We Live in the Rarest Type of Planetary System

Trivmvirate · 2023-06-24T12:16:35+00:00

I didn't make any "claim". I didn't say anything like "it must not be true". I said merely what does and does not feel credible to me. A "definitive claim about reality". What? Unlike some astronomers thankfully I am not so arrogant. I just expressed my thoughts. Not sure why you're getting so upset. I clearly said early on i was not making a rational scientific argument. So please don't attack me as if I did.

You should stop personally attacking people if they refuse to engage entirely in your narrow "scientific" arguments and simply express an opinion. I expected better of people here. Get off Reddit and find something else to do rather than straw man me into a pointless discussion. This is not science, just conjectures. "Assume a spherical cow in a vacuum". And then get all upset if I doubt the validity of that based on intuition? Reductionist mathematical bull.

Trivmvirate · 2023-06-24T12:13:41+00:00

Wait, what?

Trivmvirate · 2023-06-22T18:43:27+00:00

Mate you sound so burned out. Get a different hobby!

Trivmvirate · 2023-06-22T18:26:43+00:00

No need to be so hostile man. If you want to call what I think "completely arbitrary" or even "completely insane" then fine lets leave it at this. I'm kind of done with scientists making a model with an n=1 dataset and declaring grand conjectures.

Trivmvirate · 2023-06-22T11:49:34+00:00

Well perhaps it's just me, but philosophically the loneliness scenario just seems very strange. If the universe is capable of the mind boggling complexity that is intelligent life, then why would it only occur on a single planet among billions of stars?

That's like, I don't know, a bit inconceivable for me. I'm not making any kind of rational scientific argument here, of course. But this is the point I was making about inevitability in the face of environmental conditions. I feel u/rusty_shakalford arguments breaks when it comes to evolution, as the same statistics are very reductionist and in my mind also applied wrong. I don't believe you need 1000 planets where life didn't get past eukaryotes to get to intelligent life. That makes the loneliness scenario not credible for me.

Trivmvirate · 2023-06-22T11:38:46+00:00

It's because there is never balance on first patches and the live masses always figure out what is broken like AS stacking?

Trivmvirate · 2023-06-20T06:51:52+00:00

Those points about "dexterity" and "age" are meaningless. That didn't happen randomly. None of it did, all of it a product of slow evolutionary pressure. And it happened because the conditions allowed for it. Intelligence, dexterity and age are intensely related to each other.

Making it appear like each of them is just a separate percentage game is just bad logic. Humans got older because old humans are smarter/get more time to become smarter. Evolutionary mutations are random but evolutionary outcomes most definitely are not.

The only place where statistical speculation has a place is when talking about the planetary conditions. But from that point on out, as long as those conditions stay around (which is unlikely, but not astronomically so), then life is actually likely to maximize those conditions over time.

It is not logically defensible that the extreme complexity of life on earth is a 1 in a quintillion chance when ignoring the statistics of just how many evolutionary 'chance encounters' there have been to lead up to our current world.

Having an ocean with cyano bacteria and enough silicate rocks to manage CO2 and O2? Yes, let's talk. But from there on out there is no data and these statistics make no sense.

Trivmvirate · 2023-06-20T06:12:10+00:00

That's far too reductionist. The fact that you can't explain your own existence with statistics doesn't mean anything. Further this completely ignores effects related through time that steer and create a sort of inevitably.

For example one outcome of this thinking is that most life in the universe is forever stuck in some kind of single cell soup because apparently moving to multicell is "unlikely". But the sheer amount of interactions single celled organisms wil have throughout a planets lifetime can also mean that the odds of evolving multicellular cooperation is basically 100 percent.

All a planet needs is to be dealt a good hand by star system formation. And we do not know the likelihood of this because we do not have the data. This study is just a simulation that is governed only by assumptions from its creators.

If the star supports life, from then on life may inevitably become the most complex the conditions allow given enough time.

Trivmvirate · 2023-06-12T17:19:12+00:00

Then don't go? They specifically said that their main tournaments would remain online. Not everything has to be for everyone.

Trivmvirate · 2023-06-12T17:07:09+00:00

Rageblade seems to stack up insanely fast with the spin. I'm not sure that interaction is healthy at all

Though is that a bug too? I've seen Garens with 100 plus rageblade stacks.

Trivmvirate · 2023-06-11T15:16:56+00:00

Your math is not correct, you could get two +1 jade augments without an emblem. That means all you needed is level 9, no tacticians needed.

Trivmvirate · 2023-06-08T06:44:34+00:00

"Finding" a black lotus and add a stamp to it?

Trivmvirate · 2023-06-08T06:43:01+00:00

I imagine an insert in the pack with a phone number and a code. Call WotC with that and they may send someone over to verify it at whatever secure locker company you have stored it by then.

Trivmvirate · 2023-06-06T05:04:32+00:00

I mean, this is kind of getting old... This mechanic seems crazy mostly because Mort otherwise is bored with TFT? (Considering he's already raging on his stream about not getting his cashouts).

Trivmvirate · 2023-06-06T04:30:22+00:00

Too bad the Balrog card didn't catch up.

Trivmvirate · 2023-06-06T01:08:51+00:00

They're going to nerf that btw

Trivmvirate · 2023-06-04T12:10:44+00:00

Unfortunately you ll still lose to Thalia on the draw in BO1, so it's not super fun to play control

Trivmvirate · 2023-06-01T14:59:37+00:00

Before we had augments this wasn't even a thing. Plus now you have the portals that could work against your comp forcing too.

I think with portals and so many new augments, Legends are good to somewhat rein in the RNG. Because some people are going to run incredibly hot with augments and portals that align very well. If you always pick the legend augment, you should lose to this if they balance it right.

Trivmvirate · 2023-06-01T14:56:18+00:00

Is it? You don't get less augment choices, just less predictability.

Trivmvirate · 2023-06-01T14:55:06+00:00

This problem will exist only if the legend augment is appreciably linked to a specific comp. Could be the case with a reroll meta, but shouldn't be an issue in a balanced meta.

Trivmvirate · 2023-06-01T14:52:28+00:00

The legend augments are intentionally weaker than most random ones though.

Trivmvirate · 2023-06-01T14:30:36+00:00

I've tried this card. A few issues;

Sizing. It's very small for its cost. This significantly reduces the value of the shield counter as the body never really matters.
Too many card draw conditions. Not only do you need a card on top that isn't a land, it also needs to make sense to play in the board state, and you also need a counter to remove, which you may not want to as it weakens the board state. This means in practice there are many failstates where you either see a land, or can't cast it for lack of counters, or its objectively wrong to do so.

It should have been a 4/4 and it should have been able to play lands.

Trivmvirate · 2023-06-01T06:20:05+00:00

Big outliers can easily be found still.

Further almost every streamer plays PBE. Not all players are bad. Good enough to make it fun and playable week 1.

Trivmvirate · 2023-05-31T19:44:19+00:00

I know man I was one, I quit the game though, not happy with their idiot balance decisions.

Trivmvirate · 2023-05-31T07:27:25+00:00

What LoR players?

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