I love this topic. I stumbled across it after hearing about the idea that certain numbers are 'funnier' than others. I noticed that funny numbers tend to be the opposite of "round" numbers, so I think it comes down to their incongruity-

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I joke, but I'm yet to be disappointed by a kid's book about this (my kid's a train guy). Without fail, they celebrate the pluralistic and egalitarian nature of urban mass transport. Take "Subway" by Anastasia Suen / Karen Katz (2008), each page of which celebrates the magic of a normal subway ride.

I feel something of this is captured in the children's book "My Subway Ride" by Paul DuBois Jacobs & Hennifer Swender, illustrated by Selina Alko (2004), which poetically draws attention to the inherent uterine symbolism of the subway

The issue isn't really email, I'd ditch them in a second for just that. Its drive and sheets, which very unfortunately there aren't that many alternatives to, in terms of ubiquity and cost especially

Just getting into Crusader Kings huh?

All the slop generated "diagrams" were my favorite part. Beyond the unnecessary animal steampunk theme, they're just images pretending to be diagrams, so they're all confusing and meaningless. For clarity of communication, a handwritten napkin diagram would be superior in every single instance.

That's who I thought she was too, but would you believe the woman from chef's table (Venerable Jeong Kwan) is a completely different culinary master Korean monk?? (They have to know each other right? Really want to see them compete)

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Every contestant on the show is always like, "I'm here to win, gonna beat you, yadda yadda". Then we turn to the venerable, and she says something kind and empathetic about us all learning something. High stakes mean nothing to her, winning and losing are the same. She doesnt look nervous even once.

Haha yeah. And all this applies on the positive side too, like, "If I have an effect that doubles damage, and I get another one, is my damage triple or quadruple?" is sort of a recurring forum post or whatever. Framing it as they're applied successively, or all at once, only helps a bit with clarity

Eg, this might count as indirection too, but I think a very common approach is just having things stack multiplicatively rather than additively. So the denominator becomes (1-dr)*(1-dr)*(1-dr) instead of (1-(dr+dr+dr)). Now 20%+20%+30%≠80%, instead it's only 39.2% and it can only ever approach 1

Great article! I really love thinking through the details on mechanics like these. The "indirection layer" workaround is a good observation, I think that's a good term for these wrapping functions that try to prevent some unbounded problem with a function like these.

Congrats on the nominations!! Really well deserved, it's a truly incredible game AP. Can't wait to recommend this to everybody.

Needless to say I'm really grateful this only applies to cover letters

Thanks a lot man, and very much likewise!

Haha I don't think so but I only played the demo. If there isn't there really should be though!

(It definitely delivers on turning monsters into sausages though)

This is actually pretty close to what you do in Dunderbeck

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