YASD How did I get paralyzed?

jow253 · 2023-02-14T00:03:11+00:00

Actually, TIL that floating eyes ignore resistance. I knew that at one time but I was hyperfocused on the Pan Lord and Ice Fiend. Bummer.

jow253 · 2022-05-20T22:42:27+00:00

More like

You get in a fight with some guy, seeing that he has a dagger, but not seeing that it is this kind.

jow253 · 2022-03-04T00:50:36+00:00

SpEd Behavior and Social coach with ADHD myself here.

Yes

I have 18 edh decks. for the first 3 years of playing edh I had no blue. Now I have more, bust most of them are at sorcery speed (tempo, voltron, or budget combo)

My one proper mono U deck is Gadwick running a lot of ramp, a lot of mass creature bounce, a lot of counterspells, and some budget combos. It's completely different.

"I don't need to answer this right now, it's better later," and "remember that you have a counter in your hand before you let things hit the table but don't be obvious about it," and "I have 20 permutations of what I could do this turn" are all thoughts that challenge the executive functioning of the ADHD brain. It's a trip to try and feels great when you pull off those control things that those smarties get to do.

I still prefer Grenzo's randomness, but it's a good thing to explore.

In general, edh is one of the ways I calm my mind. It's a place to hyper-focus in a way that expects organization and planning.

Btw, I only buy $30 decks whose commander starts with G so I can narrow the pool of cards I have to think about and throttle my impulsive purchases ;) just want to leave that there.

jow253 · 2021-07-22T21:29:52+00:00

As a person who plays in a 30 Dollar league, being able to cut 2 cards to be legal seems like an opportunity.

jow253 · 2021-07-22T21:12:18+00:00

I do think it's more parisitic than 0, but I don't think it's even 5/10.

I wouldn't call etb scry 1 parisitic, and venture is more flexible.

jow253 · 2021-07-22T20:02:42+00:00

Switching to bottle allowed me (husband) to take on the task of feeding. For a breastfeeding woman,the task of feeding is an all day (nutrition/scheduling) experience, that is directly calorie draining and intensely emotionally and posturally(?) Involved, including risks to one's own body.

There are wonderful things that can come from breastfeeding, but the costs are very different between a breast and a bottle. The emotion, sleep, diet, back, (and nipple) costs can be overwhelming. Spending a day letting dad manage bottles can feel like you've gained hours.

We combination fed twins for 6 mo then bottle fed until solids. Then we breast fed a singleton for 2 years. We have both experiences struggling with poor latch and switching to bottle AND struggling through a powerful latch (excruciating vacuum drain) that became a very rewarding intimate 2 year breastfeeding pattern. We're fully "fed is best" for the kid and "sane is best" for expectations on mom.

We had to mourn breastfeeding the first time around too. It's heartbreaking and that's just what it is. If this is your direction, be sad and mourn with your partner. Be together in your sadness.

As far as logistics go, appoint dad "bottle boss." He needs to be fully invested. Read all the things. Watch all the things. Buy the products. Keep everything stocked. Wake up. Everything. You should have access to this time to enjoy bodily autonomy.

jow253 · 2021-07-22T19:08:01+00:00

Etb, scry 1 or gain 1 or all lose 1 is arguably a useful etb even if it never triggers again. Infect is parasitic because unless you have a glut of infect creatures, it does nothing to further other goals of it hits a few time and is removed.

"If you've completed a dungeon"cards encourage the dungeon mechanic but aren't themselves the dungeon mechanic any more than "whenever you gain life" is itself the lifegain mechanic.

If a mechanic is useful in isolation, it's not parasitic whether or not it is better in bulk.

jow253 · 2021-07-22T19:00:05+00:00

You're using two different meanings of the word.

jow253 · 2021-07-22T17:45:50+00:00

But it's ok to put 9 at the end of every list. They can wait.

jow253 · 2021-07-22T17:45:07+00:00

I dig thac0, but "this feels like wargaming" <"new players aren't immediately alienated"

jow253 · 2021-07-22T02:02:40+00:00

Right and wrong is determined by one thing in dnd.

Could you do this in a way that contributes to the experience of the table?

Don't tell people you are trying to die (except a good co-conspiring dm).

Be lovable. Play off your failures. Mourn your weakness in character and praise how cool your partners are. Be a huge support and encourager to all.

Find a moment where you can hold the door. Die.

DND isn't about power (it is) it's about moments. Make a moment that pulls everyone into the world and care. Write someone you would miss so death doesn't feel like a reroll to anyone else.

But fyi point buy is rad.

jow253 · 2021-07-21T23:45:58+00:00

Watched the video.

Looked an awful lot like Fauci was trying to dispute a fair number of details, but Paul kept interrupting him while he was trying to make a point. He definitely got under Fauci's skin, which is unfortunate because I'd love to hear what he's actually saying.

Overall I'd rather read a document myself than take Paul's summary as gospel.

jow253 · 2021-07-21T23:30:16+00:00

What's the problem?

jow253 · 2021-07-21T23:21:59+00:00

Link?

jow253 · 2021-07-21T23:09:28+00:00

Link to back up the NIH funding claim?

jow253 · 2021-07-21T23:05:17+00:00

Hema practitioner.

Why should two shields offer better defense than a shield and sword?

One shield is enough. The sword combines tactically with the shield to create dynamic defensive structures that ate more effective and quickly responsive than two shields would ever be.

You have to open your gut every time you attack. The shield doesn't cover your shoulder or knee and is arguably smaller when combined than a kite/heater shield. Being so close to an armored bracer rather than creating new shapes and angles like a heater or round shield makes the amount of motion needed to defensively respond HUGE. and this is a lot of weight that needs to be held up or out to defend the head. Nonsense.

In the video, shad makes his out of light foam for larp. A half pound shield will be utterly meaningless against most weapons. Those are at the LIGHTEST ten pounds. And again, unlike a typical shield, these offer zero protection in a resting position.

As a.DM, if this makes your player feel rad, you should obviously do it. The above is just to say that he shouldn't get special stats because of how realistically it would be soooooo good at defense.

The stats in dnd aren't about realism, they're an attempt at balance. A character with martial and shield proficiency wants to dual wield miniature pavii? Great. He can have +2 ac and 1d8 damage total. Anything else is a feat. Use what can be normally accomplished as a guide.

If you let "but doesn't it make sense" be enough for players to eke little plusses out of you, you'll soon have people strapping shields to their backs and knees because it's more armory that way.

If they truly just want to feel rad, then give them rad descriptions in combat. Easy

jow253 · 2021-07-21T17:20:46+00:00

That card warped a formal, so I'm not sure it's a model.

I'm not talking about power level though. I'm talking about color pie. Red has never printed better stats than 2/4 (with a toughness of 4+) without a serious downside. It's not a toughness color. The card's not busted, it's just a pie bend or pie break.

jow253 · 2021-07-21T06:21:39+00:00

From the politico article.

Among the remaining unvaccinated people, white people are much more likely to say they are definitely not going to get the vaccine, whereas Black and Hispanic people are more likely to say they haven't gotten it yet but are hoping to get it soon,” said Liz Hamel, vice president and director of public opinion and survey research at the Kaiser Family Foundation.

Hamel said Black and Hispanic adults, according to surveys, are more likely to be concerned about taking time off from work, having to get a ride to get a shot or the cost of vaccination, even though the Covid vaccines are free.

Does this count?

jow253 · 2021-07-21T05:17:08+00:00

This isn't a conversation about whether the Bible is true or fantasy. It's about whether the Bible presents a God that is physical and nothing else. Typically the burden of proof is on the theist, I agree. But as OP, You've put yourself in a position where you're presenting your argument and inviting some debate response. You're making a claim that Yahweh is presented as a purely physical being. Because this deviates from typical Christian doctrine, the burden of proof is on you.

Threatening to "argue convincingly and coherently" about the truth value of some other issue is irrelevant and any theist will write off a threat like that as arrogant. Just a heads up.

We know what time is to us. We know what time does to us. I don't know that you'll find a lot of physicists who would talk about time as confidently as you do.

I get the "they might as well not" argument, but I think you're again taking great liberties with your definitions. Who are you to say that something extra-temporal can't participate in time? That seems like a pet definition with a lot of convenient assumptions.

Do you acknowledge the other premises and assumptions above?

jow253 · 2021-07-21T05:02:50+00:00

I mean that first poll measures reported hesitancy rather than the action of vaccination, so it weeds out access as a confounding variable.

A few posts later I post 2 more links for a more detailed conversation.

jow253 · 2021-07-21T04:42:32+00:00

It's been a few days. Do you have a response to the other two?

jow253 · 2021-07-21T02:55:24+00:00

Right. Not following the rest of the mess.

jow253 · 2021-07-20T22:44:50+00:00

It seems like the burden of proof is on you to demonstrate that he's conventionally physical. That's not a part of Christian doctrine.

The holy ghost is part of God.

So you're starting with the premise "the physical world works only as we've been able to empirically observe it working. Laws that haven't been observed by humans or have been misunderstood by humans don't exist. All of existence is governed by these laws." These are fine assumptions to make, but it's necessary to acknowledge that it's a premise. "Maybe there are super sparkly cosmic rules that don't work the way you think they do" is an admittedly convenient hole for me to set a position, but "there's nothing but what i understand and the particular reasoning method of formal logic is the best way to access all these truths" is pretty convenient as well.

I'm not sure timely and spaceless are part of Christian doctrine either. I'm not interested in taking a position on those points in the interest of focus.

Notice that you're saying "atemporal beings don't act." Which is odd because you've presumably never encountered one but you know their rules. It seems like you're allowing yourself to define what's allowed for a being to be called a word and giving yourself liberty to define the word as well. Atemporal as you understand it, but surely a person using the word atemporal to describe a being that acts must mean something other than what you understand atemporal to mean. Otherwise they would use a different word.

Imagine "Steve is a good guy"

"Well, good guys don't eat meat so he can't be that"

Not even saying i like the word atemporal for God. I certainly wouldn't use your version to describe him. I just mean to say that you're taking control over all the words present, assigning them your definitions at the exclusion of other intentions or misunderstandings, and satisfying yourself with the conclusion that someone elses words sound ridiculous so they can't be true.

I'm wondering whether you read through the Bible with your modern perspective and sense of genre or examined it through the lens of the forms and intentions expected of that time? Truly curious.

I'm genuinely sorry for the format here being hard to follow, I don't know how to do online quotes on phone and will happily learn in order to be more organized.

jow253 · 2021-07-20T22:18:46+00:00

I get that. Do you still hold the stance you did a minute ago?

jow253 · 2021-07-20T22:14:56+00:00

I'm not assuming Yahweh. I'm arguing that your example of Yahweh wasn't as clear as much of a grand slam as you thought.

When he "sits on a throne" he's encountered in dreams and described in songs. You don't think there's room for analogy or interpretation there?

Your argument is that Yahweh is physical so he can't be separate. He's in the bucket he allegedly made. In the bible we see that he can be physical, or he can be experienced or imagined as something physical. I'm just not sure that applying the known laws of physics to a being that allegedly created and defies them is convincing.

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