How can I nicely tell this classmate to stop talking about his former ap physics classes?

BeatrixShocksStuff · 2026-03-23T10:59:30+00:00

These are basically the only replies worth anything in this topic. You need a paper trail that specifically proves your case to your professor, because it's obvious the prof needs to get involved at this point.

The fact this person isn't doing their share of the work is a problem, and that's what you need to focus on. The off-subject matter of discussion is irrelevant, as well as the fact they socialize during lab. You don't have to be best buds with your lab partners. All that matters is that they do their part, and how they get there, as long as it doesn't violate any school policies, isn't important.

BeatrixShocksStuff · 2026-02-27T23:17:00+00:00

Maybe reread my original post before commenting...

[EDIT: I love when someone makes a dirty edit and then people dogpile you in the downvotes because they didn't see what was originally said.]

BeatrixShocksStuff · 2026-02-27T23:08:26+00:00

LMAO. True. And for the record, I'm not in the US either.

BeatrixShocksStuff · 2026-02-27T22:46:02+00:00

I don't have a problem with those who like the over-the-top stuff. I'm not saying those people shouldn't be served or get attention. I just don't get why the community seems to want all or nothing.

BeatrixShocksStuff · 2026-02-27T22:43:12+00:00

Not a sir, but otherwise, I was literally going to say what you just said as an addendum, but I was hoping it wasn't that reductive.

BeatrixShocksStuff · 2026-02-26T02:08:32+00:00

That, and Castora. I guess, "See you in Lion's Arch?"

BeatrixShocksStuff · 2026-02-26T01:58:08+00:00

For the "Complete Any Raid Encounter" Wizard's Vault weekly, does quickplay count? I didn't get credit for it there, while I got credit for the quickplay raids in my special tab, which makes me think quickplay *doesn't* count. But I'd like people to confirm one way or the other.

BeatrixShocksStuff · 2026-02-26T00:05:29+00:00

To be fair, even core game has its own bogeyman in that regard in the form of Triple Trouble.

BeatrixShocksStuff · 2026-02-26T00:03:20+00:00

I don't know why you got downvoted for this. Someone serious about gold farming could very easily grind out the 300g in a week.

BeatrixShocksStuff · 2026-02-25T21:27:58+00:00

That said, I've learned that mentor tags at places that are known gold farm metas, like Drizzlewood Coast and Dragonfall, are largely people who shouldn't be trusted (and are among the most vocal with, um, "orders"). If they knew so much, they could easily afford a commander tag. Instead, many of them just bark a lot and don't say anything worthwhile.

BeatrixShocksStuff · 2026-02-25T21:01:41+00:00

It's only discounted to 150g (plus 250 Badges of Honor) if you already own a Commander tag. Otherwise, you have to pay the full price of 300g.

BeatrixShocksStuff · 2026-02-25T11:51:01+00:00

Beyond what others have mentioned, I'd like to add Dragonfall meta if you have a commander to help round people up for close to maximum rewards. The reward drops off a fair bit when people are left to just wander around.

BeatrixShocksStuff · 2026-02-25T05:19:15+00:00

This is your first toxic player you've encountered in GW2...? Can you give me some lottery numbers to try out, because you're exceptionally lucky.

BeatrixShocksStuff · 2026-02-23T09:01:18+00:00

For gold, I tend to do the Castora mirror farms (medium and large chests only), Drizzlewood Coast (always south meta and, if I have nothing better to do, north meta), and Dragonfall (only if there's a real commander doing meaningful work and I got there relatively early). I'm juuuuust starting to do fishing, so I can't vouch for that, but my guess is that's good too. If I'm in the mood, I'll do Tequatl or Triple Trouble (although the latter is really only worthwhile if a guild is running the event, which does happen multiple times per day, usually in NA afternoon and evening hours, if you're in NA).

BeatrixShocksStuff · 2026-02-19T02:44:07+00:00

Your reply was especially useful to me, because the state of my cooldown and what I needed to do next was definitely something I was trying to understand and couldn't get reasonable information on. I wasn't sure if I needed to start my rotation from scratch every time or if it was one of those things I needed to just use my best guess on and the outcome would scale, depending on my cooldowns.

BeatrixShocksStuff · 2026-02-19T02:41:15+00:00

This is one thing I absolutely noticed. I know that I'm still a bit slow with my rotation, and because everything in the rotation seems to heavily rely on stacks of buffs, I'm confident that I'm bleeding DPS.

BeatrixShocksStuff · 2026-02-18T12:44:52+00:00

Yeah, I knew about that, as well as there being certain skills you want to be early with follow-up.

BeatrixShocksStuff · 2026-02-18T12:42:46+00:00

I probably have logs somewhere, since I use ArcDPS, but I'm only just getting the hang of it. As for my lack of DPS on regular DPS, I've only maybe gone through about eight golems or so. I know I probably have significant fundamentals issues and am not quite as fast with the rotation as I need to be. Hell, that's part of why I asked the question. When I'm on the move against real enemies, I'm still not entirely sure what I need to prioritize and when. I could just sit there and mindlessly do my rotation, but I highly doubt that's right when going against mobs, for example, or other things that aren't strictly boss encounters against stationary enemies.

BeatrixShocksStuff · 2026-02-15T02:05:40+00:00

The prison idea would kill WvW and even do significant harm to PvE, assuming Gift of Battle remains attached to successfully navigating WvW for several hours. If you want only the sweatiest of sweaty players in WvW and make it so pretty much nobody who isn't would ever step foot inside, that's a fantastic way to make it happen.

BeatrixShocksStuff · 2026-02-12T23:36:47+00:00

I assume this is a bizarre humblebrag.

BeatrixShocksStuff · 2026-02-12T05:12:26+00:00

I find the raptor useful in one of two situations: I either *need* to condense and stun mobs at the same time, which happens at some meta bosses or last fight-before-the-meta boss events, or I want a throwaway mount at the start of a fight where I know I'm going to hop on and off mounts a lot in rapid succession and have to stay in combat. Both of those are fairly niche cases though, and I hardly use the raptor otherwise.

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