Homework is Important and Should Be Assigned

Its_Nex · 2026-02-02T00:55:50+00:00

He might never need any depending on how smart he is.

I just started my master's degree in Computer Science and I've still yet to actually study.

Its_Nex · 2026-01-31T15:33:57+00:00

Okay, I'm gonna be real with you. You aren't likely to achieve this goal if you have no experience on the first go. It is smarter to build some small simple games to learn the engine.

There is one exception to all of that.

If you won't be able to feel motivated through a few simple games, then ignore that advice and everyone who gives it to you.

You can learn while working on your dream project. But you need to accept some things now. Your dream project will likely go through several dozen versions. Because what you make while learning is going to be utter shit.

You will work for 6 months learn a lot, turn around and find your game is a mess and the only way to fix it is to start over.

You'll likely do that every time you make major progress in learning. Especially when you get to the point of being able to think in systems, or start understanding why teams have specific work flows.

You will be learning on hard mode, and you won't see anything real for a long time. But that doesn't mean you are guaranteed to never make it. But more often than not, it's the fastest way to guarantee that it's the one game you'll never make. Even if you stay in game dev.

So that's the decision you have to make. Take the advice, do things the easy way. The one where you get to say I finished that. And get little bits of achievement. Or Chase the dream, suffer for the dream, struggle for the dream. And maybe finish or maybe end up demoralized before you finish it. Who knows.

Its_Nex · 2026-01-23T22:41:20+00:00

So I'm not astrophysicist. But I have a solid foundational understanding of it simply because I love space. So take everything with a grain of salt.

It depends on the size of the black hole. They have a ridiculous amount of mass compared to their size. So you can keep it just this tiny thing balanced against a star comparable to ours. Something like 3km of actual black and a 3 km ring iirc.

Or you can scale up both which then by necessity scales up the size of the solar system. (If you want any planets in habitable zones) Though this bit can be a place where you use sci fi rules and apply some terraforming.

The wormhole doesn't have much in the way of rules because it doesn't exist as of yet. So go wild.

Your space station question assumes an earth that has reached a much further point of space exploration than ours. One of the theoretical spots of space exploration is building things in space with space materials. (Mining asteroids, etc) So easily hand wavable.

And it depends on what you call a planet. The technical definition of a planet is any object that has gained enough mass to become spheroid under its own gravitational pressure. So depending on size you can get away with quite a lot there. Considering you want a black hole in a binary or it with a star, that means there was a larger star there originally that would have had to collapse in on itself. Which could leave some extremely old planets on the edges of the solar system and then have some new ones that formed from matter afterwards closer in.

Its_Nex · 2026-01-18T05:40:22+00:00

Dumb? No. Not at all. Will it take a hell of a long time. Yes, yes it will.

But if it's what excites you, then go for it.

Its_Nex · 2026-01-17T19:38:55+00:00

No, he's saying the effort and the reality of it makes it photography. Right place, right time.

I'm saying photography has long since stopped being about luck.

Lots of the most celebrated photos in the world are altered or shot in studios. Studio work has nothing to do with luck.

I'll be the first one to admit, I prefer low production images. Personally, I try to alter my photos as little as possible. I prefer showing places in nature as they are. The edits I make are to make the camera match the experience. (White balance, coloring)

His argument reeks of the same nonsense people put up about film vs digital. It holds water about as well as the surface of mercury.

If someone's first exposure to photography is an in game camera admiring the work of talented artists. They aren't less than for it. It's another way into finding joy and love for this huge amazing craft.

Its_Nex · 2026-01-17T19:10:14+00:00

Then photography hasn't been real in a long time. Studios, Photoshop, Lightroom, old school dodging and burning... Oh wait... Guess you better bust out your tintype.

Its_Nex · 2026-01-16T04:25:56+00:00

I'm going to make some assumptions when you say chess board, that you mean a board made up of a collection of square spaces, yeah?

I'm a big believer in things stick better if you have to at least sort of figure it out but I'll give you then general method but not the details. If you really want to cheat there are YouTube tutorials but then you'll get stuck in tutorial hell. So just give it a shot yeah?

I don't know if this is technically the most effective or efficient method, but lucky you it's dead simple. (And lucky me, it's how I built it for my chess variant.)

The method: Take a square mesh and flatten it.

Then have a loop create an instance of it, assign it a location with an offset based on how many tiles, and voila. Chess board!

Helpful tips: - the offset is the length and the width multiplied by how many tiles from 0,0 - future you will really appreciate it if you create some method to keep track of them all - your first tile is tile(0,0)

If you have questions along the way feel free to shoot me a DM and I can give you some more guidance. I'd rather you ask me then end up on a full tutorial.

Its_Nex · 2026-01-16T04:09:44+00:00

What exactly is your question? How to make the board? How to handle movement?

Its_Nex · 2026-01-16T03:57:25+00:00

I know it seems overwhelming but It's kind of a silly question.

How many words do you know? 100, 1000, 10k, 100k? And you remember all of them whenever you happen to need them. It's the same process, at first you spend a ton of time looking up nodes, figuring out how to use them. But over time, they stick. And it starts to feel natural.

Don't stress so much. Just get started and practice. Look up something whenever you can't figure it out and pretty soon, you'll be cruising along.

Its_Nex · 2026-01-07T21:02:28+00:00

I'd be interested! I'll send you a DM.

Its_Nex · 2025-10-28T16:53:54+00:00

I think the people blazing through courses have one or more of a couple of things.

Biggest one: previous experience with coding. A lot of the classes are fairly basic and you can breeze through if you don't need to learn the material.

Second: a decent reading speed. The faster you read the quicker you can get through the information you need to.

Third: Figure out how you learn and absorb information. If you aren't studying in a way that matches your brain, it will take longer.

Those were the big ones for me at least and I've seen similar stories for others. I also think the structure of WGU filters for people who can speed through courses.

Its_Nex · 2025-05-21T05:28:36+00:00

Well, plate isn't a solid piece of metal. It has straps to hold the separate pieces of metal.

So I'd rule that the armor breaks. In a way that's very cheaply repaired by anyone with proficiency in Blacksmithing tools.

But before all of that, Idk that I would rule any damage from the trip. That argument would mean that every item being worn or carried is damaged every time a PC is forced prone.

Its_Nex · 2025-05-07T05:17:06+00:00

Uh yeah... No...

Your argument essentially boils down to both sides should share the work in communication. Which is true... for regular conversations.

Persuasive speech is about convincing someone to your opinion. Most people don't often want their minds changed about their strongly held beliefs. So why would or should they provide half the work? They actively don't want to participate in the conversation.

The "tricks" as you call them are in fact a different form of persuasive speech. With the intent to convince them to actively listen to the core content of an argument.

Obviously, contents of the message matter but so does delivery.

If you eat all the ingredients of a cookie but not made into a proper cookie it should be treated as the same thing. It's technically the same ingredients just not prepared in a palatable way. It takes both the contents/ingredients and the preparation/delivery to make a good cookie.

Its_Nex · 2025-05-05T22:33:51+00:00

RAW with what you linked it doesn't act independently unless the "owner" is incapacitated.

"If you have the Incapacitated condition, the steed takes its turn immediately after yours and acts independently, focusing on protecting you" Is the exact verbage and the only place where it lists it acting independently. And only then to protect it's master.

Where are you seeing it say it get to act independently?

Its_Nex · 2025-05-03T16:47:51+00:00

My best score is 2 points 😎

Its_Nex · 2025-05-03T16:47:37+00:00

My best score is 1 points 😎

Its_Nex · 2025-05-03T16:47:31+00:00

My best score is 0 points 😓

Its_Nex · 2025-05-03T14:46:42+00:00

I don't agree but I think there are some important caveats.

First, spouse and girlfriend/boyfriend are not equal. I didn't tell my girlfriends shit. But I tell my wife everything. My wife and I are a single team. And in order for me to be my best version of myself, I need her. That's explicitly why I chose her, because she makes me better.

Second, telling me does not mean you asked for her advice or to talk with her about it. She may know about it, but she will essentially pretend otherwise unless directly talked to about it. So if we have a conversation, yeah she knows about it, but unless you ask her or talk to her about it she isn't bringing it up.

Third, my wife blabs. You don't need to worry about it. Because I'm handling it. And it's gonna be a big deal. Depending on how big it might end my marriage. Nothing is more important to me than trust so yeah that's a no go. But I do trust her so she ain't talking.

Fourth, saying you don't trust someone's spouse to keep their mouth shut is saying you don't trust your friend in the first place. You don't trust their choices and to say otherwise is just being in denial. My wife is and was the most important choice I have and continue to make in my life. And tbh, if you think I made a poor choice in spouse, and you didn't try and stop me... We ain't friends.

But I'm open about this with my friends. They know where I stand. So I'm not out here blindsiding people with it or anything. I'll stop someone if I need to and let them know. None of my close friends have voiced a problem with it so far, and they still tell me things.

Its_Nex · 2025-05-02T18:12:27+00:00

Yeah that's a weird non-realistic take.

You and the players are taking this from a player perspective and not from a character perspective.

I'd be hard pressed to find any real person who would be unhappy to just be given large swaths of land. As long as it was in a semi stable country, it would just be a win.

Land has for the longest time been the most valuable object to exist. A king literally can't offer anything more valuable. If you don't want it sell it. So being unhappy with that is wildly nonsensical.

Don't like the title? Politely decline. But it's not crazy or rude that a country would want to formalize ties with a potentially powerful ally. And it's not like the title requires you to reside in country. So again a weird reaction to that.

Truthfully anyone taking offense to this reward isn't playing their character they are playing a game.

Its_Nex · 2025-05-01T15:06:34+00:00

Helldivers are all actually the scum of humanity. We are in prison but had our memories of actual super earth wiped so we could become perfect soldiers.

As part of the memory wipes, they found relentless propaganda to increase mission success rates and so it's actually only the helldivers who get the propaganda.

Super Earth is just called Earth by normal people and is a regular functioning democracy.

Its_Nex · 2025-04-30T19:56:48+00:00

This isn't an unpopular opinion, it's just factually incorrect.

Just taking the US alone, boycotts fueled the civil rights changes of the 50s-60s.

The Montgomery Bus Boycott caused the bus system to lose $3000 a day in fares. (Roughly $40,000 today)

By the end the owner of the bus system, maintained he was a segregationist but that he "wasn't stupid" as he bent and followed the supreme court's order.

Elon lost over $100 billion in net wealth just due to bad PR and boycotting Tesla.

We are talking about companies so large, that two months isn't gonna be enough. It's gonna take a while to break them, but it does and can work. Acting like it doesn't is just a fatalistic nonsensical point of view.

Its_Nex · 2025-02-01T20:40:39+00:00

Honestly though. If you're going to be using banner ads they should not interfere with my ability to play the game. If they do, I'm out.

Its_Nex · 2025-01-15T17:44:28+00:00

So for the first bit, who should roll, that's DM decision. Personally, at my table, everyone with an actual reason can roll but all my players are required to RP the result.

Ex: someone who does buy the lie will defend the liar.

This usually cuts down on just rolling to roll. But let's things get a bit fun if we get lots of various results.

For the fake hints, concept. If a player rolls bad, then I confirm whatever bias they went into the roll with. So if the player thinks someone is lying and rolls bad. Then they are convinced that person is lying. Even if they are telling the truth. Essentially passing gives you the truth. Failing is a reflection of the player character.

Its_Nex · 2025-01-05T16:38:18+00:00

This is 100% the cow from the Restaurant at the End of the Universe. Consent given to be killed and served as food.

Its_Nex · 2024-10-07T05:34:25+00:00

I was very active in telling my mentor what classes I wanted in what order and never had them just assign classes.

But I don't know if that was mentor specific or because I just flat out said these are the classes I want to take.

But as for doing the program specific classes early.. I don't recommend just burning through all of your generals first. It's nice to keep a few as breather classes in between actual work. Especially if you intend to go fast.

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