IIRC Hindus invented this number system (with glyphs for 0-9), and then the Arabs starting using it. Eventually the west started using them and credited the Arabs.
As for how they are written, everyone used the same shapes, and then they probably just ended up changing over time (“Hmm…how do I write that number again? Oh whatever I’ll just make it up”)
"We are sorry for the fact that the game didn't meet the expectations of the majority of the players," reads a statement from Mytona, noting it's an investor in the game.
"Today we will work with Steam to open up refunds for any players who choose to make a refund. We're in contact with Fntastic regarding the future of the game."
Answer to those who ask for a refund. Mytona and we're currently working with Steam to allow refunds for any player who chooses to request one, regardless of game time. Fntastic received $0 and will receive nothing from The Day Before sales.
Hello! So, I did a quick cursory glance of the hero kids system, but likely missed some things, so please reach out if you have any questions.
The easiest way to convert 5e modules to a 2d6 based system:
The lowest you can roll on 2d6 is a 2, and the highest a twelve. So, we convert 5e’s 1-20 numbers to fit that. (Ability modifier in parentheses)
2d6 stats vs 5e stats
2 (-5) = 0 and 1
3 (-4) = 2 and 3
4 (-3) = 4 and 5
5 (-2) = 6 and 7
6 (-1) = 8 and 9
7 (0) = 10 and 11
8 (+1) = 12 and 13
9 (+2) = 14 and 15
10 (+3) = 16 and 17
11 (+4) = 18 and 19
12 (+5) = 20
Example conversion: In 5e, an orc has an Armor Class of 13, Hit Points of 15, gets + 5 to its attack roll, and deals 9 damage on a hit.
In this 2d6 system, it’s armor would be 8 (need to roll above an 8 to harm it) hit points would be 9, gets +4 to its attack roll, and deals 6 damage on a hit.
Using these conversions, it should be pretty easy to add new monsters or bad guys from DnD 5e modules. There’s a few free ones on dndbeyond to look over that may help give ideas for quests! I highly recommend Frozen Sick.
What they should be saying is that it’s like exercise.
Just because you know how to run or you know how to do a pull-up, you won’t necessarily be able to do so to the extent needed in a pinch. You have to stay in shape. You have a car, but the car could break down and you might have to walk a mile to the nearest gas station.
Likewise, with math, we run into situations all the time where being able to do simple math in your head you can prevent you from getting screwed.
Like at a car dealership, some will show you different payments and ask you if you want to get the premium insurance or skip the premium insurance and go with the lower payment.
Most will choose the lower payment. If you did the quick math* in you head though, you’d quickly see that the “lowest payment” is off and has a minimal car warranty bundled in.
Grocery shopping. I’ve seen where the price per ounce on the shelf doesn’t match the actual price per ounce.
Should you take the more distant job? It pays $5 more an hour, but is it worth driving 15 extra miles?
Should you take the delivery job that pays $20 an hour but will put an extra 50-100 miles a day on your car? It’s not just gas. Cars are a finite resource. Can you figure out the depreciation per mile?
When you buy a house: Should you buy a house now if it’s cheaper but interest rates are high or buy later when interest rates go down but the price may go up? How much money does each 0.25% in APR really mean to me? (Example: For a $400,000 house, a 0.25% APR difference is $83 a month or $1000 just that first year (not including compounding). With compounding, it can mean an extra $62 a month for the life of the loan for all 360 payments or $22,000! An extra 1% is quadruple that!)
If you think you would keep a house for only 5 years, which loan makes more sense? Pay a bit more in closing for a lower APR or pay nothing extra but get a higher APR? How many years in does the first loan come out ahead?
Quick loan payment estimation (without compounding for short loans (<6 years):
Takes a while to read, but with practice, it’s quick to do in your head:
Take loan amount, number of years, and APR:
Ex. 10K at 6% for 5 years.
Think of it as a geometry problem. You have a triangle with one side at 10k (starting loan amount) on the y axis and 0 days (x axis) and the tip will be at 60 months (5 years) and $0.
At the halfway point (30 months 2.5 years) the principal balance (not counting interest) should be about $5000. So on average we can calculate $5000 * 6% APR for 5 years (or 30% total without compounding)
Original loan amount + non-compounded interest =
$10000 + ( $5000 * 30% ) = $11500
$11,500 divided by 60 payments = $191.66 /mo
0% interest would be $10,000/60 or $166.66
This already gets us really close to the real answer.
I threw the loan values into an online calculator and it came up with $193.33 for the monthly payment.
$193.33 - $191.66 = $1.67 difference or 99.1% of the real answer.
This % difference due to compounding will vary based on the APR and and loan term but not the loan amount. So if you know which terms and APR you qualify for, you can figure this out ahead of time. For our 6% APR for 5 years example we know to add 1%.
If the sales person presents us with a significantly different monthly payment, then we know they snuck something in. I’ve personally run into this where all the payment options had a different service plan and/or extended warranty snuck in.
Also it’s good to know that the interest will cost us $26 a month vs 0% APR or paying in cash. Which helps us figure out if it makes sense to buy now (do we get $26 of benefit a month for having it now) vs waiting.
the problem is that our education system insists on teaching things people will never have a use for, and is utterly irrelevant to what they want to study.
and even if it is relevant, it’s almost always taught in the worst way possible, just slapping down a book in front of people with 0 context and then they’re expected to take a test on it, which has been repeatedly shown to be actively detrimental to learning.
Ok, Evernote committed hara-kiri, so time to move on. (no way I’ll pay for ransomware) Any tips for good alternatives for Linux/Android platform? My wife used Nimbus note a while back, recovered her account there, ColorNote pops up when looking for alternatives as well....
I’m using free Standard Notes account for couple of years and it’s pretty solid for basic note taking. It obviously lacks all the bells and whistles of paid version, but I’m fine with this for the great price of $0.
Kanzler Scholz weigert sich, der Ukraine Taurus-Marschflugkörper zu liefern. Unter anderem mit Blick auf ungeklärte rechtliche Fragen, so heißt es seit Wochen aus Regierungskreisen. Nun stellt sich heraus: Die Bundesregierung unternimmt nichts, um solche Fragen zu klären....
a) Er hat in früheren Interviews offen gesagt¹, dass er keine Ahnung von den Details hat und seine Vermutungen zu technischen Problemen lediglich darauf beruhen, dass hinter Taurus und Storm Shadow im Prinzip der selbe Hersteller steht.
b) Wir wissen seit mehr als 8 Jahren um massive Probleme mit den topographischen Daten. Trotzdem weigern sich alle standhaft, das auch nur zu erwähnen.
Mit "Du lügst, es ist ganz anders!" entkräfte ich auch nicht das, was du sagst. Ich muss tatsächlich Argumente aufführen.
"Ich glaube nicht, dass es Gründe gibt und Olaf Scholz will nur nicht!" ist genauso kein Argument, sondern eine bloße Behauptung. Was sagt dir die Tatsache, dass wir jetzt mindestens ein halbes Jahr darüber diskutieren und es 100x diese Aussage aber exakt 0 Argumente gibt?
Also: Wir wissen um die massiven rechtlichen Probleme (siehe TanDEM-X und TerraSAR-X, die 500 Millionen, die Deutschland für die Bundeswehrnutzung von Daten, erstellt vom DRL, das dem Bundeswirtschaftsministerium untersteht, zahlen musste). Wir wissen davon seit langen. Tatsächlich hat der Spiegel vor Jahren detailliert darüber berichtet. Und mehr als 8 Jahre später als sie Hinweise bekamen, dass die Regierung mit den Herstellern in Kontakt steht, um die technischen Details einer Tauruslieferung zu prüfen... war das alles vergessen. Und stattdessen gab es ein Narrative vom ängstlichen Olaf Scholz, der ganz allein Lieferungen blockiert. Und auch all die Monate später wurde nie wieder irgendein tatsächliches Detail erwähnt.
Stattdessen verbringen wir die gesamte Zeit in einer Suppe aus "Olaf Scholz lügt, weil wegen... können wir euch nicht sagen. Ab er er lügt. Ganz sicher. Denn ich glaube er lügt! Wirklich! Es gibt gar keine technischen Schwierigkeiten, weil ich nicht daran glaube, dass es sie gibt. Denn Olaf Scholz lügt einfach".
Ist schon irgendwie praktisch, dass man das unbegrenzt fortsetzen kann, ohne sich jemals weiter zu bewegen oder Argumente bringen zu müssen.
Und nur um das klarzustellen: Mir ist Olaf Scholz scheiß egal. Meinetwegen kann der auch morgen wegen Finanzbetrug hinter Gitter wandern. Aber wenn es diese technischen (bzw. rechtlichen) Schwierigkeiten mit der Datennutzung nicht gibt, dann will ich das genau deshalb wissen! Aber die Tatsache, dass es nicht nur nicht erwähnt wird, sondern sogar bereits seit langem bekannte Fakten ganz bewußt aus der Diskussion herausgehalten werden, spricht eine deutliche Sprache.
Und: Es geht sogar noch weiter. Als das erste Mal argumentiert wurde, dass die Programmierung vor Ort Bundeswehrsoldaten benötigen würde, hat das niemand bestritten. Auch nicht, dass Franzosen und Briten kleine Gruppen an Personal vor Ort haben, die da exakt das selbe tun. Sondern es gibt darum, dass Deutschland das auf Grund anderer rechtlicher Gegebenheiten nicht kann...
Und was passierte dann? Genau. Das wurde sofort wieder ignoriert. Franzosen und Briten mit genau dem selben Problem aber anderer Rechtslage, was Auslandseinsätze der Armee angeht? Nie gehört! Es gibt doch gar keine Probleme! Die hat Olaf Scholz nur erfunden!
Sofort wieder ein interessanter Satz zurück zum Narrativ in dem Moment, wo es Fakten zu diskutieren gab, die dem widersprachen.
Bin ich wirklich der Einzige, der sich von der Diskussion schon lange verarscht fühlt? Ja, der Artikel hat mit einem Recht. Es ist eine Scheindebatte, in der ganz bewußt und immer wieder Argumente und Fakten ignoriert werden, weil man eben gar keine Debatte möchte. Man möchte eine Geschichte vom dummen Olaf. Weil die bringt Klicks, Aufmerksamkeit und Wählerstimmen für alle anderen.
There’s a huge difference between paying a publisher to only publish on your platform and publishers picking their distribution platform themselves. Valve pays 0 dollars for publishers to be exclusive to Steam.
No, not really. Sony, Microsoft, Stadia, and most storefronts have exclusives with benefits.
I never said any of them are any better, just because it’s industry standard doesn’t make it good. If you pay publishers to release games exclusively on your platform and you are not actively funding development you are anti-competitive in my eyes. (Also Stadia doesn’t exist anymore)
Overall, you should be made at the studios that accept the offer instead of Epic.
I am mad at both and I do not support either.
Epic is just trying to fund indie teams
If only that were true I would be less mad. Most of the time they try to snatch up games that are already finished or were already planning to release on Steam/GOG. Sometimes they even pull games from other stores (Rocket League and Fall Guys) after they released or just before they release (Metro). That’s not the practices of someone who wants to compete but someone who wants to get into the market by force without actively doing anything good for the industry.
“when in doubt” is a bit broad but left to right is a great default for operations with the same priority. There is actually a way to calculate in any order if divisions are converted to multiplications (by using the reciprocal value) and subtractions are converted to additions (by negating the value) that requires at least a little bit of math knowledge and experience so it’s typically not taught until later to prevent even more confusion.
For example this: 6 / 2 * 3 can also be rewritten as 6 * 2⁻¹ * 3 and because multiplication is commutative you can now do it in any order for example like 3 * 6 * 2⁻¹
You can also “rearrange” the order without changing the meaning if you move the correct operation (left to the number) with it (should only be done with explicit multiplication)
6 / 2 * 3 into 6 * 3 / 2 (note that I moved the division with the 2)
You can even bring the two to the front. Just remember that left to the six is an “imaginary” (don’t quote me ^^) multiplication. And because we can’t just move “/2” to the beginning we have to insert a one (empty product - check Wikipedia) like so:
1 / 2 * 6 * 3
This also works for addition and subtraction
7 + 8 - 5
You can move them around if you take the operation left to the number with it. With addition the “imaginary” operation at the beginning is a plus sign and the implicit number you use is zero (empty sum - check Wikipedia)
8 - 5 + 7
or like this
0 - 5 + 8 + 7
because with negative numbers you can use the minus sign to indicate negative numbers you can even drop the leading zero like this
-5 + 8 + 7
That’s not really possible with multiplication because “/2” is not a valid notation for “1/2”
The data found about 68 per cent of car shoppers in 2022 who did not own an EV showed an intent to purchase one, but that dropped to 56 per cent this year.
Even ‘low’ gas prices can’t compete. If I charge on a street charger from 0%, it costs about $16 for 550km of range. It’s free at the office. I bought mine when free unlimited fast charging was offered. I’ve put nearly 60k kms on the vehicle, and I’ve paid less than $200 for ‘fuel’ over the last 4 years.
The truck will be attracted forward towards the magnet, but the magnet will also be attracted backward towards the truck with equal force. The backward force will be transfered through the arm holding the magnet and the net force on the whole system will be 0. If there was no arm holding the truck and the magnet apart, the truck could move forward slightly and the magnet could move backward to meet it. (The magnet would move much more than the truck since they would still have equal force applying to them, and the truck’s mass is much higher than the magnet’s.)
I’m coming back, I will return
And I’ll possess your daemons and make your CPU burn
I have ring 0, I have your cores
I have the power to make my evil take its course
Another player who was at the table during the incident sent me this meme after the problem player in question (they had a history) left the group chat....
I thought you were gonna make some cool points about world building but then the ending came. To address your DnD example; that’s already covered by canon. Adventurers and what they earn (monetarily, influence, and good old finders keeper’s wise) is at minimum a whole order of magnitude above what the level 0s that make up the world’s backdrop have access to.
A blind adventurer who is destitute could find a scroll of lesser restoration (not arguing it would work here or not, that’s DM fiat) or otherwise get access to restoration of some sort if sought.
The blind after mining accident level 0 beggar is screwed, but the blinded by hunting accident noble could see by the end of the day.
The blind from birth halfling who can not miss what they’ve never had before and who gets around just fine with blind sight, wouldn’t necessarily feel that there is anything to be fixed; use that wish people for legendary loot.
That’s the bleakest and reality is stranger than fiction angle tho.
They’re fictional worlds, it’s perfectly okay to make one in which differently abled people can feel represented without reality being a dick to them if you know, not being a dick is something that matters to you.
Nice job assuming that I as a person am bigoted just because I prefer details that contribute to the story. I’m fine with people being different, that’s a fact of life, and any self-respecting person should figure out how to accept that as soon as possible. What I look for in a roleplaying game, however, is narrative cohesion, where the characters are characters instead of tokens, and their actions have consequences that make sense. Mechanically, this means that I would prefer to not be held back by my fellows, be it the guy playing a Wild Magic Sorcerer who insists on triggering a Surge via Feywild shard whenever possible and gets sad when it doesn’t go off, or the guy playing a Wizard that insists on hobbling up the stairs on their crutch instead of letting the Barbarian carry them. This doesn’t mean it can’t be done well ever, I’ve had an old man NPC with a halved movement speed use that as a way to get the party to pay attention to their surroundings instead of rushing headlong into a hallway just because it’s empty. It should be in a way that doesn’t impact gameplay; a one-armed Fighter wouldn’t insist on one-handing a Halberd under normal circumstances and would usually go for a one-handed weapon, nor would a character that’s been mute their whole life have a very good way to cast spells with verbal components without a kind DM or an addiction to Subtle Spell. Narratively, it means that things feel strange when someone opts to “have a disability” but then avoids playing into that angle at all by having a proverbial “all-terrain wheelchair” work-around with few downsides, possibly some benefits. Again, not that they can’t ever be well-represented. The trick is that you need to make up for the character’s weaknesses in a way that doesn’t make them “speshul” by being the only one allowed to have that thing.
“Why would you guys want a cane-sword that doubles your movement speed? You don’t have gammy legs halving your movement speed!” A cane-sword that doubles movement speed is still a weapon that doubles your god-damn movement speed. Don’t “gatekeep” my characters from your cool idea without at least giving me a story as to why I can’t have it (my character didn’t make it and I don’t know where the creator went) and how I could get to the point where I can if I wanted it (have to find the creator and convince them to make one for me even though I don’t really need it like the first character does). Now, if they play a disabled character straight, taking efforts to minimize the mechanical detriments through tactical assessment of one’s abilities and rely on the party to help make up for their weaknesses, congratulations! A character was made and I have no beef, you’ve won me over. If they miss some points, either expecting people to play around the character detriments they chose or playing Oppression Olympics™ as to why their character needs something your character can’t have, because they decided the character would suck otherwise, that’s just disingenuous to the multiplayer experience, and frankly kind of fucked up to hold one’s own character hostage with disability to get preferential treatment. If your character is a Polearm Master Fighter that lost his arm in the war and is questing for a Regenerate spell as he goes through life with a spear and a dream, maybe even giving up on it as he realizes he can adapt to a different style of fighting bit by bit as he levels up, I welcome and endorse it.
Now, the character can hiss and spit about the unfairness of their situation until they’re blue in the face, that’s roleplay and I wholly support that in a roleplaying game. What’s bad is, in the scenario the (N)PCs wise up to an item’s necessity, any item, and in some way negate it, putting the player in a position where they need to play the character they made in a weaker position (in this case the weakness they built into it), the player shouldn’t get upset over it. When the player insists that “their character’s agency” shouldn’t be lost because of losing one item, or “why did you approve it just to take it away?”, broseph, you made the character. Did they genuinely think the party would thank them for being graced with the blast radius of a Wild Magic Surge, or are they just a gambling addict that couldn’t foresee other people not wanting to be hit by the rebounding Chaos Bolt when there’s only one enemy target? Is that sort of player incapable of realizing that the game system with mechanics to ensure it’s not a make-pretend battle of “nuh-uh, I have [excuse] to protect me” could possibly allow for the other side to have counterplay in the same way they can make a magic chair that can climb a wall?
As for NPCs. Man, if these guys can’t handle a one-eyed veteran in a fictional country, I fear for them ever seeing a homeless shelter. They need to sort their shit out. You can have a beggar in a D&D game, they might even be a good source of information or a powerful NPC that has problems, same with a person with a crutch or a leper on a wheeled board. Sorry we forgot to put “trigger warning: semi-accurate depictions of squalor” in Session 0’s notes, if the existence in fantasy is what sets them off, I’d hate to see how they react to reality.
TL;DR: sometimes you can hate the player instead of the game. My beef is not with the existence of the differently abled, but with people that use them as a shield for their lack of originality, thought, or care for their fellow players.
The marketing for Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth and The Man Who Erased His Name seem to have worked on me because I decided to start playing Yakuza 0 on my Steam Deck. Sticking to pure easy mode and mainlining the story. It’s got some weird jank to it but I also kinda like it? If it hooks me, maybe I’ll take the plunge on the others. Yakuza: Like A Dragon looked like a lot of fun so I’ll probably stop and smell the roses when I get to that one.
Otherwise, Fights in Tight Spaces is my current non-story focused game I’m making my way through.
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Ok, Evernote committed hara-kiri, so time to move on. (no way I’ll pay for ransomware) Any tips for good alternatives for Linux/Android platform? My wife used Nimbus note a while back, recovered her account there, ColorNote pops up when looking for alternatives as well....
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Had this conversation with someone who chose to no longer be at my table after meeting a blind NPC (files.catbox.moe)
Another player who was at the table during the incident sent me this meme after the problem player in question (they had a history) left the group chat....
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