THAC0 was more a symptom of a deeper flaw - that in Second Edition, it wasn't consistent whether a higher number or a lower one was better. Worse, the awkward intersection between the two happened to be in the most critical part of the rules, checking if an attack lands. THAC0 as an intermediary score was little more than a band-aid over those design flaws, and later editions embraced "higher = better" as a universal rule.
But also, "You find a set of magic scale plate. Its armor value is two less than what you're already wearing." "YIPPEE!" will never not sound weird.
Same. They made me a fucking zombie for about 6 months when they decided I needed Ritalin. I kinda wish I could get my Adderall back, but I doubt I could afford it with my crappy insurance.
it's a play on the HD/4K thing. SD for televisions is "standard definition", or what we had before HD: good 'ol NTSC.
Edit: sorry to hear about your med situation. Personally, I can't do any of the uppers for this because they wreck my gut, and leave me feeling strung out at the end of the day.
Gotcha, thanks. I thought I had missed something in the DSM, or that they had updated something, lol.
Meh, I'm getting through it. Moving to California for cheap and legal weed, and making myself my boss have let me muddle through to a decent retirement in the next couple years. I'm just not able to get a weeks worth of work done in a day anymore.
VGA is also the name of a specific resolution, it just happens to also share the name with a connector. The whole letter soup for resolutions was a dumb idea and I’m glad it died out. For example, did you know the Game Boy Advanced had a screen with HQVGA resolution? No, none of the letters stand for what you think they do. Of course that means Half Quarter Video Graphics Array.
Even CGA had at least a couple of different modes because you had the mode with four colors. But you also had a higher resolution mode that was just black and white. Or maybe it was black in one of the colors. I don't remember. It's been too long now. But even CJ had at least two different resolutions
I'm going to blow past escalating to EGA and CGA and go obscure to ADHerculesD. Hercules was a monochrome system that could emulate CGA/EGA in monochrome with different brightness levels :)
The two times I've been officially diagnosed the provider has told me that I am the most severe case they have ever seen.
With my first diagnosis, my wife had been investigating the idea because her friend told her that she thought I should get checked out. And then once she agreed to that the friend said, oh and by the way, you should also get checked out.
So when she got her diagnosis that provider said she was the most severe he had ever seen until he met me and then it changed to me. LOL
The bad news is that I definitely am not. In brief, when I was diagnosed with diabetes back in 2007, that was about the same time. I got my ADHD diagnosis and I didn't have health insurance because I struggled to keep work.
When I got that diabetes diagnosis, they put me on metformin and when that didn't kick things down they've increased the dosage. But that didn't work, because when you're poor, you eat carbs and well. I need to cut out sugar. I didn't know about carbs, they said well. I'm sorry that's what you can afford.
So I went unmanaged for a decade, till I had a saddle pulmonary embolism in 2017. We had been stuck in a small town where I absolutely could not find work, so I convinced my wife I had to look. So moved from Florida to Virginia because I found work up here, got insurance. I've been working on getting my health under control and doing pretty well with that these days except.
Because of all that damage from 10 years of unmanaged diabetes, I've had seven heart attacks, my kidneys have failed, so I'm on dialysis, and have had a bologna amputation on my left leg. Among other lesser medical issues. LOL. I'm a wheelchair user these days as well.
So I definitely have much less life expectancy thanks to this fucking country and these fucking fascists who keep us as the only developed Nation out of 33 who doesn't have some form of universal healthcare.
I'm a little bitter. LOL
So will last, I'm not surviving all that well. Although, considering all these issues I've had, I'm doing relatively well health-wise. Although I'm writing this from the hospital where I've just had to have a procedural on my leg because I was having some blood flow issues there. Thanks to all of the damage. And I really can't afford to lose that leg because I've already lost part of one.
But in case you think I'm trying to ask for sympathy, I'm not. Everyday. I'm glad to be here. I'll take whatever days I have left. I still try and have a positive attitude, and make people smile when I can. It's just life.
Well I'm disappointed in Neil gaiman and his choices be icky towards women, I still love the sandmam series and the character of death. When a character in that series died, and asked death, is this all I get? Death replied. You get the same as everyone else, one lifetime.
I get one lifetime. You get one lifetime. We all get one lifetime. So make of it what you will
Every electrician I've ever had has come to me ashen faced after taking a look at the electrics and decrying the mortal feat of engineering that almost cost them their lives.
Every builder I've every had has told me how the last guy was such a cowboy for skirting around unwritten compliance codes that every builder should know.
Drama queens, all of them, all to drum up business
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BeigeAgenda@lemmy.ca · 74 pts · 42d
Then there's the AD40K out fighting for the emperor.
Quetzalcutlass@lemmy.world · 31 pts · 42d
And the AD&D trying to convince people that THAC0 made sense.
Nouvellalia@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 42d
THAC0 is WHAC0!
chuckleslord@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 42d
I mean, it would if human brains didn't hate subtraction
Quetzalcutlass@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 42d
THAC0 was more a symptom of a deeper flaw - that in Second Edition, it wasn't consistent whether a higher number or a lower one was better. Worse, the awkward intersection between the two happened to be in the most critical part of the rules, checking if an attack lands. THAC0 as an intermediary score was little more than a band-aid over those design flaws, and later editions embraced "higher = better" as a universal rule.
But also, "You find a set of magic scale plate. Its armor value is two less than what you're already wearing." "YIPPEE!" will never not sound weird.
moondoggie@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 41d
That’s why I always said “hooray!”
AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 41d
That's a lot of words to say that Gary Gygax was a gatekeeping math nerd.
zod000@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 5 pts · 41d
THAC0 did nothing wrong!
dejected_warp_core@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 42d
Adderall for the adderall god.
AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 41d
Avenge Little Kitten!!!!!!
LongLive@lemmy.world · 30 pts · 42d
fools! HD loads faster
wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz · 7 pts · 42d
Gotta get the ADQHD for the optimal balance of resolution and refresh rate
tdawg@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 42d
Maybe too fast
dejected_warp_core@lemmy.world · 25 pts · 42d
I'm old enough to have been diagnosed with ADD, or I guess now that's "ADSD".
AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 41d
Same. They made me a fucking zombie for about 6 months when they decided I needed Ritalin. I kinda wish I could get my Adderall back, but I doubt I could afford it with my crappy insurance.
Never heard of ADSD. What's the S?
dejected_warp_core@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 41d
it's a play on the HD/4K thing. SD for televisions is "standard definition", or what we had before HD: good 'ol NTSC.
Edit: sorry to hear about your med situation. Personally, I can't do any of the uppers for this because they wreck my gut, and leave me feeling strung out at the end of the day.
AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 41d
Gotcha, thanks. I thought I had missed something in the DSM, or that they had updated something, lol.
Meh, I'm getting through it. Moving to California for cheap and legal weed, and making myself my boss have let me muddle through to a decent retirement in the next couple years. I'm just not able to get a weeks worth of work done in a day anymore.
Ariselas@piefed.ca · 24 pts · 42d
Back in my day all we had was ADVGA.
snooggums@piefed.world · 10 pts · 42d
I liked the upgrade to ADHDMI.
ayyy@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 42d
VGA is also the name of a specific resolution, it just happens to also share the name with a connector. The whole letter soup for resolutions was a dumb idea and I’m glad it died out. For example, did you know the Game Boy Advanced had a screen with HQVGA resolution? No, none of the letters stand for what you think they do. Of course that means Half Quarter Video Graphics Array.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_common_display_resolutions
jaybone@lemmy.zip · 3 pts · 42d
But original VGA could be 640x480, 800x600 or 1024x768.
Also I think it supported a 320x240, and then later on it would support much higher resolutions.
ayyy@sh.itjust.works · 6 pts · 42d
Again, thats the stupid part. VGA means only 640x480. SVGA is 800x600 and QVGA is 1024x768.
All of those resolutions can be successfully sent through a….VGA cable.
jaybone@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 41d
Didn’t EGA also support some of those resolutions?
24_at_the_withers@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 41d
This is exactly why the acronym for display standards was so terrible.
The Extended Graphics Adapter (abbreviated XGA, obviously) by IBM was introduced with multiple resolutions available, named XGA and various deritives.
EGA came earlier and was colloquially used to refer to 16-color display modes, but wasn't used to define a specific resolution.
More specifically, EGA was a color palatte that had 64 colors available, 16 of which could be displayed at one time.
And then there's CGA which came prior to EGA, but like it referred to color modes rather than resolution.
daychilde@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 41d
Even CGA had at least a couple of different modes because you had the mode with four colors. But you also had a higher resolution mode that was just black and white. Or maybe it was black in one of the colors. I don't remember. It's been too long now. But even CJ had at least two different resolutions
daychilde@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 41d
I'm going to blow past escalating to EGA and CGA and go obscure to ADHerculesD. Hercules was a monochrome system that could emulate CGA/EGA in monochrome with different brightness levels :)
los0220@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 39d
I would rather have ADDP
wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz · 2 pts · 42d
Gotta support ADDP for its open ecosystem
samus12345@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 42d
ADSD.
DrakeAlbrecht@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 42d
Not to be confused with ADSD Cards.
jaybone@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 42d
Ok moneybags, I had ADMONOCHROME
justaman123@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 41d
And here I thought I was special with my AuDHD
SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de · 14 pts · 41d
It is. That's the gold plated version
daychilde@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 41d
You are. My wife is. It's extra fun.
The two times I've been officially diagnosed the provider has told me that I am the most severe case they have ever seen.
With my first diagnosis, my wife had been investigating the idea because her friend told her that she thought I should get checked out. And then once she agreed to that the friend said, oh and by the way, you should also get checked out.
So when she got her diagnosis that provider said she was the most severe he had ever seen until he met me and then it changed to me. LOL
aceshigh@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 41d
It makes sense why you guys were attracted to each other.
daychilde@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 41d
Very very much so :)
justaman123@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 41d
Oh man, hope you're surviving the declining empire capitalist hellscape
daychilde@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 41d
The bad news is that I definitely am not. In brief, when I was diagnosed with diabetes back in 2007, that was about the same time. I got my ADHD diagnosis and I didn't have health insurance because I struggled to keep work.
When I got that diabetes diagnosis, they put me on metformin and when that didn't kick things down they've increased the dosage. But that didn't work, because when you're poor, you eat carbs and well. I need to cut out sugar. I didn't know about carbs, they said well. I'm sorry that's what you can afford.
So I went unmanaged for a decade, till I had a saddle pulmonary embolism in 2017. We had been stuck in a small town where I absolutely could not find work, so I convinced my wife I had to look. So moved from Florida to Virginia because I found work up here, got insurance. I've been working on getting my health under control and doing pretty well with that these days except.
Because of all that damage from 10 years of unmanaged diabetes, I've had seven heart attacks, my kidneys have failed, so I'm on dialysis, and have had a bologna amputation on my left leg. Among other lesser medical issues. LOL. I'm a wheelchair user these days as well.
So I definitely have much less life expectancy thanks to this fucking country and these fucking fascists who keep us as the only developed Nation out of 33 who doesn't have some form of universal healthcare.
I'm a little bitter. LOL
So will last, I'm not surviving all that well. Although, considering all these issues I've had, I'm doing relatively well health-wise. Although I'm writing this from the hospital where I've just had to have a procedural on my leg because I was having some blood flow issues there. Thanks to all of the damage. And I really can't afford to lose that leg because I've already lost part of one.
But in case you think I'm trying to ask for sympathy, I'm not. Everyday. I'm glad to be here. I'll take whatever days I have left. I still try and have a positive attitude, and make people smile when I can. It's just life.
Well I'm disappointed in Neil gaiman and his choices be icky towards women, I still love the sandmam series and the character of death. When a character in that series died, and asked death, is this all I get? Death replied. You get the same as everyone else, one lifetime.
I get one lifetime. You get one lifetime. We all get one lifetime. So make of it what you will
YeahToast@aussie.zone · 2 pts · 41d
Diabetes is a shit disease
tetris11@feddit.uk · -2 pts · 41d
isn't that just classic trade mongering though.
Every electrician I've ever had has come to me ashen faced after taking a look at the electrics and decrying the mortal feat of engineering that almost cost them their lives.
Every builder I've every had has told me how the last guy was such a cowboy for skirting around unwritten compliance codes that every builder should know.
Drama queens, all of them, all to drum up business
LunarLoony@lemmy.sdf.org · 14 pts · 42d
And here I am, with glorious AD240p
20cello@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 42d
What about people with AD8K then
wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz · 4 pts · 42d
They can revel in all of their 60Hz
crazycraw@crazypeople.online · 8 pts · 42d
DVDA peeps are keeping their mouths closed.
ramble81@lemmy.zip · 4 pts · 42d
Does that mean for you , what it means for me? Because what I’m thinking of certainly has nothing to do a medical diagnosis.
crazycraw@crazypeople.online · 3 pts · 42d
huehuehue - indeed it is not a medical diagnosis.
bottleofchips@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 3 pts · 42d
But it could certainly lead to one
P00ptart@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 41d
Do it enough and they'll give ya one at some point.
hakunawazo@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 41d
Me on ADSD:
GraniteM@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 42d
The irony of this image being 640×613.
guitarfosec@infosec.pub · 6 pts · 42d
“My nephew has HDADD. High Definition Attention Deficit Disorder. He can barely pay attention, but when he does it's unbelievably clear.”
melsaskca@lemmy.ca · 4 pts · 41d
I like how the two guys in the background are kind of blurry.
pancakes@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 41d
They have ADSD
kamen@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 41d
They suffer from bokeh
PattyMcB@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 42d
I don't know that aych-deez are, but I've got 80 of them
Alvaro@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 4 pts · 42d
ADCAM
Kojichan@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 37d
ADHerculesD.