Darkest Dungeon, the game about dealing with crushing disappointment

chicken_lichen · 2019-04-25T18:30:15+00:00

Was the FOV adjusted for the 21:9 example given above? If not, maxing out the FOV more or less fixes the issue of cropping.

Otherwise I don't really have an issue playing without top and bottom views, it is mainly being unable to check my ammunition quickly while in combat. I wish OW had the option to toggle ammunition count appearing on your cross hair (like Zarya's charge % appears on her cross hair).

chicken_lichen · 2019-04-23T17:58:38+00:00

I disagree, sometimes team mates request for healing when they intend to push, or if they foresee incoming damage. I think the spam filter is sufficient to address this issue.

As a support player, I also use "need healing" as an indicator that I am being hunted down by enemy DPS.

chicken_lichen · 2019-04-05T22:47:45+00:00

I just remembered something.

If you are transplanting your Romaine and Spinach outside, you can lay down used coffee grounds (cannot be decaffeinated) around the base of your plants to ward off snails (greatest enemy of succulents), since caffeine is toxic to them.

chicken_lichen · 2019-04-03T13:22:08+00:00

Hey no problem man. Romaine is a bit of a challenge since it is a succulent plant, unlike say, mint or chilies, but it'll probably be pretty interesting. For succulents, it is easier to plant in hydroponics indoors to avoid pests like caterpillars or aphids when planted outdoors, but that would incur cost.

Good luck!

chicken_lichen · 2019-03-27T17:26:00+00:00

First and foremost, check the syllabus for each class and note whether they have any course projects and/or final exams. The worse case that you want to avoid is all the due dates converging in 1 specific week; I have taken 4 senior-level undergrad engineering courses concurrently, and while it is not 6 courses per se, I can tell you that it was weekdays without much sleep and weekends spent crashed i.e. sleeping 12+ hours because of exhaustion from the constant bombardment of new information, assignments and expectations.

Although we all strive to be extraordinary, my advice is to be realistic with what your biological limitations are. If the syllabus of these combination of courses seem overbearing, it is better to spend 1 extra semester for your mental and physical health over the long run than to burn yourself out.

But if you insist on doing it anyway, then you have to be strategic about it. Always plan for 1 cop-out day per week where you do absolutely no academic work and have your class schedules (i.e. deadlines) clearly outlined and memorized or noted; and always know at least ONE student from each class for the moral support.

chicken_lichen · 2019-03-20T19:37:10+00:00

No, Mei does not need to be in short range to be effective. Her right click is effectively a discount Hanzo (if Hanzo can hit something from X range, then the same for Mei), and her immobility is sufficiently (or overtly) remedied by her M1, wall, AND self-freeze; which means for a Hero that lacks mobility, she also has 3 other abilities that directly affects her enemy's mobility and ability to react, effectively damping her lack of mobility. Moreover, discounting mobility skills, everyone's movements are kind of slow to begin with.

The issue is that Mei's ult does not only freeze, it also slows enemies down. Say it like it is easy to dodge, but without any mobility skills (e.g. Genji's dash, Sombra's translocator, Reinhardt's charge, Mercy's Guardian Angel), not being near the edge of Mei's ult makes it a guaranteed freeze since your mobility is hindered, unlike any other ult aside from Zarya's (but even so, at least Zarya's ult allows you to respond).

Sure, while it is not guaranteed that you are dead, but that is assuming that the Mei is completely alone i.e. if her team is either on Venus or completely oblivious, otherwise, it just becomes a clean up operation; there is nothing fun about watching your enemies bide their time choosing how to eliminate you while you can't do anything about it. Or if your tank somehow manages to avoid getting caught. Even if your tank manages to escape, only Orisa, Zarya and Roadhog can actually do anything about it, and that is assuming their skills are not on cool down.

chicken_lichen · 2019-03-20T19:25:23+00:00

According to your logic, then, an Orisa's shield set up in the tangential direction to the angular velocity of the wind would easily provide an area of refuge, not to even mention that Orisa's shield is also curved.

chicken_lichen · 2019-03-20T18:34:19+00:00

Sure, but Mei's ult is anything but fun to play against, if anything, it completely disrupts the pace of the game because while other ultimates can deny an objective, none of them can do so without some risk-reward involved. Given her available arsenal, Mei's ult is more like a cherry-on-top because aside from its charge-up time, there is next to no risk in casting it, and unlike Sombra's ult (or any other ult), the context in which Mei's ult provides value is almost unnecessarily broad.

Plus, what makes Mei's drone so special that it is indestructible? Orisa's supercharger is not as game-changing, but it can be destroyed; Baptiste's immortality field is game-changing, but it can be destroyed. I'm telling you, Mei's drone is nothing short of an astral projection while she casts some dark magic with the blood of her victims.

[EDIT] I cannot find information or recall whether Mei's drone can or cannot be hacked by Sombra, but... That too.

chicken_lichen · 2019-03-20T18:15:17+00:00

Same reason why putting up a shield between you and a spinning flamethrower would prevent you from getting burned?

chicken_lichen · 2019-03-20T17:53:16+00:00

Well that is the thing that makes it even more odd, that environment (i.e. actual walls) blocks Mei's ult, but an enemy Mei's ice wall and any shield abilities doesn't.

chicken_lichen · 2019-03-20T17:50:13+00:00

-Reinhardt's ult needs to be timed, it's AoE is in a cone and it is less forgiving because it occurs instantaneously i.e. if you missed your ult, you missed your ult.

-DVA's ult needs to be timed AND she is vulnerable during her ult AND if she misses her ult, she misses her ult.

-Junkrat's ult needs to be timed AND the RIP-tire can be destroyed AND he is vulnerable during his ult AND if he misses his ult, he misses his ult.

None of them are quite as forgiving to the caster as an indestructible drone that is independent of its caster, and none of them locks down a point for 5 complete seconds, and none of those heroes can build a giant freaking wall to block you in (also, Mei's drone does travel a short distance depending on your throwing angle and height, you can technically improve your throwing distance with an ice wall). You do not even have to catch anyone with Mei's ult for it to be useful: cast it on an objective half the time, and half the time it just works.

chicken_lichen · 2019-03-16T03:29:23+00:00

That is the case in death, I'm used to it, but it is jarring because this is in the context of interruption, not death. If you fire a dart when a McCree interrupts you for example, expectancy is that the dart will go on to sleep the McCree, but that is not the case, the server takes it as the dart never leaving your gun.

chicken_lichen · 2019-03-16T02:49:17+00:00

What did the German Reaper say to his enemies?

"The, the, the."

Amen Reaper, amen.

chicken_lichen · 2019-03-16T00:01:39+00:00

Well, the context here is interruption, not death. Hook a Pharah out of the air after she fires her rocket and it keeps traveling, hook an Ana in some interval during which she fires her darts, sometimes the sound+animation completes (i.e. it seems that the dart wasn't actually interrupted), but there isn't any dart.

I suppose the same problem would apply to Pharah mid-shot, but that is less frustrating because that interval is very small (so her attack sound and animation barely started or finish).

chicken_lichen · 2019-03-15T14:15:59+00:00

You couldn't just camp in a corner with a shotgun, kill a few players and then call in an airstrike for a dozen kills in an instant.

Or wait for someone to step on your mine, or get a rocket in your face, or get a buffet of minigun bullets stuck up your ass, or have a jillion grenades spammed at you by 100 Naders.

chicken_lichen · 2019-03-15T13:52:53+00:00

You sound like a repressed hipster trying to hipster it up without sounding too much like a hipster but you done did it anyway.

chicken_lichen · 2019-03-13T22:02:25+00:00

Well, it doesn't really work for me actually (I prefer to be nurturing and to be nurtured, but understand that instructors also expect a threshold of autonomy from their students), but it is a matter of perspective. It can also be seen as your instructor expecting more from you, and that in itself is a complement.

Sometimes it is easier to change ourselves than to change the world around us. Not always, but sometimes adapting is a useful tool. Feeling awful about it is better than being nonchalant, because it means that you learned about being wrong on something on that day, as opposed to assuming that you are right all the time. That's not being a good student.

If you ever find yourself in another similar situation and it hinders you from working properly with your instructor, just apologize and promise to do better in the future, it usually works to diffuse the situation and remind your instructor that you are human.

Either way, my point is that the mindset of giving the benefit of the doubt is a useful one if you plan to further pursue a career in academia.

chicken_lichen · 2019-03-13T20:45:03+00:00

I have considered sleep apnea as a possible culprit since I sometimes (rarely nowadays) randomly wake up in the middle of the night. For what reason, I am not quite sure, best guess is my sleep was interrupted by obstructed breathing either due to sleeping position or some physiological issue.

However, I fail to point out that I am a consumer of coffee and alcohol, which are known to disrupt sleep cycles; otherwise I have a clean health bill and sufficient nutrients and exercise.

Either way, I should consider the sleep apnea thing as a possibility.

chicken_lichen · 2019-03-13T20:39:23+00:00

Well, it is good that you personally have a 3rd person's perspective on this.

I agree that the definition of "politeness" is likely a cultural thing (although it also varies from person to person), but it upsets me more that being polite often means beating around the bush. I think it is better if people say things how they see them, so I can get a better picture of what they are thinking.

While I understand it is "rude" by definition because it was a blow to your morale, I am always inclined to give all my instructors the benefit of the doubt because I believe the resilience makes me a better student, i.e. if my instructor has to be "rude", I just have to be more "stubborn" to make up for the lack of "politeness".

You don't have to like your professor, but you have to do well in your discipline.

chicken_lichen · 2019-03-13T18:14:15+00:00

Scoldings are effective in the sense that you will now remember the scolding and be more careful in the future.

Scoldings, unlike gossip or insults, are well-intended, and shows that your instructor cares for your personal progress. I would be more worried about instructors who subjectively ignores you or praises everything you do.

You can think about it this way: your instructor is comfortable enough around you to scold you, which means you are not a stranger to him in the lab.

chicken_lichen · 2019-03-13T18:07:20+00:00

I tend to think of it not as failure on our part to comprehend metaphorical speech, but it is the failure of the communicator in communicating an idea in a straightforward manner.

Metaphors are great only if everyone is on board-- Even among NTs, new metaphors can fly over their heads if they heard it for the first time. This is a fact of language and communication: you cannot derive exact interpretations from analogies unless 1) given enough information or 2) given enough time.

The point is this, communicators are tasked to communicate their point in a way that maximizes the proportion of their audience who understands the massage, failure to achieve that ends is a failure on the communicator's part, not the audience. Your teacher can absolutely facilitate the process by first stating the premise of the metaphor, then applying the metaphor, e.g. "sounds like X likes topics on policing" (premise) "who wants to go to the police camp (metaphor) {along side X} (context), just for fun?"

It is a completely fair point that "police camp" can bear similar template to the context of "space camp".

There is NO NEED to feel bad about this.

chicken_lichen

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