ProfessorOwl_PhD [any] @ ProfessorOwl_PhD @hexbear.net

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intelligence of a toddler and morals of a seagull

That's just a dog. Anyone with a dog knows this.

"AN ORPHAN?! It's powered by a FORSAKEN CHILD?!"

In my second year of chemistry at uni we suddenly had to fill in health and safety paperwork before every lab - they explained that during the finals at the end of the previous year an older student had absent mindedly dropped a lump of sodium in the aqueous waste container, which exploded, causing all the different waste containers to break open and start mixing. Thankfully it only destroyed the fume hood, the immediately surrounding benches, and a few thousand pounds worth of glassware, and didn't get as far as the really expensive equipment.

the people willing to listen the hardest.

I don't know if you can see usernames on your instance but theirs ends in "@lemmy", not "@hexbear" or "@lemmygrad".

wym missing

Undecided on going to jail or enthusiastically joining the sappers and using their resources for some :adventure-time:

I understand how it can be frustrating for you idiots to be constantly corrected by us, but maybe if you tried learning before assuming you wouldn't find yourselves geting dogpiled for your ignorant kneejerk support of an islamophobic white supremacist ultranationalist.

Don't be ridiculous, they've shot a bunch of men - escaped hostages, their own troops, and, like, probably at least 1 Hamas through sheer probability.

There's a gay hookup on the branches just to the left, too.

Ok, yeah, I guess its not the point, but as your article notes among all the things it isn't intended to do, it has the same effect. It's still what limits the effects of choices, rather than the number of them.

Pf2e is very well made in that optimisation generally adds up to a few points of damage difference in a white room, while good tactics on the battlefield can make for literally hundreds of points of damage difference. It really frees you up to take feats because you think they'll be interesting or add to your character, instead of being pigeonholed by optimal choices.

More choices could allow you to make a mechanically strong character even with bounded accuracy.

Well, no, not really. The whole point of bounded accuracy is that it limits the bonuses you add to dice (all dice, so yes damage is constrained by it) so the rolls matter more, and choices that allow you to gain advantage, change damage types, exploit weaknesses, even reroll low damage are all included already. What you mean is that more powerful choices would allow you to make mechanically stronger characters, which is just a tautology - the reason for the limitations on the choices is bounded accuracy, so new choices that were added would still be limited by it.

5e's bounded accuracy is why you "can't" make a mechanically strong character, not the lack of choices. The rolls matter that much more than your bonuses that a character who is mechanically strong on paper can be outdone by a mechanically weak character that rolls slightly better.
Try PF2 and you'll see how mandatory balance and simplicity of play can be combined with lots of choices.

You lift the mimic-cup to your face and take a long drink
The mimic is stuck directly over your mouth and nose
You are now suffocating

The whole point of human shields is the expectation that the person you're defending against has the basic human morality to not indiscriminately murder civilians to get to you. The IOF has no issues indiscriminately murdering civilians whether they're being used as shields or not, so what possible benefit would Hamas get from using them?

Personally, I can taste the difference in coffee when I have a bag that's opened for over a few weeks, but not sure if it matters how recent the roasting was done.

Sorry, yeah, this is more what I meant - as long as the coffee is relatively fresh (my house goes through about a bag a week, so it never gets time to sit and go stale) the price doesn't seem to get you a better/worse cup of coffee.
Of course, my aunt got me an expensive bag of coffee for christmas that apparently makes really good cold brew, so it's sat in the freezer for now waiting for better weather, so I might change my mind in a couple of months. Gonna stick with Lidl own brand beans for now though.

Maldon is a sea salt, the extra cost comes from the extraction method rather than adding anything. I don't think it tastes noticeably different, but the large crystals stop it from clumping together and gives you better distribution when sprinkling it over stuff.

NGL, I've never had an issue with cheap/expensive coffee at all, as long as it's real coffee rather than instant. I use a pour-over or aeropress rather than machine (or make cold brew), but I've never even had a cheap bag of preground coffee that was bad enough call it worse than an expensive one, rather than a different.

as if the metal rod that is my handlebar usually disintegrates once I hit the ludicrous speed of [checks notes] 25kph.

I would agree but I once dated a girl who somehow snapped a whole-ass bike in half riding into a street sign.

This goes for ANY working breed that is actually expected to work at their job in real life. And they cost a LOT of money to buy, train, and maintain.

TBH it depends on the work - up until the surge in demand from the pandemic, Border Collies were super cheap in the UK because it was mostly farmers selling the extra pups they didn't need. I'd imagine other areas have a local working breed that's similar. That said, they are now more expensive than rescues, and require a particularly high energy lifestyle so aren't suitable pets for most people. Most people just need something kinda friend shaped, which rescues have plenty of.