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Ominous Jazz posted:that vendiagram is a circle It's actually a sandwich.
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DalaranJ posted:Someone has never had to answer a maths question that began with the phrase, "Describe a universe"
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May 15, 2017 18:39
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"Timeline? Time is not made of lines! It is a made of circles. That is why clocks are round!"
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May 15, 2017 18:39
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Ominous Jazz posted:that vendiagram is a circle
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May 15, 2017 18:52
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DalaranJ posted:And that, my friend, is how you get parallel lines to intersect. Lots and lots of snakes. The literal definition of "parallel" is "doesn't intersect". You're probably thinking of triangles with an angular excess.
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May 15, 2017 19:27
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LatwPIAT posted:The literal definition of "parallel" is "doesn't intersect". You're probably thinking of triangles with an angular excess. In certain kinds of geometry, parallel lines meet. It's weird.
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May 15, 2017 19:38
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No, that's how you get parallel lines to intersect Edit: fool_of_sound posted:In certain kinds of geometry, parallel lines meet. It's weird. I've heard of this non-euclidean geometry in my Japanese animes
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Think of lines of longitude on a globe. They're parallel, but nevertheless meet at the north and south poles. This is a central point of spherical geometry.
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May 15, 2017 19:44
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Imagine four longitudes at the edge of a sphere. Say a direct copy of the first is sent to the back and so on. Geometry works the same way
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fool_of_sound posted:Think of lines of longitude on a globe. They're parallel, but nevertheless meet at the north and south poles. This is a central point of spherical geometry. Those aren't parallel lines. The definition of parallel lines is that "no point on line l is also on line m", or in other words, "l and m do not intersect". (Property A) In Euclidean geometry, this is equivalent to the statement "when lines m and l are both intersected by a third straight line (a transversal) in the same plane, the corresponding angles of intersection with the transversal are congruent." (wp) (Property B) (There's also a Property C; parallel lines are equidistant.) Two lines in Euclidean geometry that satisfy A must also satisfy B and C. But this isn't the case for spherical geometry, where great circles (longitudes, in your example) satisfying B and C at a point: a) Do not satisfy B and C at any point - B isn't even satisfied for all transversals! b) Do not satisfy A Hence, two great circles in spherical geometry fail A, B, and C and cannot be considered parallel by the definitions of Euclidean geometry. And in spherical geometry, as in neutral geometry, the definition of parallelism is simply A; lines l and m are parallel if and only if they don't intersect.
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LatwPIAT posted:Those aren't parallel lines. The definition of parallel lines is that "no point on line l is also on line m", or in other words, "l and m do not intersect". (Property A) In Euclidean geometry, this is equivalent to the statement "when lines m and l are both intersected by a third straight line (a transversal) in the same plane, the corresponding angles of intersection with the transversal are congruent." (wp) (Property B) (There's also a Property C; parallel lines are equidistant.) Two lines in Euclidean geometry that satisfy A must also satisfy B and C. Huh, yeah you're right. I guess my professor mis-explained that, cause I specifically remember him using that example and calling them parallel lines.
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May 15, 2017 21:10
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BrainParasite posted:"Cultural Marxism" has always been a wild eyed conspiracy theory about the Frankfurt school, as best I can tell. Virtue signaling was coined in a sociology study of how people in a church community demonstrated piety.
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virtue signalling is still an effective critique of highly performative acts that don't do anything for oppressed groups, but nonetheless are treated as extremely important acts of, well, virtue by those within certain groups. It's been dragged through the mud by the conservative teens using it to describe everything under the sun, but it's still a very valid way of describing certain liberal and conservative behaviors.
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Impermanent posted:virtue signalling is still an effective critique of highly performative acts that don't do anything for oppressed groups, but nonetheless are treated as extremely important acts of, well, virtue by those within certain groups. It's been dragged through the mud by the conservative teens using it to describe everything under the sun, but it's still a very valid way of describing certain liberal and conservative behaviors. See: Safety Pins.
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Halloween Jack posted:At the very first, critical theorists were saying it to recognize the Frankfurt school's criticism of the commodification of culture. But like I said, very obscure. Huh. I just looked it up. It did (plausibly) leak from academia. What a bizarre concept to latch on to.
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New blogpost is up for The Next Project. Finally pulling back the curtain on the monster-building stuff. A fair bit of refinement has come out of the recent playtesting, and I expect this "series" to extend to around 5 posts, possibly more (kinda depends how long each topic ends up being, I want to keep each one kind of succinct.) Future plans include: Minions, swarms, elites, solos, and "MM3 on a business card"-type guidelines, as well as power-building.
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I won't ever signal virtue as I'm proudly an amoral being.
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why is everyone in my college a GURPS or Pathfinder fan
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Plutonis posted:why is everyone in my college a GURPS or Pathfinder fan the former seems perfectly fine
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gradenko_2000 posted:the former seems perfectly fine If kept to a reasonable level of GURPSplexity.
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Are these the rumored 'rules of nature'?
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DalaranJ posted:Are these the rumored 'rules of nature'?
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gradenko_2000 posted:the former seems perfectly fine No thanks! Had enough of that for a lifetime and had a good chuckle recently looking at a completely insane shotgun damage diagram.
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Plutonis posted:I found it I see this a lot. What the hell is this?
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Covok posted:I see this a lot. Plutonis posted:a completely insane shotgun damage diagram.
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That's from a supplement that's all about gun nut nonsense. I'd be disappointed if the Gurps gun nut book didn't have at least a two page spread about shotguns.
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Mr. Tambo posted:That's from a supplement that's all about gun nut nonsense. I'd be disappointed if the Gurps gun nut book didn't have at least a two page spread about shotguns. So, do the shotguns got that video game spread that makes them suck big flappy donkey dick? You know, how in most video games shotguns can only shoot 2 feet ahead of you despite how far real shotguns can fire?
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Covok posted:So, do the shotguns got that video game spread that makes them suck big flappy donkey dick? You know, how in most video games shotguns can only shoot 2 feet ahead of you despite how far real shotguns can fire? You should play Doom. The original shotgun is good for sniping things at long range.
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Awgh my shotgun thread got archived https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3808037&pagenumber=1&perpage=40
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Arivia posted:You should play Doom. The original shotgun is good for sniping things at long range. Isnīt a shotgun with hard shells just an awkward rifle?
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Mr.Misfit posted:Isnīt a shotgun with hard shells just an awkward rifle? A shotgun with slugs instead of shot is just a smoothbore longarm, yes. They do make rifled barrels for slug loads but aside from hunting large game there's little purpose to them.
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the point is that a shotgun spread pattern holds together much tighter out to a long range than any game depicts
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Mr. Tambo posted:That's from a supplement that's all about gun nut nonsense. I'd be disappointed if the Gurps gun nut book didn't have at least a two page spread about shotguns. Does it have the Pancor Jackhammer and Gyrojets, or do I need a different GURPS for that?
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HitTheTargets posted:Does it have the Pancor Jackhammer and Gyrojets, or do I need a different GURPS for that? GURPS High-Tech has the 1960's MBA Gyrojet, Ultra-Tech has 15mm Gyroc rifles and pistols with a pile of different warheads (APDS and Nukes to nano-swarms and wormholes) as well as a generic assault shotgun that eyeballs at about where the Jackhammer should be.
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Plutonis posted:I found it loving GURPS.
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It's not even all the rules you need to fire a shotgun, they left out the rate of fire rules.
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