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What is it that you think is percentile? Roll-under/over?

Started by arminius, October 23, 2007, 05:12:41 PM

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arminius

#15
October 24, 2007, 01:11:25 PM
Your argument deconstructs itself. Yes, when jumping OVER an obstacle, roll-over makes more sense. But what about when you're ducking UNDER the ork-captain's sword-swing. UNDER, see?

What we really need are methods of rolling OVER, UNDER, TO THE LEFT, OUT OF, in fact all prepositions should have a rolling method associated.

Pierce Inverarity

#16
October 24, 2007, 01:14:36 PM
Quote from: Elliot WilenYour argument deconstructs itself. Yes, when jumping OVER an obstacle, roll-over makes more sense. But what about when you're ducking UNDER the ork-captain's sword-swing. UNDER, see?

Ducks duck. Good men don't. Good men are too busy lobbing off the heads of ducks.

QuoteWhat we really need are methods of rolling OVER, UNDER, TO THE LEFT, OUT OF, in fact all prepositions should have a rolling method associated.

The only way is UP, babee.
Ich habe mir schon sehr lange keine Gedanken mehr über Bleistifte gemacht.--Settembrini

arminius

#17
October 24, 2007, 01:58:37 PM
Quote from: Pierce InverarityDucks duck.
It all becomes clear now, what with the RQ connection.

flyingmice

#18
October 24, 2007, 02:06:14 PM
Y'know, the scary thing is, most haters of [dice rolling system] have only slightly less ludicrous arguments than Pierce's comedy. There really is nothing rational about it.

-clash
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Pierce Inverarity

#19
October 24, 2007, 02:49:43 PM
Comedy???!

I trust you have a body, Clash? If so, which side is up? And does rightsideupness matter to you?

Aha!

What I am putting to you here is that corporeality is constitutive of our experience of the world, very much including the world of dice! Merleau-Ponty, Clash!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maurice_Merleau-Ponty#Corporeality

It follows with stringent logic that those who deny the qualitative difference that's expressed in the up/down division are the irrationalists, denying as they thereby do the reality of embodied experience, and hence, the very fundaments of our relation to the world.

Platonists! Gnostics!
Ich habe mir schon sehr lange keine Gedanken mehr über Bleistifte gemacht.--Settembrini

arminius

#20
October 24, 2007, 02:55:53 PM
But how do reconcile your invocation of corporeality with your argument against percentile dice, which in either of their common forms, are the only dice which are composed of non-Platonic solids?

flyingmice

#21
October 24, 2007, 02:56:01 PM
Quote from: Pierce InverarityComedy???!

I trust you have a body, Clash? If so, which side is up? And does rightsideupness matter to you?

Aha!

What I am putting to you here is that corporeality is constitutive of our experience of the world, very much including the world of dice! Merleau-Ponty, Clash!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maurice_Merleau-Ponty#Corporeality

It follows with stringent logic that those who deny the qualitative difference that's expressed in the up/down division are the irrationalists, denying as they thereby do the reality of embodied experience, and hence, the very fundaments of our relation to the world.

Platonists! Gnostics!

This argument falls flat when considering Kyle and Droog and others of our Aussie folk! They are all upside down, and the Uruguayans are sideways! Your statements are thus unmasked as pure Northern Hemisphere Chauvanism! :O

-clash
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arminius

#22
October 24, 2007, 03:02:19 PM
Point in favor of Roll-Out (towards space) vs Roll-In (the opposite)!

Except it has an air of Ptolemaic bias.

flyingmice

#23
October 24, 2007, 03:04:33 PM
Quote from: Elliot WilenPoint in favor of Roll-Out (towards space) vs Roll-In (the opposite)!

Except it has an air of Ptolemaic bias.

The gravity of the situation naturally favors Roll-In, Elliot!

-clash
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Pierce Inverarity

#24
October 24, 2007, 03:08:17 PM
Quote from: flyingmiceThis argument falls flat when considering Kyle and Droog and others of our Aussie folk! They are all upside down, and the Uruguayans are sideways! Your statements are thus unmasked as pure Northern Hemisphere Chauvanism! :O


Not if the earth is actually a disk, bucko.
Ich habe mir schon sehr lange keine Gedanken mehr über Bleistifte gemacht.--Settembrini

Pierce Inverarity

#25
October 24, 2007, 03:08:49 PM
Quote from: Elliot WilenPoint in favor of Roll-Out (towards space)

Pure Gnosticism. Despicable.
Ich habe mir schon sehr lange keine Gedanken mehr über Bleistifte gemacht.--Settembrini

flyingmice

#26
October 24, 2007, 03:09:54 PM
Quote from: Pierce InverarityNot if the earth is actually a disk, bucko.

What if it's a Platonic solid? Or worse, non-Platonic? Riddle me that, Batman!

-clash
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Pierce Inverarity

#27
October 24, 2007, 03:19:48 PM
I got nothin'. Curse your eloquence.
Ich habe mir schon sehr lange keine Gedanken mehr über Bleistifte gemacht.--Settembrini

flyingmice

#28
October 24, 2007, 03:22:58 PM
Quote from: Pierce InverarityI got nothin'. Curse your eloquence.

Dang it! I was going to throw non-Euclidean in next! :O

-clash
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Marco

#29
October 27, 2007, 07:29:14 AM
Quote from: Pierce Inverarity*Well, not as pathetic as Steve Jackson, who's calling THREE.

Eyaaggh!!

-Marco
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