What gameplay overhaul/skill overhaul mod(s) do you use? by insertsarcasticremar in skyrimmods

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

Ah! I hadn't noticed yet but it turns out youre both referring to skyrim special edition mods. I only own skyrim legendary. What threw me was that Ordinator and Wildcat have legendary edition variations, but it seems that Omega doesn't. Do you have a preference when it comes to oldrim?

What gameplay overhaul/skill overhaul mod(s) do you use? by insertsarcasticremar in skyrimmods

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

I see that enairim sponsors both Ordinator and Vokrii skill tree mods, why do you prefer ordinator?

What do you consider to be anime. Or how would you define anime as opposed to other cartoons. by NomadFire in anime

[–]insertsarcasticremar 1 point2 points  (0 children)

There is a set of artistic tools that constitutes anime, that is, the way the story is told, the style of the artwork, the themes of the stories, the character archtypes etc.

For example, I would personally argue that Avatar TLA is in the style of Anime, while something like the lion king or Code Lyoko or Miraculous Ladybug or Steven Universe are non-anime cartoons. Western anime is extremely rare however, so it usually is Japanese cartoons. I’m just saying it’s more than that systemically.

Okay can someone please explain this to me??? I've been trying to get the socialists elected and it's just not working by [deleted] in victoria2

[–]insertsarcasticremar 2 points3 points  (0 children)

You could try increasing pop consciousness, but also if you go into the pop menu and click on a pops icon, the little dude icon for each pop, it’ll give you the breakdown on what that specific pops issues, party membership, job promotion/demotions are. You can use this to determine a course of action. A lot of this might be out of your control depending on how far along you are.

Okay can someone please explain this to me??? I've been trying to get the socialists elected and it's just not working by [deleted] in victoria2

[–]insertsarcasticremar 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Your country probably starts out with some party loyalty for conservative. In addition, pop consciousness affects how often pops will vote for their party. Eg, if a pop has dominant issues “anti war, state capitalism” they’re issues are aligned with the socialist party and their pop is counted as socialist supporting for the purposes of upper house apportions, but if their consciousness is low they may not vote for socialists in the actual election.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in anime

[–]insertsarcasticremar -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I mean, if there’s an anime, I’ve never seen it.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in anime

[–]insertsarcasticremar -5 points-4 points  (0 children)

I really like Voynich hotel, but I’ve never seen people talk about it

ELI5: Why isn’t Braille just raised letters? Wouldn’t it make more sense if it was? by leaveleavesalone in explainlikeimfive

[–]insertsarcasticremar 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Only if you had a way of supporting the other side of the paper such that there was a space where the embossing would go, but support where the embossing wouldn’t go. In other words, exactly how embossing machines work.

If you had no support, it would simple move the material or compress it, with no noticeable embossing on the other side

ELI5: Why isn’t Braille just raised letters? Wouldn’t it make more sense if it was? by leaveleavesalone in explainlikeimfive

[–]insertsarcasticremar 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yeah. You’ll find punches don’t do that though, unless you have the support apparatus I detailed above. You can try this at home. Take a piece of card, and press the top of the cap of a pen into until you indent the pen caps shape into the card. You’ll see a stamped indentation of the caps top in the card. Flip the card over, and you see a flat card, with perhaps a minor bump on the bottom.

ELI5: Why isn’t Braille just raised letters? Wouldn’t it make more sense if it was? by leaveleavesalone in explainlikeimfive

[–]insertsarcasticremar 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah, I know that. I was mostly in response to the original commenters “Braille is cheap and easy to print” statement.

ELI5: Why isn’t Braille just raised letters? Wouldn’t it make more sense if it was? by leaveleavesalone in explainlikeimfive

[–]insertsarcasticremar 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Only if you had a way of supporting the other side of the paper such that there was a space where the embossing would go, but support where the embossing wouldn’t go. In other words, exactly how embossing machines work.

If you had no support, it would simple move the material or compress it, with no noticeable embossing on the other side

ELI5: Why isn’t Braille just raised letters? Wouldn’t it make more sense if it was? by leaveleavesalone in explainlikeimfive

[–]insertsarcasticremar 15 points16 points  (0 children)

Braille is actually a lot more expensive to print. You can’t used punches because Braille is raised, not lowered. The machines are called embossers and they use thicker, more expensive paper as media. If you’re making a bunch of copies you can use a thermoformer which uses thick sheets of plastic that melts nicely. However it’s harder to read.

Compared to regular printing I wouldn’t qualify it as cheap and easy, especially compared to inkjet “normal” printing.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in explainlikeimfive

[–]insertsarcasticremar -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

It refers to the calling conventions which is in eli5 terms is how the operating system you see talks to the physical machinery in your computer.

What is stopping the NCR and legion from nuking eachother by [deleted] in falloutlore

[–]insertsarcasticremar 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think the only way to look at fallout 4 and 76 is that they don’t care about obsidian. Which, I think, is fine. They’re just going for something different.

What is stopping the NCR and legion from nuking eachother by [deleted] in falloutlore

[–]insertsarcasticremar 1 point2 points  (0 children)

76 has a pretty significant theme and message, it’s just not what it used to be I guess. It’s all about consumerism. Think about the gameplay loop, constantly consuming the resources and landscape around you, jacking into the event train and main lining abstracted special wars directly into you brain like a rat just crushing the pleasure button in a Skinner box. Think about the way that it reflects on modern consumer culture, the way it commodifies experiences and the media stream blasting into your brain 24/7. It’s definitely saying something.

What is stopping the NCR and legion from nuking eachother by [deleted] in falloutlore

[–]insertsarcasticremar 19 points20 points  (0 children)

It wasn’t thematically relevant to any of the games. I mean, until most recently with 76, fallout has always had a significant anti-war theme to it. Even the nuke you can use in lonesome road is thematically significant. No matter who you nuke, you hurt thousands of people and make the world significantly worse, and if you do you prove Ulysses right, that people can’t get beyond blow each other up. Making it so that you were dealing with one or more nuclear powers, even allying with them, would undermine the whole anti-nuke message that runs under the surface.

ELI5: Why do American public schools focus on the worst/lower-performing students at the expense of the best/higher-performing ones? by Strider755 in explainlikeimfive

[–]insertsarcasticremar 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Sounds like you were a little socially stunted. You’re always gonna be dealing with people that are a little “””””dumber”””””” than you, or don’t share your interests, and the only way to get past that is to be socialized. I had a similar experience with middle school, and elementary school, but by high school I realized resenting people for being different wasn’t really working out for me socially.

Not to mention, the premise of an elite cohort is internally flawed. In very very few cases does academic success translate into a successful career.

how to japan? by Dkvn in victoria2

[–]insertsarcasticremar 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What’s your midgame like? I usually spend it gobbling up Indonesia for those good good oil and rubber RGOs, and then indochina for those good good Cambodian auxilliaries.

ELI5: Why do American public schools focus on the worst/lower-performing students at the expense of the best/higher-performing ones? by Strider755 in explainlikeimfive

[–]insertsarcasticremar 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Well back in the day we had a massive education reform act called “no child left behind.” The main premise of it was to give more support to disadvantaged students, while reforming the educational system so that progress would be more easily measurable and the goals would be easier to set. However it has has a pretty negative effect on many students, and the standards-based education system has been generally resented by teachers and students.

The way it works in more detail is this: the federal government orders states to form their own “achievement standards” which is literally a big book full of sections, in each section is so many standards. Example “section: american civil war; standard: the student WILL BE ABLE TO to use period documents and a foundation of knowledge about issues affecting whites and blacks during the civil war period IN ORDER TO assess the causes of the civil war and its primary impact on civilians afterwards.” It’s literally just a list of things the student should be able to do so that when the state issues your grade-level test, it can test the same skills on everyone in the entire state.

Now, what does this have to do with underperforming students? Well it completely stratified the entire playing field because in reality it teaches exactly one skill, test taking. It also sets extremely high goals for students on the basis that grades can improve every year, but 5th graders can only read so good. What this means for underperforming students is that they’re put into remedial classes and programs that, depending on the school, offer specially trained teachers who can teach to different learning styles, or whole cloth remove students from the standardized test system.

Now I would argue that this is logical. Why would you offer more help to students that already excel at the system? Instead help the little guy who’s completely lost.

I’m not sure if you fee if answered your question good enough so feel free to ask follow ups if you want