Sad about this one tbh. Didn’t really seem op in my pubs but maybe it was too good in the pro scene.

*You can only teleport out to where you teleported in from.

Does this mean you get dropped into outer space if you stay inside for more than checks notes ~4 minutes?

Is it feasible? Sure. The limit on this kind of calculation is basically how much detail do we need to add to the environment (i.e., can we make the model) and how high resolution does the sound wave need to be (can we calculate it given finite compute resources).

To get something that roughly sounds like a rock? Not difficult to model or calculate, if we make some reasonable assumptions.

The sound of a wet towel thrown in the water during a hailstorm? Uhhh that’s a tough one.

Simulating sound uses classical mechanics governed by the wave equation, which is well-understood. In terms of CPU power, the calculation to propagate a simple sound wave (wavelet) could probably have been done on a TI-89 calculator from high school.

These comics seem to age surprisingly well.

It’s a Christmas present to him but even more of one for everybody else!

The idea is checking out with more than a basket of goods is really inconvenient. And I agree, it’s much slower and there’s no space for it.

Paladin: It works because I just feel really strongly about it.

The more we know about this, the better. Depressing as it may be, learning about these means eventually we may be able to revive them.

It all depends on what you mean by affect. Two em waves in the same space will have a different overall amplitude at any frequency.

If you mean as in the overall color of light, that will change based on how much/what frequency waves are combined. Think about adding a bit of black sand to a jar of white sand – from a distance it will appear grey but the actual colors of individual grains of sand (frequency of “individual” em waves) won’t change.

For wifi, data transmission is via phase modulation of the em wave, so the signal is resilient against adding different frequencies/amplitudes but may suffer if the same frequency is transmitted at a different phase.

If you’re not afraid of the legal system why not slap a Disney logo on there too?

Why do you think the organic label for food means nothing?

https://www.usda.gov/media/blog/2012/03/22/organic-101-what-usda-organic-label-means

“All those moments will be lost in time, like tears… in rain”

Even accounting for power plants, EVs still produce much less emissions. Here’s a plot from energy.gov:

This is also covered on the common EV myths page: https://www.epa.gov/greenvehicles/electric-vehicle-myths#myth1

How about an app that makes calls, but you have to dial like you would with an old rotary phone.

If you make a mistake with the rotations it just connects you to a random one of your contacts.

Seems cool to me, and not too strong. The dual wielder feat for ex. gives 2d8 instead of 2d6 for the same cost, and gives +1 AC. If you add your str/dex to the damage this feat would probably be better.

As it is, I like it. Makes daggers more flavorful and adds an incentive to use them instead of going for the more optimal (boring) option.

I think law enforcement can break into your home if they have a court warrant, right? So why not allow the same thing with electronic communications?

For me, the reason to disallow it is the potential for abuse. There were 864 search warrant applications across all federal agencies in 2022. In 2020, the FBI, specifically, issued 11504 warrants to Google, specifically, for geofencing data, specifically. Across all agencies there are probably millions of such “warrants” for data.

It’s far easier to access your data than your house, so comparing physical and cybersecurity doesn’t really make sense.

In general, criminals can easily just move to an uncompromised platform to do illegal stuff. But giving the govt easy access to messaging data allows for all kinds of dystopic suppression for regular people.

thank you EU!

How does grouping multiple communities on different instances work? Do we need a special-purpose kind of community, like e.g. the meta-reddit functionality? Seems complicated but very needed atm