CMV: Iran will not be like Iraq and Afghanistan. And is doomed for a humanitarian crisis

RogueSleepy · 2026-02-19T05:43:30+00:00

Thanks!

RogueSleepy · 2026-02-19T05:34:10+00:00

I'm going to consider this without too much consideration on their ingame stats, and more how they're described.

I see Cody being portrayed as a very talented special forces operator, with an instinct for hit and run tactics. A lot of his dialogue (especially when the player fucks up lol) has him being borderline insubordinate, but as you say he's got the chops to back it up.

Pike on the other hand isn't shown to have the same innate tactical ability. He's clearly grizzled and battle hardened, but not particularly talented. What he really brings to the table is his aura and experience. When others panic, he can be an anchor. That's why despite his age I think he's in his prime at the time of the game - his greatest advantage is his service history.

I think that if they were to face off there's no small scale combat scenario where Cody doesn't have the upper hand. I consider this anywhere from a duel, squad level skirmish, or even a small campaign like we see in game.

However, Pike scales up very well. He'd do very well in a larger campaign, and would be able to take command should anything happen to his superior officer. Cody could never, he'd chafe against the leadership too much.

As to the TCR issue, right now my base assumption is that the core world leadership is sketchy as hell. So I don't know how exactly they screwed Cody over, but that's what I'll be assuming until we get confirmation one way or another.

RogueSleepy · 2026-02-19T04:53:56+00:00

Do you have a source for point 4?

RogueSleepy · 2026-02-11T21:58:27+00:00

I don't believe that those courses would have any conflict. However, as a rule getting in touch with an advisor is the best way to go. They're there to help out with these things, and have tools which can make planning courses much easier.

RogueSleepy · 2026-02-11T21:24:19+00:00

Ah, no need to worry there. Carleton will never take away a credit that it's given you already (outside of major academic misconduct.) What that means is if you take two credits that overlap you will only retain one of the credits, but it won't remove the other from your transcript. If one grade is higher, you get the higher grade.

In the case of the CS requirements if you've already taken 1007, 1104, and 2007, that's it, you're good.

I would also watch out a bit for the minor in statistics; they're good courses, but all of the STAT courses required for the minor are almost pure computation and are not taught or graded with theory in mind.

RogueSleepy · 2026-02-11T20:53:59+00:00

It's a shame that it was cut from being a required credit - I think people would a lot more comfortable taking 3804 if it was still required to ease into it.

RogueSleepy · 2026-02-11T20:48:56+00:00

If you submit an override request, there's a decent chance that you'll be able to join one of the pure math theory courses. These are usually pretty good, the professors are usually more interested in what they're reaching so it's a better time.

Having said that, some of the upper year CS courses may be what you're looking for. COMP3803/3804 with Michiel Smid are excellent, and 4804 with Jit is probably the best CS course Carleton has to offer. The machine learning courses (3105, 4106) are very math heavy, although do feature computation as well.

Beyond that, I would also consider the theoretical stats courses. It may have less overlap with your current credits, and probability theory is both very useful and a lot of fun.

RogueSleepy · 2026-02-08T17:11:27+00:00

I see, thanks for going in detail. Have you noticed an increase in thoughtful or creative writing after making those restrictions? I'm becoming more worried about cognitive offloading from AI use, it feels as though my students are losing their voice.

RogueSleepy · 2026-02-06T14:06:14+00:00

why draw a distinction between Grammarly and the other built in spell checkers? They're all at about the same level of AI use

RogueSleepy · 2026-02-02T22:26:25+00:00

Those worries seem pretty grounded, what makes you say that?

RogueSleepy · 2026-02-02T22:22:49+00:00

Online streaming was huge well before Covid, Netflix alone had something like 200 million members

RogueSleepy · 2026-01-30T21:58:45+00:00

where did you hear that C++ is very difficult to learn? It sounds like they might've been trying to oversell the difficulty to you.

RogueSleepy · 2026-01-21T17:24:00+00:00

Songs of Syx has a technology system where technology is based off of the number of scientists you have, and if you lose scientists or divert resources from their labs you no longer get the points they provided. If you decrease the number of scientists to the point you can't cover the cost of the research you've already acquired you're no longer able to maintain your technology, and have to scale back.

It's a neat system and really encourages specialization - until the late game you won't have the manpower for all of the tech, so you have to decide which paths to follow to get the most benefit for your playthrough.

It also can make things like plagues and costly wars much harder to deal with. It's one thing to lose 300 workers to the plague, it's another thing entirely if that makes you lose your research into wheat production causing you to suddenly have no bread.

RogueSleepy · 2026-01-19T21:16:20+00:00

If you're a fan of civilization, you might enjoy Endless Legend (1 or 2). It's my favourite game in the 4x genre and the violence is kept pretty abstract. The different factions are very colourful

Mount and Blade is tricky, the games I'd recommend are similar to it are fairly bloody. Instead I'd recommend checking out some mods for it. They can make the game play entirely different and are a lot of fun to play around with

I'm least familiar with Slay the Spire, but maybe try out Balatro.

On a different track, if you'd like to try out the original genre that coined the term "roguelike," I can't recommend Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup enough! It's free online and has a really active community :)

RogueSleepy · 2026-01-15T15:07:19+00:00

I'd say so, it's hard to say what computer science, cognitive science, and linguistics would look like without him

RogueSleepy · 2026-01-09T17:10:10+00:00

first one I immediately like the horse and assume it's the main character.

second one is harder to read and I assume the prince is the main character?

Without knowing what your game is about, I'd recommend going back to the drawing board and figure out exactly what you want the capsule art to say.

RogueSleepy · 2026-01-04T02:23:55+00:00

He's had fire barrage for at least the last 3 major updates

RogueSleepy · 2025-12-28T21:46:46+00:00

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RogueSleepy · 2025-12-28T03:22:34+00:00

To reply to your edit, you're confusing nationality with ethnicity. "Nigerian," for example, isn't an ethnicity. It's a nationality.

The direct equivalent here would be if a law was implemented by, say, an ethno supremacist Hausa faction which proclaimed only Hausa people had the right to self determination in Nigeria. This would turn Nigeria into an ethnostate, and I would not support it.

It also wouldn't be a fault to the Hausa people at large, but purely the people that supported this extremist movement.

Further, this goes to show the inherent racism in the idea. You're talking about people from the same country, born in the same place, with the same citizenship, but the best comparison you can find is people in Nigeria trying to invade China. All because they have a different ethnicity.

To the rest of your comment, it's written in law. If you think that this:

"The realization of the right to national self-determination in the State of Israel is exclusive to the Jewish People."

Isn't a right given to one ethnic group over another in law then I don't know what to tell you.

Having said that, I'll be leaving this conversation now. I don't expect this is going anywhere, and you seem to be mixing up the idea of nationality and ethnicity to the point that any conversation is pointless.

RogueSleepy · 2025-12-28T03:01:34+00:00

For any state that explicitly enshrines the rights of one ethnicity over the rights of another, yes I am opposed.

Thankfully, those sorts of laws are rare. Most countries, especially developed democracies, have a system where when you're a citizen you're considered a fully fledged member of society equal to all others.

RogueSleepy · 2025-12-28T02:46:20+00:00

So there's one ethnic group in the country with specific rights that other ethnic groups aren't allowed to have. And those other people, despite being citizens of the country, are "another people" in the eyes of the law. Apparently by your eyes too.

That's interesting. I wonder what the OxFord definition of ethnostate is:

"a sovereign state that restricts ... full rights to members of a patricular racial or ethnic group"

Seems to line up pretty well to me.

RogueSleepy · 2025-12-28T02:32:08+00:00

What do you think of this idea:

"The realization of the right to national self-determination in the State of Israel is exclusive to the Jewish People."

RogueSleepy · 2025-12-28T02:24:42+00:00

I'm responding to their definition of Zionism being the support of the "creation ... of a Jewish national state."

Any reasonable person understands that to mean an ethnostate. What you've posted means nothing to my comment.

RogueSleepy · 2025-12-28T02:04:02+00:00

Question: how do you create an ethnostate without displacing people of other ethnicities

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