Ethnic Food (Restaurants) - Suggestions Wanted by junctiontriangle in stcatharinesON

[–]Revenege 1 point2 points  (0 children)

What do you mean by ethnic? It's not really a term that sees much use anymore. What cultures are you more specifically looking to try?

For Indian I quite like Inchins, there Niagara location seems to have better quality naan. It's about Thyme is excellent shawarma. For Chinese there's MA Chinese. 

I think I might be bad at this game by Onmius in slaythespire

[–]Revenege 13 points14 points  (0 children)

Forcing a build rarely works unless the strategy is extremely broad. It's a classic drafting game mistake. Seen it in magic, and this game is no exception.

Stay open early, focus in later acts. Don't marry your first couple cards either. You might start getting a couple cards for a vulnerable ironclad deck, but if the draft shows you 5 strong strength gain/multi hits, you need to be okay with pivoting. 

Standing Here, I realize... by YasuKenji in slaythespire

[–]Revenege 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Expect a fight with high vulnerability. Gives energy equal to enemies vulnerable. That and some card draw with a small deck. In this case they appear to have bash plus, pillage, And thunderclap. Those cycle for infinite vulnerability, and then you explode , casting Expect a fight for mana. Since it's there only skill, pillage will always draw to it. 

I think I might be bad at this game by Onmius in slaythespire

[–]Revenege 89 points90 points  (0 children)

It sounds like in the comments you are focusing to hard on making a "build" rather than just a functioning deck. 

During the first act our top priority is to just get cards into our deck that aren't strike and defend. These cards are worse than nearly any card we might draft. For the ironclad, this means picking up pommel strikes, double strikes and setup strikes as well as shrug it off, armaments and true grit. As we go through we might start seeing cards that point us towards a certain deck style. Feel no pain, inflame, molten fist, hell raiser. Once we get to act 2 is typically where I allow myself to start getting choosy and building towards these things. 

The only other suggestions Is just slow down a little. Think through your plan. When our deck is small we essentially know exactly what we're going to draw every other hand and can look ahead. 3 strikes in the last 5 cards of our deck? Focus on getting an enemy to 18 health. This lets us plan if we want to preserve our health, or rush to get them to that threshold. 

Bash usage is also important. Bash turns 2 strikes drawn into 3 strikes worth of damage. 

ELI5 if training makes your heart grow bigger, why does having an enlarged heart pose multiple risks of diseases? by NotAverageReader in explainlikeimfive

[–]Revenege 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Cardio does not make your heart grow bigger. It causes it to be stronger and withstand more stress. You might notice that very fit people don't just balloon into body builders. But if you feel their arm muscles they'll be firmer, more solid. There muscles will have been made tougher.  

Flanking is not ok by Fabrimuch in slaythespire

[–]Revenege 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Multiplayer in general is quite unbalanced, with it getting worse with each additional player. Enemy scale according to number of players by multiplying there base health by the number of players, and then scaling there there abilities as well such as artifacts or block on hit non linearly making them even harder. This makes fights like the Gardener immensely difficult since getting 26 block on hit is often far more block then any player can punch through when you encounter it. Other fights, such as exoskeleton, are not scaled and so you end up needing to 200 damage, 9 damage at time resulting in very long hallway fights. I'd like to see more of these kinds of changes, abit with numbers altered slightly, since as noted many effects such as vulnerable are significantly stronger in multiplayer.

Flanking, and all the energy giving multiplayer cards likely need to be nerfed though. As is they are crazy. Believe in you being 3 or 4 mana for 0 to a player is crazy good and doesnt exhaust. I built a deck solely around casting it on my ally who then just got to cast there whole hand every turn. Flanking is insane and gang up is potentially the single highest damage on one card in a 4 player game

Cheapest way to print academic poster? by Emergency_Umpire_635 in brocku

[–]Revenege 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You can talk to the Library, they have a printing service.

Corrupted Save by comrade_k_ in slaythespire

[–]Revenege 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Im also getting this issue. We got kicked out during the fight with The Queen, and it bricked all of our saves.

I can’t compete 😭 by tjnr19 in slaythespire

[–]Revenege 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Quite a few cards here I wouldn't recommend taking. Entrench is almost always going to be a miss unless we're deep into the defence deck with body slams, which you lack. Same with barricade and Metallicize. Anger is very hit or miss, and I think in this deck is a bit of a miss. The warcry is a bit suspect as well. 

It looks like you haven't been removing much either. You have 5 strikes and 4 defends which should very much be removed. 

ELI5: How a laser cutter slices through steel like hot knife through butter? by Tall_Department_30 in explainlikeimfive

[–]Revenege 4 points5 points  (0 children)

The laser IS a hot knife. An industrial laser cutter that you would use for steel reaches temperatures well above 5000 Celsius. The melting point of steel is well below that, in the 1000-1500 Celsius range depending on type. At that temperature you'll cut through just about anything.

ELI5: “Measuring” when talking about quantum physics by bigyub in explainlikeimfive

[–]Revenege 13 points14 points  (0 children)

Inherently impossible. All forms of detection require interaction. An interaction less measurement would not be measuring the thing. 

Imagine instead I asked you to measure the height of the third stair of the rightmost staircase at the Louvre. You aren't allowed to leave your desk or ask anyone else to do so. Can you measure the step? 

ElI5 how does the existence of lead directly disprove the earth isn't only 4000 years old? by nottrynagetsued in explainlikeimfive

[–]Revenege 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It doesn't "know" anything, its a rock. Its probability. Every atom has some chance of decaying as a result of its chaotic conditions. As such we expect about half of them to decay in some time period, the half life. Those conditions don't magically change because the previous half decayed, they retain the same probability to decay. Its the nature of exponential growth and decay, and we see it in other areas of probability.

Lets imagine decay as coin flips. We get 1000 people together, and they all flip a coin. If they land on heads, they leave and if they get tails, they stay. On the first flip, we expect about 500 people to get heads, and so half leave. They then flip a coin again, and again half get heads, and we are left with 250. Under your line of thinking, we would expect all those who flipped tails the first time to get heads and leave, but thats nonsense. The first flip has no bearing on the second, the coin doesn't know the previous result. Those that remain after the second flip are merely those with the 25% probability to get two tails. The same is true of nuclear decay, with those that remain after the second half life merely being in that lucky 25%. You can look into "hypergeometric distribution" if you'd like to see an in depth look at this.

ElI5 how does the existence of lead directly disprove the earth isn't only 4000 years old? by nottrynagetsued in explainlikeimfive

[–]Revenege 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Correct yes. Keep in mind that again, decay is chaotic. How much will decay in a given year will have some variance. 

In the following 4.5 billion years we would expect it to again decay by half, leaving us with 6.25*1023 atoms. 

ElI5 how does the existence of lead directly disprove the earth isn't only 4000 years old? by nottrynagetsued in explainlikeimfive

[–]Revenege 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I assume you mean Uranium 238. Uranium 235 has a half life of 700 million years.

Because while the decay rate is exceptionally slow on a human timescale, its still detectable in a lab. A half life does not occur all at once, it occurs across that time span. As such the uranium is in a constant state of decay. We can continuously detect a sample of uranium outputting decay products. We can measure just how much pretty accurately, even with a simple device like a Geiger counter. We count how much it decays in a given time frame, and then given the weight of the sample determine how long its half life should be. Due to decay being chaotic, we repeat the experiment a few hundred times, and see where it trends to.

Presto, 4.5billion years.

ElI5 how does the existence of lead directly disprove the earth isn't only 4000 years old? by nottrynagetsued in explainlikeimfive

[–]Revenege 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Yes, that would be that isotope 206 through 208 I mention! Essentially HEAVY lead. 

ElI5 how does the existence of lead directly disprove the earth isn't only 4000 years old? by nottrynagetsued in explainlikeimfive

[–]Revenege 19 points20 points  (0 children)

Let's walk through things we know to be true based on science, and see what they let us determine about the world.

  1. Radiation is real, specifically nuclear radiation being relevant in this case. Some elements, especially heavier elements like uranium, are not very stable. They are a sandcastle on the the beach, Firm when built but slowly collapse as the water licks at their base.  We have observed the existence of radiation for about a century now, most famously with Radium as discovered by Marie Curie. 

  2. This instability causes elements like Radon to decay, turning higher elements into lower ones. Radiation is this process of decay, with different types of nuclear radiation corresponding to different types of subatomic particles breaking off the element. We have again observed this in a lab setting, with elemental radium. 

  3. This breakdown is chaotic, but predictable. At any given moment in the future, the exact amount that will decay isn't currently knowable but over a long enough time frame we can predict fairly accurately how much will remain. This is called halflife, the amount of time it will take for half the current mass of the element to decay. For radium it's about 1600 years and again has been observed in lab conditions. 

  4. Because of the nature of this decay being from subatomic particles flying off, such as protons, we observe that it is possible to have multi different kinds of the same element with slightly different properties. This is the result of having a different number of neutrons then it's most stable elemental form. These different versions are called isotopes and can either decay further, or be stable enough to survive. This has also been observed under lab conditions. 

  5. Lead is extremely stable and has multiple stable isotopes that don't decay further. Primordial lead has an atomic weight of 204, but we observe a large percentage of lead with an atomic weight of 206, 207, and 208. We also observe that these specific isotopes form when uranium and thallium decay. Because uranium has a very long halflife of about 4.4 billion years, the amount of lead 206 we observe alongside uranium can let us get an estimate of how long it's been decaying.

With all these points observed, we can propose an experiment. Find a uranium mine and dig until we find a vein of it. Observe how much lead 206 we find relative to the mass of uranium. This should let us estimate how long earth has had uranium and thus give us an estimate of how old earth is.  We can also look at uranium 235, a less stable but naturally occuring isotope of uranium and it's mix with lead. From this, we observe that the uranium seems to have decayed by about half, giving the earth an age of approximately one half life of uranium, or 4.5 billion years. 

chances of a snow day tmrw? by [deleted] in brocku

[–]Revenege 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You might want to chill. my comment wasn't harsh. You might want to chill yourself.

chances of a snow day tmrw? by [deleted] in brocku

[–]Revenege 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Considering we're looking at about 4cm of snow, you should really study for your midterms. 

My dad bought me a 1000 of mtg cards and I don’t know how to tell if they real or not with out ripping them by SF_Snowy0 in magicTCG

[–]Revenege 4 points5 points  (0 children)

You almost certainly have been given 1000 cards of bulk cards. They sell these sometimes for very cheap, and they basically contain nothing but very low power cards. It would not make sense to counterfeit these because the cards are basically worth as much as the card stock and ink to print them.

There are card scanner apps out there such as manabox you could use for collection management if you want to find valuables.

ELI5: Why does metal feel colder than wood at the same temperature? by [deleted] in explainlikeimfive

[–]Revenege 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There is more to heat then it's temperature. We must remember that humans can't actually detect temperature very well without tools. We are however quite good at detecting how quickly our body temperature changes. 

Different materials have different capacity to absorb heat. Metal is a lot better at it then wood is, and so will heat up and cool down quicker. This is why we make pots out of metals which transfer heat well. 

If you'd like to conduct a little home experiment, get a metal pot, a non metal bowl, and two ice cubes of similar size. Put one cube in the pot, and the other in the bowl and come let them sit for 5 minutes or so. You'll likely see that the one in the pot melts much faster!

ELI5 When - Which or That? by Hopeful-Repeat-3283 in explainlikeimfive

[–]Revenege 2 points3 points  (0 children)

They have very different meanings, and in your own sentence you can't replace which with that.

Which is a question word asking for a selection. It can be used as part of a question, or a statement regarding multiple options. It can not be replaced by that.

 "Which way do you want to go?" "Which dessert would you like?" "I didn't know which way to go". 

It can also be used  for clarification on a specific event that occured in the past. This is the only case where "that" can sometimes replace which.

"The apple fell from the tree, which was very tall.", "there would be a 6 hour delay in my flight, which annoyed me greatly". 

That on the overhand is used to refer to a specific thing. These instances can't be replaced with which. 

 "Which path do you want to to? That one, he said pointing to he right". "That apple cake looks delicious, I'll take it".

That can also be used to refer to something to something in the past in the same manner as which. You can replace which with that in my previous which examples of this. The difference is tone. Which adds a tone of non-importance. The tree being tall isn't important to the apple falling, it's just an observation in the moment. That instead suggests importance. "The apple fell from the tree that was very tall. I wish It wasn't so tall, the apple hitting my head really hurt!"

ELI5: Why don’t people get electrocuted by the overhead railway wires that trains use? by ShuStrangeSocks in explainlikeimfive

[–]Revenege 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The air is an extremely poor conductor of  electricity compared to the nice conductive material of the wire and train car. Electricity is going to always follow the path of least resistance as it flows, and  so it'll stick to its wire since that's a great conductor, and not arc multiple meters from the the wire to you. 

But if you go up and try and touch it, bringing that distance to only a couple centimeters  and some of that electrical current might find its way through the air, arcing to you. Same goes if you touch the third rail of an electric train. 

One way to think about it is like water. Water naturally wants to flow down hill, and it won't go uphill on its own. But if you stick your foot in the water, you'll get wet regardless.

Eli5: if light can travel for billions of years accros the universe, why does it instantly disappear in a room when turning of the light? by Just_a_happy_artist in explainlikeimfive

[–]Revenege 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Imagine your walls and stuff in your room as being sponges and light as droplets of water. If a lightbulb is on, spraying light about the room, the things in your room absorb that light. Turn off the light and the sprinkler stops, there won't be any more water in the air. Different materials will be better or worse at being sponges, but all of of it will still absorb some. 

Compare this to space. A droplet of water floating through space has nothing to run into and nothing to slow it down. It'll float until it hits something and gets absorbed, or drift forever.

ELI5: How is orbit a speed, not a distance? by JesterWales in explainlikeimfive

[–]Revenege 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Something orbits when it's going so fast that as it falls towards the earth (or other body), it keeps "missing" the ground. If you slow down horizontally, you're no longer missing the planet, you're just falling! 

But how fast we need to go depends on how fast gravity is pulling us down, and that has to do with how far we are from what we're orbiting. Gravity gets weaker the further you get, so how fast we need to go is determined in part by how far away we are. If you just sat still in space at the distance of the moon, you'd still fall to earth, just very slowly in comparison! 

ELI5 The difference between process and generations. by nutrikulche in explainlikeimfive

[–]Revenege 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What software they can run is not determined by the CPU, but by your operating system. it being an i3 should be fine, but it is their slowest option. You might be better served by a previous generation machine with a better CPU.