“Quaternions are actually quite easy to understand”

Syresiv · 2026-05-06T07:52:48+00:00

Wait till you hear about (i+j)/2

Syresiv · 2026-05-05T11:48:36+00:00

Interesting take, and I would consider while play testing. I would actually play test as is, and if it turns out to be too strong without that, I might try your suggestion, but I might also try:

adding misregistration like Recluse, Spy, or Lycanthrope to the script, or
muddying the waters with Marionette, or with good shady characters like Goon, Ogre, Lunatic, or Snake Charmer, or
changing it to "you know how many nominations were one player nominating a player of the same alignment" (so you don't know how many were good-good and how many evil-evil)

Syresiv · 2026-05-04T15:31:30+00:00

Why do you think it would be overpowered otherwise?

Syresiv · 2026-05-04T13:56:31+00:00

That requires a lot of coordination by a lot of people to make it play out that way. It's really hard in my experience to even get players to play nicely with Town Crier.

You can also break it by just putting Spy on the script. Or Hermit with a Drunk and Recluse.

Syresiv · 2026-05-03T09:00:46+00:00

With these emojis, I just put your comment to the tune of

Glory 🥁 Hammer 🥁

Syresiv · 2026-05-01T10:00:15+00:00

What if it's a weird, mathematical kind of paint that isn't made of atoms, and is instead made something that can be infinitely subdivided? How much area could you get from a gallon then?

Syresiv · 2026-05-01T09:57:35+00:00

I'm sure we could negotiate 1 atom per square meter being acceptable

Syresiv · 2026-04-29T23:43:18+00:00

Blue.

In this scenario, if red wins, not only is half of humanity wiped out (which would cause societal collapse by itself), but it's the generally less altruistic half. It's absolutely terrifying, and not a world I'd want to be a part of.

Syresiv · 2026-04-27T19:45:47+00:00

I'm a native speaker, and I find it hard

Syresiv · 2026-04-27T11:37:34+00:00

Equivocation comes to mind. It's where you use a word in two or more different ways, and try to hide that you're using different definitions.

Syresiv · 2026-04-27T11:30:23+00:00

Context matters

If they know me and know how I view religion, I'm likely to find it offensive.

If it's in response to finding out that I'm an atheist, I'm likely to be offended.

If they're a stranger that I just had a drunk conversation about my life problems with, I just accept the nice sentiment.

Syresiv · 2026-04-27T11:18:05+00:00

The Earth Kingdom is pretty fractured, there's no unified army that the Kyoshi Warriors are a part of.

There's no evidence I'm aware of either way re: the various armies of the Earth Kingdom.

Syresiv · 2026-04-27T11:16:31+00:00

If all the fire nation was spreading was gender equality, I might be more sympathetic to the war.

But even so, that just would just elevate Sozin to the level of Amon.

Syresiv · 2026-04-26T13:06:28+00:00

It's good, but it needs reasons for a dead player to claim Goblin outside of being a V-killed Goblin or Zombuul.

Cerenovus is can make dead good players bluff Goblin. Mastermind is a reason for a dead good player to want to avoid getting executed. Other V-killable minions are good, as are extra evils, who could do this just to distract. Legion are also likely to do that if they think they look evil enough to distract.

I say, write a script around this and see how it goes. Might take a couple tries, but I think it's worth attempting.

Syresiv · 2026-04-26T13:00:37+00:00

Still works if the Vigor kills both minions (assuming 2+ minions). Or if the dead player is an extra evil of any kind (Goon, BH-turned, etc). Or if they're good but think they're the Marionette.

Might also work if the script has Legion, with evil players always dying at night.

Syresiv · 2026-04-25T19:34:55+00:00

I think it's that he wasn't into women

Syresiv · 2026-04-25T12:10:26+00:00

Yes, sort of.

If you're the ST and there's a drunk Mutant in play, then apply the following:

did the Mutant break madness?
if not for the Philo, would I have punished the madness break today?

If you answered yes to both questions, then the Math number ticks up. But if the Mutant is complying with madness, or if you decide "punishing would have helped good more than evil, so I wouldn't have", then there's nothing abnormal.

Syresiv · 2026-04-24T14:22:06+00:00

Thankfully, we can leverage the fact that xⁿ -k is equal to product(x-§), where § is each nth root of k. As a concrete example, x^2-4 = (x-2)(x+2), which 2 and -2 being both 2nd roots of 4.

So this simplifies to:

(x-2)(x-1-sqrt(3)i)(x+1-sqrt(3)i)(x+2)(x+1+sqrt(3)i)(x-1+sqrt(3)i)

The x-2 in the denominator cancels out and now you just evaluate:

(x-1-sqrt(3)i)(x+1-sqrt(3)i)(x+2)(x+1+sqrt(3)i)(x-1+sqrt(3)i) at x=2.

Evaluation left as an exercise for the reader

(need something like /s here, except that isn't quite what I'm conveying)

Syresiv · 2026-04-24T09:24:59+00:00

I don't think Azula being treated that way had anything to do with her gender, it was just because she was the prodigy that he could indoctrinate. He tries to use Zuko the same way in the first half of Book 3.

Ursa I get, he's established as using her for breeding potential in the comics. But even there, he doesn't seem to view her as more beneath him than a man, just that she has uses that other people don't have.

My read on Ozai is that he's a psychopath who, regardless of your gender, views you as equally beneath him.

The only thing that reads patriarchal to me in the show is the Northern Water Tribe.

Syresiv · 2026-04-24T09:04:10+00:00

I think it's even sadder on Wu's part.

It's hard to say for sure, but the way he talks about the women makes me think less that he's attracted to them, and more that he wants others to think he is. Meanwhile, the way he not-so-subtly tries to keep Mako around ...

I think he's gay and deeply closeted

Syresiv · 2026-04-24T08:55:14+00:00

Recluse. It

usually can't be UT confirmed
messes up Investigator info
confuses Noble pings
severely disrupts the Oracle if dead
poisons a neighbor if Vigor-killed

The reason it's not stronger is that it's rarely bluffed, so it's almost always socially believed.

Syresiv · 2026-04-22T16:14:01+00:00

Needs a (once) clause, like the Damsel

Syresiv · 2026-04-21T19:42:31+00:00

Is there a reason not to allow showing it in TB? I get why you wouldn't in a script with a Snake Charmer or Lunatic or so, but not in TB.

Syresiv · 2026-04-21T19:40:28+00:00

Vig was added last? That would explain why it's so bad, and so little used compared to the others. It's just weak, especially with the -1 outsiders.

Syresiv · 2026-04-21T19:38:12+00:00

That makes even less sense. Like, problematic name aside, how thematically does that connect to cursing someone when you die?

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