@BESW peer leadership is one of the hardest kinds. It is so much a function of personality and group "tone" ... I never had a hard time speaking up, some people never speak up, and there's a whole lot of ground in between.
@MikeQ Foot is also high in protein. (How do I know that, I wonder?) 8^p
@sevensideddie my tongue-in-cheek answer: play bridge. The person managing the contract has too much going on to chat at all, the dummy's free to be a chatty Cathy, the opposition can chat casually, and those roles all rotate each hand =)
I still don't have the hang of the programming I've practiced
To be fair though, I don't spend too much free time on it, and at work I already have learn something new and complicated every other month and teach it to other people
(Every once in a while when I want to troll the CS teacher here I find a precocious student and point them toward the GOTO-implementations of control sequences.)
If I was being serious, the actual argument isn't "which language first", it's "C++ first vs something else first". I'm still not sure which side I'm on.
BASIC ... uh, try writing a 2d graphics (motion) project in BASIC. Yeah, did it, but that's about 40 years ago and I still shudder at the memory. No, I did not get an A on that project.
@Shalvenay Yeah, me too. Except that a lot of people never learn about pointers, and will therefore never completely understand pass-by-reference vs pass-by-value.
@Miniman That's one of those things where I get the theory (I think), but have never had to build something where it mattered enough to feel like I really get it.
@Miniman the other issue I have with Pascal as a first language is the paradigm restrictions that it imposes -- doesn't grow with you very well in terms of covering territory
@Miniman I'd think you'd want to get folks exposed to multiple paradigms fairly early on, so they don't get locked into a pure-imperative or pure-OO mindset
@Shalvenay Hmmm. Maybe it's a result of how I learned, but I see imperative as the fundamental form of programming, with functional and OO being different ways of packaging chunks of program.
@Miniman well, for OO that has merit, but for FP that can be a bit sticky due to pure/impure separations.
there's also what can be called "FauxO" which combines FP immutability with OO encapsulation
(so instead of a method returning a reference to an altered self, it returns a brand-new thing that's a copy of the existing thing with some stuff changed)
I mean, there are restrictions on what a function can do, but when you get right down to it, it's a chunk of code that gets run when you call the function.
Oh.. my.. god. Gotta love those moments when you spend half n hour trying to figure out why it's not doing the thing, then you realise, it's because you never even added the code to do the thing in the first place.
@KorvinStarmast I didn't, but my dad was on a project down in Galveston-area for a while, so I've been a bunch of times. (Godparents lived in Houston many years, best friend married an Arlington girl, &c.)
@KorvinStarmast Yeah... distances west vs. east of the Appalachians are just... different.
I did love how easy directions were, living out west. "Driving from boulder to Minneapolis? Easy: head south. Take a left at Denver. Take a left at Kansas City. Stop at Minneapolis."
Aye. Just read a neat book about how America got connected. I am done with it, would like to send it to you for free. Maybe one of your kids can read it for junior high or high school reading project.
My wife's favorite Australian was Ian Baker Finch. I used to watch a bit of golf when he was in his prime. If Ian was playing, she'd sit next to me .. but swoon when he was on screen.
@Miniman I did a world history and social studies project in 9th grade. It was on Australia. I won a prize. (Worth about 5 dollar US at the time). I still think Ned Kelly was misunderstood, and for my money Mick Jagger wasn't the right man for that movie.
Amazon has a bunch of 5e stuff on sale. (All-time lows below are from camelcamelcamel.com's price history tool.) The Monster Manual is currently on sale on Amazon at its lowest price ever (there) of $21.99 SCAG is as well, at $18.31 Xanathar's Guide to Everything is $22.43 Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes is $22.89 HOTDQ (adventure) is $13.73 (oddly, the sequel Rise of Tiamat is literally the highest price it's ever been on Amazon at $25.45) Tomb of Annihilation (adventure) is $22.48
Some fairly new releases are their lowest price so far, too:
That Art & Arcana "book" is a ripoff at any price. It's not worth the disappointment one feels at looking at an Elmore cover titled Art & Arcana and getting, like, a dozen full-page splashes with writeups that could have been taken from WP.
@KorvinStarmast "700+ draft images and sketches" and "40 interviews with artists" sounds a lot better than this thing. Mine must be a promo. (I was given it as a thank-you by a con organizer.)
Authors include Michael Witwer and Jon Peterson. Jon's Playing at the World is a monstrously-impressive treatise on the history of RPGs that's worthy of a PhD. Witwer's Empire of Imagination is... not.
The two big things I remember (from about 2 years ago, maybe?): 1. There are large (laaarge) jumps in time. Like it feels like Witwer just had a half-dozen decently-sourced episodes he could write about, but they don't quite make for a full-feeling story. I mean, there's a business growing and spinoff products and an edition fork that could have been written about... but it's like someone just picked six scenes from Gary's life/work to talk about and left out a lot of the connecting tissue. (Jumping from Hollywood-Gary to TSR-ouster-Gary, for instance, IIRC.)
@Miniman I mean, nothing's going to compare to Playing. Peterson wrote a textbook. Collegiate-level, for that.
I'm not kidding when I say it should have been his dissertation for a PhD in American History>20th-century American business>recreation&games.
So, the program scans a file - says "these are your headers, is this ok?"
The norm, is that the headers should be what shows up in the list. 90% of the time, the user won't see the 10% of the files that have different headers
@MikeQ Yes it's ok - continue as normal. No it's not, user can remedy, and then continue
@BESW Yeah, that's fair. My question though is should I explain why that button is there? Only the developers would understand the need for it otherwise.
Since the alternative seems to be "never have the button, let the chips fall where they may" or possibly "pop up the button randomly," I tend to fall on the side of user agency.
@Ben Maybe a little "Why is this here?" with a hyperlink to the relephant FAQ/help
The specifics of the case, is that users can enter information into a table. The format of that table is in a specific structure, that the user created. However, when the file is created with this information stored in it, the recorded information is entered in order that the table was filled in.
So you *know* the table is 1,2,3,4,etc.
But the order in which you filled it in, and thus, the order the information was recorded, is 4,3,1,2
But that is only 10 files out of 100 that were entered in this order
@Ben I'd say to include the dialog box/message, but clarify what they should be checking (e.g. "Please make sure the data is displayed in the proper order." or whatever)
Just bought Xanathar's and Guildmaster's Guide to Ravnica. Amazon also has a $5 off coupon code for a book purchase of $20 or more, and I also had a $25 gift card, so it ended up at just $17.99 after everything with free shipping
@V2Blast Yeah. @BESW made the good point of "why not include it?" if the situation is that it's a 1/10 catch situation, there's not reason not to have it for the other 9.
I might look at it as well given I'm no longer repcapped and I seem to have been able to put a stop to all the comments on my telportation circle dc answer. Seriously, I've had the mods clean them out 3 times and started a chat. I made an edit that hopefully makes it very clear.
@goodguy5 fwiw I also had no idea what GIS meant. I'm also pretty much completely unfamiliar with digital RPG tools since we pretty much banned remote play in our group.
We were having to 'climb' up a cliff face, but I was ferrying everyone but the barbarian who wanted to climb up. There was a ledge after a difficult section and I went to check it out before the barbarian got there. :/
yeah, esri is the real deal, but searches around GIS and RPG might net you something more than just that indiegogo.
not sure if that's what you're looking for, but maps with information layers is what GIS is all about
that smite spell question is a cool one. makes me consider prepping branding smite for it. Our light cleric almost always has their Corona of Light going, so I just prepped Blinding smite to take advantage of the disadvantage created by it.
@Rubiksmoose I definitely need to think about the defensive flourish question, but I think it's going to be Ask Your DM because the rules really aren't clear.
@Rubiksmoose GIS seems like overkill for fantasy maps.
Also, those include the peculiarities of living on a globe. Most fantasy systems don't explicitly deal with that, and flat maps of flat worlds are much easier to deal with than flat projections of globes.
actually... I have played with the idea to design maps by jsut defining continental plates and their shift direction, instead of designing the landmass, and then have a computer model figure out how the land will look like... but never found a program that could model that.
Like gravity working the way it does because a massive and complex array of runes inscribed on the outside shell of the world.
But then I realized that the amount of worldbuilding and real-world physics justifications I was making was distracting me from actually tackling what I wanted to do narrative-wise.
Worldbuilding is definitely a super-fun distraction though.
@nitsua60 see the nasa site I linked: inside, the gravity from below your ass caceles out with the pull from all the sphere above your head pretty exactly. Unless magic limits the range on which gravity works (usually: unlimited), you are weightless.
Working with this question but with more of a fantasy bent, I was wondering how long it would take a civilization to learn/realize that they lived on the inside of a Dyson sphere (or hollow earth or something similar) under the following circumstances:
Light is provided by a central source tha...
@Yuuki just say "Inside the sphere, magic limits the range on which gravity works to X miles" where X is the radius of the sphere.
that way hard physics says "things get pulled to the ground"
(unless they get too close to the light source, at which point funny stuff starts to function: shoot stuff at an angle towards the sun and hit the opposite side of the sphere!)
Does it bother anybody else that this question seems to have a mini-answer in their question? I understand why they wrote it this way, but I'm wondering if it would have been a better question without all of that and posted it as an answer instead. Thoughts?
@Yuuki actually, that model works out. the calculation says technically "The sphere canceles out the gravity of the sphere", not "there can be no gravity in a sphere". A mass in the center still has gravity with effect. Planets could exist inside the sphere.
@NautArch I've been having luck implementing maps in SVG. It's especially useful because I can write some pretty simple js to turn on and off layers at different viewport scales.
So, the village icons don't appear at the hightest "zoom" level, and the village names appear at the closest.
@Rubiksmoose I'm with you--I generally prefer substantial questions to "amirite" questions. Had thought to comment, but forgot to come back to it. I don't think it's a problem, it's just a class of questions I (personally) disfavor, tend not to upvote, and rarely even consider answering.
and some shenanigans that both Nirn and Aetherius rotate around the axis that stands on the plane that is put up by Arkay and Zenithar, making them seem fixed
@Rubiksmoose I had thought the same, but they were looking for confirmation on their analysis and not a general question asking for analysis. Either way, it feels kinda opinion-based, but that's just me.
Even the general belief that rangers are underpowered I think is opinion-based.
@nitsua60 Yeah it rubs me the wrong way sometimes when it is a substantial amount of text. Because if the amirite is actually correct you end up with an answer that basically just says "yup you got it" and the answer actually ends up being in the question.
Working with this question but with more of a fantasy bent, I was wondering how long it would take a civilization to learn/realize that they lived on the inside of a Dyson sphere (or hollow earth or something similar) under the following circumstances:
Light is provided by a central source tha...
