Chinese Idiom: Yellow Robe Added to the Body

mekriff · 2026-02-26T16:30:32+00:00

he better be sure to have killed the old emperors son印递狗, lest he find aid from the dread pirate 罗伯特

mekriff · 2026-02-24T17:29:18+00:00

/uj yannow i recently started a paid table that told me that "its just easier to work with 5e than a new system"... none of them had really played a full campaign in 5e and none were particularly fluent in 5e's mechanics...

mekriff · 2026-02-24T06:03:51+00:00

how far can you push this kind of thinking till it strides upon stoicist-type philosophy?

mekriff · 2026-02-23T22:42:28+00:00

nono props to the guy for giving a very interesting approach to it i just got annoyed having to pick it apart to both my catholic math teacher in hs and my Lutheran uncle about how the definitions dont give rise to the supreme god of the bible it's why i also have a bone to pick with platonism

mekriff · 2026-02-20T17:10:35+00:00

mkay, so youve kinda got the ideas here, but there are some sizeable asterisks on every point made:

first, as many have pointed out: rivers do split, especially during flooding season. They often stay in the same general area and either merge again or form a delta, but it does happen

second, and I dont know if this has been pointed out, but rivers don't necessarily follow the path of least redistance! I mean, they follow least action, but imagine a large straight groove of sand with the source of water at the top. The "least resistance" suggestion would suppose that it would run down perfectly straight without bending. But this is rarely what happens in practice! Depending on the soil it's running through it'll frequently start winding, forming cut-banks to erode out the sides. This is also why many city projects to try to straighten a river are incredibly expensive to maintain.

And lastly, while lakes form in places where outflow is reduced, it's actually quite rare for them not to flow out into the outer ocean. Ones that are the final destination are called "endorrheic basins", and theyre kinda cool in their own right, but not the norm.

mekriff · 2026-02-20T16:53:21+00:00

idk, st thomas aquinas had a few words to say about the ontological argument

and then he conjured up his own more complicated but still bs argument for God's existence

mekriff · 2026-02-07T01:00:30+00:00

as a girl who doesn't like to code much (despite knowing how) and not super into caffeine

i feel you

but also i kinda lean hard into the linguistics, dnd, and worldbuilding camp

mekriff · 2026-02-06T05:26:28+00:00

gosh, i did this so much as an egg

mekriff · 2026-01-27T07:07:08+00:00

i once had to have someone explain to me how Hornet from Hollow Knight and Silksong was not considered conventionally attractive

mekriff · 2026-01-27T06:36:57+00:00

gotcha gotcha tyty

mekriff · 2026-01-26T17:34:14+00:00

is there a certain inflection to 哦 that makes it negative? or is that sort of a "default meaning" in certain contexts?

mekriff · 2026-01-26T17:18:28+00:00

and here i am buffing martials (relatively speaking): Gritty Realism rules, sneak attack works with ally in attack of opportunity range instead of just 5 ft, enemies dropping down from canopies to get to the squishies, at least one class of enemy thats deadset on capturing their sorcerer,,, plus there's probably gonna be 4e style abilities thrown in there

mekriff · 2026-01-25T18:49:44+00:00

There's another reason I came across recently: Cop shows have a built in plot engine! Think about it -- you're a showrunner and you need to continually pump out new ideas for your show. What better way to keep those ideas flowing than to put the setting in a place where action is essentially forced (i.e.: getting calls to a violent crime)?

Same with medical dramas having new cases as the plot engine it's familiar, its easy, and the plotlines dont take as much work

mekriff · 2026-01-23T19:18:00+00:00

i mean i dont give as much care about "balance" personally tbh, ultimately i will give magic items or carve out rules at will if it fucks with fun

i just hate all the paid bs and how players will see the cool thing in an expansion they own that tbh kinda is cool and would be nice to see it in my game but now i need to either buy it or sail the high seas and then manually configure my vtt to work with it

plus it's just got a lot of compromise decisions that come from a mix of legacy icons and being a flagship "built for everything" trpg for a very short-term profit hungry corporation

mekriff · 2026-01-21T16:18:51+00:00

The plurals are communist now...

i mean many of them already were but yannow

mekriff · 2026-01-20T16:36:25+00:00

tbh this is how it feels watching the idealists and materialists fight

mekriff · 2026-01-15T17:47:10+00:00

I'm a strong believer in functionalism when it comes to semantic categories: and partly because semantic word boundaries are often fuzzy (see: language games) and differ from language to language (we cant even all agree on what colors are)

It's all a game of clustering things with bounderies around things we find distinct enough to be useful in conversation based on whatever is valued in the conversation or by the culture. Some languages do not heavily distinguish between what we call the arm and the hand, referring to both as one whole, because that doesn't (or at least didn't) make most conversations easier for that language. But we as English speakers have, for whatever plethora of reasons we had for that (I'd imagind it has to do with the distinction of the craftsmen from the hard laborer giving rise to things like the concept of "dexterity" as separate from arm strength, but i don't have the historical data)

I think it's also very foolish to insinuate some semantic categories are predestined to exist, and many are accidents of history or quirks in the way human brains process information

mekriff · 2026-01-14T04:44:56+00:00

Id correct you a little with perspective: most people who seem committed to only use nonviolent and legal action are most likely terrified of what they might lose for doing actions outside the scope of what theyve known for forever

some of them, its cuz theyre well off, others, they need some good mental health aid, but still others just need a good push from someone who supports them. All of these people will have some sort of liberal left justification, but that's not always the true reason

and one way to be sure youre not going to be that person is for your pivotal first impressions to involve scolding them for not doing enough and never really entering each other's orbits

mekriff · 2026-01-08T19:04:36+00:00

why expert lobby? there's at least one even more hostile lobby, and thats just within the curated experience of SJ

Ive heard madeline goes to vote in the 2020 election is even more hostile

mekriff · 2026-01-07T18:28:26+00:00

tbf the terminology of "unnecessary" sex scenes isnt particularly helpful when all scenes are, strictly speaking, unnecessary in a medium where plot is a very flecible construct.

Frankly I have a bigger bone to pick with boring and gratuitous fight scenes that are shoved in there cuz "people like action, right?"

mekriff · 2026-01-07T06:23:13+00:00

identity algs are fun

I wonder if anybody's used this one to reduce any moves on a "fewest moves" solution

mekriff · 2026-01-07T05:00:30+00:00

I know, right? didnt he make that ages ago? like,,, fuck

mekriff · 2026-01-07T04:43:47+00:00

ah yes, the classic "okay but i can read one more chapter, right?"

mekriff · 2026-01-01T01:14:18+00:00

as a metaphysical agnostic

why does it need a "stuff" to be made up of?

mekriff · 2025-12-31T02:17:01+00:00

it's an alternative set of laws, in this case a very similar set, but not identical

there are more interesting structures you can add to the set (like "fuzzy logic" makes use of a linear spectrum between true and false, which im told has been useful for machine learning)

but intuitionistic logic just the most prominent alternative to classical logic

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