Spuddaccino

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[–] Spuddaccino@reddthat.com 2 points 2 years ago

That's what it appears to be. This is supported somewhat by the term "moonwise" not having a lot of historical usage, leading me to believe that it came along much later by someone who wanted a related antonym.

The only bit about the moon that seems to travel right to left are it's phase changes, and even that is because we're outside the rotation and watching along it's horizontal plane. You'll see the same thing with anything spinning clockwise in front of you: the closer edge goes right to left, the farther edge goes left to right.

[–] Spuddaccino@reddthat.com 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

It's been very difficult to find an answer for this, and I suspect it's because most of the southern hemisphere is water, and most of the rest of it was colonised by people from the northern hemisphere. As of right now, I couldnt say if there simply weren't words for that kind of rotational motion or if my google-fu simply isn't strong enough.

The best answer I've been able to find is from Indonesia, which is equatorial. The word "sunwise" translates into a phrase "from left to right" via Google Translate, but that may just be an artifact of machine translation.

[–] Spuddaccino@reddthat.com 2 points 2 years ago

That made me curious, so I tried to find a pre-clock synonym in Indonesian. The best answer I have is by translating "Sunwise", which became "dr kiri ke kanan" or "from left to right."

Which make sense, if something is going clockwise around you, that's what you'd see. No idea if that was a real phrase or an artifact of machine translation, though.

[–] Spuddaccino@reddthat.com 187 points 2 years ago (23 children)

"Sunwise", and for the exact same reason.

Clocks go clockwise because their predecessors did. What were their predecessors?

Sundials.

How does the shadow go around a sundial? Well, sunwise, of course.

Counterclockwise, as said in another comment, was "widdershins", from a Middle Low German phrase meaning "against the way".

[–] Spuddaccino@reddthat.com 10 points 2 years ago

That makes sense to me.

Everyone has a type, even sleazeballs that hit on people they're delivering food to. They're bound to find some women that don't appeal to them.

[–] Spuddaccino@reddthat.com 32 points 2 years ago (3 children)

No, he's claiming that he shagged David Attenborough.

[–] Spuddaccino@reddthat.com 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

This is true, in practical terms. The Ideal Gas Law gives us the equation PV=nRT, for gas pressure P, volume of container V, number of molecules n, R a constant that doesn't matter here, and temperature T in Kelvin. The only other theoretical way to get 0 pressure would be to have infinite volume, but that's hardly practical.

[–] Spuddaccino@reddthat.com 14 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I can't speak for Canada, but in the US a formal diagnosis makes it easier to get prescriptions or other treatments, such as therapy.

As far as required disclosures, you aren't required to disclose anything to anyone. However, disclosing a diagnosis to an employer often opens up their ability to provide accommodation. The ADA also prevents employers from discriminating based on disabilities, and 'disability' in this context tends to be interpreted very broadly.

An example from real life: I am a manager at a grocery store, and one of the people on my team has some kind of ADD/ADHD/autism spectrum thing going on. It's pretty obvious, I recognize the symptoms. However, he has not disclosed anything to me, so I have to pretend I dont see it and treat him with the same expectations as everyone else.

If he were to come to me with a diagnosis, I can ask him how I can help him, what he needs to be able to do well, what sorts of things tend to distract him, etc.

Once again, this is all from south of the border, though, so my takeaway would be to see if there's any similar legislation in the Great White North.

[–] Spuddaccino@reddthat.com 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

A creature's statistics are everything listed in the stat block, which includes it's abilities.

[–] Spuddaccino@reddthat.com 9 points 2 years ago

Kind of. They only have 2 legs, so they're not as stable as a traditional mount, but they get up to 300 pounds and can run almost 45 mph, so their legs are certainly strong enough to carry a 120-ish pound woman slowly around a safe enclosure. It's not really practical, but it can be done.

[–] Spuddaccino@reddthat.com 6 points 2 years ago (4 children)

Fleet is an untyped bonus to speed, so it doesn't count because it's not a circumstance or status bonus.

Handwraps of Mighty Blows: Fundamental runes provide an item bonus to attack and an untyped change (not bonus) to damage dice, they do not function. The same applies to property runes: they generally are not bonuses, and thus cannot modify the shape's statistics.

Handwraps do modify your character's unarmed attack bonus, however, and you are allowed to use that instead if it's higher than the beast form's.

Goggles of Night provide an item bonus to perception, which isn't a qualifying type. They have an activation ability that can't be activated.

In general: if it doesn't say it's one of the two qualifying bonus types or a penalty of some kind, it doesn't work. The text specifically calls out an exception for using your own unarmed attack bonus in place of the beast form's, but no others.

[–] Spuddaccino@reddthat.com 4 points 2 years ago

"Natural," huh?

Pick 'em right off the fiber-optic bush, do ya?

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