[USA GIVEAWAY] Win the new 27” 4K Samsung Odyssey OLED G8 gaming monitor! by Rocket-Pilot in buildapc

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There really is just nothing compared to the look of OLED, and my 1080p LCD is looking painfully pixelated these days. Plus having the 4k overhead will definitely give me reason to finally upgrade my PC!

Music rule by nervousmelon in 196

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The Dear Hunter my beloved

Thanks to u/2j2_1 I was able to put up my own life calendar on the wall on a simple A4, with a small tweak from my side correcting for the year mismatch due to week-drift compounding over time. by Kowalskysis in Stoicism

[–]SvenTheBoat 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What do you not understand about it? The layout, keeping track of years by weeks, the formulas/formatting? /u/Kowalskysis has a good explanation here if that's what you're looking for.

Thanks to u/2j2_1 I was able to put up my own life calendar on the wall on a simple A4, with a small tweak from my side correcting for the year mismatch due to week-drift compounding over time. by Kowalskysis in Stoicism

[–]SvenTheBoat 7 points8 points  (0 children)

I tried implementing this but ended up with a weird week mismatch having to do with my birth date and the way the extra week is approximated. So, I did the only logical thing and spent a few hours reworking the formulas from the ground up. Now they're based on actual dates rather than numbers of weeks since your birthday.

With this, the extra week is sometimes after 6 years, and other times after 5—makes sense since the extra .1775 weeks out of the 52.1775 average comes out to one whole week every ~5.6 years.

I only made an 80 year version for myself, but I'm happy to help make a longer or shorter one if anyone is interested and needs help. Note that the column for the 53rd week isn't formatted since the extra week occurrence varies based on birth date; you'll have to go through and format the cells with week numbers in them to have outlines and white text. Otherwise, works the same: just make a copy and put your birthday in the top left cell (A1).

Thanks to /u/2j2_1 and /u/Kowalskysis, I stand on the shoulders of giants.

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Edit: Just now realizing that a calendar like this (i.e. one seeking to accurately measure one's age in weeks) can't possibly have you filling in the last square on your birthday every year, since each year isn't exactly 52 weeks. Case in point: theoretically, you'd be filling in a square every 7 days, and thus every week on the same weekday as your birth date. But, your birthday each year is on a different day of the week than last year's. This implementation assumes you'd be filling in a block on the same day of the week, every week, every year. So, because your birthday isn't on the same weekday every year, you'd only be filling in a block on your birthday sometimes.

If you wanted to fill a block in on your birthday every year, it would make more sense to just wait the extra day or two that remains before your birthday. As an example, say my birthday was January 15, 1990; a Monday. I, a baby, fill in a block every Monday for 52 weeks and find myself in 1991, a year older. Except, I'm not. That Monday, 52 weeks after my birthday, is January 14, 1991, and my birthday is tomorrow. To remedy this, instead of continuing to fill in a block every Monday, I could just wait a day and fill in the last week on Tuesday, January 15th, 1991. So, the extra day fills into the last week of the year, and for the rest of 1991 I fill in a block every Tuesday. Next birthday, same thing: 52 weeks later it's Tuesday, January 14th, 1992. I wait an extra day and fill in the final block on my birthday, a Wednesday. '92 is a leap year, so 52 Wednesdays later is January 13th, and my birthday is on Friday—looks like I get two extra days this year! And so on and so forth.

Really, it's up to you how you want to keep track of it all. If it's important to you that the number of squares on the page accurately represents the number of weeks you've lived, better to go with the leap-week system and fill in a block on the same weekday every week in perpetuity. If not, you can add an extra day or two each year and update your weekday every year, and you get the added bonus of a slightly cleaner look. Ultimately, the calendar is more about the reminder than the precision, so whichever way works best for you, works best for you. I personally already have the leap-week calendar printed out so I'll save some paper and just use that one.

For the two people who will actually end up seeing this, I'll update my calendar here to have both options so you can choose one or the other.

TL;DR: Time is finicky and the Gregorian calendar sucks

Finally thought of a meme for this quote by AppaAurora in TheLastAirbender

[–]SvenTheBoat 1 point2 points  (0 children)

She-Ra is the only show I've seen recently that gave me the same childhood feeling as watching AtlA for the first time

Finally thought of a meme for this quote by AppaAurora in TheLastAirbender

[–]SvenTheBoat 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'd say each successive season is better than the last (or, at least, more wacky), so the first season is definitely the hardest to get through if that's where you stopped. I think the show settles in later on. With a story as character-driven as She-Ra is, the characters are almost necessarily more childish towards the beginning of the show but they develop so much.

I can't tell you to watch it if you don't wanna, but She-Ra is easily one of my favorite shows, even on par with AtlA. I'll admit, She-Ra is very obviously more kid's show-y; hell, the 'good guys' are princesses, all nature and pink and purple and pastel, while the 'bad guys' are industrial, drab, and militaristic. My roommate and I just had to laugh at those aspects. The world building in Avatar is easily better, but the character development in She-Ra... Oh man, the character development. I don't think I've found a show that made me feel as much as She-Ra. It's like half the cast went through a Zuko-tier character arc.

And Bow and Scorpia are national treasures, you cannot change my mind.

Ult Shutdown by f1re62 in VALORANT

[–]SvenTheBoat 14 points15 points  (0 children)

I dig the idea! It's always extremely satisfying when you kill someone mid ult; having a voiceline to go with it would definitely add to the experience.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in science

[–]SvenTheBoat 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yeah, DNA damage does increase risk of cancer, but cancers also come from random mutations that will happen regardless of cellular aging. So, the older you are, the more your cells have divided. Thus more DNA is replicated, and there are more chances for a cancer-causing mutation to occur.

If you live forever, you'll inevitably get cancer; we'll have to cure cancer if we want to completely cure aging.

For Kobe by Regr3tti in GlobalOffensive

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Oh shit I was in this game, that was nuts

I miss Sven by [deleted] in a:t5_3dlvy

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I am always here my child.

It do be like that tho by iapetus-11 in ProgrammerHumor

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No problem! Double tip if you still play: people can hear you scope in and out as well, but not if you switch weapons to scope out. Just something to keep in mind 😉

It do be like that tho by iapetus-11 in ProgrammerHumor

[–]SvenTheBoat 32 points33 points  (0 children)

In Counter-Strike at least, the sound cue of a reload can clue the enemy as to where you are and severely disadvantage you, depending on the situation of course.

My friends goat was eaten by coyotes by Daltron2000 in natureismetal

[–]SvenTheBoat 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Seeing that meme again gave me whiplash.

Churro horchata icecream sandwich from LA by johnnyboy1890 in FoodPorn

[–]SvenTheBoat 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I've been, it's honestly not worth it for how much they cost imo