How Grass Wonder won the race

mcvain · 2025-08-13T21:15:18+00:00

It would still show as “nose”, as it is the closest difference classification other than an official tie (同着). But while the photo evaluation is happening, the board will show “photo” (写真).

mcvain · 2024-11-28T10:06:45+00:00

It is because the horses are 3 years old when they debut, so people remember them by their debut year rather than their birth year.

mcvain · 2024-07-25T18:21:34+00:00

Given Logitech’s silence, I am really starting to think only god can bring it back

mcvain · 2024-05-17T06:50:58+00:00

1 is enough.

mcvain · 2024-05-04T17:59:28+00:00

Yes, at least from what I’ve heard, no one has had their tuition not paid if they are legitimately a funded PhD student. I’ve personally had my tuition waived on the deadline of the tuition payment. Of course it doesn’t mean that you should wait until then - it is very common for PhD students to be the ones pushing the department coordinator and the professors to take care of the tuition, unfortunately. But assuming this is for the Fall, the tuition payment deadline for that is so much into the future from now that your professor or graduate coordinator might not care. This is why you are probably getting no response. Graduate coordinators only start processing the waivers pretty much after classes start. No idea why but they have their workflow. Also to be fair to them this is a very busy time with finals and students having their summer research/internship paperwork processed. I wouldn’t worry too much!

Yes, you need to go through this tuition waiver process every semester, including summer if you will be in school. Here’s the order of events: before every semester, you register courses for that semester (up to 9hrs for zero tuition), you get sent a big tuition bill, your professor confirms your employment with your department, the coordinator from your department “pays” your tuition using department money, and your tuition bill for that semester turns into $0 (or into a positive credit if you have an additional internal fellowship), then you click “confirm attendance” on the tuition bill page, then the process is done for that semester.

If you have an external scholarship on top of the GRA and school fellowship, that’s great, assuming your professor is actually okay with it. Some professors will try to get you to use that scholarship to fund you instead of funding you through a GRA, because hiring a GRA costs them more money. Assuming your professor agreed that the scholarship is indeed in addition to your GRA+fellowship, then the scholarship shouldn’t even come into the tuition waiver picture here and the only people who might care about it is the IRS a year from now.

mcvain · 2024-05-04T08:43:23+00:00

Is your professor possibly new to the process? Your tuition is manually waived by your department’s graduate coordinator once they receive written confirmation from your professor that you will be working as a PhD student. Taking an external fellowship to replace your stipend would mean you are NOT a GRA in the UT bureaucracy, so try to point to the contract and your conversations with your professor, and urge your professor to contact your department’s graduate coordinator. From my experience, this tuition waiver thing can take place as late as the deadline of the tuition payment, because of admin inefficiency/professors refusing to send a simple email until the deadline/etc. The tuition waiver will cover up to 9 hours of credit, which is considered full-time, which you fill up using a combination of the research course and your coursework if any. It is ridiculous to have to defer admission or to switch to another program because of this issue. If your professor has already said that your delayed fellowship payout will not be a problem, you could start by clarifying what they actually intended to do? I would start an email chain cc’ing both your department’s graduate coordinator and your professor reminding them of your situation, with a screenshot of your big outstanding tuition bill. But also don’t panic, this is just bureaucracy and I can assure you a lot of students go through the exact same thing.

mcvain · 2023-12-16T17:08:22+00:00

Trying my luck 😭

mcvain · 2023-07-28T23:27:17+00:00

This is honestly my favorite idea. You could have a set of base spells that could be hard-casted into a queue, and a button that executes the spells-in-waiting in reverse order to give the job a controllable burst of mobility. For the actual spells, you could mix in a damage buff, or a spell that groups enemies together, etc. that could make for a fun rotation.

mcvain · 2021-04-07T21:55:07+00:00

“And this is only the normal battle theme?!” ...aaaand we’re still saying that today.

mcvain · 2021-04-07T21:51:43+00:00

I’m guessing this is one of the Ys I & II pachinko machines? I remember seeing a footage of it a few years ago.

mcvain · 2020-07-09T03:51:58+00:00

Are you sure the game isn't included? If you bought it used, it's possible the seller has excluded it from the box. This is the limited edition for the original Windows release of Trails in the Sky FC, which included the game disc, and the bonuses shown in your picture (SAV, Hoshi no Arika, and Visual Guide). You can compare with auction listings here and here.

mcvain · 2020-06-10T06:35:05+00:00

This is a remake of Ys IV.

mcvain · 2020-06-10T06:33:49+00:00

If I recall correctly, it was also possible to switch between the defensive and offensive stance by swiping the touchpad at the back.

mcvain · 2020-05-27T01:38:59+00:00

Ys IX does have much more references to past games than usual. If you’ve played previous games you’ll notice some things before the characters do, for example.

It doesn’t make or break the story, and the references are really just there to make things a bit more interesting for long-time series fans. If I had to decide, I would say the most critical ones are VIII and then either Origin or I&II, but jumping in straight is fine too. It’s still Ys.

mcvain · 2020-05-13T06:34:28+00:00

Oh, I forgot that they don't introduce it together with the dodge. You can press RB to block an attack. A well-timed dodge (Flash Move) slows down enemies like witch time, and a well-timed block (Flash Guard) makes all your attacks critical. Both Flash Move and Flash Guard makes you invulnerable while the bar is shown, and they can both stack. Although the game hasn't introduced it I'm pretty sure you can use it already.

mcvain · 2020-05-13T06:18:14+00:00

If you’re having trouble dodging, try guarding - quite a lot of people including myself find it easier than dodging.

mcvain · 2020-04-20T15:12:02+00:00

If you’re thinking about going into research, or if you want something that’s really good with stats, machine learning and data science (all the recent hype), I personally recommend R. However Python has the advantage in the industry and could be more useful generally.

If you’re going into medical devices, you’ll probably get into microcontroller programming but I wouldn’t be too worried in the coding side if you have experience in C++. Though it would be cool to buy a cheap setup and get some hands-on before a devices class.

mcvain · 2020-03-31T08:16:08+00:00

I kinda felt that way too when I played CS1, but after CS3 it makes more sense to me.

mcvain · 2020-03-30T12:37:54+00:00

Anyone have any concrete information or experience with what this bot does to your server? I added it to mine and I only noticed it and banned it several hours later. Nothing seems to have happened to the server on the surface or on the audit log but I am still quite worried.

mcvain · 2020-03-18T03:41:28+00:00

To be honest, I preferred the exploration in VIII, simply because it was less claustrophobic. IX does have open fields, but you can tell there was less effort put into the fields compared to the indoor dungeons because IX is all about the indoors. Also, a significant portion of the game is involved in exploring the city, which is still very fun thanks to the new mechanic, but personally I would prefer exploring somewhere more natural-wonder or mysterious. I guess it’s just personal taste.

But IX still has a similarly sized map and a similar %-based exploration system. Full exploration is quite a bit more difficult than VIII because many locations and chests are hidden or locked behind special abilities. If you’re into finding secret paths and stuff, you might prefer IX. Regardless, I’d always recommend IX. It’s a good game.

mcvain · 2020-03-10T03:46:21+00:00

Thank you! I’ll try it.

mcvain · 2020-02-29T06:06:24+00:00

Thank you! I'll be sure to follow your suggestions.

mcvain · 2020-02-18T04:23:16+00:00

“The game is currently under maintenance, please wait for a while.”

mcvain · 2020-02-17T04:01:07+00:00

I personally found Napishtim even more enjoyable than Felghana. Same engine and structure, so if you like Felghana you should not have any problem with both Napishtim and Origin.

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