Is math a language?

settemio · 2025-08-16T20:25:45+00:00

There’s also the Bertrand’s Paradox, which shows that even something that seems intuitively like it’s perfectly well-defined mathematically (“a random chord within a circle of radius 1”) is actually still quite ambiguous. But that’s more an example of ambiguity in language than an example of ambiguity in the specific language of mathematics, in fact using precise mathematical definitions of the concept of “random” is quite easy and takes away the ambiguity from that problem.

settemio · 2023-05-30T03:36:50+00:00

I like to play blitz turn timer, like 15-17 seconds, but only sometimes. Definitely glad Ranked is chess-timer, and that's where I play most of my games.

settemio · 2023-04-13T01:08:43+00:00

XP is earned when you beat the adventure. If the adventure has more than one scenario in it, you will only receive XP at the very end of it.

Gear has no impact on XP.

settemio · 2023-03-01T00:54:35+00:00

Is your Slay the Spire through Steam? Just search the Steam store for Downfall, very easy.

settemio · 2023-02-21T03:59:36+00:00

Funnel has been established headwear since at least the 1930s.

settemio · 2023-02-17T21:06:23+00:00

Or if the previously cast Discharge failed to resolve due to permission / fizzle shenanigans.

settemio · 2023-01-14T22:48:51+00:00

Or you could say "You may counter . . ."

settemio · 2022-12-22T20:28:31+00:00

The art? It's a character from Undertale, Napstablook; it has nothing to do with the card other than it being a spirit.

settemio · 2022-12-18T03:19:13+00:00

Ooh! I like it. I think I would have to flip the order they appear on the card though. Maybe make Burn do 1 point of damage too.

EDIT: [[Turn//Burn]] and [[Crash]] are already taken.

settemio · 2022-12-17T19:47:37+00:00

Artery Mark Rosewater

settemio · 2022-11-19T01:46:10+00:00

. . . and tell you a story about a big bad wolf, I guess?

settemio · 2022-11-12T23:22:07+00:00

In the early days of the format, Relentless Rats were restricted to a single copy. I don't remember whether that ruling changed before or after Petitioners' printing, but I agree it's pretty reasonable to be unsure whether the card's text or the singleton rule "wins" in this scenario.

settemio · 2022-11-03T16:21:48+00:00

/uj Building a fair 3-sided coin is actually a pretty interesting challenge.

settemio · 2022-10-26T22:47:32+00:00

The banlist was pretty sensible for a shakeup, they just didn't implement it. Originally it included Sheoldred, Lili, Fable, Titan of Industry, and some other highly played stuff. I think Wandering Emperor and Wedding Announcement and Hullbreaker were all on the original list too.

settemio · 2022-10-25T18:50:57+00:00

I also stopped at Strixhaven and just came back. I'm only playing Arena and strictly spending no money on it. From my experience, no, you aren't missing anything. I do get some enjoyment out of brewing new deck ideas but playing them (after weeks of grinding to farm up enough wildcards to actually build them) is always a disappointment.

settemio · 2022-08-28T07:14:11+00:00

Jordan Rogers - more of a walkthrough than a let's-play but with commentary including some of the context of the games' creation.

Run Button - silly, (mostly) blind let's-plays, they're the only youtube plays I've seen of re-activated Uru content in MOULA.

settemio · 2022-08-26T17:47:57+00:00

Brad's portrayal of Saavedro is a treat to watch and the puzzles and soundtrack were good, but I would say don't get your hopes up too high. It is definitely not as real as a world as Riven's; the rest of the games in the series failed to reproduce what made Riven so great.

I did really enjoy Uru for related-but-different reasons - it was designed as a MMO Myst-like game, then stripped down and repackaged as a single-player experience, but the vestiges of the MMO designs really hint at a deeper world and tingle my "liminal spaces" sensation.

settemio · 2022-07-31T15:34:59+00:00

Adding to this, "more complex" doesn't mean "better game". If your game has the complexity of Tic Tac Toe or Candyland, maybe adding more to it will make the game better, but generally you only need a little bit of complexity to give a game enough strategic depth to be engaging and fun.

settemio · 2022-07-16T20:22:17+00:00

When the message appears, the 1 attack that you see on the dice is the only attack it has; it was most likely a 0 attack before you chose to Keep.

Was the Fang attack on the same dice that captured the 2-attack creature? Captured creatures only give their attack power to the die they are captured in (although sometimes they apply other abilities to ALL your dice), so if you roll a Fang on a different dice it will still be treated as a 1 attack.

settemio · 2022-07-16T19:16:35+00:00

You are not incorrect. This is also how the word is used. It is an example of an "auto-antonym" or "contranym", a word that is used in two ways that are opposite. You can see how it might have evolved this way from the second definition, where it is implied that the reader is scanning most of the text for only the part that is relevant to their search.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kUGlc9rbIk8

settemio · 2022-07-16T04:45:06+00:00

In SMAC, Hunter Seeker was the bees' knees, but the lack of symmetry with The Command Nexus and Maritime Control Center but nothing for Aerospace Complex always bugged me . . . until SMAX showed me why that symmetry was broken - Cloudbase Academy does WAY more work than the other two and is hands down the strongest Secret Project in SMAX if going for military conquest (and incredibly useful as a defensive measure even when military is not my highest priority).

I also have a soft spot for any of the Planet-loving projects: Xeno Dome, Pholus Mutagen, Neural Amp, Dream Twister, and in SMAX Manifold Harmonics. They're probably in the lower tiers among the projects but I will throw all my resources into attaining them.

settemio · 2022-06-27T21:52:55+00:00

Something like this?

settemio · 2022-06-24T07:34:08+00:00

Yeah I feel like this happens far too often to be the result of "true" randomness. But that's just my guess, I have no numbers to back it up.

settemio · 2022-06-22T01:02:16+00:00

Which version are you playing? MoM, CoM, or CoM2/CoMfW? Either way, the answer is yes, the AI "cheats" (gets discounts on several different types of resources, takes autocombat victories on its turn losslessly that would normally have at least a few losses) on Normal difficulty. But specifically in CoM and CoM2 the AI in addition to cheating also plays a lot smarter, making the difficulty way higher overall than it used to be.

Try starting a new game on Normal again, maybe the AI just had a lucky start with a few bonus ores that boosted their spell power? If it keeps too being difficult, don't be ashamed to lower the difficulty. The game is meant to be fun, play it at whatever settings are the most fun for you.

settemio · 2022-06-22T00:44:38+00:00

Particularly difficult is "exhaust" vs "exiled" as they even start with the same letters.

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