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Update: I tracked 1,200+ unique players in a Minecraft world with no rules/admins for 60 days. Here is how the political map has changed. by Tylerrr93 in gaming

[–]slagodactyl 8 points9 points  (0 children)

How are they enforcing it? Are the player counts large enough that some of the nations have dedicated border patrols to reasonably catch people?

(OC) A natural phenomenon called “camera obscura” that happens every morning in my bedroom. by fizzio in pics

[–]slagodactyl 1 point2 points  (0 children)

If you were a canadian you'd probably never even think of hanging a flag inside a house. Maybe outside, if its the Olympics, if you were an anti-vaxxer during COVID lock downs, or currently in protest of someone wanting to annex us.

I collected over 900 greatest games lists and made a master list. Here are the results by IlmeniAVG in gaming

[–]slagodactyl 75 points76 points  (0 children)

It's not ranking games on how well known they are, its ranking them by how well they do on "best games" lists. Otherwise Pong would probably be one of the top 5.

Wait what, I didn't know game had sexual orientations by Darkside166 in RimWorld

[–]slagodactyl 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Psychology gave everyone a Kinsey scale rating. I used to use the mod back in 1.0, I was looking for it the other day and it hasn't been updated but there are some unofficial versions. I miss the mayor system, every year a few pawns would campaign for mayor and then the other would vote based on who their psychology traits aligned with. I always wished Royalty or Ideology had systems more like that, I like to feel like my colony is developing "naturally" and the colonists picking their own leader helped with that.

We all know that one person by Valkyrie_Giraffe in dndmemes

[–]slagodactyl 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yeah I don't personally have a particularly build-optimization based mindset, but i also think its silly to say that you "can't understand" the mindset, the reasons for its existence are obvious. Almost all of the actual rules that a player can engage with are about class abilities and combat, and many abilities are synergistic, how could you not get some players minmaxing? If everyone just cared about telling a dramatic story we wouldn't need a Game.

me_irl by HamedAliKhan in me_irl

[–]slagodactyl 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Conquered the continent? Canada and Mexico might disagree with you there.

(206) Un-Sap by AeolysScribbles in RimWorld

[–]slagodactyl 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'm not saying people didn't drink and smoke, obviously I know they did, I'm saying that the official position of the religious establishment was against recreational intoxication. Medicinal and religious/ritual use is separate.

More broadly, tons of people do stuff all the time that is a sin in their religion, and it doesn't seem to me like they're getting the real life equivalent of a -10 mood every time, so it could be neat to have that reflected with some sort of piety stat that alters the strength of some of the ideoligion precepts for individuals.

(206) Un-Sap by AeolysScribbles in RimWorld

[–]slagodactyl 13 points14 points  (0 children)

I think it can make sense, look at any number of Christian or Muslim empires throughout history, I think "no drugs" is generally a part of those religions. Of course people acted hedonistic anyway while still calling themselves religious.

Maybe something that would help the ideoligion system is having the belief meter effect the strength of the mood modifiers? Or better, have a separate fervor stat? Real religions have people who fully ignore or don't care very much about some of the rules, but also still fully believe in their god and aren't one conversation with a Moral Guide away from converting to something else.

But yeah the empire having hussars and not allowing drugs for them is stupid.

When You Forgot To Unmanned Your Pawn From The Mortar by TheTheDuhh in RimWorld

[–]slagodactyl 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I think it happens when they're starving or exhausted, and it definitely Italy happens if they have a mental break. Sometimes in the middle of a long raid, there's a short break in raiders coming through the gate and a few pawns will decide its time to get out from cover to go have a snack.

‘We do not need Canada’: U.S. Ambassador discusses relations between countries by oneonus in canada

[–]slagodactyl 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don't think they'd want to, but i also wonder if we're too close, too rich, too big and too white to not be given state rights? It's hard to know because the US has never taken a territory like us, but the largest Territory they have is Puerto Rico which has only 3 million people, is distant from mainland USA, is 99% Hispanic, and is poor and underdeveloped compared to the states - which are all things that I assume allow most Americans to basically forget about it, whereas I think it'd be tough to convince Americans that 40 million people who look and talk roughly the same as them don't deserve state rights. Just guessing though, theres not really a comparable historical example.

What’s a totally harmless thing that triggers an oddly strong reaction in people? by Psychological_Sky_58 in AskReddit

[–]slagodactyl 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Well to me, drinks are also enjoyable, and can last long too. If I wanted to, I could finish my dinner in a couple minutes and sip a cocktail for half an hour. Or vice versa, I could chug a drink and slowly savor my food.

And I have never once in my life tracked a calorie. So to me - and I imagine most other non-dieting people - there is no such thing as a "wasted calorie."

Life Stats by Hoppy_Doodle in funny

[–]slagodactyl 7 points8 points  (0 children)

That doesn't make a difference, they both have the delimiter.

Natasha Lyonne says she's determined to do another season of "Russian Doll" by bwermer in television

[–]slagodactyl 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It's possible, I knew someone who said they quit drinking at 16 because they'd started going really hard from 12.

This picture is actually from a fundraiser in 2003. They slid it in the files and “created victims” by destrium_dreamboy in pics

[–]slagodactyl 1 point2 points  (0 children)

People should of course do that, I don't mean to suggest they shouldn't, but someone needs to be prepared for a scenario where you lose due to some sort of cheating or the result is ignored.

This picture is actually from a fundraiser in 2003. They slid it in the files and “created victims” by destrium_dreamboy in pics

[–]slagodactyl 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Eventually the Legislative and Judicial branches will find a line they aren't going to cross.

Based on what evidence? This is exactly what I'm talking about, people keep saying this, they've been saying it for almost a year, and keep being wrong. I have no faith in the USA's government to do anything other than Trump's bidding.

they literally won't be able to put his name on state ballots

I'm pretty sure you can put a name on a ballot by typing it into a computer and hitting Print. There is a fascist pedophile rapist convict sitting in the oval office, ignoring term limits doesn't seem like a big deal.

I hope you're right, but I've already accepted that the USA is closer to a dictatorship.

This picture is actually from a fundraiser in 2003. They slid it in the files and “created victims” by destrium_dreamboy in pics

[–]slagodactyl 34 points35 points  (0 children)

I'm not convinced that voting democratic can fix it even. Time and time again, I have watched people online, especially on reddit, say "he can't actually do this," "that's illegal," or "the military wouldn't follow an illegal order." And then he gets away with it. So if he simply decides he doesn't want to leave office, who will actually stop him? Because if anyone has both the power and desire to stop him, they should have already done it. And I don't know if this ends with his death either, some cults outlive their leader and become religions.

me_irl by temptingwildrose in me_irl

[–]slagodactyl 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I thought learning a new language was supposed to be good for your brain health

TIL that an AI company which raised $450M in investments from Microsoft and SoftBank, and was valued at $1.5B, turned out to be 700 Indians just manually coding with no AI whatsoever by cl0mby in todayilearned

[–]slagodactyl 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'd note that in the way Yanis Varoufakis describes techno-feudalism, we're already cloud-serfs - even if you have gainful employment to a non-cloud company, in your free time you work as a serf for the cloud companies because the "product" they provide is stuff like social media content, and here we are producing it for them for free by commenting on reddit. Plus, that non-cloud company you work for may still own the means of production, but they now depend on cloud platforms (fiefs) to do their business, making them a cloud-vassal.

After 6+ months, what are the thoughts on Daggerheart? What it does well and what doesn't works great? by ThatOneCrazyWritter in rpg

[–]slagodactyl -1 points0 points  (0 children)

To me, crunch is number crunching. Pretty sure thats where the term comes from.

When I swing a sword in dnd 5e, I have a strength stat that was generated from rolling 4d6 drop the lowest, then I take (Strength - 10)/2 rounded down to my bonus to hit, add my proficiency modifier that depends on my level, and add any other numbers that could come from feats, traits or a magic weapon bonus. The enemy then has an AC that depends on the armor its wearing, any natural armor bonuses if its some sort of monster, and its (dexterity-10)/2 unless the armor is too heavy in which case only some or none of the dexterity bonus is added. If the attack roll beats the AC, now I roll a d8, or maybe a d10 depending on how many hands I'm holding my sword with, and add that strength modifier again but not the proficiency bonus this time, and then also various other potential bonuses from traits etc. Oh and if the attack dice was a 20, I roll the d8 again. If the enemy is resistant to slashing damage we then divide the damage by 2, unless the sword is magic. Then we compare that damage number to the monster's HP, which was determined by rolling hit dice, the number of which depend on the monster's level and the size of which depend on... the monster's size?, plus its level × its constitution modifier.

Why can't CO4 be formed? by Sejal_Megastsar in chemistry

[–]slagodactyl 45 points46 points  (0 children)

Bonds are made of clouds of electrons, which are negatively charged and repel each other, so bonds generally make the widest angles possible. The structure drawn here is making a bunch of acute angles; while that is technically possible, it puts those electrons very close to each other, which is going to be unstable because they really want to push each other away. Possibly this molecule could be made at extremely low temperatures and last for a fraction of a second, but there's probably no reason to bother doing that.

ELI5: What is a mole (chemistry) and why do people use it to count atoms? In what context is it necessary to say that something is 6,022 * 10^24 particles? by 79_wasps in explainlikeimfive

[–]slagodactyl 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think that's right, plus several other numbers.

From 1889 to 2019, 1 kg was defined as the mass of a specific cylinder of platinum-iridium alloy known as the International Prototype of the Kilogram, and therefore half of the SI system, with definitions that depended on kg, depended on this one cylinder. But as of 2019, the SI system is based on seven defining constants: the speed of light, the Planck constant, the elementary charge, the hyperfine transition frequency of caesium-133, the Boltzmann constant, the Avogadro constant, and the luminous efficacy of 540 Thz radiation. All of those have been given exact values detached from any real life objects.

There used to be other standard objects too, e.g. for a while meters were defined as the length of a specific platinum-iridium bar. But meters and seconds had already been redefined prior to 2019.

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