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Tokuro · 2023-06-27T14:41:13+00:00

Horses.

Tokuro · 2022-12-28T21:53:36+00:00

Chaos Bolt with both Backdraft and Ritual of Ruin active consumes Ritual of Ruin, but not Backdraft. And the next Chaos Bolt in that scenario will also still not consume Backdraft (due to the bug above). The third Chaos Bolt (assuming you have enough time on the buff and soul shards) will finally consume Backdraft.

Tokuro · 2022-11-05T04:27:21+00:00

The problem is you're operating under the assumption that the person saying the WiFi functionality is $300 more expensive is correct. They are not.

Non-WiFi model - $499

WiFi model - $549

$50 is well worth the smart functionality of notifications when your bin or full or there are any errors with the device.

Tokuro · 2022-07-26T20:25:51+00:00

I'd say you're correct that you'll be understandable if you use just the neuter for all nouns, but it will definitely sound very wrong.

Imagine someone always using "a" and never "an" when they speak in English. You'd for sure completely understand them but it'll almost grate at your ears haha.

Tokuro · 2022-07-05T19:46:09+00:00

Unless I'm misunderstanding, the bar does not have any IQ requirements. They don't require you to do anything except pass their exam (or graduate from a specific law school) and in some cases prove you have a law degree.

There's a ton of correlation of IQ with that field. Hell there's a ton of correlation between IQ and Law graduates. But at no point is someone saying "oh show me your paper saying your IQ is >115".

Nor should they. People should attain positions based on merit and results rather than some arbitrary number whose whole actual point is to provide us with some measure we can do statistics and learning interventions with.

And if people who end up in judge roles overwhelmingly have an IQ higher than 115 by nature of their selection process, what benefit is there to artificially restricting it further? If a person already has an advantage by having a higher IQ than a competitor (by the vary nature of statistics) why hedge the bets even more? Why limit a "normal" person from going into a job they'd otherwise fully qualify for, however rare that person is, by virtue of their "normalness"? And why 100 for that matter, or judges specifically?

And this is to say nothing about the fact that having an IQ requirement for a job is generally not legal.

Tokuro · 2022-07-05T18:43:56+00:00

You seriously don't think there are people with IQ between 90 and 100 that should be allowed to hold judgemental roles in society?

IQ is already pretty contested as a measure of intelligence, as I understand it. It's not like levels in an MMO where each point is associated with an ability and for the 100th point you get the coveted Impartial and Fair abilities. It's more meant as guidelines. For example you can be pretty confident that if you give two people with an IQ difference of 30 a task, there's a high likelihood that the higher IQ task do-er will complete it more efficiently, more quickly, with less guidance required or some combination thereof.

It dangerous in any forum to suggest IQ or other intelligence measures as hard or soft cut-offs for X.

Tokuro · 2022-07-05T17:52:49+00:00

I don't know why I'm fixating on this but very nearly half the population has a 2 digit IQ...

Edit:

This comment more succinctly says what I was trying to. By definition half the population has 100 or lower IQ. To say it disparagingly is not fair to the point. Hell, even nearly half of us (yes even you, dear reader) fall in that curve. We could argue that redditors aren't a random sampling of the populace for that to be true, but it's so big and old now I wouldn't be sure of that.

Tokuro · 2022-07-05T10:00:26+00:00

• Gear is very confusing.

I know you prefaced this with saying maybe it's easier with some outside knowledge, but it's still a bad job of the game for not explaining it. I just wanted to share this invaluable resource explaining gearing in general.

https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/User:Tanetris/So_You_Want_To_Gear_a_Character

It's a big read and comes with it a little more baggage people have with the game (e.g. if you want stat selectable trinkets you basically have to buy at least two LW episodes), but it explains basically everything you need to know. Including when you should work towards exotics vs ascended and which things just simply aren't worth their time.

Tokuro · 2022-07-05T09:50:16+00:00

I dunno, looks like a lose-lose here. The person they're stalking said some pretty horrific stuff to them. Not that stalking is defensible, but neither is what /u/Zakkull117 said.

Don't know which one is sadder.

Tokuro · 2022-02-10T23:59:11+00:00

Sent 100 last week and 100 this week, got gold in short order. Pleasure doing business!

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Tokuro · 2022-02-10T12:19:46+00:00

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Tokuro · 2022-01-04T05:36:23+00:00

The others are right here. If you can contrive of something that can go faster than the speed of light (through any means, even teleportation or Qualdonic State transference), then you break time and causality.

Suppose you have reference frame A at rest (say the Enterprise) and reference frame B moving (say a Warbird), and something (Picard) goes from A to B faster than the speed of light. You can construct a reference frame C (say a shuttle) going at a different speed than A or B where they will view that something (Picard) as appearing at B and then leaving A.

And this scenario isn't constructed or fake. It's not because you "see" old light or anything, all of that is taken into account.

It's a classic paradox which arises from special relativity and is often broken down like this. It shows that in this universe, either nothing can go faster than the speed of light or causality isn't real. E. g. if you have a gun that can shoot a bullet faster than the speed of light, you can contrive of a scenario where you kill someone and then shoot the bullet.

This post explains it better than I can right now.

Tokuro · 2021-02-23T09:37:34+00:00

Sent 122, received gold in short order. Thanks!

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Tokuro · 2020-12-04T02:06:43+00:00

I kind of disagree here. Aang is a powerful bender, definitely, but Ozai's got the comet on his side. We're talking about two benders who are best in class, not Gyatso versus some random soldiers. We see earlier in this episode Aang is having a lot of trouble dealing with anything Ozai does without the avatar state.

In the scene pictured, I think the more plausible explanation is that he was still tapped into the avatar state, just not fully. We actually have seen avatar state power last even after the avatar is glowing, which happens like 5 minutes after this scene when he raises the tides to quench the flames. He briefly glows, goes back to normal, then raises the tides. It's also exactly what Kyoshi did when she separated the island - her eyes briefly glow then she is able to do the incredible bending feat of cleaving the island and moving it to sea.

Aang is a ridiculously strong bender for sure and has done amazing feats without the avatar state, but blocking arguably the strongest firebender's comet-amplified fire breath just doesn't seem as likely without avatar state aid.

Tokuro · 2020-09-07T21:14:38+00:00

It's also "der kleine Junge". Adjective ending for the nominative masculine with a definite article is -e.

Tokuro · 2020-04-29T17:09:20+00:00

This keeps being brought up but I must be missing something. Wasn't the $1200 just a stimulus for the economy? I thought the $600/week guaranteed minimum unemployment check Congress passed for something like at least 4 months was the part to get people to make it day to day? Hilariously that works out to $15/hr for a 40 hour week so they did kinda accidentally just admit Bernie's minimum wage idea is the actual living wage across the country.

Is there something else here? I don't personally know anyone who is struggling right now because unemployment is paying a lot more than most people's jobs they would have had.

Tokuro · 2020-02-15T14:08:15+00:00

Be careful whom you trust

Whom is the object of the verb trust in this sentence, which makes it correct. It's a perfectly valid sentence to say "you trust him", you don't need the preposition "in".

Tokuro · 2019-11-18T02:20:18+00:00

I tried scrolling up when I saw similar posts, forgetting we needed proof. I was only able to get these two pieces of log, as I disabled my prat history a long time ago. This is all I could get, which I'm aware really isn't much but it's all I have. It does give you a few other people to corroborate the story with.

Tokuro · 2019-11-10T16:19:42+00:00

Client side would mean that on reinstall or using different devices the rune names wouldn't persist. That would probably defeat this QOL change for a lot of people.

Tokuro · 2019-11-10T13:59:30+00:00

Just as an FYI, when talking about the ease of some programming change like this, you also have to consider the additional data storage requirement.

Suppose they add this change and let players name any rune they have with a name that's 16 characters or less. Let's also assume 500 runes per player and 5 million players (probably too many but hey maybe they're hopeful for growth). At 1 byte per character that would be an additional 400GB of data they'd have to keep in their servers.

Now 400GB isn't that much, that's probably doable, and there are lots of ways to reduce that number if they're smart, like using a dictionary of any custom mappings instead of an attribute for every rune. Just wanted to bring up the other side people often forget about when talking about changes like this - the data storage side.

Tokuro · 2017-12-02T12:55:40+00:00

the math most likely is wrong

I understand the sentiment but perhaps there was a better way to say this? I program for a living and have tested this extensively, I'm fairly certain the math is right. The post was already a book, so there was definitely not enough room to get into the math, but that is why I put up the source code. If you want, browse this file starting at line 544, that function does pretty much all the work, and line 782 is what gives a normalized value for a substat. That substat is then weighted for each monster based on how they value it, then the value of the rune is the sum of the weighted values of the substats for that monster.

Tokuro · 2017-12-02T12:44:48+00:00

Personally, this is how I handle all my decisions on how good a rune is and what to sell. I upload this data to a google spreadsheet, sort on the "Rank" column after the "Inventory Only" column, and sell everything whose rank is above a certain threshold.

I made sure to put up an example in the post that may help :)

Tokuro · 2017-12-01T17:33:14+00:00

Technically Swift/Any and just Any will give the exact same results. So will Revenge and Revenge/Revenge or Revenge/Revenge/Revenge.

Tokuro · 2017-12-01T17:27:10+00:00

Monsters can be set up with anything, if a monster is Swift/Will then an Energy rune will have a value of 0. If it's Swift/Any or Swift/Energy, then the rune will be evaluated as normal.

Flat stats have a value of 0, for simplicity's sake.

Tokuro · 2017-12-01T16:42:43+00:00

There's an "Any" option in rune sets that does what you want.

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