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Sun Avoidance

2024-12-25 13:00:00

C'mon, ESA Solar Orbiter team, just give the Parker probe a LITTLE nudge at aphelion. Crash it into the sun. Fulfill the dream of Icarus. It is your destiny.

D Roll

2024-12-23 13:00:00

Under some circumstances, if you throw a D8 and then a D12 at an enemy, thanks to the D8's greater pointiness you actually have to roll a D12 and D8 respectively to determine damage.

Exclusion Principle

2024-12-20 13:00:00

Fermions are weird about each other in a standoffish way. Integer-spin particles are weird about each other in a 'stand uncomfortably close while talking' kind of way.

Linear Sort

2024-12-18 13:00:00

The best case is O(n), and the worst case is that someone checks why.