Doesn't hurt as bad as a d4
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It has two sides. They’re curved, and it doesn’t stay on the curve part, so you can effectively use it as a d4, but it’s still only two-sided.
Sort of like how you can flip a Mobius strip like a coin and it will land one of two ways, but it still only has one side.
It has 2 surfaces.
It has 4 or 6 sides it can rest on IMHO. I’d need to play with it to find out.
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Agreed, but also weird as aren’t d4 made from 4 triangles?
Fuck caltrop d4s, all my homies hate caltrop d4s (it’s me, I’m all the homies)
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a two sided die is called a coin
The edge of a coin is a 3rd side though
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The edge of a coin is a 3rd side though
every other die has sides that aren’t counted if you’re doing that.
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every other die has sides that aren’t counted if you’re doing that.
dice are just flattened spheres. they only have one weirdly shaped side
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dice are just flattened spheres. they only have one weirdly shaped side
A side in this case is a specific area that allows for differentiating outcomes
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This website looks like it was made in 1999, but it documents a project from this year. I love it. The page loaded nearly instantly.
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This website looks like it was made in 1999, but it documents a project from this year. I love it. The page loaded nearly instantly.
I love his commitment to the bit. True dedication
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That extremely rare, almost-never chance of landing on the edge is exactly what I would program into a game if I made one, instead of exactly 50% odds.
I brought this up in maths class once. The teacher agreed that the edge was a possibility and since he was involved in football, they used to flip the coin and let it land on the ground. More than once it stuck in the mud in the edge.
Then told us to ignore that possibility.
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dice are just flattened spheres. they only have one weirdly shaped side
the flattening is what makes them not spheres and have sides. If we applied this “logic” then literally everything is just anything but in a different form - which makes no sense
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A side in this case is a specific area that allows for differentiating outcomes
A die can land and stand on a corner if you do it precisely enough.
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It has 2 surfaces.
It has 4 or 6 sides it can rest on IMHO. I’d need to play with it to find out.
There are 4 stable orientations and 2 unstable equilibria
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This is correct. It’s a d4 that’s just as cleanly a d4 as a regular d4 with rounded corners. Both have parts that don’t belong to the sides, since there’s no defined outcome where the dice comes to rest on one of the rounded non-side parts.
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The edge of a coin is a 3rd side though
An ideal coin is perfectly flat with no thickness.
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A die can land and stand on a corner if you do it precisely enough.
It needs a designation, why I said what I said. You don’t call side on a coin flip because your only choices are heads or tails
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It needs a designation, why I said what I said. You don’t call side on a coin flip because your only choices are heads or tails
And I was argueing in your favour and you downvoted me for it.
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And I was argueing in your favour and you downvoted me for it.
You were? No one said anything, and you replied to me with a “flaw” in what I said? Why would you just not agree? Or upvote?
It’s weird that you would say I was wrong then say you were doing it to support my statement.
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You were? No one said anything, and you replied to me with a “flaw” in what I said? Why would you just not agree? Or upvote?
It’s weird that you would say I was wrong then say you were doing it to support my statement.
Oh great, a contrarian. “Every time someone replies to me, it necessarily must be an attack that I need to squash with full force.”
An awesome character trait.
The original point you were answering to was: A coin has 3 sides, because there are 3 potential areas where a coin can land.
Your point was: Only that it can land on an area doesn’t mean that that point is a side (as in a side that counts as a result).
I said: Yes, even on a die there are areas where the die can stand that are not counted as sides.
Now the question to you, mister contrarian: How was that a flaw to your argument? Please tell me, how a thinking human being that can read can seriously interpret that as me pointing out a flaw to your argument?
I hate small ego contrarians who feel the need to constantly find attacks from all sides and if they don’t find them, they make them up.
It’s the online equivalent of a teenager going “What are you looking at?”
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Oh great, a contrarian. “Every time someone replies to me, it necessarily must be an attack that I need to squash with full force.”
An awesome character trait.
The original point you were answering to was: A coin has 3 sides, because there are 3 potential areas where a coin can land.
Your point was: Only that it can land on an area doesn’t mean that that point is a side (as in a side that counts as a result).
I said: Yes, even on a die there are areas where the die can stand that are not counted as sides.
Now the question to you, mister contrarian: How was that a flaw to your argument? Please tell me, how a thinking human being that can read can seriously interpret that as me pointing out a flaw to your argument?
I hate small ego contrarians who feel the need to constantly find attacks from all sides and if they don’t find them, they make them up.
It’s the online equivalent of a teenager going “What are you looking at?”
A die can land and stand on a corner if you do it precisely enough.
You didn’t say yes… and that doesn’t look like you agree to anything. If anything, it seems like a sarcastic reply because clearly you had to point out the 3rd side of a coin…
Again, you could have just agreed or given an upvote… instead, it seems like you’re more interested in judging people and making up idea’s about who they are…
