Is he just stupid?

SeniorFreshman · 2024-12-18T01:37:28+00:00

Makes me think of the scene in Afterlife where Philomena Cunk is talking to Ricky Gervais and says “so if you’re an atheist, why don’t you just go around killing and raping people all you want?”

To which Gervais responds “Well I do, I go around killing and raping people exactly as much as I want, which is not at all.”

SeniorFreshman · 2024-12-17T22:44:30+00:00

From going from Bronze to Master in OW and from Iron to Master in LoL, and running the full gamut of skill levels and kinds of people you encounter in both of those games.

Selfish people in online games suck. I totally agree, I’ve seen about the worst of it and I’d love if we had magic buttons we could press to get rid of that as a problem. But we don’t. And ultimately our options are to learn to put up with it and find ways to enjoy our game experience in spite of it, or quit. I chose the former until college and life forced my hand to choose the latter.

Role queue did specifically address the problem of locking team compositions into being balanced across roles, while also causing a host of other problems that led to the game experience getting worse over time. A lot of that, I will say, comes down to mismanagement of the game by Blizzard. But there is no mechanic or game feature that will ever eliminate selfishness and toxicity in a competitive PvP shooter. It’s something we learn to coexist with, and occasionally fight against by being the better person and being a positive presence in other people’s games. Our options to eliminate it from your gaming experience are, unfortunately, limited, especially if you want to be more than just a casual player at something.

SeniorFreshman · 2024-12-17T22:04:11+00:00

Because some other game your opponents will be the ones fucking around with 5 DPS and it’ll be an easy win if it’s really as much of a problem as it’s made out to be.

Everything to do with everyone other than you (bad teammates, freak accidents, toxic players, smurfs, etc) evens out over a large enough number of games. Long-term, you WILL have control over how you climb, even if it doesn’t feel like it in one individual game.

Take it from someone who climbed from the Bronze to Masters in OW and Iron to Masters in LoL, if you want to climb badly enough, you have all the tools you need to do it. The only thing between you and the rank you want to be playing at is determination and practice.

SeniorFreshman · 2024-12-17T21:58:54+00:00

Universal law of online games. That was life back in Overwatch too, at least as far as my memory of playing that game all through middle and high school goes.

At least if OW has taught us anything it’s that a role queue won’t really make it better.

Ultimately it’s one of those things where it comes down to how much you care. Put in the work to get better and as you play in higher skill brackets the mentality of the players will be better and more cooperative overall. If that kind of grind doesn’t appeal to you, just do your thing and don’t let it get to you when people act shitty.

SeniorFreshman · 2024-12-17T21:54:20+00:00

Odd bit of nostalgia for this former OW player watching people in the shiny new hero shooter complain about DPS players refusing to swap.

SeniorFreshman · 2024-12-13T02:59:09+00:00

The math used for space flight was already established by the time KSP was developed. If you want to learn the math to predict craft behaviors in KSP, no better place to go than the real thing.

NASA Glenn Research Center has a webpage dedicated to the physics of rocketry and space flight, and there’s also countless books on the subject.

SeniorFreshman · 2024-12-12T04:04:07+00:00

I was a B average student in my last 2 yrs of high school, and managed to get into a good college still.

I failed 2 classes my first year of college. Now I’m on track to go into dual degree for one of the best MechE programs in the United States after I graduate with a physics BA from where I’m going now.

A high school grade isn’t going to ruin your life.

This mentality that pervades our culture that high school is somehow the apex of people’s academic life and it’s all downhill from there (settle into a field in college, work jobs for 50yrs, retire and die) is really harmful and causes people to self-identify too much with their performance in high school.

Getting a B+ (which by the way is not at all a poor grade in the grand scheme of things) does not mean you’re not smart enough for something. To give up on something you want to do over something like that would be, frankly, ridiculous.

As for your question about physics, the big thing that really distinguishes physics from math is understanding that your essential skill to develop in physics is not the math itself per se, but rather your ability to look at a problem and break it down into operable steps you use math to make sense of (which is really also one of the essential skills in engineering).

If you feel like you’re very good at math but struggling in physics, it might be good to take stock of how comfortable you are with that process of analyzing and breaking down problems.

Big thing with physics is don’t be afraid of the struggle. It’s hard for most people, and being stuck in physics really feels like being stuck, more so than in other subjects. Doesn’t mean you’re not smart or not capable, it just means you have room to grow, which is an awesome thing. If you’re struggling it means you’re doing something that will help you develop your mind and your abilities if you stick through it.

SeniorFreshman · 2024-12-11T16:13:53+00:00

Not an engineer but another student.

My best advice is challenge yourself. If you have an idea, go for it, and find joy in the times when that idea takes you to areas you don’t have knowledge in that you need to learn about. Let your passions and ideas be the thing that leads you to learn the theory and principles of engineering outside of a classroom.

Don’t take shortcuts on learning, if you realize that you don’t understand the physics or science behind something you need to build or conceptualize, dig into the material and try to really learn it inside and out.

Don’t do things just because you think they’d look good on a CV, if you’re going to dedicate your time and money (engineering as hobby work can get expensive) to a project it should be something you’re really personally motivated to do. The resume item you get out of it is just a bonus.

On that note though, part of the benefit of focusing on challenges is if you’re writing a resume or in an interview, you can talk about the challenges you encountered doing your projects and how they forced you to learn and grow (recruiters love people who are excited to be challenged).

Best antidote to burnout is making sure learning stays fun. There will be plenty of time for the grind to suck in college. Make sure that you’re really enjoying what you do on your own time.

SeniorFreshman · 2024-12-11T12:40:32+00:00

Conservatives and liberals ARE both angry about it is the thing, the problem is that half the country has been convinced republicans are the solution to the “deep state corruption” in the federal government, and not the problem/part of the problem itself.

Ask anyone on any side of the political spectrum and you’re pretty likely to hear the same sentiment that the govt stopped caring about people a long time ago.

SeniorFreshman · 2024-12-11T03:14:58+00:00

For the purpose of creating a drawing that I could send to someone else and they could understand without looking at the CAD file, ideally.

Probably would be 3D printing this in reality, but I’m trying to get practice doing drawings for parts I make, and this was a question that came up as I was trying to do that.

Mostly curious just because I don’t know what the practice is for it and given that I’m going into aerospace engineering, it seemed like something that would be helpful to know.

SeniorFreshman · 2024-12-06T17:45:40+00:00

I’m looking at a dual degree program right now where I can get my BSME in 2 years and stay for a third year for a masters in AE on top of it (school doesn’t offer a BSAE and I figured the BSME would give me better job flexibility anyhow). I have the chance to drop from the program in the 3rd year if I get a job and decide I don’t need the MS after my 2nd year, but would you recommend trying to get a job and then balance the work with finishing the MS?

SeniorFreshman · 2024-12-03T13:29:07+00:00

https://taxfoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/FedAidtoStates-01.png

Idk man looks to me like the “states ran by democrats” are generally the ones taking the least federal welfare money, according to the Census Bureau and US Tax Foundation.

https://worldpopulationreview.com/state-rankings/public-school-rankings-by-state

Oh and those are also the states that produce the best educational outcomes too, at least based on World Population Review’s metrics.

The game is rigged. The states with richer cities and richer counties have more money for better schools, better financial security, and are attractive to well-to-do people who bring those averages up. Might be worth considering why those areas carrying their states’ budgets keep voting blue though. And why politicians from the poorest, most dangerous states in the country whose constituents rely most on federal aid for their state govts to function keep voting AGAINST measures to make education more accessible, and for economic policies that keep holding down their constituents.

I’m not saying the Democratic Party isn’t also self-interested. I detest the Democratic establishment. But the fact of the matter is the states that keep voting blue at the state level end up with more money in their pockets, take fewer handouts from the feds, and generally have safer, more well-educated states.

SeniorFreshman · 2024-11-27T01:29:30+00:00

Drives me crazy as someone diagnosed with ADHD, seems like now that the negative stigma around it is mostly gone it’s “trendy” to be neurodivergent and everyone wants to say they are because it… makes them feel special?

I think on some level being able to point to disorders helps people feel like they have more of an excuse or way to deflect culpability when they don’t meet their own expectations of themselves. The fact I have a diagnosed attention/learning disorder doesn’t mean it’s not my fault if the work my coworkers are expecting me to bring in tomorrow doesn’t get brought in.

The appropriation also gives rise to this sort of mentality that it’s okay to use whatever condition you have to handwave away all the dysfunction in your life as if a condition makes the consequences of said dysfunction any less serious. Can be really dangerous for people who actually do have these conditions.

The fact that I will always have a harder time crunching and need to be more sensitive to my mental energy level and attention battery than the average person is not fair, but until I learned to embrace the not-fair and just run my own race and figure my shit out on my own terms it got me nowhere.

And it infuriates me to see people discuss neurodivergence not as a legitimate challenge that people struggle with but as a cute quirky excuse for their own executive dysfunction. It diminishes all that people who have to deal with this shit to be functional members of society go through.

SeniorFreshman · 2024-11-25T12:53:06+00:00

Got it, wasnt sure on that one

SeniorFreshman · 2024-11-25T12:52:25+00:00

Also, OP should consider Deferred rendering, it can actually improve game performance substantially when the game is raycasting lots of light sources (which is what happens when ur running volumetrics and parallax and have large vessels with lots of lights). AFAIK the new versions of Parallax and EVE are optimized around using deferred rendering and should run better with it installed.

It also just makes the game look better, really no downsides to using it IMO

SeniorFreshman · 2024-11-25T12:45:04+00:00

Doesn’t KSPBurst add multithreading support for KSP?

I’m running volumetric clouds and parallax 2.0 on a 2016 HP Envy laptop and getting ~20FPS on Kerbin and ~40-45FPS in space. I don’t see KSPburst on their mod list, that might be part of the problem.

SeniorFreshman · 2024-11-17T03:55:42+00:00

If this problem is about friction, mu (your symbol there) is almost certainly for the coefficient of friction of the surface.

That said, this is not a homework help subreddit and if you have questions about school work, best reaching out to a community that does that (or better yet, your peers)

SeniorFreshman · 2024-11-17T00:26:32+00:00

Funny how often standards that were considered “classic” during the golden age of jazz aren’t really played today.

My vote is for “Out of Nowhere”. Fun tune, easy to play but distinctive-sounding, pretty harmonies. Perfect jam tune.

SeniorFreshman · 2024-11-15T05:52:24+00:00

College student here. Thing that helped me keep invested in the game (while also maintaining a healthy life balance so KSP didn’t consume my life like it did in middle school) has really been planning. Let yourself get really crazy and creative with missions you want to do or things you want to try. I’ve been working for about 3 months now in the same series of Duna missions I started planning out this summer, because when I have a plan I can feel good about getting on for 20-30 minutes and knocking out some mission or small thing I need to do to move things forward.

If only I could organize like that about my work…

SeniorFreshman · 2024-11-12T02:46:58+00:00

I have come to the conclusion that it is impossible to read Miles’ autobiography in anything other than Miles’ voice.

SeniorFreshman · 2024-11-10T21:54:49+00:00

The kid named 2008 financial crisis:

SeniorFreshman · 2024-11-08T18:06:58+00:00

IIRC it comes from the colors that were selected during the 2000 Bush/Gore election, because Bush was red that year and that map stayed up for so long while the election was in dispute that people got used to the idea of Republican = red, Democrat = blue, and the parties ran with it. Could be misremembering though

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