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  1. Re:Tried playing this game on Celebrating Dungeons & Dragons' 40th Anniversary · · Score: 1

    How are Traveller and Maelstrom (to pick two) blighted by D&D HP system?

  2. Re:Tried playing this game on Celebrating Dungeons & Dragons' 40th Anniversary · · Score: 1

    No, I'm talking the sweet point of D&D just before the complexity that 1e brought.

  3. Re:Tried playing this game on Celebrating Dungeons & Dragons' 40th Anniversary · · Score: 2

    You do not do 50 damage, and the next 2 people do not do 150 damage + stun + whatever

    A first level character hits with a sword and does 1d6 damage. A 7th level character hits with a sword and does 1d6 damage. One of them might be a fighter and get a bonus for strength if they have a high strength which isn't likely anyway - but that could be the 1st level character.

    Now of course the first level character will die faster - which is why they are actually using missile weapons and not making themselves a target. This is balanced by the fact that XP is shared evenly not adjusted by level and thus the lower level character will shoot up levels in a flash anyway removing the "problem" in a handful of sessions.

  4. Re:Tried playing this game on Celebrating Dungeons & Dragons' 40th Anniversary · · Score: 3, Insightful

    1. It is fun with a weak character relative to everyone else.
    2. Failure is as fun as success - notice that almost all old school D&D players have a favorite story to tell in which usually a character if not the entire party dies.
    3. Fudging dice rolls is unnecessary. Yes some DMs want a softer game and so do that - which I guess is fine if that's the game you want to play. There's no need to, just don't get attached to that character...

  5. Re:Tried playing this game on Celebrating Dungeons & Dragons' 40th Anniversary · · Score: 1

    You played some crappy house rules then...

  6. Re:"Self-Plagarism"? Care to define that? on Alleging 'Malpractice' With Climate Skeptic Papers, Publisher Kills Journal · · Score: 1

    But you aren't presenting that reused code as new research advancing the state of the art of the field, right?

  7. Re:I use cash on US Government To Convert Silk Road Bitcoins To USD · · Score: 1

    Because securing and transporting money is free!

  8. Re:This is new? on Why Birds Fly In a V Formation · · Score: 1

    " I laughed at the 80s mention," is all I replied to. What's your interpretation of that statement?

  9. Re:So, what SHOULD it have done? on Starbucks Phone App Stores Password Unencrypted · · Score: 1

    From the article:

    Daniel Wood, a Minneapolis-area computer-security specialist, said he was able to break into the app’s file containing his email address, user name and password. That’s the same file where credit-card information would go, which means it would be exposed if he had entered it, he said in an interview.

    So I suspect the issue is that he thinks CC data might also be available in plain text, but he couldn't be bothered spending the 10 seconds it would take to actually check if that is the case.

  10. Re:This is new? on Why Birds Fly In a V Formation · · Score: 1

    Then I'm not sure what your point has to do with finding it laughable that someone was taught something as a child when it was already known before they were born.

  11. Re:This is new? on Why Birds Fly In a V Formation · · Score: 1

    And if the guy had claimed it was first discovered in the 80s that would be a point, but all he claimed was was told about it as a child in the 80s. Which would put the discovery date way before then as an upper bound since school teachers aren't really renowned for keeping up on scientific research in areas other than how to bore children. And not offer any lower bound as all since teachers also tell their students things like "grass needs water to live" which I'm pretty sure isn't a recent discovery.

  12. Re:This is new? on Why Birds Fly In a V Formation · · Score: 1

    I wasn't able to read books before I was born.

  13. Re:So what happens to the hydrogen? That's usable. on Revolutionary Scuba Mask Creates Breathable Oxygen Underwater On Its Own · · Score: 1

    It doesn't. There's plenty of molecular oxygen dissolved in seawater. The fish know.

    You and I have different definitions of "plenty". Mine involves a human being able to get enough oxygen to breathe as opposed to a fish doing so.

  14. Re:This is new? on Why Birds Fly In a V Formation · · Score: 0

    How does that help exactly?

    Even though there are a lot of books that record the name of the first President of the United States, none of them helped me learn that information before I was born.

    Note, of course, that if I say I learned that 1+1 = 2 in the 70s there is no claim being made that nobody knew that before the 70s.

  15. Re:This is new? on Why Birds Fly In a V Formation · · Score: 2, Funny

    Right, because the guy should have remembered being taught it before he was born rather than so late in the game as when he was a child.

  16. Re:The man was not shot for texting on Man Shot To Death For Texting During Movie · · Score: 1

    Because it's impossible that he only thought his life was endangered after he returned and the other guy started yelling and throwing stuff at him? He was supposed to use a crystal ball to see into the future I suppose?

    And of course your original wording of "had to leave" has a larger implication that I'm sure you'll ignore

  17. Re:Previews DO NOT JUSTIFY HOMICIDE on Man Shot To Death For Texting During Movie · · Score: 1

    There's no mention of how long he was gone for in your snippets, so that's a very strange conclusion to reach.

  18. Re:The man was not shot for texting on Man Shot To Death For Texting During Movie · · Score: 1

    And you have a reference for that right?

    Or did you just make shit up?

  19. Re:Old news on Man Shot To Death For Texting During Movie · · Score: 1

    Amazing something that happened less than 24 hours ago could have been on CNN for a couple of days already.

    One of thoe false flags designed so the government can steal all our guns, right?

  20. Re:Double bind on Man Shot To Death For Texting During Movie · · Score: 2, Insightful

    You answered your own question.

    His career choice makes it pretty likely he enjoys being a jack booted thug. That he managed to escalate a disagreement over texting during the previews (advertisements for other movies) into a shooting confirms it.

  21. Re:Egocentrism on How Weather Influences Global Warming Opinions · · Score: 2

    No it doesn't.

    It claims that the fact that record high temperature events are increasing and record low temperature events are decreasing is evidence that rapid climate change is occurring.

    You can dispute that all you like, but that you feel the need to lie about the claim is evidence you don't have a good argument against it.

  22. Re:Egocentrism on How Weather Influences Global Warming Opinions · · Score: 2

    Maybe if you read a little further you'll find there are some other parts of the Constitution.

    The 14th amendment for example contradicts your "The religion clause of the 1st Amendment specifically applies to the federal government, not the States" claim. At least according to the Supreme court whose 6-1 decision and reasoning is at: http://www.law.cornell.edu/supremecourt/text/370/421

  23. Re:Tiny little airbags like the polystyrene foam? on Building a Better Bike Helmet Out of Paper · · Score: 1

    EPS foam was the basis of bike helmets in the 80s (and even 70s). And the cause of the main problem with helmets back then - not that you looked like an idiot, but that wrapping your head in insulating foam when doing physical activity in the summer is not pleasant.

  24. Re:Bike helmet? on Building a Better Bike Helmet Out of Paper · · Score: 2

    So what? If the argument is invalid then point out the flaws in the argument/numbers, not the flaws in the presenter of the argument.

  25. Re:What's more amusing here... on How Chris Christie Could Use the NSA Playbook · · Score: 1

    Because Christie is hilarious and thus any excuse to show him is taken.