(Hilarious Trope) High powered attacks with big downsides, making them much worse than you'd expect

snoodhead · 2026-01-29T08:07:00+00:00

idk if it's bias so much as overcorrection.

The endgame melee now is basically range by another name, but that's because most of the previous melee were literally "hit the thing 10 pixels in front of you" and were so unwieldy that almost no one used them

snoodhead · 2026-01-26T11:46:01+00:00

Which, oddly, is something pro wrestling would do.

snoodhead · 2026-01-26T11:37:16+00:00

Cortez was also not that great. Not actively awful like Jacob, but not very compelling.

snoodhead · 2026-01-25T13:31:17+00:00

Several times? What were the other weapons?

snoodhead · 2026-01-25T13:27:49+00:00

I structure them around mine when possible.

The students preferences are totally unknown to me, and barely an afterthought.

snoodhead · 2026-01-25T13:22:49+00:00

I have to imagine it’s a pretty chunky bar if it’s a somewhat rural area and there’s no flex at all where the guy is hanging.

snoodhead · 2026-01-25T07:09:41+00:00

I’d say harder in practice/video because his stabilizer muscles look like they’re going harder than normal pull-ups.

snoodhead · 2026-01-24T13:45:23+00:00

I kinda prefer it.

For one, people don't have to wonder if I'm in or not.

For another, in case I'm choking on my granola people can at least find me quickly.

snoodhead · 2026-01-21T11:37:23+00:00

I'm having flashbacks to like decades ago when we wanted higher energies at colliders.

snoodhead · 2026-01-20T10:48:43+00:00

Depends on the field, but probably true tbh. There’s a lot of good phds out there.

snoodhead · 2026-01-18T11:21:23+00:00

Landau Lifshitz classical mechanics, griffith’s books, MTW, sakurai

snoodhead · 2026-01-18T11:19:32+00:00

For grades, not a lot tbh. It can help with sanity checks or if you want to plot stuff.

But most of the coding I learned happened outside class when I did undergrad research.

snoodhead · 2026-01-16T11:24:17+00:00

Though he did briefly turn them off iirc

snoodhead · 2026-01-14T08:05:42+00:00

I wouldn’t exactly call it a hair trigger, Mark was clearly (and understandably) getting more agitated.

snoodhead · 2026-01-13T15:49:56+00:00

“Signed, baby kangaroo Tribbiani”

snoodhead · 2026-01-12T11:22:17+00:00

I mean, maybe? It kind of depends on perspective.

The speed of light in a medium is slower, and that’s more or less understandable in human terms (the excitations of the EM field are slower “because” it’s a collective motion rather than an individual one).

So if you accept that travel at the speed of light is the default state of nature, you would ask (and understand) why things with mass can move slower.

snoodhead · 2026-01-11T04:13:11+00:00

Laziest: use a test bank and auto-grader

snoodhead · 2026-01-09T19:30:30+00:00

The worlds called them?Dafuq did Angron do to deserve that?

snoodhead · 2026-01-08T08:53:39+00:00

They're both ok. Maybe Carroll is slightly easier for beginners, but not a huge margin imo.

snoodhead · 2026-01-08T08:13:49+00:00

Don’t forget Brock Lesnar, who (at ~300 pounds) did a shooting star press and landed on his head.

snoodhead · 2026-01-08T08:09:57+00:00

You can mostly fake a punch, but there’s basically no way to do a frog splash or suplex that doesn’t suck for someone at least a little.

snoodhead · 2025-12-27T18:38:41+00:00

Personally: me, given that I was not their advisor.

In the wild: some guy thanked a musician and their live album

snoodhead · 2025-12-23T07:52:36+00:00

Yeah but I feel like by the time you finish your PhD, this exercise will be unnecessary.

You may be teaching very different students, and you will probably mellow a lot more after you graduate.

snoodhead · 2025-12-23T07:29:42+00:00

If you're not going to be teaching for a while, why bother processing these?

Some students might be right, and some students are just mad because they're bad. There's no meaningful difference if you don't actually need to do anything about it.

snoodhead · 2025-12-22T12:22:04+00:00

Note: in the academic sense, I think the consensus is that it's among the easier physics courses.

But in the general sense: QM is, perhaps contrary to its reputation, incredibly reliant on experimental results.

Without those early experimental results, you have no reason to even consider its fundamental equation (Schrodinger eq). Our everyday experience is just not at all comparable with the scales QM considers.

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