I think we’re mostly using 64 bit machines now. Even loads of embedded stuff is running on 64 bit processors now.

There will still be a lot of old software and hardware that needs updating before the 32 bit Unix time overflow

LibreOffice calc has

• 0 = 1899-12-30,
• 1= 1899-12-31,
• 2=1900-01-01

I wonder if they were trying to one-up excel.

I think you’re description will be fine with our diverse friends, it’s pretty correct and non judgmental

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

Swipe typo. Corrected now

Maybe, I’m no linguist or expert. Small jellyfish will go out with the water

It only stops solids above a certain size, so a filter is more accurate. Check valves generally stop everything or all of a class of things, the turtle passes all liquid and some solids

Our heart valves are check valves

Isn’t that okay for easy stuff? Skilled characters also see harder challenges, disarming a dc20 trap for example

Why should they fail to tie a simple knot on a +5, dc5 use rope check 1 in 20 times?

Really it was “find something that is different to the reseller scales”

Using the metric version you can get zero with no chirps. The method doesn’t work at all for the current temperature though, you can’t get -1°C any way

Yeah and free parking jackpots break monopoly by making the game run for hours

Failed skill checks on 1 break d&d by making skilled people fail regularly just as less skilled people do. I also play in the Palladium system where skill checks are on percentile dice and also don’t fail on a minimum roll

One of the things I don’t like about BG3 is that the rogue with godlike sneak can’t get far with greater invisibility because everything they touch gives a 1/20 chance of being heard

When I roll a d&d skill I call out the total. A 1 might be 6 or 10. I’m not participating in rewriting the basic rules of the game

When you’re +12 to stealth a 1 isn’t that critical

Room temperature is another great way to get decoherence

Supermarket speedrun any%

Yeah me too, which is one of the ways I know I don’t have ADHD. I’m straight in, grab the things I’m there for, visit no other aisles, don’t pick up any impulse buy items.

ADHD is about how they get distracted from things they should be doing to the point it makes life harder