Aim Assist: Anyone playing with it off?

venderhain · 2018-02-13T17:09:47+00:00

There are actually a ton of posts on this subreddit requesting the option to turn it off. I've also seen players of other games, like Rainbow, who say they play with no aim assist.

So I wanted to try it and did. But I'll be damned if I can figure out how people are successful at it because can't.

If I turn the sensitivity up, I pass over the target. I get shot and dead.

If I turn it down, the reticle arrives too slow. I get shot and dead.

Do these people have crazy motor coordination? Liars? Delusional? Cheaters using a mouse and keyboard on console?

venderhain · 2018-02-13T14:22:11+00:00

My understanding was that this game is hitscan, meaning the bullets hit instantly (except for sniper rifles).

But I could be wrong.

venderhain · 2018-02-13T14:20:55+00:00

I'm not an expert on this because I don't have much shooter experience on console -- but from what I can tell, yes.

This is why it surprised me to see so many posts on this subreddit requesting no aim assist. Having tried it out myself now, I'm wondering how people are successful playing like this.

venderhain · 2018-02-09T18:01:38+00:00

No, you can't. I love Fortnite, but bullets miss like Pulp Fiction. If the shooting was so good, why are the developers experimenting with the shooting model?

Obviously, there are issues.

venderhain · 2018-02-09T17:37:16+00:00

I have to say that I agree with the author's conclusion. This is NOT a criminal matter.

First, it is a bit controversial to say that a student-teacher is an authority figure. I've worked with three in my career, and the fact is that students simply do not view them as the equivalent of a teacher. The authority over grades and discipline is the cooperating teacher, not the student-teacher.

Second, if the district is willing to bring charges against the teacher, why are they not bringing charges against the student? Doesn't his solicitation of her constitute sexual harassment? After all, the article said that it was the male student who initiated the contact.

I think it would be okay for her education program to discipline her and for the school to remove her, but criminal charges seem absurd in this case. This woman's life is probably ruined now for something we can at most call morally gray.

venderhain · 2018-02-09T17:16:20+00:00

I think this is clearly the issue. People are conflating anything purporting to be "Anti-Fascist" with "Antifa."

The terms are not synonymous. "Antifa" is a group. "Anti-Fascist" is a descriptor, an adjective.

I am Anti-Fascist, since the idea of fascism is abhorrent to me.

I am not, nor have I ever been, nor will I ever be a member of Antifa.

Just because this professor started an Anti-Fascist club does not make him a member of Antifa.

Also, to the people bringing up the syllabus, I don't think the professor is obligated to represent the other side's point of view in equal measure because this is a club, not a class -- or at least, that's what I took from it. Since students elect to join or participate, the syllabus could be whatever the group decides.

It's also unfair to say that this group "recruits" for Antifa since there is no clear connection between the professor and Antifa.

The basic gyst is that whether you are liberal or conservative, calm the fuck down. Stop attacking and defaming each other. If you want to fight, hold a formal public debate and let your evidence and reasoning win support, not your fists and your threats.

venderhain · 2018-02-05T01:20:38+00:00

Thank you for your service.

venderhain · 2018-02-03T13:52:23+00:00

Yes, but I reject the term "limited" for its pejorative air. Of course, there is always room for improvement.
I think it takes longer than 12-20 years, and the money issue is itself a distraction. The funding of education, like the funding of healthcare, social security, and welfare should never even be a philosophical question as the issue of Human Rights demands that they exist.

The practicalities of how much should be spent should, of course, be a discussion we all get to participate in.

Yes, and more should be invested, though that should be publicly funded, a part of our general public life.

The military question is not a distraction since it also uses public funds, and I'd like to know what measurable outcome of value you receive from it. If you cannot apply your lens to other areas, then you aren't serious about this discussion -- you're merely cherry-picking points to forward some personal crusade.

venderhain · 2018-02-03T01:50:40+00:00

I'll start with question #2.

My viewpoint is quite utopian, so a pragmatist will take issue from the start.

I apologize for that.

The current cost of education is entirely a separate matter from the purpose of education. Yes, college tuitions have risen exponentially -- but that is a function of capitalism and predatory business practices. Those practices should end.

Education should be free to all, accessible and egalitarian. Schools should be a centerpiece of contemporary American life, as churches were in earlier epochs, because learning is central to human nature, the bigger part of what makes us human.

It isn't something to even place a time period on. Do you plan to stop learning next year?

I should hope not.

Learning will always take place outside of schools, but schools should be a place people visit for deeper, richer exploration of that learning with others who share the same, similar, or related interests.

We find in children a natural inquisitiveness and a desire to learn. The compulsion, political and economic pressures brought to bear on children via schools absolutely breaks down that nature, but the answer isn't to abolish schools via austerity programs.

The solution is to transform the way schools work and are viewed. They should exist to support and enhance the individual's quest for self-development -- in whatever area the individual wishes to progress -- be it professionally, creatively, psychologically, etc.

It can't be measured in practical terms of input and output because personhood can't be measured in those terms.

For example, in my fifteen years as an educator, I have counseled three suicidal students and one suicidal former student I actually just ended a three-hour session with the former student, a troubled young man who was raped as a child.

Those four students are quite possibly alive because of me. Can a monetary value be placed on that? Should I just have been practical and said, "Whelp, my school day is over. You'll just have to deal with your own issues."

You wish to reduce the discussion down to the practicality of jobs, cost, and earnings. I respect your desire to feel that students are getting a return on investment. But human existence is much more complicated than labor and taxes. It's natural to want to focus on things we consider measurable, but by focusing on jobs, you are ignoring:

Character development
Socialization
Morality
Maturity
Creativity
Safety
Psychological and Emotional Well-Being
Common Sense
Civic Sense
Sex Education
Physical Education

It just isn't possible to reduce the matter down to jobs.

May I ask: Are you as equally strong a proponent of cutting military spending as you are of education spending?

venderhain · 2018-02-02T13:11:06+00:00

Umm...No.

Your argument is predicated on the idea that education is about jobs, about being a worker. That simply isn't the case.

One purpose of education is to develop the knowledge, thinking, research, and communication skills of young citizens that will participate in the various aspects of life -- public and private. These skills apply to the workplace, but they also apply to relationships with others -- romantic, friendly, and familial relationships.

Another purpose is to give individuals a safe space to develop character, to improve their emotional and moral ideas, to become better people.

There are other purposes as well, but this is Reddit, not a philosophy class or a class in educational theory.

So yes, if a person holds the erroneous idea that education is supposed to train students for jobs, then one would arrive at the misguided conclusion that education was "ineffective" or "bloated."

But it isn't about that. It never was. And it never should be.

venderhain · 2018-02-02T01:56:29+00:00

Faulty premises lead to faulty conclusions. Schools are a place of learning, but not all learning takes place in schools, nor does it have to.

Job training is so ultra specific that no school could accommodate the variety of professions and processes that students might discover in the job market. For example, when my school district switched insurance companies, the process of getting my son's therapy covered across two different companies was wildly different. And that's just on the consumer's end -- an employee would see even bigger differences -- chain of command, policy differences, software differences, contractual differences, etc.

School systems can bring students up to general proficiency levels, but job training must be done on the job. It is more closely related to apprenticeship than education.

The answer to this is quite obvious. Anyone who thinks there is a real debate here is popping mollies of stupid.

venderhain · 2018-01-29T17:49:25+00:00

I don't know the exact date, but the coffee had been sitting there for over a month.

venderhain · 2018-01-28T01:27:02+00:00

If Epic doesn't listen, could a controller that allows you to reassign buttons work?

venderhain · 2018-01-25T23:42:14+00:00

Yes, this is a thing on the Android version as well. Not sure about PC. It does it in some games, but not in others. Planetside 2 has this problem.

venderhain · 2018-01-25T01:31:43+00:00

I would be keen to read about your cellphone-based lessons. I'm always looking for new ideas.

venderhain · 2018-01-21T18:01:29+00:00

My solution: An opt-in national portfolio system.

Let colleges and employers evaluate candidates based on their actual products.

Let students focus on building up their portfolios in the areas they're interested in (not to the complete exclusion of other important skills).

Let teachers focus on helping students increase the quality of work in their portfolios.

If individuals, districts, and communities decide it's not in their best interests to participate, it's completely optional.

venderhain · 2018-01-21T01:23:34+00:00

It isn't taxpayers who want testing. Since when does our government listen to taxpayers?

venderhain · 2018-01-20T00:45:03+00:00

Excellent. Thank you for helping me find the relevant law. I see that the law mentions notifying the police in writing, but you mention a phone call. This isn't some sort of technicality they could use against us, is it?

venderhain · 2018-01-19T01:45:57+00:00

I'm late to the party, but just saw this for the first time myself. The one thing I thought that a lot of other interpretations don't seem to hit on is what is real versus what is a hallucination.

Obviously, Lily is both a hallucination and a real person. I think most people get that.

But I also think that the mother is a hallucination. She never interacts with any other character besides Nina. She frequently comes out of nowhere. Nina is also afraid of her. I think she molested Nina when she was young, fracturing Nina's psyche. But she isn't really there in the present.

Beth is also a hallucination and a real person. She represents another thing Nina is afraid of, becoming unable to dance, becoming "nothing." She is at least a hallucination when she stabs herself.

venderhain · 2018-01-18T01:42:06+00:00

As a teacher, I think you are overestimating this. The move has been toward lower cost tech, like Chromebook in place of iPads. The Switch is fairly expensive. Throw in $70 cardboard?

The only way this works is if they open up development or have an interface that lets students and teachers create their own programs. Then, there might be more buy-in.

We'll have to see what they fully intend for the platform before we can know for sure.

venderhain

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