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kaiden: Also, since I drank three cups of coffee this

kaiden@idkfa.com (kaiden) — Sun, 17 Jul 2011 20:56:17 -0800

Also, since I drank three cups of coffee this afternoon, and it's raining, I added two new sets of syntax to make it more feature complete: the ".." operator and the "-" operator, both for picking numbers within a range. "1..10" picks a number from the set of 1,2,3,...,8,9,10. "1-10" picks a number from the set of 2,3,4,...,8,9. (excluding the upper and lower boundaries). Similar to the "1d10" types of rolls, but a little easier on the mind if you're having to repeatedly do things like "sum up 10 different dice."

Scrotor: Lol, that is sooooo good.

Scrotor@idkfa.com (Scrotor) — Sun, 17 Jul 2011 19:13:34 -0800

Lol, that is sooooo good.

kitacek: BAHAHAHAHAHA Awesome.

kitacek@idkfa.com (kitacek) — Sun, 17 Jul 2011 18:55:20 -0800

BAHAHAHAHAHA Awesome.

kaiden: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K5d5jxJ5vbM&fea

kaiden@idkfa.com (kaiden) — Sun, 17 Jul 2011 18:20:49 -0800

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K5d5jxJ5vbM&feature=share :D

Scrotor: When Josh showed me this, I tried the exact

Scrotor@idkfa.com (Scrotor) — Sat, 16 Jul 2011 15:17:32 -0800

When Josh showed me this, I tried the exact same thing. Although my excuse is that it was in unfinished form, and that I was helping him beta-test it. You just want the world to burn.

kitacek: Noted: 99999999d48 breaks every browser

kitacek@idkfa.com (kitacek) — Sat, 16 Jul 2011 15:09:36 -0800

Noted: 99999999d48 breaks every browser I've tried (Chrome, IE8, Firefox). Like, freeze then force quit the task breaks. I likey.

kitacek: Yeah I almost crashed firefox while waiting

kitacek@idkfa.com (kitacek) — Sat, 16 Jul 2011 01:42:09 -0800

Yeah I almost crashed firefox while waiting for one of the values to chug through. Happy time!

kaiden: Ha, yeah. Should probably note that there are

kaiden@idkfa.com (kaiden) — Sat, 16 Jul 2011 01:30:37 -0800

Ha, yeah. Should probably note that there are no "safeguards" or maximum dice values. You're cooking with the power of supercomputers... or trying to do so, and crashing your browser by using it like a supercomputer.

kitacek: Just so you know, once I saw this posted, I

kitacek@idkfa.com (kitacek) — Sat, 16 Jul 2011 01:15:16 -0800

Just so you know, once I saw this posted, I immediately tried to break it. I failed. Good work. Also, this is why I can't have nice things.

kaiden: Keep forgetting to link this: Die

kaiden@idkfa.com (kaiden) — Sat, 16 Jul 2011 01:03:49 -0800

Keep forgetting to link this: Die (http://idkfa.com/die), a dice-rolling, randomness generator, tailored towards board games. I threw it together while I was bored one day, and had played board games the weekend before, and had the idea. It lets you roll any number of any sided dice, but also do things like pick random elements from a list, give a new order to elements in a list, as well as shuffle elements in a list. As you roll more and more dice, the output will stop outputting individual results, and start outputting "buckets," that is, start reporting "5- 5's" to mean that you rolled 5 a total of 5 times. And one final step further: you can have it only report on "successes" on a dice roll, that is, how many in a set of dice met a certain condition. For instance, "2d6>4" will report something like "1 success" if one of the 2 six-sided dice rolled a 4 or a 5, "0 successes" if nothing meets the condition, or "2 successes" if both dice meet the condition. You can do greater than (>), less than (<), and equal (=). For as long as you have the page open, it will list the result history, timestamp, pattern used for each bit of randomness you generate. Click on any pattern to have it "rolled" again. I know people are sort of partial to dice when playing board games. I've thrown enough dice on the floor, or knocked over game pieces, etc., to understand that there can be a better system. Not sure if I'd use (or be allowed to use this, under suspicion of tampering) this during actual games, but a fun toy, nonetheless. Enjoy!