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frist deuce
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This challenge is not about being the first though, this time it's endurance.
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Judging by the <!--'s TRWTF is Pennsylvania.
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FTFY
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31 dice in play is enough for anyone.
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Indeed. Perhaps the mage only gets to roll a puny 1d4 in melee, but when the DM gets back from the bathroom he's going to find a surprise on his seat.
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Indeed. Only special interests, like the restaurant workers' union (of which the state store workers are members), support the status quo. The majority wants to get rid of the state stores and most of the even dumber restrictions on beer sales, but is utterly disenfranchised.
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And there was much rejoicing.
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Using more modern, terse language to get the same thing done.
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Seriously. I don't care if the site runs a contest, but I do care if the contest takes the place of the articles, a.k.a. the main reason I come to the site.
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It seems to me that the "Infragistics bonus" is just another "comp". So, how do I get a new computer comped to me. Maybe if I write a program that is sold at some "app store" that the house (which always wins) runs (keeping a small percentage). So, the house needs to calculate the anticipated sales and comp accordingly.
Very enterprisey!
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Wait, is that a
thingplace? Not even the weak stuff that's less than 5% alcohol?Admin
I think I missed the point of the problem. I thought we were supposed to present analogues for 2,3,7,11,12 in more general dice configurations so the win probabilities worked out in a realistic way for an actual casino game. I derived general expressions for bet success odds and spent an hour trying to come up with useable estimates for the messy dice probability functions I found on Wolfram Mathworld before I decided this was too much effort for a weekend.
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My greasemonkey script never forgets...
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It gets more WTF. About 4.5 years ago we elected a governor who campaigned in part on dismantling the state booze monopoly and whose party also had full control of both halves of the state legislature. It turned out that while he was an excellent grandstander (which served well in his last job as state attorney general); he had no clue how to negotiate with legislators to get anything passed. As a result after 4 years during which the house and senate bickered over how big of a nuke they wanted to drop on the state stores without actually agreeing with each other on anything. For his sins, the useless bastard ended up the only governor to ever lose re-election for a second term and we still have the most Utarded booze laws this side of SLC.
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Can't be as bad as a state who's first letter is C and last letter is t. I remember on 8pm Saturday night having to drive across the state line to New York to buy alcohol. There were stores there that were lit up like casinos in Vegas.
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That reminds me of going to a border crossing between Sweden and Norway. This small town on the Swedish side had gone absolutely crazy selling cigarettes and alcohol; even the doctor's surgery had a sign out advertising that they were selling those two products.
Blame the Norwegian government's luxury taxation policy. :smile: