Jello_Raptor
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Yup. My old one, before I switched to correct horse battery staple and a password manager, was a reference to fixed point operators and
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Marked for Death: A Rational Naruto Quest
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- naruto rationalist romance armageddon is looking better and better damn you kishimoto explosions everywhere explosives solve everyone if in doubt surrender to the mercy of zabuza it seemed like a good idea at the time looks like a really bad case of being a jōnin my god. where does the lore end? precommitting is the winning plan screaming in kagome screw the rules i have explosives something bad might still happen sometimes you gotta sociopath stabby zabby subsection c of paragraph 9 should include we can weaponize this so hard open voting
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I now have the mental image of baby sheep doing math with a LISP.
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- Staring into the void
I think you nail Nobby. I am not so sure about Hazou.
So Hazou is going to have to explain to sensei the nature of his tactical geniuses which consisted of talking heads communicating to him extra-dimensionally with lot of ideas, some good, and some bad, and you expect sensei to go along with it? Maybe she'll accept it as some kind of newfanged bloodline.
Also, don't forget the wiki looooooove has been lacking.
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- He/Him
Kawaiiii! Where can I sign up to get one?
It gets even better when you factor in all the plans to uplift the commoners and rebel against the privileged ninja regime that dominates them while living off their labour.
@eaglejarl, you were supposed to also change the password on the pangolin special elements doc!
I know, right?
Ninja Operation Manual page is created, along copy and pasted Hot Spring Failure Analysis.
Feel free to edit and extend those wikipages. I am trying to systematize our approach to making plans and avoiding costly mistakes in the future. The analogy I am using here is aircraft crashes and how every aircraft checklist are paid for in blood. We'll make a ninja checklist paid for in mishaps and blood as well.
Anyway, I know there's a dearth of people contributing to the wiki or keeping things up to date. But I must keep trying!
Feel free to edit and extend those wikipages. I am trying to systematize our approach to making plans and avoiding costly mistakes in the future. The analogy I am using here is aircraft crashes and how every aircraft checklist are paid for in blood. We'll make a ninja checklist paid for in mishaps and blood as well.
Anyway, I know there's a dearth of people contributing to the wiki or keeping things up to date. But I must keep trying!
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I'm on mobile and new at this, so I didn't put links but did add the SOPs we need to put there that I could think of (maybe should add one for "how to write a good plan" as well, which is somewhere in the knowledge doc).
HISSS is linked in someone's signature, lemme go look...
E: it was in @Jello_Raptor's, here
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I think I can be properly motivated to write a mission statement and start the brainstorm on how we should move forward to complete that goal. Military style documentation on what our group is about and how we should go about our business of correcting the faults of the ninja world. We really should think about expanding out from our cell into an actual organization to enact real change on the world. There is only so much that we as a group of 6 can do against the whole of the rest of the ninja world. We have to talk with leaders of all types, industry, agriculture, military. A force strong enough to be taken seriously will be needed to do that.
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Sounds like we need to subvert Jiraiya's organization
(Also, we're now <600 replies from being the 8th most replied quest on SV! That's only, like, two days' worth of frantic panicking for us, no biggie!
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Are these really necessary, especially if the details are happily taken care by our QMs? In-story, Kagome would be the one advising us not to get screwed over by experimentation.
I want to focus on plan checklist, because that where the players can most affect the survival of our group and our goal.
SOP could be useful if we could keep our QMs from forgetting that Nobby have a barrel that we should be using and that we have X and Y anti-pursuit tools in our arsenal, and the like. It could also prevent us from tediously writing plans. Instead we could refer to our "anti-pursuit" SOP and modify as needed.
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- The Deep Blue Sea
They aren't happily taken care of, though. The fact that we didn't chakra boost away from hot springs was a big deal a couple chapters back, and part of that was that our running away procedure was insufficiently specific. Hence, write out an SOP for it (which @Velorien specifically recommended at the time, I believe) and just reference it in the future.
In-story, Hazou does have a list of sealing safety procedures that got looked over by Kagome. That's what HISSS is.
Yes, exactly this.
It's a double edged sword, what the GM forgets about the opposition may stack against our favor, or maybe not. if the GM forgot about the Iwa-nin, we would be able to get out of Hot Spring with ease.
I think I am in favor of SOP. It will decrease uncertainty, and with great SOPs, we will also decrease risk.
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- The Deep Blue Sea
I look forward to the day when our plans are just code to be executed by the QMs
Code:
flee('HotSpring', 'Fire', 'Iron', 'rivers'=True, 'boost'=True);
camp('MEW'=True, 'KagomeSec'=True);
debrief('Hugs');
if training_time(CURR_UPDATE):
rest_recuperate(medic='Nobby');
research_hazou('PMYF2');
research_noburi('VD');
training_keiko('Contracts');
training_akane('PunchStuff');
else
rest_recuperate(medic='Nobby');
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While I was researching SOPs, I remembered something interesting to think about: Operation Research.
Unfortunately for our group size, we can't actually do that kind of research.
Unfortunately for our group size, we can't actually do that kind of research.
Jello_Raptor
(Confirmed Jelly)
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Is it bad that I see this and my first reaction is about how bad an API it is?
I mean 'HotSpring', 'Fire', 'Iron' is a list of locations we have to traverse in order, and shouldn't be a set of independent parameters. Not to mention 'HotSpring' is the supposed current location and should be implied by the state of the system.
It really should be something closer to:
Code:
flee(['Fire', 'Iron'], 'rivers'=True, 'boost'=True);Also, flee should probably a monad rather than a function, but that's more debatable.
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Everyone's a critic
@eaglejarl @Velorien found some stuff indicating explosives can be armed for longer periods of time than 5 seconds - was this an oversight/has it been overruled?
Jello_Raptor
(Confirmed Jelly)
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- Left of Center
Everyone's a critic
Well duh, variadic functions are awful.
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I did! These tricksy players must have broken the encryption! Next time I'll rot13-encode it twice for extra safety.
Yeah, that was before we'd nailed down the limits on timers.
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@eaglejarl @Velorien Does an explosive tag detonate if damaged (i.e., if it is stabbed with a kunai, or set on fire...)?
I guess that's a new sealing project.
Let's create ticking time bomb for enemy sealmasters to defeat. MUHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHHAH.
Cariyaga
Handsome Gentleperson
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Thank you for volunteering to be our programmatic plan engineer. Your sacrifice is appreciated.
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- Switzerland
I second this.Let's create ticking time bomb for enemy sealmasters to defeat. MUHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHHAH.
I propose we make it with a highly visible countdown timer, and make it so it goes off 6 minutes 17 seconds before the timer runs out.
Cariyaga
Handsome Gentleperson
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