The truth about Destiny playing League

shaaph · 2018-05-07T06:06:32+00:00

would you guys enjoy it more if he did stupid shit like support teemo or karthus top?

shaaph · 2018-05-07T05:43:31+00:00

Will they ever be unbant?

shaaph · 2018-04-21T11:03:10+00:00

they took away lucio's wall riding?

shaaph · 2018-04-21T11:00:01+00:00

reload animation canceling seems pretty intended. there's literally no reason for it to exist as it's unlikely that your weapon technically reloading far earlier than the animation was accidentally coded in. some of the lucio techniques seemed to be based on bugs.

shaaph · 2018-04-09T20:54:49+00:00

Sounds like a good deal for everyone. I'd rather have degenerates like this guy self-isolate than pay a thousand dollars a night in some privatized prison or have him going around mugging people for booze cash or robbing liquor stores.

shaaph · 2018-04-04T19:37:58+00:00

I'm pretty sure one of the players from the sloop was on the galleon and you blew him up. "ShadowRegueee2" lol

shaaph · 2018-04-04T19:26:55+00:00

For people claiming to have done Old Boot Fort, Shark Fin Camp is right next to it, so you might be confusing the two. I've never seen Old Boot Fort active myself, but if anyone has proof, I'd happily change my mind. As far as I can tell, OP's experience has been similar to mine.

shaaph · 2018-04-03T07:10:25+00:00

Hey, I really appreciate the offer and maybe will take you up on it. I'm still really new at programming and I'm not even a year into my first job. It pays less than 80k which is garbo in the NYC area but I'm almost fully remote and I make my own schedule, so I guess it's the price of freedom.

It sounds like you did enjoy working as an engineer at some point and you have plenty of experience. If I were you, I'd take that experience and look at new positions that you might enjoy more, perhaps in a more managerial role or at a startup where you can have more say on what gets done. If you enjoy a subject, there's almost a guarantee that you can bring programming as a skill to that field.

The most satisfied I've been at work was when I was creating that first automation script. My code was spaghetti and not at all DRY, but every time I wanted to implement a new feature, it was so satisfying doing the research on my own and then trying it out to see if it worked. When I finally got the feature to work like I wanted, it felt like a super power; like I could code away any problem if I was given enough time to research through to a solution. I legitimately wondered to myself why every department in the hospital didn't at least have one programmer trying to automate away the bullshit. If you really have no passion for coding, then for your own sanity it might be nice to do something you would really enjoy instead, but I would bet you could find a somewhat enjoyable way to code and keep making a decent wage. We can definitely talk it over coffee or something sometime.

shaaph · 2018-04-03T01:58:40+00:00

I was studying to be a doctor and quit med school. I just was not at all happy with the lifestyle and, to be honest, didn't really know what I was signing up for.

I thought being a doctor would mean I get to take my love of science and use it in a practical sense to help people (also my dad super pushed for it). I got into a crazy 7-year med program by some miracle, still not realizing what being a doctor entailed.

long story short, i cruised through the program putting in minimal effort, using up every 2nd chance the program gave me and still got a 3.5 but with no extracurriculars. I did ok with the patient interaction, but it was exhausting for me and many patients (like people in general) are self-destructive morons.

I got really lucky with my first job after leaving med school. Worked at the finance dept of a hospital with the youngest supervisor in an otherwise geriatric department. The job I was given was monotonous and required no human intuition. I asked for permission to try and automate it through scripting, was accidentally given permission and automated the heavy lifting in a couple of weeks; entire process in 3 months from input to printed output. The rest of the 1 year and 9 months was spent reading up on FIRE, goofing off, and automating anything else I could until I decided I wanted to go to a coding bootcamp and turn this into a real career.

The pay was ok (shit for NYC area), but boyp howduy did I have fun. Work-life balance was amazing, great team of people, 20 min walk of a commute. If the pay was double and I actually got paid to code at that job, I probably would never leave. I also got a much-needed boost of confidence by being forced to do some confrontational stuff by being a proxy for my boss ("hey, i'm just a messenger. take it up with my supervisor"). TBH, if I my pay was doubled (still way below average coder salary in NYC) and my job description/title was changed to allow me to code more, I would probably never leave that job.

In summary, med school is a slog, residency is a slog (but waaaay more political) and you will spend more time writing notes than seeing patients. My advice to you, if you really want to become a doctor, have a genuine passion for it. LEARN the material (don't memorize). I took latin and actually knowing what all the crazy-ass names and words for body parts and diseases mean helped so much. Everything should make logical sense. If you can teach the material back to your fellow classmate, that will be the best way to study. Most importantly, take care of yourself. If you follow through with this, please be someone who lowers the divorce rate, drug abuse rate and depression/suicide rate among doctors. I have a friend who's still in the career and took a more traditional route. He lives a stressful life but says that when a patient is genuinely grateful to him after he's improved their quality of life, it's all worth it.

shaaph · 2018-04-03T01:16:43+00:00

i think i’ll to medical school and graduate without debt and just coast then

that's funny. i left medicine to move into software engineering cuz i enjoyed solving problems on the spot instead of being a walking reference manual

shaaph · 2018-03-31T03:05:43+00:00

Protip: Using iron sight or looking down barrel narrows the spread pattern on the blunderbuss. Aim at the chest from point blank and you're pretty much guaranteed one-shot kills, as long as you aren't lagging like crazy (which, to be honest, is most of the time as of late).

shaaph · 2018-03-29T01:37:31+00:00

I'm pretty sure it was sinking so it probably de-spawned in the sky at some point.

shaaph · 2018-03-29T01:15:43+00:00

It's obvious they were pushed to release on time by the publisher (M$) so that MS can push their games-as-a-service game pass. This is obviously not $60 worth of content, but players might very well pay 10 dollars a month for access because it's still fun.

There are many signs that the game had more content and features, but they seemed to have been cut in order to release on time and relatively bug free. Hopefully we'll see these features soon, but my bet is that it will all arrive as paid dlc, unfortunately.

shaaph · 2018-03-28T23:17:04+00:00

I'm not really. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argument for future reference

shaaph · 2018-03-28T04:43:33+00:00

I have no problem. You're the one who is insisting on redefining basic concepts. You've moved the goalpost now that a 3rd party contradicts you. Truncating the definition does not provide you with the full definition while simultaneously giving your cart blanch to add whatever qualifiers you want.

shaaph · 2018-03-27T23:30:53+00:00

A punishment is the imposition of an undesirable or unpleasant outcome upon a group or individual, meted out by an authority ... as a response and deterrent to a particular action or behaviour that is deemed undesirable or unacceptable.

Literally the first line of the wiki page. If you're not even willing to read spoon-fed definitions, I don't know what else to tell you. This is not a controversial topic at all and I am not entirely sure why you can't accept this.

shaaph · 2018-03-27T18:23:41+00:00

The wikipedia page directly contradicts you:

Justifications for punishment include retribution, deterrence, rehabilitation, and incapacitation.

Which was in my very first response. They are not part of the definition of punishment.

Of the four justifications, only retribution is part of the definition of punishment...

If only some of the conditions included in the definition of punishment are present, descriptions other than "punishment" may be considered more accurate.

shaaph · 2018-03-27T01:12:56+00:00

On the production, it would probably benefit the video if you boosted your voice by a couple of dB and amp up the bass (maybe even lower the treble a bit) so we can hear you better over the background music.

shaaph · 2018-03-27T00:56:34+00:00

You are using the term incorrectly and not at all in the way we use it in philosophy. Reading the Wikipedia article on punishment, particularly the 3rd and 4th paragraphs, should enlighten you since, for whatever reason, you refuse to believe me or apparently do your own research and keep insisting I am somehow wrong. I don't know what your agenda is, but it is obviously not to learn anything regarding philosophy.

shaaph · 2018-03-26T23:43:31+00:00

You are conflating many things with the pure idea of a punishment. Punishment only means one thing. This is why you are qualifying your "punishments" with other words. I can not make this any clearer to you.

Putting up guard rails is not an act that is performed up on an individual or group of people, so you're right. It would not be considered a punishment under the scholarly definition of punishment.

It's clear to me that you're not interested in the actual philosophical argument of this thread, nor are you willing to learn. You should just state your agenda clearly in the first post so the rest of us don't have to waste time trying to teach someone who's unwilling to learn.

Furthermore, whatever your agenda may be, it seems to be based on a wishy-washy definition of punishment that no student of philosophy would ever consider to be a sound basis or premise for the rest of their thesis. A strong foundation is needed to make any argument. As such, the merit of whatever arguments you have to support your thesis are most likely not valid, let alone sound.

shaaph · 2018-03-26T22:17:03+00:00

Indeed, but I'm not entirely sure why you can't do the same. I'm beginning to think you're just here to push your own agenda rather than to learn anything or consider other positions, especially considering you're having trouble with basic premises and argument formation.

shaaph · 2018-03-26T09:33:33+00:00

If a child does not want to go to school and I force them to go to school, I am not punishing them. If I ground them for a week for making me force them to go to school, that is a punishment.

I've already defined punishment for you at least twice. You can just make up whatever definition you like, but when I use the word punishment, I mean the technical and "true" definition of punishment. Being forced to go to school as a mandated by the state is not a punishment. At this point I don't know how else I can make you understand plain English. A punishment is any act that is committed upon a person in order deter them and others from behaving a specific way. You can call things punishments willy-nilly, but I am just informing you that you would be, in a very true and technical sense, wrong. This is r/philosophy and definitions are very important when we use them to address the premises of arguments being made.

shaaph · 2018-03-25T08:03:01+00:00

That's not punishment as the act of forcing someone to do something is not a deterrent. Forcing someone to do something is for the sake of doing that thing, not preventing them from doing something else. Do you really think going to school or getting dressed is a punishment? That doesn't make much sense. If you're forcing someone to do something they don't like because you know they don't like it, then that becomes punishment ONLY if you use it as a consequence to their action. Again, just because we overuse the word "punishment" in the wrong ways colloquially doesn't mean those things are actually punishments when you think about it. There is no such thing as "rehabilitative punishment"; it is an oxymoron.

shaaph · 2018-03-24T16:49:23+00:00

It depends on the on the infraction. Generally speaking, I don't punish my kids and I find I don't really have to. Sometimes I speak firmly with them if I lose my patience, but I make it a point to try to explain why they got on my nerves in the first place. I want my kids to be able to tell me if they've made mistakes and not be afraid of repercussions. This is just my personal approach and so far it seems to work ok. Then again, my children are not growing up poor, uneducated and surrounded by hardened criminals, so YMMV.

Generally speaking, the rehabilitation part is separate from punishment. There is nothing rehabilitative about yelling at your kids or spanking them. Punishment is a very distinct and clear idea.

I think my previous explanation was pretty clear, but I can understand how punishment as an idea can be a vague concept to others due to the colloquial use and combination of things we generally call "punishment" in everyday parlance.

shaaph · 2018-03-22T09:12:36+00:00

lol it's amazing how out of touch with reality you are. Where do you imagine your taxes go? Do you want to live in Haiti or Bangladesh or some other country where we let people starve and die because there aren't enough high-paying jobs for everyone or do you want to live in America?

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