i got 5 using my own name, then i used my sc2 id and got 7, which is quite hilarious considering that 5 is how i act in real life, almost constantly, and then 7 is how i treat improving at starcraft
fun facts, as a 5 the only things that have kept me interested are starcraft, music, and programming all of these are quite different and thought provoking with different situations the majority of the time...fits so well :D
On April 14 2011 07:11 unit wrote: i got 5 using my own name, then i used my sc2 id and got 7, which is quite hilarious considering that 5 is how i act in real life, almost constantly, and then 7 is how i treat improving at starcraft
fun facts, as a 5 the only things that have kept me interested are starcraft, music, and programming all of these are quite different and thought provoking with different situations the majority of the time...fits so well :D
You have discovered my life. I only enjoy starcraft, music, and programming. Which is why I'm an audio engineer for programming video games and play SC all the time
On April 14 2011 07:11 unit wrote: i got 5 using my own name, then i used my sc2 id and got 7, which is quite hilarious considering that 5 is how i act in real life, almost constantly, and then 7 is how i treat improving at starcraft
fun facts, as a 5 the only things that have kept me interested are starcraft, music, and programming all of these are quite different and thought provoking with different situations the majority of the time...fits so well :D
You have discovered my life. I only enjoy starcraft, music, and programming. Which is why I'm an audio engineer for programming video games and play SC all the time
omfg that is my dream :D:D:D:D:D edit: oh hey your also a SKT fan too :D
On April 14 2011 01:07 Volka wrote: I'm shocked to see this have gotten so much attention!
C'mon guys, don't fool yourselves. This is as accurate as an horoscope. Pseudo-science at best.No offense.
So what? Even if you don't believe in it ( like most of us probably don't) it's still fun to see what number you get and to discuss it. I think it's your misperception to assume people are taking these numbers for truth, rather than just having fun with it.
The only fun in this is to see how it fools people from a psychological point of view. + Show Spoiler +
Just have a couple of vague personality descriptions. Those fit everyone partially, and when you want them to fit, you can fit every one of those to yourself. One prime example would be "you are a bit introverted, but can also be extroverted in certain situations". That fits just about, well, everyone.
When you read those descriptions, there is stuff that doesn't fit, but that gets ignored when you find something that fits you. The stuff that does fits then gets the effect of "oh hey that IS pretty accurate", and some general stuff that kind of fits situationally even adds to that. And then different people saying that their description is accurate only adds to the feeling, that there actualy is something to it.
Then have some arbitrary basic math. It can't be anything advanced, because then people (especially people who fall for this stuff, sorry to sound arrogant) wouldn't be able to figure it out and wouldn't bother. And of course it doesn't bother people that the basis of the calculation, the name, is completely arbitrary as well.
How this nonsense gets front paged is beyond me.
It's front paged because this is fun to do. I'm sure the vast majority of the people doing this knows it's more or less arbitrary bs. But it's still amusing. You and people like u need torealize that and stop raining on our parade. Killjoys
I think my online name is more accurate then my RL name..........I should file for a name change iro rofl. Imma 7 woooooo!
"Me and people like me"?
I wouldn't have bothered at all with this thread, had it not been on the frontpage. I don't mind it as long as it is not in my face. And well, for me it's fun to be a smartass about stuff like this.
I see it like this, it's like fastest possible map in BW. It's obviously not the way to play the game competitively. Who finds enjoyment in it though can play it as much as he wants. I don't mind people playing it (or people calculating their personality based on their name), but if it would be shoved into my face and I would be forced to play it, or it would be in the Starleagues, I would have a problem with that. Same goes with the front page, which is an official part of tl.net and which pretty much should represent the best tl.net has to offer. So I am kind of annoyed by this appearing there.
Anyway. seeing as I find it entertaining:
On April 14 2011 09:56 aksfjh wrote: Interesting... Both my real name and alias come out as 1. Coincidence?!
Yes. There are 11 possible outcomes. Assuming equal chance among all (which they are not though), the first one can be any of those. The second one than has to be match the first one at a chance of 1/11. Thats about 9.1%, which is not that unlikely.
On April 14 2011 01:07 Volka wrote: I'm shocked to see this have gotten so much attention!
C'mon guys, don't fool yourselves. This is as accurate as an horoscope. Pseudo-science at best.No offense.
So what? Even if you don't believe in it ( like most of us probably don't) it's still fun to see what number you get and to discuss it. I think it's your misperception to assume people are taking these numbers for truth, rather than just having fun with it.
The only fun in this is to see how it fools people from a psychological point of view. + Show Spoiler +
Just have a couple of vague personality descriptions. Those fit everyone partially, and when you want them to fit, you can fit every one of those to yourself. One prime example would be "you are a bit introverted, but can also be extroverted in certain situations". That fits just about, well, everyone.
When you read those descriptions, there is stuff that doesn't fit, but that gets ignored when you find something that fits you. The stuff that does fits then gets the effect of "oh hey that IS pretty accurate", and some general stuff that kind of fits situationally even adds to that. And then different people saying that their description is accurate only adds to the feeling, that there actualy is something to it.
Then have some arbitrary basic math. It can't be anything advanced, because then people (especially people who fall for this stuff, sorry to sound arrogant) wouldn't be able to figure it out and wouldn't bother. And of course it doesn't bother people that the basis of the calculation, the name, is completely arbitrary as well.
How this nonsense gets front paged is beyond me.
It's front paged because this is fun to do. I'm sure the vast majority of the people doing this knows it's more or less arbitrary bs. But it's still amusing. You and people like u need torealize that and stop raining on our parade. Killjoys
I think my online name is more accurate then my RL name..........I should file for a name change iro rofl. Imma 7 woooooo!
"Me and people like me"?
I wouldn't have bothered at all with this thread, had it not been on the frontpage. I don't mind it as long as it is not in my face. And well, for me it's fun to be a smartass about stuff like this.
I see it like this, it's like fastest possible map in BW. It's obviously not the way to play the game competitively. Who finds enjoyment in it though can play it as much as he wants. I don't mind people playing it (or people calculating their personality based on their name), but if it would be shoved into my face and I would be forced to play it, or it would be in the Starleagues, I would have a problem with that. Same goes with the front page, which is an official part of tl.net and which pretty much should represent the best tl.net has to offer. So I am kind of annoyed by this appearing there.
On April 14 2011 09:56 aksfjh wrote: Interesting... Both my real name and alias come out as 1. Coincidence?!
Yes. There are 11 possible outcomes. Assuming equal chance among all (which they are not though), the first one can be any of those. The second one than has to be match the first one at a chance of 1/11. Thats about 9.1%, which is not that unlikely.
Let's see. This thread got 11,000 views so far and out of the 131 posts, 99% of them enjoyed doing this because it's all just for fun. You are making it sound like people like me, who really care about contributing something new to the BW threads beyond what happens in Korea not want to take the time to write fun things like this up. But I worked hard on this and I'm proud that it got spotlighted because it encourages me to add more to TL and make it a better place.
I realize this is for fun and it's superstition and all, but unless I'm missing something, OP mixed up Expression #s and Life Path #s. From his own source:
Was fun though, when I used the OP's material I got 6 for my full name which was incredibly accurate (I even read through all of them and 6 remains the most accurate by far). With the PROPER expression # results, I got something that was pretty inaccurate.
On April 14 2011 01:07 Volka wrote: I'm shocked to see this have gotten so much attention!
C'mon guys, don't fool yourselves. This is as accurate as an horoscope. Pseudo-science at best.No offense.
So what? Even if you don't believe in it ( like most of us probably don't) it's still fun to see what number you get and to discuss it. I think it's your misperception to assume people are taking these numbers for truth, rather than just having fun with it.
The only fun in this is to see how it fools people from a psychological point of view. + Show Spoiler +
Just have a couple of vague personality descriptions. Those fit everyone partially, and when you want them to fit, you can fit every one of those to yourself. One prime example would be "you are a bit introverted, but can also be extroverted in certain situations". That fits just about, well, everyone.
When you read those descriptions, there is stuff that doesn't fit, but that gets ignored when you find something that fits you. The stuff that does fits then gets the effect of "oh hey that IS pretty accurate", and some general stuff that kind of fits situationally even adds to that. And then different people saying that their description is accurate only adds to the feeling, that there actualy is something to it.
Then have some arbitrary basic math. It can't be anything advanced, because then people (especially people who fall for this stuff, sorry to sound arrogant) wouldn't be able to figure it out and wouldn't bother. And of course it doesn't bother people that the basis of the calculation, the name, is completely arbitrary as well.
How this nonsense gets front paged is beyond me.
It's front paged because this is fun to do. I'm sure the vast majority of the people doing this knows it's more or less arbitrary bs. But it's still amusing. You and people like u need torealize that and stop raining on our parade. Killjoys
I think my online name is more accurate then my RL name..........I should file for a name change iro rofl. Imma 7 woooooo!
"Me and people like me"?
I wouldn't have bothered at all with this thread, had it not been on the frontpage. I don't mind it as long as it is not in my face. And well, for me it's fun to be a smartass about stuff like this.
I see it like this, it's like fastest possible map in BW. It's obviously not the way to play the game competitively. Who finds enjoyment in it though can play it as much as he wants. I don't mind people playing it (or people calculating their personality based on their name), but if it would be shoved into my face and I would be forced to play it, or it would be in the Starleagues, I would have a problem with that. Same goes with the front page, which is an official part of tl.net and which pretty much should represent the best tl.net has to offer. So I am kind of annoyed by this appearing there.
Anyway. seeing as I find it entertaining:
On April 14 2011 09:56 aksfjh wrote: Interesting... Both my real name and alias come out as 1. Coincidence?!
Yes. There are 11 possible outcomes. Assuming equal chance among all (which they are not though), the first one can be any of those. The second one than has to be match the first one at a chance of 1/11. Thats about 9.1%, which is not that unlikely.
Let's see. This thread got 11,000 views so far and out of the 131 posts, 99% of them enjoyed doing this because it's all just for fun. You are making it sound like people like me, who really care about contributing something new to the BW threads beyond what happens in Korea not want to take the time to write fun things like this up. But I worked hard on this and I'm proud that it got spotlighted because it encourages me to add more to TL and make it a better place.
I don't really get what you mean with the second sentence. but you make it seem that I am doing a personal attack. In fact what you did with the progamers is a good example of how you can fit those personality descriptions on anything (here the progamers that don't even speak our language, and of whom we pretty much only know their public personalities from games and interviews).
In any case: Would you agree that I should voice my concerns, if my definition of 'a better place' differs from your definition of 'a better place'? And, related to the topic again, isn't it interesting to find out why people feel like there is some merit to this?
On April 14 2011 01:07 Volka wrote: I'm shocked to see this have gotten so much attention!
C'mon guys, don't fool yourselves. This is as accurate as an horoscope. Pseudo-science at best.No offense.
So what? Even if you don't believe in it ( like most of us probably don't) it's still fun to see what number you get and to discuss it. I think it's your misperception to assume people are taking these numbers for truth, rather than just having fun with it.
The only fun in this is to see how it fools people from a psychological point of view. + Show Spoiler +
Just have a couple of vague personality descriptions. Those fit everyone partially, and when you want them to fit, you can fit every one of those to yourself. One prime example would be "you are a bit introverted, but can also be extroverted in certain situations". That fits just about, well, everyone.
When you read those descriptions, there is stuff that doesn't fit, but that gets ignored when you find something that fits you. The stuff that does fits then gets the effect of "oh hey that IS pretty accurate", and some general stuff that kind of fits situationally even adds to that. And then different people saying that their description is accurate only adds to the feeling, that there actualy is something to it.
Then have some arbitrary basic math. It can't be anything advanced, because then people (especially people who fall for this stuff, sorry to sound arrogant) wouldn't be able to figure it out and wouldn't bother. And of course it doesn't bother people that the basis of the calculation, the name, is completely arbitrary as well.
How this nonsense gets front paged is beyond me.
It's front paged because this is fun to do. I'm sure the vast majority of the people doing this knows it's more or less arbitrary bs. But it's still amusing. You and people like u need torealize that and stop raining on our parade. Killjoys
I think my online name is more accurate then my RL name..........I should file for a name change iro rofl. Imma 7 woooooo!
"Me and people like me"?
I wouldn't have bothered at all with this thread, had it not been on the frontpage. I don't mind it as long as it is not in my face. And well, for me it's fun to be a smartass about stuff like this.
I see it like this, it's like fastest possible map in BW. It's obviously not the way to play the game competitively. Who finds enjoyment in it though can play it as much as he wants. I don't mind people playing it (or people calculating their personality based on their name), but if it would be shoved into my face and I would be forced to play it, or it would be in the Starleagues, I would have a problem with that. Same goes with the front page, which is an official part of tl.net and which pretty much should represent the best tl.net has to offer. So I am kind of annoyed by this appearing there.
Anyway. seeing as I find it entertaining:
On April 14 2011 09:56 aksfjh wrote: Interesting... Both my real name and alias come out as 1. Coincidence?!
Yes. There are 11 possible outcomes. Assuming equal chance among all (which they are not though), the first one can be any of those. The second one than has to be match the first one at a chance of 1/11. Thats about 9.1%, which is not that unlikely.
Let's see. This thread got 11,000 views so far and out of the 131 posts, 99% of them enjoyed doing this because it's all just for fun. You are making it sound like people like me, who really care about contributing something new to the BW threads beyond what happens in Korea not want to take the time to write fun things like this up. But I worked hard on this and I'm proud that it got spotlighted because it encourages me to add more to TL and make it a better place.
I don't really get what you mean with the second sentence. but you make it seem that I am doing a personal attack. In fact what you did with the progamers is a good example of how you can fit those personality descriptions on anything (here the progamers that don't even speak our language, and of whom we pretty much only know their public personalities from games and interviews).
In any case: Would you agree that I should voice my concerns, if my definition of 'a better place' differs from your definition of 'a better place'? And, related to the topic again, isn't it interesting to find out why people feel like there is some merit to this?
Definitely, I encourage your opinion and it's amazing how many people buy into this. Penn and Teller had a great episode about it. I sent a pm to help you understand further explaining what I mean cause I don't want this to steal from the thread.
On April 14 2011 02:38 Shurayuki wrote: Plexa and NeverGG! whoo *waves* Plexa needs to "be back" and NeverGG you better come back to Nada's Body and post more awesome pictures, you know you want to! don't feel bad because there's only guys in there (wow that came out weird...)
apparently i'm a 22 too (high five!) but my math skills most likely betray me...
Sorry, I'm still retired! I do post the odd photo set in blogs though when I can be bothered, but it's not for eSports. My health is still pretty rotten tbh.
EPT
all of these are quite different and thought provoking with different situations the majority of the time...fits so well :D
