I find my games (~1100 Elo) rarely make it to Mythic, so his idea of ranking them according to comeback potential really strikes me as a good way to judge Mythic godpowers. Basically, in 1v1s, going to Mythic is most often used either to finish off a game you already know you’ve won, or as a last-ditch effort to save an otherwise lost game. And it’s that last use case where the relative powers are most important. (There are exceptions of course, like Survivalist’s 90 minute epic from a couple of weeks ago.)

I had a game a day or two ago where this kinda seemed to be the case. I was pretty solidly winning, and it was getting close to the point where I was wondering why my opponent hadn’t resigned yet, when he got up to Mythic (I was still in Heroic). Then he used Ragnarok. That made it instantly make sense why he’d hung on. Unfortunately he had already lost 2 TCs, including his starting TC, and was only surviving on one corner TC. And at the time he used Ragnarok, he only had about 60 food, so was completely incapable of rebooming behind it. So yeah, it didn’t work. But worth hanging on to try it out.

What wasn’t worthwhile was hanging on another 10+ minutes past that until his very last Gatherer…

Your leave resets? That sounds illegal.

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It’s also worth noting that the “ZY” or “KSY” pronunciations might be misleading to English speakers. The “Y” in both of those is actually like the vowel in “fly”, not like in “baby”.

I’ll just leave this here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0v0dYQ9t5WU

That’s going to always increase parentalmotivation.

downside is exporting would-be investors to other capital cities

Isn’t that still a good thing for Victoria? The only thing further investors would do is drive up prices due to increasing demand. Relieving that demand by pushing it elsewhere is obviously worse for those other places, but it’s not like when one country increases income tax leading rich people to shift their money overseas if there isn’t a coordinated approach, where you actually get a local negative.

And a Facebook link for people who use that site.

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Ah I see. I’m not sure that’s technically possible, but if it were, that’d be great.

I think better would be simply outlawing any communication between a donor and recipient, if the donor wishes to officially remain anonymous. Not they “have no way” to prove their identity, but they’re not allowed to prove it—or even imply it.

I don’t know what you mean by

double-blind to the donor AND recipient

But to me that phrase kinda implies that the donor doesn’t know who they donated to. Which…no. It should be blind to the recipient. Entirely blind. But people donating can still choose where to donate to.

The only country whose opinion should matter here is Taiwan. If and when they decide they want to be recognised officially, they should be. Not before, and not after.

The only country whose opinion should matter here is Taiwan. If and when they decide they want to be recognised officially, they should be. Not before, and not after.

It’s not cropped, it’s a different photo. 5 separate photographers are known to have captured the event, who each took multiple photos. Many of whom were on different floors of the same hotel. Jeff Widener of the Associated Press took one of the more famous telephoto shots from the 6th floor of the Beijing Hotel, while this wider one was probably taken by Stuart Franklin of Time, higher up in the same hotel.

I see pros and cons to different systems, and ultimately I’d like to see different tournaments do different things.

One thing I might change to the draft system used in Wololo would be to have a blind pick before the bans. That way we still get to see every player’s best pick.

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I Google-searched “site:unbelievablefactsblog.com truck”, which turned up the right page. It linked to this site, which in turn links to this very detailed page.

Pinging @marduk@lemmy.sdf.org and @toaster@slrpnk.net.

I guess the way I’m thinking about it is that just because the third party doesn’t know it’s poly, doesn’t mean it isn’t poly to the people in the primary couple. It’s unethical and dishonest, but it is a situation where some of the people involved are being non-monogamous.

I read a story the other day about a guy whose lesbian friend operated an OnlyFans account. At one point she went to him and asked for help creating a video that one of her fans had requested. Not PIV sex, but sexually-charged activities (the story didn’t specify exactly). She paid him a portion of the money she got from it.

Following this, the guy started following her OnlyFans anonymously, and began paying for more of the same content on a regular basis. Pretending he was one of her random online fans, paying so she would do sexual acts with him, and getting back some of the money he paid when she paid him.

The majority of comments under the post seemed to think this was absolutely fine. But if you ask me, that was sexual assault. Because it was sexual acts done under a dishonest premise.

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I actually did bite my dm with explicit consent. because I was trying to argue that a ranger/barbarian’s bite would be d6+Strength Modifier. and not d4+Strength Modifier. and he was like lmao human bites aren’t even that strong. and I said bet. and he said well bite me then as strong as an 18 attack roll would be (the prison guard had 14AC btw) and we had to stop the game because he had to go get stitches.

also he didn’t wanna say he let himself get bit to win an argument that he lost so badly he’s in the emergency room, so he was like “a rat did it” and the nurse turns her head 12 degrees to the left and sees my bloody mouth. and goes “yeah okay that happens”

and we did get the barbarian bite attack to be d6+Strength Modifier. I’m also now engaged to this guy and this campaign I get to be the dm!

probablybadrpgideas Absolute rollercoaster, but congrats on the engagement - Paper