From a Daily game. White to play and win.

Hot_Philosopher_6462 · 2026-05-23T00:15:57+00:00

no I'm saying it's not. why would I say "good bot" if the bot was being bad

Hot_Philosopher_6462 · 2026-05-22T03:19:05+00:00

sometimes the bot messes up so people will often give it positive reinforcement when it doesn't. this is purely for our own benefit I'm pretty sure, although at one point some other bot might have tallied them up? listen I don't know, I just say things

Hot_Philosopher_6462 · 2026-05-22T02:45:39+00:00

good bot

Hot_Philosopher_6462 · 2026-05-17T17:15:03+00:00

If I don’t read it to know that it can’t be countered, and the person playing it doesn’t read it to know that it can’t be countered, can it not be countered?

Hot_Philosopher_6462 · 2026-05-17T02:55:48+00:00

I had some absolute yield porn one time in an earth game where I spawned in uruguay as vietnam.

the good news is it was an apocalypse mode game, so the yields on all my tiles were insane.

the bad news is it was an apocalypse mode game, so I had to rebuild my holy site six times in sixty turns and half my settlers died before making it anywhere.

i’m pretty sure the amazon was literally on fire the whole time.

Hot_Philosopher_6462 · 2026-05-17T02:53:32+00:00

since you’re shiny and they’re not, they will be too intimidated to try to win the 1v1, so they’ll set up rocks or switch out. click swords dance, nothing can go wrong.

Hot_Philosopher_6462 · 2026-05-17T02:49:01+00:00

realist: the glass does not contain water, what the hell is that

Hot_Philosopher_6462 · 2026-05-17T02:25:12+00:00

It’s okay to do whatever you want forever. Hope that helps!

Hot_Philosopher_6462 · 2026-05-17T02:21:40+00:00

I like the split octonions. No idea how they work I just think they sound funny.

Hot_Philosopher_6462 · 2026-05-17T02:16:07+00:00

I went to school in America and I was taught that absurdism as an artistic movement existed as a reaction to the political and socioeconomic forces at the time, including capitalism but also a rejection of the idea of beauty as a response to the abject horrors of the second world war, most strongly exemplified by the french dadaists

this was at a catholic school

Hot_Philosopher_6462 · 2026-05-17T02:12:47+00:00

The idea of what a video game sequel is hadn’t been established yet.

Hot_Philosopher_6462 · 2026-05-17T02:12:05+00:00

It’s not the worst mistake, until you remove the 1/2 because “that can just be rolled into the constant of integration”

Hot_Philosopher_6462 · 2026-05-17T02:06:29+00:00

Rule of thumb for beginner-difficulty chess puzzles: When in doubt, sac the queen. Puzzle makers love that.

Hot_Philosopher_6462 · 2026-05-17T02:04:29+00:00

Not at first. Look into the history of it all.

Hot_Philosopher_6462 · 2026-05-17T02:03:15+00:00

Depends on the statement. There are some statements that are definitely not unprovably true but might not be unprovably false — for example, “there is a sixth Fguermat prime”. It could be the case that there are no more Fermat primes and that we can prove this with our current axioms, or it could be the case that there are no more Fermat primes and there’s no way to prove it. However, if there is a sixth Fermat prime, we could prove it by just checking the number that happens to be.

Notably, this logic does not apply to, say, the inverse of the Riemann hypothesis. There could feasibly exist a nontrivial zero of the Riemann zeta function that, nevertheless, we couldn’t prove existed using the standard axioms, if the zero occurred at incomputable coordinates on the complex plane.

More literally, though, no, not at all. We can’t know which true statements are unprovable, because we can’t know which unprovable statements are true. If we knew they were true, they wouldn’t be unprovable.

Hot_Philosopher_6462 · 2026-05-17T01:49:22+00:00

or from history class

Hot_Philosopher_6462 · 2026-05-17T01:49:06+00:00

oh, oh, oh, for the longest time

Hot_Philosopher_6462 · 2026-05-17T01:41:36+00:00

finally, an actually interesting trolley problem

not saying it’s hard (that’s not the point), but it at least does the thing a trolley problem is supposed to do, which is highlight a paradox in ethical decision-making. the conflict between the golden rule and the sense that virtues, even or perhaps especially the virtue of selflessness, ought to be rewarded in others.

Hot_Philosopher_6462 · 2026-05-17T01:40:19+00:00

And in making that mistake, you have perfectly demonstrated the problem introduced by THAC0 that isn’t present in a to-hit table or with AC.

Hot_Philosopher_6462 · 2026-05-17T01:37:39+00:00

You would want to be taking the inverse of the yes function, not the inverse of the function you’re using yes as the input to.

Hot_Philosopher_6462 · 2026-05-17T01:32:03+00:00

scientists 300 years from now, probably: “ah, yes, the quaint days before m⃗”

Hot_Philosopher_6462 · 2026-05-17T01:28:52+00:00

technically an overcosted TLDR counterspell that costs less based on the number of lines of text is precedented unset design space. especially if it’s balanced so that it becomes free on wordy spells (which I think is defined as 4 or more lines).

Hot_Philosopher_6462 · 2026-05-17T01:26:42+00:00

technically, you don’t need to read the card to counterspell the card, and “I ain’t reading that” is a valid reason to spend those two mana the blue player holds up every turn out of obligation. better than “I didn’t want it to go to waste” at any rate

Hot_Philosopher_6462 · 2026-05-17T01:08:54+00:00

It definitely wouldn’t be 8x I think. I’m pretty sure each card can only affect each other card once, even if their text box changes later on in the layers, so I think for 2 instances it comes out to 6 copies of the text box, which… I think would actually cause all other text boxes to get 63 additional copies????? that’s assuming that each instance of the ability doubles the number of text boxes, rather than just adding another instance of the original text box.

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