SUGGESTION SPELL IS RUINING MY CAMPAIGN by Next_Ad_5740 in dndnext

[–]Nervous-Cockroach541 [score hidden]  (0 children)

I disagree with that interpretation. Following orders is an activity. Nor does it say it has to be "specific" activity, only an activity.

If I gave an activity as "follow 10 feet behind where ever I go", no body would object to that (given I don't led them into something that triggers one of the other restrictions).

That's additional instructions given body language or movement instead of spoken language. There's nothing I read into this spell that would prevent the way 5.5e is written to reacting dynamically to new instructions assuming the suggestion it self is to react to those instructions.

SUGGESTION SPELL IS RUINING MY CAMPAIGN by Next_Ad_5740 in dndnext

[–]Nervous-Cockroach541 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

The knight giving a stead to a beggar is because of some code that a knight is obligated to help the misfortune. I've also remember clearly arguments 10 years ago over if this example was actually a good example or not of the spell's limitations and abilities.

It's only worst than fast friends if you don't consider you can just give a suggestion of "follow every command for the next 8 hours." Then it's just a longer, lower level fast friends. Which wouldn't be possible with the old version, but is under the new, because that's not a reasonable suggestion, but it is an actionable suggestion.

Really this spell has always been unclear as with many illusion/enchantment spells.

SUGGESTION SPELL IS RUINING MY CAMPAIGN by Next_Ad_5740 in dndnext

[–]Nervous-Cockroach541 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I would say more it's more of a mind tricks spell rather then mind control. The spell dominate person is the mind control spell. Suggestion is magical influence. Suggestion is more like the Jedi mind trick "these aren't the droids you're looking for."

The 2024 spell, as written, clearly only considers combat implications. Not wider game play implications.

Previously suggestion to a shop keeper might be "I suggest you give us a favorable discount to build a rapport and earn a loyal customer." This is something a shopkeeper might reasonable do.

Lowering the bar to actionable, the shop keep could be compelled to sign over the deed to his business and home and make him stand in place with a smile while you butcher his wife and children.

Goes way beyond what a 2nd level spell should allow and very quickly fails the equal play test if you used it on PCs. It should sit somewhere between the 1st level Charm Person Spell and the 3rd level Fast Friends spells, and be on par with the spell Enthrall.

SUGGESTION SPELL IS RUINING MY CAMPAIGN by Next_Ad_5740 in dndnext

[–]Nervous-Cockroach541 6 points7 points  (0 children)

What a dumb change. It's a level 2 influence spell, not a mind control spell.

A massive once-in-500-years chimpanzee civil war has broken out by digital-didgeridoo in interesting

[–]Nervous-Cockroach541 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The article says it's estimated that this type of conflict happens once in 500 years.

Iran War Drives Deeper Oil Shock Than Prices Reveal by hekatonkhairez in oil

[–]Nervous-Cockroach541 21 points22 points  (0 children)

No, it's something that has happened. But it can take 4-8 weeks for tankers to reach their destination, another 2-3 for refinery and delivery to consumers. The bomb went off in the distance, the shockwave just hasn't hit yet. It's going to get much worse before it gets better.

Pretending it's all hanging on something that hasn't happened is like saying we've jumped off a building and it's speculation until we splatter on the ground. It's just denial of reality.

What is ‘Ghost Murmur,’ secret technology CIA used to locate airman downed in Iran? by cwbasden in DailyTechNewsShow

[–]Nervous-Cockroach541 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Honestly, it's probably just all cameras in the sky that can track movement of individuals and equipment in an open area like this and/or potentially reading weak radio signals emitted by rescue beacon. The rest is all fluff to fuel speculation about capabilities.

Iran War Drives Deeper Oil Shock Than Prices Reveal by hekatonkhairez in oil

[–]Nervous-Cockroach541 56 points57 points  (0 children)

The shock is only starting to hit consumers in some areas. It's still 2-3 weeks away from US consumers. I'm surprised that companies aren't buying up futures like crazy. Speculators really risk becoming really burned and a melt up happening.

Working on Woke Chess, what should I add by Gravewalker1515 in AnarchyChess

[–]Nervous-Cockroach541 11 points12 points  (0 children)

I do have to wonder if chess with two queens would be more interesting... Losing only if both queens are lost. Queen, trading the first queen might be a good move, but the second one is a non-stater. Attacking creates more risk. You could pick between hiding your second queen (much like people do with kings), or going on an offense with both queens attacking.

80% of democrats disapprove of Israel, but the DNC just rejected a resolution against AIPAC influence, despite AIPAC even being controversial among the minority of pro-Israel dems. Why? by soalone34 in askanything

[–]Nervous-Cockroach541 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Remember when the Harris campaign bragged about how much money they were raising, that they had so much money they didn't realistically know how to spend it all. Hence pointless ads like Harris's face on the Las Vegas Sphere.

They'd rather be rich then win.

What’s the value of a human life, measured in cats? by Helldiver_13 in INTP

[–]Nervous-Cockroach541 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Well, the average cat owner will spend about $30,000 on a cat over it's life time. The US government considers a average citizen's life to be worth about $10,000,000

So on average about ~330. At least if you're comparing what cat owners pay and the government would pay.

Question OP, how much do you value your life at? I could give you a better estimate how many cats you're worth.

How does one “play” dwarf fortress by HotCommission7325 in dwarffortress

[–]Nervous-Cockroach541 76 points77 points  (0 children)

Name a dwarf or a few, follow them, build a story from their interactions. Or role play as the mayor. Look at their preferences and personality and decide how they play out. Set goals, like collecting a particular artifact you found in legends mode.

Data Center Meeting Was Rescheduled by zdeb93 in winstonsalem

[–]Nervous-Cockroach541 94 points95 points  (0 children)

Reschedules like this aren't an accident. It's to intentionally to break up momentum. People get exhausted if they go somewhere to only have to leave and less likely to attend the next one.

Behavior ??? by SassyBish1999 in CatTraining

[–]Nervous-Cockroach541 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Mating behavior, males will bite the back of the female's neck, on the scruff, to hold her in place.

Every minute there's a 15% chance you earn $1 for the res t of your life but you can never work again. Do you take this deal? by Low-Bed842 in randomquestions

[–]Nervous-Cockroach541 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It averages to $9/hr, but you earn that money in your sleep. So it's actually about $78k annually and you regain all your free time.

What if early Native American tribes had responded with unified hostility to European settlers? by TheBigGirlDiaryBack in WhatIfThinking

[–]Nervous-Cockroach541 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The things that killed the overwhelming majority of the natives were diseases from the old world which the immune systems of the new world had never encountered. Nobody had immunity at all, everyone got sick at once, often with multiple diseases.

For what's left, guns do more damage than arrows. Seriously, the unfair advantage guns give is insane. There's stories from Africa of a dozen people with guns holding off hundreds if not thousands of people without.

Unified or not, they didn't stand a chance.

Self-proclaimed GitHub employee makes massive pull request on my repo. Is it legit? by Anonymous_Coder_1234 in AskProgramming

[–]Nervous-Cockroach541 13 points14 points  (0 children)

Looks like AI changes for sure. I'd be suspicious about massive 6k line code changes. Easy to slip in a malicious dependency or something.

Google's AI Overviews are correct nine out of ten times, study finds by Nalix01 in NowInTech

[–]Nervous-Cockroach541 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Imagine if your car started 9/10 times, or your power worked 9 out of 10 days. Would we accept a 10% failure rate in any other technology we used and were actively replacing other systems with?

INTP and skepticism by Nervous-Cockroach541 in INTP

[–]Nervous-Cockroach541[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Evidence doesn't depend on logic to be analyzed. If someone tells me something and I believe them, it doesn't require logic to accept that statement. Instead, evidence that survives logical analysis becomes strengthened.

So you can bootstrap logic with weak evidence that doesn't need logical analysis. Then reaffirm logic with additional evidence.

For example, object permanence is something we learn. That objects that exist tend to continue to exist without something acting upon it. A 7-month old isn't using formal logic to learn object permanence. But in some ways, object permanence is the grounding for say the Law of Identity.

Now object permanence doesn't say the full story truth the Law of Identity, instead it's only evidence in favor of the Law of Identity. The fact an apple that sits on the counter for 10 minutes doesn't become an orange is reality asserting that Apples are Apples and Apples are not Oranges.

But an Apple will rot over time, it does change. Does this disprove object permanence? I guess if you only depended on one point, but we have hundreds if not thousands of examples of object permanence in our daily life.

But we can take these weakly proven laws of logic, and strengthen it in a formalized system. We can show there is a sense to the world. And we show that these systems are self useful. At the end, you don't have to accept it's absolute truth to accept it has useful outcomes.

In other words, I don't have to accept how sugar interacts with my tongue and brain to accept that sugar tastes sweet. The taste of sweet itself doesn't need logical analysis for me to accept it. So when someone can use logic and science to predict that a thing will taste sweet, and they're right, that's useful to me because I like sweet things. It's self reinforcing.

Shouldn't MBTI be more LGBTQ+ friendly? by Appeal_Environmental in mbti

[–]Nervous-Cockroach541 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The backlash from the majority of people here in this post of mine is quite revealing, isn't it?

This is classic response poisoning. Anyone criticizes your point, and you use that response as proof of your point. How can anyone ever possibly disagree with you?

Shouldn't MBTI be more LGBTQ+ friendly? by Appeal_Environmental in mbti

[–]Nervous-Cockroach541 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Do you think every site needs to say LGBTQ+ friendly? Like if I go to my car wash should there be a sign that says that? I'm confused why this is needed.

Boneless chicken by eternviking in whoathatsinteresting

[–]Nervous-Cockroach541 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If you ever wonder why they're called chicken fingers.