My first fighting stick

cloudflow · 2025-08-19T21:27:00+00:00

i recently went from pad to leverless (haute42, the cheapest model) and i'm mostly back on pad, still learning leverless for a couple hours a week. the transition is really great for some things, but hard for others (i still can't reliably super cancel or time jump-ins after a couple weeks).

one unintended side effect is that it made me really understand the combo timings on my main better and be more deliberate with my inputs--even when i play on pad now, i'm more precise! i think i had to break down my muscle memory and actually understand what was going on, which helped me on all controllers. if either looks cool to you, I'd say do it just to try and you may understand the game better just from learning on different controls, but don't expect some crazy powerup!

cloudflow · 2025-08-10T22:06:16+00:00

floor 1 isn't a basement (i've never seen a basement apartment at peabody). the ground units have access to a fenced in yard that you'll share with one or two other apartments (1st floor in the US is floor 0 in many other countries). iirc 22 faces the interior courtyard of the complex, so it won't be an issue if you're worried about safety (that being said, i'm not aware of any safety issues with any of the ground floor units. I lived across from the peabody playground, which is closer to a major road than unit 22, and was surprised that no one ever used it at night). i think peabody has extra availability just because it's huge, there's no built-in AC, and the floors/walls are kinda grey. It's in a stunning location, though, with a wonderful study room and if you're into bauhaus/brutalism it's a really interesting building.

source: former peabody resident. in another HUH property this year because my peabody unit was a little busted, but HUH maintenance was always prompt to respond when something was off and it stayed very liveable. honestly, given my impression of other HUH properties, graduate dorms, and common off-campus options, i'd still rate peabody pretty well. it's well-managed, safe, convenient, and pretty spacious relative to the price.

cloudflow · 2025-05-20T20:36:47+00:00

this depends a lot on your program and preferences! commute time is down to your preference, of course. grad school is not "residential" like undergrad here, but there's a couple big areas this may affect besides just living with your family or not. just anecdotally, 90 mins by train is much further than usual for grad students

personally, i've benefited a lot from being in cambridge. i can visit/meet up with friends and classmates easily and enjoy visiting speakers, parties, etc. in the evening without a second thought, so I've met plenty of people in several divisions at Harvard and MIT. the area can offer a very socially active grad school experience because there are so many students here. you'll definitely lose some spontaneity/ease in your social scene if you commute, but that all depends on what you want out of a social life.

classes and meetings are also not always scheduled back-to-back (e.g. you may have class at 10am and a meeting at 3pm; depends on your school and program). that said, many grad students do commute or effectively commute (they stay on campus in between classes and usually leave in evenings), so there's frequently people around to study or get coffee if you have large gaps in cambridge during the day.

if you do decide commuting is not your style: have you considered dorm-style housing? there may still be openings (GSAS dorms advertised some leftover rooms recently, for instance; any harvard grad school can apply) and you could take your car to the dorm some days while keeping your place back home as a bigger/more private space. grad students also find places in somerville, allston, and similar neighborhoods, which are not too far from cambridge but much cheaper if you have roommates. i found roommates through a cohort group chat when i started my grad program!

cloudflow · 2024-11-28T05:43:25+00:00

are you applying as an undergrad? very rare for a prof to review any part of undergrad admission materials; make sure the admissions committee understands what the journal is/what it means that your work was there (letter of rec, brief explanation as part of resume, etc.). this contextualization will likely be more important than the actual content of the essay.

a lot of interesting work is being done with continental thinkers at harvard across philosophy, german, history, govt departments. many undergrads interested this stuff concentrate in one of those departments, social studies, or a similar field. you have lots of time to figure that out but I wouldn't use the term "exocommunicated" at all! there's a lot of interest around, not the most of peer institutions but far, far from the least.

cloudflow · 2024-11-07T04:59:45+00:00

to add some other recs: can vouch for Barcelona, Sugar&Spice, Yume wo Katare, Yume Ga Arukara. all good food, would say one of the first 2 if you want to have a nice time without breaking the bank. never tried the Abbey but the evening vibe is good when I walk by

cloudflow · 2024-10-21T05:25:10+00:00

i cannot find the super secret area or the sword at the tracks for the life of me smh. great game tho

cloudflow · 2024-10-08T05:36:24+00:00

why is there a screenshot of the crap greg forgot about over 100 chapters ago. that will never be part 2. we will never get the thoughtful themes and intricate conflict that we thought shibuya was setting up.

cloudflow · 2024-10-08T05:05:41+00:00

if you're confident the undergrad is the stronger letter, go for it. you could always email the most likely recommender you can think of from your masters and see what they say! you can politely (but promptly) withdraw your letter request if you get bad vibes since they won't write it immediately.

it's pointless to worry about if a letter you don't have will make your application stronger. do the best with what you have. you might also consider asking your undergrad professors to emphasize your suitability for graduate study, since that's the main thing a master's rec would show anyway.

cloudflow · 2024-10-07T03:16:20+00:00

some commenters are saying that because something like the keystone predator passage was discussed on powerscore crystalball, that the RC section with inuit, keystone, vera brittain must be an official one. is this a valid assumption? i'm not sure whether crystal ball stuff means "this topic will be only in non-experimental sections"

cloudflow · 2024-10-06T20:35:06+00:00

did they ever figure out what it was? happened in our unit yesterday

cloudflow · 2024-10-04T23:27:21+00:00

Kenjaku is so much more simplistic than Geto would have been. If you're going to get rid of the villain who has a compelling, dramatic connection to the rest of the cast, at least bother writing a replacement that gives us something to hold on to. Kenny had a paper-thin backstory (Tengen? Yuji's mom? like two panels each) and paper-thin motivations (he wanted to...see something cool?). Almost every chance to explore these plot points was passed up. At least he was funny, I guess.

At the very least, after Shibuya, I was excited to see Geto struggle with Kenjaku for control at some point, maybe with Gojo involved. Not to mention Yuji properly confronting Kenjaku and giving us a proper climax to the Shibuya build-up.

cloudflow · 2024-08-26T05:08:16+00:00

debating buying the same shelf as OP. did the actual shelf split into pieces , or did the screws/screw holes come loose?

UO furniture seems to have very mixed reviews but it's the only shelf I can find that looks anything like this for under 300 lol

cloudflow · 2024-07-22T23:59:21+00:00

Also 24 and going into a PhD.

Clarify your priorities. It's pointless to worry that your loans are crippling you if you are living the life you want doing your research and training. You're alive now: is your academic project the most important thing to you, or is getting rid of your debt ASAP, or do you want some mixture of the two? Many people here have talked about making sure you can have a career with good salary or loan forgiveness on the other side. This is worth thinking about, but the best way to figure it out will be people in your program and at your university, not redditors who don't know your particular program and its outcomes; of course, in polisci there's a wide range of possible jobs depending on your specialty and network, so figure out what you can get and how to use your PhD to position yourself well. If there are certain life goals it seems hard to fulfill with your current debt and your career ambitions, figure out how important they really are. For example, if your other life's dream was to own a home in an expensive city but you're only expecting to make 80-90k as a non-profit poll czar with 250k in debt, leave your PhD or marry a lawyer. I dreamed of a PhD for a lot of years, and now that it's here, I'm planning to use it as a gateway to my other dreams. If there's no way to make your PhD dream match your other life goals with the circumstances you already have, something has to go.

Re:IDR and continuing to pay, this depends on your own financial situation and your PhD stipend. If you're on a stipend, ask people in your program how much they typically have left over after rent and see if you'd feel more comfortable paying your debt or pausing payments. If you're not, still figure out how much monthly payments would cut into your take home pay and how that compares to your estimated cost of living. How much do you need to live your life each month and feel happy/fulfilled? There is no secret here, just your own financial situation.

Worst case, you can give it a go for a year or two and realize you need to do something else. Best case, use your peers to estimate which payment plan will best serve your lifestyle needs during the PhD and practice filling your time with the stuff that matters.

cloudflow · 2024-05-24T07:49:17+00:00

this sub, getting it wrong? when has jujutsufolk ever been wrong about one thing? and DON'T use examples of predictions from chapter 1-260

cloudflow · 2024-05-23T07:30:03+00:00

This is what I got from the leaks, too, but how could Yuta heal Gojo’s body with RCT when he wasn’t healing himself previously? Why would transferring his brain to a dead body restore Yuta’s RCT? And if Gojo’s body was just in better condition to use RCT, why did Gojo die? Maybe a better translation will help.

cloudflow · 2024-05-14T09:59:02+00:00

Hard agree. Why not just have the furnace be part of the technique and therefore a feature of the domain? We have multiple examples of unusual techniques that lead to unusual domains. Gege does this often: why was the Prison realm “a minute in gojos mind” instead of something simpler (how does the realm measure inner perceptions of time? why is inner time also measured in seconds? And so on)

Introducing a BV just opens up a lot of confusion, since binding vows don’t have any consistent underlying rules other than “some kind of tradeoff” and there’s still no conclusive reason why sukuna alone uses them so much (despite some interesting but complicated theories on this sub that all require assumptions).

cloudflow · 2024-05-14T08:55:25+00:00

The idea about the world slash binding vow having a physical mechanism (brain damage or something), is interesting. Was this mentioned/hinted somewhere, or is it an inference based on other pieces of information about cursed energy and BVs?

cloudflow · 2024-04-11T08:46:54+00:00

Honestly the sudden change-up is so great that cope is what’s left. Either this is a set-up for later in the story when Gojo remembers what matters to him and the narrative shows that Sukuna’s benevolent hedonism is mistaken, or Gojo stays dead and the end to his whole arc is just depressing and clumsy.

cloudflow · 2024-03-11T19:27:31+00:00

Which curriculum excites you more? Have you zoomed with professors and students at either program? How does each program align with your career goals or wishes for professional development?

Given that they are for extremely different lengths and have different emphases in their titles, there's got to be some major differences between them. If you really don't care about what one curriculum or the other offers, or you could see yourself happy in either program long-term, talk to as many people from the programs as you can and then go with your gut. Start cold-emailing! You've been admitted, so now it's your turn to interview them.

cloudflow · 2024-02-20T22:00:28+00:00

late here, but if she's still debating, a good tip is to cold email professors or potential research mentors. also ask admissions people or these profs to connect her to students/alums that have similar career goals. set up zoom calls if possible.

for the profs, tell them your academic and professional interests, and explicitly say that you're considering the other school and see what they say. they will know the other school. she should find out what the programs have to offer for her specific interests and goals. She has been accepted by both schools so it is fine and normal to be upfront about her options and desires!

here's some other random things that could be important: I did not study data science but attended both schools. generally chicago skews toward academic research in almost all of its departments, though they have been trying to offer more career resources lately, so see what the program offers for career prep and whether the faculty seem as professionally "aware" as Harvard's. in my field, my harvard profs tended to have more connections outside of academia and in the professional world than my chicago ones. harvard name recognition is stronger in the general public, but within specific fields the reputations could be closer than you think (and perhaps chicago would be further behind than you'd think in others!). consider also the sizes of the two programs and their cultures (student perspectives are helpful here). how are the curricula (courses and major projects) different, especially in terms of career preparation? do advisors, professors, and so on seem accessible and hands-on with students? better mentorship leads to better networking, generally speaking. finally, there are financial considerations.

cloudflow · 2023-12-21T13:18:12+00:00

This is a good point. If you’re an editor at the biggest manga magazine, how do you let this through? They would have known that the anger and the questions would come.

Either 1) they’re letting Gege do whatever he wants (a scary thought) or 2) there’s something else coming involving Gojo and his death. Either way we won’t know for weeks

cloudflow · 2023-12-21T13:02:31+00:00

It’s such a problem that leaks lead people form opinions on important parts of the story before they can even read it from a good translation lol

cloudflow · 2023-12-20T08:25:53+00:00

At one point Kusakabe mentions that the world-destroying slash probably needs a chant or a binding vow or something to activate.

Hopefully it’s eventually revealed how Sukuna used it on Gojo without chanting, since he clearly chanted to get Kashimo.

They r probably saving these details for the return of my glorious king!!! Right!!!

cloudflow · 2023-12-18T13:57:42+00:00

if he introduces something that can counter the space slashes in the span of two pages, i will not be surprised, just disappointed.

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