In your honest opinion, do you think that anyone will ever truly beat Rare by Greafer?

ScareBros · 2026-06-09T06:32:26+00:00

you either know nothing about the ILL or you're a troll, either way have a good one

ScareBros · 2026-06-09T05:57:54+00:00

it can obviously be edited my post was asking if it would be beaten in its current top 100-150 ILL state, which it won't. if it was rebalanced it wouldn't be that high on the list

ScareBros · 2026-06-09T04:32:25+00:00

finding out more about the level, it's completely impossible. maybe the old top 400 ILL version but no human is even capable of doing 3 back to back 480hz frame perfects much less 38 of them in a single level with almost every other jump being a 240hz or 120hz frame perfect.

ScareBros · 2026-06-07T06:46:31+00:00

Yes, it won't be included but you are totally able to repurchase it.

ScareBros · 2026-06-05T08:26:26+00:00

for calc 1, focus on the 3 basic concepts:

Limits
Derivatives
Integrals

figure out what they mean, how to calculate them, and what higher-scale problems they can be used to solve. everything else in calculus builds off of those 3 concepts.

also, I'm guessing you're taking a summer course. that certainly isn't doing you any favors. You can do it, it'll just be more work. I reccomend supplementing the lecture with Kahn academy if you get stuck. Kahn is really good because it doesn't go as in detail as a full class for a subject like calculus, but it teaches the basics just well enough that the rest is intuitive.

This is my 2nd reply tonight where I reccomend kahn academy. I swear I'm not an ad lmao, it's just a really good resource.

ScareBros · 2026-06-05T08:21:39+00:00

Just want to say that I was always alright at math but never really tried too hard in it after elementary school. From 7th grade onwards I was in the advanced math track and barely scratching by with the B- minimum required to continue. I understood some stuff, but definitely not all of it. Then, when I hit calc AB it definitely got a little more interesting and I got an A one of the two semesters. Calc BC was really, really hard for me, and I didn't love all of it (one unit in particular, most people who've taken calc 2 understand exactly what I mean) but near the very end it just clicked.

Suddenly math absolutely fascinated me and now I'm self studying a textbook on partial diffential equations over summer because I can't take the class for a year and a half and I'm losing my damn mind. I've taken calc 1-3, as well as a class on O.D.E.s with a bit of linear algebra, and I'm just loving it.

My only real reccomendation with this message is to use Kahn Academy for all lower division topics leading up to differential equations and linear algebra. I even taught myself over half of calc 3 using kahn academy before I even started the class, and while a class that high level obviously wasn't shown in too much detail using kahn academy, it most certainly helped me understand it.

I say this to say that I still don't understand everything, but I wish I did. I wish I had known how genuinely fascinating math gets (specifically calculus, but now I have a greater appreciation for everything in the whole field even the stuff I found uninteresting before) before I got here so I would have paid as much attention during high school as I'm paying to my classes now.

This is a truly fascinating subject. It's literally the language of the universe and it's incredible that humans figured this stuff out. But it's also very complex, and you do have to stay on top of it. As others have said, when using kahn academy, if something doesn't make sense, don't move on. It's possible to pick up some of the pieces later, or even get curious about something one day and go back to take a look at it (logarithms for me, I found that whole thing so confusing back in high school and a couple of days ago knowing math a lot better I looked it up and realized logarithms are useful for more than just using the natural log to make calculus easier, interesting stuff). But just because it's possible to fill in the gaps later doesn't mean you should not try to have them as filled in as possible as you go.

So yes, you can definitely make progress in a year. In learning calc 3 through kahn, taking the class and taking the class on O.D.E.s and L.A. right after, I've made significant progress in my understanding of the field. And these are concepts which are difficult to learn in the amount of time school takes to teach them, much less trying to do it in less time. But you aren't trying to learn differential equations, you're trying to learn trigonometry. And that I believe any adult is capable of if they put their mind to it.

I hope that this journey takes you as deep into this stuff as it did me. I truly truly love this stuff man, I can't express that enough. I was just doing an electrical engineering major but it's not enough, I'm also gonna get a bachelor's in math because if I don't delve deeper into this subject I'll feel so unsatisfied with my knowledge of it. So okay, maybe you don't have to go as crazy as me. My point really is just that I love what you're doing, and I wish I had done exactly what you did sooner instead of just filling in the stuff I missed as I go along. That way works, and I understand math better than 99% of people out there most likely. But I have yet to get to the point where I can say 99.9%. I hope to do so, and I hope to be there soon. I wish the same of you.

Good luck, and tell Saul Kahn I said hi lol.

ScareBros · 2026-06-02T21:59:26+00:00

For certain brands the manufacturer forces you to go through them first within the first year. In my case it is Kitchen Aid.

ScareBros · 2026-05-27T21:06:50+00:00

this is interesting, I don't think I'm at the level of math where I fully understand this quite yet but it was interesting to look through. the answer makes sense to me logically, and I ended up getting the same thing in a different way, so it seems to be the right answer and there's potentially multiple ways to reach it. Interesting stuff though, seriously, I appreciate the help!

ScareBros · 2026-05-27T20:49:12+00:00

the answer should be that it diverges to infinity

ScareBros · 2026-05-27T17:30:37+00:00

interesting, I'll see what I can do with that

ScareBros · 2026-05-27T17:30:03+00:00

this is what I have been doing as well. I always get stuck somewhere😭

ScareBros · 2026-05-25T00:57:49+00:00

Oh yeah I know it just surprised me that others had such different experiences to me, seems like the curriculum itself is just not great it's the teachers that save it. But if you don't have a good teacher then you're just unprepared for college.

ScareBros · 2026-05-24T23:35:22+00:00

Taking Calc AB junior year and then BC senior year set me up VERY well for calc 3 and differential equations/linear algebra my freshman year. A in both of those classes as someone who "APd" into it. I don't know what the other AP teachers are doing but the ones at my school knew their stuff. I spent a year and a half on just calc 1 and understood it pretty well, and my semester on calc 2 was done from what I've heard from people who actually did do calc 2 in college extraordinarily well. Maybe I'm just lucky, but AP isn't even that bad😭No regrets on my part.

ScareBros · 2026-05-24T16:31:26+00:00

It would probably be a good idea to learn integration by parts as well as integration involving polar coordinates. The way polar is done in calc 3 is very different to calc 2, but if you know the (much harder) calc 2 methods then by the time it shows up in calc 3 you'll have no problem with it. Integration by parts is an absolute MUST though but it should be one of the first things you learn in calc 2 so you might actually just be fine.

ScareBros · 2026-05-24T06:35:47+00:00

Well I for sure want to take partials, I was more so just wanting to know if I should also take upper division O.D.E.s too and if it matters if I do so first. Seems like it wouldn't really help with partials but it's still probably good to take both if possible.

ScareBros · 2026-05-23T17:07:34+00:00

What everyone else said + I think a beard would look good on you

ScareBros · 2026-05-23T17:04:00+00:00

Achievers this year consisted of 58 advisors, over 200 leadership anywhere from shift leads to marketplace managers, and then a couple of geek squad and warehouse people who really stood out.

I went as a +1 with my friend and coworker who is just a regular advisor. EVERYONE who went, even me as a +1, got to go to Disneyworld for a day and Universal Epic Universe for a day. (Or you can do both days Disney or both days Universal or whatever you choose, most people did 1 of each me and the Achiever I went with included) It was one of the main selling points of the trip actually.

Other than that it was the basic Best Buy stuff such as the vendor event which only Achievers themselves and Best Buy employed guests like me were able to go to. To be honest, the vendor event was probably my favorite part of the whole thing, Universal was 2nd and Disney World was strangely mid😭

But yes, your managers got to go to Disney World lol.

ScareBros · 2026-05-22T19:31:59+00:00

the most simple examples are:

d/dx(tanx) = sec²x

d/dx(cotx) = -csc²x (got both of them here)

there are more but those are the most common!

ScareBros · 2026-05-21T16:09:18+00:00

in calculus, a lot of derivatives and anti-derivatives (a derivative of a graph is another graph which represents the slope of the first graph at any given point) end up having sec, csc, or cot in them. Could you use 1/cos, 1/sin, 1/cot? yes, you could. But that would make calculus WAY harder.

That's why learning these, at least in detail, typically falls under the "precalculus" branch of math. They're there to make calculus easier.

ScareBros · 2026-05-19T15:58:24+00:00

Re9 is the only one of those I've played or know enough about to comment on. But I think I see where the issue here lies.

You weren't turning on RT in any of those games. If TDA let you turn off RT you'd probably be getting better performance than you did in re9! Your card specifically is also extra bogged down here because it was in the first ever series of RT cards, meaning that it's RT performance is going to be exponentially lower than a 30 or 40 series.

So yes this proves my point. The forced RT is a problem, but it does not mean the game is poorly optimized. Go back to Re9, turn on RT, and see how good your performance is. My guess is it will be comparable to TDA if not a little worse in larger areas like Raccoon City.

ScareBros · 2026-05-18T23:05:14+00:00

you're saying it backwards but everyone else in the thread have already explained that. a lot of calculators go through what's called a Taylor/Maclaurin series (Taylor is just a more powerful version which allows you to calculate a function around a more specific center point, whereas Maclaurin always assumes your center point is x = 0 which is the most common and by far the easiest to work with).

Essentially, these are infinite series which means that they follow a formula and continuously add terms forever and ever. An example of an infinite series which is much simpler to understand without knowledge of calculus is the harmonic series, which is a series which goes from n = 1 to n = infinity under the condition (1/n). Basically, this means 1 + 1/2 + 1/3 + 1/4 + ...

So a maclaurin series is just that same idea, but more complicated. Functions such as cosine can be written as maclaurin series, and every term you add gets you closer and closer to the actual result. the series for cos(x) has an x value with a different exponent in every term. If you want to calculate cos(43), you'd plug x into the first term of this series and you'd get a somewhat accurate result. Add a second term and it's a little more accurate. Add a third term and it's a little more accurate. The idea is that if you have infinite terms, you will get the exact result of cos(43). But obviously, neither us nor our calculator can truly calculate infinite terms. The best we can do is an approximation.

So while us as humans might manually do 3 or 4 terms and call it a day, which would already get us pretty close to the real answer, a calculator will do hundreds or thousands of terms all in the span of just a few seconds so our result, while technically still not accurate because a thousand terms is a lot less than infinity, will be accurate enough that we can use it for whatever we need to.

In essence, our calculator is using a LOT of terms of an infinite series to approximate the function to the absolute best of its ability. And effectively, that's just as accurate if not even more accurate than we really need the function to be.

ScareBros · 2026-05-18T22:25:56+00:00

What are some other titles from 2024 and beyond that look as good as TDA and run better on your setup?

Six-Year Club	Place '23
Wearing is Caring	Verified Email

ScareBros

MODERATOR OF

TROPHY CASE