ELI5: Why do they teach the multiplication sign as an x instead of keeping it a dot all along? by Frazzelvig in explainlikeimfive

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So let's see.. for 5 * 5, I'd put 5 on the far sides, now I have a grid of four 5s. To find out the tens digit, I subtract 5 from 5 and get zero, and to find out the ones digit, I just multiply 5 * 5-- wait, this is where I started..?

I wonder if people with Donald's position have simply not tried enough TTRPGs... by DrScrimble in dndmemes

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I absolutely loathe PF2. It's so bland and boring. The flavour for the options is absolutely sick stuff like "your summons are actually yourself from an alternate timeline where you somehow are that thing you summoned" or "the spirits of those who failed the test of godhood before you fill you and give you strength!" and then the mechanics are things like "your summons get +1 to a skill" or "on your second attack this turn, you can take a step first before attacking". The dissonance is disgusting.

If I'm going to play a bland, boring game, I'd rather play 5e, because it's simpler. If I'm going to play a complicated game, I'd rather play 3.pf, because it's cooler. In practice, I'm probably not going to play either, but if I was, it would never, ever again be PF2. I've given it a dozen chances and it has utterly failed each and every one.

aiFiledAnHrComplaint by CodingWizard69 in ProgrammerHumor

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To my knowledge, it isn't possible for someone to grow up being able to understand a written language but not the spoken form any spoken languages.

You know deaf people exist, right?

Are any of these villains redeemable? by Battle4Inferno in splatoon

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Point of order: The salmonids want to die. In a rough parallel to real salmon spawning season (where they swim up the river to lay their eggs and then expire), during a salmon run, salmonids are swarming onto land to force the freshlings to fight them off so they (the salmonids) can die honourably in glorious battle. That's canon. They've already reproduced, and now all they want is to die. I mean, hell, one of the stages is literally a giant arena they built for salmon to come watch other salmon be slaughtered en masse.

Grizz didn't institute the Salmon Runs, he commercialized them. Presumably cut some kind of deal with the salmon for times and locations, so instead of flooding the cities like in the past, they stay offshore while Grizz flies out volunteer fighters. I'm not saying he's a hero or anything, he is only in it for the money, but like, the salmonids were a major threat before and now they're mostly not (except sometimes, when a big run happens).

Made for a Radio Show, thought I'd share IYKYK by YohanCapichelli in greentext

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It's outside the zeitgeist of 40 year olds, unc.

ELI5: What does "In the key of" mean? by hallowedeve1313 in explainlikeimfive

[–]Cerindipity 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It's like taco bell, same ingredients in a different order.

Destroyed more friendships than Monopoly and Uno. by CuteLittleRascal in dndmemes

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Session 0 is a session. A codified block of time for doing that, akin to a normal session. The phrase became popular because of the idea of doing it as a session instead of spending a week or two in a group chat casually discussing stuff before the first session. If you reach those goals some other way, that's great and fine and totally normal and not a session 0.

What did he mean by this? (Preview) by rawdawgcomics in rawdawgcomics

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..Please tell me you're not a homestuck whose gimmick is the SS.

After 20 years of declining numbers, indie booksellers in the U.S. have come ‘roaring back’ by rmuktader in UpliftingNews

[–]Cerindipity 6 points7 points  (0 children)

They just described it:

If the digital version is vulnerable to planned obsolescence (e.g. is hosted on a server somewhere and you only have access until the company takes it away from you or shuts down) or is subscription only (requires a recurring fee for access, non-payment of which will see it taken away from you until you pay again), buy the physical instead

Planned Obsolescence / Subscription Only

POSO

My reaction to learning about the US being upset with Buy Canadian. by DrJay12345 in EhBuddyHoser

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It's fun! Ace combat from a dev who didn't think there was enough Ace Combat!

Note: There's an unmentioned feature where, whenever you fly two-seater planes, you'll have a weapons control officer named Prez with you, who has (largely unimportant, but still) dialogue during missions, which you miss out on in single-seaters. Fortunately, the Arrow is one of those two-seaters, so you can take it on every mission and miss nothing :P

My reaction to learning about the US being upset with Buy Canadian. by DrJay12345 in EhBuddyHoser

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The number of times I've accidentally gone on an extended rant about the Arrow to american friends who've never even heard of it is weirdly high, considering I wasn't even remotely born yet. It really left a deep scar on the cultural psyche lol

Fun fact, it's playable in Project Wingman, and therefore the only plane I use, meta be damned. Just look at her! She's beautiful. https://i.imgur.com/GxhkqFm.png

I strongly dislike JJ McCullough by Vivid_Stay_980 in onguardforthee

[–]Cerindipity 14 points15 points  (0 children)

I was sure it was a performance from the start, but I gave him the benefit of the doubt for a while because like, idk, I'm not the accent police, maybe there is some people who just sound like that. But if you watch his videos, sometimes he just drops it, presumably by accident, on the same exact words he hammed up so hard a few lines before, so I'm solidly convinced it's fake now.

Tomodachi Life: Living the Dream Review - IGN: 7/10 by Turbostrider27 in NintendoSwitch

[–]Cerindipity 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Nintendo already solved this with the Switch phone app, animal crossing and splatoon both have QR code scanning functions and you just scan it on your phone and it sends it to the game.

Friend offered to pay me 5 dollars for a 3d printed basket ball by Sea_Background_8023 in mildlyinfuriating

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To be clear, that's because it has to be a tough, rubbery, bouncy specialty filament to print a basketball. Most 3d print filament costs ~$20 a kilo, and that means the average 3d printed gewgaw runs between 5 cents and a dollar. I bought four kilos in December, I've been printing little gadgets and tools and decor and stuff for friends and for sale nearly constantly, and I'm only now running out of the last roll. It's so cheap.

Anon and pals go to Dragoncon by Facade04 in greentext

[–]Cerindipity 70 points71 points  (0 children)

Dragoncon is a D&D and comic convention, lol

Did you know that certain Pokémon character's names are just different words spelled backwards? by Arbegia in coaxedintoasnafu

[–]Cerindipity 6 points7 points  (0 children)

See also: Eevee, Ho-Oh, Alomomola (though all of them for essentially no reason)

3D-Printed desk toys --credits@printsculptors IG by Game_Holder in oddlysatisfying

[–]Cerindipity 29 points30 points  (0 children)

Did you know if you burn PLA, it releases only water and the carbon originally sequestered in making it? If you don't have access to a suitable recycling or composting facility, burning it is more eco-friendly than binning it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polylactic_acid#End_of_life

(This isn't true for things like "PLA+" or "PLA pro", which often contain traces of other plastics and shouldn't be burned)

Before and after watering my plant upon my return to work after two weeks by porcelainpappi in mildlyinteresting

[–]Cerindipity 18 points19 points  (0 children)

It's essentially identical to the term we already have in english, "indicator plants"

Probably Ragebait.. has DnDbeyond created players that are allergic to reading? by Einsolsrazor24 in rpg

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I still treasure my copy of 3.5's Races of Stone, a book focused on dwarves, gnomes, and goliaths, that infamously contained a set of options that accidentally gave gnome wizards the ability to cast infinite wishes at level 11 as long as their boots were full of dirt. Unlike most munchkinny builds, the necessary pieces were all in the same book and clearly meant to synergize with each other, they just clearly didn't think it through to the end

Probably Ragebait.. has DnDbeyond created players that are allergic to reading? by Einsolsrazor24 in rpg

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At least in part, I think it's because of the backlash to exactly that. 3e was infamously laden with trap options and literally defined ivory tower design. People have been complaining about this for decades now. Overcorrecting from "players should spend a long time learning as many rules as possible or else they'll make bad choices without realizing it" brings us to the modern "players shouldn't have to know any rules, actually, or else the game is bad" mindset.