I presume you know you’re lying, that’s why you named yourself jerkface

Hope our instances last that long

It should work for ages, compared to the cheap compressor that came with the fridge that lasted 3 years. It’s a thousand dollar fridge new, so the repair was about the cost of replacing it, but I won’t need to replace it in another 3 years

I did this only two weeks ago, so all I really have is expectations

It’s less noisy than the previous compressor

I wonder if people who think AI is “just a bunch of if statements” think programs work like Penny thought they did

Good dad

Australia, Canberra

Zero cost, 10 to 20 minute wait, no wait if my appointment is early in the day, 20 minutes if it’s in the afternoon

Now you play in honour mode

Some of it is. Like any genre there’s good and bad incosmic horror

The problem with microwaves is the ones from the '80s were far less powerful than new ones

I guess you assign no value to the waste of using 3 to 4 times the number of machines

Your product would be about three times the price of the cheap shit.

It might work in the current world with good advertising - Smarter Every Day (on YouTube) is part of a project to make a better, made in America, barbeque _brush cleaner

There are a few companies now selling better quality stuff successfully, but I have seen no one doing so in whitegoods

I spent a thousand dollars replacing the cheap compressor in my fridge because I asked the repair guy to replace it with better quality than it originally came with, and he used a commercial (as opposed to residential) grade compressor that was three times the price

But aside from a short lifetime, the big problem with cheap AC motors is they’re imprecisely built and often waste more electricity as heat and noise than they put into their output shaft

Of course even with the better stuff there still “cot death” where a new product fails almost immediately (because noone tests their products), but at least those failures are under warranty, the cheap motors typically last at least a few years

It is specifically about causing an imagined future crisis to happen as soon as possible to get to the imagined golden age following it

There’s been a fair bit of post Lovecraft Cthulhu

I almost always see the message “x has started the meeting. Join?” About 5 to 10 minutes before a meeting where x is any of many people, so you’re not unusual

I join exactly on time, though I get to the audio/video check a few minutes early to ensure my camera is live and the audio has chosen my headset not the camera microphone

If everyone is aware. If the player knows the DC and the GM knows the players character sheet

…ignore the concept

I call it following the rules. 1 as an auto fail is a common house rule, it is not the rule in d&d

If the sneaking person rolls a 13 +12, yeah it would be DC25 to see them. If they rolled a 1 the DC would be 13

Nope. 1/20 is much less regular than 5/20 or even 19/20.

What do you mean here? Any roll is as likely as any other

Do you mean 2-20 is more likely than rolling a 1? Of course it is, but an invisible rogue sneaking at +15 shouldn’t be seen by the monster who’s -4 to spot 1 in 20 events, or if 20s are also special, 1 in 10 events (one for the rogue getting a 1, one for monster getting a 20)

That’s the only way I’m willing to house rule this. If 1 fails regardless, 20 succeeds regardless

But I prefer to call things easy or impossible

A simple knot like the bowline you’d tie around a sturdy tree before descending by rope into a hole

That’s exactly the sort of thing a DM would set as DC10