ProfessorOwl_PhD [any] @ ProfessorOwl_PhD @hexbear.net

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but in Pf2e it looks closer to an actual circle.

Same in PF1, and all the D&D's before 4. I'm pretty sure most games made to be played with a battlemap have a rule for diagonals, making 4e an exception.

What if the wheels fell off every single car in the world at the same time? I can come up with ridiculous hypotheticals too.
What about all the ambulances that no longer have to pick up to traffic collision victims? What about the ambulances being able to transport people faster due to the roads being clear of traffic? It's not just a ridiculous hypothetical, it's one that's much more likely to happen with cars around.

No, I don't have to define it, because I'm talking about observability in quantum mechanics, not some philosophical metaphysical bollocks about what consciousness is. My definition of observation does not in any way include consciousness, so defining consciousness adds nothing to my definition. Your definition of observation is being seen by something with consciousness, so you have to define what consciousness is. I have to define things like interactions and particles, I do not have to provide you with definitions so that your stupid ideas make sense.

if you need to take two people at once to the hospital

ambulance

to a nightclub or to the forest outside the city for fishing and barbecue or somewhere else.

shut up, those aren't remotely urgent. Get on your bike.

A bicycle is not good enough to transport cargo or large items

Skill issue

It is very easy to accidentally puncture a bicycle wheel tube

Skill issue

A bicycle can be stolen from you more easily than a car

True, but a bike costs a fraction of a car, so it's also much less of an issue if it happens

The bicycle does not protect you from rain and snow and is more difficult to ride on ice, mud and puddles

Skill issue

No, you dumb fuck, I don't need to define consciousness for my explanation of observability in physics to make sense - my interpretation of quantum mechanics doesn't mention consciousness at all. You have to define it because your interpretation of quantum superpositioning claims that it only collapses when a conscious mind observes it, so you have to define what conscioussness is.

A consciousness-based interpretation of quantum mechanics would need any conscious observer

If you're going to claim that consciousness is the influencing factor in quantum mechanics you need to define consciousness. You need to define the point at which consciousness starts. You saying "yes a dolphin is conscious" only tells me you think humans and dolphins are conscious, and nothing about what you think consciousness is, what things you think are conscious, or why consciousness would influence particles. So either you give a real answer to their question of what you think consciousness is or you start listing the things you think are conscious until smarter minds can work out what connects the dots.

I hope you're right, but I've seen a bunch of this "slavery is for African Americans" rhetoric recently and I'm not sure if it's ignorance or maliciousness.

Sorry, you're trying to turn slave into an unsayable slur? What the actual fuck, is this some kind of right wing psyop to nullifying discussions of historical and modern slavery, or just USian libshit racism that equates black skin and slavery?

that would include dolphins

This is literally the closest form of consciousness to our own - the easiest and most obvious case. They weren't actually asking if dolphins would count, they're asking at what point it counts as consciousness. The ones you need to answer are things like tardigrades, bacteria and viruses, or nonphysical forms of consciousness. After all, you're seriously claiming that the scientific definition of observation is observation by a conscious mind, not interaction with another aspect of the universe, so why don't we consider all the nonfalsifiables? Do ghosts collapse the quantum superposition?

Sony have a few decent wireless ones under £100 - I've got some MDR-ZX770BN that are about 7 or 8 years old now. I think WH-CH720N is about the current equivalent of them.

I've had good results with JBL earbuds too - the Reflect series have done a solid job while I'm cycling.

I'm sure it's worth the money if you have plenty to spare, but somehow I suspect that OP isn't just trying to be thrifty, and your advice is about as helpful as telling them to just walk on water.

Being somewhere illegally is not remotely the same as being illegal. It only makes sense to you because you didn't actually think about it.

You mean apart from them occuring at set intervals? The length of time between the average women's periods is 28 days, but the moon's 28 day cycle is 100% reliable, and always happens regardless of individual stressors. Having a regular solar event that confirms you're accurately keeping track of days is pretty practical.

brb putting 1.2 million crabs in a gigantic maze so i can run doom

Extremely funny that you're so upset you made a meme to vent over your lack of imagination, so just to be a complete asshole about this, the fact that you're not running Blades until tomorrow very literally means you haven't actually played it yet.

I'll put this down to poorly explaining their argument to start with, as they downplayed the "5e but better" games in their first comment while that was really their entire point.

I'll give you the first half, but my point was more "that's not crazy homebrew", which, frankly, even BitD demonstrates. They're talking about vanilla fantasy like it's House of Leaves.

Hey, no, keep paraphasing. I want to see what I said after that. Just the next sentence.

How did you play those systems and still think you're talking about "crazy homebrew shit"? All 3 of them have your homebrew in them - let's try an analogy; imagine you have a large, expensive, and nearly featureless car. You are very proud of how its simplicity lets you keep innovating the craziest new features. You punched some holes in it to create airflow and keep you cool while the car's moving. You set up an array of antennas on the roof so you can take a radio with you and listen to music. You cut a hole in the roof and attache a panel with hinges, so you can open it up on nice days. And then you brag to me about your genius ideas you homebrewed, and I ask why the fuck you didn't just get a car with AC, a stereo, and a sunroof, and you get defensive because I've pointed out something very obvious to everyone but you.

Don't get me wrong, I love crazy homebrew shit. I homebrewed 5e into some crazy shit, but that's about skeleton PCs competing to commit felonies, not adding basic features of other games. Aliens and time travel and dimension hopping aren't unusual in fantasy. This isn't some crazy homebrew shit, this is a basic expectation of the genre - one that other games provide. One that your own examples provide. If you're going to homebrew crazy shit, then homebrew some crazy shit, don't homebrew the most vanilla aspects of other games and complain when it's pointed out that they're not remotely crazy shit.

Yeah, no, this is exactly what I mean - you didn't describe any "crazy homebrew shit", you described things that are just in other systems (even older editions of D&D) without any additional work. One of my PF2e players is a time traveller, without me having to add anything. One of my PF1 players was basically a power ranger, entirely RAW. hell, one of the players I played 4e with was a dimension hopper, even if it was largely flavour.

When I say try another game I don't just mean try something on the opposite end of the ttrpg spectrum like FitD, I also mean try one of the many "5e but better" systems (including previous editions of D&D) to get rid of these ridiculous illusions about all the work you're having to put in.

I am begging you to just try another system. Even a same-but-different system like pathfinder. Most of them are much easier and require a lot less work.