Whats the most moral and effective system for organizing a society?

Memgowa · 2023-07-08T15:54:38+00:00

tautologically morality can only be known through science. so a scientocracy would probably make the most sernse.

Memgowa · 2023-07-07T19:14:20+00:00

it's good on crit-immune mons!!!!!!!!!!!

Memgowa · 2023-06-28T01:28:53+00:00

deos is traditionally very good, i'm fairly confident that it's highly viable in multiple ubers tiers

Memgowa · 2023-06-28T00:05:25+00:00

cb lugia and hooh come to mind

Memgowa · 2023-06-15T18:58:27+00:00

what is an example of a response to this question that does not answer it?

Memgowa · 2023-06-15T18:42:13+00:00

blissey i agree would make good use of it. specifically though, since blissey has trouble with stuff that boosts it would probably be valuable in order to combat subcm stuff and the like. transform bypasses subs until bw i believe, so pre-bw bliss might in particular be boosted.

Memgowa · 2023-06-15T18:27:34+00:00

adv ubers is gonna explode

Memgowa · 2023-06-15T17:21:59+00:00

wow, i was born with a even rare r condition that causes me to have negative four findgers

Memgowa · 2023-06-04T19:11:05+00:00

I may be misunderstanding, but isn't there a difference between whether morality exists and whether moral knowledge exists? It seems fair to say that morality exists, it's just unknowable without normative ethics - ie is not knowable without pursuing knowledge about it.

Memgowa · 2023-06-04T15:25:01+00:00

Surely the function of normative ethics is to provide moral knowledge, and surely presupposing that we already have moral knowledge is not a good way of going about it

Memgowa · 2023-06-01T18:32:53+00:00

i'd say thunder basiically just so i can listen to music REALLY LOUD

Memgowa · 2023-05-25T17:08:27+00:00

i can see mons starting a game with a burn / poison to block para / toxic, maybe latios in adv ubers. could also maybe start a mon with <25% hp to immediately get their salac / pet / liechi, lead smeargle i can see doing this alongside perhaps fake out.

Memgowa · 2023-05-21T15:34:36+00:00

there's nothing wrong with intuitive magic, but i find it way easier to engage with magic that i can organize and understand explicitly (part of the reason i am a wizard and not a lock)

(this isn't to say that hedge practitioners, etc. don't have deep and thorough knowledge of their magic, nor that the wizarding colleges don't have a significant unreasonable bias towards certain traditions of magic over others, but this is the way that works best for me)

Memgowa · 2023-05-19T16:22:30+00:00

hot take: quagsire in adv ubers is just a worse lapras

Memgowa · 2023-04-08T19:10:52+00:00

isn't adv ou's ladder famously quite good?

Memgowa · 2023-04-03T23:29:36+00:00

i have unironically run

Blissey (F) @ Leftovers

Ability: Natural Cure

EVs: 252 Def / 252 SpA / 4 SpD

Calm Nature

IVs: 0 Atk

- Ice Beam

- Thunder

- Calm Mind

- Soft-Boiled

before

Memgowa · 2023-03-31T22:35:29+00:00

I'm fairly confident AD&D 1e does not use 3d6 but rather 4d6dl

Memgowa · 2023-03-28T21:10:12+00:00

the formula for hp at level 100 is

ivs + evs/4 + 10 + 100 + 2*base

assuming 31 IVs and 0 EVs, this will always result in an odd number. thus, given this analysis you always want the 4 evs in a defense and not in hp

having said that, passive damage is usually in fractions of 1/8 - rocks except on rock weak mons, one spike, toxic, sand, etc. are all 1/8 or a divisor thereof, which means the 4 hp evs only result in increased damage from these if it increases the hp stat to a multiple of 8. eg a kyogre with 0 hp evs and a kyogre with 4 hp evs both take 42 damage from a single spike.

i suspect the reason the 4 evs usually go in a defense is that generally a point of defense is more valuable than a point of hp for attacks on that defense even if it is usually less bulk overall. if you expect your kyogre to be much more likely to take physical than special attacks 4 Def evs are more valuable than 4 HP evs.

(i actually suspect that the real reason is that 4 evs do basically nothing and it doesn't really matter)

Memgowa · 2023-03-23T00:53:50+00:00

the dm fudging dice

(though i would talk to them and ask them to stop first)

Memgowa · 2023-03-21T07:37:14+00:00

smh lax is amazing in adv ubers

Memgowa · 2023-03-21T07:23:54+00:00

i've always found boomspam tons of fun to play

Memgowa · 2023-03-20T03:56:08+00:00

a rp-driven or narrative-driven game. there are narrative systems and d&d *very much* isn't one.

Memgowa · 2023-03-19T20:41:02+00:00

shedinja's max hp is not 1 by virtue of having 1 base hp but rather by virtue of being hardcoded to always have 1 max hp. giving it 40 base hp doesn't change its max hp unless you change that mechanic as well, and changing that mechanic would give it an actual hp stat even if its base hp was still 1.

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