mranachi

joined 2 years ago
[–] mranachi@aussie.zone 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Wait, what's your definition of a disease?

[–] mranachi@aussie.zone 13 points 2 years ago

Making the light is a relativity easy step, it's mirrors that are hard af.

But China will develop euv tech and beyond, and I hope they will do it in a new way and advance human knowledge.

And I hope this nationalistic freakshow will just melt away, as it's a ball and chain on humanity.

[–] mranachi@aussie.zone 3 points 2 years ago

Anyone a RRR subscriber? Any got any further info on why Tony Biggs was suspended for two weeks?

[–] mranachi@aussie.zone 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I use launtel, I pay a premium i think, but I don't know because I've go no desire to change.

[–] mranachi@aussie.zone 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Ok, so I don't think I explained my thoughts on crushing well. It's not, in the real world, bludgeoning damage. I can see why they chose to not have a crushing damage type and just use bludgeoning though, as anything susceptible to one would be susceptible to the other.

Ugh, bringing AC into it is a mess. But I think your approach results in the tennis ball lasting an average of 20 hits in a game between two strong opponents. And less time the better they are at playing tennis?

I think you've moved the goal post, but perhaps in an interesting direction. If the goal is to simplfy the damage types, what do you lose by replacing force attacks with other types? I think you lose an impact type of damage like damage to creatures you can't hit with a hammer. Magic missle goes from best to worst spell.

[–] mranachi@aussie.zone 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Physically its all same force, electromagnetic, but I think it misses the point. Nobody thinks that lightning is the same as slashing.

[–] mranachi@aussie.zone 1 points 2 years ago (3 children)

High pressure fluid injuries are significantly different, but we're moving off track.

Let's come from the other direction. Bludgeoning, slashing and piercing all do damage through the application of force. However, the damage they do is amplified and relise on a particular susceptibility of the victim.

Bludgeoning amplifies is force through rapid impact time.

Piercing amplifies is force through a sharp hard single point.

Slashing is more complex, but it amplifies with a sharp hard edge kinda.

But these 'tricks' to deal more damage don't work on everything. For example bludgeoning requires 'inelastic deformation' before movement. I.e. a bat breaks a skull but not a tennis ball. I can see why crushing is put in this category, it recognises that damage is due to the susceptibility of the target to be inelastically deformed (bruised, broken bones, crushed organs w/e). Everything has an inelastic deformation point, put a tennis ball in a press and you can crush it. But in this case it's not that the ball is susceptible to bludgeoning damage, it's just that you have applied lots of force.

Same with piercing, the effectiveness of a spear is reduced by something that can distribute its force over a larger area. Which doesn't matter if the 'spear' has a huge amount of force behind it. At which point it doesn't matter if it was a spear with a sharp point or just a rod (or jet of fluid).

[–] mranachi@aussie.zone 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (9 children)

I don't know what or if there are any cannon explanations, but I always had understood force as well... force. Bludgeoning, piercing, slashing are damage amplifiers that make do with limited force. But if you trying to damage say, a rock, they are basically irrelevant. But you put a rock in a hydrolic press and apply a enough force, and boom it cannot withstand. So being hit by an eldritch blast is less like being shot and more like being hit with a high pressure oil leak.

[–] mranachi@aussie.zone 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Got shadowheart yeeted into lava in that fight, was hilarious but made it a fair bit harder than most for sure.

hardest fights act3Nothing yet has compared to telling Gortash where to shove his deal, sorry Wyll. Only fight I've had to reload and prep. Helped being rested with all spells (and more lightning spells), but used a lot of consumables to win that one.

I am disappointed that Lorrakane wasn't harder. It was a cool idea, but I think the AI needs to have him retreat and throw down some big spells not just rely on the rebuke damage as a deterrent.

[–] mranachi@aussie.zone 3 points 2 years ago

You can change it at any time i think.

[–] mranachi@aussie.zone 7 points 2 years ago (3 children)

I thought there is no way that's true... get your shit together Queensland.

With the exception of Queensland, all Australian states and jurisdictions have prohibited the use of physical punishment in all schools.

[–] mranachi@aussie.zone 18 points 2 years ago (1 children)

At first I was like, it's fine. Then I realised we were comparing the flowing water. I didn't even notice that the second image is of flowing water too...

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