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Yikes I jumped from... I don't remember... level 50? I'm now 100.

In the Dune universe a shield hit with a lasgun would detonate both the shield and the lasgun with the power of an atomic explosion.

Also shields were almost useless on Dune because they drove sandworms into a frenzy.

For some reason nobody thought of making a rocket propelled lasgun warhead.

Even tho I use the SDMG a lot, I prefer to wear high defense armor rather than ranged armor. Sure the Daybreak thing is nice but hard to target and even with this outfit I'm pretty sure the DPS is higher even with musket balls (infinite bag).

Pretty much how I've played all the tiers, highest defense regardless of weapons or magic.

Some guy just purchased Fallout 4 from Bethesda with more than 2000 bottlecaps.
Bit expensive IMO, that's the cost of a plasma rifle or so.

EDIT: Wait, that was back in June. Eh.

Now that I have everything including the Drill Unit, I can finally build my proper town...
It's going to be a "floating" town on canals, made mostly of marble and pearlbrick.

They're both slippery slopes. It can be a valid slippery slope, or an invalid slippery slope (a fallacy).

For example: saying that the approval of a law that lets the government ignore due process as long as they think one is a really really bad person, will inevitably be abused against other people that aren't bad or have done nothing wrong, is not necessarily a fallacy.

Slippery slope doesn't mean "your argument is invalid". The argument isn't in a slippery slope, whoever is predicted to abuse said law is the one in the slippery slope.

• In the classical form, the arguer suggests that making a move in a particular direction starts something on a path down a "slippery slope". Having started down the metaphorical slope, it will continue to slide in the same direction (the arguer usually sees the direction as a negative direction).
• Modern usage includes a logically valid form, in which a minor action causes a significant impact through a long chain of logical relationships. Establishing this chain of logical implication (or quantifying the relevant probabilities) makes this form logically valid; the slippery slope argument remains a fallacy if such a chain is not established.

Quote from: AlleeCat on July 22, 2015, 05:53:20 pm

"Paid mods will lead to paid patches!"

Sorry, gotta dig up the misapplication of logical fallacies. It's only a slippery slope if you say that A will lead to B with no real reasoning behind it (e.g. saying that it should be illegal to be gay, because otherwise paedophilia would have to be legal either, even though there is no real logical connection between the arguments between the two besides being to do with sex). However, the context here was where the argument in favour of A would also support B (that all work should be charged for).

That is correct. A lot of people confuse fallacies with the term that those fallacies refer to. A "slippery slope" is just something that if A happens (is allowed), B will probably happen. A "slippery slope fallacy" is when two unrelated things are stated to follow from the other.

It's a pet peeve. It's like when people yell "Godwin! Argument over!" when someone says Hitler or Nazi. Godwin is a prediction of how long it takes to refer to Hitler or the Nazis, not a fallacy. It would be like saying that you lose the argument because your toast fell to the floor on the buttered side.

I hate it when RPG games lock you into decisions as you "level". If the game doesn't allow maxing all stats, it should at least let you retrain gradually.