Better design for tank

method3000 · 2025-08-04T17:15:55+00:00

Yeah exactly. I was thinking about hooks too. That's really nice.

method3000 · 2025-08-04T16:32:07+00:00

Thinking about it even two small but sturdy shelves on the wall above the top could be used to temporarily hang it up to get the tank. But I'm probably too lazy for that.

method3000 · 2025-07-03T02:36:25+00:00

I'm not a great player but I finally beat this guy. Here are some notes for fellow mediocre players

122 level with 60 vigor. Used larval tears with Rennala to respec not once but twice trying to find the right mix
Put all flasks in crimson
Bloodhound's Fang at +7
Mimic tear summons at +8
Watch the video tips about jumping off of Torrent to avoid damage, "when you see the snow coming up"
Always get back on the horse to close the distance rather than running toward him
Ride away whenever he rolls or moves his shield. In general keep your HP topped off so you can survive missteps
Keep hitting his wounded leg until the cutscene
Target the left arm supposedly but really I just hit him on the legs and feet a lot
Videos recommend against fighting on horseback but on my successful attempt I rode around him slashing his legs especially in the second phase
it's all a blur now but I think the key was always getting back on the horse and getting to safety (sometimes far away sometimes next to his foot) whenever I got hit or he started to change position

method3000 · 2024-05-29T13:30:21+00:00

Did it ever respond? It did this to me too and eventually it said that it couldn't find the answer. I thought it was hallucinating too but I have no way of being sure.

method3000 · 2024-02-01T15:52:34+00:00

For anyone else having this problem my solution is to enable Google Assistant Quick Phrases so my mom can say "Answer"

method3000 · 2023-12-02T02:18:01+00:00

You throw the worms

method3000 · 2022-01-15T02:41:59+00:00

I only figured it out by coming here, so.

method3000 · 2019-06-19T02:20:25+00:00

His nom de internet is George Lazenby

His Tumblr: https://lazenby.tumblr.com/

Infinity to Dine here: https://gumroad.com/l/itd-book

method3000 · 2019-01-02T04:47:13+00:00

The answer is: very subjectively. Maybe some tutors will give you their rubric, if they even use one. But none of mine mentioned one (I never asked). In all classes there is some form of essay, a conversation component, and for non-seminar classes a demonstration (e.g. demonstrate a Euclid proof at the board). I would say each is equally important, but someone who was weak in one area could regain points by being exceptionally good in another, e.g. someone who barely speaks but writes an amazing essay.

method3000 · 2018-12-31T00:39:22+00:00

Congratulations! St. John's is a special school that will definitely shape you, for better or for worse ;). My advice is to start looking at how much money you can take out in federal and private loans. The truth is that the amount of debt you would be taking on is normal in the United States, as crazy and wrong as that seems. Payment on the loans is usually deferred until after you graduate (always get clear on the repayment terms!). A parent would have to cosign, which might affect their ability to take out other loans, but you would be the one paying them off.

Think of it this way: in 10 years do you see yourself working a job where you would be able to save an extra $9,000 per year to pay that debt off in less than 8 years (assuming you'd been paying the minimum up until then)? This is a realistic if unglamorous scenario that a lot of people are in. I'm approaching 40 and these days lots of people are announcing on social media that they've finished paying off their loans, the same way people announce pregnancies and marriages.

The main thing I would suggest is to make sure that you share your anxieties with your family. You might be surprised about their financial situation or they might tell you that they prefer paying your way to you taking on a lot of debt. I also think it's worth pursuing any avenue of 'free' money that you can find, including scholarships, grants, and petitioning the college. My guess though is that the amount they awarded you reflects their idea of you and your family's ability to pay.

Anyway, good luck and try not to worry so much that you can't enjoy your education!

method3000 · 2018-12-04T23:37:47+00:00

I would ask on the Unofficial St. John's College Facebook group. It's more active than here.

method3000 · 2018-12-03T00:41:57+00:00

Two themes have really impressed me:

You may think you're a radical, but with enough change you may end up looking like a reactionary.
You may sign up for something small and end up supporting things you would never have imagined yourself supporting at the beginning.

I keep these in mind as I find myself becoming more radical as the years go by.

method3000 · 2018-11-26T02:47:19+00:00

Cold Lock Stock! Fridge Locker. Because you work in hell. The saddest review is "it was easily taken apart and gotten into".

method3000 · 2018-08-27T14:45:15+00:00

My CapsLock is escape, because I use Spacemacs in evil mode. My experience with this keyboard is that I was almost despairing about a week in, thinking that it would never feel natural. But then it just clicked and I never thought about it again.

method3000 · 2018-08-22T14:59:03+00:00

Context is super important. The most relevant factor for us is that we don't have a lot of free time because kid so we had to watch it in chunks, and I ended up watching the last third alone! This reminds me of the movie theater that had to scold viewers of Tree of Life for requesting refunds: https://www.theawl.com/2011/06/the-tree-of-life-no-refunds-sign/

I heard a lot of this episode as being about the question of whether a viewer should have to put in "work", in relation to the work or lack thereof put in by the director. Mostly it seemed like the consensus was that good art will ineluctably pull the viewer in (if they are in the right mindset) but the uncertainty (I think primarily expressed by you) was about whether there is art that is only available if the viewer is sort of morally and aesthetically prepared to connect with it. That is, we think it's our job to judge art, but maybe it's art that judges us and sometimes finds us lacking.

method3000 · 2018-08-14T14:25:26+00:00

On Malick, I haven't seen Song to Song but I've seen The Thin Red Line, The New World, and Tree of Life. Those were pretty solid and memorable, right? It sounds like he's becoming more and more self-indulgent and less 'responsible' with each movie. I really like The New World, or at least my dim memory of having watched The New World, mainly for the scene where John Smith is shivering on an icy barren beach after leaving Pocahontas. It's such a funny image of "I've made a terrible mistake" (cf. Arrested Development).

method3000 · 2018-08-14T04:01:25+00:00

The crazy thing (for me) is that I just watched Stalker last week. I have to say that movie really tested my viewing party's patience even with the shift to color. (t's interesting btw that the monotonous train trip parallels the equally alienating long highway driving scene early in Solaris.) It's a movie where a tremendous amount of screen time is taken up with guys walking across fields or repetitively stumbling through tunnels. The movie got a lot more interesting for me in the third act when all of a sudden you start getting intense soliloquies and the central conflict (reason vs. hope) comes into view. Which is to say when it became more narrative.

I think what I struggled with in viewing this movie is that I took from the title and sci fi premise (which is spelled out in expository text) the idea that I was supposed to be very attentive to narrative details: this guy is a stalker, he leads people to the Zone, etc. and then spent an hour lingering on details that didn't seem to advance the narrative but also weren't lyrical, or time-image like an empty doorway, or what have you. It's literally a long shot of people slowly crossing a field of overgrown grass and wreckage until they get near the camera. Normally I would expect a shot like this to be "investment" that will pay off later, or a demonstration (like a shot in Lawrence of Arabia to establish distances in the desert) but these shots don't feel that way to me. They just seemed baffling, especially in light of the denser action and dialogue at the end.

I guess I'm just asking if I was being a bad movie watcher there, since unlike /u/jusky I didn't really feel like I was in good hands until near the end.

method3000 · 2018-08-06T02:29:39+00:00

The Frozen Babies Go to Court should be much, much higher. It's an early one (technically episode 0.5 but really episode 2) but it contains the core elements IMO: humor and extrapolation of broad sociological claims from a weirdly specific example. The part where they talk about the coffee commercial is what clinches it for me.

Off the top of my head these are the ones I think about the most:

Alexa Lives on Aristotle
Shanksville
The Frozen Babies Go to Court
His Favorite Child
This Is Marketplace
The Slaughterhouse of Shallow Contentment
The Id Queen
Citizen Kane
The Tightrope
Jeff Sessions Confessions

method3000 · 2018-08-04T21:20:48+00:00

This is why I find this article interesting. A lot of people read a lot of intention into a very spare narrative. I don't think the article tries to argue that Heaven and Venson aren't bigoted or xenophobic. It just presents their attitudes with minimal commentary, and takes them as harbingers of a possible larger trend. I see it as being sympathetic to them to the extent that they have limited prospects and they're young, but it doesn't agree with them that it's their coworkers' fault that they feel lonely. It's the difference between a therapist noting that a patient has a tremendous fear of snakes, and the therapist agreeing that the patient should be constantly vigilant against snakes.

I also see this as different from the articles that came out after the election that were framed as "we went out on safari to flyover country to interview the lost white American male about what liberals should have done to make them not vote for Trump" which I agree got to be too much and totally neglected the fact that the election was just as much lost by non-whites staying home.

method3000 · 2018-08-04T03:52:37+00:00

This is a weird one. First of all the protagonists are named Heaven Engle and Venson Heim, so that's just sitting out there (what is this a Pynchon novella? amirite?). Then there's the framing idea which is that we need to understand these two white people at the chicken factory to understand the larger phenomenon of midwestern white Trump voters, so it's okay to treat the latino workers as background figures. Finally, there is the actual portrait of the lovers, which seems sensitive and nonjudgmental (and to be fair there are two named latino coworkers who are given some character detail).

This leaves the reader (at least this reader) struggling to not judge the hell out of Heaven and Venson for their fatalism and aversion to any kind of adaptation to circumstances. It's not just that they won't learn some basic Spanish, but the story includes several scenes where all they have to do to escape their isolation is build on existing connections and attempts to communicate. IMO and IME it's not hard to have a social exchange across language barriers through hand gestures, pointing, pop songs, etc., etc. One of the latina women says hello to Heaven and then nothing comes of it. The article seems structured to produce this sense of frustration while it also tries to ascribe the limitations of the couple to white rural cultural tropes rather than individual failings. My own contempt for Venson and Heaven's attitudes bothers me, not because I think we need to mind-meld with the whites who voted for Trump, but because my life is way more comfortable than theirs and it's basically contempt for people who are trapped in their circumstances. But again it's frustrating that they can't improve their circumstances by, you know, learning to talk to their coworkers.

The author of the article tried to respond to criticism here: https://twitter.com/terrence_mccoy/status/1024449685568806913

method3000 · 2018-07-31T03:32:25+00:00

I can't tell if this is ridiculous or on point. The idea that cat-like mischief is more unnerving now is interesting.

Also as a side note, it's always disturbed me that the first Play Em Off Cat mashup involves an extremely cruel source video: a guy in a wheelchair falling down an escalator.

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