Hah!
Companies tried to make this a thing 20 years ago, and people just dropped the middle-men like hot potatoes. Bitly thinks it'll be different this time because people have become used to using their service, but all of the pressures that had people using link shorteners in the first place have already fallen by the wayside.
This probably isn't going to end well for them.
Indeed. Though, it's a little more complex than that for spells or attacks that use multiple dice. The interactions aren't linear, and the overall effect when using large dice pools is actually subdued.
Inner Radiance Torrent, at Rank 2, does 4d4 damage, and E[4d4] = 10. But E[4d4c1] = 11.5, rather than 12.5.
Things get even weirder with larger dice, since cascading provides the potential for more rolls, but done at lower dice sizes. E[1d6] = 3.5, and so E[4d6] = 14. But E[1d6c1] works out to be about 15.9, so we're gaining less than 2 damage. A Rank 3 Fireball has E[6d6] = 21, while E[6d6c1] = 23.875, a gain of less than 3.
And this is lower than the naive expectation, because E[1d6e1] = 4.083 and 4*E[1d6e1] = 24.5.
Compare this to increasing the die size. IRT would have an expected roll of E[4d6], which, again, is significantly higher than 11.5, while Fireball at 6d8 has E[6d8] = 27 (vs 23.875). So, this is providing a comparatively small boost.
But, of course, this all assumes fair rolling. When you see what's happening at my table -- which I believe is mostly caused by less than vigorous rolling -- the difference gets even smaller. Assuming a 50% chance of getting a 1 (so weights of [3, 1, 1, 1] on a d4, or [5, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1] on a d6), we end up with E[4d4c1*] = 11, and E[6d6c1*] = 23.25.
The game-impact:enjoyment ratio winds up being quite high. Much higher than I had expected.
Trump has been LARPing as a mob boss his entire adult life. This makes sense.
That would require people actually recommending specific websites, and all people seem to want to do is circle jerk about "lemmy", as if it's a tangible place and not a website engine
They gots them at the bulk barn here. And a tub of the candies.
I bought a fistfull to use as D&D monster tokens last week
So, like, 2d4!/2d4x? Or is it 2d4!4? 2x4?
Difficulty speaking, severe tension running through my shoulders, neck, and jaw. Fist clenching. A lot of rocking with some spastic shaking. Very similar to what you've described, save for the sweating.
Sometimes, I'm actually able to dissociate myself from them, so I can sit there and mentally call play-by-play while my body remains locked up and over-stimulated. That's a bit of a wild ride.
Almost certainly not -- it's a hand-made dice set that I got her from a local maker -- but to get the kind of results she rolled with a weighted die would require a significant offset on the centre of mass. It's way, way more likely that she's picking it up with the 1 facing up, resulting in a 180 degree turn in her palm, and then rolling it too gently, so that it's only pulling off two 90 degree rotations on its roll. She's only rolling d4s and d6s, and the d4 is crystal shaped.
I know it's not an issue with uneven grinding/polishing, which is where a lot of rolling bias is actually going to be generated, because they're sharp-edged dice. But that's also what makes me thing the dice just aren't rolling enough once they hit the table.
Not that I've seen, but again, my breadth of experience isn't all that great. You'd have to define the number of dice, the number of faces, and the cascade trigger though, so something like [N]d[F]c[T] could work, e.g. 1d6c6 or 2d4c1.
A similar notation with e instead of c could be used to denote exploding dice.
If what you mean by centralized apps is apps having a default website, or a hard-coded website that it accesses, then that's also going to lead to centralizing the website.
The fediverse is just the web. It's not really suited to an app-first model of operation. Like, imagine having a blog-viewer app that only let you read one blog. We see this kind of behaviour from the business world, and people kind of hate it.
The only reason it would be different here is if the network collapses, and if it does, it's going to collapse into lemmy.world.
Which, apparently, is a "deal breaker".
Trump may not be aware of P2025. Not because he hasn't been told, repeatedly, about it, but because he has the awareness of a pile of sterilized garbage.
Ooo, there's a Canadian Rexit happening? Cool! I keep my Reddit usage much more focused on niche hobby communities now, and there's zero talk of Reddit politics on those yet, sadly.