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    Netzilla got a reaction from DentArthurDent in A Game of Numbers   
    6.67408E-11
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    Netzilla reacted to bluesguy in Can't Break Entangle   
    You want to download the latest version (1.14) which has the fix for Entangle problem you identified.
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    Netzilla reacted to bluesguy in Can't Break Entangle   
    There will be an update with the fix to this bug by the end of the week.
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    Netzilla reacted to bluesguy in Can't Break Entangle   
    Yes that is a bug.  When using a normal attack to break free of an entangle, the normal body doesn't seem to get through.  When using a killing attack it works.  The work around is to use the GM Adjust.  Sorry about that.  I will work on a fix this weekend.
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    Netzilla reacted to bluesguy in Can't Break Entangle   
    Thank you for purchasing HCM.
     
    I will take a look at this tonight.
     
    Could you also provide either the xml combat record or the HDC characters.
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    Netzilla reacted to Cancer in In other news...   
    If it does explode, it'll be an unresolved point source (to the unaided eye) comparable in brightness to the full moon, though there's a lot of slop in that estimate.  At a distance of about 220 parsecs, it'll be spectacular for a while.  Though it will ruin Orion once the remnant fades away.
     
    OTOH, the surface layers have a really long lag time in terms of response to what goes on in the core, except when the explosion shock propagates through the star's outer envelope.  I would be surprised if this variation had anything to do with what the core is doing.
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    Netzilla reacted to Surrealone in Rushed actions   
    I was curious about that too, as I've never seen DEX races, either. Perhaps it's because the GMs I've had tend to take heavy advantage when a character 'drops his pants' (by taking an action on a Phase at his DEX early in the DEX count for the Segment), thereby precluding his/her ability to abort when someone (or several someones) with lower DEX attack in the same Segment … often thumping him/her.
     
    Kick a dog enough when it can't abort … and it begins holding Actions until the last possible moments to use them -- i.e. until the Segment just before an upcoming new Phase, usually.  That's been my experience anyway...
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    Netzilla reacted to Killer Shrike in Rushed actions   
    It is a mechanic that encourages "Alpha Strikes" which are usually unhealthy in the long term. It synergizes with AoE's as they are substantially less impacted by taking a OCV penalty. It adds variance to combat calculus, making it more difficult as the GM to gauge likely outcomes and balance encounters. And so on.
     
    But, you know, nothing preventing you from trying it out.
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    Netzilla reacted to Chris Goodwin in How would you handle this?   
    This would be Set Versus Charge.  FHC p. 180, or Fantasy Hero genre book for 6th edition p. 185, or Fantasy Hero genre book for 5th edition, p. 156.  
     
    (Just for completeness' sake:  Fantasy Hero genre book for 4th edition, p. 88.  The Fantasy Hero corebook for 1st edition doesn't specificially include it, but see the Unhorse maneuver on p. 75 and the solo adventure, page 139, paragraph 4.)
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    Netzilla reacted to death tribble in Political Discussion Thread (With Rules)   
    If Doc Democracy or I start cursing or getting upset You'll know it is the election that has caused it,.
    I voted and helped take mum to vote. Had to walk the wheelchair down the hill as it would not go in the car but was able to wheel mum in and out of the polling station.
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    Netzilla got a reaction from Cancer in The Advice Column   
    If at all possible, only change a single variable between test runs.
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    Netzilla got a reaction from Cancer in The Advice Column   
    The computer is your friend.
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    Netzilla got a reaction from Cancer in The Advice Column   
    Unit tests are your friend.
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    Netzilla got a reaction from Cancer in The Advice Column   
    Red wunz go fasta.
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    Netzilla reacted to Old Man in Avengers Endgame with spoilers   
    Issues that I would pay to see...
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    Netzilla reacted to Lord Liaden in Avengers Endgame with spoilers   
    Stormbreaker. Bringing Stormbringer into the MCU would carry a whole lot of other issues. 😈
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    Netzilla reacted to Doc Democracy in Avengers Endgame with spoilers   
    Not sure if I have mentioned it but I really hate time travel stories, I also hate heavy continuity.  Is it any wonder that while End Game entertained me, it did not hit my buttons as a great movie - so many issues with time travel and continuity and how they interact...
     
    🙂
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    Netzilla reacted to wcw43921 in Avengers Endgame with spoilers   
    That's to conceal his true identity.  
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    Netzilla reacted to Starlord in Avengers Endgame with spoilers   
    The wife mentioned that one thing she liked about new Thor is that he finally looks like a Viking God and not a cover model.
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    Netzilla reacted to Cygnia in In other news...   
    A 100-year-old Army vet who fought Nazis from a tank named for his wife was just knighted by France
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    Netzilla reacted to megaplayboy in Stat Benchmarks   
    Standard deviations might be a useful way of looking at it.  1 standard deviation above average puts you in the top 15%.  2 puts you in the top 2%.  3 is around 1 in 500 to 1 in 1000.  4 is about 1 in 30,000.  5+ puts you firmly in "legendary" territory.  Every 3-5 points of a stat value above 10 could be one standard deviation.  Maybe for the physicals--STR, DEX, CON--it could be 3 points per SD(standard deviation). For the mentals--INT, EGO, PRE--it could be 5 points per.  So a stat of 30 in the physicals is ultra-rare.  A stat above 30 in the mental stats would also be super rare.  
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    Netzilla reacted to Hermit in Political Discussion Thread (With Rules)   
    https://thehill.com/homenews/house/442697-schiff-introduces-constitutional-amendment-to-overturn-citizens-united
     
    Folks might want to contact their reps and senators and support this.
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    Netzilla reacted to Lord Liaden in Political Discussion Thread (With Rules)   
    There are different kinds of smart, and different kinds of stupid. Donald Trump has demonstrated intellectual inadequacy in many areas. It makes no practical difference whether that's primarily due to actual mental deficiency or illness, arrogance, laziness, or any combination thereof.
     
    But there is one thing Donald Trump has always been good at: selling. Trump has a salesman's instinct for what people want to hear, for where they're vulnerable, and a willingness to exploit that to his own advantage.
     
    Yet we also can't dismiss the distinctive contemporary social and political circumstances that allowed him to flourish. Trump arose at a time when a significant portion of the American public was feeling increasingly disenfranchised, and looking for someone to champion them; when the established political parties had taken the electorate for granted, and assumed they'd vote for whoever the parties put in front of them; when the public was disillusioned of governance by political elites apparently oblivious to the people they're supposed to serve, and hopeful that an outsider would do things better.
     
    Trump's knack for selling, particularly himself, has played well in that climate. That's why I believe any opponent to him has to emphasize a message, because emphasizing the messenger is where Trump's proven strongest.
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    Netzilla reacted to Ternaugh in Political Discussion Thread (With Rules)   
    A constant state of war is a consequence of the political power wielded by the military-industrial complex. There has to be a justification for the spending of a large percentage of our GDP on tanks, planes, and bombs, instead of general infrastructure.
     
    https://www.npr.org/2011/01/17/132942244/ikes-warning-of-military-expansion-50-years-later
     
     
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    Netzilla reacted to Pattern Ghost in Political Discussion Thread (With Rules)   
    Those accusations pre-date his Presidency by many decades. Here's a Vox article on the subject. (Note: Vox leans Left, but the point here is that this isn't a new thing.)
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