How to deal with DM favoritism? I've been playing a 4e dungeons and dragons campaign for a while now, and it's the first campaign I've ever played in. The DM seems to keep pampering one player in particular. He usually only gives plot hooks to that player, never blames that player for anything, gives that player any and all magical items he wants, and let that player start out the game with a feat that allows him to take two standard actions per turn without spending an action point. The player claims that us other players are just bad at the game, even though his character sheet has multiple very clear errors. The thing is, this player is the only reason that we can win any battles since he's a higher level than any of us and the DM scales bosses to him. The DM has recently started giving plot hooks to other players, but the only time this has happened was when he gave my character a single hook one session ago. I'm sorry for ranting, I would just like to know how to deal with this.
A fellow player is uncooperative with the group and gets GM favoritism. How do I handle this? I actually have two situations but they are interconnected. Our group is currently playing a Dresden game. The GM and one of the players are married. Along with that, he is a new member to the group. I can understand her (the GM) wanting to make him feel welcome but it has gone into the the realm of blatant favoritism. A few examples:   Every idea he has is deemed fantastic, wonderful, awesome and is always successful. Most of the time he doesn't have to roll to see if he succeeds; he just does. After a series of major setbacks to the other player's characters, I joked that her husband was the only one left to mess with. Her answer to that was that she would absolutely not be messing with him in the game. He and his character were safe from that. In the last session, he and another player had to make the same roll using the same skill for the same information. He needed a fair to succeed. The other player needed a great. Not the first time that has happened.    The second part of this has to do with him as well. As I said, he is new to the group. When we were discussing a game to play, it was made clear that it would be cooperative. We would all be working together to a common end. However, he will not- I mean ever- share any information with the rest of the group. No matter how vital or needed that information is to advance the story, he just smiles and says he's got nothing. To try and get around this problem, a group aspect was created. That way if a situation or information that everybody needed to know came up, a fate chip could be played and anyone who wanted to be a part of it could be present. He is totally abusing it. Now, instead of just not telling us anything, he adds give me a fate chip and maybe I'll tell you something. It's like he is trying to beat us at the game and that is not the way it was set up.    So, the question to these two situations is what do I do? How do I handle this in a rational and sensitive way? To complicate things further, the GM is my best friend. He is her husband. I don't want to put her in the middle but I am about ready to quit the game. I am tired of it being his game and everyone else being bit players. Should I talk to her or should I talk to him? If anyone has had experience with this, any advice would be appreciated.
At the start of A New Hope are Yoda and Obi-Wan really the last remaining Jedi? I have never read any Star Wars books and have no knowledge outside of the Star Wars films, but after seeing Episode III I am left wondering if there are any other Jedi that escape death and remain in hiding like Yoda did. I mean with regard to the "official" events in the Star Wars universe. Counting and rasterizing polygon overlaps in ArcGIS Desktop? How do you take a vector layer with overlapping polygons and turn it into a raster where each cell counts the number of polygons containing that cell?    We are looking at polygons of fire burn areas between 1976 to 2000 and want to see how many fires would be contained in each raster cell. Does there exist a function such that $\lim_{x \to a} f(x) = L$ for all $a \in \mathbb R$ but $f(x)$ is never $L$? Does there exist a function $f:\mathbb R \to \mathbb R$ such that $\lim_{x \to a} f(x) = L$ for   all $a \in \mathbb R$ but $f(x) \neq L$ for all $x$?   I found such a function in $\mathbb Q \to \mathbb Q$, where $f(\frac{p}{q})= \text{first p+q digits of }\pi$ satisfies the above condition. However, I have not been able to extend it to reals. So, is such a function possible, and if it is, is there any explicit example preferably related to the above function in rationals? What's the associated matrix of this linear operator? Let $V$ be a complex vector space of dimension $n$ with a scalar product, and let $u$ be an unitary vector in $V$. Let $H_u: V \to V$ be defined as  $$H_u(v) = v - 2 \langle v,u \rangle u$$  for all $v \in V$. I need to find the characteristic polynomial of this linear operator, but the only way to find it that I know of is using the associated matrix of the operator.  I don't know how to find this matrix because I don't know how to deal with the scalar product. Is there some other way to find the characteristic polynomial? If not, how can I find the associated matrix of this linear operator?  Thanks in advance. iPhone: Detecting user inactivity/idle time since last screen touch What's the section of the soundtrack used in the second episode of R2 at 8:00, after Kallen defeats a Knightmare and Lelouch gives new orders, called? Why don't Minidumps give good call stacks? I'm using Ubuntu 17.10 with GNOME shell and Numix-Circle icon theme.   When I hover over the Numix icon for Nightly Web Browser, which is pinned to the dock I get the title "Nightly Web Browser".      But when I launch the program, another icon pops up at the bottom, with the name "Nightly". I have been trying to solve this problem for quite a while. I am still unsure of whether any of the avenues I have pursued have been of any use. Any advice will be much appreciated. Question: Let $V$ be a finite-dimensional inner product space, and let $E$ be an idempotent linear operator on $V$. Prove that if $EE^* = E^*E$, then $E$ is self-adjoint. (This is essentially exercise 5(a) in sec. 80 on p.162 of Paul R. Halmos, Finite-Dimensional Vector Spaces, but Halmos didn't assume that the dimension of $V$ is finite.) Handling mouse events for tool called by button? I have a dockable window with a 2 buttons that call 2 different tools (Draw Marker and Select Features), What i want to happen is when the user clicks on the relevant button on the dockable window and then clicks on the map, a onMouseUp event is called and it runs code i need to run.   Where does the onMouseUp event need to be placed so this can be done? How many 5-cards poker hands are there containing at least 3 of the 4 suits?  I don't how know how to properly handle this question.  There 13 ranks of each card, and 4 suits  My Attempt:  Begin with the first 3: C(13,3) X 4 ways to choose suits  Then pick last 3 cards of anything:  C(49,2)  My solution: 1,345,344  Thanks, Finding $\int x^xdx$ I'm trying to find $\int x^x \, dx$, but the only thing I know how to do is this:  Let $u=x^x$.  $$\begin{align} \int x^x \, dx&amp;=\int u \, du\\[6pt] &amp;=\frac{u^2}{2}\\[6pt] &amp;=\dfrac{\left(x^x\right)^2}{2}\\[6pt] &amp;=\frac{x^{2x}}{2} \end{align}$$  But it's certain that this isn't the correct way to evaluate that, and the answer must be wrong. Access images inside jar Copy specific file type keeping the folder structure I am trying to write a script that will delete all comments and everything in between inside C files in my current directory. I've been using sed, and this is what I have so far:   sed -i '/ * [^()] */d' *.c  This works when the comments are on the same line as an asterisk or backslash.   However it doesn't work when there is a commented line without a slash or asterisk.   I know sed goes line by line, I just don't know how to tell it to keep deleting until it sees a */. Error installing virtualbox-dkms on Ubuntu 20 Ubuntu 20.04. I installed virtualbox using package; it worked, I created and ran a RM. But then stopped to work after software update. I cannot run the VMs, message says : Kernel driver not installed (rc=-1908)  The VirtualBox Linux kernel driver is either not loaded or not set up correctly.  Please reinstall virtualbox-dkms package and load the kernel module by executing  'modprobe vboxdrv'  as root.  I managed to disable secure boot, so this is not related to this. Now I try to reinstall virtualbox-dkms package as requested : sudo apt remove virtualbox-dkms sudo apt install virtualbox-dkms  But then I get the following error : Préparation du dépaquetage de .../virtualbox-dkms_6.1.10-dfsg-1~ubuntu1.20.04.1_amd64.deb ... Dépaquetage de virtualbox-dkms (6.1.10-dfsg-1~ubuntu1.20.04.1) ... Paramétrage de virtualbox-dkms (6.1.10-dfsg-1~ubuntu1.20.04.1) ... Loading new virtualbox-6.1.10 DKMS files... Building for 5.8.0-34-generic Building initial module for 5.8.0-34-generic Error! Bad return status for module build on kernel: 5.8.0-34-generic (x86_64) Consult /var/lib/dkms/virtualbox/6.1.10/build/make.log for more information. dpkg: erreur de traitement du paquet virtualbox-dkms (--configure) :  installed virtualbox-dkms package post-installation script subprocess returned error exit status 10 Des erreurs ont été rencontrées pendant l'exécution :  virtualbox-dkms E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)  If I look at /var/lib/dkms/virtualbox/6.1.10/build/make.log I see : /var/lib/dkms/virtualbox/6.1.10/build/vboxdrv/linux/SUPDrv-linux.c:760:38: error: ‘cpu_tlbstate’ undeclared (first use in this function); did you mean ‘cpuhp_state’?   760 |     RTCCUINTREG uOld = this_cpu_read(cpu_tlbstate.cr4);       |                                      ^~~~~~~~~~~~ ./include/linux/percpu-defs.h:318:9: note: in definition of macro ‘__pcpu_size_call_return’   318 |  typeof(variable) pscr_ret__;     \       |         ^~~~~~~~ /var/lib/dkms/virtualbox/6.1.10/build/vboxdrv/linux/SUPDrv-linux.c:760:24: note: in expansion of macro ‘this_cpu_read’   760 |     RTCCUINTREG uOld = this_cpu_read(cpu_tlbstate.cr4);       |                        ^~~~~~~~~~~~~ /var/lib/dkms/virtualbox/6.1.10/build/vboxdrv/linux/SUPDrv-linux.c:760:38: note: each undeclared identifier is reported only once for each function it appears in   760 |     RTCCUINTREG uOld = this_cpu_read(cpu_tlbstate.cr4);       |                                      ^~~~~~~~~~~~ ./include/linux/percpu-defs.h:318:9: note: in definition of macro ‘__pcpu_size_call_return’   318 |  typeof(variable) pscr_ret__;     \       |         ^~~~~~~~ /var/lib/dkms/virtualbox/6.1.10/build/vboxdrv/linux/SUPDrv-linux.c:760:24: note: in expansion of macro ‘this_cpu_read’   760 |     RTCCUINTREG uOld = this_cpu_read(cpu_tlbstate.cr4);       |                        ^~~~~~~~~~~~~ make[2]: *** [scripts/Makefile.build:290 : /var/lib/dkms/virtualbox/6.1.10/build/vboxdrv/linux/SUPDrv-linux.o] Erreur 1 make[2]: *** Attente des tâches non terminées.... make[1]: *** [scripts/Makefile.build:519 : /var/lib/dkms/virtualbox/6.1.10/build/vboxdrv] Erreur 2  What I am missing ? How to find the frequency and type of my current RAM? How shall I find out the frequency and type of my current RAM? My OS is Ubuntu 12.04. Why is Newton's first law necessary? Newton's second law says $F=ma$. Now if we put $F=0$ we get $a=0$ which is Newton's first law. So why do we need Newton's first law ?   Before asking I did some searching and I got this: Newtons first law is necessary to define inertial reference frame on which the second law can be applied.  But why can't we just use Newton's second law to define an inertial frame? So if $F=0$ but $a$ is not equal to 0 (or vice versa), the frame is non-inertial.  One can say (can one?) we cannot apply the second law to define a reference frame because it is only applicable to inertial frames. Thus unless we know in advance that a frame is inertial, we can't apply the second law.  But then why this is not the problem for the first law?  We don't need to know it in advance about the frame of reference to apply the first law. Because we take the first law as definition of an inertial reference frame.  Similarly if we take the second law as the definition of an inertial frame, it should not be necessary to know whether the frame is inertial or not to apply the second law (to check that the frame is inertial). How do I backup a LVM partition to an image for recovery purposes?  I am trying to run dd on /dev/sda2, but it crashes after ca 8 hours, at around 380G   sudo lvmdiskscan   /dev/centos/swap [       3.89 GiB]    /dev/sda1        [     500.00 MiB]    /dev/centos/root [      50.00 GiB]    /dev/sda2        [     465.27 GiB] LVM physical volume   /dev/centos/home [     411.38 GiB]    /dev/sdb1        [     931.51 GiB]    3 disks   2 partitions   0 LVM physical volume whole disks   1 LVM physical volume   Anyway, could running from a stick make any difference? What does really attracts a water stream to a charged object? I saw  by  and I was not 100% sure about the third phenomena, a statically charged object attracting a stream of water, especially because he explicitly mentioned that it is not due to the  of the water. A week later he uploaded an  all five phenomena and he says it is because of repelled equally charged ions, back up the water flow, such that the water actually falling along the charged object would be oppositely charged and therefore attracted. Here is a still image from the video illustrating this:    However this explanation seems strange to me, since this would mean that this way you could build up a charge in the water which has exited the tap (as well as in the water inside the tap as well). Therefore it should get harder to push those ions back over time, and therefore there also would be a decrease in the attraction of the water (assuming there is no other way to discharge it). I have tried a simple similar experiment, where I catched the water leaving the tap in an insulated bowl, but I did not notice a decrease in attraction.  There a couple of reasons why my experiment does not rule out his theory:   I was holding the charged (plastic) object by hand, which caused that its distance to the water stream varied, making it difficult to observe a decrease in attraction. I only conducted my experiment for roughly 30 seconds, which might be enough time for a opposite charge to build up.   The reason that he mentioned why permittivity can't cause this phenomena is because the electric field would be homogeneous and therefore the attractive and repulsive force of both dipoles of a water molecule would cancel out. However the electric field would only be homogeneous if the charged object would be an infinitely large plate, which it isn't. Thus water molecules would be attracted to the charged object. In order to make the permittivity theory more plausible I thought of maybe doing a order of magnitude calculation to see if it could generate a large enough force would be able the water stream by the observed amount. However I do not know what a good guess would be for variables such as the amount charge on the charged object and how the electric field would fall off over distance.   So, my question is whether his theory is really correct, or if the permittivity of the water can cause it.