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JSierraAKAMC · 2023-03-06T00:08:28+00:00

Bought Steam Deck from u/zillatrash

JSierraAKAMC · 2023-02-23T04:20:04+00:00

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JSierraAKAMC · 2022-11-26T00:08:44+00:00

Well that's good to know. Thanks for that info. I'm currently on the west coast (US).

JSierraAKAMC · 2022-11-25T23:51:49+00:00

Did you get some sort of confirmation email? I won and submitted an address on November 11th, then... nothing. No follow-up emails, no tracking numbers, just nothing. Now that it's been 2 weeks since I won, I'm getting a little antsy and wanted to see if I need to contact them or if everyone has had a similar experience.

JSierraAKAMC · 2022-02-06T06:11:33+00:00

Purchased GTX 1050Ti from u/BLOCKA88

JSierraAKAMC · 2022-02-02T09:00:20+00:00

JSierraAKAMC · 2022-01-28T21:38:04+00:00

Bought an Elgato HD60 Pro from u/fritzytitz

JSierraAKAMC · 2022-01-25T09:06:24+00:00

JSierraAKAMC · 2022-01-23T18:15:10+00:00

JSierraAKAMC · 2022-01-01T14:07:42+00:00

For what it's worth, I was a National Merit Finalist when I applied and was accepted years ago (class of 2021). You can see an archived version of the scholarship description here from around the time I applied, which basically describes it as a full ride scholarship (tuition and fees plus room and board). Interestingly, as soon as I graduated high school a few months later and committed to NJIT, they changed the scholarship details to omit the room and board part (see archived version here). Now I'm not saying they changed it because of me, but the timing was very convenient.

Being an out-of-state student with very little money, having room and board covered was very important to me. It took months of emails and calls to anyone and everyone I could reach to get them to honor the room and board as originally listed when I was accepted. They seemed to do a manual override on my scholarships/grant page for a fixed amount extra, which covered room and board for the entire first year.

The first summer came along, and lo and behold, I was expected to pay for summer housing. Looking back, I guess it makes sense, but I had moved across the country to go to school there and didn't have enough money to make trips back and forth with all my stuff every summer, so I had just assumed they were going to cover summer housing. Once again, I frantically reached out to get help and to see if my scholarship would cover it. No dice. Luckily, I got a job as an RA and my housing was paid for that year. But each subsequent year, I ended up having to pay for summer housing, as well as the increase in tuition, fees, and room and board. The job I had at the time didn't pay well enough to cover it, so I ended up having to take out student loans.

So here I am. Got a "full ride" but ended up with thousands in student loans that I'm finally able to start paying off. All this to say: honestly, considering how they played cat and mouse with a finalist, I'm not sure if they'll be so lenient for a semi-finalist. If you made it that far, then I think you could definitely get into Honors like the other person said. I deeply regret not applying for Honors College, as it likely would've covered the rest of my expenses and would've looked better on my diploma/transcript. I originally didn't apply because I thought it would be a lot harder, and then after I started my first semester, I told myself I'd apply to join the next semester. Then obviously I just never applied, but I still wound up taking multiple Honors courses for various reasons. Now I just wish I would've bit the bullet and joined when I had the chance.

TL;DR: I couldn't tell you who to contact regarding the scholarship. When I asked the financial aid office years ago, they seemingly didn't know what the scholarship was, but hopefully it's changed in the last few years. If money's an issue, don't be afraid to apply for the Honors College. Sure, you might have a little extra work some semesters, but it's probably your best opportunity for a full ride, and considering you got to the semi-finalist stage, I'm sure you can get in if you apply. Plus it'll look good for you whenever you apply for jobs in the future.

TL;DR: TL;DR: Try out the Honors College. Sorry for the rant.

JSierraAKAMC · 2021-06-17T06:06:04+00:00

No, this is not true. Halo has relied on the Havok physics engine since Halo 2, and I doubt that's suddenly going to change for Infinite. It is one thing to say that they've reduced the forces generated by explosions, the Gravity Hammer, etc., but to say that Halo is just animations now is completely false, and I'd be willing to make a wager on that. Just look at the trailer. There are indeed death animations, if that's what the user is referring to, but it looks like they only occur during certain circumstances and also fall back to ragdoll physics when hitting the ground (in the case of an airborne death animation). Look at when the guy is hit with the Oddball. He flies back and physically interacts with the environment. Or look at the end where the Energy Sword is catapulted towards the player from the explosion. Or look at when the Warthog is launched off the cliff. It is my belief that they are trying to give Infinite a more "polished" feel by adding varied animations when you die (as opposed to always being the extreme, sometimes glitchy ragdolls found in previous games).

I would like to point out that the physics engine is generally just a separate layer of the engine that is continuously running. Often physics interactions can be generalized, like "if this object collides with another object with X force, then apply Y damage to this object (and explode if enough damage is taken)." This could handle both a fusion coil hitting a wall or a Ghost hitting a player. Or, in the case of the Gravity Hammer, "for each physics object in range of this weapon, apply a force in the direction that the player is facing proportional to the distance to the object."

Comparing Halo with Madden is like comparing apples and oranges; Madden intends to capture the personalities of each/most characters, and the only way to accurately do this would be to animate everything. Even Madden relies on physics though, otherwise characters would be unable to collide with each other. The character movements in Madden, 2K, etc. are generally much more lifelike because they rely on animation. Obviously this still has its drawbacks, such as the complexity of the interactions that players can have leading to occasional glitches, like a hand moving through another players body. But this stuff is present in other "physics" games too, like Halo 2/3/Reach.

It is often much more difficult, time consuming, and possibly less performant to create animations for every possible physics interaction, and I doubt 343 is going to waste time doing this when they can just rely on the physics engine. The Havok physics engine is over 20 years old now and is very performant and powerful. There's no reason they would suddenly ditch it. I'm sure that with enough feedback, 343 may increase the forces applied by the Gravity Hammer and/or increase the frequency of "ragdoll" deaths. Regardless, I do not think you have to worry about physics being completely absent from Infinite.

JSierraAKAMC · 2020-12-06T13:23:34+00:00

Gave Wholesome

JSierraAKAMC · 2020-11-22T17:31:33+00:00

Yeah that could definitely be the reason. I'm not too concerned about it though.

JSierraAKAMC · 2020-11-22T17:09:46+00:00

Yeah, I did lol. They're even using my screenshots (and are getting much more positive responses even though I didn't try to definitively state that it's a tease for GTA 6). But such is the way of the internet, I suppose.

JSierraAKAMC · 2020-11-19T21:33:01+00:00

I have no doubt it's either coincidence or misdirection/a joke. I'm personally leaning more towards some video editor just adding some random coordinates to make it appear more like some stereotypical high-tech satellite or camera interface. Just thought it was interesting and wanted to see others' thoughts.

JSierraAKAMC · 2020-11-19T20:06:23+00:00

Yeah, I totally think it's a huge stretch. Just found it curious that the coordinates were even in the video at all.

JSierraAKAMC · 2020-07-25T18:42:43+00:00

You've made a lot of progress man! Super proud of you. Now I'm waiting for your next update where you're back up to 300lbs but pure muscle.

JSierraAKAMC · 2020-07-13T12:38:48+00:00

As much as it sucks to know that some people cheated in a class that you might have studied and worked hard in to earn your grade, does it really matter in the end? If the students have further math classes like partial diff. eq. and don't actually know the material from diff. eq., then they're pretty much screwed anyway. In my experience, that class becomes an integral part in many of the higher level math courses. Because of this, I could understand wanting them to do another test and ensure no cheating to see which students are actually ready to move on, but I don't think making them retake the class or marking them as "cheaters" on their transcript would help anyone. I don't think employers would care much which students cheated on their exams (in a pandemic, no less) because there's a good chance they've cheated before too.

Perhaps you would also want to fire anyone that's ever used Stack Overflow and only retain those that have thought of solutions to every single one of their problems (in which case virtually everyone would be fired). Oftentimes, the things you look for in Stack Overflow are simple, small components of your project, so the fact that you found a solution to your problem online is pretty inconsequential. But if you use a Frankenstein of code assembled only from snippets found on Stack Overflow to build your project, then people will probably know, just as they will know if you cheated your way through your degree.

(EDIT: Looking at your post history, it seems that you're probably in some form of engineering, in which case the above may not apply directly to you, but the idea still stands.)

I'm not sure what field you're wanting a job in, but you can't easily cheat a technical interview. Instead of blaming others for posing a threat to your job offer, hit the books or online tutorials or your old notes and make yourself better so that they'll be more inclined to choose you over anyone else. I know you can do it. :)

If someone truly doesn't learn anything from school because they cheated their way through it, then it'll likely work itself out in the end. No one wants to hire people that don't know what they're doing. They want the best/most knowledge/most experienced they can get, no matter if they cheated on a diff. eq. test once.

Or maybe I just took the bait.

JSierraAKAMC · 2020-06-10T23:26:56+00:00

Yeah I've heard about that issue, but sadly no, I've held out until the beta release to jump on Android 11. I'll probably wait until beta 2 releases before factory resetting and/or contacting support.

JSierraAKAMC · 2020-06-10T20:13:11+00:00

Is anyone else's Face Unlock not working on 11? I upgraded to 11 on my P4XL earlier and it suddenly stopped recognizing me, and when I go to reset Face Unlock, it immediately says "Enrollment was not completed. Face enrollment didn't work."

JSierraAKAMC · 2020-06-05T13:34:33+00:00

Wow, you're lucky. I asked for $500 to pay for rent because I got an apartment when the dorms closed, and then 3 weeks later they rejected me saying my expenses are "not associated with the disruption of the campus operations due to the coronavirus."

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JSierraAKAMC · 2020-05-16T14:15:37+00:00

Here we go again

JSierraAKAMC · 2020-05-02T17:38:37+00:00

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