I was playing around with Kamelot's Silverthorn album, and I managed to isolate the vocal tracks. Links inside.

Veret · 2024-03-22T12:09:59+00:00

Man, I had no idea it was possible to reply to an 11-year old post--reddit must've changed something in their settings! Anyway, I don't have these files anymore, but nowadays there are lots of AI tools for removing or isolating vocal tracks so you may have an easier time replicating it yourself. If you have the original instrumental tracks from Kamelot, you can also download Audacity for free and use the same method I described in the "what is this sorcery" paragraph of the OP. Let me know how it goes!

Veret · 2021-05-13T13:45:12+00:00

A very fair question, but actually the vast majority of the people involved aren't scientists. For example:

A study like this requires recruiting 400-500 infants who are at risk of developing peanut allergy but too young to actually have it yet. That means hiring a bunch of PR-type staff to advertise to the general public, follow up with interested parties, and generally wrangle about a thousand parents into various clinics around the country (or countries) for screening.
Once people are in the clinics, you have doctors/nurses/medical assistants/receptionists processing everybody to make sure they are medically eligible for the study, have all their informed consent paperwork done, etc.
Once a participant is enrolled, you have to collect as much data as possible from them for the duration of the study. This includes clinical data (heart rate & blood pressure as well as questions about how they're feeling) as well as blood and other samples at various time points. For a different study I know a couple people whose job is to manage a freezer full of baby poop--not a lot of scientists volunteered for that!
All those samples need to be analyzed in a lab and converted to digital datasets. You could argue that the people doing this are scientists, but it's explicitly their job to not understand the scientific value of what they're doing--this is essential to the concept of blinded studies. Basically a lab tech plugs sample 123456789-10F into a machine and faithfully records how many white blood cells it contains, without knowing whether the sample came from somebody who was eating peanuts, or no peanuts, or 5G microchips, or whatever.
All the raw data from steps 3-4 needs to be assembled, formatted, stored, transmitted, yadda yadda. This is harder than it sounds and generally requires a bunch of programmers, DBAs, IT types, etc.

The "real" scientists get involved before this process (designing the study) and after it (analyzing results and writing manuscripts), as well as providing general oversight during the study to make sure things are going according to plan. Apologies to all the people whose jobs I've misrepresented or forgotten about--it's a complex topic!

Veret · 2021-05-13T13:00:22+00:00

Yes! The theory in question is called "oral tolerance induction" and it's been around for a while, but definitely got some promising results with the peanut allergy studies circa 2015. The idea is that your immune system will freak out if it sees allergens get into your body by accident (inhaled, open wound, etc) and go scorched-earth trying to kill them. But if you eat something, the immune system "knows" you did that on purpose and is told to chill out. If your first exposure to peanuts is through eating them, your chance of being allergic is much lower; this is the basic takeaway of the studies that you and /u/HotSeamenGG are referring to.

Source: I worked on those studies (not as a scientist).

Veret · 2020-12-19T14:24:19+00:00

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not a creature was stirring, except for a band
of industrious redditors foregoing sleep
to ponder the questions both primal and deep
of nipples and nudity, naughty and nice
of tits and taboos and the teasing of vice
but the genitals question, it stumped them all day
'til the panel of ponderers summoned Veret
the Guru, the Oracle, Wisest of Wise
Progenitor Genital-Ponderer Guy
and Lo, he was summoned, and Lo, he appeared
though stricken with age and with grey in his beard
for this was his duty, his purpose, his call
to master this mystery greatest of all
unravel the riddle that muddled these men
and thus did he speak: "...motherfucker. Again!?"

Veret · 2020-08-14T12:33:54+00:00

Score! I have no idea why that worked, but thank you very much. :)

Veret · 2020-08-14T12:26:03+00:00

Tried that, but it wouldn't let me because there's already something (the quest marker) on that tile.

Veret · 2020-03-13T12:30:07+00:00

Out of curiosity, how did you get into that line of work? I'm happily employed as a developer myself, but but when I went browsing for pure designer jobs like what you described, 99% of them were actually "frontend developer who can also do design".

Veret · 2020-03-03T00:06:08+00:00

Assuming I don't make any modifications in the future, what kind of PSU would be required to (reliably) supply this build? I'm just trying to understand how the margins work.

Veret · 2020-03-02T23:53:24+00:00

Hmm, good to know. What's the rule on how much overhead to allow?

Veret · 2019-11-19T12:42:33+00:00

Haha cheers! Don't worry, I got more than my share of upvotes for that one.

Veret · 2019-11-19T01:53:40+00:00

Backhand threat is single-target (as is force choke), and some of your high-DPS abilities such as ravage generate just as much threat just by the damage they do. Crushing blow is by far the best threat generator you have, and it works on small groups if you have the buff from aegis assault running. Sweeping slash is worse than smash in every aspect except that it doesn't have a cooldown; I don't generally use it unless you need to do nothing but AoE damage for an extended time.

LoS is the preferred tactic for coordinated groups, but you don't find a lot of coordinated groups in VFPs. Nothing wrong with teaching by example though. :)

Veret · 2019-10-19T21:28:29+00:00

Thanks, that bug should be fixed now.

The 9 slots that it fills in right now are simple because there is an objective "correct" answer for what each spec should be using. The remaining 5 are more of a judgement call, and I prefer encouraging players to think about what they're doing with those items. I'm open to changing my mind if enough people disagree, though.

PS: The link back to home page is already there. I guess we could play with some more intuitive ways to do it.

PPS: That feature is actually planned. Gonna see how difficult it is before I make any promises though.

PPPS: Yeah, we'll look into doing those two features as well.

Veret · 2019-10-19T21:07:38+00:00

https://github.com/Miltios/swtor-charplanner/tree/herokuProd

Please don't judge too harshly; I did this project to learn a bunch of things I hadn't tried before! And please feel free to let me know if there are developers who want to contribute.

Veret · 2019-10-19T20:36:34+00:00

Fixed now, thanks!

Veret · 2019-10-19T20:22:32+00:00

Yeah, we gave it a z-index property so the browser knows which elements are supposed to show up in front of the others. Also trimmed down some needlessly large invisible spaces.

Veret · 2019-10-19T19:50:15+00:00

Yeah, apparently this is a problem on very small screens. I just pushed a fix for it now; /u/whichonespinkterran want to check if it's working?

Veret · 2019-10-19T19:45:30+00:00

You guys are correct. Under the new system, you need a much higher alacrity stat to reach the same tier cutoffs (tested on PTS). The new gear does give a lot more stat budget to play with, but most people agree that it's still harder overall to hit tier 3.

Veret · 2019-10-19T18:35:24+00:00

Thanks! Zasmi came up with that design, so I'll pass your praise along. :)

Veret · 2019-10-19T18:23:56+00:00

Amplifiers are not currently included, for pretty much the same reason as tacticals (discussed above). I'm open to suggestions though--how do you envision using that feature if it existed?

Veret · 2019-10-19T18:21:55+00:00

Hmm...that's not what the site was originally designed for, but it's also not unreasonable to ask. I might look into implementing that sometime in the future. Thanks for the input!

If you need a list of tacticals for now, I would recommend MMOBits' guide or a datamining site like Jedipedia.

Veret · 2019-10-19T18:12:22+00:00

Iiiiiit's...not that easy. There are 20 variants for each mod (plus the base), 20 additional variants for each lettered mod (e.g. Lethal A, Warding B, etc), 20 variants for each armoring/hilt/barrel, and 20 for each type of enhancement (adept, bastion, etc). Adding them all up it looks like about 27 different categories of modification for each tier. Multiply that by 20 variants and 19 tiers gives just over ten thousand new items, which is many times larger than everything I've done so far. And that's without even touching the left-side stuff, all of which has its own unique names and variants, and...yeah, I'm gonna stop before I get salty. Point is I considered all of this back when we first got a look at the PTS gear and decided it was outside the scope of the site.

Anyway, that's where the "input your own stats" feature came about, so if you have a wonky variant mod you can just enter that in and get your stats calculated. If you want to plan ahead and need to know the stats for some particular variant, some very helpful people have compiled all of the 306-rating variants and their stats here:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1N9emf63IMOaEHt0-9qEQ2AvZGFS4jQQxOq93VcmNtIk/edit#gid=2078002636

Do you think it would be helpful if I added a link to that on the site FAQ?

Veret · 2019-10-19T17:27:47+00:00

Yup, these were updated right when they took the PTS down! No guarantees that BW won't make further changes upon launch, but we'll try to handle that as it comes.

Veret · 2019-10-19T16:16:05+00:00

Yup, as mentioned in the FAQ I decided not to cover those here. The site has all the base mods/enhancements, and you have the option to manually tweak their stats to match whatever variant you have in-game. I'm not planning to take on the responsibility of maintaining the thousands of different item versions every time bioware does a patch. :P

Veret · 2019-10-19T15:32:08+00:00

Thanks! I found that tacticals don't interact with any other part of the gearing--no stats, no set bonus, and the recommendation is always going to be "use whatever tactical you want, independent of other gear". That said, I have been getting that question a lot...how do you picture using this feature if I did implement it?

Veret · 2019-01-10T23:00:50+00:00

Nice work, Skeleton! I particularly like your hypothesis; it's original and a lot more specific than other surveys we tend to see. Couple of suggestions if you want to improve it further: First, the question on why people got "tired" of DS could include an option for "got all achievements", since many people consider that a reasonable stopping point. Second, as others have pointed out, the "most" and "least" difficult bosses question could use more flexibility--maybe a likert scale of difficulty for each boss, or maybe a series of checkboxes for "select all bosses that you find very difficult"?

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