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I Google-searched “site:unbelievablefactsblog.com truck”, which turned up the right page. It linked to this site, which in turn links to this very detailed page.

Pinging @marduk@lemmy.sdf.org and @toaster@slrpnk.net.

I guess the way I’m thinking about it is that just because the third party doesn’t know it’s poly, doesn’t mean it isn’t poly to the people in the primary couple. It’s unethical and dishonest, but it is a situation where some of the people involved are being non-monogamous.

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Anônimo disse

I actually did bite my dm with explicit consent. because I was trying to argue that a ranger/barbarian’s bite would be d6+Strength Modifier. and not d4+Strength Modifier. and he was like lmao human bites aren’t even that strong. and I said bet. and he said well bite me then as strong as an 18 attack roll would be (the prison guard had 14AC btw) and we had to stop the game because he had to go get stitches.

also he didn’t wanna say he let himself get bit to win an argument that he lost so badly he’s in the emergency room, so he was like “a rat did it” and the nurse turns her head 12 degrees to the left and sees my bloody mouth. and goes “yeah okay that happens”

and we did get the barbarian bite attack to be d6+Strength Modifier. I’m also now engaged to this guy and this campaign I get to be the dm!

probablybadrpgideas Absolute rollercoaster, but congrats on the engagement - Paper

Not my OC. You’ve got all the information I do.

I thought it was a rather simple analogue, but I guess it was too complicated for some?

I said nothing about JavaScript or Python or any other language with my 1/3 example. I wasn’t even talking about binary. It was an example of something that might be problematic if you added numbers in an imprecise way in decimal, the same way binary floating point fails to accurately represent 1/10 + 1/5 from the OP.

A good way to think of it is to compare something similar in decimal. .1 and .2 are precise values in decimal, but can’t be represented as perfectly in binary. 1/3 might be a pretty good similar-enough example. With a lack of precision, that might become 0.33333333, which when added in the expression 1/3 + 1/3 + 1/3 will give you 0.99999999, instead of the correct answer of 1.

Oh that’s amusing. So it’s just a complete coincidence that you posted it shortly after midnight on Wednesday in the very earliest time zone, then?

Also you confuse me. French pronouns, on a German-hosted instance, and you say you live in Spain. Pick a country!

Yeah that’s how I’d pronounce it too, as a native English speaker.

Boit’s patch review

I think atro’s point is that non-ethical polyamory can exist. It shouldn’t be done, but can, and is still a type of polyamory.

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Puzzle #472
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How does this game decide what words are linked? I’m looking at #226 right now and feel like I should’ve gotten it in 2, but it didn’t give it to me. The words are “ball” and “interpretation”.

I think he’s talking about Do Not Track? That’s a signal that’s been in web browsers for over a decade now, but because of a lack of legal enforcement has largely been ignored by websites. To my knowledge, there’s no equivalent signal in Windows, macOS, or Linux. Though none of that stops individual app developers from putting in a setting into their app’s settings/preferences. And heck, the bill only required it to be opt-out, so in reality it would hardly have any impact on their bottom line, thanks to the tyranny of the default.

Oh I see!

To be fair, my answer there was also back when we were playing 5e. But I felt ok sharing it here because the general story was system agnostic, dealing with how puzzles with a reward are cooler than puzzles that block story progress, and reinforcing the cool idea you brought up about using custom homebrew spells as reward items.

use QR codes on each product

^{Pssst… products all already have scannable codes on them.}

But yeah, Woolies rolled this out in a few of their stores last year. No need for dedicated hardware, the Woolies app does it. It took me a while to realise that actually it’s not yet available in very many stores. Just 16 in Qld, 20 in Vic, 32 in NSW, and 13 in the rest of the country combined. It just so happens that the two nearest to me are both on that list, so I got the impression that it was more common than it actually is.

But yeah, the tech does already exist as a whitelabel service. If I had to guess, I’d say Woolies rolled their own rather than using one of these, but other companies could do it without needing to do all the work themselves.

Nakamura’s patch review

But we did get the ability to use UI mods in ranked! That’s something!

Bottom left resources, here we go!

A lot of people saying the patch is too conservative. Not enough nerfs to the strongest gods, or buffs to the weakest. Things that stood out to me are how little the changes to Centaurs have been, and the fact that there’s still not much counterplay to myth units on water.

Moose AOM’s patch review