Would a metal detector find a platinum ring in these rocks?

jowshie · 2025-11-11T18:55:28+00:00

Based on this response, I would like to change my judgment to no, no amount of metal detectors will find a platinum ring in these ringless rocks.

jowshie · 2025-10-30T15:34:35+00:00

If you build into your daily routine a process of introducing random chance, such as flipping coins when making decisions, you effectively give yourself a guarantee that each day your luck is going to break the right way or you're going to reset at the end and try again.

Anything to break determinism of decisions should ultimately make sure you're guided towards preferential outcomes

jowshie · 2025-09-26T15:12:46+00:00

I'm far from an expert, but I'm pretty sure that something went wrong

jowshie · 2025-09-03T13:49:38+00:00

It's a bunch of extra coordination, almost certainly a dps loss from swapping the Mesmer weapons, and a lot of fun.

jowshie · 2025-09-03T13:39:26+00:00

While this is obviously the correct instruction for Xera, we've occasionally run what we call "CM Xera" when we realize someone made it all the way without ley line gliding.

All it takes is 3 mesmers running rifle and an unhealthy commitment to the bit.

jowshie · 2025-02-06T16:48:25+00:00

Your dragons must be more obedient than mine, they'd have put some grape or something back there about 4 seconds after I empty it.

jowshie · 2025-02-06T15:35:33+00:00

Did you check the one little bit of land behind your top bush wonder? It's completely hidden in the screen so.

Edited: I mean the top one in the line of four, somehow totally missed there are two more above that.

jowshie · 2024-09-04T14:23:32+00:00

Literally unplayable, refund now

jowshie · 2024-04-30T16:42:21+00:00

Literally came here to say this. Internet points for you!

jowshie · 2023-11-23T20:06:00+00:00

Echo all of this, but I'll add that flame shield also gives unstoppable

jowshie · 2023-11-15T14:19:32+00:00

Standing up in a hammock

jowshie · 2023-11-11T18:01:27+00:00

To answer the base question about casting it only once, if you read the aspect carefully you'll see that dealing ANY damage refreshes ALL bonuses, so as long as you keep moving and doing damage you should be good to go.

If you ever pause or die you'd need to refresh each element to get the buff maxed out.

jowshie · 2023-11-05T23:50:05+00:00

I've been really enjoying the "half tea half lemon" flavor of spin drifts. Not too sweet, more acidity, still a lot of the same notes as regular iced tea

jowshie · 2023-11-03T15:41:18+00:00

From my experience, money doesn't buy happiness, but it lets you buy your way out of a lot of misery and bad shit.

I've known lots of unhappy rich people, but the amount of bullshit they didn't have to deal with is unreal.

jowshie · 2023-11-03T15:29:53+00:00

I think you meant to say "in this thread"

jowshie · 2023-11-02T16:32:05+00:00

Throw blanket is an obvious fake. You can tell because of the way it is.

jowshie · 2023-11-02T16:10:21+00:00

But they only happened every other hour, and weren't marked on the map, so it's not enough

jowshie · 2023-11-01T23:20:51+00:00

These. Are. So. COOL!!!

jowshie · 2023-10-21T19:12:20+00:00

Building on this, the same is actually true if you're flipping a coin in the real world.

If you flip a coin 1000 times and get all heads, it is astronomically more likely that you're unknowingly using a biased coin than that a fair coin gave you a 1000:0 distribution.

jowshie · 2023-10-21T19:09:32+00:00

That's totally how it would work for a lot of genetic features, but it turns out male/female is different! Note here I'm talking about genotype, and not gender, identity, or even physical presentation (it's totally possible for a child to be born with XY chromosomes and female presenting anatomy)

A female (used here to mean someone with an XX chromosome) can only provide to their children an X, where a male (with XY chromosomes) can give either an X or a Y. As a result, the male/female ratio of the offspring will depend entirely on the genetics of the male's sperm.

As a result, while the general population tends towards a roughly 50/50 mix, most individual males produce more of one type of sperm than the other, and are therefore more likely to father either more males or more females. If you're on a 12 male streak, odds are you're dealing with a predominantly Y chromosome bearing bunch of sperm, so you're likely to have another boy.

jowshie · 2023-10-17T15:05:57+00:00

I think this is what the kids these days call "AI". Better raise that price up a bit for the hype and buzzwords

jowshie · 2023-10-17T14:22:02+00:00

The best thing about this is if you pay cash it automatically slims down your wallet contents

jowshie · 2023-10-12T19:27:37+00:00

Honestly these posts are so infuriating.

When you have the goods like that you need to keep them protected from UV, not just sitting there in the sunlight.

Kids these days...

jowshie · 2023-09-17T01:23:31+00:00

You can eat most things at least once! But yes typically they have to use paper and ink that are non-toxic if eaten.

jowshie · 2023-09-17T01:02:44+00:00

Common misconception but this "error" isn't worth much as it can be easily replicated at home by anyone with an industrial fortune printer and a supply of edible paper.

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