The "I Didn't Comment in Another Thread" Thread

[Alzrius]

A person in another thread said something to the effect of "if someone made a show where God was presented as being a bad guy, they'd be cited by the Anti-Defamation League." Apparently they didn't get the memo that the Satanic Panic is over, and that the ADL didn't seem to have a problem with how the CW's Supernatural ended.

Supernatural Season 15: Why God Is The Perfect Final Villain

Supernatural season 14 revealed a major character to be the show's final villain, here's why they were the perfect, and only, choice to make.

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[RealAlHazred]

A person in another thread said something to the effect of "if someone made a show where God was presented as being a bad guy, they'd be cited by the Anti-Defamation League." Apparently they didn't get the memo that the Satanic Panic is over, and that the ADL didn't seem to have a problem with how the CW's Supernatural ended.

Supernatural Season 15: Why God Is The Perfect Final Villain

Supernatural season 14 revealed a major character to be the show's final villain, here's why they were the perfect, and only, choice to make.

screenrant.com

The ADL only really followed Supernatural up to season 7, like a lot of people.

 

[Cadence]

'All models are approximations. Assumptions, whether implied or clearly stated, are never exactly true. All models are wrong, but some models are useful. So the question you need to ask is not "Is the model true?" (it never is) but "Is the model good enough for this particular application?"'

-George Box (one of many versions of the idea stated by him, this one from 2005).

Professor Box (1919-2013) was a member of the National Academy of Arts and Sciences and a Fellow of the Royal Society. He served as president of the American Statistical Association and the Institute of Mathematical Statistics, and his numerous honors include the the (now) COPSS Distinguished Achievement Award and Lectureship.

 

[billd91]

'All models are approximations. Assumptions, whether implied or clearly stated, are never exactly true. All models are wrong, but some models are useful. So the question you need to ask is not "Is the model true?" (it never is) but "Is the model good enough for this particular application?"'

-George Box (one of many versions of the idea stated by him, this one from 2005).

Professor Box (1919-2013) was a member of the National Academy of Arts and Sciences and a Fellow of the Royal Society. He served as president of the American Statistical Association and Institute of Mathematical Statistics, and his numerous honors include the the (now) COPSS Distinguished Achievement Award and Lectureship.

If it hadn't been a quotation from 15 years too late, that could have been a part of the Math 300 course I took at Beloit College - Mathematical Modeling.

 

[Deset Gled]

The ADL only really followed Supernatural up to season 7, like a lot of people.

Quitters. I followed that show all 15 seasons. The highs were high, the lows were low. FWIW, I loved the ending.

 

[Cadence]

"better"

 

[Cadence]

"Well, first I imagine a huge amount of swirling gas particles. And then I roll about 10^56 d20's to see how they coalesce and move, and repeat that until I have enough to get critical mass to ignite as a sun and then see what planets and other objects form, and then keep going until I see if the orbits are stable. If the sun doesn't ignite, then it's kind of like Traveller and it just dies and I try again. That's always disappointing, because it takes a long time to roll all those dice."

 

[Deset Gled]

"Well, first I imagine a huge amount of swirling gas particles. And then I roll about 10^56 d20's to see how they coalesce and move, and repeat that until I have enough to get critical mass to ignite as a sun and then see what planets and other objects form, and then keep going until I see if the orbits are stable. If the sun doesn't ignite, then it's kind of like Traveller and it just dies and I try again. That's always disappointing, because it takes a long time to roll all those dice."

Didn't Mike Mearls propose system to do that in one roll? It's a bit reductive, but accomplishes the same thing.

 

[Cadence]

Didn't Mike Mearls propose system to do that in one roll? It's a bit reductive, but accomplishes the same thing.

You need an awfully big die with a lot of sides for this one though...

 

[CleverNickName]

You need an awfully big die with a lot of sides for this one though...

Nah, not really. You just roll 99d10 to get a number between one and one duotrigintillion (1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000.)