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  • jenniferrpovey:
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“indefinite-free-pizza:
“Fun fact! Because of how grid measurements work in dnd, this doesn’t actually work! The Pythagorean Theorem in D&D actually ends up equivalent to c = greater(a : b)....

    jenniferrpovey:

    genericaura:

    genericaura:

    jehomovah:

    indefinite-free-pizza:

    Fun fact! Because of how grid measurements work in dnd, this doesn’t actually work! The Pythagorean Theorem in D&D actually ends up equivalent to c = greater(a : b). This also means that a circle in D&D has more than 360 degrees, and pi is a larger number. This also explains why ball-and-chain weapons are more prevalent in D&D settings, as centripetal force is calculated partly based on pi and thus they would have more force when swung.

    @indefinite-free-pizza wait wait

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    Originally posted by the-blondey

    How do the grid measurements in DnD break the Pythagorean theorem? I’m on board with all these other causal effects of that if it’s true but why is it true

    Rules as written, moving diagonally still takes 5 feet. So if I wanted to walk 10 feet north and 10 feet east, that would be 20 feet but I could also just walk diagonally and do it in 10.

    Now let’s apply this to a circle. I’ll mark 8 points 10 feet away from a point and we can guess from there where the circumference is.

    I walk north, south, east, and west 10 feet and mark it just fine. But then it gets weird when I use my movement to go northeast, northwest, southeast, and southwest. Because now it’s a square. But I’m still equidistant from the middle so it’s a circle.

    To prove the above that c = greater (a:b) let’s use two different numbers. I want to end up 20 feet north and 10 feet east. To start, I’m going to be efficient and move 5 feet diagonally, and then do that again. Now I’m as far east as I need to be but not north enough so I move north another 10 feet. 10 feet diagonally + 10 due north means this triangle has two 20 foot sides, a 10 foot side, and a right angle.

    Using the variant rule of every other diagonal movement costs 10 feet brings us closer to real life, but it’s not quite right, especially below 15 feet. Then the pythagorean formula becomes c=greater(a:b) + ( lesser(a:b)/2 rounded down).

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    Just got home so here’s some diagrams to help visualize these math crimes. Also, I just thought of a really good line to end this on. In DnD, you can literally fit a square peg into a round hole.

    Nerds ;).

    (via damatris)

    Source: epicdndmemes
    • 2021-07-17 (01:35)
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  • titleknown:

    ayeforscotland:

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    Facts.

    For context: This guy was the co-creator of Dogecoin.

    (via sergle)

    Source: ayeforscotland
    • 2021-07-17 (01:31)
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  • keuhkopussirotta:

    Idea for a play: A custody battle of a corpse. A man - estranged from his birth family and deeply loved by found family - has unfortunately died. His parents that threw him out to the street, siblings who encouraged it, and extended family who never sided with him and simply allowed it to happen, now want to bury him in a family grave, under a name he didn’t use anymore, with the ceremonies of a religion he never truly followed. The people who actually knew and loved him are trying everything in their power to stop this.

    The deceased, himself, is there, watching this with popcorn. It’s clear that no-one but the audience can see him. He can pause the action whenever he wants to monologue, and often stops the show to tell the audience the backstory of a claim, or what really happened when someone is blatantly lying. And one time, just to call his grandmother a bitch.

    He is mainly indifferent to the show, simply entertained, no longer personally touched by anything that happens in the mortal world, but once, with tears in his eyes, takes a time to monologue about how deeply he loved his wife - whom he could not legally marry, but called wife nonetheless. Once, when his own cousin questions her presence here, as she was “nothing to the deceased”, the protagonist throws the rest of his popcorn in the air, as - being incorporeal - he can’t throw it at his cousin.

    (most of it lands into the audience. better not be wearing anything expensive in there, and if the friend who brought you to see this play didn’t warn you about this part, that’s kind of a dick move from them.)

    In the end it turns out there is some legal way, some previously forgotten document, new evidence, that allows the dead man to be buried by loved ones, and not his legal family. Despite of the fact that he has spent the whole play insisting that the events of the mortal world no longer concern him at all, and that he doesn’t care what the outcome of this will be, his spirit dissipates from sheer relief.

    It’s deliberately left ambiguous where souls go when they’re gone.

    (via rhetoricandlogic)

    Source: keuhkopussirotta
    • 2021-07-16 (23:14)
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  • snake-and-mouse:

    piesandbirbs:

    mrspider:

    theres some queerbaiting thats like cask of amantillado levels of deception where i almost pity the fool who has been caught but then theres queerbaiting thats like a block of cheese under a box propped up by a stick and i think if you fall for that kind you deserved it maybe

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    Kinda gay to follow a man into a basement. What, you tryna go into a hole?

    (via tista-bie)

    Source: mrspider
    • 2021-07-16 (23:06)
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  • siryouarebeingmocked:

    nerd-marine:

    Reblog every time.

    *character played by an Englishman

    (via taomatteno)

    • 2021-07-16 (23:02)
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  • memeclassheroes:

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    (via rhetoricandlogic)

    Source: memeclassheroes
    • 2021-07-16 (23:01)
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  • jen-iii:
“So battle couples are one of my greatest weaknesses…
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    jen-iii:

    So battle couples are one of my greatest weaknesses…

    Source: jen-iii
    • 2021-07-16 (23:01)
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  • deanwinchesterapologist:

    deanwinchesterapologist:

    Feeling extremely

    This post was supposed to have more words in it but I think it can stand alone

    (via damatris)

    Source: deanwinchesterapologist
    • 2021-07-16 (23:00)
    • 31391 notes
  • cheekybug1:

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    (via alsojetwolf)

    Source: cheekybug1
    • 2021-07-16 (22:55)
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  • katy-l-wood:

    itscolossal:

    A Rare Sighting of a Glass Octopus Reveals its Nearly Transparent Membrane in Extraordinary Detail

    I love this thing so freaking much.

    Source: itscolossal
    • 2021-07-16 (22:53)
    • 867 notes
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