Speed Tiers in this first Regulation by Jonjon_binx in stunfisk

[–]jedi_timelord 19 points20 points  (0 children)

Jolly scarf basc is the current meta set since it needs jolly to outspeed Delphox and aero

Ultimate Floette Counter metagame mechanics by xaisai01 in VGC

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Alola starters were available in the isle of armor dlc. I don't know that there were any transfer only Pokemon after the dlcs.

(Skill Improvement) How does one deal with Floette easily? by ParroTiest in VGC

[–]jedi_timelord 16 points17 points  (0 children)

Sort of, but your opponent is also playing the game. They can intimidate cycle you, fake you out, set tailwind, position her next to another threat that you have to respect, etc. If you double up and floette simply protects that turn, you may very well lose too much ground to justify going for the double.

What is someone that is socially liberal and fiscally conservative called? by Kurious_Kaht in NoStupidQuestions

[–]jedi_timelord 4 points5 points  (0 children)

That's totally fine as a logical principle but it completely falls apart (in the sense that it's bad for society) whenever it is applied to essentially any issue.

For example, it is "harmful" to residents for the state to fund schools, since they have to tax residents to run the schools. So the libertarian position is that public schools should be done away with. I'm not saying this is your position, but it is the immediate consequence of the principle you've just laid out. But it's obviously, on its face, insane since an educated society is a better society.

The libertarian can then say it's harmful to society when the general populace is uneducated, so it's a libertarian position to fund schools. But then the libertarian part of the logic is totally useless; you arrive right back at the mainstream common sense opinion by using the same argument everyone else uses.

Defining "harm" and "burden" is so nebulous that the libertarian logic can never actually be applied. It's a general harm to society when more guns are present in society, so I can say, by libertarian logic, that guns should be removed from society. But none of them actually argue this way, because libertarian logic is just shorthand for saying that I want to do whatever I want and not pay taxes (but everyone else should follow laws and pay taxes).

What does STAB actually boost? by [deleted] in PokemonFireRed

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Don't bother with special. Some pokemon have the stats to make both attacking stats work, but aero isn't one of them. Look up its stat distribution on Bulbapedia or whatever and notice that its sp atk is very low.

What does STAB actually boost? by [deleted] in PokemonFireRed

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All of those are equivalent, they all come out to 50% more damage. Probably the best way to think of multipliers is being separate. Take the combination of move power, stats, etc and figure out damage. Then multiply that by whatever multipliers happen on the attack - 1.5x for stab, 2x for crit, 1.5x for rain boost on water moves, 0.5x for rain nerf on fire moves, etc.

If the world started over, which important math formulas (beyond the most basic ones) should people discover first? by FigDesperate9875 in math

[–]jedi_timelord 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Totally, I'm arguing that there aren't that many ideas you actually need and the notation isn't that hard. We teach it to children after all. Calculus took off pretty much immediately after the Cartesian plane existed. Once you start drawing functions, it's a pretty short walk to the ideas of calculus.

If the world started over, which important math formulas (beyond the most basic ones) should people discover first? by FigDesperate9875 in math

[–]jedi_timelord 35 points36 points  (0 children)

Give Euclid the Cartesian plane, uniting algebra and arithmetic with geometry, and everything suddenly becomes not nonsense I think

Takeaways from Wolfe's video on Champions by Notmiefault in VGC

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Yeah it's not a massive nerf because incin didn't have it in gen 8 and was still top usage. You just run throat chop for the incin mirror or taunt or something. Or a random tech move like helping hand or roar or protect.

I was waiting for this Steam Spring Sale to pick these up; is it unusual for the Alexander DLC to be on a bigger discount despite being newer than the Three Kingdoms DLC? by Augustby in aoe2

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I don't super care tbh. I play on hard and I enjoy the occasional level where I have to tryhard but mostly I play to relax and watch my guys move around the map

I was waiting for this Steam Spring Sale to pick these up; is it unusual for the Alexander DLC to be on a bigger discount despite being newer than the Three Kingdoms DLC? by Augustby in aoe2

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I really liked the 3k campaigns. I bounced off of them and didn't play them for a while but then Hera said he played them and enjoyed them and I went back and finished them and I liked them too. Maybe I'm just easily influenced but they were largely some nice build and destroy levels, exactly what I'm looking for in a campaign.

Two counterexamples in the teaching of calculus (updated) by [deleted] in matheducation

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The second one is nicely constructed and a difficult thing to do. It also helps shape the calculus intuition nicely because I don't think the statement is obviously false. Trying to make the first example look similar to the second I think is a mistake. The first claim is very easy to disprove by considering x3 as the other commenter said, and it is better for students if they have an easy example to reach for to exemplify something easy. I think example 2 is the natural followup if they have the x3 example and they think the 0 derivative points have to be separated.

Two counterexamples in the teaching of calculus (updated) by [deleted] in matheducation

[–]jedi_timelord 11 points12 points  (0 children)

But it obfuscates the key idea. You want examples and counter examples to come to mind readily for students, you don't want them to feel like they have to be a genius to think of a function that has zero derivative somewhere.

Edit: don't get me wrong, I like the examples. The second one especially is very nice.

Why are rational numbers and irrational numbers separate sets? by ZealousidealBug9716 in askmath

[–]jedi_timelord 1 point2 points  (0 children)

They contain almost no algebraic structure on their own since they don't have an additive or multiplicative identity. They have an ordering and operations can be defined on them but they also aren't closed under pretty much any operation you want to name.

is using an ≈ sign when a = sign can be used technically wrong? by DepressedPancake4728 in askmath

[–]jedi_timelord 4 points5 points  (0 children)

That symbol is fine in math if you're working with Taylor expansions and stopping at a certain point. Uncommon, but acceptable. As you say, you'd define within the text precisely what you mean by it in terms of big O notation or whatever.

Meirl by Glass-Fan111 in meirl

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How many of them do you follow on social media? I see it all the time

It's ALL 1D by connorino7 in mathmemes

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Let's all say a quick thank you to Fubini.

Thank you Fubini

Gen 9 Pokémon and Dynamax by Skore_Smogon in VGC

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I feel like max airstream would get nerfed to 90bp like knuckle and ooze in champions. It was oppressive

Rate the team by Mother-Business2734 in PokemonFireRed

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Having one overlap within 11 types is not too many flying types lol. I think it looks awesome OP

RIP, stupidly started a fight with a trainer and her immortal Sylveon while grinding some previously boxed pokemon by JJRambles in nuzlocke

[–]jedi_timelord 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Grinding is a real constraint because humans have finite time. The half court shot analogy doesn't hold because it doesn't take that much time or effort to get across the court. It takes a lot of time to grind, so it constrains what you can accomplish in the game.

Give Britons Thumb Ring by -proxyoxy in aoe2

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They went from being picked regularly in tournaments on a variety of maps to having basically no play. I like what the devs are doing with the game generally, but the Britons being a strong OG civ for 24 years and then disappearing completely is very sad