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Azato, | |
We've all played ages of video games and 'classic' RPGs (with the classic fantasy tropes) where we're taught that fighting the monster is a matter of just doing enough papercuts that it falls down while living long enough to do so (the WoW or Final Fantasy model). | |
But in Tolkien Smaug wasted a village, killed thousands, but was killed by a single arrow placed correctly in a missing scale. | |
Think of these fights more in terms of literature and pacing instead of the classic 'they have X hp and we have to swing Y times with Q hits to drop it'. The problem in this context is that there is no accounting for fiction, this is a mechanical solution (a simulation) of a sword doing consistent damage, and scaling monster HP to allow for the same tool (swing) to be applied to every problem (monster). | |
I had this problem. I did a quadruple take when I read that a DRAGON has 16 hit points (a level 1 ranger can do that on a max damage roll). However let me describe a fight to you and maybe this will give you the |
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/* | |
A simple logging module based upon the advice of Dave Cheney | |
* https://dave.cheney.net/2015/11/05/lets-talk-about-logging | |
* https://dave.cheney.net/2017/01/23/the-package-level-logger-anti-pattern | |
*/ | |
package log | |
import ( | |
"io" |
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#!/usr/bin/env perl | |
use 5.10; | |
use POSIX qw(floor); | |
use DateTime; | |
=for example | |
var generateUUID = (function() { | |
"use strict"; |
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Metaobjects in the Cor |
Chris Prather |
oo, perl, mop |
Fri Apr 3 13:06:07 CDT 2020 |
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config: | |
security.nesting: "true" | |
user.user-data: | | |
#cloud-config | |
package_upgrade: true | |
users: | |
- name: perigrin | |
sudo: ['ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD:ALL'] | |
groups: sudo,admin | |
shell: /bin/bash |
Who's watching?
Tell me who's watching.
Who's watching me?
I'm just an average man, with an average life.
I work from nine to five; hey hell, I pay the price.
All I want is to be left alone in my average home;
But why do I always feel like I'm in the Twilight Zone, and
I always feel like somebody's watching me.
Who's watching? Tell me who's watching. Who's watching me? I'm just an average man, with an average life. I work from nine to five; hey hell, I pay the price. All I want is to be left alone in my average home; But why do I always feel like I'm in the Twilight Zone, and I always feel like somebody's watching me.
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