/K-Lite displays them —  which is an improvement over past versions.

Furthermore, MPC-HC is able to perform the chapter jumps seamlessly, and VLC isn't (you get stuttering and it shows you a couple of frames you're not supposed to see) — although, it is noteworthy that VLC is able to perform them at all without causing the subtitles to go out of sync for the rest of the video file, which is an improvement over past versions.

So TL;DR VLC is slowly catching up to how good MPC-HC has been for at least 5 years already but it isn't there yet.
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« Reply #352 on: January 11, 2019, 11:25:37 am »
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Of course, you can also just get an actual d100.

I'm generally not fond of the d100, but that's because I'm impatient. I'm happier with rolling two dice without waiting for dice to stop.

But I cannot argue its fairness. It is technically the simplest way to roll 1-100. It's just not my favorite.

Someone asked me if rolling d10000 would blow my theory out of the water. After evaluating the dice, it looks like it still works—provided the smallest die goes from 1 to 10 while the others go rom 0* to 9*. So you get 10k by adding 9000+900+90+10.

But I don't play any games that require a d10000. Not sure I'd want something with that degree of granularity, but I could be persuaded.
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« Reply #353 on: January 11, 2019, 12:11:42 pm »
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Of course, you can also just get an actual d100.

I'm generally not fond of the d100, but that's because I'm impatient. I'm happier with rolling two dice without waiting for dice to stop.

But I cannot argue its fairness. It is technically the simplest way to roll 1-100. It's just not my favorite.

Someone asked me if rolling d10000 would blow my theory out of the water. After evaluating the dice, it looks like it still works—provided the smallest die goes from 1 to 10 while the others go rom 0* to 9*. So you get 10k by adding 9000+900+90+10.

But I don't play any games that require a d10000. Not sure I'd want something with that degree of granularity, but I could be persuaded.

I've never heard of any game that requires a d10000, and I doubt I could be persuaded that that degree of granularity could be good.
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« Reply #354 on: January 12, 2019, 05:29:57 am »
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Of course, you can also just get an actual d100.

I'm generally not fond of the d100, but that's because I'm impatient. I'm happier with rolling two dice without waiting for dice to stop.

But I cannot argue its fairness. It is technically the simplest way to roll 1-100. It's just not my favorite.

Someone asked me if rolling d10000 would blow my theory out of the water. After evaluating the dice, it looks like it still works—provided the smallest die goes from 1 to 10 while the others go rom 0* to 9*. So you get 10k by adding 9000+900+90+10.

But I don't play any games that require a d10000. Not sure I'd want something with that degree of granularity, but I could be persuaded.

I've never heard of any game that requires a d10000, and I doubt I could be persuaded that that degree of granularity could be good.

May I introduce you to the world's greatest RPG, FATAL?

I don't remember the details, but I know during setup you are instructed to roll a d1,000,000 among other things.
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« Reply #355 on: January 12, 2019, 02:56:00 pm »
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« Reply #356 on: January 14, 2019, 08:40:22 am »
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Not sure I'd want something with that degree of granularity

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« Reply #357 on: January 20, 2019, 06:20:49 pm »
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My VLC player tends to have some trouble increasing the playback speed. Does someone know a player that can play videos at double speed without lagging?

That super depends on your specs, the videos that you're trying to play at double speed, and your codec settings, but in general, VLC is not a very good player for a multitude of reasons and you should be using either MPC-HC (which is easiest to get running by installing a codec pack such as the K-Lite Codec Pack) or mpv depending on your operating system.

I did this, and this player does indeed play at double speed without lagging.

... however, it now has a moderately annoying audio bug where it makes little cracking sounds once every two seconds or so, which doesn't happen when I use VLC.

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« Reply #358 on: January 23, 2019, 05:24:06 pm »
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This is perhaps one of the strangest and most petty attempts at humble bragging about a false achievement that I've ever seen. Every post TC makes sounds more and more desperate to convince people it's true and that it's a big deal.
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« Reply #359 on: January 23, 2019, 06:47:44 pm »
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I'm not sure the link goes where you intended it to. Who or what is TC?

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« Reply #360 on: January 24, 2019, 02:03:56 am »
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That's going to the correct thread. I don't know who the TC was, he's a user I've not seen before.
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« Reply #361 on: January 24, 2019, 03:19:14 am »
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That's going to the correct thread. I don't know who the TC was, he's a user I've not seen before.

Is TC a synonym for OP?
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« Reply #362 on: January 24, 2019, 04:12:35 am »
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Just played my first pen and paper, Numenera. I understood it tries to make minmaxing less of a point than others and puts the focus on narration and exploration, which I felt was neat. Apparently you could use a d100 for certain things, but it didn't really come up.
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« Reply #363 on: January 24, 2019, 08:26:51 am »
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That's going to the correct thread. I don't know who the TC was, he's a user I've not seen before.

Is TC a synonym for OP?

Maybe Topic Creator?
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« Reply #364 on: January 24, 2019, 04:53:28 pm »
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Yeah, TC is an acronym for topic creator.
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« Reply #365 on: January 27, 2019, 01:08:07 am »
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« Reply #366 on: January 27, 2019, 06:07:14 am »
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Is it normal to be so hot and sweaty after exercising that when I go outside to cool off I am literally steaming?

Depends on the temperature, but probably yes in the winter.
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« Reply #367 on: January 31, 2019, 09:33:50 am »
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It threw me off when I saw someone talking about a biannual review of a process that's been in place for only a year, and then I realized that she probably means a review twice a year.

And that's why the word is dead now. Same with bimonthly.
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« Reply #368 on: February 04, 2019, 03:50:05 pm »
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We were waving our arms out the window of a fast-moving passenger train, acting in an irresponsible fashion until the engineer whose back had been turned and who we thought would find us highly amusing quickly swiveled his head around, and his face which was a paper-white mask of evil sang us this song.
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« Reply #369 on: February 05, 2019, 01:31:56 am »
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We were waving our arms out the window of a fast-moving passenger train, acting in an irresponsible fashion until the engineer whose back had been turned and who we thought would find us highly amusing quickly swiveled his head around, and his face which was a paper-white mask of evil sang us this song.

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« Reply #370 on: February 05, 2019, 06:42:11 am »
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This is funny ("This is what happened to McDonalds when I didn't have a McDonalds this week:")



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« Reply #371 on: February 05, 2019, 12:59:27 pm »
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This is funny ("This is what happened to McDonalds when I didn't have a McDonalds this week:")



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I don't get it? The numbers only work if the exact same number of people other than you had McDonalds each week.
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« Reply #372 on: February 05, 2019, 03:22:25 pm »
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« Reply #373 on: February 06, 2019, 12:14:00 pm »
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Okay, I'm stumped on this riddle. Considering that I'm having a hard time finding it on Google, I question how viable it is. It's not a popular one obviously. It may have originated in England, judging from the use of "dice" as singular, but it might not exclusively be an English thing. Any ideas? It sounds vaguely board-game-y.

I am a king but I do not move one space.
Roll the a dice and I start a fast race.
Begin my reign, I make bucks.
My land is not free, it is my crux.

I almost want to say Monopoly, though that game does not have kings. Perhaps it is used figuratively. But everything else could apply to it.
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« Reply #374 on: February 06, 2019, 12:21:24 pm »
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Okay, I'm stumped on this riddle. Considering that I'm having a hard time finding it on Google, I question how viable it is. It's not a popular one obviously. It may have originated in England, judging from the use of "dice" as singular, but it might not exclusively be an English thing. Any ideas? It sounds vaguely board-game-y.

I am a king but I do not move one space.
Roll the dice and I start a fast race.
Begin my reign, I make bucks.
My land is not free, it is my crux.

I almost want to say Monopoly, though that game does not have kings. Perhaps it is used figuratively. But everything else could apply to it.

What makes you think "dice" is being used as singular?

It sounds like it could be King of Tokyo, but not obviously so.

I am a king but I do not move one space. Obviously mostly meaning "not chess", but each player is a monster that is attempting to be the "King".

Roll the dice and I start a fast race. Start every tun by rolling the dice. You are racing to get to 20 points.

Begin my reign, I make bucks. When you enter Tokyo (begin your reign), you get a bonus point.

My land is not free, it is my crux. Being in Tokyo has a harsh penalty of being unable to heal.
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« Reply #375 on: February 06, 2019, 12:53:27 pm »
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Sorry, I copied this riddle from another source from where I first saw it. I first saw it as an image, which I couldn't copy. In that version, it said "Roll a dice" and I didn't pick up that the second version was different. It does make more sense when it's not a single die, and that may just be the "postman" effect.
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« Reply #376 on: February 08, 2019, 06:27:28 pm »
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Man, it's been 2 days, and they haven't posted the answer yet. I am vexed right now.

Okay, I'm stumped on this riddle. Considering that I'm having a hard time finding it on Google, I question how viable it is. It's not a popular one obviously. It may have originated in England, judging from the use of "dice" as singular, but it might not exclusively be an English thing. Any ideas? It sounds vaguely board-game-y.

I am a king but I do not move one space.
Roll the a dice and I start a fast race.
Begin my reign, I make bucks.
My land is not free, it is my crux.

I almost want to say Monopoly, though that game does not have kings. Perhaps it is used figuratively. But everything else could apply to it.
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« Reply #377 on: February 11, 2019, 04:02:20 am »
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that may just be the "postman" effect.
What is the postman effect? I tried to read up on it, but all I found was why dogs bark at the postman.
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« Reply #378 on: February 11, 2019, 08:41:28 am »
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that may just be the "postman" effect.
What is the postman effect? I tried to read up on it, but all I found was why dogs bark at the postman.

Well, actually I think I meant post office. Basically where one person repeats another person but interjects some possible inaccuracies.
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« Reply #379 on: February 11, 2019, 11:26:54 am »
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that may just be the "postman" effect.
What is the postman effect? I tried to read up on it, but all I found was why dogs bark at the postman.

Well, actually I think I meant post office. Basically where one person repeats another person but interjects some possible inaccuracies.
Ah, now I get it. Thanks.
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« Reply #380 on: February 11, 2019, 03:09:41 pm »
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The contentious definition of bi-annual has reared its ugly head again. I tried to politely suggest that due to all the confusion that has formed around that word that we refer to semiannual since at least that word is unambiguous (and I hate it when people refer to bi-annual as twice a year).

And then I get proven wrong by someone saying that semiannual means four times a year. I can't guarantee I kept a good enough poker face at hearing that one. But she looked it up and realized the mistake, but it still flummoxed me that that definition has been going around.

People just suck at prefixes, man.
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« Reply #381 on: February 12, 2019, 10:08:52 am »
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People just suck at prefixes, man.

Prefixes are words in front of other words that, while being part of the same term, are still visually divided by a space. An example would be "counter measure"'s "counter". What you mean are antefixes, units that are part of the very same word,such as "ante" in antefix.

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« Reply #382 on: February 12, 2019, 11:09:21 am »
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People just suck at prefixes, man.

Prefixes are words in front of other words that, while being part of the same term, are still visually divided by a space. An example would be "counter measure"'s "counter". What you mean are antefixes, units that are part of the very same word,such as "ante" in antefix.

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« Reply #383 on: February 12, 2019, 12:35:24 pm »
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People just suck at prefixes, man.

Prefixes are words in front of other words that, while being part of the same term, are still visually divided by a space. An example would be "counter measure"'s "counter". What you mean are antefixes, units that are part of the very same word,such as "ante" in antefix.

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« Reply #384 on: February 12, 2019, 01:35:46 pm »
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An antefix is actually a vertical block that terminates the covering tiles of a tiled roof.

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« Reply #385 on: February 15, 2019, 10:04:01 pm »
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Once again I got sucked into another pointless Facebook vortex. I had to caption this.

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« Reply #386 on: February 23, 2019, 07:38:30 am »
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« Reply #387 on: February 23, 2019, 09:04:49 pm »
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Can you blame them?

W + W + W = 30
W + X + X = 20
X + X + Y = 18

What is V + X * Y?

What, you didn't realise that V was W/2? Expected parentheses that could trivially be added to remove all unneeded ambiguity rather than remember BEDMAS? That's exactly what the 90% of people who fail would say.
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« Reply #388 on: February 24, 2019, 07:57:36 am »
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Can you blame them?

W + W + W = 30
W + X + X = 20
X + X + Y = 18

What is V + X * Y?

What, you didn't realise that V was W/2? Expected parentheses that could trivially be added to remove all unneeded ambiguity rather than remember BEDMAS? That's exactly what the 90% of people who fail would say.

What I find funny abot this is that the way these problems are displayed, it makes way more sense for V being sqrt(W), since having 2 variables without anything between them usually means multiplication. 
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« Reply #389 on: February 24, 2019, 02:23:11 pm »
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Can you blame them?

W + W + W = 30
W + X + X = 20
X + X + Y = 18

What is V + X * Y?

What, you didn't realise that V was W/2? Expected parentheses that could trivially be added to remove all unneeded ambiguity rather than remember BEDMAS? That's exactly what the 90% of people who fail would say.

What I find funny abot this is that the way these problems are displayed, it makes way more sense for V being sqrt(W), since having 2 variables without anything between them usually means multiplication. 

Yeah, I like to point out that while they probably are looking for V being W/2, that relationship is not defined, so I use SQRT(W) as an example of why it's important to define terms early.

But speaking of PEDMAS (or BODMAS or any other permutation of that acronym), I never learned it that way. I simply learned that multiplication happens before addition with parentheses redirecting priority as needed. I later learned about exponents, and it just made sense to me that you work those first because you can view expressions as adding together a bunch of groups, and of course you do exponents before multiplication. But superscripts help with that. One may question the intent of writing x^3*y, but the superscript easily differentiates between x3y and x3y. While x^3*y would strictly be equivalent to the former, I would ask for clarification first because I can see where the author could make an unfounded assumption in writing that.

But I feel like the PEDMAS acronym is hurting people in those Facebook math questions. The latest I've seen is 5-5*5+5. People not aware of the order of operations will say 5, but I've seen a lot of people say that the answer is -25. The reason is that you multiply first (5-25+5) and then add next (5-30) and finally subtract (-25). They don't realize that addition and subtraction have the same priority (or that they are in fact the same operation).

Naturally, the commutative property does let you add those in any order, but they think they can add 25 and 5. They don't realize that the term is -25. When people can't remember the actual math, they seem to fall back on the acronym, but they're not using it correctly. I've seen people try to correct them by writing it as PE(DM)(AS) to indicate when priority is equal. I can respect that attempt.
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« Reply #390 on: February 24, 2019, 03:07:02 pm »
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One of the Maths teachers I work with doesn't like teaching BIDMAS (aka PEDMAS) because of exactly that confusion. Instead he mentions that BIDMAS is a way some people remember it but then explains better ways, namely how the more powerful things happen first with brackets forcing priority. Obviously he explains it better than I'm doing in 2 lines of text but whatever. I feel like BIDMAS ends up confusing some people because it feels like an arbitrary rule, few people really have any idea of WHY it's there.
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« Reply #391 on: February 24, 2019, 03:43:18 pm »
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When people can't remember the actual math, they seem to fall back on the acronym, but they're not using it correctly. I've seen people try to correct them by writing it as PE(DM)(AS) to indicate when priority is equal. I can respect that attempt.

When I tutored math that's usually how I would explain it. But what's really frustrating to me is when teachers make no distinction between things in math that are just arbitrarily established conventions, versus things that are actually provably true. When a student asks "Why do we go in the PEMDAS order?", it is technically correct to say "Because that's the easiest way to do it", because that is why we do it; it's just some arbitrary convention, and we had to make up some consistent rules, so why not those rules. But if you just leave the answer at that, the student walks away thinking that that's how everything in math works, we just make up rules to follow, and then being "good at math" is just a matter of memorizing and applying those rules.

PEMDAS isn't really a feature of math, it's a feature of language, which just happens to only be relevant when you're talking about something mathematical, in the same way that "four" is a feature of language, but you only ever use it to express a mathematical idea. But the fact that you learn about it in a math class makes your brain lump it together with all other "math", and that makes you more inclined to think that everything else in that category was equally arbitrary.
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« Reply #392 on: February 24, 2019, 04:05:26 pm »
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I've always thought that order of operations is way more simple than people make it out to be.  Multiplication and division are the same thing, and happen before addition and subtraction.  Other than that, it's left to right.  That's all I've ever thought about order of operations.  Exponents, by the way they're written, require them to be resolved first (barring stupid cases like x^3*y), and parentheses are just a universal "resolve this first".
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« Reply #393 on: February 24, 2019, 09:17:23 pm »
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The correct answer to all those "puzzles" looks to always be undefined.
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« Reply #394 on: February 25, 2019, 01:44:09 am »
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When a student asks "Why do we go in the PEMDAS order?", it is technically correct to say "Because that's the easiest way to do it", because that is why we do it; it's just some arbitrary convention, and we had to make up some consistent rules, so why not those rules.
I don't know the real reason behind the convention, but I suspect it's to let you write polynomials in standard form without parentheses and without the insanity that would result from addition binding tighter than subtraction. ("Why standard form" is that it allows you to easily add and multiply polynomials. "Why polynomials" is that they're pervasive in math.)

That doesn't cover division, but I think that's just imitating the way addition and subtraction work, and, anyway, the division symbol hardly ever gets used.

Edit: Turns out I wrote about the same point on here 7 years ago.
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« Reply #395 on: February 25, 2019, 10:15:30 am »
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Edit: Turns out I wrote about the same point on here 7 years ago.

On a thread that I started even. These things just bug me because they're easy to correct, but so many people don't want to learn. It bugs the tutor within me. But then if you're convinced you're right, then it's hard for someone to convince you otherwise. But at least be willing to check yourself. If 20 people all told me that you do addition before multiplication, I'd say they're wrong, but the number is large enough that it would make me double-check that something hasn't changed.

But some people have acknowledged that they have learned something new to them, and that makes it worth it. I just wish there were more of them.

And yeah, I haven't seen the division sign used past elementary school. I get annoyed when I see it pop up on those brain teasers because it's not really standard use. I tend to not discuss those.
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« Reply #396 on: February 28, 2019, 03:45:24 pm »
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Noble Brigand shoots arrows at people. Then they gain copper.

Explain.

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« Reply #397 on: February 28, 2019, 03:49:48 pm »
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Noble Brigand shoots arrows at people. Then they gain copper.

Explain.

He is like Robin Hood. Steals from the rich, gives to the poor. Takes your gold and silver, but if you lack treasure he is generous enough to give you a copper.
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« Reply #398 on: February 28, 2019, 03:51:12 pm »
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Noble Brigand shoots arrows at people. Then they gain copper.

Explain.

He doesn't shoot arrows, he's just the Thief but he actually looks at the other person's treasures before taking them: he can only sell silver and gold, so that's all he takes, plus he's merciful: he leaves behind some useless (for him) coppers if the person's poor, because he didn't become a thief to harm, just out of necessity.

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« Reply #399 on: February 28, 2019, 03:54:43 pm »
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Noble Brigand shoots arrows at people. Then they gain copper.

Explain.

He is like Robin Hood. Steals from the rich, gives to the poor. Takes your gold and silver, but if you lack treasure he is generous enough to give you a copper.

wow now that you say it I guess that was actually intended! I never made that connection before.

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« Reply #400 on: February 28, 2019, 03:54:51 pm »
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Noble Brigand shoots arrows at people. Then they gain copper.

Explain.

The arrowheads are made out of copper.
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« Reply #401 on: February 28, 2019, 04:28:56 pm »
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Noble Brigand shoots arrows at people. Then they gain copper.

Explain.

The arrowheads are made out of copper.

Just because you got to it first doesn't mean you can just brazenly steal my answer, you cad!

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« Reply #402 on: March 01, 2019, 02:33:36 pm »
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Recently I went to a talk about the Flat Earth phenomenon and what's causing such an easily disproven myth to gain traction. It was pretty interesting. I'll just share a few highlight points in case anyone here ends up talking with one of these kind of people.

1) Often they are not flat earthers because of a complete lack of scientific knowledge, but because of being misled by poorly executed science and experiments. Often on Youtube - people doing flawed experiments or reaching the wrong conclusion from the experiments they have done (such as seeing if a spirit level remains flat while on a plane and similar).

2) Flat earthers often - very often - link in with many other conspiracy theories. This can range from "the Moon landing is fake" - which makes sense if you think space is fake - right up to much more sinister things such as Holocaust denial and similar. Be careful.

3) Perhaps most important (which is why I buried it as number 3, go me) there isn't just a single "flat earth" model that's agreed on. Talk to 10 different flat earthers* and you'll get 10 different ideas on what the Flat Earth is, how it works and why it works. In fact there are schisms in the community, with some sides basically claiming the other are government shills designed to mislead people and discredit the theory. Yup, it's an, uh, interesting community.

4) When interacting with this kind of people, it is very easy and tempting to act smug and conceited since you know you're right and they're wrong. And of course, you are - but bear in mind from their point of view, they're right and have realised something you've not, and so this attitude often only further serves to reinforce. Don't take an aggressive or superior approach.

5) Similar to the above, but how often do you interact with Flat Earthers and hear their arguments? Probably never, right. They interact with us every day, and hear the same arguments constantly. They have answers to them. If you come out all guns blazing and argue points, they will usually have an answer to you because they already thought of it, and unless you are a serious expert at physics (usually) there's a high chance you'll get caught out in being unable to answer them eventually - you're dropping down to their level and they beat you through experience. Instead you're generally better off talking with them and getting them to try and explain their views. You don't have to lie and pretend to agree, just try and follow their line of thought, as though it might hold some merit - and ask them to clarify and explain points that you feel are incompatible with what you've seen/know from reality, rather than directly challenging them. This won't get you an instant "win" but that's because you stop it feeling like you vs. them. Instead you can act almost like a guide to them, making them question it for themselves. Remember what I said - a lot of these people aren't completely ignorant of science, they've just been deceived by bad science. If you can guide them into doing things right, there's a good chance they'll work out their mistakes.
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« Reply #403 on: March 01, 2019, 02:37:43 pm »
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A friend of mine mentioned watching a documentary on flat-earthers recently and said it was good.
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« Reply #404 on: March 01, 2019, 04:23:41 pm »
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Who wants to read GPT-2 generated posts describing non-existent anime characters and their appearances in non-existent shows?

https://www.thiswaifudoesnotexist.net/index.html

(For those who haven't heard about it yet, GPT-2 is OpenAI's big project. It can write essays responding to a textual input (like two paragraphs). I'm not quite sure what it has as input here, maybe it can also respond to images.)

Late edit because this is just funny. So many twists.

iku is on a train to the train station with his family when a very cute girl is seen at the station. He tells the other children in the carriage that she's there and asks to leave. iku then finds out that after the girl he saw has fallen from the train, he is now an attractive girl. He has a crush on her. iku then goes to meet a girl at the station who offers him a job as a prostitute. iku agrees to help her. iku is the only customer, so a girl appears and tells him to stay with her. iku tells her to leave after talking to the other kids, telling her to find him. iku then proceeds to tell the girls that he and iku are going to meet up at the car wash. iku asks the girls to leave before he leaves her with a big kiss from her, then he kisses her. iku tells the girls that he will meet up for a picnic after he returns home. The next day, the new heroine of this anime is iku. A girl he meets in the parking lot of this cafe. The girls ask him about her. iku tells them to go on a date to a café where there's a man waiting to meet them but he refuses because he doesn't want to see the girl he was with and she has some form of mental illness. He then tells the girls to go home. yuuki takes this for a walk to her house. yuuki starts to have flashbacks to her past life, like when she was a kid and she lost her virginity, but she gets some insight into the place she grew up in. A few days later, yuuki wakes up to find that she and yuuki are in bed in each other's bed. yuuki asks her whether yuuki is asleep since she was in her sleep when she died. yuuki answers that she hasn't noticed, and that if it was, she wouldn't have been at the same place. yuuki says that he won't be leaving her forever, and the girls all say that he has no problem going home because he wants to spend eternity. This story has many different endings as well.
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« Reply #405 on: March 03, 2019, 09:12:14 pm »
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A friend of mine mentioned watching a documentary on flat-earthers recently and said it was good.

Behind the Curve?  I watched this a few nights ago and it's pretty incredible.

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« Reply #406 on: March 03, 2019, 09:20:33 pm »
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Recently I went to a talk about the Flat Earth phenomenon and what's causing such an easily disproven myth to gain traction. It was pretty interesting. I'll just share a few highlight points in case anyone here ends up talking with one of these kind of people.

1) Often they are not flat earthers because of a complete lack of scientific knowledge, but because of being misled by poorly executed science and experiments. Often on Youtube - people doing flawed experiments or reaching the wrong conclusion from the experiments they have done (such as seeing if a spirit level remains flat while on a plane and similar).

2) Flat earthers often - very often - link in with many other conspiracy theories. This can range from "the Moon landing is fake" - which makes sense if you think space is fake - right up to much more sinister things such as Holocaust denial and similar. Be careful.

3) Perhaps most important (which is why I buried it as number 3, go me) there isn't just a single "flat earth" model that's agreed on. Talk to 10 different flat earthers* and you'll get 10 different ideas on what the Flat Earth is, how it works and why it works. In fact there are schisms in the community, with some sides basically claiming the other are government shills designed to mislead people and discredit the theory. Yup, it's an, uh, interesting community.

4) When interacting with this kind of people, it is very easy and tempting to act smug and conceited since you know you're right and they're wrong. And of course, you are - but bear in mind from their point of view, they're right and have realised something you've not, and so this attitude often only further serves to reinforce. Don't take an aggressive or superior approach.

5) Similar to the above, but how often do you interact with Flat Earthers and hear their arguments? Probably never, right. They interact with us every day, and hear the same arguments constantly. They have answers to them. If you come out all guns blazing and argue points, they will usually have an answer to you because they already thought of it, and unless you are a serious expert at physics (usually) there's a high chance you'll get caught out in being unable to answer them eventually - you're dropping down to their level and they beat you through experience. Instead you're generally better off talking with them and getting them to try and explain their views. You don't have to lie and pretend to agree, just try and follow their line of thought, as though it might hold some merit - and ask them to clarify and explain points that you feel are incompatible with what you've seen/know from reality, rather than directly challenging them. This won't get you an instant "win" but that's because you stop it feeling like you vs. them. Instead you can act almost like a guide to them, making them question it for themselves. Remember what I said - a lot of these people aren't completely ignorant of science, they've just been deceived by bad science. If you can guide them into doing things right, there's a good chance they'll work out their mistakes.

The last point is pretty interesting, because there is a lot of things that we take for granted and assume are true (for good reason, generally). If you actually think about trying to prove everything you take to be true, it's an almost insurmountable task.
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« Reply #407 on: March 04, 2019, 01:26:44 am »
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(For those who haven't heard about it yet, GPT-2 is OpenAI's big project. It can write essays responding to a textual input (like two paragraphs). I'm not quite sure what it has as input here, maybe it can also respond to images.)

https://www.gwern.net/TWDNE

1. Seed GPT-2 with a bunch of anime keywords to get it to generate text that looks like an anime synopsis

The seed is
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"Anime ai nani arigatou gomen \
        sayonara chigau dame Madoka jigoku kami kanojo mahou magical girl youkai 4koma yonkoma Japan Oreimo baka \
        chibi gakuran schoolgirl school uniform club Funimation Gainax Khara Ghibli Hayao Miyazaki Saber Fate \
        Stay Night Pop Team Epic Japanese Aria Escaflowne Kanon Clannad comedy itai manga Shonen Jump pocky \
        tsundere urusai weeaboo yaoi yuri zettai harem senpai otaku waifu weeb fanfiction doujinshi trope \
        Anime News Network Anime Central Touhou kanji kaiju Neon Genesis Evangelion Spice and Wolf Holo Asuka \
        kawaii bishonen bishojo visual novel light novel video game story plot Fruits Basket Toradora Taiga \
        Aisaka tiger Detective Conan Pokemon Osamu Tezuka cat ears neko romantic comedy little sister character \
        plot drama article nekomimi bunny isekai tanuki catgirl moe manga manga manga anime anime anime review \
        plot summary. An exciting cute kawaii new anime series based on a light novel shoujo manga called  \
        \"I Can't Believe My Alien Visitor Is My Little Sister\" or \"MAVISM\", a sequel to \"Raccoon Girl\", \
        is the latest hit. In the first episode of this anime, "

The output is some gibberish that looks like an anime synopsis.

2. To improve quality, take a synopsis outputted by GPT-2 and feed it as the new prompt to get a further elaboration on that fake anime - this is the final output used.
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« Reply #408 on: March 05, 2019, 06:10:08 pm »
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Has anybody here talked about what "deceptively" in phrases like "deceptively easy" or "deceptively delicious" are supposed to mean? Is a thing that is "deceptively easy" something that is easier than it looks or harder than it looks? I think it's been used to describe both, and sometimes context isn't enough to distinguish.
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« Reply #409 on: March 05, 2019, 07:22:54 pm »
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I have been under the assumption that it means it's easier than it looks.
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« Reply #410 on: March 05, 2019, 07:28:00 pm »
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I think I usually take it as "deceptively X" means "it appears, or is technically X, but in practice it's actually not-X". So "deceptively simple" in terms of a game means "the rules are very simple, but gameplay results in complicated decision-making". I would read "deceptively delicious" as meaning something like "it's actually delicious, but it has some property that you wouldn't expect based on its taste, e.g. its made from some weird combination of ingredients or is surprisingly nutritious".
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« Reply #411 on: March 05, 2019, 07:43:52 pm »
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I would read "deceptively delicious" as meaning something like "it's actually delicious, but it has some property that you wouldn't expect based on its taste, e.g. its made from some weird combination of ingredients or is surprisingly nutritious".

Oh yeah, I think that's more accurate than what I first said — i.e. "deceptively x" means "you would expect it to be y because things that are x are often also y, but in this case, it is x without being y". Like you would expect it to be a boring game since it's a simple game, but it's an interesting simple game instead.

At first I was thinking that you would expect it to be a complicated game since it's an interesting game, which is sort of the same thing in practice, but not in principle.
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« Reply #412 on: March 05, 2019, 10:35:24 pm »
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I've always read it the way Awaclus originally said; that something that is deceptively easy is easier than it looks. I would say that a game with complicated decision making, yet simple rules, is deceptively complicated.
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« Reply #413 on: March 06, 2019, 01:45:44 am »
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I've always read it the way Awaclus originally said; that something that is deceptively easy is easier than it looks. I would say that a game with complicated decision making, yet simple rules, is deceptively complicated.

Well see, you have the Hearthstone tagline: "Deceptively simple. Insanely fun". The implication here is that Hearthstone is easy to pick up, but has layers of complexity as you dig deeper into it. This is in line with what ConMan was saying and Awaclus's response to it.

Thing is, this does not mean that people won't use the term "deceptively simple" to mean it is easier than it looks. Looking into it, this is one of those terms that people can't agree on, and so the recommendation is to avoid using the expression of context does not make the meaning clear. My first reaction is to think it means "it deceives you into thinking it's simple when the reality is more nuanced".

I don't think it's as bad as "bi-monthly" because at least the "deceptively" expressions lend themselves more to contextual clues. Like, if you find a cook book called "deceptively delicious", it would seem odd to me if it talked about how to make food that looks unappetizing but is actually tasty. It turns out there is a book called "Deceptively Delicious", and it talks about using healthy foods as ingredients for appetizing dishes like speghetti and meatballs. So "deceptively delicious" as used here doesn't seem like it means "less delicious than it appears" or "more delicious than it appears". It's instead the "I can't believe it's not butter" thing where something is tasty despite being made unconventionally. Again, that's in line with ConMan's interpretation.

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« Reply #414 on: March 06, 2019, 05:42:39 pm »
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I would say that I don't necessarily think that the alternative *isn't* an interpretation, it's just not the one that I immediately go to.
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« Reply #415 on: March 07, 2019, 12:48:32 am »
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Has anybody here talked about what "deceptively" in phrases like "deceptively easy" or "deceptively delicious" are supposed to mean? Is a thing that is "deceptively easy" something that is easier than it looks or harder than it looks? I think it's been used to describe both, and sometimes context isn't enough to distinguish.

Along these same lines:

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cleaved\ ˈklēvd  \ or clove\ ˈklōv  \ also clave\ ˈklāv  \; cleaved; cleaving
Definition of cleave
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2. to separate into distinct parts.

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« Reply #416 on: March 09, 2019, 08:23:55 am »
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« Reply #417 on: March 09, 2019, 11:19:58 am »
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Remember the old days when there was only you and your cards?

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« Reply #418 on: March 09, 2019, 02:33:32 pm »
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I've spent significantly more time on this forum than I have actually playing Dominion.
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« Reply #419 on: March 09, 2019, 03:58:16 pm »
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I've spent significantly more time on this forum than I have actually playing Dominion.



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« Reply #420 on: March 10, 2019, 10:42:17 am »
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« Reply #421 on: March 12, 2019, 11:50:08 pm »
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Help me remember a phrase... what is it called when you take advantage of a situation to make sure people know where you stand on an issue? Like, if a racist act were in the news, and you post about how you think it was such a horrible thing, because you really want people to know that you think racism is bad.

It’s like lip service, but different. Lip service is more about not doing anything more than just talking about something. The thing I’m thinking of is more about the desire for people to know where you stand.
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« Reply #422 on: March 13, 2019, 12:26:04 am »
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Help me remember a phrase... what is it called when you take advantage of a situation to make sure people know where you stand on an issue? Like, if a racist act were in the news, and you post about how you think it was such a horrible thing, because you really want people to know that you think racism is bad.

It’s like lip service, but different. Lip service is more about not doing anything more than just talking about something. The thing I’m thinking of is more about the desire for people to know where you stand.

Virtue-signaling?
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« Reply #423 on: March 13, 2019, 04:54:56 am »
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Help me remember a phrase... what is it called when you take advantage of a situation to make sure people know where you stand on an issue? Like, if a racist act were in the news, and you post about how you think it was such a horrible thing, because you really want people to know that you think racism is bad.

It’s like lip service, but different. Lip service is more about not doing anything more than just talking about something. The thing I’m thinking of is more about the desire for people to know where you stand.

It's called "80% of human behavior". Or "(vitue) signaling," alternatively.

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« Reply #424 on: March 13, 2019, 05:07:38 am »
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I still associate a certain sense of dishonesty with the term virtue signaling. Like maybe you do think that racism is bad but you don't really care too much about it, but the way you post makes people think you care a lot, or perhaps you even convince yourself to care a lot but only for the sake of improving your virtue points in other people's eyes, not out of compassion. To use a different example, all the big corporations changing their social media profile pictures to a rainbow flag variation during the pride week would be virtue signaling whereas a gay rights organization doing the same wouldn't, in my opinion; that would just be them being true to themselves.
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« Reply #425 on: March 13, 2019, 08:07:32 am »
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It is a nebulous enough term that its usefulness is questionable.

I've seen it used many times in an attempt to shut someone down. That guy arguing for the legalization of gay marriage? He just virtue-signaling, so we can ignore his arguments. He only cares because his girlfriend does.

It might not even be true, but the mere act of calling someone out on virtue-signaling shifts the focus from the actual argument itself to the person's intentions. With a few choice words, you paint the altruistic as opportunistic. 

It's become one of those internet buzzwords that requires scrutiny because it can be used to effectively shut down constructive talk. See also: Mansplaining, sealioning, SJW.
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« Reply #426 on: March 13, 2019, 08:31:10 am »
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Help me remember a phrase... what is it called when you take advantage of a situation to make sure people know where you stand on an issue? Like, if a racist act were in the news, and you post about how you think it was such a horrible thing, because you really want people to know that you think racism is bad.

It’s like lip service, but different. Lip service is more about not doing anything more than just talking about something. The thing I’m thinking of is more about the desire for people to know where you stand.

Virtue-signaling?

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« Reply #427 on: March 13, 2019, 08:43:31 am »
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It is a nebulous enough term that its usefulness is questionable.

I've seen it used many times in an attempt to shut someone down. That guy arguing for the legalization of gay marriage? He just virtue-signaling, so we can ignore his arguments. He only cares because his girlfriend does.

It might not even be true, but the mere act of calling someone out on virtue-signaling shifts the focus from the actual argument itself to the person's intentions. With a few choice words, you paint the altruistic as opportunistic. 

It's become one of those internet buzzwords that requires scrutiny because it can be used to effectively shut down constructive talk. See also: Mansplaining, sealioning, SJW.

You're not completely wrong, which is unfortunate, because I do genuinely think that most of what drives most people (in rich societies) most of the time is signaling. if you want a precise definition, "a method of conveying information by performing an action that is more likely if the information is true vs false". If you're arguing for gay marriage so that people think you're pro gay marriage rather than to achieve outcomes, then you're signaling. If you're arguing to achieve outcomes, then signaling would be a byproduct.

Afaik almost all evidence that distinguishes between the two shows that the signaling function is most of the story wrt to people's motivations in most contexts.

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« Reply #428 on: March 13, 2019, 08:50:42 am »
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You're not completely wrong, which is unfortunate, because I do genuinely think that most of what drives most people (in rich societies) most of the time is signaling. if you want a precise definition, "a method of conveying information by performing an action that is more likely if the information is true vs false". If you're arguing for gay marriage so that people think you're pro gay marriage rather than to achieve outcomes, then you're signaling. If you're arguing to achieve outcomes, then signaling would be a byproduct.

Afaik almost all evidence that distinguishes between the two shows that the signaling function is most of the story wrt to people's motivations in most contexts.
It's an interesting distinction that I don't think works completely. A common argument people make for speaking up on issues is "I do not want to create the impression that view XY is considered acceptable on this platform" - i.e., you are using signaling in order to achieve an outcome.
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« Reply #429 on: March 13, 2019, 09:25:56 am »
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I've always thought if it in terms of intent. If your primary motivation for speaking out against racism is that you want people to see that you aren't a racist, then that's virtue signaling.
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« Reply #430 on: March 13, 2019, 10:17:26 am »
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I also think "virtue signaling" is a rather nebulous term because its existence is heavily tied to the use of social media. Like, it's perfectly reasonable to be against racism or accepting of gay marriage, but it's not something you bring up immediately upon starting a conversation. In person, you'll generally want to discuss socio-political views as the topic comes up. But on social media, the social media user often has to "fill the void of silence" themselves, and so they'll want to say things that paint them in a good light. I mean, what else are you going to say if you feel compelled to say something? "80% of human behaviour" sounds about right.

Now, "virtue signaling" as a term probably came up from the other social media users that don't care what people's opinion about stuff is but have to see it in their news feed anyway. Kind of like a collective eye-roll. But I guess it gets more messy when people are banned "for their beliefs" from whatever website.
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« Reply #431 on: March 13, 2019, 10:30:54 am »
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Now, "virtue signaling" as a term probably came up from the other social media users that don't care what people's opinion about stuff is but have to see it in their news feed anyway. Kind of like a collective eye-roll. But I guess it gets more messy when people are banned "for their beliefs" from whatever website.
Meh, I think that ignores the distinct political agenda behind the term. Personally I find happiness signaling way more obnoxious on social media, yet that is not a thing. Virtue signaling is because it can be used to shut down unwanted opinions.
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« Reply #432 on: March 13, 2019, 01:37:16 pm »
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You're not completely wrong, which is unfortunate, because I do genuinely think that most of what drives most people (in rich societies) most of the time is signaling. if you want a precise definition, "a method of conveying information by performing an action that is more likely if the information is true vs false". If you're arguing for gay marriage so that people think you're pro gay marriage rather than to achieve outcomes, then you're signaling. If you're arguing to achieve outcomes, then signaling would be a byproduct.

Afaik almost all evidence that distinguishes between the two shows that the signaling function is most of the story wrt to people's motivations in most contexts.
It's an interesting distinction that I don't think works completely. A common argument people make for speaking up on issues is "I do not want to create the impression that view XY is considered acceptable on this platform" - i.e., you are using signaling in order to achieve an outcome.

If the stated outcome has signaling in it, I'd still put it in the "stated outcome" box rather than the "signaling" box. But you can't take people at their word. Just because they say they do it to defend an image of their platform doesn't mean that's the real reason.

I agree that the 'virtue' part is buzzword-ish. People can and do signal all kinds of stuff, including intelligence and wealth and happiness which are probably not virtues.

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« Reply #433 on: March 13, 2019, 03:44:25 pm »
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People can and do signal all kinds of stuff, including wealth which are probably not virtues.

Why do you hate America?
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« Reply #434 on: March 13, 2019, 09:51:42 pm »
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I've spent significantly more time on this forum than I have actually playing Dominion.

Is Dominion a new Forum Game?
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« Reply #435 on: March 14, 2019, 01:53:26 pm »
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People can and do signal all kinds of stuff, including wealth which are probably not virtues.

Why do you hate America?

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« Reply #436 on: March 14, 2019, 02:28:35 pm »
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I've spent significantly more time on this forum than I have actually playing Dominion.

Is Dominion a new Forum Game?

Actually, Forum is a new(ish) card in Dominion.
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« Reply #437 on: March 14, 2019, 04:09:46 pm »
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I've spent significantly more time on this forum than I have actually playing Dominion.

Is Dominion a new Forum Game?

Actually, Forum is a new(ish) card in Dominion.

Spending time here is strictly better than spending time on warehouse.dominionstrategy.com.
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« Reply #438 on: March 14, 2019, 04:25:02 pm »
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I've spent significantly more time on this forum than I have actually playing Dominion.

Is Dominion a new Forum Game?
It seems a particularly unsuitable game candidate for playing by forum.
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« Reply #439 on: March 14, 2019, 11:21:07 pm »
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I've spent significantly more time on this forum than I have actually playing Dominion.

Is Dominion a new Forum Game?

Actually, Forum is a new(ish) card in Dominion.

So do they talk about Dominion in there?
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« Reply #440 on: April 02, 2019, 05:53:56 pm »
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Guys, I want you to admire the sheer awfulness of this video:
https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=2152518584824850

It's an ad for an online game, but I've seen enough complaints from people that I have no desire to download the POS, and I advise that nobody else downloads it either. Just look at this masterful video. What's wrong with it? I think the harder question is what did they do right? Anything? You can mute it. Listening to the audio does not improve the video any, nor does it make the video worse, despite it sounding like a 10-year-old girl punching a stuffed animal.

But let's examine the story here. This woman, whose name is apparently Riffarff, is wrongfully imprisoned for having a fully articulated right ankle. She uses this ankle to her advantage and swivels it around to gain the proper leverage to punch a concrete wall but to no avail.

Then MacGyver walks by and gives her this experimental super-serum in a Coke bottle. This wonder drug causes her to grow a few inches, change her name from Riffarff to Riffraff, and perform a wonder punch that makes the wall bleed gold coins.

This is just the windfall the previously named Riffarff needed, and now she is the queen of her domain, which is only that tiny cell since she still is incapable of punching our metal bars.

The end.

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« Reply #441 on: April 19, 2019, 06:39:18 pm »
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I was just playing a game of dominion, suspecting nothing...

Then my opponent played Black market and suddenly POSSESSION STARED AT ME. I DID NOT KNOW IT WAS POSSIBLE.

and I felt the horror slowly creeping up as they were playing their treasures one by one, getting over 6$, and then... then they played their potion...

... and then...

... they put it back and bought a philosopher's stone instead because they didn't like the card either. Possession actually would have been strong, too.

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« Reply #442 on: April 21, 2019, 09:20:01 pm »
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I very nearly played a game recently which included both Possession and Procession. It would have gotten confusing.
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« Reply #443 on: May 01, 2019, 09:23:16 am »
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When I reach 60 years old, I hope technology has not surpassed me to the point where I have to ask a complete stranger how to start my car.

I parked my car last night and was flagged down by a neighbor. He's 60 years old and been driving the same pickup truck for a while. That got rear-ended, and he came back with a rental, a new Nissan Sentra. And he could not figure out how to start the car with keyless ignition. I was able to show him that. Then he needed to figure out how to open the gas tank. Admittedly, I had a hard time finding that, but I guess another difference between his life experiences and mine is that I quickly concluded that I could find out with a Google search. Once he realized that most of his car questions could likely be solved with Google, he felt better, but that just wasn't the first thing he thought of.
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« Reply #444 on: May 01, 2019, 09:35:49 am »
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When I reach 60 years old, I hope technology has not surpassed me to the point where I have to ask a complete stranger how to start my car.

I parked my car last night and was flagged down by a neighbor. He's 60 years old and been driving the same pickup truck for a while. That got rear-ended, and he came back with a rental, a new Nissan Sentra. And he could not figure out how to start the car with keyless ignition. I was able to show him that. Then he needed to figure out how to open the gas tank. Admittedly, I had a hard time finding that, but I guess another difference between his life experiences and mine is that I quickly concluded that I could find out with a Google search. Once he realized that most of his car questions could likely be solved with Google, he felt better, but that just wasn't the first thing he thought of.

They could also be solved by RTFM.
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« Reply #445 on: May 02, 2019, 05:21:39 am »
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They could also be solved by RTFM.

I was on a work trip in Germany with a French colleague a couple of years ago. We needed to check up on something about the car we'd hired, so I, as the passenger, tried to RTFM... and it was entirely in Czech.
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« Reply #446 on: May 02, 2019, 05:50:00 am »
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They could also be solved by RTFM.

I was on a work trip in Germany with a French colleague a couple of years ago. We needed to check up on something about the car we'd hired, so I, as the passenger, tried to RTFM... and it was entirely in Czech.
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« Reply #447 on: May 02, 2019, 06:40:26 am »
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They could also be solved by RTFM.

I was on a work trip in Germany with a French colleague a couple of years ago. We needed to check up on something about the car we'd hired, so I, as the passenger, tried to RTFM... and it was entirely in Czech.
Now I understand what inspired you to learn Czech!

Haha :-) It's definitely true that without knowing the Czechs who actually inspired me to learn, I probably wouldn't have been able to identify the handbook's language as Czech in particular.
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« Reply #448 on: May 02, 2019, 08:16:56 am »
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This guy certainly could've benefited from RTFM. That's also assuming that the rental included the manual. I've had a rental without one. Most likely this guy was accustomed to cars starting a certain way and was flummoxed by the lack of key. It would've been helpful if the rental car agency showed him how to start the car. I imagine the agent simply brought the car out and left it running, which is why the guy didn't know how to start it.

But there does seem to be a trend to move away from manuals as a default. Maybe we're just getting better at teaching people how to use technology and making interfaces intuitive. For example, when I played a video game in the '80s, I would read the manual first to make sure I understood all my capabilities. Nowadays, games tend to ease players into the instructions. Manuals are mostly used for reference and not instructions.

And actually the keyless ignition follows that trend as well. Sure, he could've read it the manual, but I noticed the dashboard showing those exact instructions to press on the brake and push the button. I'm not sure why he ignored it. Maybe it was a fear of screwing something up, so he didn't want to attempt it. Maybe it's the combination of brake and button that baffled him because those two don't normally go together. No idea. He didn't RTFM, but he could've RTFD.

I just hope I don't feel that helpless at 60.
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« Reply #449 on: May 08, 2019, 01:25:03 pm »
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Thanks to Facebook memories, I am reminded of a rather heated exchange I had with a friend who turned out to be a toxic narcissist. It was such a stupid argument, but I'm reminded of just how self-centered people can be.

The topic was simply me letting others know that wishing a stranger a happy Mother's Day may be insensitive since you don't know if she's barren or lost a child. That could be a painful thing to say to her. Even if the woman has a child with her, that might still be painful, though statistically, you're probably safe wishing her a happy Mother's Day if there's a child with her.

And this guy went off the rails griping that I want to stifle free speech and that people get so easily offended and how other people's feelings are more important than his freedom to be nice to people.

I was tempted to delete that conversation because of how ridiculous it got, but I like to keep as a reminder to stay away from other people's bullshit.
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« Reply #450 on: May 12, 2019, 03:47:42 pm »
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I can't stop playing around with GPT-2. Just look at this! Prompt in Bold.

Delphi it drew us
Over the touchscreen
Delphi it threw us
Up like a stone
In sheep's clothing
Instrumental
- it threw us
Delphi on its screen:
There you go! Delphi it let's you rock
Delphi it threw us up
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That e-mail was not high priority. Stop abusing the priority system.

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« Reply #452 on: May 14, 2019, 02:20:43 pm »
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In 2011, when I was 19, I was in the hospital and received a brain injury. I was wearing a full face mask, though, and I also had a collar. My new collar gave a warning: "Don't go near me." I was scared. It wasn't a scary situation for me, but not much of a situation for the people in the emergency room. So, I felt pretty bad about it. I thought, what about this little cat? This was going to ruin my life. How could the cat get away with wearing my name on the front of a hat? So I went to the hospital, put my hat on and took some pictures of the front-facing cat. It was kind of a funny little photo that didn't do much—I was pretty sure about what I was doing.

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« Reply #453 on: May 14, 2019, 09:38:54 pm »
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Does anybody know whether synesthesia is more common among certain cultures? I thought it was a pretty rare thing, and a google search says about 4% of people experience synesthesia. However, I was with a group of friends today, and somebody mentioned something about their synesthesia and it seemed like half the room broke into a heated argument about what color and texture the letter K is. Definitely more than 4% of the room, anyway. It generally doesn't come up in conversation, either, so I don't know anything about how many of my other friends are synesthetes.
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« Reply #454 on: May 15, 2019, 12:32:19 am »
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Are they artsy people? I think there’s a difference between having synesthesia (e.g. the word “banana” always appears to be written in blue, even when it isn’t), and talking about what sort of feelings something evokes (which is something you can talk about after you spend some time thinking about it).

Like, just because some music-inclined person says a given chord is “warm” doesn’t mean they feel the temperature rise when they hear that chord. It’s just shorthand for the emotional effect of that chord on them.

Or at least that’s my interpretation of my interactions with artistically inclined people. They often use synesthetic language, even if they aren’t synesthetic themselves in a more strict sense. Of course, I wasn’t sitting at that table with you, so I don’t know if my interpretation applies there.
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« Reply #455 on: May 15, 2019, 05:38:05 am »
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Like, just because some music-inclined person says a given chord is “warm” doesn’t mean they feel the temperature rise when they hear that chord. It’s just shorthand for the emotional effect of that chord on them.

Moreover, "warm" has an agreed-upon meaning of a sound with a lot of low end or low mids but not a lot of high end (i.e. the opposite of bright). A synesthete doesn't necessarily experience things in that way.
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« Reply #456 on: May 15, 2019, 05:47:44 am »
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I am researching how to apply for a US visa right now... The example visa application that the US government provides is both cute and somewhat embarrassing:





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« Reply #457 on: May 15, 2019, 09:46:33 am »
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Puzzle foul. Solving the puzzle was a lot harder until I realized that they consider 1 to be a prime number. I felt vindicated in my inability to figure out what the solution was, but that was replaced by nerdrage.
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« Reply #458 on: May 15, 2019, 09:38:51 pm »
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I am researching how to apply for a US visa right now... The example visa application that the US government provides is both cute and somewhat embarrassing:







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« Reply #459 on: May 15, 2019, 10:17:19 pm »
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I am researching how to apply for a US visa right now... The example visa application that the US government provides is both cute and somewhat embarrassing:







There's a typo. Should be Spouse/Cousin.

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« Reply #460 on: May 15, 2019, 11:20:57 pm »
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« Reply #462 on: May 19, 2019, 11:26:27 am »
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Here in New England,

April showers bring May flowers showers, which bring more rain in June and thunderstorms in July.

I wish we could give some of this rain to places which don't get enough. We don't need it.
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« Reply #463 on: May 19, 2019, 11:32:21 am »
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Right now it's raining here, also.

But I love rain (at least when I'm inside) so as far as I'm concerned, it can keep going for as long as it wants.

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« Reply #464 on: May 19, 2019, 11:40:51 am »
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I like rain too; the noise is somewhat calming. But I feel like there is such a thing as too much. Maybe my opinion would change if rain didn't necessarily mean grey skies; I feel like I haven't seen the sun in weeks except for yesterday.
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« Reply #465 on: June 20, 2019, 10:48:11 am »
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I just cleaned up my inbox, which had thousands of messages and which hasn't been clean for... as long as I remember.

It was surprisingly doable. The algorithm I followed was something like "look over mails, pick topic or sender whose mails fall into a category, search for all mails of that type, delete or archive them all."

I now have a clean inbox. What an unexpected turn of events.

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« Reply #466 on: June 20, 2019, 11:06:40 am »
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« Reply #467 on: June 20, 2019, 12:56:24 pm »
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I'll take Things-I'll-Never-Have for $800, Alex.

Same, and I utterly don't care. It bothers anyone looking over my shoulder so much more than it bothers me.
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« Reply #468 on: June 20, 2019, 01:43:24 pm »
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I'll take Things-I'll-Never-Have for $800, Alex.

Same, and I utterly don't care. It bothers anyone looking over my shoulder so much more than it bothers me.

The NSA kindly requests that you practice good e-mail hygiene.

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« Reply #469 on: June 24, 2019, 10:40:52 am »
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« Reply #470 on: June 24, 2019, 01:37:52 pm »
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here is a random fact: the programming language java can't count up by 1/20. I have a program where I increase a variable iteratively, and instead of going 3 -> 3.05 -> 3.1 -> 3.15 it gives me numbers like 3.149999999999997

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« Reply #471 on: June 24, 2019, 01:52:57 pm »
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here is a random fact: the programming language java can't count up by 1/20. I have a program where I increase a variable iteratively, and instead of going 3 -> 3.05 -> 3.1 -> 3.15 it gives me numbers like 3.149999999999997

At least it rounds correctly to the nearest 0.00000000000001. I suppose that's closer than 3.141592653589793... which only rounds correctly to the nearest 0.05.
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« Reply #472 on: June 24, 2019, 01:59:10 pm »
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Java probably can do that, you're just using the wrong datatype if you need such precision.
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« Reply #473 on: June 24, 2019, 02:24:59 pm »
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here is a random fact: the programming language java can't count up by 1/20. I have a program where I increase a variable iteratively, and instead of going 3 -> 3.05 -> 3.1 -> 3.15 it gives me numbers like 3.149999999999997

That's not just java, that's practically every language, unless you explicitly use some special type.
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« Reply #474 on: June 24, 2019, 02:29:34 pm »
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« Reply #475 on: June 24, 2019, 02:41:21 pm »
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Try calculating sqrt(4)-2 in Windows calculator.
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« Reply #476 on: June 24, 2019, 02:58:30 pm »
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Java probably can do that, you're just using the wrong datatype if you need such precision.
well yeah, I didn't expect it to be impossible. But using a non-primitive datatype is way too much effort for this case

Try calculating sqrt(4)-2 in Windows calculator.

-8,1648465955514287168521180122928e-39

I've actually started to use python instead of the windows calculator, since it's about as easy to start and shows me past calculations. And python gives sqrt(4) - 2 = 0.0

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« Reply #477 on: June 24, 2019, 03:01:19 pm »
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 I usually use the adress bar of my browser for calculations. I aleady have that open.

Also, are there different Windows calculators? because mine gives me 0.
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Man, I'd have found it fairly disturbing if e^pi - pi = 20 would actually be true.

I usually use the adress bar of my browser for calculations. I aleady have that open.

I always feel bad about wasting power when I do that.

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« Reply #479 on: June 24, 2019, 03:06:04 pm »
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Turns out the Windows calculator issue wasn't because of floating point error, it was because the calculator internally represents all numbers as the quotient of really big integers.

http://daviddeley.com/profdeley/math/windows_calculator/index.htm

Newer versions likely did it in a different way. Standard floating point numbers are accurate enough that sqrt(4) just works out to 2.0 which can be represented exactly.
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« Reply #480 on: June 24, 2019, 04:54:22 pm »
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Man, I'd have found it fairly disturbing if e^pi - pi = 20 would actually be true.

I don't think it would be any more disturbing than e ^ (pi * i) = -1 .
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« Reply #481 on: June 24, 2019, 05:05:32 pm »
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Man, I'd have found it fairly disturbing if e^pi - pi = 20 would actually be true.

I don't think it would be any more disturbing than e ^ (pi * i) = -1 .

It might be hindsight bias, but I think that's a lot less disturbing. These are all very special pieces and the result has norm 1.

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« Reply #482 on: June 24, 2019, 07:27:02 pm »
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Ugh, why must precision errors follow me even here? I just had some fun dealing with the fact that the same equation, written in two different languages, operating only on integers, was getting results that differed by 1. I had to implement a clunky version of big integer arithmetic in a language not designed to handle it, to deal with the issue.
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« Reply #483 on: June 25, 2019, 08:23:44 am »
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Turns out the Windows calculator issue wasn't because of floating point error, it was because the calculator internally represents all numbers as the quotient of really big integers.

http://daviddeley.com/profdeley/math/windows_calculator/index.htm

That's an interesting page, although my takeaway is different: the problem is that the calculator computes square root using multiple operations and the intermediate values can't be exactly represented. The reason they can't be exactly represented is that they're irrational (actually maybe even transcendental), so floating-point should have the same problem if you calculate sqrt that way. I went to try it in Python, and, funnily enough, math.exp(0.5 * math.log(4)) produces exactly 2. I think this is just luck though, because math.exp(0.5 * math.log(9)) does not produce exactly 3. (The "luck" being that the inexactness in the log and exp happen to cancel each other out.)

A more typical sqrt implementation is guaranteed to produce the exact result if it can be represented: https://stackoverflow.com/a/22260439.
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« Reply #484 on: July 06, 2019, 11:02:04 am »
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« Reply #485 on: July 22, 2019, 12:01:41 am »
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So I was at a convention this weekend, and my wife and I checked out Alien Artifacts because I confused it with Alien Frontiers. As I stared dejectedly at the rulebook and my wife glanced disinterestedly at the many decks of cards, we weren't really much in the mood to crack this game. My wife looked over at the next table and saw a couple of guys fussing with the instruction sheet for Dice Forge in a similar manner. She suggested that I go teach them Dice Forge. So I invited myself and my wife to join these guys so I could teach them how to play.

We chatted a bit, and Dominion came up. Talked some more, including Isotropic. I asked if he was on the forums, and he said his name was DSell. So I told him my name, and we had a lovely bonding moment at our first in-person meet. We played a few more games together, and I also got to teach him Sagrada since his SO is colorblind and will never play it with DSell. Good times. Such a nice guy.
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« Reply #486 on: July 22, 2019, 12:59:07 am »
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I asked if he was on the forums, and he said his name was DSell.

I had so so so so so much fun this weekend. This was one of my first few cons, and meeting/playing games with Kuildeous and his wife was one of the very best highlights!!
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« Reply #487 on: July 26, 2019, 10:35:11 am »
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Were you guys at WBC?  I just came back from there.  Won the Dominion tournament for the second time.  151 players!
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« Reply #488 on: July 26, 2019, 06:50:14 pm »
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Were you guys at WBC?  I just came back from there.  Won the Dominion tournament for the second time.  151 players!
No, we crossed our paths at KantCon, which was originally named such by the organizers as they can't go to Gen Con. It's grown considerably since then and obviously doesn't base its schedule on Gen Con's weekend.

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« Reply #489 on: August 05, 2019, 09:25:39 am »
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I just looked at Qvist's card lists of 2018.

Damn people are wrong about so many things.

But how come I'm not beating everyone if they're all so wrong? :(

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« Reply #490 on: August 05, 2019, 09:53:26 am »
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I just looked at Qvist's card lists of 2018.

Damn people are wrong about so many things.

But how come I'm not beating everyone if they're all so wrong? :(

You should go to the threads and post the things that people are wrong about so that we can laugh at your opinions.
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« Reply #491 on: August 05, 2019, 10:50:25 am »
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Next time. I don't want to necro them.

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My profile says I have 2,728 respect.

That can't be right, can it? Is the forum bugged?  It'd be like 2 respect per post I think and I posted a bunch before respect was added.
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« Reply #493 on: August 05, 2019, 04:38:32 pm »
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My profile says I have 2,728 respect.

That can't be right, can it? Is the forum bugged?  It'd be like 2 respect per post I think and I posted a bunch before respect was added.

You have 5308 posts.
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« Reply #494 on: August 06, 2019, 12:08:50 pm »
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That's 0.5 respect per post, not 2 respect per post.

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« Reply #495 on: August 06, 2019, 02:58:33 pm »
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Is there a legitimate reason for elementary school to teach division using the obelus symbol (÷) rather than the fractional notation? Or even the forward slash (/) if you must type expressions on a single line?

I see some of those math puzzles on Facebook, and it bugs me because there's an obelus, and nobody who maths for a living uses the obelus. 

And many of those Facebook arguments could be quelled with a properly notated fraction, but then that doesn't generate traffic.
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Re: Random Stuff Part IV
« Reply #496 on: August 06, 2019, 03:06:00 pm »
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Is there a legitimate reason for elementary school to teach division using the obelus symbol (÷) rather than the fractional notation? Or even the forward slash (/) if you must type expressions on a single line?

I see some of those math puzzles on Facebook, and it bugs me because there's an obelus, and nobody who maths for a living uses the obelus. 

And many of those Facebook arguments could be quelled with a properly notated fraction, but then that doesn't generate traffic.

We were taught : for division, which is at least a symbol that is used IRL.
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« Reply #497 on: August 06, 2019, 03:46:20 pm »
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Is there a legitimate reason for elementary school to teach division using the obelus symbol (÷) rather than the fractional notation? Or even the forward slash (/) if you must type expressions on a single line?

I see some of those math puzzles on Facebook, and it bugs me because there's an obelus, and nobody who maths for a living uses the obelus. 

And many of those Facebook arguments could be quelled with a properly notated fraction, but then that doesn't generate traffic.
Children like pictures.  An obelus is a picture of a fraction, you imagine the top dot being replaced with a numerator number, and the bottom dot being replaced with a denominator number.  The "/" is a metaphor for that as well, of course, but it's not quite as clear, it has that twist of perspective to it. It's particularly tricky to imagine the left number is somehow above the right number when you're roughly 8.
It is very useful for expressing the idea that division can be treated both like a function/operand where the operator and the divisor mutate the the first term to become a different, lesser tem, but it can also be treated like a representation, where the numerator and denominator are peacefully existing on the appropriate sides of the dividing bar, each playing their role in representing some value, and both values are part of how that value is represented.  And use of the obelus emphasizes that these are both actually the same thing.  This smooths to transition to algebra.


Your question comes off like "Is there a reason why my neighbor's bratty kid gets tiny little wheels on the rear wheel of his bike so that he can never fall off, doesn't he know Lance Armstrong would NEVER use those?!!?"


I agree using fractional notation is ideal, there's not always room for it, though, and then the obelus is much better than using a slash.  Late when you become a professional and need fewer penstrokes and better use of visual space the slash becomes better.
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« Reply #498 on: August 06, 2019, 04:25:05 pm »
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Your question comes off like "Is there a reason why my neighbor's bratty kid gets tiny little wheels on the rear wheel of his bike so that he can never fall off, doesn't he know Lance Armstrong would NEVER use those?!!?"
The extra hardcore way to write division is with multiplicative inverse. ab-1 instead of a/b.
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« Reply #499 on: August 06, 2019, 04:30:11 pm »
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Children like pictures.  An obelus is a picture of a fraction, you imagine the top dot being replaced with a numerator number, and the bottom dot being replaced with a denominator number.  The "/" is a metaphor for that as well, of course, but it's not quite as clear, it has that twist of perspective to it. It's particularly tricky to imagine the left number is somehow above the right number when you're roughly 8.

Surely it's even trickier to imagine the left number being above the right number when writing 12÷4. I'm not sure how that's easier than a slash at all. The obelus acts nothing like training wheels. If anything, it's something to learn while young and then unlearn when kids decide to progress beyond 5th-grade math. This seems highly inefficient to me.
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« Reply #500 on: August 06, 2019, 04:30:32 pm »
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Your question comes off like "Is there a reason why my neighbor's bratty kid gets tiny little wheels on the rear wheel of his bike so that he can never fall off, doesn't he know Lance Armstrong would NEVER use those?!!?"
The extra hardcore way to write division is with multiplicative inverse. ab-1 instead of a/b.

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« Reply #501 on: August 06, 2019, 04:33:57 pm »
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I remember being kind of upset that people were using / for ÷ because I considered a fraction 2/5 to be, in some fundamental sense, a different thing than dividing 2 by 5, even if both lead to the same result. Like, the first is a kind of number, the second is two numbers and an operation between them.

... but nowadays I tell all of my private students to use slash instead if they write ÷ or :.
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« Reply #502 on: August 06, 2019, 09:26:50 pm »
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Is there a legitimate reason for elementary school to teach division using the obelus symbol (÷) rather than the fractional notation? Or even the forward slash (/) if you must type expressions on a single line?

I see some of those math puzzles on Facebook, and it bugs me because there's an obelus, and nobody who maths for a living uses the obelus. 

And many of those Facebook arguments could be quelled with a properly notated fraction, but then that doesn't generate traffic.
Children like pictures.  An obelus is a picture of a fraction, you imagine the top dot being replaced with a numerator number, and the bottom dot being replaced with a denominator number.  The "/" is a metaphor for that as well, of course, but it's not quite as clear, it has that twist of perspective to it. It's particularly tricky to imagine the left number is somehow above the right number when you're roughly 8.
It is very useful for expressing the idea that division can be treated both like a function/operand where the operator and the divisor mutate the the first term to become a different, lesser tem, but it can also be treated like a representation, where the numerator and denominator are peacefully existing on the appropriate sides of the dividing bar, each playing their role in representing some value, and both values are part of how that value is represented.  And use of the obelus emphasizes that these are both actually the same thing.  This smooths to transition to algebra.

I don't think I realized that ÷ is like a fraction until high school.  I always had treated it as an entirely separate symbol, like +, -, or ×.
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« Reply #503 on: August 07, 2019, 09:04:17 am »
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It's interesting because the obelus combines the horizontal bar of the fraction with the colon of the ratio.

I have no idea if that's how the obelus became to be or not. It'd be kind of cool if it did. Actually, since Wikipedia says that the obelus can also be a dagger, the mishmash of bars and dots may be coincidental.

Still doesn't change the fact that it's taught early on and then abandoned, so maybe we shouldn't teach it anymore.
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« Reply #504 on: September 17, 2019, 08:55:05 pm »
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Is there a legitimate reason for elementary school to teach division using the obelus symbol (÷) rather than the fractional notation? Or even the forward slash (/) if you must type expressions on a single line?

I see some of those math puzzles on Facebook, and it bugs me because there's an obelus, and nobody who maths for a living uses the obelus. 

And many of those Facebook arguments could be quelled with a properly notated fraction, but then that doesn't generate traffic.
Children like pictures.  An obelus is a picture of a fraction, you imagine the top dot being replaced with a numerator number, and the bottom dot being replaced with a denominator number.  The "/" is a metaphor for that as well, of course, but it's not quite as clear, it has that twist of perspective to it. It's particularly tricky to imagine the left number is somehow above the right number when you're roughly 8.
It is very useful for expressing the idea that division can be treated both like a function/operand where the operator and the divisor mutate the the first term to become a different, lesser tem, but it can also be treated like a representation, where the numerator and denominator are peacefully existing on the appropriate sides of the dividing bar, each playing their role in representing some value, and both values are part of how that value is represented.  And use of the obelus emphasizes that these are both actually the same thing.  This smooths to transition to algebra.

I don't think I realized that ÷ is like a fraction until high school.  I always had treated it as an entirely separate symbol, like +, -, or ×.

As a kid, I always thought it was a visual representation of division: a group of two dots being divided in half by a line.
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« Reply #505 on: September 18, 2019, 09:00:50 am »
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It makes me wonder if there is a benefit to teaching with the obelus as a representation of a fraction instead of teaching the fraction itself.

But I’m not in elementary education, so I don’t have a lot of firsthand experience on that.

It just feels like the obelus is still being used because it’s what’s already in use.
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« Reply #506 on: September 18, 2019, 09:09:25 am »
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« Reply #507 on: October 05, 2019, 05:54:51 pm »
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« Reply #508 on: October 05, 2019, 06:08:57 pm »
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People do it all the time.

By which I mean, like, you're maybe the 5th in the several years these random stuff threads have been up. All the time.
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« Reply #509 on: October 11, 2019, 11:21:28 am »
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Wow, the view counts are insane right now.
The maths thread has 103k views. The movies thread has 136k views. The random stuff 4 thread has 21k views. The roguelike games thread has 114k views.

I mean, I know we’re some fascinating motherfuckers out there, but this is silly. Those poor bots.
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« Reply #510 on: October 11, 2019, 12:43:19 pm »
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Having finished both Pandemic Legacy games I got thinking about what game or genre could be awesome with a legacy style game. And I feel like a Civilisation style game is the ideal fit. Through the Ages Legacy could work, I'm certain - each game advances through a few ages, starting very early with like ancient and classical era stuff but based on what people research, everyone starts with more and more techs until you're playing a modern era game. You could have civilisations who have special abilities, and the civilisations that win (not the players) gain bonuses each game, but also some civs die out every now and then so there's no super monster Rome with 10 win bonuses in the late game.

Anyway, just my random thought. I feel like a civ builder is the ideal format for a legacy game and I'm kind of surprised there isn't one (at least there isn't one that's well known)
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« Reply #511 on: October 11, 2019, 03:05:53 pm »
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Having finished both Pandemic Legacy games I got thinking about what game or genre could be awesome with a legacy style game. And I feel like a Civilisation style game is the ideal fit. Through the Ages Legacy could work, I'm certain - each game advances through a few ages, starting very early with like ancient and classical era stuff but based on what people research, everyone starts with more and more techs until you're playing a modern era game. You could have civilisations who have special abilities, and the civilisations that win (not the players) gain bonuses each game, but also some civs die out every now and then so there's no super monster Rome with 10 win bonuses in the late game.

Anyway, just my random thought. I feel like a civ builder is the ideal format for a legacy game and I'm kind of surprised there isn't one (at least there isn't one that's well known)
I heard that there is work happening on a Terraforming Mars Legacy game, which kind of fits this description.
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« Reply #512 on: January 15, 2020, 10:16:33 am »
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I believe that, at one point, the dominion rating system had the property that all information was contained in 1) the list of people you played against and 2) how many games you won. That is, if you play against X and then Y and win one of those games, it doesn't matter whether you win against X and lose to Y or vice-versa. This makes perfect sense to me; it's not clear why either one should be better, regardless of the ratings of X and Y. (Is it better to beat a low rated opponent and then lose to a high rated, or better to lose to the low rated one but then beat the high rated one?)

Or differently put, for each opponent, the game just computes a number between 0 and 1 which says what win% you have against that opponent. So if I play three people and have 0.2 and 0.3 and 0.4 respectively, I can just add them up and conclude that I'm supposed to win 0.9 of those games. So if I win 1 and lose 2, that's slightly good for me.

(Maybe with the caveat that your rating changes after each match and that's how order matters a bit after all.)

Does anyone know whether the current rating system works like this? Also, does anyone dislike this system?

I think most systems don't work like this, but maybe they should. Old dominion definitely didn't. Starcraft remastered (not that I play it, but I watch streams sometimes) also doesn't. One property which this system has is that every loss can be repaired by at most 2 wins against equal oppoents. Because at worst, you have 99.9% win chance or something, so if you lose that and then win against 2 people with 0.5 chance, you have 1.999 expected wins against 2 real wins. But in sc remastered, you can win or lose at least 45 points in extreme cases, while an equal opponent gives you something between 15 and 20. Pretty sure old dominion also violated this rule.

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« Reply #513 on: January 15, 2020, 11:10:38 am »
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I believe that, at one point, the dominion rating system had the property that all information was contained in 1) the list of people you played against and 2) how many games you won. That is, if you play against X and then Y and win one of those games, it doesn't matter whether you win against X and lose to Y or vice-versa. This makes perfect sense to me; it's not clear why either one should be better, regardless of the ratings of X and Y. (Is it better to beat a low rated opponent and then lose to a high rated, or better to lose to the low rated one but then beat the high rated one?)

Or differently put, for each opponent, the game just computes a number between 0 and 1 which says what win% you have against that opponent. So if I play three people and have 0.2 and 0.3 and 0.4 respectively, I can just add them up and conclude that I'm supposed to win 0.9 of those games. So if I win 1 and lose 2, that's slightly good for me.

(Maybe with the caveat that your rating changes after each match and that's how order matters a bit after all.)

Does anyone know whether the current rating system works like this? Also, does anyone dislike this system?

I think most systems don't work like this, but maybe they should. Old dominion definitely didn't. Starcraft remastered (not that I play it, but I watch streams sometimes) also doesn't. One property which this system has is that every loss can be repaired by at most 2 wins against equal oppoents. Because at worst, you have 99.9% win chance or something, so if you lose that and then win against 2 people with 0.5 chance, you have 1.999 expected wins against 2 real wins. But in sc remastered, you can win or lose at least 45 points in extreme cases, while an equal opponent gives you something between 15 and 20. Pretty sure old dominion also violated this rule.
I'm pretty sure the rating system is explained somewhere on the ShuffleIT forums.

I feel like the system you propose would not be computationally efficient. It seems that every match would basically influence the rating of every player within the system, and that is a computational nightmare.
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« Reply #514 on: January 15, 2020, 01:42:14 pm »
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It seems that every match would basically influence the rating of every player within the system

Uh, why?

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« Reply #515 on: January 16, 2020, 11:55:24 am »
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It seems that every match would basically influence the rating of every player within the system

Uh, why?

In the current system, we treat games as a stream of information of the form "Player A just beat Player B", and that gets updated into the existing skill estimates. The entire stream of games so far is summarized into the (mu, phi) that each player has, or in other words, after N games, the only information we need to care about is the rating system's current (mu, phi) estimate for each player.

In your proposed system, you want game order to not matter. So suppose Player A just beat Player B. This affects the skill estimate for A and B. However, consider all the people Player A has played against in the past. Like X1, X2, X3, X4, ..., X1000, for example. If game order doesn't matter, then these two orders should give equivalent rating.

(1000 games between A and Xi)
(game bewteen A and B)

vs

(game between A and B)
(1000 games between A and Xi)

In order to do this, we need to retroactively update the skill estimate of every player X1, ..., X1000, to account for the information "A just beat B", because this indirectly influences how much we care about the information "A beat X1, lost to X2, beat X3, beat X4, ..."

Game order also matters because player skill isn't static, it changes over time. If the skill changes over time then it makes sense to consider the chronological order. I don't think you want to say something like, "Magnus Carlsen's rating should go down because he lost to a 1600 player when he was 5 years old". This is an absurd example because in reality such a rating system would probably not look back that far, but if you want to assume player skill is static over the time window used, using "time window = 1 game" seems reasonable enough, and even if you used a slightly larger time window, I would expect your ratings to be almost identical to using a time window of 1 game.
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« Reply #516 on: January 16, 2020, 12:16:32 pm »
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I think you've misunderstood me. I don't literally want player order not to matter, I want player order not to matter except insofar as it changes your rating. Hence the line

(Maybe with the caveat that your rating changes after each match and that's how order matters a bit after all.)

This is still an important property. If we look at just two consecutive games, then the amount your rating changes is minimal, so the difference between (Lose -> Win) and (Win -> Lose) is going to be nonzero (losing first is better) but extremely small. The other property I mentioned (1 loss can only be as bad as 2 wins vs equally strong opponents are good) is also only slightly violated by your rating change.

I think this system is compatible with just having two (or one) parameters per player. Whenever two players are matched, compute the win% of player A and B based on those parameters, then compute (1_{game was won} - win%) for each player and update their rating based on that number.

I also agree that it's correct for order to matter, but in proportion to distance. So the difference between L->W and W->L is minimal, but the difference between {1000 games with 400 wins}->{1000 games with 600 wins} and {1000 games with 600 wins}->{1000 games with 400 wins} is much larger; the former indicates higher current skill. Which is exactly what the proposed system does.

Also, like I said I think this was actually how it used to be at some point, at least the match history was presented to suggest that it worked like that. I didn't make it up.

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« Reply #517 on: January 16, 2020, 01:58:35 pm »
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Okay, so you asked

"Does the current system work this way?"

And I believe the answer is yes, it combines the games for the past day into the single update. I'm not 100% sure of this, but DomBot on the Discord gives you estimates of what your next rating will be, and I believe it's always been accurate to the hundredths place. So if it does process 1 game at a time, then the difference between doing that and 1 day worth of update at once is negligible.

As for whether 1 loss should be repairable by at most 2 wins against an evenly matched opponent - that definitely seems more game dependent. From what I heard, in StarCraft, the gap in win rates between tiers is really big due to less inherent luck. So, if you lose to a low ranked player, it could be fair to say that you genuinely don't belong in your current skill tier, even if you perform well in games at your skill level.
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« Reply #519 on: January 16, 2020, 03:51:58 pm »
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As for whether 1 loss should be repairable by at most 2 wins against an evenly matched opponent - that definitely seems more game dependent. From what I heard, in StarCraft, the gap in win rates between tiers is really big due to less inherent luck. So, if you lose to a low ranked player, it could be fair to say that you genuinely don't belong in your current skill tier, even if you perform well in games at your skill level.

It's funny because that's what I always thought about sc1, but watching artosis' stream convinced me that it's not really true.

I think the "you need to win 0.9 games against this opponent, so if you lose you're 0.9 short" model just makes so much sense to me that I don't yet see a reason to do this differently (again, with the caveat that your own rating changes). Definitely I think most strong people in sc don't want to play against low rated players. Unlike in dominion, you can't set any preferences.
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« Reply #520 on: February 06, 2020, 05:04:51 pm »
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I was approximately today years old when I discovered that dougz, of Isotropic fame, was also the author of the seminal computer science paper Chicken Chicken Chicken: Chicken Chicken. Also available as one of the best presentations I've ever seen here.
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« Reply #521 on: February 06, 2020, 07:32:48 pm »
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Shame of the low quality of the video. It's just as hilarious now as the first time I saw it, but 240p is not as acceptable anymore :p
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« Reply #522 on: February 07, 2020, 03:57:51 pm »
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I was today years old when I realized that the sign for 100 and 1000 utilize the sign for C and M, respectively. Blew my mind that I never picked up on it before.
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I was approximately today years old when I discovered that dougz, of Isotropic fame, was also the author of the seminal computer science paper Chicken Chicken Chicken: Chicken Chicken. Also available as one of the best presentations I've ever seen here.

A lab mate had showed the paper to me, and then I was like, wait I recognize that author. I then tried my best to explain how I was a fan of the author's work on Isotropic.
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« Reply #524 on: February 23, 2020, 02:39:42 pm »
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I have an important question.

Why does the recruiter produce villagers? Wouldn't he rather require you to provide him with villagers?

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« Reply #525 on: February 23, 2020, 03:59:01 pm »
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He recruits villagers for you. Which you then use to man your smithies and militias and whatnot. The location he recruits from doesn’t like his aggressive recruiting techniques, so they secede from your Dominion.
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« Reply #526 on: February 23, 2020, 04:30:16 pm »
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  ??? well I guess that does make sense

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« Reply #527 on: April 20, 2020, 04:48:20 pm »
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do you think superman, having been raised by jonathan and martha kent, thinks applebees is fancy
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« Reply #528 on: April 21, 2020, 09:04:13 pm »
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Maybe as a kid he did; but he would have gotten more cultured once he moved to Metropolis.
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« Reply #529 on: April 26, 2020, 04:54:58 pm »
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In my dream last night I somehow created a Pandemic role that almost seems plausible as a real card.

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I assume there would be something like 8 supply tokens.

Asides from the absurd name, I feel like it would be a weak but actually viable role. It would work similar to the Medic, but with less immediate benefit in exchange for a bit of extra long term power. Unless dreams count, I have not playtested the role.
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« Reply #530 on: April 27, 2020, 03:28:20 pm »
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I'm going to create a new Pandemic roll called Karen. You have to add an infection cube in your current city, but you get a sick haircut.
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« Reply #531 on: June 19, 2020, 04:07:47 am »
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I've just had a conversation with my phone about the importance of word(s). I feel misunderstood.

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« Reply #532 on: July 01, 2020, 05:13:18 pm »
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I just realized the "Interview with Donald X." thread has reached 100 pages (at least for all of us who use the superior 50 posts per page view format)

Anyone think it will go the way of random stuff 1, 2, and 3?

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« Reply #533 on: July 20, 2020, 01:48:57 pm »
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I CAN'T FIND MY PHONE

I just decided to stop searching for a while and do some nonproductive stuff but I WANT MY PHONE FOR THAT

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Edit: I found it (wtf I don't know how it got there) but man it's so scary not to have it. I don't even need to use it but it needs to be there. Otherwise, something is missing.
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« Reply #534 on: August 05, 2020, 11:53:09 am »
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I CAN'T FIND MY PHONE

I just decided to stop searching for a while and do some nonproductive stuff but I WANT MY PHONE FOR THAT

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Edit: I found it (wtf I don't know how it got there) but man it's so scary not to have it. I don't even need to use it but it needs to be there. Otherwise, something is missing.

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« Reply #536 on: August 14, 2020, 10:58:21 am »
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do you think superman, having been raised by jonathan and martha kent, thinks applebees is fancy
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« Reply #537 on: November 04, 2020, 09:41:05 pm »
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I'm trying to put together a small project, I'm hoping for native (or near native) speakers of non-English languages to record the phrase

"One, Two, Three; this is a test.  Thank you"

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« Reply #538 on: November 04, 2020, 10:35:48 pm »
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I'm trying to put together a small project, I'm hoping for native (or near native) speakers of non-English languages to record the phrase

"One, Two, Three; this is a test.  Thank you"

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« Reply #539 on: November 05, 2020, 07:34:46 am »
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Exactly like that.  Thank you sir!
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« Reply #540 on: November 30, 2020, 11:07:53 am »
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Does anyone have the like to the Dominion Discord? I'd like to join, but can't seem to find it.
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« Reply #541 on: November 30, 2020, 12:06:56 pm »
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Does anyone have the like to the Dominion Discord? I'd like to join, but can't seem to find it.
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« Reply #542 on: December 16, 2020, 06:26:18 am »
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How hard is dominion to learn for AI? Easier than chess? As hard as chess? As hard as Go? Harder?

By learning dominion, I mean something like 'program an AI that, given a random kingdom, plays about rating 65 with about 15 minutes of total thinking time'.

I find this question quite interesting because, on first glance, I really have no idea. Neither 'way easier than Chess' nor 'way harder than Go' would surprise me that much. Any thoughts?

The only concrete idea I have here is, maybe each individual dominion board is so easy to solve that you can solve the general problem by building an AI that solves each individual board within the 15 minute limit. That might work. I think AlphaZero only played for about 8 hours against itself to learn Chess, and a single dominion board could be much easier. Then again, even that isn't obvious.

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« Reply #543 on: December 16, 2020, 08:07:36 am »
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How hard is dominion to learn for AI? Easier than chess? As hard as chess? As hard as Go? Harder?

By learning dominion, I mean something like 'program an AI that, given a random kingdom, plays about rating 65 with about 15 minutes of total thinking time'.

I find this question quite interesting because, on first glance, I really have no idea. Neither 'way easier than Chess' nor 'way harder than Go' would surprise me that much. Any thoughts?

The only concrete idea I have here is, maybe each individual dominion board is so easy to solve that you can solve the general problem by building an AI that solves each individual board within the 15 minute limit. That might work. I think AlphaZero only played for about 8 hours against itself to learn Chess, and a single dominion board could be much easier. Then again, even that isn't obvious.
I guess this can be approached in several ways. In chess, a player makes about 37 decisions throughout the game. I think it's fairly obvious that a typical game of Dominion has way more of those. Of course, a large number of those will be obvious, but I feel like overall the complexity is going to be higher. Go apparently averages at about 211 moves, and this seems to come closer to a typical game of Dominion. But I think the decision space for each of these decisions is significantly bigger than with Dominion. So I'd assume that Dominion is probably harder than chess and easier than Go.

This is not taking into account different Dominion boards, which of course also add complexity. On the other hand, an AI has an inherent advantage over a human Dominion player compared to a human chess player - in chess/Go, all relevant information is always openly available. deck tracking is trivial for an AI but tricky even for a good human player, and tracking everything that your opponent does is even harder. From that perspective, I would expect a human Dominion player to be "worse at the game" compared to a human chess player (though that is difficult to define), meaning that an AI doesn't have to be as sophisticated to beat most humans.
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« Reply #544 on: December 16, 2020, 10:29:27 am »
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On the other hand, an AI has an inherent advantage over a human Dominion player compared to a human chess player - in chess/Go, all relevant information is always openly available. deck tracking is trivial for an AI but tricky even for a good human player, and tracking everything that your opponent does is even harder. From that perspective, I would expect a human Dominion player to be "worse at the game" compared to a human chess player (though that is difficult to define), meaning that an AI doesn't have to be as sophisticated to beat most humans.

On the flip side, having all information always openly available allows a computer to look several moves ahead, potentially planning out all possible permutations of moves for the rest of the game. This isn't possible in Dominion due to randomness. I don't know that this would give a human player an advantage, but I'm not sure it wouldn't.
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« Reply #545 on: December 16, 2020, 11:41:21 am »
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I'm not sure how strong the link between numerical complexity and difficulty really is. It's true that Go has a larger decision space than Chess and is harder, but this could be coincidence. Starcraft has an astronomically larger decision space than either of those games, and I don't think it was that much harder.

The difficulty of evaluating a game state may be a better metric. I think that would be easier in dominion and Starcraft than chess, and I don't know how hard it is in Go.

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« Reply #546 on: December 16, 2020, 12:09:00 pm »
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On the other hand, an AI has an inherent advantage over a human Dominion player compared to a human chess player - in chess/Go, all relevant information is always openly available. deck tracking is trivial for an AI but tricky even for a good human player, and tracking everything that your opponent does is even harder. From that perspective, I would expect a human Dominion player to be "worse at the game" compared to a human chess player (though that is difficult to define), meaning that an AI doesn't have to be as sophisticated to beat most humans.

On the flip side, having all information always openly available allows a computer to look several moves ahead, potentially planning out all possible permutations of moves for the rest of the game. This isn't possible in Dominion due to randomness. I don't know that this would give a human player an advantage, but I'm not sure it wouldn't.

I read somewhere (admittedly a long time ago, so I don't know if it is still the case), that humans could improve their chances against chess computers by aiming for closed games and making positional moves whose benefit was beyond the computer's analysis horizon.
I suppose it is the strategy vs tactics distinction.
In Dominion terms, a human may have a better 'instinct' of things like deck composition compared to a computer. Some boards would favour this sort of thing more than others.
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« Reply #547 on: December 16, 2020, 01:04:12 pm »
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On the other hand, an AI has an inherent advantage over a human Dominion player compared to a human chess player - in chess/Go, all relevant information is always openly available. deck tracking is trivial for an AI but tricky even for a good human player, and tracking everything that your opponent does is even harder. From that perspective, I would expect a human Dominion player to be "worse at the game" compared to a human chess player (though that is difficult to define), meaning that an AI doesn't have to be as sophisticated to beat most humans.

On the flip side, having all information always openly available allows a computer to look several moves ahead, potentially planning out all possible permutations of moves for the rest of the game. This isn't possible in Dominion due to randomness. I don't know that this would give a human player an advantage, but I'm not sure it wouldn't.

I read somewhere (admittedly a long time ago, so I don't know if it is still the case), that humans could improve their chances against chess computers by aiming for closed games and making positional moves whose benefit was beyond the computer's analysis horizon.
I suppose it is the strategy vs tactics distinction.
In Dominion terms, a human may have a better 'instinct' of things like deck composition compared to a computer. Some boards would favour this sort of thing more than others.

I don't think this is up to date anymore. I've watched analyses of AlphaZero vs Stockfish, the best conventional chess program, and AlphaZero went for a closed game with ridiculous positional plays, like sacrificing several pawns and then moving the king one square in a super closed position before it launched the attack. It may have been true while Stockfish was the best chess program (which already plays better than humans).

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« Reply #548 on: December 17, 2020, 01:27:07 am »
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How hard is dominion to learn for AI? Easier than chess? As hard as chess? As hard as Go? Harder?
Harder for sure.

First issue is how you deal with each card introducing its own rules. Arguably, a fully legit Dominion AI would be able to play with a new card without having to re-train the model. That's mega hard, so realistically you probably would just re-train the model.

Some strategies in Dominion need all the components in place or they are garbage, e.g. in some kingdom, if you try to play an engine without +buy it may be garbage, and with +buy the best strategy. You can't really just do random stuff and stumble into a decent strategy the way you can in chess and go. That's a problem because that's how self-play training works.

Dominion has hidden information, most notably your opponent's hand. It's like there's a little bit of poker embedded in the game. AIs can play superhuman poker now, but the techniques used for that are completely different from what's used for other games.

Randomness means search isn't going to help much, unlike in chess and go. Randomness isn't itself such a big problem; IIRC computers were playing superhuman backgammon before superhuman chess. But it does diminish the opportunity to out-calculate humans.

Strategies in Dominion are highly diverse: what's good in an engine is totally different from what's good in BM+X. This is different from chess and go, where, despite some minor variation, you're doing essentially the same thing every game. I can't off-hand think of any game with diverse strategies where computers are superhuman. I don't know if that's because it's hard or just because it hasn't been seriously tried, but it means you're breaking new ground.



I'm not an AI researcher, but if I were trying to develop a Dominion AI, I'd start by making some massive simplifications. Singleplayer only (with the goal being something like buy 5 provinces as fast as possible) and limited subset of cards (maybe just first kingdom). This already sounds pretty hard. Try to get it to discover the first game engine, for example. (Although that has Militia, so maybe it's not even good singleplayer...)

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« Reply #549 on: December 17, 2020, 01:57:40 am »
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Randomness means search isn't going to help much, unlike in chess and go. Randomness isn't itself such a big problem; IIRC computers were playing superhuman backgammon before superhuman chess. But it does diminish the opportunity to out-calculate humans.

Doesn't that also work the other way round? Humans are notoriously garbage at calculating probability (especially at guesstimating it when the math gets too complicated to do on the fly), but for computers, it's trivial. Working out chess or go decision trees in your head is still impossibly hard to do even nearly as comprehensively as computers can because you just don't have the brain capacity to do it, but I don't think it's an inherently difficult skill for humans.
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« Reply #550 on: December 17, 2020, 05:00:56 am »
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Randomness means search isn't going to help much, unlike in chess and go. Randomness isn't itself such a big problem; IIRC computers were playing superhuman backgammon before superhuman chess. But it does diminish the opportunity to out-calculate humans.

Doesn't that also work the other way round? Humans are notoriously garbage at calculating probability (especially at guesstimating it when the math gets too complicated to do on the fly), but for computers, it's trivial. Working out chess or go decision trees in your head is still impossibly hard to do even nearly as comprehensively as computers can because you just don't have the brain capacity to do it, but I don't think it's an inherently difficult skill for humans.
Could be. I'm not sure about this point.

I should also clarify that I'm imagining an AlphaZero-style AI that learns strategy for itself. It's probably more straightforward to make a superhuman Dominion AI by giving it a lot of per-card strategy hints, but that's a lot of work and not very interesting.
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« Reply #551 on: December 17, 2020, 08:52:59 am »
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AFAIK, computers are still garbage at the strategic part of Starcraft.

I don't think so. AlphaStar had a decent series against Serral, and it had strictly limited APM.

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« Reply #552 on: December 17, 2020, 04:07:07 pm »
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AFAIK, computers are still garbage at the strategic part of Starcraft.

I don't think so. AlphaStar had a decent series against Serral, and it had strictly limited APM.
I vaguely remember that being more driven by consistent micro (which is an advantage computers have even with limited APM) than by strategy. I think SC is kind of a bad testbed because being real-time makes it hard to get a meaningfully even comparison with humans.
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« Reply #553 on: December 21, 2020, 01:34:20 pm »
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« Reply #556 on: March 10, 2021, 10:59:37 am »
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I saw a puzzle once along the lines of:

White to play and force Black to achieve checkmate in 12 moves.

EDIT: And now that I look for it I find that wikipedia has an entry on "Selfmate", so it seems to be an established type of problem.
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« Reply #557 on: June 20, 2021, 10:38:10 pm »
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« Reply #558 on: June 21, 2021, 06:55:33 pm »
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Oh hey if we’re posting chess puzzles here, this is a really cool one:

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« Reply #559 on: June 23, 2021, 02:17:54 am »
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Oh hey if we’re posting chess puzzles here, this is a really cool one:


Is this it?

Uppercase = white
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n = K
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h = P

Previous move was by black: bxc1=R+

I tried to only do provable deductions to get here, so it should be a unique solution, but my confidence in accuracy is low.
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« Reply #560 on: June 23, 2021, 09:43:27 am »
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Nvm I'm stupid bluelimp got it. I missed the diagonal promotion. Good puzzle. This solution is most certainly unique.
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« Reply #561 on: June 23, 2021, 12:28:05 pm »
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Oh hey if we’re posting chess puzzles here, this is a really cool one:


OK, this looks fun. Here's my deductions:

The king must be a letter of which there's exactly one on each side. Thus N is the king.

T, I, G and K cannot be pawns, because each of those letters is on a back rank somewhere. So H is the pawn.

I cannot be the queen, because then both kings would be in check. G cannot be a queen or bishop, because the c3 king would be in an illegal double check from the two pieces.

Suppose the c3 king is not in check. Then I would have to be the bishop, with G and T being rook and knight between them, but that leaves K as the queen, and then the king on b6 is in an illegal double check from the bishop on a5 and queen on b8. Thus the c3 king is in check and the b6 king is not. This, in turn, means I is a rook or knight, and K a knight or bishop. Thus T is the queen. This leaves K as the only possible option for the bishop.

The king on c3 must be in double check from the queen on a1 and either a knight on a2 or a rook or c1. The first is an impossible double check, but the second is possible if it's a black rook and the last move was ...b2xc1=R+. So upper case letters are white.

N - king
T - queen
I - rook
K - bishop
G - knight
H - pawn

Upper case = white
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« Reply #562 on: June 23, 2021, 09:21:17 pm »
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Having not memorized the exact solution myself, I can say that the three answers posted are almost certainly correct because they all mention a pawn promotion as the last move, which is the only way to make it possible.
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« Reply #563 on: August 08, 2021, 12:31:33 am »
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« Reply #564 on: August 08, 2021, 04:14:22 am »
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How am I still the 25th most prolific poster in these forums? I've barely even been here in the past seven years.

Most of the discussion is on the Discord nowadays, the forum is pretty much just for Mafia and VAFC at this point.
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« Reply #565 on: November 24, 2021, 04:00:48 am »
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« Reply #566 on: November 24, 2021, 03:51:57 pm »
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« Reply #567 on: November 24, 2021, 05:30:06 pm »
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I've reached a weird point where when I play old games, I sometimes look online for info about them - strategy stuff, formulae and so on. And I find a good post giving the kind of detail I'm after, only to realise it was posted my myself, 5-10 years ago. It's a strange feeling.

I have definitely had this happen with posts on this forum about Dominion.
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« Reply #568 on: January 05, 2022, 06:22:04 pm »
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In a Pandemic: On the Brink game two days ago, I came across an unusual and incredibly specific combo, whose benefit is pretty minor.

For reference:
Troubleshooter - looks at the top infection cards at the start of their turn, reveals cities to direct fly there
One Quiet Night - skips the infection phase this turn

We were playing Bioterrorism challenge, and it was the troubleshooters turn. I saw the top two cards of the deck, and there was a problem I couldn't fix, a big one. So I used One Quiet Night. In the course of the turn, I ran into the Bioterrorist, and with one somewhat spare action captured him.

Then it's the Bioterrorist's turn, and suddenly they've got a pretty weird choice to make. Do they draw one and escape - but I know that top card is possibly bad for me if I draw it considering I OQN'd it. So maybe they pass instead? If they do draw it, I also know the next top card, so the probably just want to escape. But maybe I saw that the city they would escape to is awkward, so they might draw twice... And I know the second card as well.

Ultimately the mind games sound far more complex than they are, but it's definitely an unusual way to deal with a problem as the troubleshooter. "Yeah, so there's a big issue with Shanghai, looks like we may have an outbreak there soon. So to prevent it I'm going to drive to Cairo and capture a Bioterrorist."
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« Reply #569 on: February 28, 2022, 10:13:08 am »
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I've reached a weird point where when I play old games, I sometimes look online for info about them - strategy stuff, formulae and so on. And I find a good post giving the kind of detail I'm after, only to realise it was posted my myself, 5-10 years ago. It's a strange feeling.
I have something similar where I'm looking for suggestions on a piece of software, and I'm like hey, here's a post from someone with the same issue, only to see that it was posted by me 3 years earlier.

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« Reply #570 on: March 16, 2022, 05:15:21 am »
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Here's how to make people believe in anything you say in a serious manner) most of people don't actually care aboutexploring, having their own view and opinion etc... staying a consumer seems easier but it's a self-deception ofc
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« Reply #571 on: March 16, 2022, 02:01:08 pm »
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Well, that was indeed random. Thanks.
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« Reply #572 on: October 26, 2022, 07:11:29 pm »
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« Reply #574 on: September 22, 2023, 05:01:38 pm »
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Apparently we need to name the road our house will be built on. It's a small easement road shared between 5 houses; we're supposed to submit suggestions. Crowdsourcing it! The main road it's off of is Peach Orchard Road; looking for something that conveys serenity or nature.
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« Reply #575 on: September 22, 2023, 05:09:16 pm »
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Some of these are pretty good imo!

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« Reply #576 on: September 22, 2023, 05:59:48 pm »
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I saw that same article! There are some good ideas; but the brief descriptions of each one makes me pretty sure it was written by AI.
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« Reply #577 on: September 22, 2023, 08:05:01 pm »
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I saw that same article! There are some good ideas; but the brief descriptions of each one makes me pretty sure it was written by AI.

The font and the color scheme make me pretty sure it was written by AI.
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« Reply #578 on: September 23, 2023, 02:30:34 am »
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Yeah it's a screenshot of a GPT-4 prompt.

But like "think of a few good sounding names" is a task where AI is good at, especially if you only go by surface level information.

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« Reply #579 on: September 23, 2023, 09:01:56 am »
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Alternatively, it could be something subtly Dominion-related, but that still fits the theme.

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« Reply #580 on: September 24, 2023, 05:51:54 am »
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Apparently we need to name the road our house will be built on. It's a small easement road shared between 5 houses; we're supposed to submit suggestions. Crowdsourcing it! The main road it's off of is Peach Orchard Road; looking for something that conveys serenity or nature.
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« Reply #581 on: February 12, 2024, 10:00:04 am »
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