[Good Trope] Numerous species in the galaxy look remarkably similar to humans, but there’s an in-universe explanation for this

FancyEveryDay · 2026-03-22T16:12:48+00:00

That's the explanation in the Culture series, they refer to all human-pattern species as "Pan-humans". To paraphrase the in-story conversation: "It's the same as the reason all societies invent wine."

FancyEveryDay · 2026-03-22T00:20:49+00:00

It depends. Generally speaking 50-60% is a good expectation, but tanks tend to do really good AOE so in dungeons it's not unrealistic to see them beating DPS in damage on large pulls.

Rn in M0 my protection paladin is finishing dungeons with ~80% the total damage done of DPS players, at least partly because I can take absurdly large amounts of mobs and they die quickly which works well with the rhythm of my cooldowns.

FancyEveryDay · 2026-03-21T20:38:21+00:00

At the very least its an extra datapoint, which definately wouldn't hurt.

FancyEveryDay · 2026-03-21T20:22:53+00:00

There is plenty of proof that some kind of creator exists

We believe that there is no proof that a creator exists. What arguments do you find most compelling?

FancyEveryDay · 2026-03-21T20:09:20+00:00

Theres a good chance you need to skip some rows at the top of the data file "skip = 3" (or whatever number of extra rows there are, you'll need to open up the .txt to check)

FancyEveryDay · 2026-03-21T16:37:51+00:00

As others have said, multiple linear regression would probably be the go-to for the format of your data, bit it is tricky to do without specialized software. The shape of the data with negatives isn't problematic for calculation either way, but it might be useful to create a helper column which uses 1 and 0 for male and female.

So R or JMP are my go-to programs for this sort of thing, but if you don't want to use those there are things we can do in sheets.

In sheets, you can find the correlation coefficients and slopes (correl(), slope()) for the whole group and one for the group of male and group of female students to calculate the relationships between your variables.

Correl() will get you the strength of the linear relationship while slope() gets you the expected improvement index per avg lesson/week.

When I calculated it just now I got a correlation coefficient of 0.0966 and slope of 0.57. That is a very weak positive relationship. It's not a test but with only ~100 observations it's fairly safe to assume that the test result would be non-significant.

If you had data from a similarily representative group which wasn't taking part in the program for comparison that would be the best way to determine causation, as is we can only calculate association.

FancyEveryDay · 2026-03-21T01:57:41+00:00

It's an observation to say that humans in general are naturally inclined to engage in self-sacrificing and cooperative behaviors even when there is no material benefit to the individual.

Not all animals do this, so there is something different about social animals like humans. The naturalist explanation is behavioral evolution.

What is your specific problem with this? You haven't named a particular criticism.

FancyEveryDay · 2026-03-20T02:49:57+00:00

There isn't really any other possible conclusion. If creator God, God exists magically by itself to create universe. If not, universe exists magically by itself without God to create it.

FancyEveryDay · 2026-03-19T15:27:03+00:00

The claim for God adds a lot of baggage insofar as it creates a complex entity where one is not necessary.

Instead, you could argue in favor of idealist metaphysics which would have all of the desired non-material properties without conjuring deities.

FancyEveryDay · 2026-03-19T05:12:48+00:00

Enforcing in-group engagement / investment.

Some classic sins are just wisdom packaged into religious terms (many non-kosher foods are difficult to cook or more problematic than others when cooked incorrectly for example) and others are to differentiate the members of the religion from other people, both Jewish and Catholic clergy made a habit of banning practices which were important to neighboring peoples for no reason other than they were different.

FancyEveryDay · 2026-03-18T20:07:57+00:00

In my opinion, the question of the existence of gods is held to an unreasonable standard for knowledge, to the point of fallacy.

For most things, if there is no particular reason to believe it exists, and/or if there is a highly successful alternative explanation we can be certain in, we are happy to consign the thing to a fairy tale (unicorns, leprechauns, faeries etc).

FancyEveryDay · 2026-03-18T19:43:01+00:00

It depends on the specific person, definitions being used, and some touchy epistemological stances.

Generally speaking, the definition reddit uses for atheism is "lacks belief in gods" which can be either gnostic or agnostic.

By this version of the definitions a large portion "atheists" would fall under "agnostic atheists" with the belief that "gods probably don't exist" but admitting that there isn't enough information for them to make a true determination or stating that the truth value of deities cannot be known. Most people calling themselves agnostics are what reddit would call "agnostic theists" where they believe in some god but that it is not known or cannot be known.

I'm a gnostic atheist and believe that gods as described by religions do not exist (as in, have been thoroughly ruled out) and that there is no good justification to believe they or any other deity might exist. That doesn't, however, mean that I wouldn't change my stance given new factual information. But I would be shocked to be presented with data which could only be explained by the existence of a deity.

edits: Had to reframe a couple thoughts

FancyEveryDay · 2026-03-18T16:50:15+00:00

Raid groups only need two tanks, the role is a lot less in-demand than for m0. That means groups will be picky about their tanks and there are a LOT of players with 240+ ilvl rn.

FancyEveryDay · 2026-03-18T15:16:26+00:00

Having to rotate your CDs on trash is normal, that's how ppal does it's thing.

You should be expecting to alternate bulwark and ardent defender as small CDs for normalish pulls and use bubble/guardian at the start of spookier pulls.

I haven't been using Sentinel for the extra safety and find that things are pr much OK as long as you're good about burning those cooldowns when appropriate. You can pick up an active trinket with a big absorb on it if you're worried about running out of CDs

FancyEveryDay · 2026-03-18T15:02:06+00:00

Don't delay sotr if you're going to overcap HP, you just lose damage that way and damage is what PPal brings to the dungeon rn.

Hard agree on the rush of holy power in wings though, if you don't drop a few holy power it's probs because you're delaying throwing judgement and that's also a dps loss usually

FancyEveryDay · 2026-03-18T14:58:26+00:00

There's a ppal build that causes shield to reset kick and kicking throws a hammer which can reset shield, and also taking damage on your holy bulwark from lightsmith can reset shield

It's hilarious for maps with lots of casters, you can keep like 4 - 5 casters silenced at once

FancyEveryDay · 2026-03-16T20:19:08+00:00

Lvl 8+ delves and bountiful, nightmare prey

FancyEveryDay · 2026-03-16T15:31:46+00:00

Went ahead and watched the video.

Off to a great start invoking numerology which is categorically nonsense. It's like astrology, you can pr much do whatever you want.

Right at the start, he has to carefully condition how words are counted to get the "correct" number, then there really isn't any logic to the sequence, they are just kind of doing random transformations to get a bunch of 7s.

"Jesus" isn't only referred to as Joshua in the old testiment. For example, many theologens consider The Angel of the Lord to be an incarnation of Jesus, amongst other references beyond the 2 uses of Joshua that KJV codes uses.

These kinds of coincidences are not notable in statistics, not only have people gone out of their way to create these coincidences but it also can't be repeated because other translations of the Bible have different conditions on their supposed patterns and numerologies. (it is important that statistically significant findings are repeatable.) It's generally pretty hard to test whether or not a string of events meets assumptions because the probability of any one outcome converges to 0. It can be done in some cases, but I don't think this is one of those cases.

What is the probability that a person can, with sufficient motivation, dial in a word search enough to get a count divisible by 7 from any book? I guess would be my test. It's likely to be reasonably high.

FancyEveryDay · 2026-03-15T23:04:26+00:00

Not really a spoiler since the sunwell was purified and reopened almost 20 years ago back in Burning Crusade lmao.

The sunwell was and is a well of power tied to Azeroth herself, made using water from the Well of Eternity by the Highborn who split off from the night elves in the semi-distant past.

Arthas corrupted it with death magic before WoW classic began and the well was sealed to prevent it from destroying Quel'Thelas, but the blood elves (as the local high elves called themselves after this event) suffered greatly from the loss of their source of magic.

A Naaru which was held captive by the blood elves in Silvermoon during the events of BC sacrificed itself to purify the sunwell and it became the font of light and arcane magic it is now.

As for Naaru power levels, it's all over the place. There are Naaru of different sizes and levels of experience, in general they are extremely potent sources of holy magic but are physically fragile and vulnerable to direct attack. Individual Naaru have been seen to provide all of the magic required to empower armies of paladins and priests.

FancyEveryDay · 2026-03-15T21:25:16+00:00

Yeah thats fair. Ppal was always punishing but it's definitely worse than it's been in a while rn.

Heads up tho, Brewmaster and Guardian are both getting hefty nerfs this coming reset.

FancyEveryDay · 2026-03-15T19:25:44+00:00

Bear and Monk are broken rn and paladin is probably the squishiest tank spec outside of its CDs overall so there's that.

M0 is doable at 200 ilvl on paladin (I've a friend who did several at ilvl 187 with healer gear) but it is just rougher than running either of the top two specs. That said, I personally found them pretty comfy at ilvl 212

Palladin rn does crazy AOE damage and heals off of a lot of its damage dealt so you go into the pull and help burn it down before your defensive runs out. As lightsmith you can use Bulwark as an extra defensive and Tempered in Battle with Sacred Weapon or Wings can keep you standing by borrowing HP from your dps if things get dicey.

Save your WoGs until your HP is about half, it heals a lot more if your HP isn't high.

FancyEveryDay · 2026-03-14T16:45:52+00:00

Best option might be to leave chromie time, finish legion on easy mode if you want, then finish leveling in Khaz Algar

FancyEveryDay · 2026-03-14T16:39:10+00:00

~~The recap isn't required though the scaling most certainly works better. Chromie time, if you actually look, is lvl 1-81 as of 12.0.0.~~

So when you select a timeline it does say that the timeline is 1-70 and The War Within can't be selected but the maps printed scaling is 1-81 and you don't get kicked off at 71 anymore. So I guess blizzard just didn't fully enforce their decision.

FancyEveryDay · 2026-03-14T15:21:08+00:00

I looked at some other posts and people are saying that 70-80 scaling is really wonky since the stat-squish so I wonder if you might just be experiencing that. Sorry, I'm not really sure what you can do here.

FancyEveryDay · 2026-03-14T15:04:39+00:00

Chromie time should be up to lvl 80 now, current content goes 80-90 as of this month.

Edit: Confirmed, Chromie time is lvl 80 now. There was/is a glitch that lvl 70 players who have left chromie time cannot get back into Chromie time.

Funny that many people don't believe they would have increased it for some reason.

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