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Arivia posted:that's not correct. the dice thread was in A&T and was pretty peaceful, it did get moved after the dude seemed to share too much about working at Chessex but it wasn't someone revealing company secrets to win a fight, just sharing cool details about working at the nerd dice company Na there were a few dice nerds who did bust into the thread trying to argue that the dice weren’t weighted or measured correctly or something. It was an incredibly entertaining thread and it sucks it got nuked but I understand why he did it.
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Arivia posted:i can tell you've never posted in trad games TG is cool. It's only 60% 40+ year olds. That makes it the cool Traditional Games forum on the internet.
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MarcusSA posted:Na there were a few dice nerds who did bust into the thread trying to argue that the dice weren’t weighted or measured correctly or something. I mean yes there were gamescience/zocchi fans who were dicks but you’re still stating a narrative that wasn’t true about why the Chessex goon posted that stuff And either way, again, it wasn’t even a trad games thread in the first place
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MarcusSA posted:Na there were a few dice nerds who did bust into the thread trying to argue that the dice weren’t weighted or measured correctly or something. There was one dude loosing his poo poo over the fact that chessex dice aren't casino perfect, but it was in response to the spilling of company secrets that it got memory holed for, not vise-versa. The OP just wasn't too bright about what they should be saying publicly. Pity, since the caliper dude's meltdown was truly epic. Also trad games is full of the drama kids and commensurately that. (Actually the change in mods some years? ago has made it a much nicer place to lurk.)
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Fantastic Foreskin posted:There was one dude loosing his poo poo over the fact that chessex dice aren't casino perfect, but it was in response to the spilling of company secrets that it got memory holed for, not vise-versa. The OP just wasn't too bright about what they should be saying publicly. Pity, since the caliper dude's meltdown was truly epic. Yeah, it wasn't the meltdown that got it closed. speaking of which... twodot posted:This sounds like code for "We, a dice company, do not actually test how good our dice are at being dice". twodot posted:Yes, if you measure fairness in a bad and wrong way you will wind up with bad and wrong results. twodot posted:No dice are fair because, as you have observed, they exist in the physical universe and can not be perfect. The question was "How fair" and your answer appears to be that you neither know nor give a poo poo about how fair your dice are. twodot posted:Since you somehow know this, can you go ahead and quantify what random enough for everyday use means and the testing you did to verify that any die you pick up off the self meets that standard? twodot posted:If you walk up to a laptop or washing machine manufacturer they will most likely have information about the tolerances they engineer to and their defect rates. Like a reasonable response to "how fair are your dice?" might be "well 1 in 100,000 are just functionally unusable as dice". twodot posted:Because no matter how hosed up my surface is it will never bias a fair die to roll unfairly? I don't know go ask the person who asked how fair their dice are. twodot posted:So if company wants to be a company that sells novelty dice with no sort of guarantee as to the fairness of their dice, they can do that. That isn't what the op said though. Also it should be obvious that there are indeed dice manufacturers that do things like engineer for specific tolerances and then test batches that the fairness of their dice fall within the parameters they guarantee. twodot posted:A caliper would be a good start. twodot posted:Here's the thing you need to say: twodot posted:I am not. I'm pointing out the OP both claimed to care about fairness, and also acknowledges that they have no capacity to even understand what fairness is. twodot posted:I feel like if this was a simple mistake, people would have read my post and thought "Oh yeah, that was a mistake" and moved on with their lives, instead of posting nonsense histograms where the only way to measure any die's fairness was for a literal human to roll it 100,000 times and put every roll into a database. Including you yourself where you think measuring dice is bad somehow.
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thank you for preserving history!!
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New Super Metis posted:thank you for preserving history!! He did have a cool username
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MarcusSA posted:Internet witches aren’t real and can’t hurt y mailer demons can tho
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Kazinsal posted:It gets better, one of the mods started handing out probes claiming that being anti-astrology was misogynistic. I can't remember which mod exactly but I'm pretty sure they were one of the ones involved in the chipmunk porn quadra kill too lmao Twoday was the one who probed me and Larry, he quietly resigned during the flavius incident
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Spinz posted:He did have a cool username Waiting for twodot
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lol I can remember trying to patiently explain to them how if you have a sample size of 50 or whatever (how often you roll a dice) these minute variations made no difference whatsoever. good times.
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CoolCab posted:lol I can remember trying to patiently explain to them how if you have a sample size of 50 or whatever (how often you roll a dice) these minute variations made no difference whatsoever. good times. When googling the whole topic there was a link to another forum that basically said the same thing, and that even casino dice are no long 'fair' after a few hundred rolls and get replaced constantly. I'm pretty sure that poster had been kicked out of at least ttrpg game in their life over dice arguments because its such a weird tangent to go so hard on its definitely not the first time they've done it.
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pentyne posted:When googling the whole topic there was a link to another forum that basically said the same thing, and that even casino dice are no long 'fair' after a few hundred rolls and get replaced constantly. it was a marketing strategy by the supposedly scientific dice makers. specifically there was one salesman type who did a series of youtube videos about how you couldn't be sure that a misaligned dice wasn't the cause of your character dying so you could have lost adventurers to this menace! ignoring completely that it was exactly as likely for it to be beneficial than harmful, and neither were very likely at all. oh iirc his scientific dice were never meaningfully tested and when someone bothered they had a huge bias to rolling 14 lol
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Bismuth posted:Yeah most of modern "wicca" type witchcraft was made up by some weirdo white people at a country club in england in the 40s/50s and just sort of cherry picks stuff they thought was 'cool' from a ton of different completely unrelated sources That's part of what makes the "Critics of Tarot/Wicca/ect are misogynists" line fall so flat for me, so much of it is stolen from other people's cultures (including my own). Is cultural appropriation like plagiarism, where if you steal just enough from everything it doesn't count? There's also crystals, which are dumb as poo poo. Bunch of boring morons who think quartz has some magical properties and will fill their houses with geodes and poo poo without thinking about the holes in the ground people are dragging them out if in the third world.
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I'm here to learn which magic is real and which isn't
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Am I allowed to fill my house with geodes and crystals as long as I don't think they have magic powers? Minerals are just cool, is all
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I'm here to comment on stuff that people are commenting on so they comment on my comment
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Crime on a Dime posted:I'm here to comment on stuff that people are commenting on so they comment on my comment Saga in the making!
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Molothecat posted:I'm here to learn which magic is real and which isn't Real: Kabbala/quantum chromodynamics hodgepodge Hypermaths Grant Morrison’s chaos magic Shivers Not real: D&D Lord of the rings Time magic from tenet Alistair Crowley’s gently caress magic Ghost magic Magical racism
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  Saga in the making!!!!!!! 
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the only rleal magic is the use of runes in runescape to cast earth blast at a cow
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Antivehicular posted:Am I allowed to fill my house with geodes and crystals as long as I don't think they have magic powers? Minerals are just cool, is all shiny rocks are cool no matter what
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I cast hephaestus at the house of rocks
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The Saddest Rhino posted:I cast hephaestus at the house of rocks Roll your spellcasting stat + bonuses
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Regarde Aduck posted:Real: what about Alan Moore's snake magic?
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Antivehicular posted:Am I allowed to fill my house with geodes and crystals as long as I don't think they have magic powers? Minerals are just cool, is all Hell yeah they're cool as hell
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Antivehicular posted:Am I allowed to fill my house with geodes and crystals as long as I don't think they have magic powers? Minerals are just cool, is all Just don't burn your house down by placing them near the window
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Regarde Aduck posted:Real: cock magic is real, sharon
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Gravitas Shortfall posted:what about Alan Moore's snake magic? Absolutely haram
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Sorry CSPAM, Marxism isn't real
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You all mock witchcraft and hexes, yet here you are posting in a thread about the curse of mangostein. Interesting.
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The curse of the mangosteen is more Kafkaesque, you wake up one morning and find out that instead of turning into a giant bug you actually don't wake up because the previous morning you washed down some Ambien with a few bottles of wine.
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Not many people know this, but Mangostein was the name of the doctor, not the monster.
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User GregorAssballs woke to find himself in a grotesque, distended body of a man. His immediate impulse was to beg for money, buy expensive baked goods, and slap the living g gently caress out of his mother.
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I call forth the fruit to murder the forums 
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The Saddest Rhino posted:I call forth the fruit to murder the forums Stephen King’s The Mangoliers
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JK Rowling expanded lore makes clear that british magic is real but the native americans did fake magic until their saviours came along to teach them
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:JK Rowling expanded lore makes clear that british binary gender is real but the native americans did fake two-spirit additional genders until their saviours came along to teach them
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Rowling in 2 years "well my new duology is about Bellatrix's daughter and turns out Voldenort had some good things to say about women's rights have you heard about these abuses of polyjuice potion and..."
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