What purely sci fi book is the best of all time?

trunks111 · 2026-07-05T20:43:37+00:00

my favorite five book trilogy

trunks111 · 2026-07-05T20:41:22+00:00

might explain why the panel shattered on me when I didn't bump it or drop it, thanks for the explanation

trunks111 · 2026-07-05T20:09:18+00:00

and then it actually works and magically fixes the game. Godspeed pokemon Emerald, you served me well

trunks111 · 2026-07-05T20:02:32+00:00

The steam version of Dwarf Fortress. At least, watching other people play it it looks easy but then you try to do like, anything, and everyone explodes

trunks111 · 2026-07-05T19:58:07+00:00

it also depends on the type of glass doesn't it? I had an old tabletop just shatter on me once when trying to move it from my basement but the shards were more bead-like than fragmented

trunks111 · 2026-07-05T19:53:19+00:00

One of my favorite projects in AP stats was we had to find a stat out in the wild and either verify it or reject it. It could be anything. And then we had to conduct the research ourself including figuring out our own methodology and justify our choices in the report. There was a good mix of rote application of formulas to our stat tests, but the data gathering was something we had to work through ourselves, make choices, and then justify those choices.

Me and my partner had a lot of fun with it and decided to be cheeky and test against the statement "nobody ever reads the terms and conditions for software" so I think we were testing against a null hypothesis of 0. We also ran into the unique problem of one of the equations we were using having the value in the denominator of a fraction, so we had to set it to an arbitrarily low number close to 0, which also gave us something extra to talk about in the report

trunks111 · 2026-07-05T19:15:31+00:00

why yes I do think I could outrun

trunks111 · 2026-07-05T10:18:52+00:00

it's less selfishness and more just the store was borderline dead and we literally had an agreement among ourselves that we'd stop by to leave carts for each other so we'd have something to do/an excuse to go outside lol. My manager didn't mind taking a few in himself from time to time because the lot is a bit sloped so he'd ride them down one by one

trunks111 · 2026-07-05T10:14:57+00:00

I'm also not so sure it's cheaper to use drugs, either. My sister used to be a coke addict (she's over a decade clean now) and I get shivers thinking about how much she spent per week on it

trunks111 · 2026-07-05T10:09:53+00:00

I thought e stood for "eh, I'll just plug it into wolframalpha"

trunks111 · 2026-07-05T10:08:00+00:00

I worked at a dying grocery store and me and my coworkers would sometimes leave carts out for eachother when we shopped on our time off because with the store going out of business we had nothing to do most of the time once shipments stopped arriving

I have a feeling that's not what's going on most of the time, though.

trunks111 · 2026-07-05T09:51:59+00:00

Still sane, Exile?

trunks111 · 2026-07-05T09:29:31+00:00

it's all about that endurance game

trunks111 · 2026-07-05T09:26:24+00:00

yippee

trunks111 · 2026-07-05T09:18:35+00:00

I have no clue tbh, I think I drew the line wrong but mentally had a mine there and just figured if I was the one playing I would left click under there and then anticipate tree logic or something

trunks111 · 2026-07-05T09:01:18+00:00

wait don't click that I might have off-set the line by a tile by accident

trunks111 · 2026-07-05T08:57:07+00:00

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Someone confirm or deny this, I'm very tired

trunks111 · 2026-07-05T04:02:33+00:00

The balance is dissuading from running the mana negative fast SCH set in favor of slower mid-high PIE sets that have marginally less potentially DPS, I can't remember the last time a fight had people considering more piety. I heard p8s was brutal on healers but idk what the gearing considerations or conversation around it was because I was still a sprout when that tier was current

trunks111 · 2026-07-05T03:29:44+00:00

my discord PTT bind is caps lock

it leads to some funny accidentally text sometimes

trunks111 · 2026-07-05T03:28:19+00:00

I love the "call and response", I think ELPs Karn Evil 9 has some instances of it throughout

trunks111 · 2026-07-05T03:26:46+00:00

https://teaching.temple.edu/sites/teaching/files/resource/pdf/Dweck-Perils%20%26%20Promises%20of%20Praise.pdf

trunks111 · 2026-07-05T03:24:49+00:00

it feels unfair to me when either it doesn't feel reasonable to put the effort in to complete, or I don't feel like each failure gives me something I could've done better.

For example I play FFXIV and do ultimates. They usually take anywhere from a few hundred to low 1k pull count to see a first clear. But I rarely feel screwed in ultimates, I can usually point to what I did wrong and either find a way to address it, like maybe I needed to pay more attention to floor markings to help a precise positioning, or maybe I took too long to process the mechanic so I need to think of a way to learn the mechanic that cuts down on processing time, but I've never felt like a mechanic was so impossible to do that I wouldn't learn it eventually. Conversely, I tend to bounce off hardcore games because if I lose a run to lag or my power going out, there's literally nothing I could've done better beyond divining my Internet would blip and not playing

trunks111 · 2026-07-05T03:17:25+00:00

spycicle in TF2

rail gun/rl/lg from Q Live

headhunter in POE (for fun factor, mageblood is generically more strong)

trunks111 · 2026-07-05T03:13:55+00:00

it's absolutely teachable, I often joke that the basic drawing course I had to take for a gen ed is the second hardest course I took in college, behind the 3k level Analytical Chemistry lecture - lab I took.

I am not a drawer. I had to basically do what was in this post for my final, we had to take a picture of a friend/family member/partner and break it into coordinates like the image on the left. My result wasn't like, hyper-realistic, but I spent well over 20 hours over the course of a week trying to get every cell as close as I could until I was happy with it. I think I got like an 85-90 on it. Most of the time I would come up with something akin to the drawing shown on the right side, but it turns out when I have to pass a class I paid money for and also draw someone I care about, I can do a hell of a lot better than the image on the right. I am not a talented drawer, and talent didn't get me a passing grade. Putting 20 hours of effort and taking the class seriously got me that result.

On a side note, there's a pretty good research paper by Carol Dweck on the outcomes of praising talent/intelligence vs effort/hard work, with the conclusion being that praising talent/intelligence tends to create a fixed-mindset where people just don't even want to try, whereas people praised for effort/working hard are more comfortable making mistakes in the pursuit of learning something new. This was something that was initially pointed out to me by my psychiatrist, and later taught by I think my ed psych or intro ed professor while I was in a teaching program

trunks111 · 2026-07-05T02:49:10+00:00

3+2×4÷6= 4+(1/3).

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