Yes, in particular the non-stick forever chemicals known as PFAS (aka Teflon and its precursors). The same chemistry that makes these plastics so non-stick also makes them resilient to being broken down chemically in our bodies. And the more the government tries to regulate them away, the more the industry plays whack-a-mole with modifications to the formula. It’s the designer drug problem writ large!
Yes, the key here is to not let people push you around with this statement. Sometimes people like to say this when they implicitly mean “I am comfortable with X, therefore you should be comfortable with X.” This is not a genuine attempt to help you!
However, stepping outside of your comfort zone can also mean trying new things you were initially reluctant to try or hadn’t thought to try. Here you have the opportunity to discover some truly great new hobbies/interests that can enrich your life!
It’s really pretty but I’m glad I’m not down there in all that traffic!
Oh because that incorrect analogy is the most common “lay person” analogy for describing gravitational curvature of spacetime. The most common reply from children is that it’s the earth’s gravity pulling down on the bowling ball so that the trampoline demonstration wouldn’t work in space.
Also the trampoline analogy doesn’t show us how gravitational lensing works, nor does it even touch how different gravitational reference frames affect the passage of time (GR generalizes special relativity, after all).
That’s special relativity. General relativity is the theory of the curvature of spacetime as the mechanism for gravity. Large masses curve spacetime more than small masses. Under GR, gravity is not a force.
I would’ve loved to hear him explain general relativity to an elementary school kid. No bowling ball on trampoline nonsense either!
I think you’re right. However I think this could also be compensated for. The trick would be to tweak the number of copies of each scroll in the deck. Then really powerful scrolls like rage or lullaby or retribution could be made relatively uncommon.
I suggested in another reply the idea of having a “hand” of scrolls that the book draws into and shuffles after emptying. What if the hand size scales with upgrades to the book? Start at 1 (which is basically identical to current behaviour) and scale up to a hand of 5 at max upgrade?
Anyway my goal here is not to make the book more powerful than it already is. The goal is to make it more strategic than “read all of the charges during a critical moment and hope for the best” without losing the flavour of randomness and chaos.
Yes. Chicken is an example of a prisoner’s dilemma, though with the key difference that it plays out in real time instead of a single instant.
Tragedy of the commons is usually the result of a large group game of chicken/PD.
Yes, this is clear enough in the long run. But the question is: will the transition happen fast enough to prevent a climate change catastrophe?
I was thinking about how to alleviate your issue partially. What if instead of going through the entire library of scrolls every time, the book would draw a “hand” of say 5 scrolls that you’d use up and then it would shuffle and draw 5 more? If the book told you which 5 scrolls were in the hand then you’d have the ability to plan what to do with them. For example, having retribution and rage and lullaby in your hand would be a very powerful combo to use against the Dwarf King. Much better than ID and remove curse (especially if you don’t have anything left to ID).
The issue with fighting climate change is that it’s a game of chicken between all the countries. If the UK goes all out and eliminates all emissions (at the cost of some portion of its economy) but every other country stays the course, then climate change just carries on and the UK’s sacrifice is in vain.
Similarly, if every other country in the world buckles down and stops climate change but the UK carries on, the UK ends up ahead. This means there is a double disincentive to cooperate on climate change.
Canada is going through this issue right now. The Liberal government has gone forward with carbon taxes and now these policies have become deeply unpopular. The Liberal party is now staring down the barrel of a potentially historic defeat in the upcoming election next year.
I actually prefer to watch without captions. The lack of speaking, peaceful sounds of nature, and sounds of the work he’s doing all combine for a very relaxing watch.
Plus I also enjoy trying to figure out what he’s doing without having it explained to me.
Have you tried a warden golden lotus run? That one, to me, is the most game breaking thing you can do on 0 challenges. The ability to freeze time and afflict enemies with every single seed debuff without them being able to do anything is monstrously OP.
Plus the fact that the golden lotus makes all your seeds last forever gives you effectively infinite seeds.
With my idea you could just put all the ID and remove curse scrolls into the book and then get a much higher chance of drawing them. You wouldn’t like that?
Isn’t that an indictment of the current design?
Yeah I agree. I think the game in general is really good about giving you access to the right information you need to make decisions. Footwear of nature, for example, always show you what seed they currently have stored.
They’re probably working for the government. China has had “white monkey jobs” for a long time. They’ve also followed the Russian playbook of paid internet trolls. These influencers are just a combination of the both.
Oh okay that makes sense. I hope we see a story about some tool like that buying a shitty $100k Trump watch and getting their comeuppance. This is definitely someone who would complain about gas prices because there’s no way they could afford a watch like that without feeling hardship.
In my mind, the $100k watch sterotype fits more with one of those pimped out Hummers than a $70k pickup truck.
I doubt those guys complain about fuel prices either.
The harder thing to convey is the full dimensionality of it. With the rubber sheet (or trampoline) you can show a small ball orbiting around a larger one but only in a single plane (around the “equator” of the large ball). However in reality you can orbit in any direction you like and many satellites actually orbit over the poles. Trying to show that with a small model seems extremely difficult!
Furthermore, most children are raised on the idea that gravity is pulling them down. They intuitively understand the idea that when they climb a ladder and drop a ball from the top, the earth pulls the ball down. General relativity tells us that this is not happening at all! That there us nothing pulling us down whatsoever. I have yet to see anyone provide a lay person GR explanation for the ladder problem.