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the funniest thing about ttrpgs is that you can create a guy and say "his name is blorbo bleebus. he sucks severely. i hope that many misfortunes befall blorbo bleebus. he does not deserve to be happy." and at least one of your friends will immediately jump in to say "noooo... don't bully blorbo bleebus... i love blorbo bleebus..."

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fly home goose

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I've rewound this 5 times just to watch murphs reactions

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Oh what's that? You only read books with lots of "spice" in them? Well then I've got a great one for you, practically the whole plot revolves around "spice". Ahem. In the week before the departure to Arrakis,

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ART: Hey I know we just stopped arguing two minutes ago but do you want a makeover (revs surgical saw)

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I've developed mathematics for a non-human mind, for my comic "The book written by tiny paws"

Sapient distant descendants of rats, known as packers, living on Earth millions of years after the extinction of humans, began to develop mathematics using cognitive mechanisms never intended for such tasks. Due to an evolutionary quirk, multiplication came more naturally to them than addition, and their mathematics reflects this.

Packers write numbers as shapes, with each number having a corresponding number of corners.

And they write large numbers as nested shapes. The number inside is multiplied by the number outside.

Examples of some numbers:

Packers haven't invented 0 yet. They haven't even invented 1! In fact, they don’t need the concept of "one" much in their system. There's no need to say "I ate one fish" when they can simply say "I ate fish".

Packers can't yet write large prime numbers, like 101 or 10,501, because they would have to draw a huge shape to represent them! Even writing 17 or 19 would be quite difficult if they only used convex shapes.

So packers use non-convex shapes too!

Many years later, some packer noticed that large prime numbers look suspiciously symmetric.

So this packer improved the notation system and made it clearer.

Later, another packer simplified this system even more, deciding that there was no point in writing the same shapes twice.

This packer was the first in their culture to declare that "a dot isolated from a number" should also be considered a number. The packer called this dot "the wonderful number that's less than two".

Many years later, another packer made an important innovation: the "dot isolation" could be repeated multiple times as long as the result remained odd. When the result became even, it could undergo a "two isolation" (division by two). The final result will be a series of dots and twos.

This invention led to the creation of a binary system based on one and two, which had a significant impact on the technological advancement of packers.

The comic "the book written by tiny paws" talks about all of this in more detail. There will be mistakes, debates, the invention of rational, irrational, multivariate numbers, and some other stuff. Some stuff will be very much like human math, and some will be different. After all, math is still math, only the point of view has changed.

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What if Martha Wells won't tell us the name of the company because it's just Amazon

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the thing about the historical innacuracy of a funeral home founded in the 15th century is that wooden overcoats is also set on a made up island in the english channel. if anything it's even funnier that on some random island the first funeral home was invented and then it took another few centuries for the concept to take off anywhere else. it does however raise many questions about why piffling needed a funeral home so much earlier in history than everyone else which can be answered by it's piffling they're just like that.

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The monster within the pages

(pageless version under the cut!)

I had a clear vision for the paper thing which was to be like, those book projects? where some one paints within the pages? but it didn't work out. ah well

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For those of us who cannot comprehend big numbers (me) I have done the math. FOUR FUCKING YEARS. SECUNIT WHAT THE FUCK.

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Murderbot I love u

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For Sale: Baby Shoes. Heavy wear, almost as if the baby had been hiking.

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my trademark Type of character writing that i can never resist i think has got to be what i call "the time bomb". which is a character who appears to have no likable or sympathetic traits or redeeming qualities, or lacks the charisma or depth or nuance to pull them off, and works hard to convince you of this, before brutally challenging your assumptions with The Chapter/Episode/Scene which recontextualises everything you thought you knew about them and shakes up your entire understanding of them and the story itself, as you realise that the author was laying the groundwork for this the entire time while convincing you to look elsewhere, like a magician performing a sleight of hand trick. i have something of a sixth sense for sniffing out these types of guys too, which makes it very funny when i'm the only one batting for their team while everyone else calls for their head on a spike around me. just you wait.

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Adolin playing Magic the Gathering Commander and his discussion of the format's multiplayer political meta foreshadowing the end of Stormlight 5 was not on my bingo card.

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huh why don't i feel so good *remembers the curse on my bloodline* ohhhhhh

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Hate how lighting a candle does wonders to my mood. Like wowwww. Grug like fire? Grug not sad anymore because Fire in Cave? Wow. Real predictable of Grug.