

“There’s no point living, so you may as well die” is so last decade. “There’s no point dying, so you may as well live” is where it’s at
He/Him Jack of all trades, master of none
Proudly banned from lemmy.ml for being critical of the CCP
“There’s no point living, so you may as well die” is so last decade. “There’s no point dying, so you may as well live” is where it’s at
A dragon has been attacking trains going into and out of a mining city. The party has been hired to deal with it. They planned on taking an empty train out of the city, hoping to lure the dragon into a fight. I was thinking it would be cool, an epic dragon fight on a train. “Hey, this is a mining town. They have explosives right? Can we borrow some?” Roll for persuasion. DC20 persuasion check, passed.
I don’t have the math on me anymore, but I spent a couple minutes working out how much damage the dragon would take based on how much blasting powder they had, and how close the dragon was before it ignited it, and it was just enough damage to bring the dragon down to like 20 HP
I realized later on that I forgot to convert pounds to kilograms, so it should have still had closer to half its health, but whatever. The idea of a dragon basically killing itself by accidentally blowing up a train car full of blasting powder is sick as hell
It depends on where you live. Some regions have a limited list of acceptable names, some places just have limited lists of unacceptable names, but I can’t find anywhere that explicitly bans Null.
It does suck to be named Null, though. It’s like two steps down from not being given a social security number as an infant
The Perfect Suicide
Backpack full of C4 blows up while skydiving over the ocean? Nice
Also why he couldn’t kill Columbo
Yeah but I’m also pretty sure Gandalf was down with killing Sauron
RIP DJ Vance, poor innocent bystander got got for no reason
I think it would be a pretty strong message if Trump’s plane crashed as a direct result of his attacks on DEI stuff
I wonder how many names you have to write before you’re at the top of the psychopathic killer list
Watch Death Note, and do whatever the main character doesn’t because I’m pretty sure he gets caught
Lain is what prompted me to switch to Linux! Watching a character who doesn’t yet understand computers fuck around with a computer really inspired me to fuck around with my computer
Perfect, thank you!
I need a new password for my bank account. Any suggestions?
They also can’t amend the constitution via executive order or deport US citizens, but watch them try it anyway
Slaughtering protestors was also an act of political violence, but for some reason the moderators on this instance only like it when you talk about the US doing that
Authoritarian communist, essentially
Speed doesn’t matter too much, if you use a cheap spare computer off Craigslist to download your stuff. Just download what you want to watch ahead of time. Plus, you get near 100% uptime on seeding
Famously the hardest logic puzzle in the world: Blue Eyes
https://xkcd.com/blue_eyes.html
A group of people with assorted eye colors live on an island. They are all perfect logicians – if a conclusion can be logically deduced, they will do it instantly. No one knows the color of their eyes. Every night at midnight, a ferry stops at the island. Any islanders who have figured out the color of their own eyes then leave the island, and the rest stay. Everyone can see everyone else at all times and keeps a count of the number of people they see with each eye color (excluding themselves), but they cannot otherwise communicate. Everyone on the island knows all the rules in this paragraph.
On this island there are 100 blue-eyed people, 100 brown-eyed people, and the Guru (she happens to have green eyes). So any given blue-eyed person can see 100 people with brown eyes and 99 people with blue eyes (and one with green), but that does not tell him his own eye color; as far as he knows the totals could be 101 brown and 99 blue. Or 100 brown, 99 blue, and he could have red eyes.
The Guru is allowed to speak once (let’s say at noon), on one day in all their endless years on the island. Standing before the islanders, she says the following:
“I can see someone who has blue eyes.”
Who leaves the island, and on what night?
There are no mirrors or reflecting surfaces, nothing dumb. It is not a trick question, and the answer is logical. It doesn’t depend on tricky wording or anyone lying or guessing, and it doesn’t involve people doing something silly like creating a sign language or doing genetics. The Guru is not making eye contact with anyone in particular; she’s simply saying “I count at least one blue-eyed person on this island who isn’t me.”
And lastly, the answer is not “no one leaves.”
The answer is >!the 100 people with blue eyes leave on the 100th night.!< Double spoiler tagged so it hopefully works on every Lemmy client.
For the logic, imagine if it were actually just three people: the guru, one brown eyes, and one blue eyes. For the sake of clarity, I’ll speak through the perspective of a blue eyes in these examples. Guru says “I see someone with blue eyes.” Brown eyes also sees someone with blue eyes. But I see no one with blue eyes. I deduce that I must have blue eyes, and leave that same night.
Now >!imagine there are two blue eyes, two brown eyes, and the guru. Guru says “I see someone with blue eyes.” Brown eyes both see two sets of blue eyes, but I only see one set of blue eyes. I figure if the other person sees no other blue eyes, they’ll leave the first night. They don’t, which can only mean that they also saw someone with blue eyes, which must be me. We both leave the second night.!<
You >!can expand this logic all the way out to 100, so on the 100th night, all the blue eyes leave.!<
My worst one was expressing doubt about all information we get regarding the Israel/Palestine conflict because it is definitely being used as a wedge to divide Americans and make us easier to manipulate. Context: the IDF found Super Evil Battle Plans on dead Hamas soldiers, instructing them to kill civilians. Because they need to be reminded that that’s their mission I guess.
My second worst one was saying that we shouldn’t euthanize every pit bull. Context: a pit bull attacked someone, and everyone in the thread thought the right move was to euthanize the whole breed.
My third worst one was saying that the Fahrenheit temperature scale is more useful for average people than Celsius. Context: shitpost about fahrenheit being a bad temperature scale
Jerboa. It’s not the most functional but it reminds me of RIF the most.
I switch to Sync any time I need to use the search function