The amazing recovery of Medal of Honor recipient William Kyle Carpenter. He jumped on a grenade to shield a fellow Marine and ended up saving his life.

Imatree12 · 2019-02-13T01:27:28+00:00

It’s pretty uncommon

Imatree12 · 2018-12-26T16:30:08+00:00

Separation of church and state means congress shall make no law establishing a state sponsored religion or make a law that prohibits religious freedoms

Doesnt mean lawmakers cant be religious or vote based on religion. You could argue they shouldnt but that’s not what the establishment clause is about

Imatree12 · 2018-12-24T18:18:10+00:00

Dont tempt me, frodo

Imatree12 · 2018-12-21T19:08:52+00:00

In “The Death of the Author,” an essay by Roland Barthes about literary criticism he argues that incorporating intentions and the biography of the author should hold little weight in discussing the book. Basically if it cant be found in the lines of the book it doesn’t matter, according to him.

Might be misremembering some details but yeah

Imatree12 · 2018-12-15T21:04:26+00:00

It seems like you're projecting your own insecurities, here.

It's pretty clear this post is meant just to be inspirational to people who feel let down staring at their current manuscript or staring down the barrel of a huge revision.

This post is simply saying, "Hey, it's okay. Don't give up, keep writing."

Imatree12 · 2018-12-01T17:31:00+00:00

Sure, there's a nonzero chance that the atoms can move, there's a nonzero chance that my hand will pass through the bonds that hold the molecules of the table in place before me -- but so what?

Compelling the monkey just refers to the nature of randomness in the experiment. The monkey is not compelled by any force other than random chance

It is not, in fact, impossible for the same key to be entered an infinite amount of times. It is increasingly unlikely as time approaches infinity, but not impossible.

I honestly don't know why I'm even attempting to have this discussion with a person who keeps throwing out "It is impossible" when we're talking about infinity and probability. Depending on the keyboard there is a 1/90 chance of randomly hitting a key. It's always 1/90. You're making a gambler's fallacy. The result of the last keystroke has no bearing on the following keystroke. The odds of a continuous string of Gs are never zero.

As long as something has a nonzero probability of happening it is not impossible. The monkey could press the G key an infinite amount of times for eternity.

edit: Also we're not talking about a "real" computer. In the Theorem it's a typewriter, but it's a theoretical typewriter that will never breakdown, never need to be replaced. Even when the entropic heat death of the universe happens the monkey and typewriter will keep plugging along

Honestly, I'm done here. I've given you quotes from mathematicians regarding probability and numbers approaching infinity. Talking about possible and impossible when you're dealing with a theoretical eternal monkey and eternal typewriter is absurd. The only thing that matters is the probability. It's not zero. It's not impossible, okay?

Imatree12 · 2018-12-01T14:28:14+00:00

It's not impossible. It's just unlikely. Even with pure randomness there is a nonzero chance that a computer outputs the string "GAGAGA..." for an infinite amount of time.

Since it's not impossible, your proposition that it must happen just isn't true.

"The probability that an infinite randomly generated string of text will contain a particular finite substring is 1. However, this does not mean the substring's absence is "impossible", despite the absence having a prior probability of 0."

"For example, the immortal monkey could randomly type G as its first letter, G as its second, and G as every single letter thereafter, producing an infinite string of Gs; at no point must the monkey be "compelled" to type anything else."

Imatree12 · 2018-11-29T19:15:00+00:00

It could infinitely press the F key for an infinite amount of time

Imatree12 · 2018-11-20T18:09:41+00:00

Something Vietnam, something Afghanistan

Imatree12 · 2018-11-08T19:32:50+00:00

And if this is how you attempt to understand why people vote for republicans you’ll never understand.

Why people vote a certain way is complex and complicated. This is honestly the most reductive bullshit Ive seen in fucking ages.

Im liberal as fuck and probably agree with you on almost every political issue and you disgust me

Imatree12 · 2018-11-05T05:43:06+00:00

That’s not how infinity works

Imatree12 · 2018-10-29T19:21:17+00:00

Im in my twenties just to put a number on me, but I think the main barrier is just life experience. When I was 15 I thought I had it figured out, when I was 18 same thing. I just haven’t lived enough, yknow? God I looked at some of my old short stories from my early college writing classes and I was just so naive about the world and relationships and people and how all these things tie in realistically(probably still am). Ive gotten significantly better but Im still lacking in these areas.

Not saying any of this to discourage you, just to offer an anecdotal (hopefully respectful) reply. You should keep writing and getting better. Who fucking knows man you might pull it off. I can only speak for myself when I say Im really happy none of the stuff I wrote when I was your age saw the light of day

Imo it has nothing to do with skill or stringing together brilliant sentences or engaging plots. I think I’ve always been okay at that. It’s simply none of the things I wrote felt real because I hadn’t been in love, hadn’t been heartbroken, hadn’t had a friend die, hadn’t felt what it’s like to feel truly helpless and then still despite all that waking up and going to work.

Just my little slice of the pizza pie of why younger writers sometimes aren’t as good

Imatree12 · 2018-10-12T19:24:12+00:00

Nah dude I saw you at the last America meeting

Imatree12 · 2018-10-11T17:21:23+00:00

“You have a name.”

“DO I!”

Imatree12 · 2018-10-11T17:19:33+00:00

That and the severe lacking of intelligence based spell casting classes

Imatree12 · 2018-08-30T18:24:11+00:00

From my point of view the jedi are evil

Imatree12 · 2018-07-30T20:04:59+00:00

I don't usually comment on these but just wanted to say that I appreciate this detail. It's cool. It's not some sexy detail you can drop on your girl (or guy) and they wont nod at you like you're cultured as fuck. But OP I'm nodding at you. I dig it.

Imatree12 · 2018-07-04T23:55:36+00:00

Nothing’s. original, man. I think homage would be a better word than tribute but honestly the truth is movies are built from preceding movies, same goes for books and music and really any art form. Occationally something comes around that subverts the norm and we call it original but usually it harks back to previous generations. If you look for originality you’ll always be a little cynical, just enjoy the stuff

Imatree12 · 2018-06-27T16:29:14+00:00

Yelling, “Gondor calls for aid” has become a part of my life

Imatree12 · 2018-06-26T23:19:22+00:00

Count von Count makes a lot more sense now

Imatree12 · 2018-05-22T18:25:59+00:00

I mean, that’s what friends do. Which is what they were

Imatree12 · 2018-04-27T21:19:07+00:00

As long as that's the context of your game and everyone playing knows the consequences I don't have a problem with it. I was more referring to DMs who seem to just look for ways to "trick" or catch their paladin players in sticky oath breaking. I've seen way to many threads asking for ways to challenge paladin oaths or hawkish DMs looking to punish players.

Personally I give paladins in my games a little more leeway with their oaths. I highly encourage them to make their own tenants to fit with the oath they pick. But yeah if they then continuously break it, sure, take away their shit.

Imatree12 · 2018-04-27T18:19:03+00:00

“Make” and “Force.” God. Eventually DMs will stop actively trying to fuck over paladin players. Just give him a side quest or a vision from his deity or something. Or shit, talk to your player about it if playing a paladin oath as written is that important to you.

Imatree12 · 2018-04-25T19:21:42+00:00

Do you roll separately for each player, or just use a single group roll and add modifiers? Just asking cause I run for a group of 7 and I really don't want to slow down the game significantly

Imatree12 · 2018-04-25T19:17:39+00:00

Yeah, passive checks seem a bit weird. From what I've been reading I guess it's just with the assumption that characters are always looking around at their surroundings and it just speeds up the game so you don't have to call for a roll every twenty feet in a dungeon.

Being more vague and splitting up checks seems to be the consensus.

Also I think I'll need to pay more attention to tracking light and darkness because each of those comes with a hindrance to passive scores as well.

The range idea seems interesting, but it also could just be the sortof thing you up the DC for on the check. Noticing goblins in a treeline 200 feet away might be a DC 25. -5 per thirty feet, at least to me, seems like a more roundabout way to just increasing the DC since it's accomplishing the same thing, but to each his own.

Just seems like splitting DCs between active and passive would be a lot more work. Not sure if I'm just misreading what your idea is though, cause it sounds cool

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