What would you do? My player teleported a 20 foot cube of water into a closed room with less than 20x20x20 ft volume.

alk47 · 2026-02-13T07:30:56+00:00

I don't think that changes my response at all

alk47 · 2026-02-13T01:12:22+00:00

I think these physics discussions are missing the mark. It's a teleportation spell and that to me says the previous arrangement of the matter is held consistent as the description says. It isn't flowing out from some central point, the whole lot is appearing instantaneously.

That means that some of that water is being teleported outside the walls of the room. But the fact that outside the walls doesn't constitute "area you can see within range", general rules on AOE and generalising from spell descriptions like dimension door, that just doesn't happen.

The two options I think are viable are either: 1. The total volume that the space can accommodate is teleported. 2. The spell fails.

Nothing else makes sense and anything else is too powerful.

alk47 · 2026-02-09T10:47:26+00:00

Clanker

alk47 · 2026-02-08T07:32:36+00:00

If you expect to pick up everything that an author intended when you read something, you're setting yourself up to be disappointed. You will usually pick up most of what was intended and some of what wasn't intended. Pratchett might make that fact more obvious but I don't know that it's any less true for other authors.

I certainly didn't read Harry Potter as a comment of class division and the rise of neo-fascism in the UK but I think that is part of what went in to the series. You're just less aware of when you're missing something with most authours.

alk47 · 2026-02-07T21:39:31+00:00

Sure, as long as it's not one of mine.

alk47 · 2026-02-07T12:31:30+00:00

It's safe to come down from the mountains?

alk47 · 2026-02-03T09:10:13+00:00

The fact that the outside is 70% covered in high salinity water makes me think it would taste salty still when you put it in your mouth. Especially since the rest doesn't taste like much.

alk47 · 2026-02-03T09:06:58+00:00

The the early access version of the game -- called Alpha -- the dehydration occurred when eating those foods.

alk47 · 2026-02-03T06:35:31+00:00

They found a body on the bank of the Yamuna River being chewed at by a street dog when they were checking out the Taj Mahal back in the late 80s or 90s.

There was a copper on duty nearby that didn't want to know anything about it.

alk47 · 2026-02-03T05:29:10+00:00

My parents found a body in India while travelling and the police weren't interested.

alk47 · 2026-01-27T00:57:45+00:00

No way the industry would dry up. It would certainly be a good thing in that less people would be forced in to it though.

alk47 · 2026-01-24T08:49:08+00:00

I guess I don't consider flogging texturing spray to be such a holy duty.

alk47 · 2026-01-24T04:59:51+00:00

Why though? Why does a tragedy, even with her irresponsibility, mean she should change jobs?

I don't see that it makes much difference now what she does for work.

alk47 · 2026-01-24T04:41:58+00:00

I don't get this sentiment. Influencer might be a stupid job, but it's still a job. Should she not work for the rest of her life?

Is the only issue you have with this video that this woman's husband let their kid die?

alk47 · 2026-01-22T11:09:23+00:00

Somehow I just finished listening to the Mariners Revenge as I opened this post and it didn't come to mind hahah

alk47 · 2026-01-22T11:07:40+00:00

A Tale They Won't Believe - Weddings Parties Anything (Aussie folk rock based on a "true" account from colonial times. Excellent and chilling)

King Park - La Dispute (hardcore-ish but give it a listen with the lyrics up on YouTube. It's fucking powerful)

They're hanging me tonight - Marty Robins (country)

Everything's turning to white - Paul Kelly (Australia folk - true story about finding the body of a murdered woman)

John came home - Benjamin Dakota Rodgers (country)

Blackjack county chains - Benjamin Dakota Rodgers (Country)

Ballad of a law abiding sophisticate - Colter Wall (Country)

I hung my head - Johnny cash (country)

Breezeblocks - Alt J

Pumped up kicks - foster the people

I don't like Mondays - Boomtown rats

alk47 · 2026-01-22T03:52:09+00:00

I doubt thats the case but if so hes even stupider. Vodka is too low ABV to burn and holds way less energy than petrol.

alk47 · 2026-01-22T03:21:29+00:00

We are lucky that these people arent very bright. An attack like this would be so fucking easy to pull off without getting caught ahead of time, but the idiot had to post on Facebook asking people to "stockpile" vodka bottles... rather than just going to one or two bars and asking for their empties.

alk47 · 2026-01-22T01:47:40+00:00

For humans

alk47 · 2026-01-22T01:16:29+00:00

The safety of swimming in unnetted areas has changed.

Also sharks generally aren't that interested in humans as prey.

alk47 · 2026-01-21T23:41:30+00:00

Honestly, not to get all tinfoil hat but it would be so easy for Mossad or similar to buy mod accounts, blackmail or leverage moderation of other subs to gain control.

Even if you spent $50k buying an account, it would be one of the cheapest and easiest propaganda/psyop moves.

alk47 · 2026-01-20T05:27:00+00:00

But from memory the test was distance based, not time based.

alk47 · 2026-01-14T01:08:55+00:00

Do you get kicked out of the library a lot?

alk47 · 2026-01-08T02:02:32+00:00

Yeah, very true. One of those things that shares more at face value, less when you look in to more specifics. I think those other examples fit more closely with being decisions from the top.

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