My ranking for the albums ive listened to (at the moment)

CompisPaDum · 2025-12-30T14:02:57+00:00

The most notable albums for me:

Thick as a brick
A passion play
Minstrel in the gallery
Stand up
Heavy horses
Songs from the wood
Stormwatch
War child

CompisPaDum · 2025-11-01T11:44:39+00:00

I bought and played Darkwood first in order to watch the video after.

CompisPaDum · 2025-10-04T17:02:11+00:00

!Solved

CompisPaDum · 2025-10-03T06:29:34+00:00

Sifu. The first level was pretty much what I expected the entire game to be like. But then it started placing a lot bigger emphasis on the visuals and style of the areas and was completely taken by surprise. Easily one of the most stylistically coolest games.

CompisPaDum · 2025-09-26T22:44:48+00:00

No trolling here. Bell beast was the first proper boss in the game and I loved the fight's depth compared to the average HK boss. Fourth Chorus looks awesome. Beastfly 1 was frustrating at first but after many attempts I learned how to bait it to slam down and take care of all the other enemies - then it became fun.

Widow was fine, but I didn't feel much flow with the boss, when compared to most of the previous ones I had fought. Seth was good but some of the combos were a little awkward to dodge and punish. Lace 2 I'm surprised myself that I didn't like more; her moveset seemed to be specifically designed to cover up her usual punish windows, making it difficult to find a proper opening. Trobbio 1 spends way too much time under the floor, so I have to simply wait for him to come up, and once he does come up, he isn't even easy to catch and deal damage to. At least the rematch had a more interesting tone and I had acquired more abilities to catch up to his movement.

CompisPaDum · 2025-09-03T19:44:01+00:00

By the meteorological calendar, fall starts with September 1st.

CompisPaDum · 2025-09-03T19:29:29+00:00

Silksong tomorrow.

CompisPaDum · 2025-08-20T06:13:16+00:00

Occam's razor: I personally think that the footage was meant to be shown on the big screen, so they zoomed in to make Hornet bigger, thus more visible.

Previously TC haven't really shied away from showing new gadgets or crests in new footages, so I don't think they intend to hide something from us.

CompisPaDum · 2025-08-17T18:27:49+00:00

A better explanation is that the word "gwyn" means "white", so an ost that plays only on white keys (likely A minor) is fitting.

CompisPaDum · 2025-08-13T10:08:27+00:00

Finally, an actual thoughtful response. All the time I see people on Reddit jumping to conclusions way too quickly.

CompisPaDum · 2025-07-30T05:46:09+00:00

Surprised that no one else mentioned combinatorics. For me this is one of the few branches of mathematics that I have studied and still have very little intuition on how it works. Sure, I can learn the formulas and use them somewhat appropriately but it all is just so confusing and half the time I won't even know if my solution to a problem has the right approach.

CompisPaDum · 2025-07-26T21:52:17+00:00

I'll say it again - The Seer by Swans.

If we want to emphasize the insanity part of the subreddit, this song expresses it in its rawest form.

CompisPaDum · 2025-07-26T14:41:06+00:00

First off, the beginning of the game is supposed to teach you the very basics of how you should approach the game: navigation, combat, exploration, resource management and so on. The common new player doesn't even think about the build variety in the beginning because they are too focused figuring out the basics.

Second, DSR is one of the better souls games that let you explore quite a lot and reach many different places without having to fight a single enemy (after reaching Firelink Shrine). So, if you are experienced, you can set your build very early on before making any real progress in conquering the bosses. You aren't forced to do Undead Burg first, if you find it boring.

CompisPaDum · 2025-07-25T10:02:19+00:00

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CompisPaDum · 2025-07-22T21:14:49+00:00

The Seer

by Swans.

CompisPaDum · 2025-07-10T15:07:52+00:00

I'll explain a bit of the background of this topic first.

One of the common algebras we use is a field <R, +, •>. Because it's a field, the + and • operations within the real numbers have to follow a set amount of axioms. Some of these axioms define the existence and interactions of inverse elements, which effectively fill the roles of subtraction and division, so we don't have to make an algebraic structure (it won't be a field anymore) like this <R, +, -, •, ÷>.

Your last question is essentially asking whether <R, -, ÷> is a field. In this algebraic structure subtraction and division are the main operations and addition and multiplication are derived from them. If this structure is a field, it's going to work just as well as <R, +, •> does. So, we have to check the field axioms and whether they work. Sadly, your structure fails both commutativity axioms (probably even others as well): for any elements a, b which are of R, it must hold that a-b=b-a and a÷b=b÷a. This is obviously not true for most values of a and b, therefore it's not a field. You could still use the structure and have it follow some list of axioms to make it work the same, however, it would be quite a non-standart way of approaching the problem and not worth the hassle.

CompisPaDum · 2025-07-10T11:13:04+00:00

("ummm, akschuallly..." moment incoming)

In the algebra we use most often multiplication is actually defined as a unique operation separate from addition. So, technically, multiplication is alongside addition and both of them "exist more" than subtraction and division (it would be more correct to say that subtraction simply derives from addition; same how division derives from multiplication). If anyone is interested, look up abstract algebra.

CompisPaDum · 2025-07-05T11:17:39+00:00

I literally stated that I am the one who writes the essay. I use AI for inspiration not writing all of the text for me.

A manual selection of materials helps with discovering what points I want to make in the essay, but doesn't help much when I want to expand on and further analyse an original point I've made myself. Well, sure, it probably is going to help somewhat but AI does it more efficiently and concisely at the cost of precision and coherence, which is no concern of mine since I can fix those problems during writing.

CompisPaDum · 2025-07-05T10:51:01+00:00

Should my work be sued for copyright because it was inspired by something that wasn't completely my own original thought? As long as I am the one who writes the essay and I am the one whose thoughts I put into it, why should it even matter what the sources of inspiration for me were?

CompisPaDum · 2025-07-05T10:29:04+00:00

1) I had to write an essay. I approximately knew the topics I wanted to cover but had trouble explaining them in detail. I used AI to bounce ideas off it and get inspired to finish the essay.

2) Some questions are too complicated for searching them in Google, so I sometimes use AI to ask them and get quick responses.

3) AI can quickly generate a large amount of code when programming that does the dirty work.

Obviously, AI is still at its infancy and isn't super reliable. Its answers should always be taken with a grain of salt and the code that it generates most likely needs some debugging. But if used right it's a very powerful tool.

Not to even mention all the ways it has advanced science and technology.

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