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Post by X'o'Lore on Mar 7, 2013 19:23:16 GMT
Hmmm. Well my tendency of deconstructing video games is probably less outlandish than some of my computer hardware geekery would be on this forum. Nobody here even mentioned the PS4 when that came up.
I leave it at "Math is useful to me and so I like it".
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Post by mareofnight on Mar 7, 2013 19:34:43 GMT
Soff: That's what I thought too.
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Post by clemon on Mar 8, 2013 21:59:24 GMT
Soff: That's sort of what I thought too. But I expect more and more help-with-math games will appear as the seductiveness and effectiveness of playing games to teach users increases! When I was growing up, my parents actively didn't allow any of my siblings nor me to own any video games, and we could only watch TV on Friday or the weekend. So my experience with video games is mostly secondhand, but I get their appeal. A PS4 stands for "Play Station 4", right? I really like Math, but generally only when I understand it. I don't like proofs. Proofs are .... difficult.
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Post by Soff on Mar 10, 2013 4:33:40 GMT
I like deconstructing stuff, but I prefer doing that to the narrative part of the things. I don't have special feelings about maths, but I think that it is because I don't have to do it at school anymore. I always found maths easy in the sense that it is logical and that the rules make sense, so I can follow the explanations with no problems. However, I always had a hard time with the practical part of it, because I was an awful student and never "practiced" doing the exercises, so I suffered during the exams (and that made me hate maths a bit). I like to have numbers as aproximations and to understand the underlying logic for things like statistics, but I find more specificity to be a little mind numbing... I suppose I just don't have enough practice with numbers to get through the "foreign language anguish" and not enough motivation to go through that.
I've never been into consoles. Nor into news. I had no idea that they are already putting out the PS4, even though it was predictable.
In my mind: They are being pretty noisy next door. They usually don't have parties this late. I should get to draw, but I don't know if I'll do that now or tomorrow.
PS: Just out of curiosity, Clemon, did you girls play a lot out or just did other kinds of things (draw on paper, etc)?
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Post by mareofnight on Mar 10, 2013 5:10:17 GMT
Now I'm remembering elementary school math class. That was fairly horrible. I made lots of mistakes and took ages to get anything done, and I remember my parents and the teacher asking me if I was bored because it was too easy and I thought they were crazy. I remember hardly ever finishing all my math homework in the third grade, because the teacher said we could stop after spending an hour if we didn't finish, and an hour wasn't nearly long enough for me. But I caught up to everyone else once we got into algebra. Last year, I took some aptitude tests from a psychologist, and scored... I think at least 70-somethingth percentile in almost everything, but 6th percentile in the test where you do arithmetic problems as fast as possible until the time runs out. Apparently there's something about arithmetic worksheets that my brain just can't handle.
What's on my mind right now is I finally found a web host that appears to be honest and is English-language! (The last good host I found was German, which would have been annoying if I ended up using them.) It's called "A Small Orange", if anyone cares. I'm just really happy because web hosting sans-shenanigans seems to be a rare thing. ("Unlimited" limited bandwidth and $3/month to sign up but $10/month to renew seem to be the norm. At least they're finally starting to lay off on listing free content management systems as features you get for signing up.)
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Post by X'o'Lore on Mar 11, 2013 0:32:37 GMT
You get the last laugh when you pull out a calculator though!
I think I tended to score really high on aptitude tests. Like 96% or higher. I tend to be a slow reader though so that makes timed tests hard for me. Not that it mattered much. Intelligence alone gets you nowhere. You need ambition, confidence, social skills, and clear goals to back that intelligence up or you'll still never really aspire to much. Being smart is just one link in the chain.
EDIT: A free content management system would seem like more of a hindrance than a help to me on a webhost. Also, when they say unlimited the first question I think I'd have is how they set up their servers? I'd want to know how "unlimited" they really are because there are always physical limitations and if it's a shared server especially I'd need to know what kind of resources are allocated for my site.
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Post by mareofnight on Mar 11, 2013 13:49:03 GMT
When I pull out a calculator, or do pretty much anything advanced - once arithetic doesn't account for most of the work anymore, I'm good enough at the rest to compensate.
Those are free content management systems that they'll install for you only if you ask them to - like you can use a wizard to put Wordpress, Drupa, etc. on a certain directory of your account if you want to, or you can still go with no CMS. So it's not horribly limiting in the way a host with a "site builder" is. They're nice to have if you don't know how to install such things yourself and don't want to bother learning, but it's not worth paying an extra $1/month for, and you're left trusting them to keep your CMS up to date.
I'm not sure what the limits are like on "unlimited" accounts, but basically "unlimited" means "we like to put the limit in the terms of service so you can't compare us against other hosts easily". And sometimes the terms of service won't even give you a number, it'll just say they're allowed to throttle you or charge extra if your resource usage is "excessive" as defined by them.
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Post by X'o'Lore on Mar 11, 2013 23:32:00 GMT
After being up until 3am trying to finish a paper at the last minute like a responsible college student and then trying to go to bed just in time for the dog to decide barking continuously for a couple hours was absolutely necessary and having to get up early enough to put together my works cited for the paper in the morning before class I thought today was going to be kinda cruddy but it's turned out fairly nice so far. Probably mostly just being done with that paper.
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Post by clemon on Mar 12, 2013 16:47:42 GMT
Sounds about right. Oh man, I'm still recovering from losing that hour over the weekend, and I had a Psychology exam today + a ton of other stuff due this week + a major academic decision deadline. Cheers for exam on 4 hours of sleep + excessive coffee.
I was never very good at aptitude tests except in the math department. And that was only after I was hired to tutor my neighbour's daughter who was a year behind me. I don't recall at really being amazing at anything in elementary school except Art class. It was the best class.
@ Night mare: Have you considered putting your site...[wait for dramatic pause before dropping buzz word]...on a cloud? It's technically unlimited, although they generally automatically start charging more when your bandwidth increases.
@ Soff: Margo and I would play + draw a lot, probably just like most normal kids? Probably playing house with Barbie dolls, stuffed animals which generally involved being kidnapped or married (between the stuffed animals; we had no Ken dolls because parents or something). We (or at least Margo) also drew a lot--mostly inspired from Sailor Moon, Disney, Garfield--And we created made up stories (Underwater world, massive snow ball fights in structures made out of ice + snow, huts) which probably had very boring plots (become human, infiltrate opposing side's snow fort, survive in mud huts, escaping house slowly filling with water), but that's alright, because we were young and stuff. We did watch TV + movies, just not on weekdays.
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Post by mareofnight on Mar 12, 2013 19:39:54 GMT
Doctor suggested I get an app for tracking food stuff. I put it off for a week and a half, and then went and made a spreadsheet instead. clemon: I'm actually fine with having limited space, I just like the company to actually tell me what the limit is. When they hide the limits and such, I worry that they're trying to cheat me... Clouds are nice, though. I used them for the Oracle class I took last quarter.
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Post by Ally on Mar 12, 2013 20:57:29 GMT
@ Soff: Margo and I would play + draw a lot, probably just like most normal kids? Probably playing house with Barbie dolls, stuffed animals which generally involved being kidnapped or married (between the stuffed animals; we had no Ken dolls because parents or something). We (or at least Margo) also drew a lot--mostly inspired from Sailor Moon, Disney, Garfield--And we created made up stories (Underwater world, massive snow ball fights in structures made out of ice + snow, huts) which probably had very boring plots (become human, infiltrate opposing side's snow fort, survive in mud huts, escaping house slowly filling with water), but that's alright, because we were young and stuff. We did watch TV + movies, just not on weekdays. Lol, that sounds a bit like me and Em growing up...except we played "Temple of Doom" with Em's Barbies, and had long quest-type games where we squared up against evil masterminds Andy Peters and John Lewis (which is only funny if you're British)* *To explain the joke...Andy Peters was a children's TV presenter, and John Lewis is a department store. It made sense to us at the time.
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Post by Soff on Mar 14, 2013 4:39:57 GMT
Yep! That's pretty much how we played with my friend growing up, too. I figured it was kinda like that, but I asked out of curiosity. I wanted to check how little watching a lot of TV can change people's childhood games (in a non statistic way!).
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Post by Emily on Mar 14, 2013 8:29:36 GMT
my very small nieces and nephew were apparently playing "Pirates that go to Sainsburys" the other day... Sainsburys is a supermarket.
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Post by Ally on Mar 14, 2013 10:01:56 GMT
Well, pirates have got to have sandwiches just like everyone else! ;D
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Post by Tea on Mar 14, 2013 10:59:51 GMT
I wonder if Sainsbury's have their own range of grog.
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Post by Ally on Mar 14, 2013 18:41:57 GMT
Sainsbury's Basic Grog.
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Post by clemon on Mar 14, 2013 20:23:40 GMT
Grog sounds unhealthy. Who looks at a beverage and names it "grog"? Yep! That's pretty much how we played with my friend growing up, too. I figured it was kinda like that, but I asked out of curiosity. I wanted to check how little watching a lot of TV can change people's childhood games (in a non statistic way!). Ah. Then you might be better asking people who were actually forbidden from watching TV as children. From a small sample I've met, I'd say the effects are generally a lack of appreciation for popular children's animated movies.
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Post by elczenius on Mar 15, 2013 17:16:30 GMT
Maybe it's the sound you make after you drink it.
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Post by clemon on Mar 17, 2013 1:30:58 GMT
...Is it a throaty sound?
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Post by mareofnight on Mar 20, 2013 21:04:10 GMT
Related to Soff's mention of short term goals being less scary than long term goals (on the dream thread - but I'm posting here because it's not about dreams):
I pretty much know what I'm going to be doing for the next two years, but after that, I'm not even quite sure what country I'll be in. And I get uncomfortable thinking about stuff related to deciding where to try to go after college. (Mainly, study abroad in Australia plans. I'm pretty much sure I want to go for a semester, partly for getting experience and partly to see my friend who lives there. The bit that's hard to think about is how afterward I'll have to decide whether I like that city and that friend enough to want to go back, and if I'd be able to get a job there.) And this feels like a new kind of fear of the unknown, that I haven't felt before.
The part that I realized just now is that this is the first time I've been uncertain about what part of the world I'll be in and what I'll be doing for a significant amount of time in the near future. So um... yay for greater clarity about fear of impending adulthood?
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