Furthermore, worn items can’t be broken in DND. Ever. As in that sword wouldn’t have shattered.
…that’s not true tho?
a mundane sword, indeed all mundane objects, can be broken!
there’s a section with a table (DMG chapter 8; objects) with AC, HP, and so forth for objects of various sizes and materials.
it’s also on the starterpack DM screens!
the sword in question would have 3d6 HP and AC 19.
the relevant rules section, directly above said tables, isn’t very helpful in general, but it clearly says that all objects can, in principle, be destroyed:
[…] given enough time and the right tools, characters can destroy any destructible object. Use common sense when determining a character’s success at damaging an object.
DnD isn’t really made for complex equipment maintenance, so it’s perfectly reasonable to completely ignore these rules in normal play…which is why it’s one of those things everyone always forgets about…
what, afaik, actually can’t be broken are magic items. at least I’m pretty sure according to the rules they’re not meant to ever be broken…
edit: it’s artifacts that usually can’t be destroyed; magic items are just described as “at least as durable as a regular item of it’s kind”, but resistant to ALL damage…
as for the heat metal with adamantine skin interaction…dunno, I’d say it depends on whether the adamantine is right on the surface of the skin or not: magic in DnD is pretty well established to not work inside of a creatures body, with very few, explicitly stated, exceptions (because it would allow all sorts of dumb loopholes, like control water, a cantrip, being able to freeze blood inside a living being…that would obviously be broken, so magic stops at the skin, usually)
pretty sure they weren’t talking about smart phones exclusively:
mobile device ≠ smart phone
could be anything from smart watches, to portable gaming, to health trackers/monitors, baby monitors, etc.
when you add everything up, it’s probably somewhere around 75-85%
although i tried to search for a better number than a guesstimate and…yeah that’s borderline impossible; all the results get spammed with smart phone OS numbers and google thinks it’s smart to ignore search parameters…
maybe someone with better google-fu can get a better number: i just took the average smart phone number and added a couple percent on top.
99% is an exaggeration, but 75-85% sounds about right!
especially once you factor in things like raspberries and other small IoT devices, which could reasonably fall under “mobile” devices…but then the definition of “mobile” gets murky…
alternatively I’d be thrilled to hear all about these alternative ways to have kids that you apparently think are out there…and then I’d like it explained to me how exactly that’s not an “expected part of life”??
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simple explanation: people get used to their monitors’ frame rate.
if all you’ve been using is a 60Hz display, you won’t notice a difference down to 30-40 fps as much as you would when you’ve been using a 144Hz display.
our brains notice differences much more easily than absolutes, so a larger difference in refresh rate produces a more negative experience.
think about it like this:
The refresh rate influences your cursor movements.
so if a game runs slower than you’re used to, you’ll miss more of your clicks, and you’ll need to compensate by slowing down your movements until you get used to the new refresh rate.
this effect becomes very obvious at very low fps (>20fps). it’s when people start doing super slow movements.
same thing happens when you go from 144Hz down to, say, 40Hz.
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the 1% the petition is talking about is global, as well as the ownership claims, and the CO2 pollution claim.
it’s worded a bit oddly, but they want to tax the “global 1%”, not (just) the “EU 1%”.
as you pointed out, there’s a pretty big difference between the two.
since the initiatives goals are largely about climate change, which is obviously a global problem in need of global solutions, this framing makes sense. it could have been written a bit clearer…
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