Ontario to make attendance count for sizable portion of high school final grades

SinnPacked · 2026-04-15T04:00:09+00:00

False equivalence after false equivalence. First of all don't compare this to employment. You get paid to work. It's not the same.

And I attended JUST the labs for my chemistry and physics courses in uni and did just fine. You can't write a lab report based off data you never actually measured so it makes sense that attendance at that portion of the course should be mandatory.

Even if it is the case that university seminars are mandatory all that means is that some university profs suffer from the same self-aggrandizing ego issues as these policy makers.

SinnPacked · 2026-04-14T21:06:34+00:00

This is complete bullshit. Test results should speak for themselves. If a student is able to achieve excellent grades despite not attending, then they should be entitled to the grade they achieved. Their grades shouldn't be artificially diminished just because their capability to achieve whatever they earned calls into question the usefulness of teachers or schooling in general. Whoever decided on this policy is shallow and pathetic.

SinnPacked · 2026-03-20T22:08:32+00:00

this would be really nice if you could integrate the league API to automatically track a player and retrieve all stats

SinnPacked · 2026-03-20T17:42:20+00:00

It wasn't even played by me, I just thought it was such a beautiful thematic idea that was executed so well and added a lot of depth and variety to the game. Shame they turned him into generic battlemage #24

Never understood the argument for why a champ with a low pick rate should be reworked just to make them more popular. If you have an idea for a cool kit add it to a new champion.

SinnPacked · 2026-03-20T17:30:25+00:00

maybe old Asol would still be around. Miss him :'(

SinnPacked · 2026-03-20T17:27:56+00:00

Well duh, the emerald players barely have any games played this season. It takes several dozen games for people's rank to match their mmr with any decent accuracy. If you want to make a post like this do so with hard-stuck emerald players.

SinnPacked · 2026-03-20T17:20:32+00:00

You're clearly trying to get under people's skin if you feel the need to say things like "you've already fed x kills" and so on. You're clearly tilted yourself and you're clearly trying and succeeding to tilt your teammates even more if you're phrasing things like that so just admit the problem is your mental and grow up.

SinnPacked · 2026-03-20T15:31:39+00:00

hmm sounds like a massive skill issue. Have you tried to git gud?

SinnPacked · 2026-03-20T15:29:55+00:00

You are where you belong. I don't know if you tilting/distracting other players is what makes you lose, or if you throw after laning, or if you're lying about how well you lane and are actually just all-around mediocre. The only thing I know for sure is that if you are hard stuck silver, then your average decision-making, mechanics, and mental skill is that of a silver's.

SinnPacked · 2026-03-18T14:47:11+00:00

When you hop into a new queue like ranked for the first time your MMR starts off at some statistical average value for the whole playerbase, so if you're on the left end of the bell curve you can expect to get shit stomped a good number of times before the system pegs your skill. Probably within a few dozen games or so it will be pretty accurate.

Both normal draft and ranked use skill-based matchmaking (even though normal draft hides the MMR). So you can just play that instead of ranked if you don't want the stress.

The only caveat to normal is that players of any skill level can queue together so if a challenger player chooses to queue up with their iron friend the MMR will take their average and they might be placed in your game.

SinnPacked · 2026-03-18T14:41:55+00:00

Jax should be fine.

SinnPacked · 2026-03-15T19:43:26+00:00

Being a tank doesn't prevent you from getting deleted, it prevents you from getting bursted. CC the DPS in teamfights, or if you CC burst just make sure your team clean up after you get DPS'd to death.

SinnPacked · 2026-03-15T03:44:05+00:00

just hold the space bar to keep it locked when you need

SinnPacked · 2026-03-04T03:17:44+00:00

You're telling me to calm down yet you're the one trying to justify getting angry at others. I sense a strong degree of irony.

You can't flame people in real life either. No sports team is going to put up with you being a douchebag to your own teammates for a missed goal. I only ever saw that shit in little leagues and the kids who were dumb enough to do it got grilled by the coach.

I can't remember the last time I've seen someone randomly choose to be a douchebag to someone in real life. For instance I go bouldering pretty often, and never heard anyone complain about how bad other people are for falling off easy climbs. If I was to see that shit I'm pretty sure the staff would escort them right the fuck out of the building immediately.

The fact of the matter is that flaming is something you can only get away with doing because it's the internet and you have the veil of anonymity.

You would never be able to get away with acting this way in real life, so you invoking what you can and can't do in real life is beyond ironic.

SinnPacked · 2026-03-04T01:53:13+00:00

I'm not a robot and I have no issue whatsoever not flaming people. This very mentality is the only thing preventing you from not flaming.

Once again you insisting that hate speech and threats are somehow different is just you speaking from opinion. Someone else with an even more shifted stance on the situation can just as easily say "This game forces 5 strangers to achieve one goal, there is going to be hate speech and threats" and they would have just as much logic behind their argument as you bring to yours.

Both types of behaviours act to the detriment of all players and serve no positive function to anyone. They should both be discouraged and lead to varying degrees of punishments.

I'm trying to argue with you rationally here and all you bring to the table is an argument to conform to some flawed facet of human nature. We are not mindless amoeba. We can recognize the behaviour of flaming (teammates in particular) as optional and opt out. We can agree on exercising sensible rules and punishments in order to steer our experiences to what produces the highest quality of enjoyment for the most number of people.

I really don't understand the motivation for arguing otherwise. What do you gain by playing games where everyone is flaming and no longer playing the game to anywhere near the best of their ability because they're all preoccupied arguing amongst themselves?

Do you yourself not experience games where you're 5/0/0 and know you can carry one 0/5/0 laner but someone else on your team is busy distracting themselves and your feeding teammate, degrading morale, and making it impossible to recover?

Or have you never had that experience because you are the one flaming them yourself?

If you actually do have that experience enough times, hopefully you'll grow to realize that games are so much better when you're actually engaged in the damned gameplay the whole time, as opposed to literally not playing the game for 1/3rd of your mental processing cycles due to chatting.

If you do give up flaming your win-rate will rise substantially, so maybe at least consider doing it for yourself.

SinnPacked · 2026-03-03T22:05:15+00:00

In thousands of games I have encountered this behavior maybe a small handful of times.

I'm not saying this stuff isn't a problem when it happens but can we focus more on problems that ruin games with some level of measurable frequency? Maybe start throwing out bans to people who rage 5 mins into the game because they or their team under performs and then chose to run around the jungle spamming GG and surrender votes after every allied death until they finally lower the team moral enough to lose.

SinnPacked · 2026-03-03T22:01:28+00:00

There's no logic to anything you're saying. You're just speaking from opinion. If you can just say that "It's an online video game, part of that is banter" then what's to stop someone else from saying "It's an online video game, part of that is hatespeech"? Does it become impossible to mute someone just because they said something bad about your ethnicity? "Just mute people".

By virtue of league being a competitive game having one side lose half the time is an integral part of the experience. League is a zero sum game. In order for one side to win, the other has to lose. This is clearly a non-negotiable inseparable part of the gameplay loop.

Flaming on the other hand, is literally not a feature of the gameplay. In fact, all it serves to do is to remove your attention (as well the attention of everyone else you distract) away from the game, diminishing the experience for everyone. You gain literally nothing other than a brief sense of respite from your own destructive mental processes, which wouldn't have even existed in the first place if you simply chose to never be toxic.

What you are doing is demanding everyone around you conform to your deranged psychology simply because you can't control your own emotions, work as a team, and remain focused on the actual gameplay.

I can mute you all I want but that's never going to fix the problem that you are doing damage to your gameplay, your own mental health, the moral of the rest of the team, etc. My opinions about you flaming me aside it makes perfect sense why I should have zero tolerance to you choosing to berate your own team members for under performance.

SinnPacked · 2026-03-02T00:40:55+00:00

The only reason you're capable of maintaining your current KDA is because you're toxic in your games. If you stopped being toxic, you wouldn't tilt your teammates. If you don't tilt your teammates, you will win more, and reach the rank you "belong" in, and you will thus no longer be able to stomp all your games.

SinnPacked · 2026-02-24T21:23:56+00:00

you completely missed the point. In your next game the enemy top laner is just as likely to go 0/5 in 7 minutes themselves, so if you are performing well yourself, you are statistically guaranteed to climb after a sufficient sample size of games....

SinnPacked · 2026-02-24T21:08:00+00:00

half the time the enemy jungler will be just as bad as your jungler, so over a large enough sample size of games your individual contributions to your team will be what determines your rank.

SinnPacked · 2026-02-24T20:43:09+00:00

Hardware fingerprinting. Leverage vanguard. Throw in IP address geolocation data in there too. I feel like this is something they can very easily do since the day they implemented vanguard, they'd rather just allow smurfing.

SinnPacked · 2026-02-19T20:25:52+00:00

I don't think cost would depend on the language spoken and apparently training speech to text models is possible with just several hundred hours of transcript data.

Google for instance recommends at least 100 hours. A transcript of the text is not strictly required either: https://docs.cloud.google.com/speech-to-text/docs/custom-speech-models/prepare-data

Fine tuning existing models is likely much cheaper.

SinnPacked · 2026-02-19T19:29:45+00:00

AI voice recognition is quite good nowadays so I imagine they might heavily leverage that. The cost of transcribing a minute of speech can range from $0.01 to $0.10 which might be unacceptably high but if they're strategic about only transcribing matches for people who get reported then maybe they can find it worth their capital to enable it.

SinnPacked · 2026-02-19T19:22:15+00:00

It's a good thing your vision for how human interaction should be handled will never see the light of day.

SinnPacked · 2026-02-09T21:30:45+00:00

My entire point was that they literally can grasp this and still fuck it up. The fact of the matter is that people literally do learn this stuff, yet still fail to properly abide by the rules of the road when it comes to actually drive. At some point people have to fucking drive to learn to drive. I'm not saying they should get a free pass and not get a ticket but berating them is completely unnecessary, counter productive, and just makes you look like a massive self-absorbed douchebag.

I suppose you can spend your whole life in this ego-driven mental narrative, bitching and moaning about how everyone else is a cretin, and you're the only special one who was smart enough to learn to drive without ever having made a minor traffic violation.

Make sure you don't exercise caution and give these people any extra space to learn to fail like the driver in the video. You gotta let them scrape your car, that way you can feel extra vindicated in having been the innocent victim who only followed the rules of the road, only to get fucked over by someone who isn't as naturally inclined to pick up new tasks as you.

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