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Ability descriptions often specify whether a bonus is additive or multiplicative, but when they don't, should we assume one or the other? As an example, from Kyre's recent blog:

Flawless Strike - Champions that attack a stunned enemy have a 100% additively increased chance to critically hit that enemy and deal 100% more critical damage.

If, for example, this bonus were in effect and a level 500 Rosie attacked a stunned enemy (because Rosie's Shadow Arts ability increases her crit damage by 100% multiplicatively for every 100 levels she has), how much would that extra 100% from Flawless Strike help? That is, would it be:

• 100% * 2^5 = 32,000% + 100% = 32,100%
• or 100% * 2^5 * 2 = 64,00

I'm a beginner at this hooker business, and I've just discovered the Lion Brand Cover Story yarns. I used two cakes to make a blanket using the "Mikayla" pattern (here in pdf, but tl;dr, you start with a row of 4 dcs, increase by 2 dcs each row till you're about half out of yarn, then decrease by 2 dcs each row till you're done).

I enjoyed making this pattern and I love the feel of the blanket, but the shape is much more of a diamond/kite/rhombus than a rectangle -- the corners at the beginning and end are much sharper than the ones in

Retiree with Tricare standard here. My dependent has a care provider she's been going to see for a few years while covered with other health insurance; the OHI is gone now and the provider says they don't take Tricare at all. From what I see at https://www.tricare.mil/claims, I think she should be able to see the provider and we'll be reimbursed for at least some of the cost (minus deductible and copay) after filing the form.

Has anyone gone through this process who can offer advice? How long should we expect it to take for the reimbursement to be sent?

Most other sports live on free TV and make the bulk of their money from TV networks. The r/Superbowl, world series, and the NCAA basketball tournament that will bump Rampage next week are all commercial-filled broadcasts that most of us never have to pay extra for. And it's not just the most popular sports; tennis, golf, and car racing are on TV every weekend, and you can find bowling, darts, and poker if you dig for it.

But wrestling tends to put its best shows on ppv, using the free TV shows to build up interest and try to drag an extra direct payment out of viewers. The NFL would never put the Superbowl on ppv; they instead put it on a Sunday night and get a million bucks a second for e

I can't find full episodes on YouTube. A few months ago, I could watch full episodes on Impact Plus the day after they were on AXS (which I ironically can't access). Now that doesn't work anymore, and the full episodes don't seem to be on YouTube, just highlights, unless I subscribe to that too -- which makes me wondering why I'm spending so much on Impact Plus.

I am sure this has been asked and answered here a dozen times, sorry in advance.

Does Melf's non-dominant gender bonus apply to all champions when there's no statistically dominant gender?

I don't think it does - I'm looking at Shandie's incoming effects from Melf's Melf's Augmented Support Spell, and it says she's only getting the 50% bonus for being one spot away from him.

It seems to me like it should - it doesn't say "minority" or "least prevalent" gender, but "non-dominant," which should mean that if there is no dominant gender, all genders are considered non-dominant.

("All genders" rather than "both" because Warden identifies as non-binary and Hew Maan identifies as simultaneously male and female - so there are four distinct gender values in play. It seems lik

Just unlocked level 2 on my modron automation flow system, and I have managed to get 4.6 flow dumping into a node that looks like a flexed bicep. Unlike most of the other nodes, the bicep does not tell me what bonus I'm receiving for this (i.e., the swords tell me I would be getting increased damage, the quadrangles say I'm getting increase gold, etc.).

Does anyone know what this arm and the other icons without explanatory text are for?

I think I'm hearing her wrong, but at least twice in the past week, when I ask Alexa for the weather, she has given me the standard report, and followed it with, "Enjoy the sunshine, Brianna." She won't repeat the last sentence if I ask her for the weather again.

She does not know anyone in our household named Brianna (nor do I, for that matter), and she doesn't have my voice down for voice recognition. Am I hearing her wrong? Is she assuming that I am someone she knows from somewhere else?

Collecting red gems gives a damage bonus, according to the in-game description. Does that damage bonus apply solely to Black Viper, or does it apply to the whole party?

There was a great post by u/business_adultman the other day about a game that went over 35,000 turns without killing a unicorn. Everyone agrees that this is stupidly rare, but most of us also would agree that the RNG is bound to do it to someone eventually.

If it were a one-in-a-million game, and if all of the 7,679 members of r/nethack play 3 games a week on average, we'd expect it to happen at least once a year to one of us -- so I suspect it's even less likely than one-in-a-million. I would like to know how rare it is.

I'm fascinated by statistics but not competent with them, and I think I c

If I finish my last class this month and my term ends in (for example) October, will I be able to graduate now or have to wait three months?

I'm sure this has been asked a thousand times, sorry!

https://twitter.com/CZWiggy/status/1275600745870606337?s=19 and a few other recent posts on her timeline.

Josh Wells posted some appalled reaction tweets; Doc Diamondfire posted something that, to me, read like he had a bad feeling about Chikara and was glad he got out when he did.