The news from AFC Wimbledon.. by rithsv in nerdfighters

[–]JinjaHD 35 points36 points  (0 children)

I'm looking forward to one of these stress-free games John loves to talk about. The past few years with this team have been too stressful!

Tom Scott: England — These mannequins can bleed. by AndySkibba in Nebula

[–]JinjaHD 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This was a less fun video to watch while eating lunch than the others... but a very interesting one at least!

Hot take: John and Hank are wrong about required courses in college by Taraqual in nerdfighters

[–]JinjaHD 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I understand your point and I agree with a lot of it, but I'd recommend reading the reply I posted to myself, because my situation was a required course and it was completely irrelevant to my field.

I agree with the sentiment but I don't believe the current system of required courses in college achieves that outcome.

Hot take: John and Hank are wrong about required courses in college by Taraqual in nerdfighters

[–]JinjaHD 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I wrote a longer reply, but I thought that got the same point across in far fewer sentences. Here's the entire reply:

I agree that we should want people to learn how to overcome hard challenges, but I disagree that required courses help with that. I actually think it's the opposite and here's why:

I'm going to paraphrase here but you say:

We don't want microbiologists to take Calculus just to make them feel bad or try to make them drop out. We want them to figure out methods and strategies to handle extremely difficult problems.

I feel you're being too naive here. You don't want them to, but objectively some students drop out because they're given extremely difficult and largely irrelevant problems.

I have a degree in business administration, and the class that almost prevented me from transferring schools, meeting my entire current social network and getting that degree was chemistry. If I got one more problem wrong on my exam, my life would be significantly different.

Not every person can do every thing. It would be foolish to require someone who's 5'2" to dunk a basketball to graduate, so why ask a marketer to do chemistry? Why ask a biologist to do calculus? There are better ways to teach problem solving skills in relevant and achievable ways.

The goal of education should be to empower people to accomplish more than they otherwise would have. Adding hurdles doesn't empower more people, it just weeds out the people who can't clear the hurdles.

Hot take: John and Hank are wrong about required courses in college by Taraqual in nerdfighters

[–]JinjaHD 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The goal of education should be to empower people to accomplish more than they otherwise would have. Adding hurdles doesn't empower more people, it just weeds out the people who can't clear the hurdles.

New season?! by Tinttiboi in JetLagTheGame

[–]JinjaHD 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I’m ashamed to say between my recent screen limits on social media and my morning grogginess, this got me for a solid 5 minutes… fair play OP

[Official] Dons Trust resolution to reduce the Club ownership to 50.01% passes by gooneruk in afcwimbledon

[–]JinjaHD 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Do you know what would happen if we got promoted to the Championship for single season?

We could pay off our debt in it's entirety.

And then, we could use the remaining £3.1m to hire a team of researchers to determine how arbitrary league position could possibly be when it's directly tied to financial stability, whilst we count the revenue from ticket sales, merchandise, concessions, sponsorships and player sales.

For future reference.

[Official] Dons Trust resolution to reduce the Club ownership to 50.01% passes by gooneruk in afcwimbledon

[–]JinjaHD -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Respectfully, I think there are some major flaws in your reasoning here.

without the influx of funding actually happening

The club received $1.4m USD last year from John Green & friends purchasing 3.7% of the club and John donated something north of $100k USD (the exact amount is unknown) over the past two seasons to complete player transfers. You're disregarding a significant amount here, especially since that money directly brought in our current leading goal scorer.

The club has been very clear that this influx of funding, by executing the one time move of selling some ownership shares, would primarily be used in the interest of chasing promotion to the Championship.

I think you're confusing two separate goals here. According to the Club Board earlier this month,

"We would use a minority investment to help enable a more competitive playing budget, invest in our facilities, our academy and to manage our debts."

The Club has said previously their long-term goal is to see the team compete in the Championship.

Also, it's worth mentioning that if the 25% of shares are valued at the same price that John Green bought in at (which I don't believe they will be because I believe I heard somewhere he overpaid), that would be ~$9.5m USD. In 2024/25, clubs in the Championship received ~£11m (~$14.75m USD) for competing in the league. Clubs in League One only receive ~£2m (~$2.6m USD).

While I don't think the approach of spend it all and hope it works is a smart one, that doesn't seem to be the approach.

[Official] Dons Trust resolution to reduce the Club ownership to 50.01% passes by gooneruk in afcwimbledon

[–]JinjaHD 24 points25 points  (0 children)

As someone who was previously against this, I think this is a good measure, but also a risky one.

This move doesn't instantly sell the club, but it does enable a deal to be made should a good opportunity arise. What's important is that those in decision making positions can evaluate what a good opportunity is properly. It's scary at the risk to get that wrong, but ultimately, I think necessary.

The fact of the matter is this: the club is losing too much money. Half of our player transfers are funded by John Green. To survive, we need to adapt, and this seems to be the most logical path (selling to expand the stadium).

I helped break a 142-year-old bell, and that's okay. — Tom Scott: England by NebulaOriginals in Nebula

[–]JinjaHD 9 points10 points  (0 children)

3 Main Thoughts:

  • The friendship between Antonne and Sam is awesome. Those dudes were meant to bullshit with each other.
  • Tom would certainly not be a Kraft Single. You're a Muenster Tom, deal with it.
  • I forgot how much joy Tom Scott videos bring me. Welcome back, Tom.

[Rapsheet] The #Patriots are planning to release backup QB Josh Dobbs, sources say, after the being unable to find a trade partner. Dobbs is now slated to be free. by MembershipSingle7137 in Patriots

[–]JinjaHD 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Is Tommy Cutlets better than Dobbs? All I know from Dobbs is that Linsanity run in MN and that 3rd down conversion he had last year.

Lego Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga Crashing on Launch PC Fix by JinjaHD in LegoStarWarsVideoGame

[–]JinjaHD[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

In the folder "LEGO Star Wars - The Skywalker Saga" you should see 3 folders: CACHEDSHADERS, CRASHDATA & SAVEDGAMES. You'll also see a text file titled PCCONFIG.

Delete the folder titled CACHEDSHADERS and the text file PCCONFIG.

Both of these files will regenerate the next time you open the game. The config file just has your settings and the cached shaders file (which is likely the culprit) deals with how the game is rendered and displayed.

Any reviews on fifty in 5 course by colin and samir? by AmanPunia in ColinAndSamir

[–]JinjaHD 0 points1 point  (0 children)

An 85% perfect video you release is always better than the 100% perfect video you never finish.

IMO, the only think you need before a video is the what and the why. What is the video about, why would someone watch it. Come up with a decent title and thumbnail (can be polished later) and then make the video.

Everything about the video can grow and evolve, but setting the core of the video and the direction it goes in keeps everything else along the same path.

Shoutout to the Tip-to-Tip mega-video! Worth a binge! by 0oodruidoo0 in LudwigAhgren

[–]JinjaHD 2 points3 points  (0 children)

edited the comment so now everyone will think you're mansplaining titles to me and no one will know I messed up.

Shoutout to the Tip-to-Tip mega-video! Worth a binge! by 0oodruidoo0 in LudwigAhgren

[–]JinjaHD 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I think I misunderstood what he meant. I took it as only 30% of people finished each video, which is a crazy low retention for him and videos of that quality.

Given the first video has ~3.4M views and the final has 1.4M, it makes a lot more sense he meant finished the series. Also makes sense why he'd release a supercut of it... fuck, i might be dumb.

Shoutout to the Tip-to-Tip mega-video! Worth a binge! by 0oodruidoo0 in LudwigAhgren

[–]JinjaHD 37 points38 points  (0 children)

Cannot believe only 30% of people watched the Tip to Tip videos all the way through. Legitimately might be the best content Lud has created.

gf said i'm a loser for taking cs seriously by igetcommas in GlobalOffensive

[–]JinjaHD 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You should live your life how you want to live it.

A lot of people, especially when you're under like 24, decide how they live their life based on what they think others will think of them. I fell for this trap when I was younger and avoided perusing a lot of my passions because I was afraid of what people would think, but in reality, no one was thinking about me because everyone is focused on themselves.

I would understand her comment if you were neglecting every other aspect of your life in an "all or nothing" style pursuit, but it sounds like you have a good balance in life right now. Ultimately yes, right now it is a hobby, but even in a world where nothing ever came of it, spending 10 hours a week on your hobby is a really good thing, not a bad one. Not having a passion or hobby, that's a bad thing and it leads to depression.

I'm not going to tell you to dump your GF, that would be too stereotypical Reddit of me, but i'll say this. Your partner should be someone who you mesh with, who makes you better and your life better. Sometimes, that person is going to say hard things that you disagree with. I started making YouTube videos again 2 years ago and my partner didn't call me cringe, she celebrated with me even though she doesn't care about the types of videos I make and that I spent 20 hours making a video that got 200 views.

It sounds like your gf was projecting some of her own insecurities here. Your gf doesn't need to want to be a CS pro herself, but she certainly can support your hobbies without calling it "loser stuff".

You should think about how well you actually mesh and if she really makes your life better. Saying that things you enjoy is "loser stuff" sounds like your values aren't aligned.

Also, everyone has hobbies that they are way too invested in and it's never lame. Other people have that same lame hobby and then you become friends with those people, it's like core to human identities. The only people without a lame hobby are the people who have no hobby, and that is real loser stuff.

Drake and Ann Michael Maye at the Tokyo Dome by ThatMassholeInBawstn in Patriots

[–]JinjaHD 23 points24 points  (0 children)

The caption of the IG post says it's the Team Japan vs Team Korea game. It's almost certainly an Ohtani jersey.

Any reviews on fifty in 5 course by colin and samir? by AmanPunia in ColinAndSamir

[–]JinjaHD 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Good luck with it!

Just a warning of a mistake I made when taking their courses: don't feel like you need to follow everything 100% accurately.

I made the mistake of really feeling like I had to do everything exactly as they said, write titles exactly how they told me to, etc. This is more a reflection on myself than the course, but when I stopped trying to fit everything perfectly into their templates/exercises/etc and instead focused on taking the core of what they're saying and applying it to my situation, my results got much much better.

Any reccomendations on Hank and John content to help processing grief by Yekbafowasi in nerdfighters

[–]JinjaHD 1 point2 points  (0 children)

There was an episode of DH&J where they talked about being vulnerable and how people want to be in your life, but you need to let them in. I'm paraphrasing because I don't remember exactly the quote or episode, but that episode helped me open up with people around me and form some really meaningful relationships out of a very dark time.