Comic for December 29, 2010

The GeekThe Geek Oh-Two Crew, OmeganautRegistered User, ClubPA regular
edited December 2010 in Social Entropy++
Aww man, not another political comic.

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  • TheySlashThemTheySlashThem Registered User regular
    edited December 2010
    every board game ever dot jay peg

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  • augustaugust where you come from is gone Registered User regular
    edited December 2010
    yesssssssssssssssss

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  • WhippyWhippy Moderator, Admin Emeritus Admin Emeritus
    edited December 2010
    dear this comic

    mehhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

    love

    drunk whippy

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  • FrankoFranko Sometimes I really wish I had four feet so I could dance with myself to the drumbeat Registered User regular
    edited December 2010
    lol nerd joke

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  • Randall_FlaggRandall_Flagg Registered User regular
    edited December 2010
    oscar wilde!!

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  • facetiousfacetious a wit so dry it shits sandRegistered User regular
    edited December 2010
    I smiled.

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    "I am not young enough to know everything." - Oscar Wilde
    Real strong, facetious.

    Steam: Chagrin LoL: Bonhomie
  • TonkkaTonkka Some one in the club tonight Has stolen my ideas.Registered User regular
    edited December 2010
    Should have been playing Axis & Allies.

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  • ThreadbareSockThreadbareSock Registered User regular
    edited December 2010
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  • TonkkaTonkka Some one in the club tonight Has stolen my ideas.Registered User regular
    edited December 2010
    Also: Happy birthday to The Geek.

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  • DarkPrimusDarkPrimus Registered User regular
    edited December 2010
    My dice seem to roll better for me as DM than as a player, personally speaking.

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  • facetiousfacetious a wit so dry it shits sandRegistered User regular
    edited December 2010
    Highly relevant.

    It is never not relevant.

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    "I am not young enough to know everything." - Oscar Wilde
    Real strong, facetious.

    Steam: Chagrin LoL: Bonhomie
  • TonkkaTonkka Some one in the club tonight Has stolen my ideas.Registered User regular
    edited December 2010
    DarkPrimus wrote: »
    My dice seem to roll better for me as DM than as a player, personally speaking.

    Well yeah, you have that screen in front of you.

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  • pgn674pgn674 Registered User new member
    edited December 2010
    The chance to role three 1s with three dice is 1/216, or 0.463%. The chance to do that twice in a row is 1/46656, or 0.0021%. This is the same chance for rolling six 1s with six dice. If you role six dice 32,340 times, you will more likely than not roll all 1s at least once. If you roll three dice 363 times, you will probably roll three ones at any point at least twice (not necessarily twice in a row).

    As for how many times you would need to roll three dice to likely get three 1s twice in a row; that's a little more difficult to figure out. Hmm, an ordered list of n items has n-1 in-a-row pairs. So, if I'm thinking this through right, you would need to roll three dice 32,341 times to probably get three 1s twice in a row. Maybe. But, if you roll, say, three 2s then three 3s, the next roll is already doomed. Even if it was three 1s, it would not satisfy the twice in a row stipulation, as the first part of the pair of rolls was already not three 1s; it was three 3s. I'm not sure if that changes things. Are the "three 2s then three 3s" and "three 3s then three 1s" pairs entirely separate? Do they need to be?

    And the quote that is referenced seems to be this one:
    "To lose one parent, Mr Worthing, may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness."
    Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest

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  • facetiousfacetious a wit so dry it shits sandRegistered User regular
    edited December 2010
    It occurs to me that not everyone automatically knew the quote.

    This saddens me.

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    "I am not young enough to know everything." - Oscar Wilde
    Real strong, facetious.

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  • DarkPrimusDarkPrimus Registered User regular
    edited December 2010
    Tonkka wrote: »
    DarkPrimus wrote: »
    My dice seem to roll better for me as DM than as a player, personally speaking.

    Well yeah, you have that screen in front of you.

    Cute, but I'm known among my players as being very honest about my rolls. I've had plenty of bad spells as well as DM. Come to think about it, maybe I don't pay as much attention to when I'm rolling badly as DM, since when you're doing badly as a player you aren't accomplishing anything, when you're DMing you are still entertaining everyone.

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  • TonkkaTonkka Some one in the club tonight Has stolen my ideas.Registered User regular
    edited December 2010
    pgn674 wrote: »
    The chance to role three 1s with three dice is 1/216, or 0.463%. The chance to do that twice in a row is 1/46656, or 0.0021%. This is the same chance for rolling six 1s with six dice. If you role six dice 32,340 times, you will more likely than not roll all 1s at least once. If you roll three dice 363 times, you will probably roll three ones at any point at least twice (not necessarily twice in a row).

    As for how many times you would need to roll three dice to likely get three 1s twice in a row; that's a little more difficult to figure out. Hmm, an ordered list of n items has n-1 in-a-row pairs. So, if I'm thinking this through right, you would need to roll three dice 32,341 times to probably get three 1s twice in a row. Maybe. But, if you roll, say, three 2s then three 3s, the next roll is already doomed. Even if it was three 1s, it would not satisfy the twice in a row stipulation, as the first part of the pair of rolls was already not three 1s; it was three 3s. I'm not sure if that changes things. Are the "three 2s then three 3s" and "three 3s then three 1s" pairs entirely separate? Do they need to be?

    And the quote that is referenced seems to be this one:
    "To lose one parent, Mr Worthing, may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness."
    Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest

    NERD

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  • UrielUriel Registered User regular
    edited December 2010
    I've rolled three ones twice in a row before.

    Also Rolled three twenties in a row and killed a black dragon once.

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  • HacksawHacksaw J. Duggan Esq. Wrestler at LawRegistered User regular
    edited December 2010
    oscar wilde!!

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  • KusuguttaiKusuguttai __BANNED USERS regular
    edited December 2010
    halfbirthdaycomic

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  • TiBTiB Registered User regular
    edited December 2010
    Kiko has the pompest pompadour

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  • UrielUriel Registered User regular
    edited December 2010
    3d6 is pretty common in warmachine.

    It's a boosted attack roll there, I imagine.

    Man that is two focus down the drain.

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  • RaneadosRaneados police apologist you shouldn't have been there, obviouslyRegistered User regular
    edited December 2010
    I roll pretty badly in most boardgames

    but Risk?

    in Risk I roll fire and thunder

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  • UrielUriel Registered User regular
    edited December 2010
    I can't wait to read the post for this comic.

    I want mike and jerry to do a battle report of one of their warmachine matches.

    I don't get to play the game enough myself, so I must live vicariously through them.

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  • TheySlashThemTheySlashThem Registered User regular
    edited December 2010
    Raneados wrote: »
    I roll pretty badly in most boardgames

    but Risk?

    in Risk I roll fire and thunder

    shit yes I love risk

    from south america shall I rain blood across all the earth

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  • UrielUriel Registered User regular
    edited December 2010
    I want some of those dice just because the guy is so enthusiastic.

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  • YaYaYaYa Decent. Registered User regular
    edited December 2010
    Hacksaw wrote: »
    oscar wilde!!

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  • BlackDoveBlackDove Registered User regular
    edited December 2010
    This is Wilde's reference to parents right? To be without one parent, blah, but to be without two = carelessness?

    From Importance of being Earnest?

    Or am I off here?

    Been a while since I had my Wilde.

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  • VALVEjunkieVALVEjunkie Registered User regular
    edited December 2010
    Peas wrote: »

    yessss I was waiting for someone to post this

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  • SalmonOfDoubtSalmonOfDoubt Registered User regular
    edited December 2010
    hey remember when penny arcade did comics about computer games

    or even comics with jokes in them

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    PiptheFair wrote: »
    killing children would be hilarious
    Olivaw wrote: »
    HELLO AND WELCOME TO THE PENNY ARCADE FORUMS

    PLEASE ENJOY YOUR STAY

    AND THIS PENIS
    Man, I don't want to read about this lady's broken vagina.
    NotACrook wrote: »
    I am sitting here trying to come up with a tiered system for rating child molesters.
    cock vore is fuckin hilarious
  • VALVEjunkieVALVEjunkie Registered User regular
    edited December 2010
    oh hey look guys it's a goose!

    a SILLY goose!

    how does it feel to be so silly, you goose?

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  • Centipede DamascusCentipede Damascus Registered User regular
    edited December 2010
    YaYa wrote: »
    Hacksaw wrote: »
    oscar wilde!!

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  • ThawmusThawmus +Jackface Registered User regular
    edited December 2010
    I rolled three 1's recently. With GameScience dice, no less.

    When determining the intelligence of my Psychic Gamma World character, no less.

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  • KalTorakKalTorak One way or another, they all end up in the Undercity.Registered User regular
    edited December 2010
    BlackDove wrote: »
    This is Wilde's reference to parents right? To be without one parent, blah, but to be without two = carelessness?

    From Importance of being Earnest?

    Or am I off here?

    Been a while since I had my Wilde.

    It's from Importance, Lady Bracknell responding to Jack/Ernest Worthing admitting that he had "lost" both his parents.

    I dunno if it's a reference to Wilde's parents or not.

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  • SabreMauSabreMau ネトゲしよう 판다리아Registered User regular
    edited December 2010
    BlackDove wrote: »
    This is Wilde's reference to parents right? To be without one parent, blah, but to be without two = carelessness?

    From Importance of being Earnest?

    Or am I off here?

    Been a while since I had my Wilde.

    I was thinking of this instead.

    Twoboners.jpg

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  • EdcrabEdcrab Actually a hack Registered User regular
    edited December 2010
    I remember that a character in a game I was running rolled two natural twenties and finished off a boss encounter that was otherwise set to wreck the entire party

    Not impossible or anything, but it was a much deserved perfect roll after endless nights of twos and threes

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  • BlackDoveBlackDove Registered User regular
    edited December 2010
    Yes, Oscar Wild is surely the source material for today's comic.

    I concede fully. My mind has been illuminated with the light of not one, but two dousing rods that point to wet places.

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  • KalTorakKalTorak One way or another, they all end up in the Undercity.Registered User regular
    edited December 2010
    Shit, Sabre and I got our rods crossed.

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  • Cilla BlackCilla Black Priscilla!!! Registered User regular
    edited December 2010
    Peas wrote: »

    yessss I was waiting for someone to post this

    I can't believe I watched this whole thing and was interested by it.

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  • BlackDoveBlackDove Registered User regular
    edited December 2010
    Peas wrote: »

    yessss I was waiting for someone to post this

    I can't believe I watched this whole thing and was interested by it.

    Jesus Henry Obama Christ, same here.

    And I don't even play Dungeons and Dragons, nor give a shit about dice, never used em in my entire life.

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