Among many others, including our own shadow.

It's not just you! This is one of the hazards of plotting data with severe outliers onto colors.

I haven't seen those, no.

Usually it's used to pull a result from a randomization table, or in generating setting attributes like a town's population size or a shopkeep's gold on hand.

There are still a few edge cases where a player might need to roll a d100, but usually players just use percentile dice. The zocchihedron is still a fun thing to have if you like dice!

It's much easier if you can see it in 3D.

And also if the die doesn't have gaps between the values for it to land on — OP's photo shows it resting between 95 and two other faces. The original zocchihedron didn't have this issue.

The angle isn't helping, but this type of d100 is poorly designed. It's resting between the 95 and two other faces just over the horizon.

The original didn't have this problem.

I still have my zocchihedron!

It does roll for a while, but stopping it faster is what the beads/sand is for. Without it (especially if it's metal like OP's photo), these things would roll like a golf ball. They still do, but I can get them to stop on a reasonably level table.

It also doesn't have empty spaces between the numbered faces; it's basically a sphere with 100 circular divots cut out of it. This means that it won't rest between values like the one in OP's photo is doing.

OP's photo shows the die resting in the middle of the gap between the 95 and two other faces just past the horizon. There's no number on top here, which is what makes me wonder why manufacturers decided to do it this way instead of the way Lou Zocchi did.

I have an earlier version of d100, and it's not terribly difficult to tell at all.

The one in the photo is a poor example, since the die can rest between intended values (the original cannot). That's what it's doing here: resting between the 95 and the other two faces just past the horizon.

I have an earlier model of d100. It's basically a sphere with circles truncated out of it, so it doesn't stop between numbers, and it contains some kind of sand to bring it to rest quicker and not roll off the table (as much).

It's what our time zone would look like without arbitrary clock-changing fuckery introduced under false pretenses and maintained well past its usefulness under even falser ones.
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According to widespread convention, 12 PM is 12:00 (24h). Only the very instant of 12:00:00.0000... is the meridiem; the rest of the minute is post-. Similar applies to 12 AM / midnight / 00:00.

But I definitely agree that 24-hour time is the way to go and obviates this arbitrary half-day-division malarkey altogether.

The winter change is Standard Time, an increasingly nonsensical name for a state we spend a third of the year in.

Both edges represent 00:00, with going forward through the day represented by going outward from the hub to the rim.

The location does matter. Farther toward the north pole, and you'd have a greater difference between maximum and minimum thicknesses of the sunlight band. At the equator, this would be nearly circular. And in the Southern Hemisphere, the pattern reverses, with longer days near year's end and shorter ones in the middle.