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There do exist modules you can import that can better simulate true randomness, which can correct that. Still, the default is good enough.
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There do exist modules you can import that can better simulate true randomness, which can correct that. Still, the default is good enough.
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And if you are in need of better (read cryptographically secure) randomness, the secrets module can do so. If you do not trust that library, you can also use os.urandom() (depending on platform support).
PS: If this is not enough, you have bigger problems (fundamental failures in cryptography and/or you have a trusting trust situation).
PS: If this is not enough, you have bigger problems (fundamental failures in cryptography and/or you have a trusting trust situation).
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I stand owned and will concede the fact
Weirdly enough python is one of those few languages I haven't touched
It's fine, tbh I was nitpicking because I didn't agree with the numbers and was annoyed at being wrong, I concede in whole
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SV: The one place where you can expect people to debate the pesduorandomness provided by python in respect to a rapidly written python program to probabilistically calculate the odds of certain events happening in a story.
God I love this forum.
Anyways, I really hope that Joe gets a minor victory and some therapy soon.
God I love this forum.
Anyways, I really hope that Joe gets a minor victory and some therapy soon.
It only works on home appliances. It never specified that it can only be Joe's or that he can't sell them. Though selling them might not work. But building them into other homes should be fine.
Or he can buy the land and build the new homes thus they are technically his. And I think he should do this anyway since it would stop the original landlord from kicking people out to hike the prices up.
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The numbers disagreed even more with my napkin maths, so I feel your pain.
I hope Joe rolls Strong Spark, making therapy irrelevant by discarding all his mental problems and replacing them with much more exciting mental problems which are also on fire... and would make Bakuda look sane by comparison.
...but yeah, I'll take the therapy otherwise.
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It's Thursday, and his therapy is on Saturday, so 3 days.
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*Face palms* No. That was not what I said. The story has been building up so much steam that I would prefer to have some of it burned off. There has been too much focus on tinkering/perks and combat while character development is somewhat neglected. I'd like to see how Joe handles the strain being unloaded by a bit (will he suddenly collapse? will he keep pushing? who knows).
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Becoming insane would not cure his other issues in any capacity
Ok I know this is no longer discussed by when it was i didn't see this fact being brought up so i will just add it now. I regards to Gully and how she plans to pay Joe for his healing that was already stated when we were informed that she had moved to the city in the first place, from chapter 36.1 the Dragon interlude:
So it seems to me that she has liquidated as much of her money as possible since I'm guessing she is willing to pay anything she can for Joe to heal her. Joe could probably take some scans and data as payment, but letting her pay at least some of it with her own money would also let her walk away feeling like things were done between them, for instance if I were Weld i would still feel like i owed Joe something due to the sheer ease of my payment and how little it meant to me compared to how much i relatively would have gotten.
Also a quick word on Contessa that isn't really that relevant since she still performing the same role as in the original canon, but a lot of her power in the worm setting also comes from her being a part of Cauldron and having their resources available to her, most notably her ability to teleport anywhere instantly. If she was operating alone and trying to take out Joe she would have to travel and gather the resources to somehow get her hands on an annihilator effect either in the form of assistance from another parahuman or some piece of tinkertech. But with Cauldron they probably either got something like that in reserve for if they'd ever need it or just have Eidolon pull an annihilator power and then "door in". Again this is a theoretical, but if she were to operate alone without Cauldron her greatest problem could even be something as simple as the travel time between the places she would have to go to in order to carry out her paths.
In regards to Joe it almost seems wasteful and risky to use Contessa against him since he would force her to relatively often adjust her path and is part time blank, if Cauldron wanted to kill of Joe, Eidolon popping by for a quick sucker punch with a good annihilator attack seems like the better option, especially since Joe gaining a power mid-attack would simply mean Eidolon would have to adjust his powers or approach (if said power would even be meaningful in said engagement).
So it seems to me that she has liquidated as much of her money as possible since I'm guessing she is willing to pay anything she can for Joe to heal her. Joe could probably take some scans and data as payment, but letting her pay at least some of it with her own money would also let her walk away feeling like things were done between them, for instance if I were Weld i would still feel like i owed Joe something due to the sheer ease of my payment and how little it meant to me compared to how much i relatively would have gotten.
Also a quick word on Contessa that isn't really that relevant since she still performing the same role as in the original canon, but a lot of her power in the worm setting also comes from her being a part of Cauldron and having their resources available to her, most notably her ability to teleport anywhere instantly. If she was operating alone and trying to take out Joe she would have to travel and gather the resources to somehow get her hands on an annihilator effect either in the form of assistance from another parahuman or some piece of tinkertech. But with Cauldron they probably either got something like that in reserve for if they'd ever need it or just have Eidolon pull an annihilator power and then "door in". Again this is a theoretical, but if she were to operate alone without Cauldron her greatest problem could even be something as simple as the travel time between the places she would have to go to in order to carry out her paths.
In regards to Joe it almost seems wasteful and risky to use Contessa against him since he would force her to relatively often adjust her path and is part time blank, if Cauldron wanted to kill of Joe, Eidolon popping by for a quick sucker punch with a good annihilator attack seems like the better option, especially since Joe gaining a power mid-attack would simply mean Eidolon would have to adjust his powers or approach (if said power would even be meaningful in said engagement).
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Sparks are naturally charismatic, don't hesitate to communicate with others, and apply their talents with pretty much no restraint. It would totally solve his PR problem.
I don't disagree, but Joe is very fast, so landing a hit on him will be hard without bullshit auto aim.
Also, when Ediolon switch powers, it take a few minutes to power up the new power. It's fine for Endbringer battles, but for 1v1 versus other capes, it's a risky move.
Ahh thats my bad, I wasn't aware of that time constraint, then he'd better get some good powers for the perfect first and only blow if they were to go that route, which i doubt in the first place, but thanks for pointing it out.
Kind of random, but I know that kamui have to be skimpy because of reasons. But that's only their activated/battle mode right? So if their passive mode don't have to be skimpy and can actually be whatever, then will Tetra's passive mode be a 4-piece suit that then in battle mode becomes Garment's ultimate fashion design, the barbarian chic?
Apeiron the gentleman pre-battle, looking classy and throwing out one liners to get everyone's blood pumping. Who knows what sort of deal he could offer or what world shaking information he may reveal.
Then boom. You're fighting Apeiron the barbarian. But you're not actually fighting him are you? No, you're too distracted by the way his abs glisten, his pectoral muscles bulging under the armor, and what the lion cloth does to his glutes? By God, those glutes should be an S-Class threat all by themselves. And all the while he'll be posing on you, quiping and laying out all of the reasons you suck.
Finally the battle ends and Aperion the gentleman returns post 'battle'. Now he's healing bystanders and making deals to fix the nearby buildings, looking suave yet professional all the while.
Apeiron the gentleman pre-battle, looking classy and throwing out one liners to get everyone's blood pumping. Who knows what sort of deal he could offer or what world shaking information he may reveal.
Then boom. You're fighting Apeiron the barbarian. But you're not actually fighting him are you? No, you're too distracted by the way his abs glisten, his pectoral muscles bulging under the armor, and what the lion cloth does to his glutes? By God, those glutes should be an S-Class threat all by themselves. And all the while he'll be posing on you, quiping and laying out all of the reasons you suck.
Finally the battle ends and Aperion the gentleman returns post 'battle'. Now he's healing bystanders and making deals to fix the nearby buildings, looking suave yet professional all the while.
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The fact that the entire story so far had taken place over the course of days means that any character development at all would be fairly minor wouldn't it? Joe's character has developed, but that's largely forced experience messing with him.
His next therapy appointment will be rather enlightening I'd say.
Insert scene where Taylor feels awkward pride whenever Khepri's looks gets complimented.
PHO: "Her hair is so fabulous!"
Taylor: (*blushes*)
I'm looking forward to Taylor and Aisha finally meeting, which may descend into passive-aggressive cattiness. A clueless Joe is blind to the girls' subtext (or too risk-adverse to stop their conflict), adrenaline junkie Fleet hopes the two starts a catfight, and Survey is intrigued by cape social dynamics.
God help us if Taylor's and Aisha's first meeting happens in the Japanese bathhouse. Onsens are for fanservice, not fights.
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Even Contessa can have oversights and mistakes. Canonically, we know (as much as we can know anything from someone with super plotting powers) she made a mistake that got the Numberman (and later many others) killed in Ward. Presumably, she made a similar mistake with Alexandria.
"I said to make sure Alexandria is alive!" Contessa says
"She is alive. She is a living vegetable." Shard-san says
"That does not qualify as alive!"
"It does for my definition and that is the one that maters."
My headcanon is that the whole Hero catastrophe took place while she was asleep and did not notice something (i.e. a trigger) changing things.
If Alex gives Elizabeth a cake, and Elizabeth puts it in the fridge for later. When she pick it up to eat it, the cake stabs her in the hand and falls to the floor. As the ants devour the cake, are they eating Alex's cake or Elizabeth's.
From what I could find the passenger does not view them as evil per say, just very dangerous to start to look into.
Either way it is not like she has to tell him who he is working for either. Remember how long it took him and his passenger to ID the ABB thinker?
"Who is this Italian lady? Why is she wearing a cowboy hat and looks like she is going to a rodeo?"
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Wog says that Contessa didn't path keeping the triumvirate alive. I like your explanation better though.
The canon bombing spree occurs mid-through-late April, which means MOTHER'S DAY is right around the corner once Bakuda is taken care of.
Poor Joe is doomed regardless of whether he calls his mother or not. If he does call, it'll give Mrs. Duris a chance to rail into him. And if he doesn't, the entire Duris family will get upset Joe didn't reach out on Mother's Day.
Meanwhile, the psychiatrist Dr. Campbell is pooping in his brown pants over the Duris family being toxic and verbally abusive to a powerful rogue tinker, justifiably worried that they might push Joe too far and make him snap.
So, which titans do y'all think that Joe should be descended from when he gets titian blooded and why? I'm thinking:
Gaia - Creation
Metis - Knowledge
Prometheus - Forethought
Honestly for the Celestial Forge it would make most sense for him to be of Gaia's blood directly so that he can be connected to creation.
Gaia - Creation
Metis - Knowledge
Prometheus - Forethought
Honestly for the Celestial Forge it would make most sense for him to be of Gaia's blood directly so that he can be connected to creation.
The author has confirmed on AO3 that the Titan Joe will be descended from is Prometheus.
Gully is a parahuman and a Brute with Earth powers, so obviously Joe is going to want a tissue sample (for Chimeras) and a bone sample (to grow more bones for the bonegodsteel) and scans of her using her powers (for enchantments)
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HAHAHAHAHA
I don't think that will come in time to help...
The rolls are not equal, please see the spreadsheet for actual chances of rolling them, though that does not take into account if he does not have enough points for them.
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IMO it's the latter. Lord spent a bunch of time (in fic and out) talking about Thinker arrogance and their "fake it till you make it" tactics AND how annoying March can be.
March's prediction is actually surprisingly close to being on point here: a few seconds less and she'd have been right.
That's good enough to still make her a threat. Having March capable of perfectly predicting Apeiron despite all the changes he's gone through would be annoying and Mary Sue-like.
If this ends up as long as the Bakuda fight it may be a while before it's done. That little cue is at least a sign that March isn't omniscient so you don't stew for weeks with her appearing to always have the upper hand.
It isn't just that Joe isn't winning: it's that he spends a lot of time tinkering in ways that seem worthless for what he's actually facing (e.g. the boots project which would be great for an Endbringer battle but is only a marginal improvement in his ability to stop March).
Anyways: are we taking bets? Cause Chen is dead right? A shame but it seems like the only outcome: Bakuda and March have access to data about his healing. And they have annihilator effects. Over/under they whack him and the duplicate if he ever gets close enough to him?