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From another article: https://cfpub.epa.gov/si/si_public_record_report.cfm?dirEntryId=341592&Lab=NCEAquote:...in a child following ingestion of plasticized RDX from the mother’s clothing (Woody et al., 1986).
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Nov 28, 2019 03:32
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i want the government to take away your guns aubrey we're coming for your guns because you are crazy and should not have them with a .192 average he can't hit poo poo so why should we worry
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Nov 28, 2019 04:04
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piL posted:From another article: https://cfpub.epa.gov/si/si_public_record_report.cfm?dirEntryId=341592&Lab=NCEA Thank you! I was all stuck searching medical stuff, I have no idea why the EPA never crossed my mind.
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Nov 28, 2019 04:06
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EBB posted:i want the government to take away your guns aubrey Loving the "my kids do headshots" Yeah, real great teaching there you gently caress. It bothers me that these people breed. E: I bet he's one of those dipshits who puts slugs/non-frangibles in a home defense gun. I have such a tangible hate for irresponsible/wilfully ignorant gun owners PathAsc fucked around with this message at 04:15 on Nov 28, 2019 |
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Nov 28, 2019 04:13
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This guy having a loving three page meltdown that his D&D dice aren't manufactured with the same exacting statistical process control typical of aerospace bearings https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3902892&pagenumber=1&perpage=40
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Nov 30, 2019 04:11
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I learned that people care about dice as a hobby and not just something you use sometimes.
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Nov 30, 2019 04:48
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shame on an IGA posted:This guy having a loving three page meltdown that his D&D dice aren't manufactured with the same exacting statistical process control typical of aerospace bearings I didn't bother looking too far into the thread beyond the first page but somebody working for a dice company saying he has no idea how fair they are sounds really dubious. Like, yeah, you need to do some quality control even for dice that determine whether or not your orc missed, not just whether or not you've won this round of craps.
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I'm having trouble imagining lower stakes.
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Nov 30, 2019 05:01
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piL posted:I'm having trouble imagining lower stakes. You'll have to roll for that.
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Nov 30, 2019 07:08
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 "the illusion dissipates and you see an even less consequential argument"
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Nov 30, 2019 07:21
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Absurd Alhazred posted:I didn't bother looking too far into the thread beyond the first page but somebody working for a dice company saying he has no idea how fair they are sounds really dubious. Like, yeah, you need to do some quality control even for dice that determine whether or not your orc missed, not just whether or not you've won this round of craps. From what I read of how Chessex works they buy dice from an overseas supplier and re-package them. It's really the responsibility of the supplier to be doing random sampling and QA work. Mind you, with injection-molded parts defects are pretty obvious, I'd be surprised if they didn't pass through a size gate or something.
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Nov 30, 2019 12:12
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Absurd Alhazred posted:I didn't bother looking too far into the thread beyond the first page but somebody working for a dice company His brilliant suggestion for ensuring all dice are 'fair'? Calipers!  because they absolutely have the time to hand-measure each and every motherfucking die that comes through, dontcha know. Nevermind that this will do nothing for defects in the injection process.
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Nov 30, 2019 12:27
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Man people care more about dice than i care about almost anything in my life and it baffles me
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Nov 30, 2019 12:37
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Nov 30, 2019 13:18
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I mean FFS there's always going to be minor deviations that occur while molding. But as long as your injection/clamp pressure stay the same and there's no major variances in the material you'll get a reproducible part within tolerances. Mind you this is probably a cheap chinesium mold so your tolerance band is probably rather large.
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Nov 30, 2019 13:21
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But you don't understand! They aren't truly random! 
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Nov 30, 2019 13:33
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They do randomly sample dice for QA but they use the first die they made to determine which ones they test and unfortunately that die is, unbeknownst to them, defective.
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Nov 30, 2019 14:05
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That thread is so good
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Nov 30, 2019 14:35
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Measuring with calipers wouldn't even test the distribution of the die results. You'd have to roll them a bunch, track the results, and see if there are any weird bumps in the line.
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Nov 30, 2019 14:56
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oh my god yeah some poor fucker in guangzhou is gonna take a pair of calipers to your 3 dollar unknown-resin die are you kidding me Like gently caress unless you're polishing each side of the die you're going to have imperfections! Like, what is your loving datum on a D20? Do you just pick 1 side and go with it? Even the difference in the engraving will cause minute deviations! Like, you remove more material engraving 20 than you do 1, making it 0.00001g lighter on that one side!
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Nov 30, 2019 14:59
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Sounds to me a perfect business opportunity to charge an extra $100 for certified tested dice.
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Nov 30, 2019 15:09
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If you were paying a premium for a product that advertised that level of precision and they weren't delivering, yeah I'd be ticked off NOWHERE in their advertising, their website, anywhere is there a guarantee of precision manufacturing. I have put far too much thought into this subject now.
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Nov 30, 2019 15:39
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What gets me about the while thing is you could have a pretty messed up die and it'll still serve as a valid randomizer for the point gamers use the randomizer for. Until a player learns their die well enough that he can manipulate it unseen via some sort of trick throw, the effect of an unbalanced die will be unintentional. When a player spends hours learning a non transferrable skill with a randomly defective tool, which could be fixed by handing them another $1 die or making them use a free app on their cell phone, all to cheat at pretend storytelling, maybe you don't actually want to hang out with that person. I think people think they're going to have a die that skews 75-25 high low or something, but if its shaped right and the density is close, it's probably like 501-499 unless you're intentionally manipulating the thing. This was a trap, wasn't it?
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Nov 30, 2019 16:05
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piL posted:This was a trap, wasn't it? Nope, that dude is really an idiot. Don't know if he's in the service or not, but def fits the bill for this thread.
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Nov 30, 2019 16:12
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LingcodKilla posted:Sounds to me a perfect business opportunity to charge an extra $100 for certified tested dice. You joke but someone did exactly that if you look further into the thread.
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Nov 30, 2019 16:24
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That guy is the type of person for whom  was invented.
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Nov 30, 2019 16:29
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MA-Horus posted:If you were paying a premium for a product that advertised that level of precision and they weren't delivering, yeah I'd be ticked off The entire audiophile industry is based on this idea.
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EBB posted:The entire audiophile industry is based on this idea. audiophiles are insane
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Nov 30, 2019 16:35
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But man you got dem Beatz by dre! Theyre so good they shove an extra half pound of iron in them just to add to the weight so you get all the value of what you paid for them
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Nov 30, 2019 16:42
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Stravag posted:But man you got dem Beatz by dre! Theyre so good they shove an extra half pound of iron in them just to add to the weight so you get all the value of what you paid for them https://audiobacon.net/2019/11/02/the-jcat-signature-lan-a-1000-ethernet-cable/ Because digital media has no error checking or something.
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Hahahahaha oh christ this dumb dumb world. Edit: i thought the guy was joking and playing along but no hes bought into it and is defending his testing methodlogy in the comments. Holy hell my brain hurts now almost as bad as when i read cyrano's oh ringo NO threads Stravag fucked around with this message at 17:02 on Nov 30, 2019 |
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CainFortea posted:https://audiobacon.net/2019/11/02/the-jcat-signature-lan-a-1000-ethernet-cable/ quote:This is presumably the reason why an Ethernet cable will change the sound of your system. In fact, even if you’re not streaming music through an Ethernet cable – as long as it’s connected to your music server – it’ll change the sound of your music files stored on disk.
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Nov 30, 2019 17:01
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But what sort of crystals do I want to place in my listening room?
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Nov 30, 2019 17:07
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Aligned crystal titanium sheets obviously. This way they properly direct the soundwaves
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LingcodKilla posted:Sounds to me a perfect business opportunity to charge an extra $100 for certified tested dice. Casinos do pay a markup to have highly accurate dice for craps.
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Nov 30, 2019 17:20
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Ethernet cable guy is so super duper wrong about everything and it is hilarious.
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Nov 30, 2019 17:23
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MA-Horus posted:oh my god It's a 100% chance that poster is the insufferable D&D player who have have a full blown tantrum if someone else touched their dice. When I started playing in a group and I was the new guy, one of the players told me always ask to use someone else's dice because eventually if you just grab for them there is that one lunatic who will flip the table and scream at you for touching his "lucky d20" or getting your fingerprints on their brushed chrome $200 set.
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Absurd Alhazred posted:Casinos do pay a markup to have highly accurate dice for craps. The house isn't raking in tens of thousands of dollars a night at their D&D tables.
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Lemniscate Blue posted:The house isn't raking in tens of thousands of dollars a night at their D&D tables. Maybe not in your D&D table. 
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