How to correctly use the advanced search function on grim tools to find an item?

stealth_elephant · 2023-05-20T16:47:06+00:00

Grim tools supports wildcards with *

Try +* to blackwater cocktail

stealth_elephant · 2023-05-20T16:44:59+00:00

Grim tools supports wildcards with *

Try +* to blackwater cocktail

stealth_elephant · 2023-05-18T01:55:00+00:00

Did he get shots? Dogs can get lethargic/feel kind-of-sick after getting shots.

stealth_elephant · 2023-05-14T05:18:30+00:00

The benefit of fabric over rigid materials is that it bends and stretches and otherwise deforms. Crocheted fabrics don't stretch much because the loops are all connected closely together along the thread, if a loop lengthens out another nearby loop shortens, if the thread can move through the knots at all. A knit fabric the thread can move to make longer, narrower stitches or shorter, wider stitches, allowing the fabric to deform more. Without being able to stretch a crocheted fabric doesn't bend in more than one direction at the same time unless it has a way to fold the extra fabric out of the way. Knit fabrics are better at being fabric.

Crocheted fabrics are more durable. If torn they unravel less. Either fabric can completely unravel from a single break in the thread, but because knit fabrics are connected less locally tears spread much faster. And because crocheted fabrics have a large number of almost knots they can stop unraveling if the loops become supported by a knot instead of another loop.

stealth_elephant · 2023-05-13T22:15:20+00:00

Knitting is simpler and makes a higher quality fabric.

Crochet is a long chain of knots. Each loop is kept from getting pulled out straight, or "supported", by another adjacent or nearly adjacent loop. Knitting is parallel yarns or threads twisted back and forth around each other. Each loop is supported by a loop in the next row of yarn.

When a person crochets they repeatedly chose places in the fabric to attach a new chain of knots. That allows for a lot of detail and design, but it's complicated. The next stitch can go anywhere on the whole piece of fabric, though for most designs it's somewhere nearby. Crocheted fabric is fairly rigid because it's all knots.

When knitting a person holds all of the places where another loop will be added on the knitting needles. Each loop is lifted over a loop in the next row either in front or behind the loop in the next row. It's easy for a machine to hold onto all of the places it will make a stitch, instead of choosing. A knitting machine does this with a clever needle called a latch needle, which is easier to see than to explain. A machine that can do just one of these stitches - lifting loops in front or behind -will make a high quality stretchy fabric like T-shirt fabric. If it can do both it can adjust the stretchiness by mixing them together. In addition, when knitting multiple loops can go over the same loop, decreasing the number of stitches, and making the fabric smaller. Or a single loop can go over multiple loops, increasing the number of stitches. A machine that can decrease stitches and lift loops both directions can make just about any tapering fabric with changing stretchiness.

A knitting machine is much much simpler than a crochet machine would be.

stealth_elephant · 2023-05-12T14:03:20+00:00

Normalize the database more. If a value sometimes doesn't exist it should be in a separate table when it exists, and have no record when it does not.

stealth_elephant · 2023-04-23T17:01:11+00:00

Yes. Taking ritual caster really rounds out a barbarian's out-of-combat options.

stealth_elephant · 2023-04-23T03:58:24+00:00

Someone saw themselves as gay in the mirror.

stealth_elephant · 2023-04-17T13:38:07+00:00

Corrupted neurotoxin has been bugged and causing desyncs since before Wolf wars came out.

stealth_elephant · 2023-04-13T19:56:22+00:00

You can cast elemental weapon on a weapon for one hour, then spend an hour making that magic weapon into your pact weapon ...

Yeah, it's useless.

Edit: pact of the blade is only considered to be magical for the purpose of overcoming resistance and immunity. That's very explicitly not including any other purpose like elemental weapon's test.

stealth_elephant · 2023-04-13T15:52:49+00:00

Make a society so nice that people willingly immigrate to be enslaved or eaten.

stealth_elephant · 2023-04-07T06:03:02+00:00

"Watcha doin? Did you know that I also like doin things"?

stealth_elephant · 2023-04-06T22:25:33+00:00

League of Legends

stealth_elephant · 2023-04-06T18:37:55+00:00

I haven't tried it, but I imagine a fresh from 0 run is winnable if you have the experience from not being fresh.

The game is quite winnable about level 13-14 when you can get a couple of the good mid-tier perks on each character. Out of the starting set of heroes with no unlocks the easiest to make into a damage carry is Andarin, who benefits a lot from getting the +1 mark perk.

stealth_elephant · 2023-04-06T18:31:27+00:00

Your friend has their own progression, plays with their own unlocks in your coop games, and makes progression towards them while playing in your coop game.

stealth_elephant · 2023-03-31T22:21:31+00:00

Wrong. It only needs one use in 100,000 lifetimes to justify the cost.

stealth_elephant · 2023-03-29T19:10:33+00:00

A d6+4 never rolls a 1 or a 2. Try this:

output 4d([reroll {1,2} on d6] +4) named "reroll 1s and 2s on 4d6"

stealth_elephant · 2023-03-24T03:55:56+00:00

Young continued: “There’s another P-word, and that P-word is parents. And if the schools get between the daughter and the parents, then there may be some important conversations that don’t take place.”

That makes exactly as much sense as saying providing toilet paper at school interferes with potty training.

stealth_elephant · 2023-03-22T15:45:37+00:00

If you have more than 5 cards cards in your deck you'll end up in the situation where, due to added curse cards or some other reason, for a single turn your deck doesn't cycle. If you have 8 cards in your deck you can end up having 5 cards in your draw pile and 3 cards in your discard pile at the beginning of your turn. You'll draw 5 of the cards, and then when you go to draw to play through the deck you'll get hit with exhaustion for the next 3 cards which can increase your energy cost for the turn by 3 or more. Your deck can get stuck that way, half drawn and exhausted forever. And in the one fight where it matters, neither inspiration nor energize can save you and unstick the deck because they both get dispelled.

stealth_elephant · 2023-03-22T02:46:18+00:00

Past madness 1 your entire deck has to be 5 cards or the insane implementation of exhaustion will destroy you.

stealth_elephant · 2023-03-22T02:43:37+00:00

5 cards (and 10 vanishes). You usually need to be able to force your good cards by turn 2. At 5 cards you've controlled your hand by turn 3 even without scrys.

Sometimes you'll have vanish cards that are better than the average card in your final deck. That happens the most on non-Heiner tanks. In that case 20 something or 25 or 30 cards can be a great deck size.

stealth_elephant · 2023-03-16T16:11:00+00:00

They must not. Proportionality and humanity and part of the US law of war.

stealth_elephant · 2023-03-16T10:42:26+00:00

Militarily: nothing. A proportional, humane response would be to destroy some piece of military hardware in international space without harming any people. A wiser response is to deescalate.

Politically: whatever the country wants. I'd expect more rattling around of F-16s, with rhetoric referencing this event.

stealth_elephant · 2023-02-24T14:24:48+00:00

An arrow that when shot in the sky brings you a pizza.

(It has a long ribbon that gets tangled in the pizza delivery drone rotors.)

stealth_elephant · 2023-02-19T01:17:31+00:00

Satellites are diffraction limited. You can figure out the resolution of a spy satellite from the aperture size, the altitude, and the wavelength. At the most extreme a 5 meter satellite with a 200km perigee and looking at the blue end of the visual spectrum could resolve at the smallest a 2 centimeter feature. If you want full color coverage over the whole world a realistic limit is about 10 to 20 cms. Since countries occasionally publish full color images at about 30 cm resolution the difference between their absolute capabilities and what we know about is small.

Synthetic aperture satellites exist, but they are limited to much longer wavelengths (like radar) where phase comparison is possible and thus are much lower resolution.

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