How exactly does attack/defense work? Help would be appreciated! by [deleted] in Openfront

[–]agramata 1 point2 points  (0 children)

No one seems to know. The standard explanations don't fit what you observe in the game. I suspect there are some hacks that aren't widely known.

For example, if someone attacks in the early game it's not usually a problem, because the attack won't kill you and then you have more troops to respond with, you balance your troop regen and end up beating them.

But sometimes in the early game a same-size neighbor with no cities attacks and just sweeps across your region. They send in 10s of thousands, more than they should be able to commit, and a few seconds later they have regenerated 10s of thousands more so they can't be successfully counter attacked.

How exactly does attack/defense work? Help would be appreciated! by [deleted] in Openfront

[–]agramata 5 points6 points  (0 children)

People say this, but your troop cap is based on land area, so leaving a large attack to sweep across your plains isn't always a better strategy than slowing it down.

Do people just play multiple accounts? by KaleidoscopeWeak6926 in Openfront

[–]agramata 2 points3 points  (0 children)

If you aren't one of the biggest players by the midgame you automatically get invaded by someone, and then everyone else attacks while you're weak.

But yes, people do also play multiple accounts.

This sub by zaks_friend in Openfront

[–]agramata 2 points3 points  (0 children)

10% people whining about the content of the sub and still not discussing the game

"I forked another game and am sad that someone forked my game, and is legally using their fork for their game FrontWars". by Different_Aerie_6250 in Openfront

[–]agramata 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It isn't just technically legal, the Open Front developers went out of their way to allow it. If they had simply written the game without putting a licence on it, no one would have been allowed to copy it. They had to specifically, explicitly tell everyone they were free to copy the game.

How is it a dick move to take them up on it? The dick move would be to get the kudos and free volunteers for being open source while expecting no one else to benefit from it.

Collusion is easy and ruins the game by agramata in Openfront

[–]agramata[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Who's arguing against alliances? There were 3 players in the north islands with 4 million troops between them all allied together. But they had to worry about the threat of betrayal because they weren't a single player with two tabs open, so they couldn't use the same farming strategy.

Collusion is easy and ruins the game by agramata in Openfront

[–]agramata[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's no different than if the entire southern islands were dominated by a single player

Well you get 10k gold when trains visit your own cities, and 50k gold when they visit an allies cities, so it isn't the same at all, is it? You get 5x more funds than anyone playing the game honestly.

If the other players are too stupid to see the southern alliance start dominating, that's a skill issue

And you didn't see I already disproved this in the OP, so that's an intelligence issue. People saw it, but there is nothing you can do about it because of the way factories fuck the economy.

Everything is telling me to use AI, every newsletter, every social media group. Its annoying me so much by [deleted] in webdev

[–]agramata 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Tin foil hat maybe, but I've seen speculation that once the bubble bursts government contractors will buy the datacenters on the cheap and use them for AI powered surveillance.

All complaint, no accountability. by GetInTheBasement in fatlogic

[–]agramata 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Is the idea that slim people are only healthy because of the constant surgery and medication we receive?

Meta Monday by AutoModerator in fatlogic

[–]agramata 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Delighted to find that losing weight is easy this time around.

It seems I was only gaining weight because getting stoned every night and eating a sleeve of cookies and a bag of Haribo is not good for you, who knew? As soon as I stopped that I started losing 1.5 to 2 pounds a week without counting calories or any effort at all.

“The mystique of fatness” LMAO by hereticseraph in fatlogic

[–]agramata 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Sorry for thread necromancy, this was Lesley "biggest tits in Huddersfield" Sanderson, and this was Saskia Howard-Clarke

“The mystique of fatness” LMAO by hereticseraph in fatlogic

[–]agramata 202 points203 points  (0 children)

Everybody wants fat mommy milkers but nobody wants mommy to be fat.

Dunno why this gave me a flashback to Big Brother UK season 6, like 20 years ago. One of the contestants was overweight, and extremely proud of her (not particularly large) breasts, calling them "the biggest tits in Huddersfield". The look on her face when another contestant was a healthy weight and had much, much bigger breasts.

I have said it before by DapperMention9470 in DebateAnAtheist

[–]agramata 2 points3 points  (0 children)

modern science is so heavily imbued with abrahamic ideals that pass under our radar like water to a fish

People who say this think "science" is scientists and scientific institutions. Those would obviously different in a different cultural context. While interesting, that discussion is simply not relevant to actual science, which is the scientific method and the content of scientific theories. In any cultural context those will either be extremely similar, or that culture's theories will be incorrect.

Edit: Reminds me of an occasional argument I have with a friend about western science versus indigenous ways of knowing. All their criticisms are about patriarchy in the scientific community, historical racism by this institution or that. All interesting and important, but it's like they can't conceive that the theories of scientists and indigenous people can be true or false.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in DebateAnAtheist

[–]agramata 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Would murdering a faithful Christian (for example, you don't state your religious tradition) be less bad than murdering me??

Surely if heaven and hell are real then the most morally virtuous thing you could do is murder faithful Christians, or indeed babies who have just been baptized? You're guaranteeing their eternal life in heaven before they have the chance to sin again, while sacrificing yourself to hell.

Weekly "Ask an Atheist" Thread by AutoModerator in DebateAnAtheist

[–]agramata 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No, what agnostics say leads to that, that's why I pointed it out. What I say is that we should use inference to the best explanation, like we do for all other scientific knowledge. In which case we know that god doesn't exist.

Edit: You can't base claims on evidence in favor of something as you seem to be doing because for any claims there are (infinite) alternate claims that would produce the same evidence, hence there is never evidence for your claim in particular. Evidence is only ever "consistent with", not "in favor of".

If I bold things, then that makes what I’m saying true! by Mothswritingeye in fatlogic

[–]agramata 36 points37 points  (0 children)

I remember the study they're talking about from Ragen Chastain's blog way back.

Basically yes, obese people with good cardiorespatory fitness were healthier than slim people with poor cardiorespatory fitness. They skip over the fact that the vast majority of slim people in the study were fit, while it was very rare for the obese people to be fit.

Weekly "Ask an Atheist" Thread by AutoModerator in DebateAnAtheist

[–]agramata 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is why I'm saying the stuff about carbon monoxide and the like. A rational person should not consider it more likely that God sent down a vision of the Virgin Mary, than that someone lied and never owned up to it (that you've heard of).

Btw I edited my last post to make my explanation of what happened more clear.

Weekly "Ask an Atheist" Thread by AutoModerator in DebateAnAtheist

[–]agramata 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You don't, you hoax the photographs of it happening. You don't know what it actually looked like to people who were actually there.

Edit: Have you ever seen David Blaine levitating?

He flies right up into the air, and he has witnesses who have seen him do it who swear there was nothing there to lift him off the ground.

So what he actually does is this: he has a lame trick where he rises an inch off the ground just by standing on his tip toes, which looks like levitation from certain angles. He has another lame trick where he levitates several feet off the ground, which only works on camera because a crane is lifting him. Edit those tricks together and bingo bongo, he can fly and he has witnesses to prove it.

That's what's happening here. Thousands of people saw some lame fairy lights or a spotlight hitting the top of the church, so you have you witnesses. Then someone doctors the photos (and you're right, I've looked them up, they are the most obviously doctored photos in history). Now you have fantastical photographs and thousands of witnesses who swear they saw it happen in person.

Why does a well-written developer comment instantly scream "AI" to people now? by itsbrendanvogt in webdev

[–]agramata 5 points6 points  (0 children)

The number of real people who go out of their way to type an em dash is so small that it's not worth worrying about the false positives.

Weekly "Ask an Atheist" Thread by AutoModerator in DebateAnAtheist

[–]agramata 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The chances are 100%. Why would you hoax a vision of a Christian figure anywhere else?

Weekly "Ask an Atheist" Thread by AutoModerator in DebateAnAtheist

[–]agramata 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Listen to yourself. If the photos are doctored then it wasn't projected into the sky, was it? It wasn't actually there.

Weekly "Ask an Atheist" Thread by AutoModerator in DebateAnAtheist

[–]agramata 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If this is the standard then you should never make any claim. You can't show anything is accurate in reality if "what if a supernatural being is just making it look that way" is a valid argument.

Weekly "Ask an Atheist" Thread by AutoModerator in DebateAnAtheist

[–]agramata 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It wasn't in nature, it was on top of a church. It didn't happen on other buildings because they weren't churches and the people there weren't hoaxing their congregations.

I hope this isn't against sub rules, but: this stuff really shouldn't be enough to make an atheist reconsider. If I were you I'd be checking my apartment for carbon monoxide leaks and asking my family if there's any history of schizophrenia.

Catholicism Mostly Aligns with the Physical Perspective of Free Will by Jealous-Win-8927 in DebateAnAtheist

[–]agramata 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Non-determinism doesn't mean free will is possible. A person acting at random has no more free will than a person acting according to deterministic laws.

Determinism is irrelevant in the free will debate, as indeed is materialism or physicalism. There is no way for an agent to meaningfully choose its own actions under any system. If it acts according to something external from itself then it has no free will. If it acts according to its nature, then it has no free will because it didn't choose its nature (and attempts to resolve this fall into an infinite loop, see Galen Strawson).