Nariom

joined 2 years ago
[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

I could have swore bottom left was just a plastic doll head on a stick.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

... I would say that's more about 10 and 12 having their on words, we don't say ten two, it's a bit of a shortcut? Then after 16 we stopped caring and didn't make new words, sticked to 10 7, 10 8, 10 9 for some reason, that IS weird. Unless you take into account that base 10 wasn't always the norm and maybe it made sense to have dedicated words for numbers up to 12 or 16 because they were commonly used quantities or alternative counting bases idk. See I can find (blurry memories of, needs sources) good reasons ;p The point being people say 4 20 12 but only think 92.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago

Yeah that's why i say the Belgian and Swiss ways are better, their French speakers have dedicated words for 70 80 90. That being said I not sure but I guess in a lot of languages those words just mean 7x10 8x10 9x10 ... we understand base 10 better but that's still a calculation in disguise, historically (and still in some cultures?) base 10 isn't the norm (hence the 4x20 among others).

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (6 children)

the thing nobody mentions is that the 4x20 part became a word that just means 80 in people's mind, it kinda not literal anymore, but the Swiss and Belgian ways are still better (edit the 4x20+10 is similarly just 90)

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 month ago (2 children)

buy her a mouse?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

sample size seems small but im no expert

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago
[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

What kind of monster uses emojis to make an emoticon?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Just slap it with an orb of annulment.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

I mean if you really trying to make sense of it, it doesn't anyway, that's not how statistics works.

 

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 4 months ago (3 children)

Darude Sandstorm

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Maybe a dose of realism? To hack anything serious from the outside it would probably take weeks or months of investigation, programming, testing, ... So if the players don't have the time, physical access, or previous knowledge and tools, that's a big nay. It depends on what type of sci-fi though, if it's the movie / tv type where hacking is a shortcut to anything in record time, welp.

 
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