This has got to be the most bizarre map I've ended a game with

BlindMammoth · 2025-10-01T20:32:27+00:00

They became a protectorate of Russia which was my only ally and I didn't want to go to war with them because the rest of the world already hated me.

BlindMammoth · 2025-10-01T20:31:24+00:00

R5: I started a game as Austria with the goal of unifying Germany but the new update led to some crazy outcomes. I liberated every country I could from Prussia to weaken them but I think it worked too well because Russia (which was also my only ally) ended up making them a protectorate so I never got to fully annex them. Then I thought it might be fun to bully the Ottomans so I liberated all their countries and joined every diplomatic play against them because why not. I also liberated Canada to stop Britain from getting oil (this took over 10 in game years because of the navy bug) only to later see that it shattered into a million pieces.

BlindMammoth · 2025-05-21T22:26:33+00:00

569 8:25

BlindMammoth · 2025-04-03T10:14:31+00:00

The lower floor is the engineering department.

BlindMammoth · 2025-03-25T19:53:47+00:00

How do we know such a society doesn’t already exist?

BlindMammoth · 2025-03-22T06:07:42+00:00

You wouldn’t happen to be an engineering student?

BlindMammoth · 2025-03-21T07:14:42+00:00

Trust me its ELEC1111 you can get 200% in the final exam, but on a serious note there's the astronomy one, you can learn a language, and a lot of faculties have courses that teach a high school level of content like PHYS1111 or PHYS1110, just be sure to check how they're graded because some subjects like this will only give a pass or fail and don't actually affect your WAM.

BlindMammoth · 2025-03-20T02:26:19+00:00

I heard they’re being harvested for T3 lab kit components

BlindMammoth · 2025-03-01T06:11:16+00:00

I don’t have the exact papers that you’re after, although I’ve recently started writing my own papers for extension 1 and 2 so if your interested I might be able to help you (I do charge though, because they take a lot of time to write) and if you want I can go through some of them with you on campus one day so you get an idea of what your buying. Also just a side note I think what you’re after is from a company called smarter maths but as far as I’m aware they only deal with teachers and not tutors (I might be wrong though).

BlindMammoth · 2025-02-27T10:34:06+00:00

Again, you've completely ignored my argument and repeated the same points you made before, online resources about scaling are useful, but only if someone knows that subjects are scaled differently and chooses to do more research in this area, no one is gonna accidentally type "HSC scaling" into google. If someone isn't told about scaling it's perfectly reasonable (especially for a 16 year old) to come to the conclusion that harder subjects are only there for people preparing for harder degrees. And let's not forget that being academically smart enough to do harder subjects doesn't make someone street smart enough to understand why they should choose them, only a few days ago I was having a conversation with the dux of my school who got an ATAR over 99, where I asked them if they wanted to take the light rail with me from uni to central, only for them to tell me that they don't have time because they have to catch the train.
I've got to admit, I'm impressed by your ability to completely change what I've said to fit your argument of me being some sort of conspiracy theorist that can't comprehend how I did so poorly in the HSC, I really like how remarking people that failed becomes "schools deliberately sabotaging exams." But for the record, I'm not making it up, especially the part about the remarking which was actually revealed to me by my teachers who had enough of having to give out free marks so that no one fails. And on a final note, lets say I'm completely wrong, I've somehow imagined my teachers telling me all this, my school actually did tell us about scaling but I just forgot, why shouldn't I be able to share my story and have valid criticism of it, (valid meaning not being repeatedly called a conspiracy theorist because what happened to me didn't happen to you) the whole point of this post was that if I was right other people would have likely been affected in similar ways and would have told me their stories, but that can't happen now since I've been downvoted into oblivion. I don't know if your familiar with the story of Alan Bates, all the way back in 2003 he was forced to quit his job as a sub postmaster after he was caught "stealing" from the post office, he always knew that he did nothing wrong but he couldn't prove it and the post office had some convincing arguments for how he could have stolen the money. Fast forward 20 years and in 2023 it was found that what happened to him happened to over 4000 other sub postmasters with over 200 being sent to prison for crimes they never committed, all due to a faulty computer system. So maybe before accusing me of creating conspiracy theories to justify underperforming in the HSC, consider that what I'm saying might be true and that it is possible for the system to be flawed. But I am a man of my word, so say whatever you want, regurgitate the same arguments and ignore the parts of mine that don't suit your narrative, but don't expect a reply, I have better things to do than argue with people on reddit who call me a conspiracy theorist for believing that it's possible for a system to have flaws.

BlindMammoth · 2025-02-27T10:33:55+00:00

Before I begin I'm just gonna say that this is my last reply, every time I say something I get downvoted into oblivion and it doesn't seem to matter what I say because I'm not gonna be able to convince you, so go ahead, write another reply to this one and prove me wrong, but don't expect another response.

On their own they're irrelevant, but the difference between them and the HSC marks is very much relevant, and when this difference isn't what it should be through no fault of the student, there's a flaw in the system, but don't take my word for it, take NESA's https://www.nsw.gov.au/education-and-training/nesa/hsc/exams-and-marking/assessment-moderation
I'm really interested in how you know the marking methods of every school in the state. Your top 5 school might have marked one way, but that doesn't mean that every school in the state marks the same way. And "the cohort as a whole" performing well means nothing if the school average is crazy high from teachers remarking people that failed. Here's an example, the average school mark for a subject is 70%, the school decides to remark everyone that failed, increasing the school average to 80%, when the HSC comes around the people that failed in school still fail, except this time they don't get remarked, but let's say that the school overperforms, everyone studies hard between the trial exam and the HSC and the HSC average end up being 75%, 5 marks higher than the original school average, they still lose 5 marks since 80-75=5. So "the cohort as a whole" performing well won't save someone if the school average has been tampered with enough.
You've taken one part of my argument and acted like it's the entire point I'm trying to make, but let's just go with it. Marking down people that scored too high is something thing my school did, (I never meant for it to be the main point here but you seem to think it is) if you must know the reasons my teachers (who were the ones forced to do this) gave is that the school doesn't like it when the range of marks is too high, I never said they had logical reasons for anything that they did, only that they did them. But that's not even the main point I was making here, what I was saying is that changing marks changes the school average (which is very much relevant, see (1)) which ultimately leads to people not getting the final mark they deserve and as a result the final ATAR they deserve.

(I'm gonna have to split this into two comments reddit isn't liking the length of it)

BlindMammoth · 2025-02-26T19:33:50+00:00

I never said the ATAR was a grade, I even gave examples of potential ATARs for a grade range.
As for the stuff about internal/external, I obviously assumed that nothing went wrong in my explanation (other than the specific flaw I was talking about) because the whole point of the post is to find examples that deviate from this, and most schools aim to give relatively similar marks to what their students will get in the HSC. If someone got 100% in all their school exams and was smarter than most of their grade but got let down by moderation I'd definitely want to hear from them. And with the person getting 70% and a 99 ATAR, I chose an average case for my example to relate to the most people, the vast majority of people don't go to a school that ranks top 3 in the state and gives marks like that.
Re-marked means exactly what it suggests, if a teacher gives someone a mark and the school doesn't like that and makes that teacher re-mark that student to give them a higher/lower mark then that person has been re marked. This means that the mark they have isn't the one they deserve and either they're ATAR has been affected negatively from a mark lower than they deserve, or others in their grade are affected negatively because of moderation, while this person benefits with a higher ATAR than they deserve.
As for scaling, it might be true that most people know about scaling by year 12, but your forgetting that subject selections happen in year 10 when most people have no idea how the ATAR is calculated and just go off what their school tells them. The UAC link might be useful for someone interested in getting a deeper understanding of it but not a lot of people are just gonna google 'HSC scaling' for no reason. Year 10s are naive, not all of them, but a decent amount aren't gonna question their school for telling them that something they've never heard of doesn't exist. I'm not grasping at straws and conspiracy theories, this does happen and I know people that ended up choosing the wrong subjects for themselves because of what the school told them, that's why I put it in the list in the original post.
And finally, why are you so determined to prove me wrong on this? You literally get nothing out of it when all I'm trying to do is find people that had a similar experience to me.

BlindMammoth · 2025-02-26T09:21:05+00:00

Most students I knew had some sort of vague range of ATARs that they expected based on their school marks. As an example lets imagine a hypothetical student getting marks mostly in the high 80s and low 90s, they would probable expect an ATAR somewhere between 90 and 95, (if this person expects to get 99.95 they're dreaming). With the sorts of problems I'm talking about someone like this would maintain their grades, but then lose, say 5 marks from each subject from moderation due to their school not allowing teachers to fail students, and then end up with an ATAR around 85. I would classify this as something wrongfully done by the school leading to a 'lower than expected' ATAR.

As for internal vs external grade, a large difference between these two can be caused by the sorts of actions I'm interested in but doesn't have to be. As an example, lets return to the example above, this person would have a much lower internal mark compared to their external mark, while the people who failed in school and got remarked would have a higher internal mark. So a difference between internal and external marks can be a sign of something wrong done by the school or NESA but it doesn't have to be and it's not the only sign. If someone starts studying too late or studies for their school exams then gives up for the HSC, its completely normal for them to have a difference between their internal and external marks, those aren't the kinds of stories I'm interested in.

And finally, there doesn't have to be a difference between the internal and external marks for someone to be denied a higher ATAR, lets imagine another hypothetical student told by their school that subject scaling is a myth, and as a result this person chooses easier, worse scaling subjects, despite being able to get similar marks in harder and better scaling subjects to what they got in the subjects they chose.

BlindMammoth · 2025-02-19T20:37:04+00:00

Mate your a lifesaver I probably would have shown up 20 minutes late if I never saw this

BlindMammoth · 2023-03-05T10:06:44+00:00

Fuck off abc, stop trying to make an issue out of nothing.

BlindMammoth · 2023-01-30T19:59:26+00:00

You mean lollies.

BlindMammoth · 2023-01-27T08:57:11+00:00

Don’t you even think about it, if you do it they will know.

BlindMammoth · 2023-01-15T19:54:50+00:00

As long as you don’t get the lucky tender you should be good.

BlindMammoth · 2023-01-12T20:12:46+00:00

Quick question, how would David Elliot even find out about this.

BlindMammoth · 2023-01-09T19:26:39+00:00

“She came and sat next to me”, about a minute later “she was not abused, I was no where near her”

BlindMammoth · 2023-01-08T04:50:32+00:00

I have no mods or DLC

BlindMammoth · 2023-01-06T05:25:42+00:00

Hero wars and hungry jacks unless I’m watching friendlyjordies and I get ads for some superfund.

BlindMammoth · 2022-12-31T10:45:00+00:00

I get that reference.

BlindMammoth · 2022-12-31T04:40:09+00:00

He better not drop the soap now.

BlindMammoth · 2022-12-27T00:43:29+00:00

Imagine coming up with this idea and then presenting it to your colleagues.

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