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by j9461701 9y ago
Tell me, in concrete, non-ambiguous terms, what will or will not generate paradox and if so how severely for performing the following feats in front of 10 sleepers. Directly cite the rule book for each example: Using magic to levitate a fea
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by j9461701 9y ago
I love the oWoD. But it doesn't take a grognard to argue it had huge problems in terms of rules. Anyone who wants to play Mage needs to first find a new magic system, because the one in the book straight up does not work properly if yo
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I hope you mentioned to Mordenkainen his swords were invaluable! Anyway, that's the advantage of both DnD and CS. They're do new you can still often meet and talk with the founders of the entire discipline, or at least one step re
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by j9461701 9y ago
The marketplace of ideas evaluated the ideals of Nazism, and rejected them by itself the first time. The fact we even call them Nazis is testament to that - it's an insulting reference to the fact National Socialists were uneducated co
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by j9461701 9y ago
To be clear: If that quora post had been a dispassionate refutation, or even just a nest of links to directly pertinent scientific studies - I'd have believed the author. Or at least declared myself neutral in the debate, as it is outs
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by j9461701 9y ago
>I counted 10 supporting scientific studies An impressive feat. Mind sharing them? And again, direct support - not "mating practices of birds" or "fetal hormone influence and autism" or other none sense. And also not
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by j9461701 9y ago
If that is a "great response" I'd hate to imagine what you consider a poor one. It's an informal reply on quora from someone we have no verification about that cites exactly one supporting scientific study - and that i
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by j9461701 9y ago
Mid-way through WoL and again shortly after launch of HoTS. I played BW a lot as a kid, and the fundamental concepts carry over pretty decently. Always build workers, don't get supply blocked, expand as fast as your opponent lets you g
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by j9461701 9y ago
>You think so? Brood War is the most mechanically demanding game I have ever played, and certainly the most demanding that has ever been an esport. [This clip]( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UXH8eCcvQMI ) of Flash playin
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>The problem with the "???" step is that it's unrigorous handwaving. The problem with the "???" is it's not in its proper place in the chain of logic. The syllogism instead goes: 1) Do we observe certain tra
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by j9461701 9y ago
I think typical, reasonable people do fall for this stuff, though not because they're scared. They fall for it because it's all they ever hear about the issue. Even the smartest of us can't know everything, and so if all you
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by j9461701 9y ago
Don Quixote is a pathetic, vainglorious egotist with mental problems, whose attack on windmills is just one of his many feats of remarkably willful stupidity. He isn't fighting a good battle that is unlikely to be won, he's inven
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by j9461701 9y ago
> And paper co-author Paul Kirschner, an education researcher at the Open University of the Netherlands in Heerlen, happily describes himself in his academic work as a “windmill-fighter”. But whereas Don Quixote aimed against solid walls
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by j9461701 9y ago
It seems the jury was basing their faith in the profiler on another famous crime drama, namely Sherlock Holmes. >The driver’s-side window of the victim’s car had been lowered several inches, suggesting to the profiler that the teen had r
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by j9461701 9y ago
>Canadians tend not to talk about making their country great again. Canada never was particularly great—at least not in the sense that Trump uses the word. Unlike Americans, Canadians haven’t been conditioned to see history in epic, revo
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by j9461701 9y ago
I might be speaking out of line, but taking on these kinds of risks with young children at home seems kind of selfish. The fact that he went back into the same cave that nearly killed him only a month later...almost as if to say: "I wo
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by j9461701 9y ago
I think it should be pointed out that Hong Kong never had democracy. The British ruled the country with the same iron fist the Chinese do, and indeed many of the laws currently being used against the Hong Kong citizenry originated with them
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by j9461701 9y ago
Socrates would not have approved, but I do not see why we should care. He was a very important philosopher, but he wasn't flawless. His refusal to see the value in a permanent written record was a mistake, as was his over-valuing of me
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by j9461701 9y ago
He made that comment in reference to not knowing the speed of sound off hand, and it is not remotely foolish. It is a very bad student that wastes his time memorizing endless reams of facts, rather than trying to understand the deeper meani
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by j9461701 9y ago
Yes, because myopia is something of a self-inflicted condition for geeky indoors types. See: http://www.nature.com/news/the-myopia-boom-1.17120 Basically if you spend all day with your nose in a book, your eyes start g
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by j9461701 9y ago
Precisely. I even fit the pattern, being an aspergers STEM major whose father was in his 50s when I was born. But that's no more evidence than the other person's refutation, because personal experience is worthless here. Statist
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Hence the old saying "God Created Men and Sam Colt Made Them Equal!". My approaching-70 year old father will be retiring to the middle of nowhere, along with his wife. What's he going to do if someone breaks in - fight them?
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Ecological observations tend to be general trends rather than absolute laws, as evolution is a messy and gradual process. Cetaceans are another example of a group that violates the trend, being both extremely intelligent and their enviromen
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Precocial young don't necessarily imply a difficult time, it's simply one of several strategies for successful reproduction. Do you minimize the chances your young are preyed on in the nest by A) Building a very well hidden nest a
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The people who have found Factorio have yet to come back from playing Factorio. Their children miss them.
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With guns, it has already been shifted in a harmful direction. Suppressors are safety equipment, not badass silencers that let assassins shoot in near total quiet. But because the public only knows the movies, if you want to get a suppresso
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I somewhat did as well, but I imagine when you're as bright as him it's just something that's going to happen.
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This is only true up to a point. Past ~125 IQ, you start running into serious social problems that mean such individuals are much less likely to obtain leadership positions, join intellectually challenging professions, or obtain advanced de