Hee! 
You know how some things just strike you funnier than they should? I’m going to be chuckling over that for quite awhile now. Thanks!
The Religious Right has pretty much monopolized PC bullshit these days. Liberals are almost entirely out of the game.
I just checked, and this seems to hold for all my dice except the 4-siders ;).
Works for mine. Then again, they have eight sides, so…
But as I asked, and jayjay corrected, D&D doesn’t use dice. D&D uses number tetrahedron, cubes, octahedrons, decahedrons, dodecahedrons, and icosahedrons.
So you can’t win. Either the kids use dice and fall into the sins of shooting craps and playing chuck-a-luck and sicbo, or they use number cubes and fall into the evil that is D&D.
Anyone else wonder if D&D would be more fun if you placed prop bets on what you are about to roll?
I work for a testing company, and every state we make tests for do require something about probability and chance in their math content. Aside from flipping a coin, there’s few other ways to describe simple probability situations. Our questions have to be phrased to simulate real-life situations, and we can’t make any references to gambling. Thus, “number cubes” instead of dice.
It’s not a PC thing. It’s a CYA-in-case-somebody-sues-us thing.
If you all will excuse me, I’m going to go ambulate down to the neaby intersection where me and my “domicled preadolescent males” will use our number cubes to throw some excretions (or “skeletal remains,” in the vernacular of the street.)
If you all will excuse me, I’m going to go ambulate down to the nearest intersection where me and my “domicled preadolescent males” will use our number cubes to throw some excretions (or “skeletal remains,” in the vernacular of the street.)
Hey I violated the UBB software’s one post per minute rule!
I am a rock star.
Heck, in my senior programming course, we designed a program to play 5-card draw. I attribute my complete lack of a desire to play craps to my understanding of basic statisitcs. I always thought the kind of policy where you will not teach kids about gambling is set in place by the gambling industry: the less people understand odds, the more likely they will be to want play games where they think they will win in the long run.
Want to stop gambling? Teach kids statisitics, using dice!
Surely that has got to be apocryphal? I’ve never in my life heard anything bad about dice (I’m lifelong LDS). I’ve known a few people who didn’t like cards, but dice?
Oh well, I guess we’re going to hell any way you slice it; my little girls have a can of poly-sided dice that were once used by their uncles for gaming, and we call them dice and everything, so we’re in trouble no matter what.
Yeah. I’m going to be laughing over the fruit punch thing for days.
“Honey, would you like some apple juice, or some flavored drink which does not imply any violence towards homosexuals?”
Somehow, some way, somewhere (probably in California), it is a Foolish Liberal’s fault for working with Satan and the damned humanist atheist evil empire to remove God and Jesus H. Christ from the schools with their damned worthless Bill of Rights.
Back when I played D&D I was content to make deals with the devil when rolling D20s.
Of course, now they’ve got the whole “take 20” thing, so I guess it’s not quite the same.
You simil-posted yourself. You can go blind from that you know.
It’s self interest; if the schools teach about statistics and gambling, the kids won’t grow up to play the lottery. Where will the schools get their money then?
“dice” is unspecific, how many sides? I had an extra credit problem that had to do with dice, I figured out the answer for any number of sides. I got the credit, but not extra extra credit.
Brian
Unless specifically stated otherwise, I believe that 999 people out of 1000 would understand the word “dice” to refer to 6-sided cubes. In fact I’m not completely sure that other multi-sided configurations could properly be called dice. The definitions on dictionary.com all refer to cubes with 6 sides.
Bwahahahahah. That is spit take funny.