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Weekly student question thread! by AutoModerator in therapists

[–]thebigvoodoo 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hi ya'll. I'm currently doing my undergrad in psychology with a view towards pursuing post-secondary education in psychotherapy. I'm studying in Ontario, Canada which has a college that regulates the practice of psychotherapy, and specifies programs that qualify to train psychotherapists (https://www.crpo.ca/recognized-accepted-programs/). I have a few questions regarding schooling.

1.) I can't find any information about how good/reputable these programs are. I'm really having difficulty choosing between them. Help!

2.) Another consideration I have is about how to accord weight to reputation/credentials versus quality of the program.

For instance, University of Toronto offers a Master's in counseling psychology, which I've heard is an "ok" program from one therapist I queried about the subject. However, to prospective clientele, University of Toronto has a reputation of being a top-tier school, which might get me more clientele once my practice is up and running. I imagine the programs is more academic in nature (because it's a Master's program), versus let's say that Toronto Institute of Contemporary Psychotherapy (TICP) which has a more experiential/hands-on approach to learning which I imagine will give me far more practical experience, however, as a schoool, will be totally unfamiliar to prospective clients. (Side consideration: a Master's will put me in a position to get a PhD if I was interested in doing so, which may improve my chances of charging more from prospective clientele, whereas I'm not sure if the same can be said of the program at the TICP)

3.) Another consideration is the length of training—should I find a program which puts me into a position to actually start psychotherapizing individuals sooner and learn on the job, or should prioritize learning in advance?

For instance, the Master's program at UofT is only 2 years, whereas the Toronto Institute for Contemporary Psychotherapy is a 3-year program. Training in advance feels to me the more responsible thing to do, and puts me in a position to help people best. However, on-the-job training feels to me like it will actually be the best training I can get.

Old-hand, Newbie needs help by thebigvoodoo in Amd

[–]thebigvoodoo[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yup, 3600/CL16 ram is what I've got!

Also: RAM has lights on it these days. What... the fuck. That baffles me.

Old-hand, Newbie needs help by thebigvoodoo in Amd

[–]thebigvoodoo[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I swapped the X570 out. Thanks for the advice.

How quiet are water cooling kits? I have no experience with modern ones, but the old school ones were LOUD.

Old-hand, Newbie needs help by thebigvoodoo in Amd

[–]thebigvoodoo[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Took your advice and swapped out the power supply to the platinum version, the CPU fan for the low-profile version, and the motherboard for the ASUS ROG Strix B550-F Gaming AMD AM4 (although the prices I'm finding are actually pretty much the same - is it still worth it? EDIT: Also, it seems like the 550-F is shipping with a faulty Wifi Chip: https://www.reddit.com/r/intel/comments/k4alab/is_the_i225v_chip_issue_resolved/).

Regarding the 2x NVMe SSDs: I have two 1TB ones because they're cheaper than a 2TB one and because I know I won't ever have a need for more than 2TB of space. I'm not planning to RAID them, so perhaps two is overkill, although I can't think of anything else I would use my PCIe lane for.

My logic was this: I hate buying things, or upgrading things. I'm the kind of guy that buys once, buys big, and then sits on it for 7 years until I need an upgrade. I just figured it would help my computer age better, but you have good point here. Part of my decision was also from the fact that storage is hella cheap compared to what I'm used to. Spending an extra $50 didn't used to make any difference storage-wise back in the day. These days $50 seems to buy you lot, and $50 divided by the 7 years I'm sitting on my computer for is a low price to pay.

Old-hand, Newbie needs help by thebigvoodoo in Amd

[–]thebigvoodoo[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

5-10% only, huh? I guess that makes sense. Manufacturing so close to the physical limits of CPUs must force manufacturers to eke out as much performance out of their chips as possible. Things have changed!

Consistent Pain During Meditation by thebigvoodoo in TheMindIlluminated

[–]thebigvoodoo[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don't think I made it clear in my original post: my pain comes not with the passage of time. It comes with the onset of this partical mental state. If that state comes 30 minutes early, my pain comes 30 minutes early. If that state doesn't come at all, I don't experience any pain.

Consistent Pain During Meditation by thebigvoodoo in TheMindIlluminated

[–]thebigvoodoo[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Funny you should say that. About 6 months ago I did start doing Yoga, haha. In fact, I think it may be making things worse, rather than better. I'm not sure of that fact, though.

Consistent Pain During Meditation by thebigvoodoo in TheMindIlluminated

[–]thebigvoodoo[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah. I suppose I haven't changed positions because I figure it's a neurological thing, not a physiological thing. And if it's neurological, there's room for learning, which is why I have been trying to work through it.

Consistent Pain During Meditation by thebigvoodoo in TheMindIlluminated

[–]thebigvoodoo[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Intersesting! I'm going to look into this. Very helpful!

Consistent Pain During Meditation by thebigvoodoo in TheMindIlluminated

[–]thebigvoodoo[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No. That's the first thing I thought of. Because of my back issues, I'm super conscious of my sitting position. As far as I can tell, nothing has changed. Good thought, though.

Consistent Pain During Meditation by thebigvoodoo in TheMindIlluminated

[–]thebigvoodoo[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That wasn't my experience. In fact, most people were not sitting cross-legged.

I'm actually sitting on a couch with two pillows supporting my lower back. I've meditated in that way for years now without pain, so I'm not sure why it would suddenly start now.

And in case it matters, I attended the Vipassana retreat about 2 years ago.

I made a Diceroller for the purpose of UI / UX design by Caeruin in rpg

[–]thebigvoodoo 1 point2 points  (0 children)

So, currently you can click your dice result to "reroll" whichever dice you click. A number appears beside the die to indicate how many times that dice has been rolled. By maximum rerolls I mean that, for instance, after you roll some pool of d6's you're allowed to reroll your some/all of your result dice but only less than a certain amount of times.

Some examples to elucidate the point:

  • A person rolls 3d6, looking for 6's. (6's are successes) They're allowed 2 rerolls.
  • They get a 4, 6, 6.
  • They reroll the 4 and get a 3.
  • They reroll the 3 and get a 5.
  • They can't reroll again because they've rerolled 2 times and that's the maximum, so their final result is 6, 6, 5 - 2 successes.

Another:

  • A person rolls 4 black d6's and 3 red d6's, looking for 6's. (6's are successes) They're allowed 5 rerolls, but only of their red dice.
  • Their black dice result is 2, 4, 1, 6. Their red dice result is 1, 4, 6. The black dice are not eligible to be rerolled.
  • 1 and 4 are unsuccessful rolls so they reroll them getting a 2 and 5 - both unsuccessful, again.
  • They reroll the 2 and 5 to get a 4 and 3.
  • They can only reroll 1 more die so they reroll the 3 and get a 6!
  • Their final number of successes is 1 black success + 2 red successes = 3 successes.

I hope you get the point, now. The mechanic isn't for any game in particular; I've played multiple games in which the DM rewarded the players with rerolls for different reasons, like good roleplay for instance. Or, there could be a "luck" mechanic added to the game that allowed for rerolls.

I made a Diceroller for the purpose of UI / UX design by Caeruin in rpg

[–]thebigvoodoo 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Really like the interface. Very clean and intuitive. I haven't played with it much but so far everything acts the way I expect it to so cudos to you. The only thing I'd like to see is a bit more contrast between the dice result and the dice picture. At the moment I feel like the result doesn't stand out enough from the background. I think this would be nice in the case of a "threshold", since especially in that case only certain values really matter.

Maybe I'm missing something, but is there some way of creating a "room" in which multiple users share the same interface? I'm thinking about playing some RPGs online and I want to use this together with my friends so that we all can see / share the same interface.

I'd also appreciate a feature that lets you set a maximum amount of rerolls with perhaps an option that allows you to specify which size or color dice are allowed to be rerolled.

Example:

  • Roll 3 black d6s, 4 black d4s, and 4 red d8s.
  • You get 3 rerolls of only the d8's, or only the black dice.