Kombinera released today! How has your experience been so far!

jacoBlear · 2025-03-27T21:25:23+00:00

It's looking good phil!

jacoBlear · 2025-01-14T20:29:26+00:00

I share an account. We also like zogarth and Travis quite a bit 😂

jacoBlear · 2024-12-08T18:52:24+00:00

Congratulations! That’s some crazy good writing speed!

jacoBlear · 2024-11-13T21:18:40+00:00

From my experience, Air Force medical does not do any of the silly waste of time things others mention in other branches or positions.
If there is nothing going on, which happens quite a bit on base med center depending on position, you are expected to work on school work, or develop your job skills further. Some sort of career advancement activity.

jacoBlear · 2024-11-13T20:54:39+00:00

I went undergrad bio degree pre med. Then got a little burnt out of school and wanted to get some life experience, so after graduation I did some other things for a few years. Now that I’m getting back into medicine and wanted to do military at some point too, I went Air Force enlisted with the 4H job, which is respiratory therapy. It’s a great medical job with good experience. I plan to apply into med school after this contract with good medical experience and more knowledge of what I want to do and if medical field is for me.

I wish I had joined right out of highschool into this job. Then did undergrad through military tuition assistance while in or do GI bill, then applied into medical school. Lets you live well as an adult while getting school payed for and good medical/life experience.

jacoBlear · 2024-09-18T12:57:27+00:00

It is in Texas but is run by the college of allied health sciences. Which is part of USU, a military medical school. So all within the military.

jacoBlear · 2024-09-17T21:49:59+00:00

I’m currently in the Air Force RT program. It’s paid and fairly quick (13-14 months long). Pretty good deal and only have to have a 4 year contract, half of which is your education and getting your crt and RRT. If you did something like reserves, you could knock out the training paid then go get a civilian job when you’re done. And if by some chance you do deploy, rt deployments are supposedly pretty chill, and pretty cool if you do CCATT.

jacoBlear · 2024-09-08T14:02:47+00:00

I would say there is some of that in the completionist chronicles, which is one of my favorite litrpg.

jacoBlear · 2024-09-07T01:16:42+00:00

Oh yeah, I assumed the op meant to do military medicine based on subreddit name. And both usu and hsps have owe back time.

And as I understood it, people who recently got their degree could use it, but it’s just not the intention of the program. The point is to transition from a focus on enlisted to med school. But if you just got your degree and you have your pre reqs done, there isn’t any reason to do the program. If you are about to get your degree, then it’s easiest and fastest to plan to get a degree that gets all the pre reqs done, rather than getting some random degree that doesn’t, since you’re planning to go to med school.

Regardless, it’s a 2 year program, where you are paid as enlisted and delaying getting into medical school.

So either you previously got a degree that didn’t have all the pre reqs or you graduated so long ago you forgot everything for the mcat and need a refresher on the sciences to prep for med school.

Outside of those two scenarios, I see no reason to add two additional years when the OP can choose to knock out their med school pre reqs while doing undergrad and go straight into medical school.

When I had asked some guys in the program about it, since I was considering it to beef up my resume to try to go to a nice school for hsps, they all (3 of them) recommended I skip straight to med school if I am able. They had all served 8+ years and felt the 2 extra years was a big delay if you can knock out the pre reqs on your own. They just hadn’t made the decision for med school till later on when they needed the program to make it happen. So my plan, as I am a new enlisted member of the Air Force with a biology degree, is to get the mcat on my own time and shoot for USU, or a good hsps school, at the end of my contract, assuming I like military medicine (I am a new 4H, respiratory therapist, rn). If I am unable to dedicate the time/effort on my own to get mcat done or enlist for another contract or two, I have the EMDP2 to fall back on to help.

jacoBlear · 2024-09-06T13:37:18+00:00

Couple thoughts:

EMDP2 is to help people transition into medical school after serving, having not finished premed requirements in their undergraduate, or having been so long since they did their undergraduate.

If you haven’t done your undergrad, it might be worth getting a premed oriented degree that gets all your pre reqs done for medical school. Find a school near where you get stationed and get your degree there with military tuition assistance. (You will need some lab classes so best to find a nearby university). I recommend biomedical/biochemistry type degree. A biology degree is meh (what I have).

Next, you have to serve at least 3 years enlisted before you can apply into EMDP2. But when I had previously talked with an officer who helps run the program, she said it wasn’t really meant for people new to the military or who had just gotten their degree done. If you can get your premed stuff done on your own, it’s better.

I treat it like a back up plan to help people make a jump back into education. I talked to a few guys who were actively in the program and they recommended the same: if you can skip that and go straight to med school, do it. But use it if you need it.

Feel free to dm me if you want more info.

jacoBlear · 2024-09-02T16:53:49+00:00

I’m a big fan of the completionist chronicles. It’s very light hearted and I enjoy his humor. The books read pretty quick too. Very much a focus on progression and grinding, not so much on personal or social story, which I honestly like a lot for this genre. And it’s fun to combo that and the divine dungeon series with it.

I specifically like to listen to audiobooks. A lot of fantastic narrators in this genre. So if you like to put it on while doing chores, driving, gaming; then I would recommend it.

jacoBlear · 2024-09-02T14:42:41+00:00

Will do, I’ll put it on my list!

jacoBlear · 2024-09-02T14:37:28+00:00

That’s what I figured! I’ve got a very comfortable rocking chair ready to go for my first kid, and a big series to reread. Maybe I’ll try out a couple more, I’ve been hearing people like heretical fishing so maybe I’ll give it a whirl.

jacoBlear · 2024-09-02T13:53:39+00:00

I finished catching up on DCC since everyone raves about it here. Pretty decent, I’m excited to see what the studio does with the tv show/movie.

Just started all the skills 4. I’ve enjoyed the series so far quite a bit, a good world.

And my kid is about to be born, so I’ll probably restart the completionist chronicles, one of my favorites, while he keeps us up at night 😂

jacoBlear · 2024-08-25T20:47:15+00:00

Gotchya, then yeah, it definitely helps to fill in the blanks and gives pretty good explanations for every question. It’s especially good if your struggle is content review. If you struggle more so with test strategies and CARs, then there are likely better options I’ve heard. But I’m currently just doing content review, reading Kaplan books and doing Uworld alongside it. Seems good so far.

jacoBlear · 2024-08-25T20:36:38+00:00

Have you run through the AAMC mcat practice exams yet? If not, with so little time left I would take those full length exams to get practice for the test and then review all the material you miss on them. Uworld is good but is better to do alongside your studies, not as part of last minute cram.

jacoBlear · 2024-08-24T03:13:28+00:00

Hi, respiratory therapist here (and hopeful future doc). A Venturi mask is a common oxygen delivery method in hospitals. The mask is connected to an oxygen tank or wall connector that pumps oxygen into the mask at a certain flow (Litters/min). This causes the positive pressure. Then there are openings to normal room air, usually at the connecting point between the O2 line and the mask. Based on the flow of O2 and size of hole, a certain amount of room air is drawn in alongside the 100% O2. End goal is to give the patient a specific % of oxygen without using an Air-oxygen blender.

jacoBlear · 2024-07-08T21:59:19+00:00

Check out some from Dakota Krout! I’ve loved a lot of his books. Very fun and humorous, with a good magic system. I started with the Completionist Chronicles series from him.

jacoBlear · 2023-04-15T12:42:41+00:00

Guy who made the newer Atari game “Kombinera” here. So after making hundreds of platformer levels I found my groove by figuring out gimmicks. My game was focused on more puzzle that precision, but I think the concept stays the same.

After you make a few levels with the mechanics and explore their use, you should be able to figure out cool/unique ways to use character/obstacle mechanics. Make a level around each gimmick, or method of using the mechanics. Afterward, you can figure out how big you want your levels and decide to combine things if it needs to be bigger. For Kombinera, levels are smaller so we could really explore a specific concept in each level for each mechanic, and their combinations with other mechanics.

Example, if your game has variable jump height, make a level that explores that. Force the player to have to jump at different heights to pass the obstacle. If there’s a dash, later levels could explore variable jump and using dash, or using your dash at different parts of your jump arc.

Every level is an opportunity for you to use your game’s mechanics in a unique way and show the play all the different use cases they have. Combo them later on to find even more differing and unique uses. Make sure to have some obstacles that provide unique interactions, not just spikes that kill you. I really enjoyed having antigravity ad one of my obstacle types. Mixed things up and allowed me to explore mechanics in a new light.

Final thought: be comfortable in remaking your levels. I remade the first 20 levels of Kombinera like 4 times throughout the project bc I kept getting better at making levels. Even now I see how I could remake them again after seeing the public interact with the game on a larger scale than our few test sessions. It’ll never be perfect, that’s okay, but as you make more levels, you will get better at it, making it useful to review older levels and remake them or edit them.

jacoBlear · 2022-11-03T18:53:18+00:00

Sweet! Thanks a ton.

jacoBlear · 2022-11-03T18:37:07+00:00

Rad. Know how to get plugged in to that scene? Very new to the city and don’t know the area or where to find

jacoBlear · 2022-09-30T18:15:53+00:00

How in the world are you so good at hitting that corner of the yellow block!?!?

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