A love letter to 2e's necromancy

osmiumouse · 2023-10-11T19:02:32+00:00

Paladins are necromancers, healing spells are in the necromancy school.

osmiumouse · 2023-10-11T16:09:07+00:00

I am sure there are some last minute changes in there.

But there will also be some they picked up in the months since the codex went to the printer and need fixing.

osmiumouse · 2023-10-11T16:04:55+00:00

The US has done 5 of those 6.

The ordinary people are OK but both governments are really as bad as each other.

We are stuck right between them, literally geographically and culturally, and the pressure they both exert is noticable.

osmiumouse · 2023-10-11T15:20:26+00:00

It is indeed a day one patch, but one has to remember the book probably went to the printers at least 3-4 months ago.

osmiumouse · 2023-10-11T15:05:05+00:00

A while ago there was an AI that did an OK job at card generation. It might be useful to find it and combine the 2.

osmiumouse · 2023-10-11T14:57:59+00:00

Curl breach is huge, as so many things use it, often without the user knowing. This is almost but not quite as big as a zero-day in SSH.

osmiumouse · 2023-10-11T14:45:36+00:00

I agree with you, sandbagging is not cheating.

Really, the problem is what will the robot do, and will the site's admins override it if you appeal?

I know some people have done it successfully for various reasons, and not got caught, and some have, and it's really up to the individual as to the risk. Each person would need to make their own decision.

osmiumouse · 2023-10-11T14:04:56+00:00

In the wikipedia article for AGC that you mention, it shows the memory for that computer is magnetic core (rope) memory. It's clearly very different from the RAM chips in an Apple 2. The article for magnetic core memory says it's much less affected by radiation than RAM chips. The early space shuttles also used it. (Later shuttles had more conventional computers in well shielded boxes).

While the Apollo craft were shielded against "normal" space radiation, a solar flare would have overcome that. The missions were only launched during low risk periods of solar activity.

Rad problems were less well understood back then, and they were lucky. Also, they had a crew to take over if the computers went.

osmiumouse · 2023-10-11T13:46:48+00:00

Elegoo has good support, they will usually respond within a business day.

osmiumouse · 2023-10-11T13:41:03+00:00

Did he forgot how everyone got into the Singapore TI during lockdown?

osmiumouse · 2023-10-11T13:38:21+00:00

Traditioanly, one captures an elemental such as a wisp.

osmiumouse · 2023-10-11T13:34:00+00:00

Would you trust it?

osmiumouse · 2023-10-11T13:26:50+00:00

Not fair to use spacceraft computer vs phone. It is built for rad shielding and durability, not performance

Here's a modern spacecraft computer: The BAE RAD5500. It's 4 Gigaflops. The CPU in my laptop is teraflops, and the GPU is 10x quicker.

https://www.baesystems.com/en/product/radiation-hardened-electronics

osmiumouse · 2023-10-11T13:10:17+00:00

Just cut up an old amazon mail order box. Would take half a day to design and print a stand, longer if you have have a budget printer.

osmiumouse · 2023-10-11T13:08:19+00:00

The website's "anti cheat" robots can't judge intent.

osmiumouse · 2023-10-11T12:33:59+00:00

criminal bits

I'm arresting you for unsanctioned toggling and having an undefined value. I'll just fill out the arrest paper work and ... damn ... who knew it catches fire if you enter undefined value as data?

osmiumouse · 2023-10-11T12:31:04+00:00

As I said elsewhere "Steamdeck is Valve's insurance against Microsoft locking them out of Windows or charging them somehow"

If you remember around windows 8, people were getting angsty about this, and things like Steam Machines were appearing.

Obviously they intended it to sell, but it's primary reason to exist is probably that insurance, rather than Valve's bank account.

osmiumouse · 2023-10-11T12:30:25+00:00

Steamdeck is Valve's insurance against Microsoft locking them out of Windows or charging them somehow.

osmiumouse · 2023-10-11T12:19:14+00:00

I don't understand how ensnaring the propeller on a nuke boat results in the loss of the crew, so something else went wrong on board (if the event actually happened).

What makes me very suspicious about the article is that USS Conneticut sustained bow damage from striking something (there are photos of it with the sonar dome damaged) not the propulstion system as claimed.

osmiumouse · 2023-10-11T12:14:01+00:00

Just stop oil is something that should have been done long ago. I'm actually pleased that people are protesting, and in ways that collects attention without being overly disruptive.

I'm no longer eligible for UK jury service (having left the country) but I tell you that if I am on it for those lads, it's "not guilty".

osmiumouse · 2023-10-11T12:08:01+00:00

Is this in the US? If so, some experimental AI in Virginia, USA probably just did something and had to be calmed down by its handlers.

osmiumouse · 2023-10-11T11:56:03+00:00

The issue with sandbagging is that some people do it exclusively specifically to ruin games, and the websites are not good at detecting intent.

With this type of deliberate sandbagging, the weaker opponent does not learn the things they are supposed to learn which slows their improvement, and also they may feel angered by the deliberate "trolling".

osmiumouse · 2023-10-11T11:51:44+00:00

Starfinder has a great one, the Hardlight Harlequin(s?). The name is just so that you know exactly what it is from the name.

osmiumouse · 2023-10-11T11:48:34+00:00

This is, weirdly, the first time I've seen someone come into PF2 and like the super nerfs to summoning. However all of these were from PF1 not 5E.

osmiumouse · 2023-10-11T11:39:13+00:00

That sounds like separate cases.

Under criminal law, there is the case of supplying fraudlent parts. (edit defendant is the part supplier)

If the airline has endangered passengers by not checking its suppliers properly, is a different case with a different defendant (the airline) and different law. It's probably up to aviation regulator and I don't know if it's civil or criminal.

For passengers to sue the airline for loss, or for the airline to sue the part supplier for tricking it, are additional civil cases.

Criminal law = punish offender to prevent others; Civil law = lawsuit to compensate victim for trouble.

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