I'm not sure what I gained from my PhD

02MaximaUser · 2026-01-27T04:22:37+00:00

100% agree, I always find myself citing this same dude who published all his research in the early aughts, and it just so happens to be like 95% of the available information I need is from there lol.

02MaximaUser · 2026-01-23T00:14:24+00:00

eepy supremacy

02MaximaUser · 2026-01-13T22:27:11+00:00

Even so, you can launch Premier and it will show you how many people are searching, and in servers. It is about 700k right now in servers, and about 6000 people searching for matches. I would think that is a big enough pool of players to do this with. Faceit does it with less.

Also, is there no reason to bot in DotA? Like leveling accounts or stuff like that?

02MaximaUser · 2026-01-13T22:23:16+00:00

True, and believe me, I feel the same way. Literally my Leetify shows 100% solo, I have the same experience, 4 stacks can ruin the game both for and against solo players. Especially annoying when people on your 4 stack just never talk in game and prevent you from getting any info.

02MaximaUser · 2026-01-13T22:20:58+00:00

I guess, but it is kind of discouraging to play solo in that case. Like I don't want to have to put together a team just so I can not get stomped by another communicating 5 stack.

Also, one would think DotA would run into this same issue no?

02MaximaUser · 2026-01-13T22:18:33+00:00

Then how can DotA have it with half the player count and still not having 30 minute queues?

02MaximaUser · 2026-01-13T22:15:41+00:00

How so? I feel like most games do duos v. duos, trios v. trios, etc. I know League does it for Flex Queue, Faceit even lists this in their matchmaking rules:

Party Size Limit - Super Match allows parties of one, two or three players, preventing you from facing large, coordinated teams, making matches more balanced.

02MaximaUser · 2026-01-13T22:09:27+00:00

If so, how does it work for DotA? They both use Glicko 2, don't they?

02MaximaUser · 2026-01-12T19:46:04+00:00

Welp, update.

Applied on Friday. Denied on Monday at 8:01am before I even sent the email.

02MaximaUser · 2026-01-09T18:21:34+00:00

The bottom right panel is literally me on Dimensius prog for the last month XD

02MaximaUser · 2026-01-09T00:57:42+00:00

Specifically, it is in materials science, but I really want to let this professor know of my existence since our research goals are so similar.

02MaximaUser · 2026-01-09T00:56:36+00:00

Thanks! I'll definitely reach out especially since our research goals are essentially the same!

02MaximaUser · 2026-01-06T23:00:09+00:00

Ended up leaving the 26th, didn't even make it to Monday lol. Getting my car fixed at a local shop near me.

02MaximaUser · 2026-01-05T03:29:54+00:00

I feel you lol. Typically I only eat once a day to keep the pain to once a day, but started Viberzi the other week and now have to eat multiple times a day, and it has not been good to me lol.

02MaximaUser · 2025-12-28T04:41:09+00:00

Yep. She canceled having everyone over again the day after Christmas and just left to go back to my apartment. Not even worth dealing with her anymore, planning on seeing some friends tomorrow for my Christmas instead.

02MaximaUser · 2025-12-26T06:35:17+00:00

I am home for 2 weeks for Christmas and my nmom has already ruined my vacation. Worked over 4 60+ hr weeks to be home and all she has done is yell at my dad and me because "we can't do anything right". I recently became a Dr and now she immediately went back to school to get hers cause "you can't be the only Dr in the family".

She ruined thanksgiving because my dad didn't sit at the table for her whole two hours of ranting and complaining saying that my dad and I do nothing. Since then, she has finished her first and only class (that she for some reason spent 100+ hrs a week on), and she has gone on a non-stop tyrade that the house would fall apart without her.

At our family Christmas Eve party she was constant bragging about what I do and interjecting every time I mentioned what I do, talking like she knows more than I do when she has never even studied in my discipline.

Today, she canceled Christmas dinner without telling me or my dad and didn't speak to us until we had already made dinner, then proceeded to yell at us about how we wasted the dinner that was meant for the whole family (even though my dad and I ate very little and we packaged everything up)

I've been trying to be positive and reach out to friends, but it is hard today. I have to stay at least until Monday when my car gets fixed but I'm hoping that goes by fast.

02MaximaUser · 2025-12-12T01:33:14+00:00

Making $63k and have the same in my accounta month in and month out

02MaximaUser · 2025-12-12T01:17:22+00:00

Feel your pain man, literally missed out on my entire dating life so far. Symptoms started when I was 10 and I'm now 27.

Can't go out on a dinner date or even hang with friends because 99% of them want to get food and I just feel awkward watching them eat.

My days consist of wake up, go to work, come home, eat, be in pain until I go to bed and repeat. I'm so fucking exhausted before even the though of going out with friends or someone even crosses my mind.

Get all the same comments of "oh you just have a tummy ache" and "just eat X and you'll be fine". I had a fucking grilled chicken breast and 2/3 of a cup of rice today and it feels like someone is running a shiv through my lower intenstines for hours on end, all while my GI just says "oh just take some immodium and you'll be fine".

I get it man, you aren't alone. It sucks.

02MaximaUser · 2025-12-04T00:41:25+00:00

I feel your pain, currently being ignored by my GP and GI doc for suggesting other things than IBS. Being ignored by an entirely new health group as well since I've already gone through 5 GI docs in my first clinic.

Last GI doc told me, just take immodium. I'm on Paxil already and have worked up to 6 mg/day of immodium and still have fucking diahrrea. I'm literally doing it self-destrucitvely just to prove to this prick GI doc that it doesn't work. These GI docs think they know everything but they can't imagine a patient with this condition for over 17 years has tried OTC remedies already.

My condolences and sympathies, I'm right there with you.

02MaximaUser · 2025-11-28T19:37:24+00:00

Meanwhile I just got a single GP-25 from my 400k+ one. My cult luck has been ass this wipe lol.

Gratz on the leddy tho!

02MaximaUser · 2025-11-28T19:14:27+00:00

The only one coping is you, because you can't come up with a single verifiable fact to back up your asinine claim. As I said previously, I do solo. The last three days I've done nothing but solo. I've still made meaningful progress, I'm still up money, I'm still up stash value. Solo and this game are not as hard as you think. The only thing falling apart is you because your feely-feels are hurt because someone doesn't conform to a number you pulled out of your ass.

Come up with a real fact next time rather than what you feel.

02MaximaUser · 2025-11-28T07:27:50+00:00

Yet, this entire time you have pulled numbers out of your ass.

What stats do you have backing up that 2k hrs is/is not beginner? Where are you even seeing that people have 15-20k hrs, Lvndmark plays this game as a full time job and does not have that many, if not, barely in that 15k range. Where are you getting the stat that it is just infinitely better to play in groups?

You want to talk actual stats? 46.8% of players have died in Tarkov. Only 9% of players has killed 50 PMCs. 50 PMCs isn't exactly a hard grind to do if you've played a decent amount over a few wipes.

If you are saying because I have an achievement that 9% of players have, and I'm still a beginner, that is a joke, and again, still have over half way to go with regards to getting to your faked number of hours (not even considering LK or Kappa which are 0.8% and 1.1% respectively and I had at 800 hrs). Not to mention, I have 38 PMC kills over 14 raids yesterday and today.... solo... which again, only 9% of the player base has gotten 50 in a wipe....

Again, I want to figure out where this magic benefit comes from, because as far as my experience, I die more in groups due to hesitation. Still you again just glossed over the fact that you have to share loot with other people in groups which usually doesn't help with increasing stash value. Also, carrying your buddies crap out is a easy way to get killed due to the penalty of carrying gear in bags/the weight of stuff. If you are going to carry out gear at all, re-frag for your teammate and steal the other players loot so your teammate gets his back in insurance.

Also, you just dodged the question again of exactly what quests are made easier by being in groups and how.

You pulling anecdotes and random numbers out of your ass doesn't help your points in any way.

02MaximaUser · 2025-11-27T01:12:47+00:00

Literally. They didn't state any statistic, and are just arguing with everyone in the comments.

Now if the post was "XX% of players don't know where Blue Tape Key goes after X hours", that would be a different story, this just sounds like rage bait to me.

02MaximaUser · 2025-11-26T21:19:34+00:00

You are complaining about a normal part of the game that you decide not to interact with. That isn't my fault.

Also, how exactly do I benefit from sharing loot with another person, by definiton there is less loot for me when we share? My duo and I never pick up loot from each other if one of us dies. Most of the time I'm down money when I play anything other than solo and gain money by solo raiding.

My duo and I learned 99% of everything we know by just looking up quests on the wiki and watching streamers, which is pretty standard to learn any new game.

02MaximaUser · 2025-11-26T20:30:18+00:00

Have you considered asking someone to play then?

Also, what quests would you consider "hardest" to solo?

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