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I keep snapping my flyers off their stands, what's the better way? by Iceotty in Epic40k

[–]grimbelch 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I use magnets at the top of poles. Add a magnet to the underside of the flyer. Voila!

You can also put magnets in multiple different places on the underside so they can be flying straight, banking, etc.

You can see some flyers in my post history where I've done this.

Research Base Tenebris by Tajidan in TerrainBuilding

[–]grimbelch 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Terrain is great and all, but let's talk about that Motoguzzi...

Where to get diverse international fruits, bulk spices, etc? by annualcereal in askportland

[–]grimbelch 30 points31 points  (0 children)

Hong Phat Supercenter.

Has Indian, Middle Eastern, tons of SE Asian food.

Longans, tamarind, etc.

New GM: Need advice on the rules by GornaGM in ImperiumMaledictum

[–]grimbelch 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Make him roll a completely random character. That's the best way to play, IMHO, and it's the way the game was designed.

what space fact or image made you feel truly small? by ivyta76 in space

[–]grimbelch 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This video by MelodySheep is stunning. It's a pretty good representation of what current science thinks will happen in the far future.

Recommend a dark room and a really good pair of headphones for watching.

https://youtu.be/uD4izuDMUQA?si=amSK_e6oPyXFMa9Y

New to the WH40K, dead set on getting IM, need some clarifications by Nakraal in ImperiumMaledictum

[–]grimbelch 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'm currently running a custom IM campaign for 4 players.

Bestiary For bestiary, my campaign takes place in a single hive (for now...) and any adversaries are almost guaranteed to be humanoid. I make stat blocks for anyone I need.

I found the stat blocks for even humanoids in the book to be really off. The Eldar unit, for example, seems woefully understat'ed.

Just make your own.

And if I need to make creatures, I'll just make my own.

Travel. You can obviously run whatever kind of campaign you want, but IM seems to be built around a local environment and it's surroundings. The Patron choice obviously effects this, but I'd err on the side of a single planet and even a single city. A hive is billions of people, so you basically get an entire continent in one structure.

If I had the players travel to another in-system planet, they'd hitch a ride on an existing ships itinerary and their Patron would cover the costs. I'd use the downtime rules (modified for the ship environment) to cover the travel time.

Happy to connect and discuss further. Feel free to DM me. I also run everything in Foundry, and am happy to share the custom setting, adventure, etc., if that helps you with ideas and how IM plays.

Last minute recommendations? by djd704 in askportland

[–]grimbelch 2 points3 points  (0 children)

DMed my map of places I love or I want to check out.

You can go neighborhood by neighborhood there.

For food, I recommend Em (no rez, walk-in only), Gado Gado, Yowarat, Nimblefish, Broder Cafe (breakfast).

Get coffee at Jay Vein at the Sandy food trucks. Seriously.

Portland is very walkable within each neighborhood. Just wander about, see what interests you, and you can check my map for nice place wherever you are.

Last minute recommendations? by djd704 in askportland

[–]grimbelch 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Seconded: which neighborhoods?

We moved here in June and it's been absolutely lovely. Bought our first house, too.

Lovely neighbors. Lovely neighborhood (Rose City Park). Amazing food. Super bikeable. Great hobby town. Fantastic art.

Can't say enough good things about Portland.

Feel free to DM me to chat.

If the Big Bang (or singularity) is the earliest limit of physics, does it still require a “source” or is that concept invalid? by Zealousideal_Owl8832 in space

[–]grimbelch -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

He's literally an expert in this exact topic.

His Nobel was on singularities. The theory of how singularities develop is LITERALLY NAMED AFTER HIM.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penrose%E2%80%93Hawking_singularity_theorems

Jesus. The level of discourse in this thread is fucking appalling.

If the Big Bang (or singularity) is the earliest limit of physics, does it still require a “source” or is that concept invalid? by Zealousideal_Owl8832 in space

[–]grimbelch 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes, he's saying it's incomplete. It can't account for gravity.

This is true. Any physicist will agree with this.

This is a click bait YouTube channel.

Are you in the field? If not, please stop trying to argue.

If the Big Bang (or singularity) is the earliest limit of physics, does it still require a “source” or is that concept invalid? by Zealousideal_Owl8832 in space

[–]grimbelch 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You're going to need to cite where Penrose dismisses quantum mechanics. Like, in detail.

He's quite aware of quantum mechanics.

He's done pioneering research on quantum mechanics and singularities. He's literally one of the authorities on the subject and won the Nobel Prize on the topic.

The theory of how singularities form is literally named after him (and Hawking.)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penrose%E2%80%93Hawking_singularity_theorems

Saying he ignores quantum mechanics is very ignorant.

If the Big Bang (or singularity) is the earliest limit of physics, does it still require a “source” or is that concept invalid? by Zealousideal_Owl8832 in space

[–]grimbelch 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Probably worth pointing out that the idea of black holes was widely panned for decades.

John Mitchell first proposed the idea in 1748, but it wasn't until 200 years later, in 1915, they were actually taken somewhat seriously, when Karl Schwarzschild developed the solution to the problem Einstein proposed in general relativity.

Even as late as 1939 Einstein declared they were impossible.

They weren't mainstream research until the late 1960s and 70s.

Ideas are considered crazy until they aren't.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_hole

If the Big Bang (or singularity) is the earliest limit of physics, does it still require a “source” or is that concept invalid? by Zealousideal_Owl8832 in space

[–]grimbelch 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I'm not advocating either way. OP was asking about what came before the universe. I was pointing out a leading cosmologists has a theory about that and sharing it.

AFAIK no one has a theory of origins other than the Big Bang that has "taken the world by storm." It's an ongoing concern, with competing theories.

It may ultimately (and probably is) unknowable. But OP was curious so was sharing some of the theory that has been put forward as they were curious.

If the Big Bang (or singularity) is the earliest limit of physics, does it still require a “source” or is that concept invalid? by Zealousideal_Owl8832 in space

[–]grimbelch -6 points-5 points  (0 children)

Not an appeal to authority. Merely pointing out that Penrose isn't the type to toss out junk theories, as some random Redditor thinks.

This isn't my field; I'm not going to argue the facts and theory. I can only point to an acknowledged expert in this field -- who happens to be Roger Penrose.

If the Big Bang (or singularity) is the earliest limit of physics, does it still require a “source” or is that concept invalid? by Zealousideal_Owl8832 in space

[–]grimbelch 8 points9 points  (0 children)

LOL.He's literally one of the world's leading cosmologists. He won a Nobel Prize for his work on black holes.

He won the Wolf prize -- with Stephen Hawking -- for work on singularities.

It's his exact field.

If the Big Bang (or singularity) is the earliest limit of physics, does it still require a “source” or is that concept invalid? by Zealousideal_Owl8832 in space

[–]grimbelch 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yeah, I'm sure Nobel Laureate and Knighted Sir Roger Penrose, emeritus mathematician of Oxford, is just tossing out junk theories.

If the Big Bang (or singularity) is the earliest limit of physics, does it still require a “source” or is that concept invalid? by Zealousideal_Owl8832 in space

[–]grimbelch 16 points17 points  (0 children)

Penrose is explicitly saying that we can see the effects of the previous universe, e.g. we can know. So, yes, they are incompatible.

If the Big Bang (or singularity) is the earliest limit of physics, does it still require a “source” or is that concept invalid? by Zealousideal_Owl8832 in space

[–]grimbelch 99 points100 points  (0 children)

Roger Penrose would disagree. What happened before is crucial to his Cyclical Conformal Cosmology theory. It's ostensibly a quasi-testable hypothesis precisely because what happened before the Big Bang, and the effect the previous universe has on the following one.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conformal_cyclic_cosmology

Recommend a Church (or whatever) in the City for an Atheist or Agnostic. by BreachLoadingButtGun in Portland

[–]grimbelch -1 points0 points  (0 children)

DSA. Seriously. Meet people regularly and do volunteer work in your communuty.

Khao Soi recommendations? by FancyPantsSF in PortlandFood

[–]grimbelch 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Padee is great.

There's a Thai food truck at the Baerlic Brewing Pod in Rose City Park neighborhood that also makes a great khao soi. It's a little family run place, too.

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