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Chebucto Regional Softball Club

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A forum for discussing and organizing recreational softball and baseball games and leagues in the greater Halifax area.

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    golfballs come with different amount of "dents" those fuckers are not normed outside of their minimum weight and diameter, and evey kind of ball has to be tested to be allowed for tournament golf. those dents might not be spread evenly across the ball to get specific flight behaviour and thus this wont be a fair die in most cases. help me, i never swung a golf club in my life why do i know shit about golf ball!
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    How do they make them? I would have thought something like that could come out of a mold, and so all of them would be the same.
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      Beats my D36 [![thirty-six sided die](https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/d834ea2a-1fa6-4692-8e20-1560b3498f77.jpeg)](https://impact-miniatures.myshopify.com/products/d36_2d6)
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      We bought our kid a D120 a few years back (at their request). https://www.mathartfun.com/thedicelab.com/d120.html
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        We bought our kid a D120 a few years back (at their request). https://www.mathartfun.com/thedicelab.com/d120.html
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        Thanks for helping me liberate about $100 before breakfast.
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        • ? Guest
          How do they make them? I would have thought something like that could come out of a mold, and so all of them would be the same.
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          All the same from 1 manufacturer, at least for the same model. But different manufacturers use different patterns, and even the same manufacturer may change their designs.
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          • J jeeve65@ttrpg.network
            You roll it, it drops off the table and stops 15 ~~yards~~ meters away–if you're lucky. Or the cat thinks you finally have time for them and playfully pushes the ~~ball~~ die under the couch. I think my d30 is good enough.
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            The cat's just calling you out for fudging rolls. Do better.
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            • ? Guest
              Thanks for helping me liberate about $100 before breakfast.
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              Their skew and slant dice are wild looking and fun to have. (Sorry for your wallet)
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                But numbers should be spread more uniformly, not in a sequence! Unless you have a hash table. A hash table with a ratchet on non-blind throws is a fun way to mess with player's bad habits.
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                msage@programming.dev
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                I'm sorry, what is hash table in this context?
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                • ? Guest
                  How do they make them? I would have thought something like that could come out of a mold, and so all of them would be the same.
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                  yes, two balls of the same model will be the same and they are afaik made with molds and many balls will have an aequator where no dimples are placed to ease that process. i just remember being surprised that not more measurements of the balls are specified for tournament use and if a model is tournament legal boils mostly down to a set of standardized tests by golf associations.
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                    How do they make them? I would have thought something like that could come out of a mold, and so all of them would be the same.
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                    Small core, wrapped in a long rubber band, wrapped with outer plastic lining.
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                      I'm sorry, what is hash table in this context?
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                      I'm reasonably sure it'd be a list of numbers that just translate.actual die rolls to a new set. 123456 416352 Roll a natural 6 on a d6, look at that simple table, you got a 2. Roll a natural 3, get a 6. Ratcheting the table would be moving a row, so ratcheting this table by 1 would make it 123456 163524 So now you have a new arrangement.
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                      • ? Guest
                        But numbers should be spread more uniformly, not in a sequence! Unless you have a hash table. A hash table with a ratchet on non-blind throws is a fun way to mess with player's bad habits.
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                        It's a spindown die for mid to high level boss monster HP
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                          Unbalanced. Only rolls 1s 0.3057% of the time instead of 0.3058% as expected.
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                            golfballs come with different amount of "dents" those fuckers are not normed outside of their minimum weight and diameter, and evey kind of ball has to be tested to be allowed for tournament golf. those dents might not be spread evenly across the ball to get specific flight behaviour and thus this wont be a fair die in most cases. help me, i never swung a golf club in my life why do i know shit about golf ball!
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                            People pay so much for these fancy balls, and they're not even symmetrical?!? That should be like a major marketing point! Consistency in a "sport" is important.
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                              I'm reasonably sure it'd be a list of numbers that just translate.actual die rolls to a new set. 123456 416352 Roll a natural 6 on a d6, look at that simple table, you got a 2. Roll a natural 3, get a 6. Ratcheting the table would be moving a row, so ratcheting this table by 1 would make it 123456 163524 So now you have a new arrangement.
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                              Thank you so much!
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                                People pay so much for these fancy balls, and they're not even symmetrical?!? That should be like a major marketing point! Consistency in a "sport" is important.
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                                they might be symmetrical, but the dimples themselves are often grouped together in patterns or even vary in size. golfballs are crazy, i don't like them.
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                                  I have been looking for a replacement Numberwang die!
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                                    Unbalanced. Only rolls 1s 0.3057% of the time instead of 0.3058% as expected.
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                                    Literally unplayable
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                                      Sounds like a chaotic evil dice.
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                                      Wild(er) Magic dice
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                                      • K khanzarate@lemmy.world
                                        I'm reasonably sure it'd be a list of numbers that just translate.actual die rolls to a new set. 123456 416352 Roll a natural 6 on a d6, look at that simple table, you got a 2. Roll a natural 3, get a 6. Ratcheting the table would be moving a row, so ratcheting this table by 1 would make it 123456 163524 So now you have a new arrangement.
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                                        Yeah, except my players were usually quite badass math people, so I get to use reasonably strong crypto (well, not proper crypto, but strong enough against manual attack) stuff for ratcheting. Often it was just OTP (when I'm being lazy). Then everyone just got annoyed with math arms race and we stopped using dice almost entirely.
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