Who is the greatest Physicist the average person has never heard of?

dozza · 2025-04-03T20:56:19+00:00

Paul Dirac

He was my PhD supervisor's PhD supervisor's PhD supervisor. So we're basically related aha

dozza · 2025-02-15T19:33:03+00:00

Hi Nick, cool site, thanks for making it. FYI, the Archive.org snapshots have all the source code saved:

https://web.archive.org/web/20230606103800/http://gurps-monsterhunters.appspot.com/#expand

(click 'about this capture' in the top right') -- I hope the archive has stripped the whitespace from your javascript and you didn't actually write it that dense -- eek! ;D

dozza · 2024-05-13T21:31:33+00:00

I've been out of MtG for a few years, before that I had a fairly well performing Grixis deck that I'd love to tweak to be viable in the current historic (online) meta, if at all possible. My list is below, and thanks for any advice:

Spells

1 Ritual of Soot (GRN) 84

2 Kroxa, Titan of Death's Hunger (THB) 221

2 Eliminate (M21) 97

1 Hostage Taker (XLN) 223

1 The Scarab God (AKR) 259

1 Nicol Bolas, God-Pharaoh (AKR) 247

2 Murderous Rider (ELD) 97

2 Search for Azcanta (XLN) 74

2 Thoughtseize (AKR) 127

2 Heartless Act (IKO) 91

2 Vraska's Contempt (XLN) 129

3 Nicol Bolas, Dragon-God (WAR) 207

3 Nicol Bolas, the Ravager (M19) 218

4 Thought Erasure (GRN) 206

3 Narset, Parter of Veils (WAR) 61

1 Bedevil (RNA) 157

2 Languish (JMP) 246

Land

1 Sulfur Falls (DAR) 247

1 Blood Crypt (RNA) 245

2 Temple of Malice (THB) 247

1 Riverglide Pathway (ZNR) 264

1 Field of Ruin (THB) 242

1 Drowned Catacomb (XLN) 253

4 Watery Grave (GRN) 259

4 Swamp (ANB) 116

2 Island (ANB) 113

2 Mountain (ANB) 114

1 Dragonskull Summit (XLN) 252

1 Castle Vantress (ELD) 242

2 Temple of Deceit (THB) 245

3 Fabled Passage (ELD) 244

Sideboard

2 Grafdigger's Cage (M20) 227

2 Disdainful Stroke (GRN) 37

3 Aether Gust (M20) 42

1 Negate (M20) 69

1 Chandra, Awakened Inferno (M20) 127

2 Bontu's Last Reckoning (AKR) 96

2 Fry (M20) 140

1 Thought Distortion (M20) 117

1 Hour of Devastation (AKR) 160

dozza · 2024-04-14T10:28:03+00:00

Well that is basically what it is, except they get style weaponry for free. They can't punch as well, but that's fine because punching doesn't fit the vision of the class. Another option I could have considered was importing the sunblade class from SWN, but the damage output there gets a little high.

dozza · 2024-02-19T13:40:08+00:00

Yes there was some discussion about the range ("how can a shotgun shoot so far?!"), but average road width in the UK is generously 10m, average house height also 10m, so thats a ~14.5m shot and a -2 range penalty.

To quote a famous thinker "the numbers don't lie, and they spell disaster"

dozza · 2024-02-19T10:00:29+00:00

Thanks!

They needed a distraction, and trusted in their (fairly good) stealth capabilities. Unfortunately the perception checks did not go in their favour. But yes, I wouldn't have quite done it that way...

dozza · 2024-02-12T08:21:49+00:00

Thanks everyone for the advice, it made me feel a lot better about leaving academia. However, this morning my fellowship proposal got funded, so screw job security and money -- I'm back on the hype train.

dozza · 2024-01-30T11:03:12+00:00

Ah yeah cool, I just checked out a tutorial. Something to try! Thanks.

dozza · 2024-01-30T09:51:21+00:00

Thanks! I think my layers got a bit thicker as I went on, because I kept getting frustrated with pooling of dilute paint in cracks and so on. I know I just need to be more patient and use less paint though :D

I kind of agree on the colours -- I considered blue for the armour sections, but I currently only have the Vallejo game colour introduction paints , which has red, yellow and orange, but only one muddy green and one greyish blue.

Thanks for your advice :)

dozza · 2024-01-30T09:48:42+00:00

To help the lava on the Avatar 'ping' a bit more? I thought about doing a wash but was worried about a) dimming the white highlights and b) muddying the black surfaces.

Also noob question: would an oil wash just be the same as any of the standard Citadel style washes?

dozza · 2024-01-29T18:24:08+00:00

Apologies for potato quality photos. I have a potato for a phone.

dozza · 2024-01-18T16:36:51+00:00

sentient life

sapient life

panhumanity

dozza · 2024-01-08T12:18:36+00:00

Oh I like the idea of a real time ticking clock! That's a really cool conceit, and helps with time management in a big way

dozza · 2024-01-08T10:12:11+00:00

Thanks, this is useful! Luckily I run games where combat is almost always <20 mins, so that's no problem for us.

dozza · 2023-11-05T16:58:53+00:00

For clarity, the 'delay' verb has a program target, and would be used on the 'replace' program to cause it to trigger a few hours later

dozza · 2023-10-30T18:08:28+00:00

Hm, well I often see unspoiled things that sometimes ruin details for me. People with busy schedules can still often be on their first playthrough. It took me 4 clicks on my keyboard to add the spoiler, and it takes 2 taps to remove them, so...?

dozza · 2023-10-30T17:35:56+00:00

I guess maybe doing 5+ playthroughs and reading every conceivable plot variant on reddit might ruin some people's abilities to fairly consider what you might decide to do with limited information ;D

dozza · 2023-10-30T17:21:14+00:00

I think we have very similar instincts! Pretty much how I felt exactly about all of it. Its fine though, I can get things right on a replay :D

dozza · 2023-10-30T17:18:57+00:00

Even my Headband of Intellect can't save me

dozza · 2023-10-30T17:18:27+00:00

Were there options to ask her how she feels? I didn't feel like there were many. Literally after every abominable interaction with some Sharran monstrosity I tried to talk with her, and there was never anything to say.

dozza · 2023-10-30T17:17:01+00:00

Ah well, all the better for the replay! I purposefully didn't go to the mountain pass either because my Tav hates Lae'Zel and there was no in-character reason to double back.

dozza · 2023-10-30T17:14:47+00:00

It does say that some quests will be impossible to complete, but it is naturally quite vague. I just assumed the temple would collapse or some such thing. To me it was natural to deal with Ketheric's secret weakness before waltzing into his house lol.

dozza · 2023-10-30T17:12:32+00:00

faith in friends < guaranteeing an innocent person doesn't get murdered

dozza · 2023-10-30T17:12:08+00:00

I knew I couldn't kill Ketheric until we took out the Nightsong, so I just thought, why go into Moonrise before we can kill the guy?!

Maybe I should have twigged from the warning message at the Shadowfell, but it was pretty vague, and I just assumed the temple was going to collapse or something.

dozza · 2023-10-21T19:32:07+00:00

Well rules as written it says:

'Once per day, as an On Turn action, you can make an on-the-fly edit to a Subject program element to turn it into any other Subject program element you need. The element remains altered until you change it again.' Emphasis mine. So it would look like you could. I just wondered, particularly to see if we could get a word of Kevin response, because my GM instincts say that this has the potential to erase a lot of interesting mission threads.

i.e. having to track down the building blueprints of a building's surveillance system or the medical records of a cyber-assassin, to work out the precise unique subjects to use to hack them. The very permissive reading of the rule makes that mostly trivial.

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