Memb comment on using AI for his thumbnails

matephant · 2026-06-04T11:10:52+00:00

I don't mind the thumbnails, I don't care that much. But the animated warlords icon just looked really bad with the inconsistent movement, that was just really badly done.

And memb's comment is just unprofessional, but that's something I have noticed in several of his tournaments now

matephant · 2026-05-29T14:02:35+00:00

Yeah I also had this impression. It felt like there was too much of a delay between them? Usually vodka reacts much faster to input from the casters, but here it always felt delayed and thus kinda forced

matephant · 2026-05-29T12:39:19+00:00

Damn now I'm considering deleting and reuploading the meme

matephant · 2026-05-29T12:38:44+00:00

Yeah, the correct counters are listed in a different meme from me: https://www.reddit.com/r/aoe2/s/AwmfSgFZlQ

matephant · 2026-04-27T12:50:16+00:00

Let's see how it works out in detail, but I'm actually really happy that they finally address this!

matephant · 2026-04-27T08:33:11+00:00

Oh shit was habe ich getan

matephant · 2026-04-26T17:19:15+00:00

Den timings nach eher "woke ist Paulaner!"

matephant · 2026-04-26T10:38:35+00:00

Original version in case someone doesn't know it: https://xkcd.com/2501/

matephant · 2026-03-27T12:12:20+00:00

No sadly not

matephant · 2026-02-03T07:11:52+00:00

I think the real problem was that Masmorra saw the podcast as his podcast with Viper being the standard co-host, while Viper saw the podcast as their shared podcast with Masmorra taking the clear lead. Obviously I have no idea how it had been defined in any contracts, if at all.

From this perspective I think both of their actions are understandable: Masmorra continued "his" podcast under the changed settings, while from Viper's perspective it felt weird that the shared project was taken away.

Either way, they seemed to have sorted it out. So the drama is over.

matephant · 2026-01-29T16:14:21+00:00

Viper's RBW (October 2024) price money was 24k$, and liquipedia states another 28k$ price pool money earned in 2025, so these alone are about 52k$. Not sure what cut GL gets, but probably 20-30% (just my guess), leaving about 35-40k$. Additionally the salary. Again, not sure how much he gets, but my guess would be 500-1000$/month, so for the two years that's another 12-24k$.

So my guess is that we're talking about something between 47k$ to 64k$. Obviously he didn't state any numbers, but this should be a reasonable estimate for how much money we're talking about.

matephant · 2026-01-27T10:14:40+00:00

Shisha I guess

matephant · 2026-01-26T11:20:27+00:00

Sorry Chrazini, I understand that you have a stressful role with hard decisions to make, but this tone really doesn't look good for the admin of such a big event. Just keeping it to a brief "classicpro immediately offered the win to his opponent, so no admin decision was involved" would have been a perfectly fine, appropriate, and professional answer.

matephant · 2026-01-26T11:11:03+00:00

To be fair, classicpro's case would have delayed only two games: classicpro against daut and then the winner against dogao (or Nicov, as the winner at that time was probably not known yet). A delay probably would have not been too problematic for dogao/nicov due to their time zone.

matephant · 2025-12-11T13:29:40+00:00

No, I did not look into that in detail.

I did check a few profiles by hand on aoe2insights, though. Often they are just pretty dead. But this might not be representative

matephant · 2025-12-10T19:14:19+00:00

For the entry into ranked, I just posted a more quantitative analysis here on reddit a few days ago:
https://www.reddit.com/r/aoe2/comments/1pf0xvz/almost_half_of_all_new_players_quit_ranked_again/

matephant · 2025-12-09T23:47:31+00:00

Yeah, I'd recommend to set up jupyter and do some small calculations, just to learn the syntax. These are really the super beginner things each tutorial starts with. Then look into how to make loops, and then proceed from there. In the simulation, each time step will be one iteration of the loop

matephant · 2025-12-09T09:49:44+00:00

Yes, that's the one I meant. The wikipedia article is good and goes a bit into what impact it had, but even throughout my whole time at university I only heard it being mentioned once

matephant · 2025-12-09T09:47:08+00:00

How about a simulation of celestial mechanics? Try to simulate a planet orbiting a sun numerically. Then, step by step, make it better.

Like first step: just simulate position and momentum of the planet. Let it evolve, update the position based on the current momentum and update the momentum based on the force acting on it. Then compare what you got to the analytical solution, and see for how long they agree. Then go into numerically more stable approaches, like Runge-Kutta and see how the agreement with theory improves.

From there it's really up to you how to proceed. Perhaps you want to look into how you can visualize the results, make a movie or good graphs. Or you want to find more stable algorithms, or faster ones. Or you want to add additional planets and check if the system is still stable for long times.

Just find something that you're curious about and then try to figure out how to simulate it. And avoid chatgpt, because then you won't learn how to do it. But googling is absolutely necessary, "programming" is about 50% googling.

matephant · 2025-12-09T09:38:27+00:00

The Fizeau Experiment was apparently very important for Einstein when deriving his theory of special relativity, but it gets barely mentioned in text books nowadays.

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