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He is saying his "luck" skill is maxed out, so he is +10 while others could be having a real -10 of it.
I’ve liked the interpretation that high luck isn’t necessarily good. It just means highly improbable events happen to you more likely...
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Swimming near whales isn’t unsafe at all. They’re not particularly aggressive, a lone human is too small to worry about, and we operate on completely different sections of the food chain. This was more akin to getting stepped on by a giraffe that didn’t see you there. Total accident.
Giraffes are dangerous right? I wouldn't want to be near one (or a Hippo, or an Ostrich, etc...)
In my very limited experience (4 or 5 day safari in Kruger), Giraffes are pretty shy, but you really want to avoid startling them or otherwise putting them in a situation where they feel a need to defend themselves or their young.
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Teela Brown from Ringworld. She was the result of a selective breeding program intended to create the luckiest human alive... but it turned out the _real_ lucky ones were all the "failures" who did _not_ get recruited for an impossibly dangerous mission.
Luck seems to me to be a zero sum game, so if someone is lucky, someone else must be unlucky. It's like a new character on What We Do In The Shadows as a luck vampire.
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> Ha! "I was completely inside" What else needs to happen for you to think there might be an element of being unsafe? If a thing happens once, you decide it's categorically unsafe? Not a freak accident? Must be rough for you to actually do anything, given the how many possibilities there are to accidentally die doing basically anything.
You call diving in the ocean and swimming near whales "basically anything"? Diving itself is pretty high risk and the fatality rate isn't as low as you might think. You comparing essential daily activity to recreational diving in whale infested waters as equals is a quite mind boggling.
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I mean if you swim in whale's proximity and fly in sketch planes, crazy shit is bound to happen to you. The real tragedy is the stories there is no one left to tell. As always true wisdom is found in country songs: If the Phone Don't Ring, You'll Know It's Me -Rusty Ford -- My Truck, My Dog, and You
This is just an impressive level of victim blaming. Swallowed by a whale? Shouldn't have been in the ocean. It's bound to happen.
Swim in an ocean, walk outside, or keep breathing: there's a specific set of risks associated with every type of activity.
Ocean risks include drowning, hypothermia, strong currents, ocean-wave injuries, jellyfish, coral scrapes, Portuguese man o' wars, sea urchins, stingrays, sharks, whales, red/green/brown tides, and lightning.
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> Ha! "I was completely inside" What else needs to happen for you to think there might be an element of being unsafe? If a thing happens once, you decide it's categorically unsafe? Not a freak accident? Must be rough for you to actually do anything, given the how many possibilities there are to accidentally die doing basically anything.
You call diving in the ocean and swimming near whales "basically anything"? Diving itself is pretty high risk and the fatality rate isn't as low as you might think. You comparing essential daily activity to recreational diving in whale infested waters as equals is a quite mind boggling.
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He is saying his "luck" skill is maxed out, so he is +10 while others could be having a real -10 of it.
maybe he sucks up all the available luck in the area, a kind of luck vampire, and everyone else dies because out of luck! I'd write the story but evidently we are already background in it.