Lazy Gravey

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See, that’s what the app is perfect for.

Sounds perfect Wahhhh, I don’t wanna
prokopetz

krozzus asked:

What system, be it ttrpg, boardgame, videogame, whatever, has the most extreme math in terms of complexity as a baseline in your experience?

And not in like hyperspecific scenarios like magic the gathering but in a "yeah thats normal" way.

prokopetz answered:

I’m going to construe “baseline complexity” to mean the sort of thing you’d reasonably expect to come up in any context where the game’s mechanics come into play, which excludes stuff like, e.g., Silhouette CORE expecting you to derive cube roots during character creation, or Shadowrun 3rd Edition’s “chunky salsa” rule for calculating area-of-effect damage in enclosed spaces – i.e., we’re speaking strictly about the kind of math that at least potentially comes into play every single time you pick up the dice.

With that qualifier in mind, DC Heroes (1985) is probably a decent contender. In brief, all character traits are descriptively exponential (e.g., a stat of 2 is twice as good as a stat of 1; a stat of 3 is twice as good as a stat of 2; and so forth) – and unlike most games that just say their stats scale in this way, DC Heroes actually wants to preserve the logarithmic probability curve this conceit implies. However, since it came out in 1985, companion apps on mobile devices weren’t yet a thing, and scientific calculators were still expensive pieces of specialty hardware, so rather than obliging players to break out a slide rule every time they pick up the dice, it uses dice rolls to produce linear column offsets on precalculated lookup tables. @annarcana did a reasonably comprehensive writeup on one of my recent threads, here:

https://www.tumblr.com/prokopetz/805968964301799424

charlizetheronsbush-official

wait I wanna hear about the chunky salsa rule

prokopetz

With respect to Shadowrun in particular, it refers to a rule whereby blast weapons like grenades can be channelled by barriers which their damage rating is insufficient to destroy, potentially reflecting back and hitting any targets in the affected area multiple times for cumulative damage. Blast weapons also suffer damage falloff based on range, resulting in a counterintuitive situation whereby a character standing next to a wall who gets caught in a grenade's blast radius may actually suffer less damage from being closer to ground zero, since the unattenuated damage would be sufficient to knock down the wall, whereas if ground zero is further away the grenade's damage may suffer sufficient falloff for the wall to hold up against it, causing the blast to reflect and hit the adjacent character a second time.

The text also gives an entertainingly gruesome hypothetical example of a character standing in a particularly sturdy closet suffering repeated reflected blasts from multiple walls, with a helpful diagram:

A figure titled "Grenade Blast Diagram", illustrating two example scenarios for Shadowrun 3rd Edition's blast damage attenuation rules. The first scenario shows a grenade with a damage code of 10S going off six metres from a wall, with a human victim standing equidistant between the grenade and the wall. Falling off at a rate of one point per metre, the grenade's damage code has attenuated to 7S by the time it reaches the human; 4S by the time it reaches the wall (which it fails to breach); and 1S by the time the reflected blast reaches the human a second time. The human suffers cumulative damage of 7 + 1 = 8S. The second scenario shows the same grenade going off at the human's feet, with sturdy walls 2 metres to the left and 3 metres to the right. On the left, the grenade's damage code attenuates to 8S by time it reaches the wall, and 6S by the time the reflected blast strikes the human a second time; on the right, the grenade's damage code has attenuated to 7S at the wall and 4S by the time the reflected blast reaches the human. The human suffers cumulative damage of 10 (for the initial blast at their feet) + 6 (for the reflection from the left-hand wall) + 4 (for the reflection from the right-hand wall) = 20S.ALT
kazsartcorner
queerasaurolophus

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why is it able to instantly liquify a bay leaf but struggles with garlic 😭

queerasaurolophus

it’s fine—I turned it off and started trying to fish out the bay leaf bits with a fork

queerasaurolophus

okay actually though. How bad is it really to have bay leaf in there?? looking it up

queerasaurolophus

Okay so it’s Not Ideal but I’m just gonna blend it more and Deal With It

queerasaurolophus

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fuck.

queerasaurolophus

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queerasaurolophus

I’m giving the swiffer a 4/10 rating for its ability to clean ceilings btw

queerasaurolophus

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DO NOT

scironex
marauders4evr

Abled Person: Hey man, can you hold this wad of $2,000 and this one penny for me while I open my wallet?

Disabled Person: YOU COMPLETE AND UTTER FOOL!

The United States Government:

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(Watch how many people don’t get this.)

marauders4evr

#raises hand #i dont understand #please explain? 

In order for disabled people to receive any sort of financial assistant for their housing, food, bills, medical supplies, etc., they cannot ever have more than $2,000 of resources to their name. Ever.

It doesn’t matter what it’s for.

You’re saving up for a new wheelchair?

For college?

To put a downpayment on a house?

Hell man, you just happen to budget for once in your life so that you can have some extra money in case something bad happens?

Your benefits immediately get cut off if you’re a cent over $2,000.

And, even worse, you usually end up having to pay back every dollar the government gave you that month.

So say you get $400. If they find out you’re twenty dollars over the resource limit, you have to give them all $400 back and you undergo an investigation of your funds to see if you will continue getting money.

“What if I spend the money that day?”

Doesn’t matter. In fact, from what I can tell, people who do this are actually put under investigation for fraud.

And yes, this system literally kills people.

locuas642

Remember when “Guardians of the Galaxy” came out? one of Rocket Racoon’s creators, Bill Mantlo, suffered an accident in 1992 and has irreparable brain damage.

before the movie came out, Marvel gave him an exclusive preview screening. SOme people were upset because they felt if Marvel was really wanted to thank mantlo, they should have donated money to Mantlo’s family.

Bill Mantlo’s brother had to come out and explain: If Marvel gave them monetary aid, Bill Mantlo would lose his financial assistance.

rootbeergoddess

That’s so utterly depressing.

sushinfood

disgusting

beeskeepony

I have friends on welfare who won’t pick up a penny in the street because they’d risk the welfare they struggled to get for 10 years.

raenboow

oh look another fucked up thing in this world. let’s just add it to the list. number 63858b

lil-mizz-jay

My brother has been on California State SSI for autism for the last 10 years, and he absolutely has to (no joke, HAS TO) spend all 720 bucks of his SSI every month, because if he puts it in the bank he risks losing his SSI altogether.

Sometimes, at the end of the month, he has no idea what to do with his money because the whole month went by and he still has 400-ish bucks in his account, and he fucking panics because he doesn’t want to get anywhere near 2,000.

And here’s the funnest part of the story!

One day he did a huge commission on Second Life and wound up earning 1500 bucks off of it, and he told the guy to donate it 500 bucks at a time over 3 months. The guy didn’t want to, and just donated all 1500, which put my brother at 2,036 bucks.

The state IMMEDIATELY (I’m talking less than an hour) called him up to tell him over the phone that they were canceling his SSI, because they noticed he had gone over the 2,000 buck threshold. He had to tell them that someone had made a charitable donation to him and that this was not a common occurrence in any way shape or form, and upon not believing him, my mother had to call to talk to them as his legal caretaker and say basically the same thing until they called off the cancellation of his SSI money.

He also had to cancel his renter’s assistance because it put him to 1,062 a month, so if he went 30 days without spending any money they’d cancel his SSI altogether. Like, none of us in the family have any fucking clue why that regulation is in place and it’s the stupidest shit in human history.

Please, legal side of Tumblr, tell me what positive reasoning this law has?

sodomymcscurvylegs

Happy 4th of July everyone! This is what the “nation of opportunity” looks like.

xfirecorex

There’s something called an ABLE account that can help. If you are on SSI and were diagnosed as disabled before the age of 26 you can apply for an ABLE account that will allow you to save up to $99,000. More people need to know about this!

transyasha

thank you so much for this information. i’m applying for an abled account right now

viostormcaller

THERES A WHAT

OH GOD BLESS THE SHIT OUTTA YOU YOU HAVE NO IDEA HOW FREAKED OUT OVER THIS I WAS

septic-dr-schneep

I’ve been looking into SSI; I had no idea about this!

perksofbeingdisabled

Read till the end for the important info

whatevercomestomymind

Reblog to literally save a disabled person’s life

intothedarknessigo

https://www.ablenrc.org/what-is-able/what-are-able-acounts/

bogleech

This shit is why conservatives think disability is fun pampering, because they see disabled people have to come up with ways to get rid of the money and to them it looks like they must be rolling in excess.

dispadaferisce

From the website linked above: (https://www.ablenrc.org/what-is-able/what-are-able-acounts/)


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cherryjams

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‘Hands weaving magnetic-core memory, IBM, Poughkeepsie, New York,’ 1956. Photograph by Ansel Adams.

bladespark

My mother used to make computer cores as a "work from home" side business. As a child I got spending money via un-winding the ones that failed testing so that the magnetic center could be re-used. I got between $0.05 and $0.25 per core depending. Mom got more for the finished ones, of course, though I don't know how much. Her sister was an expert, and did the more complicated kind, some of which ended up in satellites and/or were used by NASA!

They were all done by hand using a kind of treadle-operated frame with a little (crochet!) hook to pull the wires around the cores. The people making them were mostly housewives who did this as a side-job in the 80s and 90s. I don't know if it's still done that way anywhere in the USA today, but the history of computing and space exploration is littered with "women's work" like this.