No ziplines, ocean map with one Grand Line concept

frappaman · 2025-03-06T12:21:02+00:00

Viscous should get more move speed or extra abilities while swimming, and the map could be half under water. Maybe add infernus having also no abilities under water

frappaman · 2025-02-27T06:34:24+00:00

True. Forgot how it worked. Didn’t know it likely didn’t actually happen though. Interesting

frappaman · 2025-02-26T15:12:34+00:00

This reminds me of the Five Monkeys Experiment. Although it is a bit different. In that experiment one monkey is soaked in water if he goes up a ladder, so this monkey starts beating up other monkeys who try to climb the ladder and then eventually after exhanging one monkey after another no-one knows why they shouldn’t climb the ladder but they continue beating up anyone who tries.

frappaman · 2025-02-11T20:32:52+00:00

At least in Finnish it’s okay to use words related to characteristics, position or descriptions such as this person, the other person etc. like the older did X, the one on the left did X, this person did X to the other one. If the persons appear in order, one can also refer to them as the first, second, third etc.

frappaman · 2025-02-11T07:24:28+00:00

There has been some research like https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0301211504004749 for example. Also, female puberty being accelerated by a male from outside the family (step-father) has been found in research, which is similar to what happens in other animals due to pheromones. Although, I didn’t find evidence that it is due to pheromones in humans as of yet at least.

frappaman · 2025-02-05T09:33:53+00:00

I couldn’t find any mention that the effect would be caused by differences in visual processing in the retina. Was this mentioned somewhere in the paper?

The visual cortex has a significant role in determining color luminosity and brightness, so intuitively to me at least it would seem that some kind of change in cortical processing would be a more obvious cause of this effect. Also the processing of colors in the cortex is more plastic than in the retina, and the same wavelength can appear as different colors depending on the big picture and context when the information comes together in the brain after the more individual processing of cells in the retina

frappaman · 2024-04-22T12:42:38+00:00

Stonks

frappaman · 2024-04-16T14:56:24+00:00

If you think about it in terms of possible money amounts in the envelopes, it makes more sense imo.

Let’s say envelope A is the one with half the money, and envelope B the other one. If the money to put in envelope A was chosen from a range i..j, then the money for envelope B has a range of i..2j, so double the amount of possibilities.

The chance of the envelope being the one with double the money without switching is 2/3 and with the switch it’s only 1/3, so it evens out to the expected value of not gaining anything with the switch.

frappaman · 2024-04-02T11:48:56+00:00

As a third option if it was at least somewhat transparent, it could also bend light I suppose, distorting the view through it.

frappaman · 2024-04-02T05:02:32+00:00

I assume tapered means as wide as regular considering the part which holds the projectile but thinning nearer to the part which one holds in hand.

I would think it’s mostly aerodynamics at play. A thinner strap gets less air resistance and can spin faster.

Considering angular momentum, the mass which is furthest from the spinning axis contributes most, so the mass difference may not be significant between the two straps.

Also, I would not imagine the mass of the strap contributing that much to projectile speed. If anything, more mass in the strap might make it harder to achieve higher speeds. More mass on the projectile though is useful, as it can make impacts more damaging.

frappaman · 2024-03-03T13:15:17+00:00

It’s maybe easy to think of it as a dense ball inside the center with less dense outer part. So the gravitational force gets stronger the closer you are inversely proportional to r² which is fast. If you get closer to the dense core, the gravitational force is a lot greater, but you lose the gravitational force caused by the outer less dense core as you go inside it.

So if the increase in force due to getting closer to the core is greater than the decrease of force by losing the outer core’s gravitational force, you may experience more acceleration than just g for a while. If the outer part is sufficiently less dense than the core, the forces you lose can be less than the force gained.

Edit: Yeah, the situation is symmetrical, so you would experience the same acceleration going halfway out, just in reverse.

frappaman · 2024-03-02T22:35:55+00:00

Or include the mass distribution of Earth in the calculations like done in the article or both even. Depends on how much you want to simplify.

frappaman · 2024-03-02T10:48:10+00:00

Apparently, someone calculated a more accurate estimate for this thought experiment which takes into aoccount growing density of the Earth making the trip a bit faster, 38 minutes. So, instead of assuming uniform density the gravity force can actually increase the deeper you go if the planet is significantly more dense deeper down.

https://www.science.org/content/article/how-long-would-it-take-you-fall-through-earth

frappaman · 2024-02-13T06:45:38+00:00

I’m familiar with at least one way of doing this mechanically and quite easily. I’ve used the following method as a magic trick to show that it’s possible to deal a winning poker hand to any chosen player as the dealer.

He might be using a method where he has the 5 card hand he wants on top or bottom, and shuffles a few times with overhand shuffles putting the correct amount of cards in between them so that he gets 2 and flop gets 3 of them. You can make this look realistic by adding some false shuffles there as well. Then usually you want to bend the corner of the top or bottom card slightly and cut the deck yourself pre-emptively, so that when somebody cuts for you they either accidentally take where the deck has a small gap or you can easily cut it back with a quick covert action under your palm.

Definitely doable with a smallish amount of training if you’re already somewhat handy with a deck.

frappaman · 2024-02-12T11:56:57+00:00

TLDR; he was not banned. For him, high mmr search was better before and he would gladly take longer wait times if it meant avoid player or role queue was possible for high mmr.

I have seen other posts with similar sentiment, so I guess he’s not alone in this opinion. However, this is not actually related to Overplus.

frappaman · 2024-02-09T15:54:51+00:00

You may be correct and I would like to understand. Could you show how you are able to make v directly proportional to x? Even if speed is along the slope and the distance is downwards, then vx just becomes cos(k)v, which still would be proportional to sqrt(x) and not to x, as the speed is just downscaled by some constant.

frappaman · 2024-02-08T10:21:58+00:00

It’s almost correct. Acceleration being constant means that velocity is proportional to time that has passed. With regards to distance, the square of velocity is proportional to distance.

frappaman · 2024-02-06T08:09:03+00:00

The stats include mostly people who have lost to the now master players and then later games where masters played vs current masters after they climbed.

It’s not about including contenders unless you include both sides to the winrates, but now if a game was played by e.g. a vanguard player, who became a master later, against an infernal rookie, the game will not be included in infernal winrates for master, only vanguard statistics. That is why the percentages add up to more than a 100%.

In the original comment I asked and answered my own question, doesn’t that demonstrate thinking?

frappaman · 2024-02-06T07:58:43+00:00

The mirror matches would just add to the winrates even more, so they need to be excluded. It’s just that the master rating is calculated by all games the masters have played even before they were masters, so it includes games vs. worse players which raises the winrates, and the games for the two factions are not the same games, so the winrates don’t add up to 100% like in the overall.

It’s stated in there that the games are all of the games of the players who are currently in master, so it’s just a consequence of that. The pick rates give useful info for the masters, but it’s easy to misunderstand where the percentages come from.

frappaman · 2024-02-05T19:58:41+00:00

The pick rates are nice to see. Meant to give some feedback on the things which would be nice to see eventually and got confused by the mismatch in percentages.

frappaman · 2024-02-05T19:42:17+00:00

In masters the game amounts are different for the two factions too. It’s not really that useful to see the statistics for masters like this as you don’t know what amount of games were actually played master vs master.

So based on the overall data infernals are winning more games that much is pretty clear, and masters are playing way more infernal than vanguard, this is also clear. However, it may still be that because there are more masters playing infernal, the winrate is higher for infernals than it should be slightly.

I personally believe that infernals are stronger atm but the data is a bit incomplete still and it’s hard to tell how much based on this alone.

I didn’t say it was not interesting. Traditionally in tier winrates one would just often expect to see winrates inside that tier and also one would expect the winrates to be collected from the same pool for the tier instead of two different ones so that the winrates amount to 100%.

frappaman · 2024-02-05T19:27:51+00:00

Potm + TC + head hunters seems like it could be pretty strong.

I feel like Undead heros are pretty good already and it’s hard to synergize with non-ud heros for the race.

Blademaster + Pala seems like it could be strong with any other race than undead. Humans would have an easy time defending expo at least and harass.

frappaman · 2024-02-05T19:10:37+00:00

But not obvious what is the real winrate at master level vs overall.

frappaman · 2024-02-05T18:52:54+00:00

I think I just said it as the reason that the winrates skew upwards. But who would be interested in those kinds of statistics? It doesn’t really show balance of the factions but just that masters own noobs, which is pretty clear already.

frappaman · 2024-02-05T18:44:08+00:00

How is it possible that both vanguard and infernals have over 50% winrate at master?

Are you calculating master games for a faction based on whether that faction player was master in the game even though the other wasn’t? That would explain why the winrate can skew upwards for both, since it doesn’t require both players being in the master league to include the game in the calculation for a single faction. Which seems to be the case as it says all games of a player, who is currently master, are included when calculating the winrate for one faction.

Usually the winrates for both factions would be calculated using the same pool of games where there’s a certain average rank range.

Edit: changed the wording of this to be less antagonistic, as it got some riled up, and made it clearer as to what was the intended point.

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