For anyone who's not aware, letters to your MP (and certain other members of the federal government) are postage free, so you don't need a stamp.
Note this doesn't apply to provincial positions, so you'd have to stamp a letter to an MLA.
Thalfon
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It depends
how they did it. If they did the entire roll twice (crowd all rolls, pick most common, crowd all rolls again, pick most common again) and picked the best result out of those two, it would not be different than rolling normally with advantage (since it would effectively just be a very fancy and complicated way of rolling a d20 twice and taking the better result). This is almost certainly what happened (if not for the below reasons, then because it would be much less complicated technically to perform than anything else).
But suppose they just gave each individual person advantage, and then picked the most popular roll out of all those advantage'd rolls. (That is, if I rolled an 8 and a 15 on my phone, only the 15 would get compared with everyone else's advantaged roll.)
Out of 400 ordered pairs of 2d20 rolls, the number of combinations which occur for each roll are 2n-1. For example, to roll a 15 with advantage there are 2(15)-1 = 29 possible ways to do so: a 15 on the first die, and anything from 1-15 on the second, or a 15 on the second die and anything from 1-15 on the first for what seems like 30 combinations, but we've double counted the case where we rolled 15 on both tries, so we subtract one to get 29.
Notice that the sum of (2n-1) for n=1..20 (that is 1 + 3 + 5 + ... + 37 + 39) is exactly 400, the total number of combinations we expect.
So the probability of a nat 20 with advantage is 39/400. So what we're actually asking is when 20,000 people roll with advantage, what are the odds that any of the other numbers, like 19 which has a 37/400 chance each time, still somehow get rolled more often than a nat 20?
I do not know how to actually compute that - it's complicated beyond my skill - but the law of large numbers suggests that as the crowd gets bigger that number should get very, very small indeed, and in fact the probability of not rolling a nat 20 would converge to 0 as crowd size went to infinity.
I tried tossing together some python to experiment: out of 10,000 attempts using this method, and presuming a crowd of 20,000 who all rolled. Out of 10,000 trials, a nat 20 was rolled 9454 times, a 19 was rolled 545 times, and an 18 was rolled 1 time. It never rolled below 18 using this method in 10k attempts. So, I'm guessing that's not what they went with.
Gastronauts has done a casting call for season 2 already, and I think the loss of PIBE had less to do with other shows taking its spot, and is more just on its own merits. It either wasn't successful enough on Dropout (where so much of the marketing is things like insta/yt shorts/etc.), or Zach and Jess are prioritizing other things, or some combination of both. I don't think anyone official has really said. (I'm not even sure we officially know there won't eventually be a season 3.)
I definitely miss PIBE personally. I thought season 1 was pretty decent even though it got pretty badly panned in general, and season 2 was incredible. For what it's worth Zach and Jess did a 300 episode podcast called "Off Book" which is similar vibes.
Pierre Poilievre, leader of the conservative party and our version of a Trump wannabe.
Last time I bought audiobooks I got them from Downpour which included DRM-free downloads as either MP3 or M4B files, in addition to listening through the website or app. I believe Libro.fm may also offer this. Most of my ebooks are through Kobo and are DRM free as well.
Does depend in some cases on the publisher.
It's not quite what you were asking for, but libro.fm -- which is American -- does give part of its profit from sales to a bookstore of your choosing, and you can select Canadian bookstores to receive that benefit. Not sure what the cut looks like exactly though.
The judge's other main role in a trial with jury is to actually run the proceedings of the trial. Order of operations, keeping the two counsels in line, scheduling, etc.
Crypt of the Necrodancer.
Really fun roguelike game where you and enemies have to move to the beat of that floor's song. I think part of the reason I still play it a lot is that it's amenable to very short sessions. I've played enough that runs go fast and I either clear or die within 10 minutes.
Over 1200 hours now almost a decade after release, and a huge chunk of that is probably sessions of under 30 mins in length.
I only played the original one. I had a fair amount of fun with it for what it was. It can feel a bit empty and wide, but the gameplay was quite fun, even if the combat is kinda painfully easy most of the time. You can build basically however you want and become pretty OP.
Is the remake worth looking at for those who played the original? I was kinda ignoring it because I'd played through it once already. Wasn't super sold on a second go-through.
...I really did not expect to see Christy Clark on that list, even if at only 4%. If I'd seen her running as a Con, that would not have surprised me so much. Responsible in BC for legislating striking teachers back to work with the argument that they could not legally bargain on topics like class size, something that much later finally got thrown out by the supreme court. She was a member of the BC Liberals, which were really the right-wing party in BC at the time.
I'd wager both left- and right-leaning people in BC have some bad memories of that one for differing reasons. I certainly have to imagine she'd be a quick way to lose the existing liberal voters here.
I'm personally skipping because I already have what I'd want from this one, but I will say P4G is my favorite of the Persona series, and one of the few long JRPGs I've actually finished in the last several years. (P5R is also great, but 4's more grounded story and characters, relatively speaking, give it the edge for me.)
And Cassette Beasts is a truly great Pokemon-like that has so much going for it. If you feel out of love with the Pokemon franchise, or if you still enjoy it but would want more, this is a really fun game with its own take on a lot of the mechanics. Lots of depth combined with customizable difficulty.
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The baffling thing to me is that it was LinkedIn. Like, I'm sure Sam went with whoever was offering the most, but LinkedIn thinks the Dropout audience is a good target demographic for them? That at least feels unlikely, though perhaps the price tag was simply very small compared to what they normally work with. (Or maybe there's one or two people at LinkedIn who are into Dropout and managed to pitch it lol.)
Then again, I'm probably way out of the loop out that site. Or on how advertising works effectively.