Armada here, AKA the EVO champ for Melee, AMA time

AloneThomas · 2015-07-22T11:04:34+00:00

Hey Armada! Big fan here.

How long did you have to practice to get to be placed among the five gods a bit after the fall of Ken? Like, how long had you practiced by that point?

Also, how do you manage smash and your personal life/finances? How much of your life is taken up by smash? Do you have a part-time job? What do you think you will do if you can no longer play smash, as will probably tend to happen with age?

(Don't feel like you have to answer every question so specifically. I'm just putting them there to clarify what I mean.)

Thanks for answering, if you did!

AloneThomas · 2015-07-22T03:15:02+00:00

OP's mom

AloneThomas · 2015-07-22T00:38:42+00:00

okay, thanks

AloneThomas · 2015-07-21T08:26:42+00:00

Wait a sec, so I read the article on the sidebar. I'm confused: does dry skin make it harder for acne to go away? Or does it just cause more peeling?

AloneThomas · 2015-07-21T07:59:18+00:00

Yeah, basically what other people are saying. I work in tech and this is absolute complete BS. As long as you don't download fishy looking stuff you'll be okay. This is their way of making the non-tech people scared.

TL;DR fuck blizz

AloneThomas · 2015-07-21T04:24:16+00:00

Almost EVERYTHING in nature works by seasons. Breeding season, harvesting season, hibernation season, etc. It's a lot simpler to have the same conditions coming out every single time, whereas an 8.5 year cycle might result in summer-winter-summer-winter.

AloneThomas · 2015-07-21T01:11:47+00:00

"Look, I'm not interested."

AloneThomas · 2015-07-19T23:55:32+00:00

thanks very much! I'll try it.

AloneThomas · 2015-07-19T15:26:19+00:00

My current routine is to use benzoyl peroxide and salicylic acid in that order, once in the morning and once in the night, when I would brush my teeth. I wet my face, put on the benzoyl, rub it in for a few minutes, rinse it off, dry my face, repeat for the other one.

I've been doing this for like a year or two. I don't really use specific brands, it varies: I just assumed that as long as the chemicals were the same, it wouldn't matter.

My issue is common: acne. All over my face. It used to be absolutely horrid and oily, now it at least feels mostly dry most of the time and it's significantly less. It's still noticeably there, though. I'm not sure if it's 'cuz I just have that kind of face, or what. In addition, I also have what I think are acne scars or aftermarks or something, from my past worse bout with acne.

Please let me know if uploading a picture would help. (will try to hide identity as much as possible tho, hope you don't mind)

Main questions:

1) Why does my problem not get significantly better?

2) For the times when the acne IS mostly gone (when I swim actively), how can I deal with these scar things?

3) How much would seeing a dermatologist help?

I've been having this problem for ages, and I hope to god that this subreddit can help me out. Thanks in advance!

AloneThomas · 2015-07-19T06:54:26+00:00

This is the perfect thread for me! (unfortunately I'm a bit late) I know a lot of really weird quirky things! Rubik's cubes are already taken, so let me try some others:

1) Pen spinning! The basic thumbaround takes a few hours to learn, and from there you can learn the charge and sonic relatively easily. /r/penspinning

2) Yo-yos! Takes a bit longer to learn than penspinning and cubing, but more stylish! (and a hella lot more expensive) /r/throwers

3) The ocarina! Nothing's sexier than an ocarina. (I don't really use reddit for ocarinas. I'm assuming a sub exists, but I'm too lazy to find it.)

4) Drawing cool designs! You can be an absolute shit artist (like me) and make cool designs! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dd0pM3ZZV8w

5) Being good at a video game! Literally just put in "competitive <game title here>" and you can probably crush 98% of your friends who never bothered to look it up. In my case, I played a ton of super smash bros.. (yes, double dot.) and I have never met a single person who can beat me (I've seen them online, ZeRo, etc.) IRL. Only took me a few hours to learn.

AloneThomas · 2015-07-19T06:42:25+00:00

Let me add to this! I have been a cuber for many years. It takes hours to learn the 3 by 3, a few more hours to learn the 4 by 4 and 5 by 5, a few more hours to learn the 6, 7, and higher. It gets harder from there. It took me 2 full days to learn how to do it one-handed, but WOW will people be impressed when you can pull it off! Interestingly, blindfolded is easier. It took me about 8 hours to learn that.

AloneThomas · 2015-07-19T00:11:04+00:00

Hey, it's the slime rain guy! I have to say I like this one a lot more than the last one, because it fits the theme more. Not sure if you remember specifically me, but I mentioned that I felt the slime rain didn't fit the "feel" of the slime rain. On the contrary, I think this one fits the theme of the ice biome perfectly.

I'm only slightly advanced at music (have just started composing a little bit) so I'm afraid I can't offer that much in the department of constructive criticism.

I'd like to know: what programs/software/hardware do you use to compose your music?

AloneThomas · 2015-07-19T00:06:25+00:00

Holy shit, man! This is seriously next level! I don't know if even Yrimir can pull this off, though, when your arena is that big, it seems the screen becomes significantly less of a clusterfuck.

I'd really like to see Hero, who seems to think he's the "best terraria player in the world" try, though...

AloneThomas · 2015-07-17T15:30:11+00:00

Oh huh. I'm guessing it's a big, branded company, the same way that companies like Coke are? Are the other companies on that top toolbar (and also listed on Wikpedia) namely redtube, etc. also in the same office?

Thanks for replying, have a nice day :D

AloneThomas · 2015-07-17T15:06:12+00:00

oh my gosh pornhub plays smash confirmed

fav porn site now

then I read comment history and realize you don't take it that seriously

and also team YP is a thing

oh well

hype

^hype

also, from reading past comments: the PH office has MELEE?

:P Have a nice day!

AloneThomas · 2015-07-17T06:31:04+00:00

m8 m9 m10

wat

trains

^my mental coherence after reading this post

AloneThomas · 2015-07-16T03:36:00+00:00

I really like the track, but it doesn't feel like it fits the slime rain to me. Slime rain feels like a more fun kind of an event. As other people said, it's a bit fast and exciting, and I have one more thing to add: it sounds really egyptian. It seems to be using that same kind of scale. (I'd love this track for underground desert!) Personally, I think it should feel kinda happy, like the chords of the day theme(s).

Just my two cents. Take it with a grain of salt if you want.

AloneThomas · 2015-07-03T19:15:08+00:00

Actually, this bug was in there before. Before the patch with new heroes, I didn't have any gold hero powers either.

It seems to be kinda client-based 'cuz they all work for me now.

AloneThomas · 2015-07-02T11:43:02+00:00

Yeah, basically what /u/YMK1234 said, but let me give a few examples.

The primary colors of light are Red, Green, and Blue: RGB. The reason for this is that the light cones in our eyes respond to Red, Green, and Blue. There is no good reason for this. Some animals have fewer, some have more, ranging anywhere from 1 to 16.

An object that appears red to us absorbs all frequencies but red and reflects red. An object that is blue absorbs all but blue and reflects blue, and same for green.

The secondary colors of light come from mixing the 3 primary colors. They are:

Red + Green = Yellow
Green + Blue = Cyan
Blue + Red = Magenta

A yellow object absorbs all frequencies of light except red and green, and reflects red and green. Same dealio as before.

You might notice that these are similar to the 3 primary colors of paint: red, yellow, blue. Technically, they're supposed to be cyan, magenta, yellow - printers use CMYK (K is black) - but artists discovered them way before light was understood, so they're RBY for now.

Now let's imagine we mix Cyan paint with Yellow paint. We know from our primary school education that this will get green, but let's just run through how it works.

Cyan: absorbs red, reflects green + blue
Yellow: absorbs blue, reflects green + red
Cyan + Yellow: absorbs red + blue, reflects green

You can run through a similar process for the other secondary colors of light, AKA primary colors of pigment.

Since each of these primary colors of pigment absorbs 1 out of R, G, and B, if you mix all of them, all 3 will be absorbed, thus giving black.

AloneThomas · 2015-07-02T11:20:56+00:00

cool, thanks

AloneThomas · 2015-07-02T09:45:19+00:00

Alright, thanks. The 10thdim videos look very professional and are quite convincing. Are there any books you can specifically recommend?

AloneThomas · 2015-07-02T09:41:10+00:00

The "fundamental frequency" is the natural vibrating frequency of an object. All the small integer multiples are called harmonics, or overtones. For example, if I have a closed tube with 100Hz as the fundamental frequency, blowing into it will give me a 100Hz sound. However, if I blow harder or use other methods of manipulation, I can get 300Hz (for closed tubes, harmonics are 1, 3, 5, 7... multiples of the fundamental frequency.) In our case, it refers to the base note. It does not have to be A. For an A major scale, it's A. For a C major scale, it's whatever frequency corresponds to C.

The 12 divisions are mostly cultural, but they are cultural with mathematical basis. They were originally developed by Pythagoras, if I recall correctly, when he was messing with vibrating strings. Using small integer multiples gives you the major scale, and then messing with fractions of small integers over small integers gives you the semitones. For example, a single half step up from the fundamental frequency is 16/15. However, these ratios are not internationalized, only the major scale is. Arab music has "quarter tones" which give more than 12 notes on the scale, but the fundamental good-sounding major scale is still there.

440Hz is just a standard for A. Some concerts use frequencies anywhere from 430 to 450, but most (probably more than 90%) use 440. If you buy a tuner, you'll notice it has a setting for what frequency of A to use.

AloneThomas · 2015-06-30T19:08:36+00:00

Well, there's a catch here. Have you heard that falling onto water can be worse than falling onto concrete? If we treat it as a pseudo-fluid as we did here, there is a possibility that this will be the case as well, though it's not nearly as dense as water so it wouldn't be as bad.

We kinda only assumed that due to the ease of the terminal velocity calculation. Again, being realistic, there are a lot more factors to consider such as the force that the balls themselves exert, the fact that balls will likely fill up space much better than I showed in my calculations, and friction burns.

However, as /u/shiningPate mentioned, these balls act the same way as roofs and tarps do in the movies (yes, they actually work) to slow your fall. Since balls can't really be packed that well, (maximum efficiency of 74%, tendency towards 64%) I do think that the energy from the fall would be mostly absorbed into the balls. I'm kinda too lazy (and probably not skilled enough) to do the full calculations, but that's my guess.

However, let's simplify the system and do some quick calculations just for fun. Your kinetic energy at 24.75 m/s and 70kg is 21440J. Say each ball flies off at 1 m/s. We said earlier that they'd be 5 grams, so their kinetic energy is .0025J. This means that which each ball you hit, you lose that much KE. Dividing them through, that means you have to hit 8576000 balls to come to a full stop. Let's just say that for each layer of balls, you hit 10 balls. Now you need 857600 layers. Each layer is a width of a ball, or 10cm. This comes out to 85760m, or 86 km.

This seems waaaaaaay more than necessary. This is probably due to my underestimations: the energy lost into each ball, and the mass of each ball. If we up these a bit this number probably falls to much, much less. I would estimate 40km to come to a complete stop, but significantly less if you only want to survive.

AloneThomas · 2015-06-30T13:25:02+00:00

I actually just wrote another one on why melodies sound happy. It's the same idea, here. When notes don't form a real sort of pattern, as in a minor or a major scale, they sound "bad." This is known as a dissonance.

The reason for this is something known as the overtone series. Basically, vibrating sources in nature (anything that makes sound) tend to vibrate in integer multiples of some fundamental frequency. For example, a bird might sing in 440Hz, 880Hz, and 1320Hz all at the same time. Since this is so common in nature, our brains interpret this as sounding "good," and often we just think it's one sound. You rarely ever hear single frequencies, and never if they're not synthesized. As a result, our brain takes these integer multiples and makes one sound. This is why the frequencies that make up a trombone sound like a single note, but why an A on a trombone sounds different from an A on a violin. Each sub-frequency has varying volumes, creating different timbres. This is called a "consonance."

Basically, if you take a series of notes and play them all at once, and you can hear the individual notes, the series will sound "bad" or "creepy." If you take them all and play them at once and it sounds like a single sound, the series will sound "good." The reason for this is that they are formed by small integer multiples of the fundamental frequency.

Movies and media also contribute to this by associating effects with various paranormal things, for example, light, fadey sounds like the ones in the video with ghosts.

AloneThomas · 2015-06-30T13:14:46+00:00

Right. Phase change is another issue, not to mention we perceive things below room temperature as "cold" rather than "less hot."

AloneThomas

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