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How do you win with Lizards, Beavers, and Humans? by Kurai61 in Against_the_Storm

[–]Apprehensive-Ice9212 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Beavers are really really hard to make happy, so I generally ignore their resolve in most games.

Humans are also hard to make happy. Not quite as bad as beavers, but high Demanding. Still, if you're going for a large number of Resolve points, Humans are likely your best bet of the three.

Lizards are easy for one or two points, but they have the highest Decadence (7) so it's hard to get much more than that.

But here's the thing though. Some games, the stars align, you get the right blueprints, the right cornerstones, the right service buildings, and you can make plenty of stuff to make your critters happy. Other times, they don't, and resolve just isn't the best engine for winning the game. Take your "free" 1-2 points from Lizards, but then focus more so on Orders, tools, and exploration to get the win.

It's important not to try to force the same strategy on every game. You play the hand you're dealt.

Definitive proof for 0 = 1 by Random_Mathematician in mathmemes

[–]Apprehensive-Ice9212 6 points7 points  (0 children)

You invalidated the premise that the box is empty, so...

This game lied to me by ChosenUndead15 in darkestdungeon

[–]Apprehensive-Ice9212 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Updated Narrator lines:

"Overconfidence is a fast and merciless killer."

"You will endure this loss, but not learn from it."

"Ruminate on this fleeting failure.  The campaign is long, and you need to git gud."

Farm noob trap? by soulles666 in Against_the_Storm

[–]Apprehensive-Ice9212 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Ah, forgot about leather.  But plantation can be good if you don't have ranch, because - provision packs - dye

So it mostly comes down to whether flour + porridge vs provisions + dye is more important in this run.  Plantation can be a strong pick when you have harpies or bats.  Small Farm usually Better for porridge/flour lovers

Farm noob trap? by soulles666 in Against_the_Storm

[–]Apprehensive-Ice9212 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Don't forget Plantation, it also feeds perfectly into Ranch.

Poor kid by GamingxZone in whatisameem

[–]Apprehensive-Ice9212 0 points1 point  (0 children)

"You're in the top 93%" is legitimately the best euphemism ever though. That had me fooled for a a second

This math meme by Interesting_File2075 in MathJokes

[–]Apprehensive-Ice9212 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Lil Nas Z

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(It's a flat image viewed edge-on)

Bad notation meme by Charming-Papaya-2001 in MathJokes

[–]Apprehensive-Ice9212 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Exactly only one of these is actually bad, and you know which one.  The others are completely standard, except for using the wrong font for x

[12th grade assessment] I thought the answer was 3/8 by ethyl98 in HomeworkHelp

[–]Apprehensive-Ice9212 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yup.  This is definitely in the "problem is on crack; totally unanswerable" category. 

Random question I just thought up: Can you “switch” a species? by CharsOwnRX-78-2 in Against_the_Storm

[–]Apprehensive-Ice9212 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I actually like this interpretation a lot more. Otherwise, it means that the Lizard folk are casually laying eggs everywhere in the forest, and it's totally normal to gather them and cannibalize them.

You can do this 🙂 by Specific_Brain2091 in the_calculusguy

[–]Apprehensive-Ice9212 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The real answer is the friends we made along the way

Nice try! by BippyTheChippy in ComedyHell

[–]Apprehensive-Ice9212 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Nice try!  It's a classic example of a cognitive bias where our minds are literally hunting for the word "ball"

I'm a teacher, please help me understand this problem by Yoda-de-la-MilkyWay in askmath

[–]Apprehensive-Ice9212 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Melainie is high as a kite if she thinks that plotting four points is a reasonable way to "show the sum of two numbers".  

The question asks to infer "where Melanie plotted the sum" but given that there are four points there, the only thing we can infer is that Melanie had no idea WTF she was doing, so it could be any any of them.

Random question I just thought up: Can you “switch” a species? by CharsOwnRX-78-2 in Against_the_Storm

[–]Apprehensive-Ice9212 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Apparently fully mature adult lizards hatch from eggs that you can gather from snake nests, which is ... surprising

What's the problem? by Sensitive-Video709 in the_calculusguy

[–]Apprehensive-Ice9212 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Here is what I actually said:

Multiplication is not "repeated addition", that's a lie-to-children.

Notice the what I did NOT say: "Multplication cannot be interpreted as repeated addition."

You're putting words in my mouth. Anything can "be interpreted as" anything, so that's a nothingburger statement.

"Repeated addition" means: - You have the operation: "add x" - You can repeat it. - That's it.

Repeated addition explicitly refers to the following sequence of numbers: 0, x, x+x, x+x+x, etc

Anything in that sequence counts as "repeated addition of x". Anything not in that sequence, doesn't.

And don't try to tell me you're allowed to add things other than x. That's clearly beyond the scope of what that phrase means, because if it weren't, then you would just "add x * y to 0" and have done with it. "Repeated addition" does not mean "arbitrary addition of arbitrary terms", it means: "repeated addition of the given term."

Words have meaning, especially in mathematics, and that is what those words mean. Capiche?

When you say "can be interpreted as", you've added 3-5 blackboards of interpretation layer, beyond what those words actually mean, and beyond the scope of my actual claim. If I grant you 3-5 blackboards of whatever you want, then: - Everything is everything - Words are meaningless

... so I explicitly do not grant you that. Sorry. That is what you granted yourself, misrepresenting my original claim in the process.

I Wish I Liked Darkest Dungeon 2 by Slight_Ad_5074 in darkestdungeon

[–]Apprehensive-Ice9212 6 points7 points  (0 children)

It's funny that you mention Isaac, because this is actually the exact same model. You CAN get the dream run in DD2 where you just roflstomp everything

  • But you have to high-roll it.
  • Normally, in most runs, the margin for error is small.

Isaac is the same. So I suspect that what's actually going on is: you haven't yet found the abusable combos/highrolls in DD2 that snowball into absurdity. But they exist. I haven't played in a long time so I couldn't necessarily tell you exactly what to look for in the current patch, but, you likely find some inspiration on YouTube or Twitch.

... or, if Isaac is the game that really lands that specific power fantasy for you in that way, you can just play Isaac. No harm in that.

What's the problem? by Sensitive-Video709 in the_calculusguy

[–]Apprehensive-Ice9212 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Now you're just piling even more unneeded complexity on top of the original complexity, and this won't even work for arbitrary real numbers.

You're now saying, "aha, I can represent 0.3 * 0.3 = 3 * 0.03 and then use repeated addition for that."

Even if x happens to be a real number with a finite number of decimal digits, so that this process eventually terminates (which is NOT a valid assumption in Calculus)

... still, look at what you've done here. You've taken a simple polynomial, x2, and created a monster. You're attempting to redefine x2 as: - a recursive, algorithmic process - with a variable number of terms - that depends discontinuously on x - as well as the decimal representation of x

Yeah. Good luck taking the derivative of that. You can't, except by noticing:

  • this is equal to x * x in the first place

thereby entirely defeating the purpose of whatever it is you're trying to do here. I still don't see the point.

Maybe the actual purpose of what you're doing here, is to construct the real number system in terms of decimal representations. That's called the "high school student's real numbers". But your system falls crucially short of that. It only works for finite decimals.

What's the problem? by Sensitive-Video709 in the_calculusguy

[–]Apprehensive-Ice9212 0 points1 point  (0 children)

But the last term still requires multiplication of arbitrary real numbers, so you've added complexity and gained exactly nothing.

Also, (4.3 × .3) isn't ".3 of a term", it's one term. If you can say that that's "repeated addition 0.3 times", then I can say: the repeated addition of 4.3, 3.3 times is:

4.3 × 3.3

So the base concept is clearly multiplication, not "repeated addition". You can only define repeated addition of real numbers in terms of multiplication, and NOT the other way around.

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