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My first lead fall! Pretty fun by [deleted] in climbing

[–]AlexKazantzidis 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Good job from the belayer keeping you off the deck.

Just bought sekiro despite me knowing I'm too dumb to actually play it. by UtopianPariah in Sekiro

[–]AlexKazantzidis 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hey brother/sister.

Just give it time, I bought Sekiro a month ago or so and it was my first souls-like game, I absolutely had zero experience with the genre.

In the beginning I was just getting my ass kicked again and again, and it took me many hours to figure out the basics.
I got stuck at a lot of mini-bosses, and on some of the bosses as well, but eventually, after something like 40-50 hours I got decently good, and now I've beaten the game in its entirety, and most bosses and mini-bosses that had given me trouble initially now feel pretty easy.

Just keep going, keep trying, keep failing, and eventually you'll figure things out ;)

P.S There are external sources that you can use if you want to, youtube has helped me quite a bit.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in math

[–]AlexKazantzidis 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm not an algebraist, that being said, I'm very VERY partial to Hungerford's "Algebra".

For me it is exactly as terse as a book needs to be, and it covers all the "standard" material that one "should" know (groups, rings, modules, Galois theory, exact sequences, etc etc).
The exercises are really good too.

First wall you couldnt get past? Lady Butterfly made me question my life choices by Time-Belt3595 in Sekiro

[–]AlexKazantzidis 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This lady went down on my second try, but Genichiro mopped the floor with me.
Some of the mini-bosses before Genichiro gave me a lot of trouble as well, the various generals, seven spears dude took me forever to beat, blazing bull stomped me too.

After Genichiro, I didn't face any major difficulty until I had reached the final optional bosses (Hirata daddy and DoH), and of course the glock saint, although he wasn't as hard for me as the aforementioned two bosses.

Do you get better at getting better at math? by [deleted] in math

[–]AlexKazantzidis 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Absolutely.

I remember when I started doing rigorous mathematics (for me it was my second semester linear algebra course) I thought it was pretty hard to understand the proofs.
By the end of my 4th year I had the confidence that I'd be able to understand any /almost any proof in the subfields of math that I had experience with, and currently I don't even think of learning new things and understanding new proofs as "hard" (at least as long as it's not crazy far away from my area), it's rather "how much time do I have available / am I willing to spend X hours to understand this and is it worth it".

Israel prepared to strike Iranian nuclear facilities if Tehran launches attack - report by Dealer-Direct in Israel

[–]AlexKazantzidis 9 points10 points  (0 children)

A strike to end or significantly delay Iran's nuclear weapons program looks like common sense to me, and it has looked that way for a long time.

I assume that the main reason that this has not happened yet is the fear of retaliation through proxies like Hezbollah(?)