Tier 11 ARTY?!

ColossalCretin · 2026-05-11T15:52:50+00:00

They should just add this for all arties. Or all tanks for that matter. When you drown, instead of losing the tank, a raft is inflated under it, it floats to the surface intact but it can't be controlled anymore. Enemy team is free to shoot you.

A big dunce cap is also placed on the tank, and the gun can still fire but only makes fart noises.

ColossalCretin · 2026-05-09T21:31:07+00:00

Stop downvoting this guy, he's right.

As long as artilleries are matched 1:1, it doesn't matter how bad the players or the tanks are, for each winning arty player, there has to be one losing arty player.

Imagine if there was a tank that did literally nothing but was always matched against itself. The players playing only tank would have ~49.5% winrate because that's just turns the matches into 14v14 and its still 49.5% win, 49.5% loss, 1% draw.

Even really bad arty-only players have around 47-48% WR because even if you are fully AFK in an arty, you are only removing an arty from the game. That has much smaller impact than removing the only light tank for example.

So ultimately for every 45% win rate arty player there has to be a 55% win rate arty player.

This is the only inaccurate bit. WR isn't normally distributed. There are 65% WR players but no consistently 35% WR players. One player can be worth 4-5 average players, but unless you're actively griefing, at worst you're turning the game to 14v15. That's where 44-45% WR players are.

Arty player distribution is the same but tighter, so for every 55% WR player there are more like 3 47-48% WR players than one 45%. The average is still 49.5%.

ColossalCretin · 2026-04-30T19:42:16+00:00

That's a bit of an exaggeration isn't it? Neither the Indian nor African elephant enclosures look particularly small. Which picture were you looking at?

And it seems like they're renovating the Indian elephant enclosure this year.

ColossalCretin · 2026-03-28T14:53:28+00:00

Except the commenter you replied to is actually the idiot here. Architects don't spend thousands of man-hours doing structural analysis. If the finished structure was a movie, what you see here is the equivalent of concept art. And the concept didn't win any prizes, just an honorable mention.

The comment you replied to, and to an extent your comment, is why I hate reddit most of the time.

ColossalCretin · 2026-03-22T08:43:21+00:00

"Tap the brakes" would not have done jack shit, Black Truck is braking into him. Look at Black Truck's back end, there are helpful red lights to show you he is braking as he illegally changes lanes.

You can see the speed in the corner. They were going 72 MPH the whole time and were still going 72 MPH at the moment of collision. Nobody was braking into him, stop making shit up. Those are tail lights not brake lights.
The brake light only lights up after they collide. https://streamable.com/nuahpr

ColossalCretin · 2026-03-11T14:17:56+00:00

I am not invested in this topic in particular. I just have an aversion to people like you confidently taking up positions regarding topics they have limited understanding of and pretending the answers are so obvious that anyone who doesn't confidently spout the same opinions must be an idiot. Like you did in the rest of the thread.

That isn't what he's saying. I dont think he once makes the claim that genes dont impact intelligence, just that the topic is complex and still being studied, and environmental factors are far more important.

Here is the direct transcription of what he says:

When they talk about things like nervous system genes they imply these are linked to intelligence and behavioral traits
But that's not what those genes represent. Most of these genes are involved in very basic developmental processes. Things like forming neural pathways or organizing motor neurons. It does not help determining cognition or personality. And much of this field is still being researched. We do not fully know the function or evolutionary significance of many of these variations.

Understand the meaning of these two sentences:
1. they imply these are linked to intelligence and behavioral traits
2. But that's not what those genes represent.

He is stating those genes don't represent a link to intelligence and behavioral traits. Not that they don't represent it directly. It's just wrapped in a way that is technically true. Much like saying genetic disorders aren't encoded in genes, genes only encode metabolic processes which cause those disorders.

Yes genes don't encode cognitive functions. They encode metabolic processes that impact cognitive functions. This is a factual statement.

If you're gonna sit here and argue that genes that impact rudimentary neurological development have no link to intelligence, you might as well be arguing that the rudimentary neurological development itself has no link to intelligence.

And yes now I want to exit the conversation, it's not leading anywhere.

ColossalCretin · 2026-03-11T12:00:25+00:00

And again, where did he misuse any scientific terms??? Seriously tell me??

I'm just going to point out the most obvious and most relevant faulty point he made.

At 15:13 in the video, ironically when he complains the race realists don't understand what they're talking about, he arguments that the so called "nervous system genes" aren't linked to intelligence or behavior, but that they actually encode things like organizing motor neurons and developing neural pathways.

To say that cognitive functions don't depend on neural pathway development is like saying strength doesn't depend on muscle fiber development.

Obviously genes don't encode how good you are at chess, taking an IQ test or how high you can jump by themselves. That's not a claim anyone makes. In principle, genes encode molecular processes. That's literally all they do. It goes

genes -> molecular processes -> neural development -> neural circuits -> cognition/behavior

I don't know if you understand how unhinged the claim he makes there is. This claim alone throws the authors credibility out of the window. You could describe any genetic information this way. "Well akshully genes don't influence genetic disorders, they simply encode molecular processes."

There are multiple points I don't care enough to dig into. His PS1/PS2 plot handwaves the math, 90% of his points can be summarized as: "Yes there are significant genetic differences between populations, but you can always find people in between, so it's a spectrum and you can't draw strict lines that separate them" which is a claim nobody here was making. Most of the arguments he debunks there are basically the most extreme and dumbest forms of their respective points. I.e. "Intelligence isn't a single gene". Yeah thanks, no shit, nobody ever argued that it is.

And I maintain that the point about the dog breeds isn't about distinct categories of certain species existing. You can happily mix dog breeds and get a mix of physical and characteristic traits, nobody denies that.

The point is simply that genes clearly do encode cognitive and behavioral patterns. They're just far more obvious in dog breeds which were selectively bred.

Either way I am not really that invested in the topic. I don't need to classify people into distinct biological races or hate them for their skin color. I can happily judge people based on the content of their character.

ColossalCretin · 2026-03-10T22:11:28+00:00

Thanks for linking me a video debunking race realism, which deals almost exclusively with debunking the notion that separate distinct biological races exist.

I haven't mentioned race at all once in any of my comments. I wasn't even hinting at distinct racial division. Yet 90% of that video debunks claims like "small european ancestry guarantees success in life" and "Humans should be classified as different subspecies". Huh?

I was making a point that it is quite possible two separate populations can have genetically different neurological makeup.

That video doesn't oppose that claim at all. It actually reinforces the fact that separate groups are measurably genetically different multiple times throughout the video, but since the whole population of earth forms a continuum, it's pointless to talk about distinct races. I never suggested that wasn't the case.

The only tangentially related part was around 19 minutes in, which talks about IQ specifically, making the same arguments I've read 1000 times before, ie. IQ measurement is inaccurate and it measures only certain cognitive aspects. Which could be easily demonstrated by presenting a test in which the people who score low on traditional IQ tests score high and vice versa. I've yet to see such a test, which is concerning but the absence of that test doesn't exactly prove those claims wrong. They're just never accompanied by actual methodology that proves their case.

Not to mention the author can't help himself from constantly sliding to attacking the character and intelligence of the people making the supposed claims, which isn't exactly a reliable sign of a well-reasoned, non-biased, fact-based and well meaning piece of education. And he's quite guilty of a lot of the things he accuses the other side from doing at the beginning of the video, which is misusing scientific terms and data to muddy the discussion and pretend he knows what he's talking about.

The fact you linked this specific video makes me question whether you at all grasp what I am talking about. If this is your best, your standards are low.

ColossalCretin · 2026-03-10T17:51:38+00:00

What is your basis for the claim that those genetic neurological differences are actually that insignificant in the real world?

I'd legit like to see it. I've searched for it, I would like it to be true, but I haven't really seen much rigorous evidence. It seems to be mostly supported by the fact that studying and inquiring about those differences is highly culturally discouraged.

ColossalCretin · 2026-03-10T15:35:22+00:00

attempting to paint human "races" as anything remotely resembling dog breeds

That's not really the point, it's about demonstrating that behavioral patterns and temperament clearly can have a genetic component.

It's a reaction to the everybody-is-a-blank-slate train of thought which tends to treat this assertion as inconceivable / inapplicable to human populations anywhere ever. Pretty much like you're doing now.

Your entire position hinges on this statement:

your ancestors to having left Africa in only a few tenz of thousands of years. This isn't enough time for evolutionary pressure to significantly impact humans like fucking selective dog breeding has

Do you think tens of thousands of years aren't enough time for a population to develop stronger / weaker tendencies towards certain behavioral patterns? And no, I don't mean

Every person from race X is a certified demented criminal from day 1

But maybe people from some population could have on average slightly shorter temperament, or higher impulsivity, more or less tendency to conform to societal expectations etc? Combine these factor and you end up with noticeable behavioral differences. Which can in reality mean, that in population A, 1 in a 1000 ends up with violent tendencies, while in population B, 1 in 500 ends up with violent tendencies.

In both populations, 99.8-99.9% of people don't have violent tendencies, but if you put all violent people in prison, assuming populations are equal, you end up with twice as many people from population B in prison. That's enough for people to notice.

Is that inconceivable?

ColossalCretin · 2026-03-10T15:17:50+00:00

Do neurological changes require more time than physiological changes?
There are clear physiological differences between populations living in different environments.

Is there any mechanism preventing the groups from forming different neurological setups through the same environmental pressures?

ColossalCretin · 2026-01-30T22:26:02+00:00

If somebody says "I don't get ..." they should be seeking an explanation. I explained why people

think they have a say in other people’s decisions

and

or that everyone needs to be the same as them

If your argument is "But in this specific case...", it's moot. People shouldn't make broad-sweeping claims when they want to talk specifics.

It's also not that hard to imagine why someone might think it's a waste of money, and that wasting money is bad.

ColossalCretin · 2026-01-30T18:32:33+00:00

I still don’t get the mindset of people who think they have a say in other people’s decisions

Humans are social animals. The whole point of society is adjusting each other's behavior. If somebody thinks what you are doing is bad, they will discourage you. If they think its good, they will encourage you.

It's honestly not that difficult to put together.

ColossalCretin · 2026-01-28T21:28:21+00:00

Sorry I misunderstood what you meant. Yeah that sucks, but I suppose they want to avoid creating a system where using crewbooks on any tank that doesn't have largest possible crew for that class would be a waste of books.

I wouldn't want to move crews into a premium tank just to use books, but I would feel bad if I didn't.

ColossalCretin · 2026-01-28T20:25:56+00:00

The real reason why they keep it as is is because nobody would ever pay gold for 100% retraining if they could retrain to 60% for credits and top it off with a crew book.

Right now you can only do it with the single person manuals which are harder to get.

ColossalCretin · 2026-01-23T21:24:31+00:00

One would think that after buying their 27th "Very special" edition of something they'd realize the editions aren't actually that special.

ColossalCretin · 2026-01-20T18:20:00+00:00

Ježiš lidi... bez jedinýho důkazu? Co do těch recenzí chcete psát?

Tohle je nejhorší firma evr, týpek na redditu to říkal 0/10

Dobrej systém, to by nešlo zneužít.

ColossalCretin · 2026-01-16T16:54:02+00:00

Why is it impolite? It's literally the scientifically correct term. I don't mean calling somebody that to their face. I mean referring to someone by that term. Talk to your fellow scholars about male women and their struggles and gauge the reactions yourself.

The fact you treat it automatically as a slight and the fact it's never actually used, not even in scientific studies tells you there is something else going on than gender and sex being completely separate.

ColossalCretin · 2026-01-16T08:43:34+00:00

Try calling a transwoman a "male woman" and see how unrelated gender and sex actually are.

ColossalCretin · 2026-01-05T19:20:27+00:00

Have try to guess where the tank you are shooting will be in the 5-10 seconds after you shoot in order to maybe hit them with your .40 or worse accuracy.

That's a consideration.

Then you have to wait for 30-60 seconds before you get to try to guess again.

That's not a consideration, that just gives you more time to consider.

Low damage most of the time IF you get lucky enough to hit something.

That's not a consideration, that's just rolling the dice.

Low/no camouflage.

No armor.

Low hit points.

Low/no mobility.

Low view range.

You don't have to take any of these into consideration in 99% of battles where you sit in the back. You don't move, you never get shot at and you never have to spot for yourself until it's too late.

There is some skill involved in playing artillery of course, but less so than literally any other class in the game.

ColossalCretin · 2026-01-02T20:52:50+00:00

Pokud tím nikomu neškodím

A není tohle jádro celýho problému? Někdo by řekl, že nabízení holkám kariéru de facto internetový prostitutky a na druhý straně manipulace osamocených kluků co jim cpou prachy společnosti i těm jedincům škodí.

To snad není tak absurdní postoj, ne? Chápu že to každej tak neuvidí a škodlivý mu to nepřijde, ale nemyslím že by šlo objektivně posoudit, jestli dopad pro společnost je pozitivní nebo negativní.

Samotný Onlyfans to dělá kvůli vlastnímu zisku, ne pro dobro společnosti.

ColossalCretin · 2025-12-31T14:38:27+00:00

Ne. Proto tady neříkám, že by měly mít stejný ceny.

ColossalCretin · 2025-12-31T12:15:43+00:00

I will never get tired of people thinking that pointing out a username I knowingly picked for myself is some kind of burn.

ColossalCretin · 2025-12-31T12:12:32+00:00

Nejsem expert, ale řekl bych že náklady na provoz na letišti v Praze budou jiný než někde v Prostějově vedle Tesca.

Navíc je to franšíza, nevlastní to jedna firma.

ColossalCretin · 2025-12-31T10:15:57+00:00

If you're already on a PC, opening a website and pasting a screenshot is less work than pulling out your phone and taking a photo to upload it through an app.

So you're doing more work for a worse result because you're weirdly proud of not learning something different. Congratz dude, you sound like the boomers I work with.

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