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As the title says, comments should be restricted to staff and calc group with relevant things to say and relevant opinions to express.
Recently, I came across a calculation here with an interesting, albeit mildly heated, discussion in the comments. The gist of it boils down to whether we should take accurate fluid dynamics in relevant calcs over on-screen behavior of fluids in feats. The comparison used to argue the former (that is, go against on-screen behavior) struck me as being particularly in-line with our current philosophy regarding feats- the calculator, Flashlight, compared it to our standards on Kinetic Energy, which as all of you ought to know is that we will discard the KE of an object if it does not align with the apparent effects caused.
This is a very similar scenario, where the on-screen presentation of the feat renders the KE much, much higher than the actual effects it causes, to an immense degree (7-B KE vs 8-B+ for the original calc).
So, the question I pose to the other CGMs (who are more knowledgeable than I, surely) is whether we apply the same philosophy we apply to standard KE, to fluid dynamics, and then whether we ought to use the calculation method used by Flashlight in the linked blog. If there is an alternative, or even an established method, then that should be made known.
That's about it.
Recently, I came across a calculation here with an interesting, albeit mildly heated, discussion in the comments. The gist of it boils down to whether we should take accurate fluid dynamics in relevant calcs over on-screen behavior of fluids in feats. The comparison used to argue the former (that is, go against on-screen behavior) struck me as being particularly in-line with our current philosophy regarding feats- the calculator, Flashlight, compared it to our standards on Kinetic Energy, which as all of you ought to know is that we will discard the KE of an object if it does not align with the apparent effects caused.
This is a very similar scenario, where the on-screen presentation of the feat renders the KE much, much higher than the actual effects it causes, to an immense degree (7-B KE vs 8-B+ for the original calc).
So, the question I pose to the other CGMs (who are more knowledgeable than I, surely) is whether we apply the same philosophy we apply to standard KE, to fluid dynamics, and then whether we ought to use the calculation method used by Flashlight in the linked blog. If there is an alternative, or even an established method, then that should be made known.
That's about it.