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HardboiledGargoyle wrote:
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Sar wrote:Anyway, it's your game and your characters. Just please, bring back itemdest!
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Arrhythmia wrote:Sar wrote:Anyway, it's your game and your characters. Just please, bring back itemdest!
oh man i'm glad i read to the end of this post before thanking
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Tiktacy wrote:The reality is, uniques were created with a letter in mind, and that letter should be respected and not tampered with for no reason.
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HardboiledGargoyle wrote:wow if you search "gender", 9/94 threads are locked
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HardboiledGargoyle wrote:wow if you search "gender", 9/94 threads are locked
people are razzing each other over being uncomfortable about ideas
something fishy is going on and I don't understand it while people are smug all around me, i mean, you don't see quite this in discussions of other design decisions
BTWthis argument falls on its face because uniques are extraordinary and thus out of the middle; you're really looking at the tails of the distribution, and dozens of outliers (uniques) taken from that tail, which form their own distribution, and it is claimed that the high end, the top <1%, is better divided evenly. So current design is to stratify monsters, and balance their gender at special levels of distinction, because, maybe, the "corrupting influence of the realm of zot" is turning the dungeon into some kind of egalitarian utopia?ydeve wrote: claims that you can't have a female Ijyb tougher than the average male goblin are ungrounded in (either) reality. Uniques are unique, so there's no reason why they should be in the middle of the bell curve.
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Lasty wrote:On another topic, meta-analysis of studies of men and women shows that on almost every studied trait, there's much more variation within a given gender than between the two genders; that is to say, the bell curves of male and female quantities of a given trait substantially overlap. That includes physical strength broadly. The one exception is, interestingly, throwing distance, where men tend to significantly outperform women.
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Tiktacy wrote:However, the apparent reasoning for it leads me to believe that the devs responsible for the change are more interested in pandering to a political agenda than actually improving the flavor of their uniques.
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Rast wrote:Lasty wrote:On another topic, meta-analysis of studies of men and women shows that on almost every studied trait, there's much more variation within a given gender than between the two genders; that is to say, the bell curves of male and female quantities of a given trait substantially overlap. That includes physical strength broadly. The one exception is, interestingly, throwing distance, where men tend to significantly outperform women.
Lasty, you have to be careful not to draw the wrong conclusions from that, because you're comparing apples and oranges: variation within a group to the difference between two averages. Unless group differences are absolutely overwhelming (think mice vs whales), that first number is of course going to be bigger than the second number. But it doesn't negate the group average difference or mean it is unimportant -- indeed, generally it's going to be more important than the variation within any particular group.
Examples:
The variation between the weight of dogs is bigger than the difference between the average weight of dogs and the average weight of cats.
The variation between possible outcomes when given a homeopathic remedy (aka placebo) is greater than the difference between the average placebo result and the average painkiller result.
etc.
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names wrote:chequers wrote:and yet, your decision that the sex ratio of uniques was out of balance is based strictly on our reality. who's to say whether or not any given species in crawl has the same ratios as we see in nature? maybe men naturally outnumber women in the crawl universe, and the previous balance of uniques reflected that.
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