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On October 19 2016 02:59 WaveofShadow wrote:Show nested quote +On October 19 2016 02:43 Requizen wrote:On October 18 2016 11:21 iCanada wrote:
RIP Proleauge. Even though I havn't watched in like 3 years... RIP. It's a pretty shitty day to be a SC2 fan. I honestly can't see OW having longevity, though. Like, it's fun and I play a lot and what not, but as an esport? I dunno. Nothing replaces Starcraft as a spectator sport for me. On October 18 2016 20:18 jcarlsoniv wrote:On October 18 2016 10:41 Cixah wrote:+ Show Spoiler +My music Monday in the spoiler. Kinda fun little song the video is pretty nsfw tho yessssss Caravan Palace is so good I dig their stuff (I actually linked this song in the first electroswing thing a long while back) but this is by and far their best song imo. Is it weird that I find sc2/BW way easier to follow than OW?
Of course not. It's easy to watch the movement and actions on something like Starcraft. Buildings, upgrades, and units take time, and you can also know the timings. Watching an army move around is pretty straightforward. Even if you don't know the minutiae of the controls or builds or whatever, it's easy to see resources and map control. It's simple to see who's winning a fight and the movements of units around said fight.
For OW or other shooters, it's hard to follow 12 people moving independently and spraying out a million shots and abilities. You can do a top down view, but then you don't see any of the actual gameplay or skill that's happening.
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RED DEAD REDEMPTION 2
I NEED TO LIE DOWN.
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On October 19 2016 03:15 Requizen wrote:
RED DEAD REDEMPTION 2
I NEED TO LIE DOWN.
Not calling it Red Dead Revenge is a travesty.
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On October 19 2016 02:52 iCanada wrote:
Yeah calculus didn't click for me mentally until I took beam theory and vibration mechanics. Which is sad because I aced all my math classes.
Why all calculus is introduced fundamentally with proofs is beyond me. Seems stupid as all hell.
Even goinh back to highschool courses... would be much much better if it wasintroduced as relations between distance, velocity, and acceleration. What kind of 16 year old can just take maths and turn it into a a sound understanding of a limit and the limit function. Like make those kids reason how to integrate a distance/time graph into a velocity graph without those words. Then if they smart make em do it again to create anew acceleration graph. Then show theme you can discover that with one mathematical operation... kids minds would be blown and instrigued instead of sleepingredients or texting.
"Welcome to pre-calc. Look limit formula. Memorize and forget forever!"
It's even more perplexing when you realize most of these things were figured out by individuals trying to solve real world problems. I don't really know how teaching came to this or why there is so much freaking inertia to get any real change going. Rather sad. So many people getting robbed of interesting concepts and thoughts just because they taught in such ugly ways.
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introductory lessons being shit is sometimes intentional, selection and such. makes sure only people who really want that shit do that shit
the famous 'if you can deal with our worst, u cool' approach
it's not a good one. and doesn't really work. and most of the time it's just incompetence.
but hey,
i got nothing
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I really hate how higher ed basically tries to fail people. A couple days ago there was a Reddit post about how harsh things can be.
This quora answer is also kind of interesting.
I was pre med-ish until junior year. All the classes kind of sucked my passion away even though I did pretty well. It was after I quit that I began to enjoy my higher level bio classes, but problem was that I had already quit and I wasn't about to go back. Kind of a paradox.
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On October 19 2016 04:23 ticklishmusic wrote:
I was pre med-ish until junior year. All the classes kind of sucked my passion away even though I did pretty well. It was after I quit that I began to enjoy my higher level bio classes, but problem was that I had already quit and I wasn't about to go back. Kind of a paradox.
Pre-med classes in college are awful.
Currently in 1st year of med school, and having done about half my requirements while I was in college and the other half on my own time after graduating and working, I can say that I found the latter to be highly preferable. Most university professors hate teaching pre-med students anyway (admittedly for good reason given how a lot of pre-med students tend to act).
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On October 19 2016 04:43 TheYango wrote:Show nested quote +On October 19 2016 04:23 ticklishmusic wrote:
I was pre med-ish until junior year. All the classes kind of sucked my passion away even though I did pretty well. It was after I quit that I began to enjoy my higher level bio classes, but problem was that I had already quit and I wasn't about to go back. Kind of a paradox. Pre-med classes in college are awful. Currently in 1st year of med school, and having done about half my requirements while I was in college and the other half on my own time after graduating and working, I can say that I found the latter to be highly preferable. Most university professors hate teaching pre-med students anyway (admittedly for good reason given how a lot of pre-med students tend to act).
Premeds are pretty insufferable.
Can definitely attest to taking a little longer to get your prerequisites and doing it more on your own time though. I think in many cases the benefits outweigh those of being a 22 year old doctor or whatever.
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I love those unis/lecturers that pride themselves on how low their pass rate is. Fucking morons. If people are failing your course in droves then you are the problem. Higher education is just not at all about education. They treat under-grad as a side thing they have to get out of the way so they can do postgrad work.
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and meanwhile you pay more and more tuition for the privilege of killing yourself to learn what a professor should have taught you. at least at work i get paid for my overly long hours. :>
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it really is tempting to just work instead of studying
i even did it for a year
i wont even make significantly more after i get a job in my field than when i did that
only upside is it'll be less boring work
probably
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On October 19 2016 05:09 ticklishmusic wrote:
and meanwhile you pay more and more tuition for the privilege of killing yourself to learn what a professor should have taught you. at least at work i get paid for my overly long hours. :>
It is pretty sad how little results have to do with your salary (and how low it is in general at least in Bulgaria). That is by far the biggest issue with education.
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Most profs don't teach because they want to, they teach because they want to do research.
It is a large fundamental problem in academia imo. Although there are a few profs that are amazing.
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On October 19 2016 05:31 Dandel Ion wrote:
it really is tempting to just work instead of studying
i even did it for a year
i wont even make significantly more after i get a job in my field than when i did that
only upside is it'll be less boring work
probably
There are some fields where you can come in at a really low level and get them to pay for your degree (or at least part of it) while you move up.
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On October 19 2016 02:52 iCanada wrote:
Yeah calculus didn't click for me mentally until I took beam theory and vibration mechanics. Which is sad because I aced all my math classes.
Why all calculus is introduced fundamentally with proofs is beyond me. Seems stupid as all hell.
Even goinh back to highschool courses... would be much much better if it wasintroduced as relations between distance, velocity, and acceleration. What kind of 16 year old can just take maths and turn it into a a sound understanding of a limit and the limit function. Like make those kids reason how to integrate a distance/time graph into a velocity graph without those words. Then if they smart make em do it again to create anew acceleration graph. Then show theme you can discover that with one mathematical operation... kids minds would be blown and instrigued instead of sleepingredients or texting.
"Welcome to pre-calc. Look limit formula. Memorize and forget forever!"
but... but... but... I *liked* learning all the proofs. =(
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I'm old fashioned and think understanding the reasons behind things is important. Learning to be methodical and fastidious is also super important in anything STEM, and proofs happen to be exercises in being methodical and fastidious.
They're a royal pain in the butt, and I absolutely hated proofs because writing every goddamn step was such a waste of time, except I probably wouldn't be as good a software engineer as I am now without that experience.
If there's a better way to teach those skills such that proofs can be saved for later, then awesome, do that instead.
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Started working out about 7 months to this day, and I'll pray to any lifting god that I can reach the 225 (102kg) bench press club.
Felt happy today to bust out clean reps of 6 at 185 (102kg) after sets of 10 at 135 (61)x2 and 165 (75kg). Standing at about 163 pounds, I remember finally being able to bench 135.
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I have a feeling this bell curve thing is not universal. At least I've never experienced pride in any of the teachers with high fail classes/fields (organic chem, 1,5lvl math). Just frustration.
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On October 19 2016 07:10 Requizen wrote:Show nested quote +On October 19 2016 05:31 Dandel Ion wrote:
it really is tempting to just work instead of studying
i even did it for a year
i wont even make significantly more after i get a job in my field than when i did that
only upside is it'll be less boring work
probably There are some fields where you can come in at a really low level and get them to pay for your degree (or at least part of it) while you move up.
but this is socialist europe. we don't have to pay for our degrees anyway
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