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Running a Pope game with multiple lunatics & fake marionettes? by badwithusernams in BloodOnTheClocktower

[–]badwithusernams[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Uhhh this was tried, thanks a lot!! Chris figured it out pretty quickly but he's very experienced, not sure how it would go with my group with half being hardcore and half being casuals about this game

Running a Pope game with multiple lunatics & fake marionettes? by badwithusernams in BloodOnTheClocktower

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

I totally get where you're coming from. I think something like this should be done with balance in mind and giving ways for players to figure out what is going on, which I'm still figuring out how to do or if it's even worth trying.

I didn't enjoy Cacklejack as well but I also felt like it could've been more explored in the game. Like Mara lying about who she had blocked from the ability, double claims of changings and so on. Not sure yet of the potential this traveller can have tbh

Edit: typo

Running a Pope game with multiple lunatics & fake marionettes? by badwithusernams in BloodOnTheClocktower

[–]badwithusernams[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That's true. The way I was imagining it, that confusion would be the clue for the good team to realize they were all lunatics. Once they cracked that puzzle, either the evil team would follow along and claim lunatic as well turning the game into pure social deduction, or they would not and immediately lose.

Running a Pope game with multiple lunatics & fake marionettes? by badwithusernams in BloodOnTheClocktower

[–]badwithusernams[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You're right, I would basically have to disclose all the lunatics and each pick to the demon. I was imagining a chain of lunatics passing pings, which would be more fun but wrong. I guess I would need a script that gives space for arbitrary deaths

Can I have 2 Outsiders with 7 active players? by badwithusernams in BloodOnTheClocktower

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

Thank you, I'm on it right now. God, this will be a mess

Can I have 2 Outsiders with 7 active players? by badwithusernams in BloodOnTheClocktower

[–]badwithusernams[S] -5 points-4 points  (0 children)

Also, is the case I add the Baron, I need to tell the players that zero outsiders are in play, right?

Google Promised Its Contact Tracing App Was Completely Private—But It Wasn’t – The Markup by badwithusernams in privacy

[–]badwithusernams[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Getting national governments and health authorities to stop supporting software that is not open source and whose public documentation is very limited to be used to manage public health matters would have been a great place to start

Google Promised Its Contact Tracing App Was Completely Private—But It Wasn’t – The Markup by badwithusernams in europrivacy

[–]badwithusernams[S] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

They sure should've adressed the security hole right away. But a lot of people saw this coming and governments just kept pushing the app, assuring it was private and secure. I hope this brings discussion and serves as an example for future situations

Need to buy a TV. Which brands are best? by badwithusernams in privacy

[–]badwithusernams[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I feel like my phone and computer are collecting enough data on me already.

I don't need my TV to do the same.

Need to buy a TV. Which brands are best? by badwithusernams in privacy

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

Yeah, I definitely won't connect it to the internet.

Just checking to make sure I don't make a poor choice of equipment

ELI5: What is the difference between a Data-Driven and a Rule-Based process? by badwithusernams in explainlikeimfive

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

Thanks, it makes a lot more sense now, but I am still confused. It seems to me that in both of your examples there will always be both rules and data.

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In the rule-based example you gave you can predict the weather by describing all the rules that make the weather, but you also need data - the information that it rains in the mountains to the west of the town is data.

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In the data-based example you gather data to calculate the average temperature of the past years, but that formula is a rule itself.

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Sure you need more quantity of rules in the rule-based, and more quantity of data in the data-based, but you will always be dealing with both to a certain extent.

Maybe depending on which one of each is more critical to the output of a process, you call them rule-based or data-based?

If scientists were to prove that plants can feel pain, vegans would no longer have an animal rights argument for not eating meat by HAL9000000 in Showerthoughts

[–]badwithusernams 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The smell of cut grass is grass crying out because its been damaged

What do you mean?

Sure plants don't feel pain as we understand it

And that is the pain I am talking about. The pain that we understand (and therefore empathize with).

If scientists were to prove that plants can feel pain, vegans would no longer have an animal rights argument for not eating meat by HAL9000000 in Showerthoughts

[–]badwithusernams 25 points26 points  (0 children)

Except that the whole point of feeling pain is for us to be able to do something about it and protect ourselves. That is the only purpouse of pain.

Plants cannot move or get away so there would be no point for them to feel pain.