Khanzarate

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[–] Khanzarate@lemmy.world 2 points 7 hours ago

Depending on the specific game itself, we can boil down the multiple-stat problem in a few ways. If the goal is to get all the stats as high as possible evenly, then we can assign each stat a multiplier based on how low it is. Fixing lower stats becomes worth more than buffing higher stats. That multiplier would depend on the game, on how much it punishes the low stat. The multiplier itself might end up being a whole new problem to solve, but for now I'll just say its not my problem and call it X.

Whatever X is though, every stat can then be reduced to a single value using it. Super-low fortitude should be buffed over already-high mana according to X, so all of the numerical values in the game become directly comparable at any stage in this problem. Then I expect it will be equivalent to the knapsack problem. Each item in the game will boost several stats in certain ways, and all of those boosts can be combined using X to become our item value in the knapsack problem.

So I consider it to be the knapsack problem + figuring out X (which might be NP-complete on its own, depending on the game).

[–] Khanzarate@lemmy.world 8 points 2 days ago

According to alphapuggle it burned 4x as long as expected.

[–] Khanzarate@lemmy.world 10 points 5 days ago

That was Illinois but honestly it's just obvious in any state with a recreational/medicinal use law.

It's ridiculous they're allowed to keep using it as an excuse in general.

[–] Khanzarate@lemmy.world 3 points 6 days ago

Shuffles by one if it has to, but anyone with a boss can just be replaced because that higher authority exists.

Usually this is discussed with just the president, who has no higher authority, or in the case of mass death like nuclear war, with an assumption that we lose a good chunk of the government. But not this conversation, where VP matters more than P for certification.

[–] Khanzarate@lemmy.world 44 points 1 week ago (7 children)

I did the same thing. It was allowed in general, with the correct thought, "if you can code it yourself, you know the content"

I had another "program" that would fail to run but that's because I wrote notes into it. Doubt that was allowed.

[–] Khanzarate@lemmy.world 39 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Typewriters.

They had bars that needed to physically move, and so staggering them helped them not collide and get jammed.

If you imagine a bar coming from the center of each key towards your screen, you can see how the staggering was helpful. For instance, M misses J and K above it, naturally, but it also slightly misses I and the 8 above that.

It's a great solution for a nonexistent problem in keyboards.

[–] Khanzarate@lemmy.world 12 points 4 weeks ago

Nah there's a bunch of laws about that. In fact, in general, quickly seizing land then immediately joining the big group of allies working at not getting into any fights is frowned upon by the guys who don't wanna get into fights.

Contested territory has a bunch of rules and regulations all its own. Russia sucks, but them's the rules.

[–] Khanzarate@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

It doesn't say cast without paying mana costs so I basically read it as "end as many fights you want if you're OK with recasting your creatures this turn or losing them."

Helpful if your opponent benefits from the fight itself, like a creature that adds a +1/+1 counter every time they kill a creature.

Also great for ETB/LTB triggers. Any time you'd like to return a creature to your hand to play again, this is probably great. Since you wanna return it anyway, you get to deal free damage if your opponent doesn't wanna let you redo an ETB trigger. Feels like a combat Ward in that sense. Your opponent pays the creature's Power in order to prevent an extra ETB trigger.

But you do get to pay for each time you do this, so I doubt It'll let you run away with anything, just get you an extra trigger or a few extra points of damage.

Could pair with ninjutsu as a fallback. If blocked, exile it, replay it, get any ETB/LTB triggers. If not blocked, Ninjutsu it, do the usual ninja things, replay it, get the ETB/LTB triggers, too. Doesn't work as well on the ninjas themselves though, they usually cost more to play normally, so exile/replay is costly and might be beyond your mana.

[–] Khanzarate@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

Possible we're looking at the top and the band is a disk around it. Dunno for sure.

[–] Khanzarate@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

Completely agree.

The only reason the relative had it at all was because of those old fears. As soon as I learned that they had it bundled with the computer (hate that. Malware's gotta get in somewhere though I guess), I knew why it was being slow.

I hold this up as an example because even their own troubleshooting website and a program dedicated to the purpose above and beyond the usual uninstaller couldn't do it though. Avast doesn't even know its own malware.

Also this nonsense got me the chance to put mint on their computer, but the "switch to Linux" argument isn't constructive in this particular spot. They didn't end up sticking to it because a required-for-school piece of software for tests just doesn't do Linux at all. Couldn't get it to run in wine or even a virtual machine either, and they're not great at the whole computer thing so I didn't wanna be tech support for dual booting.

[–] Khanzarate@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Here's an example. I removed avast via the uninstaller on a relatives computer, it made it laggy as hell. I restart after as the uninstaller demands, but it was still there.

Searching, I find this official support option. https://support.avast.com/en-us/article/10

The official Avast Uninstall Tool, the tool to use when the included uninstaller didn't work.

The official uninstall tool didn't work either. I ran it in safe mode, like it said. Didn't work, either, but it removed some stuff, and finally let me delete some things manually. Ran it again in safe mode after that, finally seems to have removed everything.

Anyway it's a great example of if a company doesn't know what they're about, windows has no process to recover from that. Window's process is identical to a Walmart employee saying. "I dunno, man, contact the manufacturer." Genuinely, its usually enough, but when its not, there's absolutely no recourse.

[–] Khanzarate@lemmy.world 8 points 1 month ago

They wiggle around to clean your eye and keep debris out of it.

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