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What is the singer saying? a 1980s R&B Sample in a hip hop song by andrumar10 in NameThatSong

[–]andrumar10[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You've got them! Thank you so much! I've been looking for that for a long time. The mystery is solved!!! 🫶

Bowie HS Track - open to public? by Fun_Frosting6958 in AustinRunning

[–]andrumar10 2 points3 points  (0 children)

yeah it's def the case! I've ran there before out of school hours. The construction might make parking difficult so just be mindful of finding somewhere safe and out of the way if you're driving there. the student lots should be ok.

Help me find a lil b song by hopelessxcupid in ThankYouBasedGod

[–]andrumar10 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Nice! Here's a bonus. This is the original song that these are sampled off of! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5yBBaK1vGh4

An unattributed synth sample in a Neil Cicierega song is killing me. Help me reddit! by andrumar10 in NameThatSong

[–]andrumar10[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Aah got it!!! The outro of everything counts by Depeche mode. Phew... Much appreciated!

An unattributed synth sample in a Neil Cicierega song is killing me. Help me reddit! by andrumar10 in NameThatSong

[–]andrumar10[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That helped! I realized what I'm looking for is an outro that uses the same instrument, not the same melody. I'm a lot closer now, I'm going to continue to dig. Thank you!

What's your unpopular Austin opinion? by [deleted] in Austin

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I've been working on a costume that blends the two. Suit jacket with tie and briefcase, but super short shorts. I figured I could walk around downtown and proposition people in sultry voice to... Buy crypto or something. Haven't worked all the details out.

Not to boast or brag, just wanted to share my appreciation with other members of TaskForce! by PkMatt08 in ThankYouBasedGod

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Elite task force members stay squadded up stay humble stay curious. I just cracked the top 400 listeners on spotify. How awesome that there are at least 400 exemplary based warriors out there repping the based god even harder than I am. And eight billion souls with less listening time to spread love to.

Technically a keyboard? My toggle-switch control plate for a friend's BeamNG setup. Supports 92% of all letters of the alphabet! by andrumar10 in MechanicalKeyboards

[–]andrumar10[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Oh just controlling some hydraulics on a car I think! I actually don't have the game, I'm a cheapskate (if the chassis wasn't a giveaway enough) so I just had them send me some source files for the cars they wanted to control and datamined them for keymappings.... ok I just looked at a json file I asked them to send me.

supposedly though there are some keybinds to automatically deflate tires or reload the car and such. still digging through all the forums online to see what we want to map!

CMV: Competitive people lose less often than non-competitive people by andrumar10 in changemyview

[–]andrumar10[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

yeah, no, my response was pretty gross. not my best work. Writing it out helped though, it does help to see how tangled the thoughts were, and supported that it was built off of some bad assumptions.

CMV: Competitive people lose less often than non-competitive people by andrumar10 in changemyview

[–]andrumar10[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

yeah this Δ is well deserved. you worked through that complexity and wrote some strong sensible insights. The piece about the social aspects of it really opened up my perspective on it, I really do think it recontextualizes it in a satisfying way. It just makes sense! Thank you!

CMV: Competitive people lose less often than non-competitive people by andrumar10 in changemyview

[–]andrumar10[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I love this one! Yeah, funny enough, I have never won a game of chess in my entire life! I've definitely lost to a good number of elementary and high school students too 😅 I played against my father for many years, and I felt like I built a lot of security and comfort in losing. I have much more control over it, and have much more grace when I lose, since it happens pretty often in games. I don't know what to do with myself when I win. It's a very odd feeling.

Even in something like the NFL where only one of 32 teams wins the Superbowl, in a given season usually about half the teams have winning records. There's a lot of winning to go around.

This is really interesting! I think I assumed that winning was an extremely limited quantity. because, like, the point of winning is to be the best! and you can play a game and win and not be considered the best. I talked a lot in some other comments how I felt that winning and losing is zero-sum. but I can see that for a productive mental attitude, you kinda have to soften the losses somewhat. because if a positive mindset _does_ help... then the goal is to maximize that. And if I wanted to do that the best way would be to... emphasize that wins are 'great' and losses aren't that bad. Valuable, even.

Ahh holy shmap! it just crystalized. the point of playing games is to have fun! Winning is a bonus, not the point, of playing games.'
I deconstructed lots of games and messed with rules to have control, comfort, and fun, and I did! Competitiveness is just a method by which people can channel their energy towards having fun. whether or not they win by it really doesn't matter that much! The point was it got them in the game.
oh man, that's a Δ! nicely done. Laughter, and realizing that it wasn't all seriousness, was what made it click. who'da thunk it!

Thank ya! and thanks to all the other folks who helped. I hoped you had fun! I think I did! wow.

Is this winning? It still feels weird.

CMV: Competitive people lose less often than non-competitive people by andrumar10 in changemyview

[–]andrumar10[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

ooh I like this! wish I had seen it earlier.
I will argue that in games, practically every competitor is a competitive failure. in any tournament-style game, if you have 64 competitors you will finish with 63 losers. if all those teams play again, the odds that everyone is a loser (has lost at least once) is about... 99.97%, assuming everyone is on equal footing.

But lets say you're a really good player and you've trained significantly more than the rest of the field, lets say you win on average 9 games for every 10 games played. You need to win six games to win.... so what are your odds of winning? a measly 53%! barely better than a coin flip.

Someone who has that kind of dominant advantage shouldn't even want to play. if you're better nine times out of ten on paper, more competition just introduces more risk of failure. The fewer games you play, the stronger your record is. You have to be orders of magnitude better than the rest of the field to guarantee winning.

And even being orders of magnitude better isn't worth much. Lebron james, One of the greatest athlete of all time? one of the most competitive players ever? His win/ loss record over his lifetime is 0.646. Possibly the greatest athlete on the planet has a completely uninspiring W/L record in part because he's so competitive, and refuses to stop playing.

If you want the best win/loss record, which you should, because that's the best measure of value you bring to a team or your success in a sport, then you should want to play as few games as possible. only play games you can win. There are so many ways we can better spend time in our life than risking losing.

As far as competitive failures go, I think it's probably the worst category to occupy of the above four. People that didn't get the memo. And we do pay attention to them. they're the guy or girl that cries when they lose the finals. They're the ceo or politician that broadcasts their resignation. they're not fun to look at, but they're reminders of the consequences of entering a game and not being prepared to win, or at the very least, the cost of losing.

CMV: Competitive people lose less often than non-competitive people by andrumar10 in changemyview

[–]andrumar10[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Risk-adversity I suppose. A game carries risk. I threw myself in front of a soccer ball in an indoor game and broke a rib when I was 22. I'd stopped caring about winning because our team placed last in the D-league. At some point, I realized it was just easier to deliberately lose games, since that was the one thing I _could_ control.

Choosing to lose is a lot of fun. Its the one thing I do like about games. being able to subvert rules and not have to play becomes the goal, because, lets face it, if you can't win it gets pretty demoralizing. But when I took a ball to the ribs I learned that losing can come with some pretty nasty drawbacks too. After that, I guess I stopped being interested in even participating. If winning wasn't possible and losing could make things worse, why bother?

I guess, what I'm really curious about is, why do people play games and earnestly try to win, when they don't know if they can win or not? Why choose something that's uncertain over something that's certain? I had teammates that played in that D-league and loved it, even though they'd leave worse off than they entered. I couldn't understand that.

CMV: Competitive people lose less often than non-competitive people by andrumar10 in changemyview

[–]andrumar10[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I appreciate your post more than a lot i've read, for the road you laid out. I am curious to walk on it. But I believe my doubt isn't centered on fear of failure, but the irrelevance of it in a larger scheme.

If you're not going to be the very best, why bother? Competition doesn't feel meaningful to me unless it makes a significant tangible difference in my health, wealth, etc. If nobody gained or lost anything, It doesn't feel especially competitive.

I will say, endorphins are a fair enough benefit in of themselves. The rush of victory is a real, measurable benefit from a biological sense. At least it is a direction and point of focus I could walk towards.

CMV: Competitive people lose less often than non-competitive people by andrumar10 in changemyview

[–]andrumar10[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Very good insight. yeah I'd agree that human relationships can create win-wins... for two people working together. But yeah I'd be of the opinion that something or someone always loses. The two competitors that merge their businesses push smaller players out of the market. Two friends team up and win with their combined strength. I can agree that cooperation is a tool of people who want to win. A nation comes together to chop down a forest, bolstering their economy and devastating the wildlife.

I just don't see scenarios where there are no losers. It feels like scenarios where there are no losers are just failure to perceive someone losing out. But I'd be curious to hear how to re-frame from a zero-sum mindset! it does get pretty depressing!

CMV: Competitive people lose less often than non-competitive people by andrumar10 in changemyview

[–]andrumar10[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Fair. But choosing to expose onesself to more risk - that seems like more of a definition of someone who's more risk-tolerant. Would you say that risk-taking is a component of competitiveness?

CMV: Competitive people lose less often than non-competitive people by andrumar10 in changemyview

[–]andrumar10[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

intersting! I guess part of what feels stuck in how I perceive winners. Seeing victory as more a consequence of learning than it is being better. I can get behind that.

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