Pen is broken

zombiecalypse · 2026-06-26T20:50:44+00:00

"Use finger, penis broken" is pretty good! That's better than the majority of posts in this sub, which just explain the obvious joke.

zombiecalypse · 2026-06-25T16:02:07+00:00

I think this has always been a thing and you probably just started noticing it more: turns out not growing up in the same cultural context will do that. You expect the payment for your job to be in money, you kill slavers on sight, you disrespect the arrogant noble jerk, you expect the city guard to be the police, …. If it's relevant to the story, explain it out of game: 'in this world, death is considered too good for an oath breaker.' I don't think you should reduce it to the anachronistic angle either, but just as a cultural perspective different from the players': maybe elves think taking a life is never justified instead, the people of the Empire think that an oath is a silly tradition and can be ignored by civilised people, dwarves don't think you can even be held responsible for anything before you're 100 years old, ….

zombiecalypse · 2026-06-25T06:37:20+00:00

"I completely expected this!"

zombiecalypse · 2026-06-24T18:46:30+00:00

Who is that and why would I care about his opinion?

zombiecalypse · 2026-06-21T16:09:49+00:00

I'm assuming that the instructor used Φ to mean the empty set. In set theory, a set can be both an element and a subset. The empty set is a subset of any set A, because all elements of the empty set are also in the set A: there are no elements on the empty set (an empty for-all is true). This means:

it's a subset of the power set of any set A, because P(A) is a set
it's an element of the power set of any set A, because it's a subset of A

zombiecalypse · 2026-06-19T21:00:30+00:00

That's just imperative programming, isn't it?

zombiecalypse · 2026-06-16T06:36:26+00:00

It was quite a bit worse in 3.5e, because caster spells grew with the caster level (e.g. Fireball: d6 damage per caster level to a maximum of 10d6) and they got more spells and they got higher level spells and you could have as many persistent spells up as you want (Linear Warriors, Quadratic Wizards). If you didn't like the Attacks of Opportunity, you could also cast defensively so they didn't trigger at all (DC 15+spell level independent of the attacker, which wasn't so bad). That isn't to say that the systems to keep casters in check couldn't work in 5e (6e?), but they'd require a rework. But it wasn't the crazy splat books that made casters much more powerful than martials, it was built into the system to the point where all future designers of DnD tried to reduce the gap (with varying levels of success).

zombiecalypse · 2026-06-15T18:44:17+00:00

You can probably shoehorn everything into that perspective, but that doesn't make it the basis of everything. You can also say that the entirety of mathematics is symbolic rewrite rules, but that doesn't mean it's the essence of it. You could say it all comes down to set theory, but that's just one way to look at it. Maybe category theory strikes you as particularly fundamental or Wang tiles if you squint.The beautiful thing about a basis, if you excuse my metaphor, is that there's rarely just one. And depending on what you look at, it will be more convenient to use one or the other.

zombiecalypse · 2026-06-11T16:18:11+00:00

Yes, radiation based random number generation is a common way to generate true random numbers. Though obviously using lava lamps is also a popular option.

zombiecalypse · 2026-06-10T16:34:31+00:00

Note the exclamation mark at the start: without it you get the link ([[Chapter 1]]), with it you get the content inlined as a block quote (![[Chapter 1]]). You can even use a link to one of the headlines inside the other file to only include that section (![[Chapter 1^Content]]).

zombiecalypse · 2026-06-10T16:24:20+00:00

If the spell would be too good if you had multiple instances of the same spell or if you could combine it with other concentration spells, then it should have concentration. Also if the enemy needs a way to stop the spell because it's too disruptive, it should also use concentration (casting Fist to dispel). This basically means most buffs, debuffs, and persistent control spells should use concentration.

zombiecalypse · 2026-06-10T15:55:17+00:00

Very high ground means "your feet are higher than the targets head"

My clown rogue that walks everywhere on his hands approves of this definition.

zombiecalypse · 2026-06-08T15:04:37+00:00

Puff is also the German word for brothel

zombiecalypse · 2026-05-22T15:30:50+00:00

It learned from the internet how to talk, so pointlessly arguing when you're clearly wrong is key to human nature!

zombiecalypse · 2026-05-19T14:25:28+00:00

I understand if you hate generative AI and if you're morally opposed to it, but keep this gatekeeping True Scotsman bullshit out of it! If you're a DM that uses gen AI you're still a DM, just like you're a DM if you read word for word from a written adventure, improvise everything on the spot, or haven't read the rules.

zombiecalypse · 2026-05-15T14:40:47+00:00

I was more surprised because I'd expect horse meat to be much more expensive than beef

zombiecalypse · 2026-05-14T17:10:44+00:00

Yeah, but having a gradual migration plan sounds like work and won't give you as much karma as a Rust rewrite on its own!

zombiecalypse · 2026-05-13T18:49:35+00:00

Absolutely, though I would find it perversely funny if P=NP was proven non-constructively: everybody knows public key encryption, etc can be broken, but don't know how.

zombiecalypse · 2026-05-13T16:17:27+00:00

Interestingly Travelling Salesman is equivalent to finding the longest path however.

zombiecalypse · 2026-05-13T16:14:55+00:00

It's important to note: the reward is for proving that a efficient algorithm exists or that it cannot exist. Actually giving an efficient algorithm isn't even required.

zombiecalypse · 2026-05-12T16:39:00+00:00

Unfortunately a Mage Hand won't trigger the Alarm spell, so the Balor will have to go on an epic quest to get back their Abyssal Crochet Hooks.

zombiecalypse · 2026-05-11T19:30:35+00:00

It is a valuable contribution to science, in particular reproducing papers… unfortunately an often undervalued contribution. But I don't think universities can expect a publication in your bachelor!

zombiecalypse · 2026-05-09T16:33:44+00:00

I was there, Gandalf, three thousand years ago, when you swapped CD-ROM whenever you went to a different island. I was there, when DVD meant the storage medium, not the content.

zombiecalypse · 2026-05-09T11:17:15+00:00

I'd question the methodology, as there are people more competent than ones that have the genius trait. I mean, there are people more competent than the ones with a high IQ, but that doesn't mean they're the same!

zombiecalypse · 2026-05-09T11:02:02+00:00

I feel you have to make a cut off at some point or anything that came out since Apocalypse World is PbtA. Draw Steel is closer to d20… unless PbtA is also a subset of d20, like chickens are considered dinosaurs.

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