Dice

[edge of pic] …your game

Determination

With enough tries, you will eventually roll a twenty

Cognitive Dissonance

He has a degree in statistics. But he will still roll a d20 five times at the game store and declare, “This rolls high. I’ll take it!”

Randomness

Trust in the oracular power of the dice

Sometimes in Life

You don’t know if you rolled the dice nicely

Based

Idk it works well enough here

Omg yes I forgot about this thank you

Newlines are great
But they should just format them normally

I use them for actual code but the ability to use them to get normal returns somehow hadn’t occurred to me haha

Many thanks!

Feats are also an optional rule, but I’ve never heard of a table not using them. “Optional rule” in 5e is kind of like the term “theory” IRL, in that some really are optional and some are basically always used. I will admit that not all tables use the diagonal rule, though.

5e accounts for diagonal distance. Each second diagonal is 10ft. A 10ft. radius sphere spell would cover this pattern on the ground:

OOOOOOO

OOXXXOO

OXXXXXO

OXXXXXO

OXXXXXO

OOXXXOO

OOOOOOO

…lemmy formatting kills that but you get the point I hope.

It’s impossible to change the past. All you can do is be good now and in the future, using your experiences to guide you. You know what’s right, and in time your actions will show that.

Oh, ok. Must’ve misread your post, sorry.

and that’s not really what’s being talked about here

Well, they did intentionally misgender trans people. Is that not harrassing a minority?

If you’re using it to diagnose or study and not to justify then yes it’s an excellent tool.

I’ve never seen this line of thinking as useful. For practical things-- the actions you take and the beliefs you express-- their effect is not connected to whether you’re a conscious, free-willed entity, or whether you’re a collection of chemical and physical processes that emulates the first option.

It’s the same argument as “I have no free will, so it’s not my fault I’m committing this crime.” Ok, well then it’s also not my fault that I’m arresting you.

In short, just because you can explain why a certain action is taken, that doesn’t mean that the action is justified.

Ironically the religious view that evil exists in certain types of people is something that I’ve recently adopted.

Hey they hit an actual target this time!

We have a long way to go in 2024 haha… and sorry, but you didn’t refute it being modern, you simply listed things about it that you didn’t like, and called those not being modern. That wasn’t a strawman, I was literally just responding to what you said. If your beliefs are different then you should have chosen your words more carefully. This response is a great step up because it actually asserts something about the age of the constitution and its beliefs.

And that assertion is actually correct-- the US is over 200 years old when the rest of the existing democracies are mostly around 50. That’s still a short timescale when we’re talking about nations, but when referring to democracies in particular… yeah, it could use some updating.

“Modern” doesn’t mean “something I like”, it means it was created recently. So yes, it really is modern.

In terms of countries it absolutely is

Uh uh um your mom

So when Trump tries to overthrow the largest government of the free world it takes 4 years for his trial to start, but when Biden backs his military allies it takes less than a month?