The Gaming Den

If, upon looking into my trash and seeing a pizza box there next to your frequentist ideas, you consider me 'more likely' (however you define that) to have eaten pizza recently, you must necessarily , upon looking in the trash and not seeing a pizza box, consider that at least slightly less likely....

Not technically true. "X is evidence of Y" means that Y is more likely in worlds with X, meaning that Y is less likely in worlds with ~X, meaning that ~Y is more likely in worlds with ~X. So "~X is evidence of ~Y" does in fact follow from "X is evidence of Y". It's jus...

Plus, of course, by that moronic logic I'd have to assume I was right (sans logic) the many times in other arguments people have come to my defense in other places. This is called affirming the consequent, and it is a fallacy. To be clear, because I am talking to a moron, I am not saying that Frank...

This is minor, but isn't this redundant? If you could not already speak a non-supernatural, non-secret language, you gain the ability to speak one non-supernatural, non-secret language of your choice, chosen when you select this feat. If you take this feat multiple times, you gain an additional lang...

The problem as I see it, and occasionally encounter it, is that some of these threads amount to like 50+ pages. It's kind of out there to read hundreds of posts to play catch up on the dozen or two concepts that are core to the Den here. Then I'm probably in the minority here, but that seems pretty...

Chamomile wrote:Either/or, because every discussion of strictly mundane classes inevitably ends up being an attempt to fix Fighters

So essentially "trying to fix Fighters" but, by extension, also the various topics that are just going to devolve into that anyway. Fair enough. Thanks.

As a newbie (I've only been around since September or so) I can definitely say a reading list would have been nice. I've largely been reading reviews and the occasional new thread in IMHO, and there's good stuff linked here and there in those. Still, it was quite a while before I found links to the ...