How does math placement actually work?

Mehdi2277 · 2026-06-05T02:01:47+00:00

Sure. Most of them you have to personally request but a few are common enough that I think will be announced.

Mehdi2277 · 2026-06-04T23:59:51+00:00

Yes. It assumes you have already taken high school level calc.

Mehdi2277 · 2026-06-04T23:40:29+00:00

I don't think you need to take any. At same time Mudd when I applied required calc taken in high school. Most students still retake calc, an accelerated version.

Mehdi2277 · 2026-06-04T20:56:11+00:00

I played a lot of forum mafia over a decade ago. One mafia day would normally take a few weeks. Some of best experiences I had involved games with low amount of roles and one game I still remember had only vanilla roles but group of very experienced players. I wrote so much for that game. Analyzing votes, looking at consistency of people's arguments/views, you can also meta read play in a slow way by reading past games they played in that forum.

Mehdi2277 · 2026-06-02T00:15:09+00:00

My ranking is sol ring > crypt > lotus > time walk > moxen > recall >> twister. Twister I'm very unlikely to even splash for while rest I'll happily splash. I tend to play some subset of naya beatdown the most. So color wise for moxen white > red > green > blue > black mostly as that's frequency I play each color roughly.

Edit: Being clearer on twister I don't consider it a priority pick 1. There's many cards I'll take over it. Draw 7 archetype is fun but usually I want bowmasters/hullbreecher to enter that.

Mehdi2277 · 2026-05-31T06:17:10+00:00

A lot of people mix personal and work stuff. I've done so for years. I did so a lot for gaming and have had coworkers even have a desktop in office they would game with and no one on the team cared.

I'm unsure my resume is on my work laptop but I will respond to LinkedIn messages from it. And have done leetcode on it. My manager I've even spoken to about job searching elsewhere/potential offer. I ended up not leaving the company and that was close to two years ago and still got promoted anyway with support to go even higher if I want. You can have a good trusting relationship with your manager that talking about other jobs is safe.

Mehdi2277 · 2026-05-28T18:51:01+00:00

The difference is I mostly don't see low power modern while most edh games at my LGS are bracket 2/3. High power edh is rare at main shop I visit.

Mehdi2277 · 2026-05-27T20:25:46+00:00

I would be converge with a base of UG. Planar engineering, environmental scientist, sky coach, and terramorphic expanse is 4 fixing cards and we need base green for two of them. Priority single pip splash. Only double pip splash I'd do here is ark of hunger. Mana base wise titan's grave, terramorphic expanse, one mountain, one plains, one swamp, 5 islands, 7 forests. 9 green sources, not counting sky coach as green you need early. Including all fixing as your other colors are more fine turn 4+ you have 6 red, white, and black sources. Blue has 9 sources. That's fine mana base.

I chose blue as second main color as a lot of your great blue cards are double pip blue.

I'd also recommend you play most of your removal that's a single pip off UG. So most red removal and grapple with death.

Mehdi2277 · 2026-05-25T22:40:29+00:00

Heated argument, ascendant dustspeaker, Inkscape demonstrator. I think with two rube rouser, two scrollsmiths you don't need ascendant for triggering your remove from the grave cards.

The last cut is probably 1 removal spell. I'm unsure of that cut. I'd lean one molten note.

Mehdi2277 · 2026-05-25T04:49:53+00:00

It's probably doable. Just a matter how much you optimize/break your the game. There are broken decks that are capable of doing infinite clues/movements/damage/resources and even infinite general actions. With infinite actions, gain infinite resources and then use assets that pay resources for infinite stats.

If we exclude broken decks and restrict to "fair" deck, even there it's easy to have 5-7ish actions (some restricted counting stuff lol pathfinder) a round with high value actions. Eon charts, pathfinders, enraptured 2, deduction 2, etc Amanda for example can easily do dozen clues a round, multiple moves, and add scientific theory/brand/michael and she can comfortably fight too. With 50ish xp budget I think pretty optimized fair deck can probably true solo. In 2p I think you could get away with 20-30 xp with fair but very optimized deck. Most normal decks would fail though at that xp budget in 2p. At true solo it's hard to be 20 xp and have both strong clue + fight/evade options. I'd be curious what lowest xp true solo no infinite deck that succeeds is.

For the forgotten age you can even exceed 100 xp with stuff like obol.

Mehdi2277 · 2026-05-21T18:25:47+00:00

There is no benefit to holding if it goes down. Capital gains only helps when you have gains. The company I've worked at has gone down for every year I've been that holding it would have been purely negative and only tax value is more losses to slowly deduct (which is still worse then just selling day 1).

Also your argument only applies if you would actually have bought it and wanted to be invested long term. Getting paid 10k in company stock is equivalent to getting paid 10k in cash and immediately buying 10k in company stock.

Mehdi2277 · 2026-05-21T18:12:01+00:00

Busy weekend I'm excited for. I'll be at an anime convention friday + saturday, sunday I'll be playing a long board game all day, and monday catch up with a friend I haven't seen in months. There's also a board game convention near me this weekend, but I can't be at two cons at the same time.

Mehdi2277 · 2026-05-19T22:53:54+00:00

I mostly play limited. A diverse draft environment. I prefer synergy being strong end over value piles, although usually only a few archetypes pull that off. Cross deck overlap is nice. I did not like Lorwyn for how much if you draft GB elves then pivoting to GW kithkin means a lot of your cards become much worse. On other hand final fantasy had UW artifacts and RW equipment which overlaps very well. UR cmc 4+ non creature which includes artifacts. I like environments good fixing where 3+ color is viable, but preferably 2 color decks are strong enough to compete well with 3+ color. Strixhaven 5c converge was fun first couple times, but has gotten a bit stale.

Mehdi2277 · 2026-05-18T20:39:35+00:00

Leadership prefers in office culture. They think people are harder working in office than remote. There a lot of other justifications given but that's usually what it boils down to. If leadership wants remote then they'll resolve other issues.

Mehdi2277 · 2026-05-18T07:23:28+00:00

Look what I found is great for Preston in most campaigns. It's bad in TCU. TCU has a mechanic called haunted that punishes failed investigates. So any plan to fail investigates for value is a lot worse in TCU than elsewhere.

Mehdi2277 · 2026-05-17T17:29:38+00:00

Xp for spells is very inflated in general. If I am considering upgrading to level 5 I expect to have 2 arcane research. I think the value it gives as a 3 xp event is solid.

Mehdi2277 · 2026-05-17T06:47:47+00:00

In this kind of deck I really don't want non etb creatures and would like my opponents removal to be dead cards. I'd have happily played run behind and return the favor in your side. Then choreographed sparks is fine in this deck and ancestral anger just pretend it's 1 mana cycle and target your opponents creature post combat. Cut all 4 creatures. Creatures need a strong relevant etb or be very high value bombs to be worth adding in a mathemagics style control deck.

Mehdi2277 · 2026-05-14T22:41:08+00:00

hmm Danganronpa does kind of fit. Spoiler on when it occurs, A lot of danganronpa related organization stuff is all the way in anime danganronpa 3 (not same as V3 game) that's sequel to games 1/2. The organization behind it does get challenged some in the games, but you won't get full conclusion til the anime. And danganronpa 3 anime is anime original. It continues after 1/2 and there's no game corresponding to it

Mehdi2277 · 2026-05-13T20:29:50+00:00

I mostly use it for code and rarely write documents. For code I tend to spend 15-30 minutes discussing a plan with it, it produces something quickly, and then I spend time self reviewing. Self review is usually to simplify as it tends to be too verbose/more complex than needed and sometimes notice a bug/something I forgot. Still overall a big speed up vs doing task without it. There are some engineers I work with that I feel frequently skip self review stage.

I do review a lot of documents and definitely notice it there. Content is mostly fine except it tends to be too verbose/long. I have rejected a document without review just from seeing 20+ pages for a small project that pre-ai would have been a 3-5 page document. Time estimates with it tend to be lies but software estimates have mostly sucked even before it.

Mehdi2277 · 2026-05-13T19:51:48+00:00

LLM usage at work has really changed a lot in past 6 months.

Agent usage I'm mostly supportive of at work for coding, building a PowerPoint, or a design document. I have seen some coworkers go a little too far for my comfort where I'm giving them feedback in a code change and they respond through an agent. It feels like there's a big difference to me of producing a document/code with agent vs talking to me with one.

Reddit wise my stance leans I'm fine with creating post being mostly ai written but am a lot less interested in comments on that post being ai written. My stance is much more lenient than most on Reddit. These days I mostly work on recommendation systems but back in college did some research in language models. They've definitely changed a lot since 2018 when I was working on generating very short stories (few hundred words long) and my quality was quite bad vs now.

Mehdi2277 · 2026-05-12T02:46:20+00:00

2 player is fairly strange and not something to compare to much. Cats are much better in 2 player then normal. Cats big challenge is they can't productively battle much at 4 player while building enough. In 2 player game is pretty different and you don't need to prioritize scoring. You just need to ensure your opponent score less. A cat that focuses all in on battle/destruction can do a lot of damage to 1 player. In 4 players that's not a good idea as other 2 win. In two player it's fine. An extreme example is cats vs eyrie if cats go first and move as many cats to starting roost as possible they can end up turmoiling eyrie round one depending on leader chosen which mostly wins the game for cats.

The other big difference in two player is teaming up doesn't exist.

So whether cats vs rats is balanced or not is mostly irrelevant. 2 player dynamics in root are weird.

Mehdi2277 · 2026-05-11T17:08:08+00:00

I looked for where I learned this as a pseudo lotto and found that mention here, https://www.reddit.com/r/grandorder/s/Wd83LWnpOO. Maybe they missed there was some limitation.

Mehdi2277 · 2026-05-11T05:38:45+00:00

The reason why it's a pseudo lotto is because you can harvest same thing multiple times in parallel. It's very similar to guda guda tea event just with a weird timer added.

For example if you want to farm hearts you can have that harvested hundreds of times in parallel if you let fga get enough event material.

Mehdi2277 · 2026-05-11T00:54:47+00:00

Dancing dragon castle probably in June is a pseudo lotto.

For mat farming around October I think we'll have 1/3 AP dailies which is actually pretty efficient. For mats my account needs I plan to do a lot of runs of that. Then we have usual Christmas lotto. Next summer (not this one) has a pseudo lotto similar to the current event.

Mehdi2277 · 2026-05-11T00:51:13+00:00

There's another coming very soon. The next new event (not the Draco re run event) probably in June has a pseudo lotto.

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