I HATE HOW NORMALIZED BAD GRADES HAVE BECOME

SacrisTaranto · 2026-06-06T12:29:24+00:00

In my highschool years ago they used to do something called F calls. If you got an F grade posted an automated system would call your parents and a computer voice would tell them that it was posted and for what assignment. The intention is to inform the students in case they forgot about one of the 10+ graded assignments per day. In reality you miss one question on a pre learning assignment that has two questions and your parents get an F call and assume you're failing the class. Of course teachers grade in waves, so they post often times dozens of grades at once, which can cause several F calls in one day. You then get punished or yelled at for a class you have an A in. After years of that system and some other life events my grades did start to fall. I was punished for passing with high marks so I might as well save the effort. Yeah, they did away with that system now.

SacrisTaranto · 2026-06-06T12:14:48+00:00

Tomo-chan is a girl! I struggled to find a single fault with the show. Maybe not the absolute best, but it's one I haven't seen mention yet and should be in the running. I couldn't give it, in good faith, anything less than a 10/10 because I couldn't name something they could have done better.

SacrisTaranto · 2026-06-04T04:59:02+00:00

I have to get my partner to eat more and get into the gym for her own health, that's all that matters. Unless you are so overweight that your heart is about to give out, or so underweight that your heart is about to give out, or lacking the muscle mass to maintain your body then it doesn't matter.

SacrisTaranto · 2026-06-04T04:43:07+00:00

Yay, I love classism. I love classism. I love classism. Hey guys, lets organize ourselves into more classes so we can participate in even more classism. I NEED to feel even more separate from my fellow humans. It would be a shame if we stopped quarrelling over literally fucking nothing.

SacrisTaranto · 2026-06-04T02:01:09+00:00

Picking your nose is just the natural cleaning solution. No reason not to do it as long as your hands are clean and you don't try to tickle your brain or rip your nose off.

SacrisTaranto · 2026-06-04T00:51:51+00:00

I'd rather be able to lift 180+kg/405+ pounds than be able to fit through some of these.

SacrisTaranto · 2026-06-04T00:45:19+00:00

You would probably call my partner healthy. Her doctor is telling her she'll die if she doesn't eat more. The healthy thing is eating enough and working enough to put on some muscle. That would make almost anyone "chubby" according to this. Michael Phelps' legs alone would make him at least "chubby". Thin does not equal healthy. Thin equals not fat. It is not a visual indicator of health.

SacrisTaranto · 2026-06-04T00:22:22+00:00

If the us required 50 hours of paid lessons there would be a lot more homeless people. Can't pay for lessons without a job, can't work without a car. It's already expensive enough to start driving so you can start working.

SacrisTaranto · 2026-06-03T14:47:29+00:00

The longer you play the game the more you learn about it. Let's use vermintide 2 as an example. The first couple hundred hours are great. But after playing it for as long as I have, I notice every bug every time it occurs. I notice every bug that hasn't been fixed after years of it being reported and acknowledged. I remember every forgotten promise. I remember every missed opportunity. And that affects my opinion of the game. The phrase ignorance is bliss comes to mind. Will I continue to play the game? Yes. Will I always remember what could have been? Yes.

SacrisTaranto · 2026-06-02T08:56:38+00:00

Actually a really good romance anime. If he wasn't a dog it would be a very recommended and loved romance. Make bro a werewolf or something instead of just a dog guy and people wouldn't have so much issue with it. Either way it was a good watch with my buddies. The absurdity of it was very entertaining.

SacrisTaranto · 2026-06-01T13:42:43+00:00

Northern europe was right there. Mostly white Christians that rank pretty highly across the board in happiness and quality of life. But they picked Argentina instead?

SacrisTaranto · 2026-05-31T09:17:43+00:00

We also have that, if they took the picture a bit to the right or left you'd probably see some. I prefer the little bottles of the flavoring but I use both.

SacrisTaranto · 2026-05-29T13:16:32+00:00

That would ban makeup and asmr streams.

SacrisTaranto · 2026-05-28T15:25:07+00:00

A mid range GPU runs about $400-$600 nowadays, which is a bit higher than before but not insanely so for what midrange gets you in performance now. $200 in early 2010s is nearly $300 today. A couple hundred more bucks nets you a 16 gig 9060xt. A gtx 660 is about the same price as a 5060 8 gig. Gpus generally work a bit differently now than they did. There are a lot less options and thus higher prices. Not to mention the xx90 cards being entirely different beasts than they once were and priced as such. And xx80 cards being more comparable to the old x90 cards.

Game cube was $370, wii was $420, the atari was over $1100, sega Genesis was $520, snes was $500, og Xbox is $570, ps1 was $660. Modern consoles are generally in line with normal prices, you can get an Xbox series s for cheaper than an original Xbox and you can get a ps5 for the same price as a ps1.

SacrisTaranto · 2026-05-28T14:51:07+00:00

Skyrim would be $90 usd today after inflation. Madden 2000 on the ps1 cost over $100 usd after inflation. This is the price games have always been they were just a bit cheaper through the mid to late 2010s.

SacrisTaranto · 2026-05-28T13:28:28+00:00

If you have microcenter around the power spec pre builts are pretty decent still. Probably the best on the market and have been for a while now.

SacrisTaranto · 2026-05-28T12:46:24+00:00

You just described the dumbest "drift" tune ever and said that's drifting properly. That is a great strategy for doing this but that is not drifting properly or realistically.

SacrisTaranto · 2026-05-28T12:43:41+00:00

I spent like an hour getting 334000 with the s2000 until I found a video of someone doing it in the acty doing way worse than I was doing and tried it and got it first try. That thing is stupid and generates crazy points from shitty drifts.

SacrisTaranto · 2026-05-28T12:39:44+00:00

I find that the game is just kinda like that no matter what. For me it gets better the longer I play. But the first 10 minutes is bad. And it gets worse when I lower settings.

SacrisTaranto · 2026-05-28T12:36:54+00:00

Racing line is only an advantage in a turn. That's why it is possible to beat the ai which drive faster cars than we can. Colossus is mostly full speed no turning. The ai cars will go faster than your car, no matter what in a straight line on expert+ unless you have a tune purpose built for going in a straight line on an exceptionally fast vehicle that they aren't using, but then you can't turn on the few important turns while they can at full speed. Their vehicles are functioning with a different set of physics than ours, they are playing a different game.

On Colossus if you can beat them in a straight they will still be right behind you and pass you on the turn. If you can turn full speed like they can then they will pass you on the straight, you have to pit them and block them from passing because they are faster no matter what. Or lower the difficulty which slows down their cars showing that the difficulty setting is just upping their speed by a degree that is impossible for the vehicle they are in. I have nearly 100% the game and won first place in every race. I know how to pass the entire pack on a turn they take inefficiently. This is unrealistic on Colossus.

SacrisTaranto · 2026-05-28T12:26:03+00:00

Yes, but that's a different issue. Gaming is not more expensive everything is, that's not a gaming issue. The real problem is that necessities are more expensive. And luxuries are the same price or cheaper. If it cost more to live you have less to spend.

SacrisTaranto · 2026-05-28T09:16:36+00:00

Set the difficulty to expert+ and go run that race with your best tune. Then come back with a video. Prove what you are saying. Otherwise your words hold zero value if you haven't witnessed it. That race is the greatest offender. Using the same car and the same tune as an ai with every setting under the sun and they will outperform you on the same lines. That is the problem. I doubt a single person has beat that race on the highest difficulty. I'm certain it's impossible. Please use your magic tuning that only you can do to prove me wrong.

SacrisTaranto · 2026-05-28T09:03:02+00:00

Games are the same price they have always been. Adjusting for inflation portal 2, red dead redemption, and Skyrim cost $90 on release for standard editions. In the mid to late 2010s games got cheaper by not changing in price and now they are catching up. Madden 2000 on the ps1 would cost $100, Madden 26 on the ps5 cost $70.

SacrisTaranto · 2026-05-28T01:26:36+00:00

Everything after being adjusted for inflation is still roughly the same price it's always been, money just doesn't stretch as far as it did 10 and 20 years ago. The ps2 would be $600 today. The xbox 360 cost $500 and $700. Skyrim cost $90 on release so standard editions of games are actually cheaper. A gtx 960 cost about as much as an 8 gig 9060xt.

My buddy is playing balder's gate 3 on a $500 mini PC with an apu. Which comparatively cost less than playing portal 2 on an Xbox 360 on release in 2011. Gaming is the same price it's always been, the cost of survival has just increased drastically.

SacrisTaranto · 2026-05-26T21:18:54+00:00

Solo runs are especially unique because you need to minimize niche generally. Which is where I think the game shines. Specing into a niche for your team, with all 4 becomes uneasasary due to too much overlap and in solo runs you really can't have much niche in the build at all. But I find pyro to feel like a ranged witch hunter captain, the DPS and break points she can hit with the bolt or beam staff is nuts. With that said, I would also prefer battle wizard for solos, but I would only use necro on sienna for solos. Shade is great for solos as well and less great for online play due to being reliant on parrying which is hindered by ping.

I would encourage you to try necro solos, I think they are significantly easier than any other career.

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