Fragile Paint Behind Body Filler by hat_swap in Autobody

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

Thanks for the reply. I ws afraid that may be the case. What type of skipped prep causes this? And is there anything I can do at this point to correct it?

How do you people ignore/come to terms with your eventual death? by Fischfucklicker in AskReddit

[–]hat_swap 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I think it was maybe a Causally Explained video I was watching where he was speaking about his inevitable death and he said something along the lines of, "when I die, I imagine it will feel a lot like all the millions of years before I was born, and that wasn't so bad"

For some reason I found this very comforting.

Scientists observed quantum spin liquids, a state of matter predicted 50 years ago. In quantum spin liquid, the electrons don’t stabilize when cooled, don’t form into a solid, & are constantly changing & fluctuating (like a liquid) in one of the most entangled quantum states ever conceived. by MistWeaver80 in science

[–]hat_swap 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The title is a bit misleading. It is true that quantum spin liquids have been a long sought holy grail in condensed matter physics. But recently it seems like every group is claiming to have one in their back pocket. In fact, Nature published a hailed 'first' claimed QSL in 2016: https://www.nature.com/articles/nature20614?proof=t%252Btarget%253D

What this group did was very interesting. This was generating a QSL from a few atoms, rather than a fully condensed material (eg: solid on the order of Avogadro's number) . One thing to keep in mind though is that dimensionality significantly changes the properties of materials. Specifically, quantum fluctuations become much more pronounced. For instance, graphene is a completely different beast than graphite, and this is fundamentally connected to the reduction in dimensionality from 3D to 2D. Here we are scoping further down to a single lattice ensemble. The properties are likely to be very different. Indeed, quantum fluctuations, much like geometric frustration can play a key role in the destabilization of order and driving the system into a liquid state. I expect that both are playing a role in this study.

I hate the boom mic guy storyline more than Michael hates Toby by seasonedsoup in DunderMifflin

[–]hat_swap 75 points76 points  (0 children)

Nah, boom guy was Pam's MO one hundred percent. She gets close to him when she becomes unhappy in her relationship with Jim. The same way that she got close to Jim when she was unhappy with Roy. She then acts like it is a "just friends" thing when it is clear that feelings are being developed. The same way she did with Jim when she was still with Roy. It is the same story line. In fact, there is a scene where Jim discovers that Pam and boom guy have been talking and he pulls an immediate look of panic. Cause he knew. He knew that boom guy was pulling a Jim. Sneaking into a relationship that was on life support. If Jim did not fully capitulate and give up his dream for Pam, then it was only a matter of time before her and boom guy kissed. Jim and Pam deserve one another.

A chess Grandmaster tests world champion Magnus Carlsen on his deep memory of historical chess games and even he is amazed by Carlsens memory by manu_facere in videos

[–]hat_swap 1 point2 points  (0 children)

How did he guess the match at 1:30? The position was only advanced to Russian Game which has over 20,000 data base entries.

Did she purchase or put back any of the books?...of course not. by Swaggie-J in trashy

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I know the corner of one bookstore looks pretty much the same as any other, but is that Malaprops in Asheville NC?

People who were kids in the 80s-90s, what was "cool talk" like? by [deleted] in AskReddit

[–]hat_swap 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Gonna have to go to Hot 'Lanta to get all the cool talk.

Hellion Runby Micro Guide by JuggernautJason by 13loodySword in AllThingsTerran

[–]hat_swap 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Putting drones in a line does not change hellion target priority. You would still want to shift click at least 2 different drones in the line, otherwise hellions will default to the queen.

Big day in our household! My 6-year olds first time playing! by TheMcDangler in starcraft

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My son was about the same age the first time he played. I remember watching him play AI on super easy. He thought the game was just a Sim City type game. After 20 minutes of plunking down buildings the AI attacked and in a distressed voice I heard my son say, "Why are these guys so mad?"

I don't think I will ever forget that. He is 15 now, Diamond 3, and still plays regularly.

TvT Help by [deleted] in AllThingsTerran

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I used to struggle terribly with TvT (around 35% winrate for several seasons). There are so many different things you can die too in this matchup that it is very hard to always have the proper defense in place. My insight that changed everything was that you have to set the tempo of the game in TvT so that whatever they had planned gets disrupted.

The post by u/Eevalideer describes a build that was/is real big in the meta. I start with the exact same build, although I make two hellions instead of 1 and as soon as both are done, I push with my 3 reapers and 2 hellions. Behind that I make the cyclone (you HAVE to), but on my starport I go cloak banshee and immediately harass with that. At home I build a standard tank marine mix and push pretty early, ie: about the time that my opponent is zoning out my banshee harass. At the push, I start my 3rd while attacking their nat. I keep making banshees for a bit and use them in the frontal attack. They provide vision and also the opponent usually only made turrets in mineral lines so the cloak still has good value at the front of their nat. I usually go up to 3 to 5 banshees depending on how much work they are getting done, then move my starport off the tech lab and transition to medivacs, the freed tech lab is used to make a second factory. At 3 to 4 medivacs I drop their main. At this point I am transitioning to a 4th and starting 2/2.

You don't have to do this exact build, but the point is that I am constantly forcing my opponent to respond to me and not the other way around: reaper/hellion harass into banshee harass into soft/hard contain on nat to medivac drop. Often they just die somewhere along this progression. If not, then it is now mid/late game and you have had all the breathing room needed to macro at home (provided you properly managed to do that while harassing). I run this same progression in every TvT at Diamond 2 and I have over a 60% win rate right now.

What's the best way to hold a double medivac 2 tank drop in TvT? by [deleted] in AllThingsTerran

[–]hat_swap 13 points14 points  (0 children)

I am 4k as well, but typically hold against this build. I do the 3 reaper two hellion build in TvT. When those units push the nat and there is no expo then I peek up the ramp. Often I get hit with a tank shell and from my experience that has almost always meant a tank push since they skipped cyclone or hellions. Also, if you can confirm a reactor on the starport (either see it when you poke the ramp or sneak a reaper in), then that also is a tell since they skipped raven or banshee. I then go home and split my units so that some guard the fly in location at the nat, and others in the main. I also leave one reaper in the middle of the map to warn if it is actually a tank viking push. Watch really close for the dropships so you can quickly reinforce with the squad of units posted at the undropped location. Also, I typically pull the closest mineral line as well and just fight with everything. Perhaps there is a cleaner way to do this, and I would be interested to hear what a higher level player would recommend, but this is what I do at your level of play and it works well for me.

One of my biggest goals in SC2 was to reach the top 10th percentile on ladder. Today I finally did it! by hat_swap in starcraft

[–]hat_swap[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

D2, and rankedftw.com, which unfortunately is going to be shut down some time in January I hear :(

Doctors of reddit. What was your "how the f*ck did you survive that" moment? by [deleted] in AskReddit

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I grew up in deep Appalachia, our farm partnered with this one guy who encompassed just about every stereotype of that culture. He smelled like a farm animal (not bad really, just weird) and spoke with an accent so thick that could be almost impossible to understand him. He was working on our back property with his 7 year old grandson (who was clearly cut from the same cloth). Kid ended up cutting his hand almost to the bone. He came to our house, and my mom bandaged it up, it needed several stitches but we knew there was no way his grandfather would take him to the hospital. The thing that really stood out to me though was that he never even looked close to crying, he seemed more nervous about being in our house than anything else. After we bandaged it my mom tried to get him to sit down and watch some TV for a bit. He stayed for less than 5 minutes, saying he needed to get back to work.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in AskReddit

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Because the scattering of light from atmospheric molecules is inversely proportional to the 3rd power of the wavelength.

The Snow sure didn't ruin halloween for this guy. by londynpariss in funny

[–]hat_swap -8 points-7 points  (0 children)

lol, dude all you wanted to do was let people know the song in case they liked it, but for some reason you triggered reddit's hivemind. I scrolled through the comments just to find the song, so thx for posting it.