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Elentor posted:I only play games as an excuse to do math. I have no interest in AAA games for the most part or story-driven games with a few exceptions like life is strange or portal every once in a blue moon. I'm not even talking about excel spreadsheets, I'll full on write my own programs to simulate poo poo and what not. But also, yes, excel. I loving love excel. I don't think I can fully convey how much I love excel. I like it so much someone else beat my own post to it. You have a cool brain imo
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Nuts and Gum posted:This seems impossible to me. Just converting ideas into variables and then you can somehow derive meaningful relationships out of them? When I was young I got my rear end kicked in Starcraft 1 and I complained about how loving bad I was at video games. A friend of mine told me that I should play Poker and get the gist of applying deception in games because I was easily baited. So I did. I knew chess beforehand. I was still mediocre in all of them. I was however good at fighting, in particular street fighting. I noticed that people who did martial arts repeated things over and over and over for muscle memory. At first I thought that was funny but then I realized my friends did the same, though for a different reason (hitting coconuts to strengthen your knuckles and get desensitized to pain). So SC1 had this correlation with chess, where both games have openings, and us street fighting had this correlation to martial arts training. I think at around 15 I thought that those were just events that could be mapped to different frequencies, and that every continuous game could map its different events to different frequencies, so practicing something over and over was a high frequency event, whereas a long term strategy was a low frequent event. I thought everything can be split apart like in a fourier transform, so whenever I play a game I approach it with trying to identify what are the different components that matter, and what meaningful statistical correlation can be drawn from them. High freq events that happen during the entire game are what I consider fundamentals, the broad strokes to win a match is the strategy, the smaller events to get there are tactics, and then the much lower frequency events are the meta-gaming. Once I identify an element that I consider significant I datamine or archive or study as much as I can, then I check its statistical significance to see if it has any meaningful impact, and if it does then I'll try to solve all the relevant equations to achieve mastery of that element. For example when we played LoL the schedule of our enemy teams was something to be taken in consideration, so once we had enough going to know when the top 50 teams played and how frequently, I wrote a tool that used bayesian probability to infer which team we were fighting from the time, the day, and their first pick/ban, and then we'd ban the two champions that had the biggest weighted impact in the matches against us, typically whatever they favored. The game itself is just a puzzle for me to solve. I don't like puzzles, or math games, or games like TIS-100, as cool as they can be. I like to turn things that aren't math into math, and me playing the game is just an excuse to put into practice my theory and see it work. To that end my only interest is getting rank #1 in any game since anything lower than that means that my formula is not perfect, and even if I suck at, say, aiming and shooting like PUBG, it's in my belief that there's at least one mathematical solution that will ensure me victory. So those are the ways in which I'm fundamentally broken (no downers) Elentor fucked around with this message at 13:54 on Sep 9, 2022 |
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Sep 9, 2022 02:01
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I've been disastrously addicted to uppers (no downers)
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Elentor posted:When I was young I got my rear end kicked in Starcraft 1 and I complained about how loving bad I was at video games. A friend of mine told me that I should play Poker and get the gist of applying deception in games because I was easily baited. So I did. I knew chess beforehand. I was still mediocre in all of them. nerd
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Elentor posted:When I was young I got my rear end kicked in Starcraft 1 and I complained about how loving bad I was at video games. A friend of mine told me that I should play Poker and get the gist of applying deception in games because I was easily baited. So I did. I knew chess beforehand. I was still mediocre in all of them. I hope you realize this is a super power and you should have a very well paying job as a result!
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Somehow after years of stumbling around and being donated by goons to stay floating I did end up getting a good paying job that involves math so I'm thankful for this dumb site for believing in me
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Sep 9, 2022 11:51
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I toe walk and have bi manual synkinesis
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Das Boo posted:To borrow a phrase, "My eyes are booty cheeks." One's near-sighted, one's far-sighted, both have astigmatism. Right eye is also lazy, but only to the extent that I can make it do weird poo poo when looking in a mirror. My optometrist told me to contact her when I begin to see a grey mass in the center of my vision and we'll talk about a corneal transplant. Which would put me on anti-rejection drugs for the rest of my life, because they're still donor corneas. Did your doctor tell you about artificial corneas, or are they not suitable for your condition? My dad has had both corneas replaced with artificial ones in the last 3 years and they work perfectly and no drugs needed. Apologies if you already knew this, the subject of visual impairment is very close to my heart.
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Elentor posted:I only play games as an excuse to do math. I have no interest in AAA games for the most part or story-driven games with a few exceptions like life is strange or portal every once in a blue moon. I'm not even talking about excel spreadsheets, I'll full on write my own programs to simulate poo poo and what not. But also, yes, excel. I loving love excel. I don't think I can fully convey how much I love excel. I like it so much someone else beat my own post to it. I've been learning Python for the past three months (after a couple years of trying and not getting it) and the most enjoyable little things I've made were a script that simulates the card game War and reports the results and a script that runs the Monty Hall problem and reports the percentage win rate from staying or switching. Just rather pointless data because it's all been done before by smarter people than me, but it's fun.
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I get sleep paralysis on the regular. When I get it, I get it over and over again in the same night. Also, my dick has a 90 degree angle in it.
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ManBoyChef posted:I get sleep paralysis on the regular. When I get it, I get it over and over again in the same night. Also, my dick has a 90 degree angle in it. I'm guessing kink sex is bad for you...
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my right ear doesn't hear as well as my left ear. because I'm dumb af and I went to weekly practice in a punk band for years, with a very loud guitar amp on the same side of me every time. i eventually got good earplugs but alas it was too late for my poor right ear.
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Overly rambunctious self lubricating anus
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ManBoyChef posted:I get sleep paralysis on the regular. When I get it, I get it over and over again in the same night. Also, my dick has a 90 degree angle in it. So you’re the periscope dick guy?
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Elentor posted:Somehow after years of stumbling around and being donated by goons to stay floating I did end up getting a good paying job that involves math so I'm thankful for this dumb site for believing in me i love goon success stories
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Peg Sliderskew posted:Did your doctor tell you about artificial corneas, or are they not suitable for your condition? My dad has had both corneas replaced with artificial ones in the last 3 years and they work perfectly and no drugs needed. I appreciate it! When we had the conversation, she mentioned that we were just on the cusp of no longer using donor corneas so that's wonderful to hear! This was... oh god, going on 10 years ago? That explains it. I haven't looked into it too hard (ha) because I still haven't gotten that mass. My last visit suggested I get evaluated for Lasik again because there have been great strides made. I feel very blessed to live in modern times even if we're also hell world. The last 100 years are the only period in history that my vision could be made functional and my asthma could be controlled.
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Das Boo posted:I appreciate it! When we had the conversation, she mentioned that we were just on the cusp of no longer using donor corneas so that's wonderful to hear! This was... oh god, going on 10 years ago? That explains it. I haven't looked into it too hard (ha) because I still haven't gotten that mass. My last visit suggested I get evaluated for Lasik again because there have been great strides made. I was useful! First time this year! Yes, I was a bit taken aback at my dad having an appointment for his first op, because do they get that many deceased donors each day?? But in fact it's because they're artificial, which also means no need to wait once it's decided as a treatment. There is so much research being done into all types of visual impairment all the time. My husband is fortunate enough to be under a specialist at Moorfields eye hospital in the UK and he will soon be participating in a genetic survey to help pin down the genes that cause his impairment (it can be a type only passed down by women or a type passed by either parent). So it's always worth checking what's now on offer.
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My pancreas is all hosed up!! Other people probably don't even know the organ exists but i have been acutely aware that my pancreas sucks since I was a toddler. gently caress you pancreas!!
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Turpitude posted:My pancreas is all hosed up!! Other people probably don't even know the organ exists but i have been acutely aware that my pancreas sucks since I was a toddler. gently caress you pancreas!! Hi five, type one friend.
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Edgar Allan Pwned posted:i love goon success stories I was homeless, got a 10k usd donation from a fan and after 2.5 years of living through patreon/gofundme I managed to get a job. The company used some of my math effortposts on SA as reference. So all the years of dumb game math poo poo I posted here paid off, literally.
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Elentor posted:I was homeless, got a 10k usd donation from a fan and after 2.5 years of living through patreon/gofundme I managed to get a job. The company used some of my math effortposts on SA as reference. So all the years of dumb game math poo poo I posted here paid off, literally. that's so loving awesome
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I get unreasonably... disappointed if something doesn't happen in the most sensible or optimal way possible. Like a stupid example from just now, I wanted to make a coffee and prepare some grapes for a snack. It takes maybe 2-3 minutes to make the coffee, so it would make sense to start it and then go get the grapes, unpack and wash them etc while the coffee makes itself in a moka pot. But when I got to the kitchen, I started washing the bowl for the grapes. Argh! Same poo poo when I'm on vacation and something like museum/tour times don't line up well and I can't combine them effectively on the same day. gently caress that! Panic! At The Tesco posted:my right ear doesn't hear as well as my left ear. because I'm dumb af and I went to weekly practice in a punk band for years, with a very loud guitar amp on the same side of me every time. i eventually got good earplugs but alas it was too late for my poor right ear. Elentor posted:I think path of exile because it's not trivial to solve but I usually like to solve competitive games with math
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Elentor posted:I was homeless, got a 10k usd donation from a fan and after 2.5 years of living through patreon/gofundme I managed to get a job. The company used some of my math effortposts on SA as reference. So all the years of dumb game math poo poo I posted here paid off, literally. Wait! You actually showed someone your SA posts? And then you actually got a job out of it?
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Maybe they now do mathematical modelling of online sex perverts for the FBI.
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I like popcorn, but I hate whatever that oily fake butter is at movie theaters. That means I also don't really like microwave popcorn either because that's also got poo poo-tier "butter". I had an air popper but those things suck. So I would occasionally make popcorn myself, on the stove, with like some oil in a big pot. Pain in the rear end but I didn't know any better. So I bought a Lekue popcorn maker. It was life-changing. It's just a silicone bowl with a silicone lid, you put a tablespoon of raw kernels in it and microwave for a couple of minutes. No other ingredients. Thank you for reading my popcorn story.
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OB-GYN Kenobi posted:Wait! You actually showed someone your SA posts? And then you actually got a job out of it? That's literally what they said, yes.
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I am really bad at putting my thoughts to spoken words. I'll have a coherent and relevant thing to add to a conversation but when I actually speak, I can't seem to get it out without messing up the words or sentence structure. A big part of it is that my working memory is poo poo and prone to blanking out completely if I'm interrupted, or I forget what the word is that I'm trying to use. If I try and remember what I was just saying, I get flustered and seem to lose even more of it. I've started just being honest and saying "sorry, my mind has completely blanked out, can you please remind me of the last thing I said?" which has been a successful tactic and no one has mocked me for it so far but it's still stressful and embarrassing in professional situations. I also concentrate better if I'm doing something else that requires minimal thinking at the same time. This is fine at home where I can play some dumb puzzle game on my phone or whatever in order to pay attention to a movie. But I've had more than one person get pissed off at me for not listening or paying attention because I've started doodling or menial data entry or something while they're talking to me even though it is actually helping me concentrate on them. I know how it looks and completely understand their POV so I try my best not to do it, but it's now at a point where I'm so worried about not doing it that it's even more difficult to pay attention. The best thing I've found is to take notes while the person is speaking, which seems to satisfy it, but not every situation is appropriate to start taking notes and my former manager (who is an abusive piece of poo poo in general) banned note taking in team meetings after I told him that taking notes helps me concentrate, so I don't know if even note taking is unreasonable or disrespectful? Neither are the end of the world or the worst of my problems but they're not a lot of fun to navigate either.
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I have a weird thing with eye contact. I always feel like I’m doing it wrong or like, being intimidating. However, staring at (and subsequently judging) someone’s eyebrows sort of works around that. It’s not that I have an issue with it, I’m always like “am I looking too much at someone?” run on sentience posted:Words Note taking isn’t disrespectful the vast majority of time, and I’m a habitual doodler, it helps me focus. You are far from broken friendo.
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I have a lot of weird things that my body does, like getting really, really hot as soon as I fall asleep, or having one ear turn bright red at random times and start to itch. The one I’ve never been able to find anyone else with, though (besides my mother, go figure) is that if I cry too hard it makes me belch.
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just wanted to let you guys know I almost had an orgasm from cleaning my ears
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Lol my friend and I joke sometimes that cleaning your ears is better than sex, and honestly it's not even a joke where most of my encounters have been concerned.
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I cannot get magic eye puzzles to work because of my previously mentioned wonk eyes. This came up again in my life yesterday and it was just a, "poo poo, that's right." sorta moment.
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i have a pathological need to give intentionally wrong and often harmful advice.CJacobs posted:Pectus excavatum you can fix this with a sink plunger the same way you fix a dent in a car body fyi.
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run on sentience posted:Lol my friend and I joke sometimes that cleaning your ears is better than sex, and honestly it's not even a joke where most of my encounters have been concerned. correct it’s downright cathartic
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I have the dry kind of earwax, and I make kind of a lot of it. It doesn’t come out in its own, so while my outer ears and the part just inside my ear canal are always spotless, I have to get them microsuctioned once a year. A freshly microsuctioned ear is the crispest, clearest sound experience. For the first hour or so it’s almost too crisp, I hear all the sibilance and paper rustling sounds uncomfortably well. The same gene that gives me the dry earwax also makes my sweat remarkably unsmelly, which is nice. I still practice good daily showering hygiene, but I don’t bother with deodorant.
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