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2019-12-21, 09:48 PM (ISO 8601)
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2019-12-21, 09:57 PM (ISO 8601)
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Bingo. Good to see someone else who gets that.
Y'know, I wonder how hard it would be to make PCs in 3.5e that at least resemble the combat style of some of the characters in Hollow Knight 'cause it feels like Swordsage would fill most if not all of Little Ghost's attack abilities save the Cyclone Slash and even that might have a way of working around it. I dunno.Cool elan Illithid Slayer by linkele.
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2019-12-22, 06:54 AM (ISO 8601)
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Arrrgh, here be me extended sig!
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2019-12-22, 09:18 AM (ISO 8601)
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Well they jump around like crazy so you should get the idea of what I mean now.
I agree, looking at the other ones none of them seem close to Miko.
Bwahahaha, my master plan to get us to talk about Miko cause I want to see a Miko arguement gosh darnit is working!Last edited by danielxcutter; 2019-12-22 at 09:18 AM.
Cool elan Illithid Slayer by linkele.
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2019-12-22, 09:48 AM (ISO 8601)
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2019-12-22, 10:21 AM (ISO 8601)
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2019-12-22, 10:23 AM (ISO 8601)
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2019-12-22, 10:34 AM (ISO 8601)
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2019-12-22, 11:48 AM (ISO 8601)
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Yeah, in this case the term is being used in nuclear physics, so one area where it might pop up is throwing a bunch of alpha particles at another nucleus to see how big it is, as Grey Wolf says. That’s why it’s called cross section, because in that case it’s fairly analogous to the geometric concept. Another might be to see how much of a radioactive mass decays away into another element, which is a little further afield, but still a cross section of sorts.
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2019-12-22, 12:42 PM (ISO 8601)
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I still think Arcadia. "The needs of the many..." caption is a readily identifiable pop-culture quote that fits closely with that planes ethos, but it's not like it's the only way to manifest the "rides the line between Lawful Good and Lawful Neutral" thing that is Arcadia.
And if nothing else, "the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few" is essentially "there is only one right path," with some more specifics added on. It's utilitarianism in a nutshell, including the attendant assumptions that A) more people is more important than fewer people and B) beneficial outcomes are more desirable than detrimental ones. In other words, there's only one right path, defined as the course of action which provides the largest net benefit, with quantity of people given the most weight.
Plus, for all of Miko's strident unpleasantness, her dogged opposition to the protagonists, and her spectacularly poor judgement in the last day or two of her life, she was always striving to do the right thing. Even her biggest failure, which prompted the gods themselves to strike her with a literal bolt of judgement from the heavens, was an attempt to protect her homeland from nefarious influence. Her intentions were noble and righteous, but in her haste and arrogance, she appointed herself judge, jury, and executioner and thus blinded herself to the wrongness of her actions.
Based on everything I've ever read regarding Planescape, Arcadia seems to run on the idea "if you set up the rules properly, beneficence will arise naturally from obedience, so the key thing is to create the right rules and enforce them properly." Which is Miko to a T.[SIZE=1] (Bytopia, by contrast, says that if you can persuade everyone to act with good intentions and empathy, order will naturally arise. Celestia takes the view that the two reinforce each other and therefore must both be actively attended to.)
(And as a final aside, "the road to hell is paved with good intentions" is not a concept that the Great Wheel handles terribly well, since the Evil planes are more of the mustache-twirling, fully-aware-of-their-own-wickedness types. So someone like Miko, characterized by lofty aims ruined via terrible execution (no pun intended), doesn't fit anywhere very neatly.)
If a pairing comes along, you must ship it.
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2019-12-22, 01:23 PM (ISO 8601)
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2019-12-22, 01:37 PM (ISO 8601)
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It's also used in a very similar way in chemical physics, to describe chemical reaction mechanisms. If one chemical particle -- an atom or molecule -- approaches another, a reaction may occur, depending on things like approach vector and the vibrational and rotational states of the particles.
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2019-12-22, 03:43 PM (ISO 8601)
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2019-12-22, 08:56 PM (ISO 8601)
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2019-12-23, 03:56 AM (ISO 8601)
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2019-12-23, 01:58 PM (ISO 8601)
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If you're using the strict meaning, it's still "Miko" in all languages; just like "pokémon" is still "pokémon" when translating from Japanese.
A loser translation would be either "shrine maiden" or "priestess". PM if you want a more in depth explanation as that isn't a topic for the open forum.
Mechanus seems a better fit than Arcadia; she was more LLG than LGG, bordering on LLN or maybe even LLL.
I disagree with Rich that one unlawful act doesn't make a person unlawful. I would say that any unlawful act doesn't make you unlawful, but one spectacularly unlawful act can. Her final actions put her well outside the category of "people the generally do lawful things" and her worldview was too warped and inconsistent to meaningfully say that she believed in law or held herself to a code.
In my opinion, there's a huge difference in that one is an axiom and the other a conclusion. "There's only one path" strongly implies that the one path is knowable and known. "The needs of the many"/utilitarianism leaves room to ask "What are the needs of the many" and "How are these needs best met?". And since you have multiple people fulfilling multiple needs, there's not really a necessity for the paths of different people fulfilling different needs to look similar.Pokemon are a little easier to remember because you don't merely fight them, you also raise them; thus engaging your memory differently.
Also, there's a song many of us listened to every day listing all the first generation pokémon.
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2019-12-23, 02:29 PM (ISO 8601)
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I was referring (admittedly very vaguely) to the implication in utilitarianism that there's an optimal solution for any given ethical question one would care to pose. Even if the limits of mortal knowledge, predictive ability, perception, or whatever else make it next to impossible for a human to solve the equation, there should exist an ideal solution: the specific course of action that would definitely create the largest amount of happiness (net, not gross).
But it is a splitting hairs sort of thing, really
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2019-12-23, 02:40 PM (ISO 8601)
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2019-12-24, 06:04 AM (ISO 8601)
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To the person who wanted to go back to translations:
Why would a cow ever be neutral??? Are they neutral in your language?Boytoy of the -Fan-Club
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2019-12-24, 06:20 AM (ISO 8601)
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2019-12-24, 08:31 AM (ISO 8601)
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In English at least, the use of "it" versus "he" or "she" gets a bit fuzzy (heh) with animals. Generally, if the animal is one that's familiar or important to the speaker (a pet, a service animal, sometimes farm animals, especially on smaller, non-factory farms), they'll use "he" or "she". If not, "it" gets used because apathy.
Of course, this being English, these are loose guidelines at best.
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2019-12-24, 08:45 AM (ISO 8601)
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2019-12-24, 11:42 AM (ISO 8601)
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2019-12-24, 07:23 PM (ISO 8601)
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Cool elan Illithid Slayer by linkele.
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2019-12-26, 02:49 AM (ISO 8601)
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2019-12-26, 03:52 PM (ISO 8601)
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That's interesting. It's similar to modern thought about incentives (perverse and otherwise). Basically the ideas is that you'll get the outcomes your incentives (intentional and otherwise) reward.
I'd give some concrete examples but it's hard to do without delving into politics, so lets stick with gaming.
In 3.5 D&D there was a spell called "spikes". It was a long duration low level cleric buff that turned a wooden weapon into a very superior enchanted weapon. So good in fact that Monks all switched to nunchucks instead of unarmed combat, and a Roy-style character tossed his greatsword that he'd invested many feats into to just use a greatclub, or even a normal quarterstaff or club. While it was in its original form any party with a mid-level cleric would have all melee characters switching out their normal expensive enchanted weapons for nonmagical wooden weapons that cost less than 50gp, some (quarterstaff and club) were entirely free. The buff was in fact so good that it was even worth doing when facing damage reduction, vs using the right metal, DR5 for sure, DR10 was about a wash.
WOTC responded by reducing the duration to rounds/level and I think raising it a spell level. That meant it might get busted out for an emergency or known difficult fight (say, clay golems when your fighter is optimized in a weapon that isn't blunt). Mostly warriors went back to their old weapons.
Game developers got the spell outcome they wanted (a buff that was sometimes used to make a wooden weapon better, especially for those that had not heavy feat/wealth investments in a primary melee weapon - this was a cleric/druid spell after all, intended to be used on themself, not Roy or Belkar), once they changed the spell parameters. In 3.0-3.5 conversion the change to Greater Magic Weapon was a similar problem, and the variety of changes both to the spell and how DR worked did pretty much put that spell in the role desired by the game developers in actual play.Last edited by Seward; 2019-12-26 at 03:56 PM.
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