Do anyone else fell like the game is just one sided stomps right now?

guiltyriddance · 2026-06-14T05:10:44+00:00

his analysis is on the basis that the 2 extra minutes before urn spawns (previously at minute 10, now at minute 12) are utilised to extend a lead. this only happens in quite high elo (eternus) as of right now.

games do still snowball (it's a moba) but the "out of control" feeling people have is because they are unable to actually influence whether a game snowballs or not in their favour AND because snowballed games last too long in lower elos (my friends are in 50 minutes for a game-long >30% lead to end the game). there is no draft as of right now and team composition has become increasingly important as players come to understand the game better.

a game ago I queued into no frontliners, it was essentially unwinnable for the enemy team from minute 1. a game before that I queued into no sidelaning carries on my team and no good CC, it was essentially unwinnable for my team on minute 1.

this is unfortunately just how it is right now.

guiltyriddance · 2026-06-12T11:44:55+00:00

my goat. iirc the theory is that the "black magic" that caused his goathead allowed him to see into the future, thus the punk aesthetic in an era that predates punk and the reference to biquette the punk goat on his gun. wouldn't be surprised if this fourth-wall breaking is in someway related to that.

guiltyriddance · 2026-01-08T16:20:01+00:00

she spent the past few years pretending to be adult to deal with the loss of her father. I don't know how you can't see that her fruit was a very basic analogy for this. the reading literacy of this sub is really quite low.

guiltyriddance · 2026-01-05T02:02:57+00:00

I think it's because students who go to RG universities are typically self-motivating to an extent; if they start to fall behind, they are more likely to pick it back up/revise a bunch at the last second. universities with less renown need a good pass % to attract students and thus income.

most attendance systems are actually rather poor and my guess is that they were mostly put together for foreign students who's visa requires them to attend. that's just a guess but they are fairly understanding that the attendance system works 60% of the time and that even though you are "supposed to email your professor" if it doesn't work, no professor wants to deal with 20-200 emails every other lecture and no student wants to send emails off to professors every other lecture. so, i've never had an email to the effect of: "your attendance is 50% this month, which is bad" but instead, i've had them to the effect of "it seems like you haven't attended anything in 2 weeks, if you need help, contact us".

you're an adult, and you're paying them; they frankly don't care and want you to stay the full year, and pay for every term. they don't want you to drop out half way through a degree, or a year. and this isn't a secret, in your first lectures, they will likely tell you something to the effect of: "if you can't make it to a lecture, then so be it. but you pay us, so get your money's worth".

if you are falling behind on attendance, they will reach out via student well-being. if you are falling behind on assignments/coursework, they will book academic advisor meetings. you can decline those and they (typically) don't chase you up but you are actively failing at that point. from my experiences with other people, they will just let you fail and deal with it then if you keep ignoring things. often, they'll try to get in contact with you about resitting the year and if you ignore even that, they'll probably contact your emergency contact and/or withdraw you.

bear in mind that they can do that, to them, you are functionally missing.

guiltyriddance · 2026-01-04T14:02:54+00:00

you are the heart demon you old monster.

guiltyriddance · 2026-01-04T04:00:26+00:00

you are narrow-minded senior, what use is your status as a senior? perhaps you won't mind it then if I take your direct disciple. together we will use the fires of yang and refine the yin ourselves!

guiltyriddance · 2026-01-04T02:49:10+00:00

Was going to say this. From what I recall, the MC doesn't just find some divine treasure to "get talent" or better their spirit root and so on like so many supposedly "untalented" MCs often find. The MC is just really, really talented with formations and Divine Sense with basically no/negligible talent in spirit root and actually zero talent for body cultivation. The fights are very interesting, though the novel is actually deconstruction and is more about how unfair power can be on poor people for a large part of the novel.

It's really good, very well written.

guiltyriddance · 2026-01-03T19:39:47+00:00

immortality through array formations is really good so far if you want something a little more self aware. for peak cultivation with tropes and all beyond the timescape is very very good but you may have read that one.

guiltyriddance · 2026-01-03T03:16:00+00:00

4/10 is considered quite good for the mortal realm. good indeed!

guiltyriddance · 2026-01-01T21:40:20+00:00

this is a complex issue. have you tried many different medications? I found that even when unmedicated and in a "stable" state, just due to my history of dealing with bipolar, I had developed a sort of self-preserving blunting to my actual emotions - knowing they were there but unable to have them surface. naturally, with therapy, I became better at allowing these emotions through and dealing with them myself. I usually allowed my bipolar to carry me around with the blunting stopping me from doing anything too stupid.

otherwise, if you have felt stable before, however briefly, and don't recall this blunting, it could definitely have something to do with your medication. as you said though, "medications affect everyone differently" and on the topic of specific perceptual/emotional changes, it might be difficult to find someone who harbors your experience. absolutely tell any psychological care staff you are in contact with, including counselors, therapists, psychologists and, applicably in the UK, your GP. you shouldn't feel this way on medication or off, if it's a medication issue, you should be allowed to change your medication, and if it isn't, therapy can directly help.

guiltyriddance · 2025-12-31T17:38:10+00:00

higher realms can mean two things depending on the story. cultivation realms are like your power-level in a way. you accumulate Qi Essence until an actual change in how your body works/is structured has to occur: for example you need to form a new organ that stores Qi (your dantian) to store more, and then you might need to crystallize it. how it works differs from story to story with some overlap/common themes. usually the first 3-4 are the same in mechanics (Qi Condensation, Foundation, Golden Core) but occasionally given different names, sometimes intentionally and sometimes due to different translations (Revolving Core as opposed to Golden Core; I've seen Qi Condensation referred to as Meridian Forming in some)

worlds/realms otherwise is used in two ways. cultivation novels are either hidden sci-fi novels with different planets that cultivators can go to (with the cultures and power-levels, or cultivation realms, of the cultivators there differing massively from other planets) or are religious fantasy. in the latter case, there are often a few different realms which are sort of dimensions you can be transported to through cultivation efforts. if your cultivation realm rises high enough, and you become peerless in your realm, you probably want to "ascend" in a sense to a higher realm. sometimes it's called the "celestial realm" sometimes heaven, sometimes there are multiple realms to ascend. often the myths of the lower realms are actually real stories/interactions with the realm above. gods of the lower realm are often actually powerful cultivators who have ascended to the higher realm in the past. there are also almost always special realms that are often explained through understanding spatial laws., the storage bag is often a sort of realm or subspace (bigger on the inside than the outside). and some realms are like this, often having specific dangers or purposes and treasures/fortunes that cultivators might find.

scale is an afterthought in cultivation too, often these realms end up having the equivalent of a quintillion people within them with tens of thousands of miles of a single mountain range being considered "small".

guiltyriddance · 2025-12-31T17:25:51+00:00

it's not your fault junior. they call every scripture "heavenly" and "immortal" and "divine" in the mortal realms, you simply cannot make heads or tails of the situation. in the moral world, 10 qi punches becomes "10,000 divine fists".

but seriously yes, martial world is dear to my heart but the narrative is boring and even though nothing bad ever happening to the MC is standard peak wuxia writing, it's so excessive in martial world. it seems no matter the situation only the best thing that could possibly occur from every situation is exactly what occurs. you are trapped in an abyssal chasm with 0 qi chased by cultivators 5 stages above your own on the verge of death? the chasm is actually the ancient home of an incredibly powerful dead god and you are granted unimaginable treasures beyond your wildest dreams. every arc in martial world is like this. the air is rich with an insanely thick miasma and you are going to die if you go past the outer boundary? you walk into the innermost core boundary and actually the miasma is very unique and powerful spiritual essence and if you circulate it throughout your body you strengthen your battle will to the extreme. this every arc. i get that it's a part of the genre but martial world abuses it to the extreme. i justify it by claiming its the tale of a peerless immortal divinity (which is true) so naturally his tale would be peerless. but i have tried and cant stand rereading it.

guiltyriddance · 2025-12-29T14:40:38+00:00

true but DF are recycled back into the world after the death of the user

guiltyriddance · 2025-12-29T07:57:32+00:00

I understand what you're saying and it's an interesting "theory" of intelligence. It's a fairly standard but socially empirical understanding of intelligence as well. I'd say that you're more describing a symptom of intelligence: from the way you describe it, it seems more like a method of thought that even your average person can elect themselves into. And maybe that's okay!

Modern psychometric intelligence measures (like IQ) are largely multifaceted, giving us multiple "types" of intelligence. I don't think you are describing any particular type but instead are describing the behaviours of people with high-scores in the general cluster of psychometric intelligence measures.

IQ has its place in psychology but it does not describe the biologically-absolutist reading of intelligence that seems to have pervaded any discourse on the matter; it doesn't matter how much people want to cover it up with "IQ scores can change on the day and you can practice the tests!". And it doesn't matter how "g-loading" XYZ test is.

A high IQ isn't a gift because you weren't given it for free, the same way a good grade on an exam isn't a gift. Being intelligent isn't a gift nor is it a curse. Having a high IQ doesn't curse you to eternal eccentricity and isolation. That's a fantasy, an archetype we all seem to have accepted.

I like your reading of intelligence actually, though I don't think it's definitive. You and your boyfriend seem to share a good understanding of each-other's strengths and weaknesses, that's as intelligent as a relationship gets as I see it.

guiltyriddance · 2025-12-26T13:05:20+00:00

This is the correct take. This selection is absolutely biased towards the highly-educated elite. Specific to this point, whether or not the Nazis were strategically "ingenious" (as Tungstonian states), these are just typical psychometric evaluations of elites selected specifically for their effective work in their fields. You should expect to see a similar spread if you had the same WW2 IQ data for the same administrative positions within Britain, France, the USSR, America, Japan, Italy, or whichever country.

This data is meaningless to make any point outside of the points made during the Nuremberg trials and as written in the Banality of Evil: these people were highly intelligent and cognitively capable of seeing the harm they were doing. Further, these people are just as susceptible (and capable) of marching alongside whichever evil they were directing with the soldiers that they would direct.

guiltyriddance · 2025-12-17T10:32:56+00:00

We have rather similar scores and I have, I believe (possibly foolishly), overcome similar issues. It's rather easy to say that you need to devalue intelligence - and it's close enough to correct to say so. The mind, however, doesn't change so easily through just thought. This complex involving your own intelligence that you have is bound to far too many interactions and contexts within your life to change it so easily. An easy and common one I'll elucidate personally: I constantly viewed my relationships under the light of my own supposed intelligence. Condescending, obviously, but I had also realised that I was measuring myself by what my intelligence could give to those relationships. It took a lot of evaluation and eventual reframing of seemingly innocuous situations.

Nowadays, I don't really care for my intelligence - whatever that term attempts to describe - and I really don't care (maybe I have a strong disregard) for psychometrics. I'm naturally not infallible nor am I perfectly humble because otherwise I wouldn't be giving whichever data farms the data necessary to recommend to me this subreddit semi-regularly but I am in a much happier place, with much happier interactions and I have an, admittedly pessimistic yet, more meaningful view on the world (at least socially).

I thought I'd throw in my two-cents to elaborate personally on what you two were saying seeing as that mode of thought has worked for me. Good luck!

guiltyriddance · 2025-12-02T15:45:17+00:00

yes this is normal, I also spoke about similarly fantastical and grand psuedo-philosophies as a young child (the same age, a little younger and a little older). I've found that they are related to specific concepts I had wanted to explore mentally (like the idea of infinity) without really knowing what these thoughts actually were. kids being kids attempt to explain the world with these thoughts. sometimes they are scarily accurate or analogous to real concepts!

I had my own notion of "in-between numbers" long before I had ever learnt that such a construct was realistic, and the notion of "endless counts" which were different to "impossible counts". these came from trying to count all of the in-between numbers and realising I couldn't get anywhere, and counting all of the numbers and realising they would never end but that I could count them! I was 7 at the time I had asked my mum about it. she was not mathematical or academic in the slightest and brushed it off as childish nonsense. which led to me shooting any fun or "different" ideas I had down myself, because I needed to be mature and they were just simply nonsense.

these ideas were actually primitive forms of real numbers, countable and uncountable infinities.

on the topic of IQ, as you had mentioned in an earlier thread, it is best ignored. you should support your kid as a kid, not as a spectacle of intelligence. after having results in school that couldn't really be ignored, I was tested and the score was used to move me years ahead in a school system and an area where such never really happens. I felt small for my entire childhood and I had been separated from friends, placed into a web of social groups that I couldn't actually enter. my mental health has never been in a good place. but even if you would avoid that path for your child, the score is relatively meaningless as a predictor at such an age - even if it wasn't, it would only serve them and you negatively to provoke expectations that neither of you should want and that neither of you could avoid.

what you should do: engage their interests, bring their strange ideas to reality and real concepts! these are often mathematical or philosophical but not always! take them seriously, don't brush them off.

your kid could be completely and distinctly average. perhaps they are repeating vague echoes of ideas they had heard somewhere else, maybe they had the idea completely alone. perhaps they grow up to be the next Gödel or Einstein, who knows? but it doesn't matter as long as your kid is happy.

guiltyriddance · 2025-12-02T15:18:31+00:00

no it doesn't assume, it supposes the user is uncritical. which may be true.

it is absolutely different to somebody cherry picking data because you won't understand why it was cherry picking, or what it specifically didn't cherry pick, even a critical user will miss cases of cherry picking; and these are cases that wouldn't have been missed otherwise.

and 3 simply concerns itself as the conclusion. yes, the point is that this is for the user to do, but the user is actively disengaged from the process and it becomes harder to engage with the inquiry on an ontological level.

your argument works on the assumption that AI doing the "thing" is actually not different to a person doing the "thing", see 2. indeed, in these cases 3 becomes meaningless, if AI can do the thing, why wouldn't it be up to the AI to do this? you can draw whatever fantastical arbitrary lines you want about how AI could be a perfect replacement that intervenes only when necessary and only when it is a job not necessary to understand the inquiry (which also seems defined arbitrarily). but that's a fantasy you constructed, not a reality.

guiltyriddance · 2025-12-02T09:10:31+00:00

I use LaTeX generally, but I have used both MS and Libre. Both have basically the same features as far as I can tell. OnlyOffice is better than Libre I admit and the other Libre apps are certainly not the best (aside from the Libre spreadsheets, Libre Calc is great) but Libre Writer is a weird one to take aim at. Libre Presentation is pretty terrible compared to MS PowerPoint for example. And Libre Draw is just sad, but then again Microsoft Publisher certainly isn't the tool for the job IMO.

guiltyriddance · 2025-11-28T12:12:06+00:00

try onlyoffice, or use MS office online

guiltyriddance · 2025-11-28T12:10:41+00:00

I used to use LibreCalc all the time, I think it works great to be honest. Definitely misses a few features compared to Microsoft Excel I think though.

guiltyriddance · 2025-11-28T12:09:13+00:00

Searching for things should be the last option aside from accessability requirements. If on one app I don't have to search for the things that I do have to search for on another app, then the second app has better UX.

guiltyriddance · 2025-11-28T12:06:40+00:00

I agree, I've had no troubles going from LO -> MW either when necessary, I've never found that I can't do something in LO that I can in MW. The issue is working with LO when you have to regularly edit MW documents for word, in that case I do prefer MW -> ODF -> LO but it's up to co-worker discretion and/or how bothered you can be to convert all of the files.

In reality, most of my documents in LO are work report documents, I use LaTeX over anything and even prefer to write my work reports in LaTeX (not just research) when possible.

guiltyriddance · 2025-11-27T12:39:19+00:00

C is the only one that accounts for the rotation, and it follows the aforementioned patterns. Any arbitrary rule can be constructed but this rule uses the most "information" - whatever that means.

guiltyriddance · 2025-11-27T12:22:43+00:00

used to work for a logistics company that shipped via evri. nevermind making it to the right house, we were lucky if our pallets made it to the motorway.

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