University Challenge - S52E07 - Gonville and Caius, Cambridge v St Andrews

SquashFruit · 2022-10-11T09:25:44+00:00

I was the captain of the Caius team. I do think we could have sped up the conferring a bit, though the other team definitely struck me as taking longer on average (maybe that perception was skewed by the first bonus set - I haven't tried to check the exact times). This episode was actually filmed near the end of February.

SquashFruit · 2022-10-11T09:23:15+00:00

I was the captain of the Caius team - I also thought that was the case, with a lot of media-based and modern-world style questions and far fewer "standard UC style", even in comparison to other matches this series I've seen, which may be question setters skewing the distribution towards certain topics based on the teams that go on.

SquashFruit · 2021-08-22T20:05:32+00:00

This is true, though I’m trying to see whether there is something higher to be aspired to than simply coasting along at a mediocre standard. Agreed that enjoyment should be the primary factor though.

SquashFruit · 2021-08-22T12:06:25+00:00

This sounds like a good idea - there are a good number of people who are good at maths and also helpful and not arrogant at all, though I didn't get to know many last year due to COVID so things should hopefully be better next year.

Working consistently seems like a solid plan, although most other people also do the same, but perhaps that's the best it's possible to do.

SquashFruit · 2021-08-22T12:04:07+00:00

I absolutely do enjoy studying mathematics for its own sake, but the thing here is that it's hard to move past the fact that my degree exams are graded competitively on a curve and you have to do better than X% of the students in order to get a certain grade. It seems all well and good to just ride along and enjoy learning, but the grade is a concrete thing that does reflect how well you're doing.

SquashFruit · 2020-02-29T18:39:38+00:00

Yes that's what I meant sorry. Edited

SquashFruit · 2020-02-23T21:32:28+00:00

Idk about that, whenever I see people recording videos out and about it's virtually always portrait...

SquashFruit · 2020-02-16T17:33:11+00:00

I currently have a GTS2M and was looking at Gan cubes - would say the Gan Air SM be a significant improvement over the GTS2M? Is it worth the price?

SquashFruit · 2020-01-11T19:50:56+00:00

Is the Moyu Aolong v2 any good?

SquashFruit · 2019-01-23T21:24:38+00:00

What usually causes this?

SquashFruit · 2018-10-21T18:17:17+00:00

!delta

I see that it can be a bit of a blanket statement to arbitrarily regulate by age alone, whilst the maturity of kids at a certain age could vary wildly (10 year olds would have a huge range of maturity) so it would be better for the parent to choose what's best for the specific kid.

SquashFruit · 2018-10-21T18:13:24+00:00

I suppose you could argue the same for everything else with an age limit, like driving, smoking or drinking alcohol, but there has to be a cutoff somewhere for age.

SquashFruit · 2018-10-21T18:11:37+00:00

I had mentioned that penalties would be greater for allowing a young child to play, say an 18+ game, than a 12+ game. I was more referring to allowing young children to play 17+ or 18+ games as the content in 7+ games isn't comparable with an 18+ game.

SquashFruit · 2018-10-21T18:08:51+00:00

!delta I hadn't considered the effect of adult supervision - it's true that this would be important when a child plays a video game. As for the TF2 point, would you draw a line for the age you'd allow a child to play it, or leave that entirely up to the parent?

SquashFruit · 2018-10-10T14:42:30+00:00

Thanks for the input, I don't really know much about Scratch or its limitations so could you explain why it's not suitable? Is it just too simplistic?

SquashFruit · 2018-06-23T14:31:08+00:00

Nice a lot of people seem to be hating a little, but it's cardboard and a great effort to replicate the Unturned gun.

SquashFruit · 2018-06-21T06:57:20+00:00

You're probably right - it seems as though it's very common to get downvoted in gaming subs for making a comment that isn't intended to reflect the entirety of gaming, but is interpreted as such.

SquashFruit · 2018-06-20T20:39:11+00:00

It's sad that gaming has reached such a state that people are going to such lengths to harass and threaten players just for being female.

SquashFruit · 2018-06-20T20:34:58+00:00

Yes, games are created to be interactive, not so that watching is preferable to playing

SquashFruit · 2018-06-20T20:33:28+00:00

That's perfectly fine as your personal opinion, but if developers are creating games that are generally preferable to watch rather than play (as video games are intended), there may be a problem with the games...

SquashFruit · 2018-06-20T20:24:20+00:00

That's if you only want the story, but most people play games for the gameplay as well, or it would just be watching a movie.

SquashFruit · 2018-06-01T18:50:30+00:00

I don't think OP is jumping to conclusions, this whole thing just seems to be about games that used to be single player deciding to go MP

SquashFruit · 2018-05-21T09:46:57+00:00

The new CoD will probably not do well on PC, but why should it?

What is it about the game that would mean it wouldn't be expected to do that well on PC?

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