The Automated Ban List - Page 2786

On August 17 2016 00:37 Cricketer12 wrote:
Why are there posts that aren't one liners in abl?

On August 17 2016 00:29 Teoita wrote:
To be fair, it's really hard to get a point across properly and a lot of "classic" papers actually suffer the opposite: since they are written by geniuses whose minds work faster than ours, they use 5 words instead of 20 and your average physicist reading for the first time is left wondering WHAT THE FUCK JUST HAPPENED IN THE LAST PARAGRAPH. Just read anything by Rees or Landau to name a couple. I'm usually one for dry and simple writing, but the paper i'm writing right now is going to take like 10-15 pages to say mostly "i predict the existence of a new class of x-ray emitting quasars", because i can't sum up one year of research into less and it does require quite a bit of context plus i'm fairly sure my referee is going to be someone whose work i'm fucking up, so i need to be persuasive.

Regarding SC2, the main problem is that "good" balance whining is essentially game design whining...nowadays every time someone doesn't like something he declares it "bad game design" and the discussion that comes from that usually almost as stupid and pointless as whining, because even when it's in the form of a well thought post it's extremely likely to be too short and it's almost always biased.

In the case of adepts sure, they are hard to deal with, but you can't look at them in a vacuum and looking at every other external factor like timings, ability to scout them, ability to transition off them, how map dependent their effectiveness is, etc, very easily gets overlooked; not to mention, often times the solution to an imbalance is very deceptive. To name one, it took very small but significative adjustments to Protoss builds to learn to defend the 4Gate consistently during WoL. The strategy itself was nerfed a bit, but mostly it became weaker because players solved something that initially seemed unstoppable.

edit: Also why are we even discussing science in the ABL lol.

On August 17 2016 02:31 opisska wrote:


I was honestly counting on you to take the bait and then I can't be banned for being offtopic, when a mod is in the same discussion, right? Your topic sounds interesting, do you have a preprint or something?

You're right that some of the "old greats" were pretty dense - I remember the stories of Schwinger waiting years to get his papers published because noone could review them as noone understood them (but they were always right) and my QFT teacher in University knew Landau personally But on the other hand, I did my Masters' thesis on something related to Higgs mechanism and if you want to have a great textbook on that topic, just stick together two dozens of articles from that time ... it was really that great. Now I am doing some UHE strong interactions and almost everything is so clouded by buzzwords and vague reasoning that after 8 years, I have still no idea how the models work (and started to work on completely different things in the meantime ...)

Bad back to the Adpets - the thing is, do all these arguments have to be reiterated all the time? There is a lot of opinions you can express rather freely, because people know where you are coming from and don't need to hear details of how you get there, shouldn't a "balance whine" lose this title once it has been shown once that it has some merits? After all, you won't get banned for claiming that BL/infestor was OP in late WoL (even though for example I have many reservation to this statement) ...

On August 17 2016 00:59 WinterViewbot420 wrote:
There's no proof for anything you're stating, and you're just ignoring the multiple IP bans he's had.

If you don't like me, ban me. At this point I don't care anymore. I'm so terrible at StarCraft it has me in tears every time I finish a session and this community loves their little Bisu circlejerk more than facts.

User was temp banned for this post.

On August 17 2016 01:30 WinterViewbot420 wrote:
This is where I quit everything StarCraft completely. I'm sick of losing and I'm sick of you guys defending and attacking people when you don't even understand their language.

On August 17 2016 04:48 ZigguratOfUr wrote:
So WinterViewbot got banned again.





I doubt he's gone for good though. He said something like this back in December too.

On August 17 2016 06:03 Dangermousecatdog wrote:
Yeah we need more people like WinterViewbot420 keeping on playing SC2.

On August 17 2016 09:56 LegalLord wrote:

Can you do it so that the discussion on the past page becomes instantaneously on-topic?

On August 17 2016 09:55 KadaverBB wrote:
The urge to ban opisska is getting quite strong at this point