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Arrhythmia wrote:I don't know; does reality obey ZFC?

Aha I've got you now! Either reality obeys ZFC, in which case we have a contradiction with conservation of mass, or math isn't real! Now if you'll excuse me I have to go put an oscilloscope in this Hello Kitty TV case.

In the spirit of this thread: Why isn't 1 prime? After all, its divisors are 1 and itself 1 = 1+(-1+1)+(-1+1)+(-1+1)+... = (1-1)+(1-1)+(1-1)+... = 0 If infinity isn't real, how does pi go on forever? Does Banach-Tarski violate conservation of mass? Does Godel's incompleteness theorem invalidate all ...

Anyway, you've made some excellent points, but they still highlight that ∞ works the way it does because decided-upon matters have dictated it and not because mathematicians pursue the truth in earnest. I think your dissatisfaction stems simply from a confusion about how math works. If you ask &quo...

But there's a difference between "unlikely and boring" and "unlikely and interesting", and it matters. I think we agree here, though this particular statement makes me feel uneasy, since "boring" and "interesting" are not well-defined. The main issue I had wa...

Yes, I understand that - but that explanation breaks down for sufficiently unlikely events. The reason I ask here is that the particular event is so unlikely that I wouldn't expect to see it *ever* in a long career playing Crawl. "Unlikely" events happen all the time. This one in particul...

Short blades are better than axes. One reason for this is that one of the best sources of short blades in a 3 rune game are spriggans mobs in the depths, who carry quick blades; you can then convert to Lugonu and get distortion brand on the fastest weapon in the game. Short blade users are pretty mu...

I think wild magic is great; I only listed it as its effect isn't strictly beneficial, and some characters might find it detrimental (the example of a character with only blink and animate skeleton isn't all that far-fetched). I may be biased in my assessment of the potion, as I have gotten screwed ...

I don't think drinking benemut is a good idea most of the time. The best case is not that good, you have a chance of getting a not-so-beneficial mutation (evolution, wild magic, body slot muts), and it makes any bad mutations you get later harder to remove.

e: Like, how do these two characters look different? Do they have different resources, different skills? Is the best behaviour for them now that they're on V:5 different? The impossibility of being shafted to V:5 aside, the character that entered voluntarily would probably be hasted and buffed in v...

In the same vein, perhaps remove invisibility from sky beasts? Or make them permanently invisible, I don't know. Kiting sky beasts to only hit them when they are visible is not very fun.

Does tier II only care about the base skill levels (say, if you are worshiping Ashenzari)?

Count me in; same name on cao.

Petrification is a possible hell effect in Dis, as an earth magic miscast, so that was probably it. The only other thing I can think of is a necromutation miscast, though it doesn't look like you cast that recently.

Surely you are exaggerating, Aule. I wiz-moded up some reasonable characters that can cast level 9 spells at around 4% failure, and in no situation did losing 7 int take the failure rate even close to 54% (the highest was around 10%). This was accompanied by a sizeable drop in spellpower, which whil...

Some time ago, I believe a change was made so that all branded weapons wielded by enemies would have their brands visible to you. I would also see messages such as "A kobold comes into view. It is wielding a short sword of distortion", which are very helpful. Unfortunately, it seems that s...

It would appear to me that crawl is designed with the intention of melee combat being the default means of doing damage. It is always available, and is not gated by any resource, cooldown, or the like, whereas we have MP for magic, ammo for ranged, piety for god abilities, XP for evocables etc. So i...

Just a small request. I only recently learned, while reading the learndb, that constriction reduces the EV of the target. Perhaps this could be made more obvious by displaying the reduced EV value when the player is constricted? I believe this is already the case when the player is caught in a web.

Sign me up. I'll be playing as category.

Sounds like fun; I'm interested in joining. I'm playing as dualcategory on CAO.

Manuals disappear after they are used up. There is an in-game message that informs you of this, though it is fairly unobtrusive and easy to miss.

And here, we have the actual story of how Becquerel discovered radioactivity.

http://crawl.akrasiac.org/rawdata/Category/morgue-Category-20140504-064605.txt

I'm surprised to see "the optimal player is not the real player" being used as a basis for objecting to the removal of a mechanic that introduces tedious optimal play. That most real players do not engage in the resultant optimal strategy is precisely why the mechanic is troublesome. By es...

I did some quick wizmode tests. It seems that orbs of destruction do not interact with teleport or alarm traps, while battlespheres do. Placing a fulminant prism on an alarm trap does not activate the trap, and placing it on a teleport trap causes the spell to fizzle (it does not appear elsewhere on...

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Announce all (branded) weapons on enemies

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Display reduced EV when constricted

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