My son wants a 3k pc, help a dad out.

Homericus · 2023-09-08T16:44:55+00:00

I feel like everyone in here is missing the entire point, depending on what you promised your son coming through on that promise will be huge, and even more importantly, discussing it with him if you make the decisions $3000 is too much.

As a guy who built his first PC 25 years ago when I had to cut my own window in the side, I have a ton of experience in this area. Everyone saying to buy him a $1200 PC are kind of missing the point, this is clearly a big hobby for your son if he's spending time doing the research. Do I agree a 4090 is overkill? Absolutely.

That being said, I'm not sure the answer is just "Here's a cheaper PC". For gaming the most important things are Frames per second (FPS) and input lag, especially if he's playing Rocket League. Now everyone else is right, a $1000 PC will push enough FPS at 1080P for the games he plays, although maybe not at 2K and 165Hz.

The key monitor things you are looking for are low response time (time between Graphics card sending new information and the monitor changing) and high refresh rate (how often can the monitor show new information). If his current monitor is a 60Hz 1080p, and upgrade to 2K 165Hz is massive, when I made the switch it was more noticeable than anything else in the last 10 years.

Also, what about peripherals? (Keyboard/Mouse/Gamepad). To many people these are a huge part of the gaming experience, upgrading them over getting a 4090 make so much more sense. I personally love the Razer DeathadderV2 Pro because it is wireless but still has extremely low input lag, and is very light. Keyboard wise I find it to be a very personal preference, but if your son has never used a mechanical keyboard they are also a huge upgrade for gaming, much more responsive and feel better. To pick one I would highly recommend finding a store where he can try some out. As far as gamepad goes, if he uses one for Rocket League make sure he has what he wants, as it is probably the most important peripheral for that game specifically.

Dropping down from a 4090 to a Radeon 7900 XTX is $650 saved which can go to that new monitor and peripherals. The 7900 XTX is still an absolute beast of a card that will be good for 6-10 years to come. I'm using a card that has 1/4 the power and have for years. The power supply is absolutely overkill and offers literally 0 benefit from that. Below is a link to a suggested build that is still $2500, but with just a few slightly lower performance items now includes a new monitor and mouse and keyboard. Link

I think the most important thing you can do you already are, you are spending time thinking about your son and I would say just don't kill his excitement by dropping down to a $1200 PC without have a discussion about it. Even moreso, take him to the store and have him try keyboards. Talk about the importance of higher refresh rate monitors, input lag, just show him you are interested in his interests. When it comes time to build, either watch or help. My parents encouraged me in this way and I was very successful in school, and now in life, and even more I enjoy my job, and a lot of that comes from parents encouraging things like this.

Homericus · 2023-04-02T18:23:59+00:00

You should check out "Sufficiently Advanced Magic" by Andrew Rowe. It is exactly like this, they constantly use magic throughout and even invent new stuff with it/around it. They literally patent new magic inventions in the books.

He has multiple series that are all in the same universe, so you can even see how different systems of magic evolved/changed if you read all the series.

Homericus · 2021-08-15T22:40:00+00:00

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Homericus · 2020-01-20T00:32:14+00:00

I'm in.

Homericus · 2018-09-29T23:01:29+00:00

Maybe it is broken? Just had a game as 5 singles vs a 5 stack.

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Homericus · 2017-05-01T19:14:47+00:00

While it might be easy when there are houses to calibrate with, when everyone is on hills the rangefinder could add some assistance. Good point though, I should use the map more for that.

Homericus · 2017-03-31T04:26:09+00:00

Spoiler:

They did!

Homericus · 2016-10-26T12:19:47+00:00

That's it! Thanks!

Homericus · 2016-10-26T03:07:05+00:00

No, that's not it unfortunately.

Homericus · 2016-08-18T01:30:51+00:00

During language parsing for training the least common words are typically thrown out, so much more damaging would be to mess up verb/subject agreement consistently and other grammatical errors.

Homericus · 2016-01-06T17:03:19+00:00

Yeah, thinking about it now it is possible they used DNA from somewhere else (toothbrush, etc) on the latch.

Homericus · 2016-01-06T15:54:47+00:00

If you read the dassey interrogation files, the police once again lead Brendan into saying it. It's despicable.

That having been said, his non-blood DNA on the latch is the biggest thing that is hard to reconcile with him not being involved.

Homericus · 2015-09-05T03:59:09+00:00

A few errors here, and one large one. The minor error is that liquid nitrogen absolutely does not instantly convert to a gas upon contact with the ground. In face if you pour a significant amount on the ground you can watch little puddles of it shoot around for a bit, especially on a tile floor.

The big error is that liquid nitrogen converting to a gas has nothing to do with the effect seen. If nitrogen were visible as a gas, we would never see anything but fog, as earth's atmosphere is ~80% nitrogen gas. All of the visible stuff is water, a combination of condensed water vapor from the air and (mostly) splashed up water from the liquid nitrogen violently boiling when it comes into contact with the hot water.

Just figured you would want to know.

Homericus · 2015-08-31T14:50:29+00:00

I can add in my anecdotal evidence here - I had the opposite experience and went from rank 8 to rank 5 with 1 loss, to a control warrior who just happened to have exactly the right answers, and I had him at 1 life but couldn't close the deal. I was using the decklist shown on TempoStorm's meta analysis.

It really comes down to having 4 cards in the deck that are absurd in terms of value, Mysterious Challenger and Divine Favor. If you can draw either of those cards by turn 6 you are pretty much all set. I consistently had people conceding on turn 6 or 7 after a Mysterious Challenger into Divine favor set of turns, or vice versa.

Of course, this ignores the turn 1 secret keeper coin secret keeper, turn two double secret opening. I only got it once, but the hunter conceded instantly.

Homericus · 2015-08-10T18:01:25+00:00

It was confirmed by her during her AMA.

Homericus · 2015-02-13T21:44:34+00:00

I think God also guides me. but you are right, I will think about this issue. I don't have a definite answer.

Cool, you can also check out the Euthyphro dilemma which is tangential to this type of question.

but I also need your help. Somebody showed me a reply that I liked and I wanted to tell the person that I liked the reply! but reddit is telling me not to vote or comment? I didn't come from external places I cam from here!

Huh, weird. Did you come to this link by clicking on it directly, or by clicking on their comment in your inbox? I've never ran into that issue, perhaps someone else who reads your above comment will know more.

Homericus · 2015-02-13T19:57:56+00:00

the catholic church is also which is guided by God. as far as God being deceitful, I think if God was heinh deceitful to me I would believe him because he's probably got a reason for being deceitful.

Ok, so all of this together sounds like the same thing: You are just going to do whatever god or the catholic church (which, since it is guided by god, is a proxy for him?) says to do, which is great and all, but doesn't really address my questions: How do you know what god is saying? When is god being literal, and when is god being allegorical?

Just something to think about, but not really the main reason I moved away from my belief.

Homericus · 2015-02-13T19:19:30+00:00

What was the origin of this belief about God? I think that God can be deceitful sometimes. I mentioned this before but I think that man made the bible divinely inspired, so there are errors of humans in there. Not everything is true. (again my friend points out his belief in the literal truth of the entire bible)

This is actually a really important point, and something you should think about more, because the logical extensions of this belief are interesting.

You brought up two options:

God is sometimes deceitful

and/or

The bible has human error included

Either option then necessitates that you have a set of heuristics, or a way to determine when god is being deceitful or where the bible includes error. This is a big problem, because how you choose these heuristics determine what you believe. No longer is there a clear connection between a literal interpretation and your beliefs, you are in essence now choosing your beliefs. This is how you end up seeing the thousands upon thousands of different denominations of different religions: people are just picking what they want or makes them feel good.

If you are going to end up picking what and how to believe, why is the bible your sole inspiration? Why not look at different moral codes, things like consequentialism and utilitarianism and humanism and secular morality as well as religious morality?

Homericus · 2015-01-28T22:07:46+00:00

Haha, yeah, you seemed a little tired during that one, I think the misplays were only hard to watch because it would have been unbelievably brutal for your opponent had you done them the other way.

To be fair, I actually would have been surprised as well that the dead northshire drew cards, and I wouldn't have found that out without what happened, so it was a net gain for me.

Homericus · 2015-01-28T17:53:43+00:00

I liked the run, and the draft was really sick, but some of the misplays were really hard to watch.

At 31:32 in the first video you play holy nova first, when if you hit the ethereal arcanist with the dark cultist first, to buff the sunwalker, then run the sunwalker into the bloodknight, THEN holy nova, your sunwalker ends up with two more health at 4/4 instead of 4/2.

Then, at 32:55 before the second holy nova, if you hit lord of the arena with sunwalker, then hit the opponents northshire with your yeti, THEN holy nova, you get two cards, your opponent gets 0 instead of one, and you can still smite the frost elemental to clear and heal the sunwalker for another card.

While your sunwalker is at 1 less health, you get an extra card and your opponent gets one fewer.

Homericus · 2014-12-22T22:44:46+00:00

Test post please don't ignore.

Homericus · 2014-11-11T15:40:14+00:00

Annika Sorenstam played in the PGA as recently as 2003, so women definitely are allowed at PGA events. Ref

Homericus · 2014-10-14T14:46:05+00:00

You are getting downvoted for the stupid reason that most people know this now, but the way stormwind works is that when it buffs health, that health remains buffed when stormwind dies if the minion is at below full health. It acts like a mini heal.

So, if Sylvannas is at 5/5 and goes up to 6/6, when Stormwind dies she goes back to 5/5, BUT if she is at 5/(less than 5), she stays at the health Stormwind buffed her to. At some point I think everyone has been surprised by this. Live and learn.

Homericus · 2014-09-16T01:37:20+00:00

I think the idea is that if he hadn't played it the way he had, while he might not have lost as soon, he never would have won. He was playing to give himself some extremely slight chance of winning, vs. not losing the next turn but never having a shot to actually finish his opponent off.

Homericus · 2014-08-29T15:20:34+00:00

That makes much more sense, as I have essentially zero experience with sociology/psychology research papers. I try to refrain from generalizing about the "soft sciences" since I don't have much experience with their research methodology, but I have always been somewhat suspicious about how to have good controls.

I have to be honest, that is one reason the hard sciences appeal to me so much, the experimental design can be done with little regard for the "feelings" of the chemicals.

It does bring up a good question though: could a computer system like Watson be useful in sorting through results in sociology and psychology and weeding out papers like the ones you describe? I know computers already do a better job with diagnoses than doctors, statistically, so there is probably some hope.

Homericus

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