1 in 1000000000 > 0 in 1000000000Ugh. Friends....talking about playing PowerBall...don't listen when I explain how math works.
If a basic lottery ticket worth a couple million (enough for most people to retire) won't motivate you, which has a roughly 1 in 14 million chance of winning, why on earth would you play when it's a 1 in 292 million chance of winning? The lottery is practically a tax on the ignorant.
The gambling industry is built by rich people to trick the desperate into giving their money away. The house always wins. As payouts increase in a linear fashion, risk increases exponentially. Why would casinos still exist if the players had a real chance? Who in their right mind would operate a business like that?
And yet when I tell my friends this, trying to help them, trying to keep them from essentially flushing their money down a toilet, they look at me like I'm an a%!+%~&. For trying to help.
I. Do. Not. Understand. People.
Being taller than a dwarf doesn't make you tall. A slim nigh impossible chance isn't a chance that's worth it.
That's a dollar that could be throwing at me (or others) for being nekkid.
By that logic you should play every day. You can't win every game if you don't play them all. Then that's a lot of money a year...per game. There's lots of lottery types. That's good videogame money!
1 in 1000000000 > 0 in 1000000000Ugh. Friends....talking about playing PowerBall...don't listen when I explain how math works.
If a basic lottery ticket worth a couple million (enough for most people to retire) won't motivate you, which has a roughly 1 in 14 million chance of winning, why on earth would you play when it's a 1 in 292 million chance of winning? The lottery is practically a tax on the ignorant.
The gambling industry is built by rich people to trick the desperate into giving their money away. The house always wins. As payouts increase in a linear fashion, risk increases exponentially. Why would casinos still exist if the players had a real chance? Who in their right mind would operate a business like that?
And yet when I tell my friends this, trying to help them, trying to keep them from essentially flushing their money down a toilet, they look at me like I'm an a%!+%~&. For trying to help.
I. Do. Not. Understand. People.
Being taller than a dwarf doesn't make you tall. A slim nigh impossible chance isn't a chance that's worth it.
That's a dollar that could be throwing at me (or others) for being nekkid.
By that logic you should play every day. You can't win every game if you don't play them all. Then that's a lot of money a year...per game. There's lots of lottery types. That's good videogame money!
it makes you taller than that particular dwarf.
And if you are standing on a stack of 750 million dollar bills, you are going to be taller than just about everyone.
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Also, put some pants on. Preferably pants made out of lotto tickets.
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Moreover, australia had to change their laws because someone did indeed buy a ticket for every number combination and won multiple times, so there is something to playing the lotto.
Something about how to make a million dollars in the RPG market.
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Guys...guys, guys; GUYS!!!
Freedhold willingly used math, and was correct about it -- 0.00...01% > 0% -- and you're arguing with him?!.
Look I get it, the lottery is a zero-sum game where the government always comes out ahead. The house always wins, it's a voluntary tax, etc.. Yes to all of that, and everybody who plays should expect to never win a dime, and if you've got a gambling issue you should stay away from the lottery as much as the slots. And if you're hard-up for a decent-paying job, you've got better things to spend your money on than lotto tickets.
But a single lotto ticket, even a single ticket every month is a trivial expense for a lot of people. It's less than I spend on my Audibles book every month, it's less than I give away to my worthy cause of choice every month, it's much less than I spend on a dinner out each week, and it's much much less than I spend on necessities.
If you can afford a ticket once in a while, it's a trivial expense to pay for a suuuper trivial chance to get rich.
In first world problems, I finished my The Dragon Reborn audiobook today, and I don't get another Audibles credit until tomorrow.
WOE IS TO MEEEEEEEEEEEEE! <:(
Looks like Big (Slow) Pete is going to be a regular thing.
It occurred to me, I hope we're not training him now so I get him next year when I have my own crew (or so coworker keeps telling me the plan is).
Is there any game series more cathartic than Rampage? Ten minutes of World Tour and you've eaten literally dozens of humans and destroyed half a nation.
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I'll take over from Freehold then.
Is any kind of lottery statistically worth it? No...
Doubly so if you have an addictive personality, spending ever increasing amounts chasing that big pay-out.
However if just buying that one ticket once a week gives you the tiniest sliver of thrill, hope or satisfaction...? If yes, then I would venture spending that few bucks a week might not be all that ill spend.
And the math behind it can go suck a big fat one.
In other news:
I'm tired and sick.
I'm down with probably the first of many sinus infection(s) this winter…
So just nursing tea'n'honey and quite an large amount of scotch.
Is watching a spot of anime - Terra Formars - seems okay (though nothing spectacular) so far, though some of the aesthetic choices for covering up some of the gore isn't really to my taste...
Edit:
Character backstories seems dangerously close to cookie-cutter...
hmmm…
Oh and the "enemy" design is kind of getting to me a bit...the supposed human-cockroach mix is either hilariously "good-bad" or carries some worrying resemblance to historical caricatures, so consider yourself warned…
Yes, your odds of winning are greater if you buy a ticket. The math I avoided bringing up was the fact that the ROI is negative.
Oh fair enough, the lottery is a gamble, not an investment.
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Sorry you're ill Kjeld, here's to a speedy recovery.
The thing I don't get about DB Super - if they went through the trouble of
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Get well soon, Kjeldorn!
ALL (DE) and I were in Leeds yesterday to watch Sons of Kemet, which was a solid gold belter of a gig. We're still in Leeds, having a bit of a day out today. I wonder if I can persuade her to go to the Royal Armouries?
For some reason, though, she has taken to calling me 'Bubba'. Hum.
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Yea. Get well soon, Kjeldorn!
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So, I take it I'm the only one on FaWtL that doesn't watch anime.
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Get well promptly Kjeldorn!
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Get well soon, Kjeldorn!
ALL (DE) and I were in Leeds yesterday to watch Sons of Kemet, which was a solid gold belter of a gig. We're still in Leeds, having a bit of a day out today. I wonder if I can persuade her to go to the Royal Armouries?
For some reason, though, she has taken to calling me 'Bubba'. Hum.
Sounds like a brilliant day out. I always like a quick drink at the 'Head of Steam', tho' Leeds isn't my favourite place to wander.
So, I take it I'm the only one on FaWtL that doesn't watch anime.
The amount of anime I've seen is marginally higher than the amount of lottery tickets I've purchased.
I've bought more lottery tickets then I've seen of anime.
I've bought 4 lottery tickets in 42 years.
I won 2 dollars.
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Last night, the Texas Theater (i.e. the movie theater where they arrested Lee Harvey Oswald) was showing Beetlejuice. So we left the kids at Grandma's, went to our favorite tavern (they have a big outdoor seating area along the creek, a bunch of cats who chase the squirrels, a dalek on the wall behind the bar, and cheap cheeseburgers) and then went to the movies.
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So, I take it I'm the only one on FaWtL that doesn't watch anime.The amount of anime I've seen is marginally higher than the amount of lottery tickets I've purchased.
*Mumbles through a stuffy cranium*
Thank you for the well-wishes everyone…
*Sips more tea'n'honey*
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Please heal kjeldorn.
Woran, I will prepare the hibernation chamber in the abscondi-cave for you.
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Okay, here is what I hope is the next to last update
To be fair, the Dragon Ball series is like the Mario Brothers of anime. Even my mom has played a Mario and she's one of those awful monsters who doesn't hold the run button down and thinks video games are all for kids. It's a gateway cartoon.
I've mainly watched the mainstream stuff...
Dragon Ball, DBZ, DB Super (basically one long show),
Fullmetal Alchemist and FMA Brotherhood (Nina episode is the most feels ever),
One Punch Man (best supers series on any medium and my favorite show still running),
Akame Ga Kill (not as mainstream but so badass I couldn't pass it up), Samurai Champloo (great action, great characters, crap story),
Trigun (a LG character I actually like!),
Cowboy Bebop (what Firefly wishes it was),
some of the Ghost in the Shell stuff (snooze fest),
InuYasha (good but 100 episodes too long and I hate that everyone but thr main char just warches fights like a wrestling commentator),
some of the Gundams (sucked to me - giant robots don't make up for a boring story),
Lupin the 3rd (the actual f~@@ was that),
some of Pokemon (god awful),
Ranma 1/2 (I need to bleach my brain to scrub that from it)
a few more I don't remember.
It was mostly stuff on adult swim when I was younger. A premium crunchyroll account would be wasted on me.
Here's the thing I don't get...why would you write off an entire medium? Anime is, when it boils down to it, just an art style and it varies in nature as widely as, say, live action drama. It's one thing to see something and not like it. I hated every editiom of Gundam. But if I judged the entire medium on that hot garbage I'd never have seen some of my favorite shows. It's not like saying "I don't like rap/rock/country/etc" it's like saying "I don't like music" it's so broad of a medium you close off huge amounts of subgenres.
I'm way too amateur of an anime fan to cite ALL thr variances, but I'm sure someone like Freehold could do the point more justice.
To be fair, the Dragon Ball series is like the Mario Brothers of anime. Even my mom has played a Mario and she's one of those awful monsters who doesn't hold the run button down and thinks video games are all for kids. It's a gateway cartoon.
I've mainly watched the mainstream stuff...
Dragon Ball, DBZ, DB Super (basically one long show),
Fullmetal Alchemist and FMA Brotherhood (Nina episode is the most feels ever),
One Punch Man (best supers series on any medium and my favorite show still running),
Akame Ga Kill (not as mainstream but so badass I couldn't pass it up), Samurai Champloo (great action, great characters, crap story),
Trigun (a LG character I actually like!),
Cowboy Bebop (what Firefly wishes it was),
some of the Ghost in the Shell stuff (snooze fest),
InuYasha (good but 100 episodes too long and I hate that everyone but thr main char just warches fights like a wrestling commentator),
some of the Gundams (sucked to me - giant robots don't make up for a boring story),
Lupin the 3rd (the actual f+*@ was that),
some of Pokemon (god awful),
Ranma 1/2 (I need to bleach my brain to scrub that from it)
a few more I don't remember.It was mostly stuff on adult swim when I was younger. A premium crunchyroll account would be wasted on me.
Here's the thing I don't get...why would you write off an entire medium? Anime is, when it boils down to it, just an art style and it varies in nature as widely as, say, live action drama. It's one thing to see something and not like it. I hated every editiom of Gundam. But if I judged the entire medium on that hot garbage I'd never have seen some of my favorite shows. It's not like saying "I don't like rap/rock/country/etc" it's like saying "I don't like music" it's so broad of a medium you close off huge amounts of subgenres.
I'm way too amateur of an anime fan to cite ALL thr variances, but I'm sure someone like Freehold could do the point more justice.
Actually, firefly is taken directly from the anime outlaw star. Browncoats have drank the Whedon aid to the point that they have the wiki saying it is a "coincidence", but those who have not know better.
[True]Gundam is not for everyone, unfortunately. The loss is yours.
Ranma 1/2 is one of the greatest anime ever, made by one of the quietest titans in the industry. Takahashi-o-sensei is a true goddess.
I came THIS close to getting the English dub voice actress for Shampoo's autograph. I did thank her for her work, though.
Get well soon Kjeldorn…
Dawww…
Cutie Cat!
*Gives Mort a head-scratch and a nuzzle*
Judging from all the pics, you're having a great time in the states, so keep em coming ^^
Its dark and rainy outside.
It was dark when I left home for work.
It will be dark when I get home.I want to hibernate.
Yup winter in Northern Europe really makes you wanna make a bedcover-cave and hide away until spring ^^
Which I am...though mostly due to my sinuses.If I wasn't sick I would probably even invite you over for a tour :P
*Waggles eyebrows, while sniffling pathetically*
Rebuilding the floor of a greenhouse that was taken out by a storm with pavers, it's going to be sweet!
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Actually, firefly is...To be fair, the Dragon Ball series is like the Mario Brothers of anime. Even my mom has played a Mario and she's one of those awful monsters who doesn't hold the run button down and thinks video games are all for kids. It's a gateway cartoon.
I've mainly watched the mainstream stuff...
Dragon Ball, DBZ, DB Super (basically one long show),
Fullmetal Alchemist and FMA Brotherhood (Nina episode is the most feels ever),
One Punch Man (best supers series on any medium and my favorite show still running),
Akame Ga Kill (not as mainstream but so badass I couldn't pass it up), Samurai Champloo (great action, great characters, crap story),
Trigun (a LG character I actually like!),
Cowboy Bebop (what Firefly wishes it was),
some of the Ghost in the Shell stuff (snooze fest),
InuYasha (good but 100 episodes too long and I hate that everyone but thr main char just warches fights like a wrestling commentator),
some of the Gundams (sucked to me - giant robots don't make up for a boring story),
Lupin the 3rd (the actual f+*@ was that),
some of Pokemon (god awful),
Ranma 1/2 (I need to bleach my brain to scrub that from it)
a few more I don't remember.It was mostly stuff on adult swim when I was younger. A premium crunchyroll account would be wasted on me.
Here's the thing I don't get...why would you write off an entire medium? Anime is, when it boils down to it, just an art style and it varies in nature as widely as, say, live action drama. It's one thing to see something and not like it. I hated every editiom of Gundam. But if I judged the entire medium on that hot garbage I'd never have seen some of my favorite shows. It's not like saying "I don't like rap/rock/country/etc" it's like saying "I don't like music" it's so broad of a medium you close off huge amounts of subgenres.
I'm way too amateur of an anime fan to cite ALL thr variances, but I'm sure someone like Freehold could do the point more justice.
Cowboy Bebop is so much better than Outlaw Star it isn't even funny.
I've been out of the anime loop for a while, but I've watched a fair bit. FMAB is my all-time favorite. Baccano! is up there as well. Never been able to stand Gundam.
I do get frustrated with it at times. Some cultural things just don't translate - "lovable" pervert characters seem to be a staple, more blatantly so than in western media, and it just skeeves me out (that one teacher in Azumanga Daioh especially).
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...To be fair, the Dragon Ball series is like the Mario Brothers of anime. Even my mom has played a Mario and she's one of those awful monsters who doesn't hold the run button down and thinks video games are all for kids. It's a gateway cartoon.
I've mainly watched the mainstream stuff...
Dragon Ball, DBZ, DB Super (basically one long show),
Fullmetal Alchemist and FMA Brotherhood (Nina episode is the most feels ever),
One Punch Man (best supers series on any medium and my favorite show still running),
Akame Ga Kill (not as mainstream but so badass I couldn't pass it up), Samurai Champloo (great action, great characters, crap story),
Trigun (a LG character I actually like!),
Cowboy Bebop (what Firefly wishes it was),
some of the Ghost in the Shell stuff (snooze fest),
InuYasha (good but 100 episodes too long and I hate that everyone but thr main char just warches fights like a wrestling commentator),
some of the Gundams (sucked to me - giant robots don't make up for a boring story),
Lupin the 3rd (the actual f+*@ was that),
some of Pokemon (god awful),
Ranma 1/2 (I need to bleach my brain to scrub that from it)
a few more I don't remember.It was mostly stuff on adult swim when I was younger. A premium crunchyroll account would be wasted on me.
Here's the thing I don't get...why would you write off an entire medium? Anime is, when it boils down to it, just an art style and it varies in nature as widely as, say, live action drama. It's one thing to see something and not like it. I hated every editiom of Gundam. But if I judged the entire medium on that hot garbage I'd never have seen some of my favorite shows. It's not like saying "I don't like rap/rock/country/etc" it's like saying "I don't like music" it's so broad of a medium you close off huge amounts of subgenres.
I'm way too amateur of an anime fan to cite ALL thr variances, but I'm sure someone like Freehold could do the point more justice.
MY INSIGHTFUL POST WAS EATEN, LEAVING ME SOUNDING LIKE A PERVERT!
Which...*could* be how I sound 90% of the time. But still.
...To be fair, the Dragon Ball series is like the Mario Brothers of anime. Even my mom has played a Mario and she's one of those awful monsters who doesn't hold the run button down and thinks video games are all for kids. It's a gateway cartoon.
I've mainly watched the mainstream stuff...
Dragon Ball, DBZ, DB Super (basically one long show),
Fullmetal Alchemist and FMA Brotherhood (Nina episode is the most feels ever),
One Punch Man (best supers series on any medium and my favorite show still running),
Akame Ga Kill (not as mainstream but so badass I couldn't pass it up), Samurai Champloo (great action, great characters, crap story),
Trigun (a LG character I actually like!),
Cowboy Bebop (what Firefly wishes it was),
some of the Ghost in the Shell stuff (snooze fest),
InuYasha (good but 100 episodes too long and I hate that everyone but thr main char just warches fights like a wrestling commentator),
some of the Gundams (sucked to me - giant robots don't make up for a boring story),
Lupin the 3rd (the actual f+*@ was that),
some of Pokemon (god awful),
Ranma 1/2 (I need to bleach my brain to scrub that from it)
a few more I don't remember.It was mostly stuff on adult swim when I was younger. A premium crunchyroll account would be wasted on me.
Here's the thing I don't get...why would you write off an entire medium? Anime is, when it boils down to it, just an art style and it varies in nature as widely as, say, live action drama. It's one thing to see something and not like it. I hated every editiom of Gundam. But if I judged the entire medium on that hot garbage I'd never have seen some of my favorite shows. It's not like saying "I don't like rap/rock/country/etc" it's like saying "I don't like music" it's so broad of a medium you close off huge amounts of subgenres.
I'm way too amateur of an anime fan to cite ALL thr variances, but I'm sure someone like Freehold
Consider that I was a female high school student when I first found the series.
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Yeah I could use less of the pervy old man cliche.
Yeah I could use less of the pervy old man cliche.
Hey, I wasnt born in 1978 to be some kind of...NON-pervy old man! That makes no sense.
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I do get frustrated with it at times. Some cultural things just don't translate - "lovable" pervert characters seem to be a staple, more blatantly so than in western media, and it just skeeves me out (that one teacher in Azumanga Daioh especially).
Or outright unlovable pervert. (Mineta is a blight upon class 1-A.)
I do get frustrated with it at times. Some cultural things just don't translate - "lovable" pervert characters seem to be a staple, more blatantly so than in western media, and it just skeeves me out (that one teacher in Azumanga Daioh especially).Or outright unlovable pervert. (Mineta is a blight upon class 1-A.)
I don't know who that is. Is it a new thing? The last new thing I watched was One Punch Man.
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OK. I'm disappointed in y'all. I was trying to see how long it took to take a 1000-post break. 5 days later you've managed... 276? Really?
But I have to vent because for the next kids' campaign:
- You get claws
- You get natural armor
- You can pounce.
Once again, it's obvious that the intent was that the barbarian would pounce with claws and teeth for a rather cool effect.
Instead, it's become the biggest exploit I know of in Pathfinder 1 ("If you don't take Pounce as a barbarian, you're not playing him right!"). I despise it with a passion reserved for very few things Pathfinder-related. (Antipaladins being another one. It's harder to be good than evil. Good deserves nice things.)
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Sorry NH, but I've been wrestling with a crappy connection for the last few days which doesn't leave much energy to spam.
About class balance - one part of me now says the players should get to play whatever they want, if the AP seems too hard, that's their choice. Again my ironfang invasion may end up without an arcane caster which I don't think is the end of the world. It might be interesting to see how a lack of teleportation works out.
Lack of condition removal I'm not so happy about because players hate sitting around doing nothing.
And for some stuff like legendary planet, player guides cost money and I'm a cheapskate, so I didn't read no player guide either.
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Sorry, NH. I'm actively stallingworking on writing a guided reading packet.
In regards to the players not working together, not reading the player's guide, and basically making a weak party...
...when they die, the appropriate response is "That'll learn em"
Obviously this is a lazy GM, since s/he didn't prep squat. Personally, if I warned my players about working together as a group (I always do) and to read the player's guide if I'm doing an AP (I always do) and they choose not to listen to me?
I wreck their f$~+ing faces. I don't make the AP any harder, and I don't boost anything up - I just play all of the enemies intelligently, have them actually work together as a group, and that will absolutely DESTROY any unbalanced group 90% of the time.
Then I tell them "I told you so."
Their second characters usually are a little more thought out. Oddly enough I've had no complaints from this method. People seem to like a brutal GM. I guess most of my players are used to the Monty Haul style of GMing and are tired of being Deus Ex'd out of their stupid decisions. (I once had a GM pull punches so much I literally would charge at everything with no regard to what happened to my character. He fudged every deathblow.)
BTW a similar thing almost happened in a Kingmaker AP I'm a player in. I GM'd that one to about book 3, and I warned all the other players "Guys, we CANNOT win every fight. Sometimes we have to run. I can't make that call because that would be metagaming with my knowledge, but please, please realize that. One of you has to run sometimes."
Did you know a Will O The Wisp is a random encounter possibility at level 2 in that AP? Or 5 trolls?
I can't tell you how hard I laughed at the player who kept saying his parry could stop anything.
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Said GM is a brand new GM. I think a little leeway can be granted. But yeah, should've at least skimmed the AP and done minimal prep.
OK. I'm disappointed in y'all. I was trying to see how long it took to take a 1000-post break. 5 days later you've managed... 276? Really?
But I have to vent because for the next kids' campaign:
The supposed GM did no prep at all and then invited the players over to create characters
The players did no prep at all and started creating characters without reading the Player's Guide for the AP, and without talking to each other to make sure necessary gaps were filled. We were one soccer practice away from having a 4-player group with no divine -OR- arcane casters; the only caster in the whole party was going to be a bard (the other three were going to be barbarian, rogue, and ninja or gunslinger)
One of the more experienced players immediately tried to do a rage-pounce barbarian build. Because that works so well in APs, especially with noob GMs, and isn't the ultimate example of player-entitled-rules-lawyering in existence.
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Re: g vs e, this depends on the campaign setting as well as definitions of the alignments. It was damn hard to be evil in planescape, and even harder to be good in dark sun. I dont buy the "evil is easy!" trope, as it has its roots in religious nonsense that I will not discuss here.
I dunno. To me a new GM should do even more prep work. A veteran can get away with winging it far more than a newbie.