Also depends on your goal. If you just want a plant, plant will come. If you want the prettiest, strongest plant in the neighborhood, you can nerd out about the conditions to an almost fractal-like level of detail.

But is his name Steve or Dave?

Great game!

Seance at Blake Manor, a lovely mystery game. Great on deck.

The text indicates that it’s only on inheritances greater than 62 million dollars

Congrats!

Sjælland looks fishy. The north part is the wealthiest region of the country, the south part is possibly the poorest, but here the colors are flipped. Does the capital really make such a big difference? How is this measured?

Why does area get to be especially fun and definite while length, its one-dimension-away sibling doesn’t?

Excellent question, and as you yourself allude to, it’s a question of bounds. If you can establish and upper and lower bound on a quantity and make them approach eachother, you can measure it.

On a finite 2d surface you can make absolute lower and upper bounds on any area - lower is zero, upper is the full surface. All areas are measurable. But on the same surface you can make a line infinitely squiggly and detailed, essentially drawing a fractal. So the upper bound on the length of a line is infinite. Which means not all lines have a measurable length. And that comparing two line lengths might become the same problem as comparing to infinities of the same type, which is not well defined.

This extends naturally to higher dimensions - in a finite 3d space, volumes must be finite, but both lines and areas can be fractally complex and infinite. And so on.

But isn’t the issue that coastlines have a fractal nature? That depending on your resolution, you could have a finite or infinite length of a coastline? In which case measurement is hard to define.

Talking about integrals, the fun part is that even with a coastline of indeterminate length, the area of a continent is easy to define to arbitrary precision - you can just define an integral that’s definitely inside the area and one that’s definitely outside the area, and the answer is between those two.

Sure, the length of the intervals is easily compared. But saying

there are twice as many elements in the total than there are in half the range

is false. They are both aleph 1. In other words, for each unique element you can pick from [0,2], I can pick a unique element from [0,1]. I could even pick two or more. So you can’t compare the number of elements in the two in a meaningful way other than saying they both belong to the same category of infinite.

This is the whole crux of the coastline problem, isn’t it?

Isn’t it a bit like saying “there’s obviously more real numbers between 0 and 2 than between 0 and 1”? Which, to my knowledge, is a false statement.

Sigh… Source?

Good luck on the job hunt! If you roll a d20 enough times you’re bound to hit that critical success

I guess she’s trying to understand her daughter’s development through said daughter’s interactions with the world. Part of which is sexuality. Which it’s important for a parent to be aware of and help navigate.

If an older child expresses sexual behaviour, you have to take it seriously. That does not justify expressing sexual behaviour towards them in return, or any other creepy stuff.

Why is the picture including the equation of Newtonian gravitation?

The trick is to redirect the conversation into something you’re happy to rant about for hours. “Why?” “Because mitochondria are the powerhouse of the cell, much like Horus was the powerhouse of the campaign to reunify the galaxy.” “Why?” “So in ancient Anatolia, an immortal man was born…”

To me it feels more about consistency. The world aligns with your expressed ideology.

If you’re using the sneaking and non-lethal tools the world becomes a place that believes in the value of life, if you murder indiscriminately the world becomes a place of punishment, where nobody is innocent and the only way forward is to let a plague descend on the land.

Plus, arguably, the parts that get harder when you go lethal are balanced by the inherently more difficult nature of the non-lethal approach.

Interesting, I’ve never considered choices and gameplay as separate things. Isn’t it more, I don’t know, immersive if gameplay and story are unified?

Non-lethal also means avoidance rather than conflict. But ultimately, “bad ending” is subjective. You still save the princess, it’s just a more murdery vibe.

Also you get to kill the baddies yourself, it’s the good ending where most are killed for you right?

Is this really an argument for a non-meat diet being too expensive?

Imagine the effort, time and risk involved in hunting and killing a rabbit or deer with a rock, and subsequent slaughtering and storing of meat. Doesn’t that represent much more value than the money you would pay for an equivalent amount of nutrition from non-meat sources? At least in an industrialised nation?