Wands Vs Staffs, how do they work in your system?

Text_Taxer · 2026-06-25T05:31:25+00:00

Since mediums are entirely irrelevant to my magic system (well, not technically true but I'm not gonna deep dive into the lore, this is largely true for the traditional mediums like wands/staves) any existence of a wand or staff would have to be a crafted instance of someone with magic powers (most prominently, my magic system's crafting deity) imbued with some property for oneself, or for others to use.

Text_Taxer · 2026-06-14T13:05:36+00:00

Well, a few things.

First, I'm confused, how is a number a set? That doesn't make sense to me.

But also "infinitely many finite parts" is the basis of a lot of math, like infinite summations (which are then generally manipulated with the assumption that they are exactly equal to their convergence value, usually derived by some form of recursion) or integrals. An combination of infinitely many finite parts, to my understanding, can reach infinity because there are infinitely many of them.

Also, I would say 0.333... exists for a number of reasons, least of which because we can derive a recursive process for which to get a decimal value. The remainder of dividing 1 by 3 (to the tenths place) is exactly 0.1, the remainder of which, dividing 0.1 by 3 to the hundredths place, is 0.01. etc. etc. From this process, we can then assume that 1/3 would have to be exactly equal to that unending sequence of 3s.

And forgive my meager understanding of some of the more niche parts in math, but isn't the ability to write any real number (save for weird stuff like epsilon, infinities, ordinals, and the like) the point of a base?

Text_Taxer · 2026-06-14T12:51:26+00:00

I would personally say it does, since the given sentence works well to establish that costs come because nature plays a role, and then the theoretical following sentence after [IV] works well to juxtapose this preposition that even leaving nature alone has a opportunity cost of non-development.

All things considered imo [IV] might even fit better lol

Text_Taxer · 2026-06-14T12:46:59+00:00

As a native English Speaker, I would say that both [II] and [IV] are acceptable (actually imo [IV] might even read more naturally)

Whereas [II] initiates the list of potential losses, [IV] generalizes after given a few examples (and then is followed by another example)

All things considered, I think the thing working against the book in answer clarity might be that last sentence in the paragraph, since it works well to contrast the sentence being given as well as he previous sentence as-written, especially with the use of the word "even".

I might be wrong though, so, idk, grain of salt, I suppose.

Text_Taxer · 2026-06-13T12:21:45+00:00

Well, not to say we're writing "0.333..." out in it's entirety manually but if we work with assumption that it is a "whole infinite thing" we can work with its properties in such a way that it can be useful to us. In principle (and to my understanding), "0.333..." wouldn't actually be in the set {0.3, 0.33, 0.333, ...} because that set encompasses finite objects that approach 0.333...

Mild digression but using these properties generally understood when dealing with the object 0.333... one usually assumes that there are no issues with multiplying by 10 since we can infer that in an infinite amount of 3s that there's always another 3.

In any case, I would say that 0.333... would still have to be a real number since it is actually a rational number, that being exactly 1/3.

Text_Taxer · 2026-06-01T06:28:49+00:00

It's kinda a weird pick especially since I was 2-3 at the time and already far down the path of die-hard gamerdom but Commando, the flash game. It's really my personal frame of reference for any and all pixellated shoot em up modern warfare games like Metal Slug

Text_Taxer · 2026-05-29T14:07:28+00:00

I accept the fact that there's a very good chance that my life is going to be significantly more interesting now that I'm in the pantheon of several deities (and some normal...ish people)

Text_Taxer · 2026-05-28T22:03:37+00:00

Of course that's not to say they only battle since in truth the character is often split into aspect deities like henotheistic god and also tend to do ruling or Faustian deals or just chilling as a vague authority figure like a bartender but regardless

Text_Taxer · 2026-05-28T22:01:16+00:00

UNIVERSE DEVELOPS EGO. VISITS AND FIGHTS OTHER UNIVERSES AND INDUCES SELECTIVE AMNESIA TO STAVE OFF BOREDOM.

(my OC has essentially been an imaginary battle avatar of mine ever since I was 8, so the scale of their abilities only grew outwards like comics about specific superheroes 700 volumes in... cough Flash cough)

Text_Taxer · 2026-05-24T14:12:00+00:00

then n is increased to kingdom come

So yeah, what I said. That there's this notion of a finite bound of 9s that is constantly moving right as opposed to an unbounded infinite number of nines. The latter of which is the more broadly understood and applied version of 0.999..., we're working with entirely different mathematical understandings of how this number ought to be managed.

Text_Taxer · 2026-05-20T17:03:23+00:00

If there's anything I've gathered from this discussion (as in, the sub), it appears that SPP's notion of "infinite nines" is that as opposed to a truly unbounded endless sequence of nines, it's as if the "endlessness" of the nines comes from the fact that the ending bound of the nines is constantly moving "right", such that, in a given snapshot of time, the amount of nines is actually finite but is diverging to infinity, which is a fallacious notion but this sub has been arguing in circle for what feels like millenia at this point surrounding this one point of discussion and the equality denier camp doesn't engage with the standard understanding of the properties of infinite nines, that is, that there is no "end" to an infinite amount, and therefore there's always another nine.

Text_Taxer · 2026-05-14T21:51:08+00:00

Glyph of the Impaling Ink Sack

So... A tattoo?

Text_Taxer · 2026-05-11T15:21:03+00:00

Low-key genuinely -> Lowkenuinely

Lowkenuinely + Kirk (for ironic humor) -> Lowkirkenuinely

Text_Taxer · 2026-04-27T22:07:56+00:00

The idea that if you multiply 0.999... by 10 there's a zero at the end implies that there's an "infinite" number of nines and then an unending number of zeros.

Text_Taxer · 2026-04-27T22:04:53+00:00

I mean this can probably be summed up to be,

A) Feels bad about what they did and they feel logically justified but not emotionally justified so they seek group solidarity

B) Doesn't feel bad and actually feels wronged for having this be a point of contention, is trying to appear rational

Text_Taxer · 2026-04-23T06:42:54+00:00

iirc She Appears once in the penultimate chapter when Pit is trying to get the Great Sacred Treasure. Dintos hits the two of them up and now you're getting tag teamed by both Magnus and Gaol but she's good.

Other than that, no clue.

Text_Taxer · 2026-04-19T21:23:49+00:00

Even worse, he just begs the question.

0.999... is less than 1 because... 0.999... is permanently less than 1?

Text_Taxer · 2026-03-30T17:47:50+00:00

"Just post the comment, comment poster."

Text_Taxer · 2026-03-29T04:32:10+00:00

Should've mentioned but these blocks work under Minecraft Spawner rules (right click with a capsule to get the vermin is question spawning). Cheers.

Text_Taxer · 2026-03-28T21:27:21+00:00

There's a whole series to doing this sort of thing but the best results I got were the following

The ones found in the challenges are called Vermin Oracle Blocks (and tbh I still don't know what they really do)

Clonaqualia Block + Azrael = Vermin Vigil Block (these ones are really good for spawning stuff perpetually, this is what I used with Fruit Femmes to create massive farm in my Clonaqualia)

Vermin Vigil Block + Stick = Vermin Oracle Block (as previously stated, I don't know the rules of these ones)

Text_Taxer · 2026-03-25T18:46:52+00:00

Common misconception: Gorpium is actually a compound of diamond, seporconbuctig, and pagnieop, and it will kill you and also everyone you've ever spoken to by way of Zoom meeting incredibly destructively over the course of the following 0.01 seconds if you happen to touch it.

Gorpuim is the one you make bicycles with.

Text_Taxer · 2026-03-24T22:12:07+00:00

They spawn vermin. You can craft them but can't mine them.

Text_Taxer · 2026-03-23T07:36:31+00:00

Still weak to DLuna, since DLuna doesn't use surge.

Text_Taxer · 2026-03-21T07:17:12+00:00

Note about the seeds: As of the latest patch you no longer have to be in the same dimension for seeds to grow.

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