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Cake day: August 2nd, 2023

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  • Parallelization would make high level casters utterly broken. One of my favorite spells, because I made it for 3.5 edition, and I haven’t had a DM criticize the spell, is Unfailing Missiles. If I could cast three of them in parallel, I would be able to hit up to 9 targets that are no more than 20° arcs from the last target, each with a missile that does 17d (6+1) points of Force/Sonic Damage split 50/50. Or I can use all of those missile on a single target. If I maximize the spell with 3 12th level spell slots, that’s 1,071 damage or 119 damage per missile. There’s no save, please refer to the name of the spell. This is basically a 9th level Magic Missile. If I see you, I wollop you.









  • Russia can’t win. I don’t mean I don’t want it to happen, despite that being true. I mean there is no winning condition for Russia or Putin to end this conflict. Even if they were to occupy Kiev, they should really remember what happened when they attempted to occupy Afghanistan, because the exact same thing will happen. We didn’t even have to supply bombs and missiles, just some shoulder mounted surface to air shit, and the Russian occupation was completely halted. The Ukrainians aren’t going to give up, even if Russia declared victory.

    What’s worse is that I’m not certain if we have passed the point where Russia literally cannot make enough people for this war to not cripple their economy and political power for the next century or so, but they’ve lost so many young men that if we haven’t passed that point yet, we will by the end of the year.


  • Cat bites as well. Cat scratch fever is a real thing, but it’s far easier to contract directly from the source. I would extrapolate to carnivorous animals = bad infection when bit, but somehow dogs don’t have as much bad bacteria in their mouths, should still get a dog bite looked at, even though there’s way less chance of infection due to saliva bacteria.

    That’s where the myth that having a dog lick a wound is a good thing. They don’t have as much bad bacteria, so back in the day before antibiotics and Neosporin, having a dog lick the wound would help clean away some of the bad bacteria.










  • If you read the entirety of both Wealth of Nations, and The Theory of Moral Sentiments, I believe that you’ll find that pulling the segment of “like all other men” out of the original quote reflects the sentiments of Mr. Smith correctly. He used that phrase to mean all other men of capital, not the entirety of the human species. He spells that out in his previous work “A Theory of Moral Sentiments,” but to leave the quote unabridged allows for bad faith arguments against the spirit of the author’s self proclaimed intentions of artificially and quickly expanding wealth so that the nations could work together to create utopia eventually. Adam never intended us to stick with capitalism after the late 1800s by his own benchmarks in both volumes.