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2017. Debt. Had to move twice into less appealing living situations. Now have long transit to work and back that makes me feel more drained thus having even less of a chance of working toward my actual goals of becoming successful. But there's still months left, and maybe I'll make it better.

My best year would be harder to determine. I struggle to find a year I call good. Maybe 2006 because I was doing the best at math competitions then, and I thought for sure I'd have made something of myself long before now and had a solid income and family and all that and no debt. I imagine myself from 2006 would feel profoundly disappointed in my current self in 2017.

Another option for best year would be 2014, as that year involved a good move across the country and a name change.
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Ainoxi posted...

Probably Spore. Was so insanely hyped for that to finally come out and then it was just blah.

Agreed. I had a whole forum game on GameFAQs based on Spore in the year or so leading up to it, and I wonder after playing it if my forum game was better than the real game. :P
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Paper_Okami posted...

No, I don't regret not voting. Trump didn't win a single county in MA.

Both were bad, Trump is way worse.

I would have voted for Clinton if I lived in a Swing state, but I don't.

This.

Edit: Actually I live in Washington state, but Clinton was still going to win my state. And if she did lose my state then she surely would've lost the election even in the hypothetical scenario where my 1 vote would've allowed her to win Washington instead of lose it.
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That's some pretty deep water.
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What is the weird possible pair of favorite bands someone could have?
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RedWhiteBlue posted...

Pinky, as far as I know, is, by far, the most qualified candidate.

Out of curiosity, why do you say this?
I don't know the guy.
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Woah. Pinky was leading like 5-2 but is now behind Waffle 5-10.
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Do I have to have a bright future? I rather like overcast skies. Sunburn is bad for you anyway.

I'm late, but I noticed your name (Jorep) on CE when I happened to visit today, so I had to post.
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Not my fault these other users you guys are saying didn't have one of the 10 most recent topics when I showed up.
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Discuss.
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Ex-Kefiroth posted...

never heard of it.

don't care to watch

Same here. I don't recall the song at least.
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Solar_Crimson posted...

They said: “I’m recognising them as a baby

What if they don't want to be recognized as a baby?
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UnholyMudcrab posted...

Are you a mathematician?

Yeah. Well, I'm not a math researcher professionally, but I have a Master's in Math, I teach math, and once in awhile I'll do some math as a hobby.
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kirbymuncher posted...

as many as they can count

You know better than this.

The real numbers are uncountable.

Functions with the real numbers as their domain and codomain are an even higher infinite cardinal.

I suppose it might depend on what you consider "finding" "numbers" to mean, but the set of numbers has at least been defined.
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Define "number".
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ClockworkHare posted...

The main bitch I've heard from critics is that they want to still be able to play their favorite game with full content 10-20 years from now, since they grew up with cartridges and discs (which could provide what they wanted).

Considering the variety of things that mess with this plan (early/day 1 patches for major bugs, DRM/always online, physicals containing a DL code instead of the game, large amounts of dlc, etc) I'm not sure even a physical copy can provide this for modern games

Good. Someone already said this so I don't have to write up the post myself.
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I see 4 votes on Alphabet, 1 on Amazon (which was the first vote someone cast), 0 on Apple, 1 on Facebook, and 1 on Microsoft.

I didn't really expect Apple or Facebok to get many votes. Apple is good at making profit but doesn't really go after a truly wide amount of control. They aren't interested in making an affordable phone for everyone. Facebook, on the other hand, hasn't invested much in AI, and so the services they will provide will lag behind those of the other 4 companies. Facebook and its child Instagram will still be doing well in terms of social media, but they won't extend enough into selling actual products and offering software as a service.

Since someone voted Facebook, I'd be curious as to that person's reasons.

Alphabet is clearly doing well right now, but a majority of their income relies on advertising. And as mobile internet browser ad blockers are becoming more popular (as PCs experienced in the past) and I'm sure in time app ad blockers will become more popular as well, I could see their business model taking a big hit. But google does have the best AI going for them, and perhaps they can evolve in the ad world and prosper.

I voted Microsoft because I imagine in 2020 Microsoft products (such as Windows or Office) will still be running on the great majority of devices. But I might be biased in terms of the news I hear of businesses, living over here near the Microsoft campus. And to be honest I'm questioning my vote anyway...

Amazon. I was considering voting for Amazon because they can invest in a new section of the economy and suddenly be on par with the best in that section. They'll be ahead of Microsoft and Alphabet eventually, I think, but will they do it by 2020? Can they beat google's search and AI by then? I am doubtful. But of all 5 companies Amazon may have the most presence in the "real world" in terms of purchases made at supermarkets. They bought Whole Foods, and I wouldn't be surprised if they bought Instacart sometime within the next 2 years as well, given Instacart's current deal with Whole Foods that may prevent Amazon from fully utilizing them for quick deliveries and pickup of food. And Amazon Web Services is very popular. But I guess I figured there may still be many peoplenot really paying attention to Amazon in 2020 who will still be well aware of Microsoft.

So count my vote as Amazon = Microsoft > Alphabet >> Apple >> Facebook.
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For bonus points, please rank all 5 in order.

You may also feel free to add Chinese companies and other companies I have not mentioned into your overall ranking post.

If you wish, you may link news stories or other info in your post as evidence for your views.
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Exponentiation distributes over addition.
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green butter posted...

Should Mormon Best Buy employees be forced to sell iPhones to gay people, knowing full well that this phone may be used to send suggestive photos and winking emojis to their same-sex partners?

XD
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I could've probably been jn that STP (give or take a second), but while on mobile ready to press post one or two photos suddenly expanded and made it so I tapped on a photo instead of the post button.

Such troll photos.
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DreamwaIker posted...

500?

No, of course not.

I was just away from GameFAQs for several moments and left the tab open, so I figured I should quickly post.
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500?
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Lots of activity.

Invite your friends, everyone!
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POST NEW MESSAGE
Bold Italic Spoiler Cite Quote Code
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Cool. I'll keep posting occasionally then.
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InstaReturns posted...

Is anyone keeping track of the people who say I don't deliver? Want to make sure that if they get the win, they don't get the win.

Out of curiosity, would you consider this post to be me saying you don't deliver?

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InstaReturns posted...

I highly doubt CE will do a whole 500 though

Really?

CE would do it for $20, albeit at a slightly slower pace.

I suppose if you want to be tricky with your wording though, it's extremely extremely unlikely that there will be 500 distinct people posting in this topic, so maybe you can just point out one person who posted twice and then claim there is no $75 to give out at all.

I was actually speaking about your win condition. Explaining that I thought for sure it would be satisfied unless you interpret "poster" in a different way. I didn't claim to know whether or not you'd deliver.
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KlRBEH posted...

We're almost halfway there :))

Do you think the time difference between posts 251 and 500 will be greater or less than the time difference between posts 1 and 250?
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KainWind posted...

@DreamwaIker posted...

Did you follow me here?

No. I didn't even bother to read any posts in this topic before mine. I just came here because it was HOT in my board list. That's usually how I encounter CE topics these days.
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InstaReturns posted...

I highly doubt CE will do a whole 500 though

Really?

CE would do it for $20, albeit at a slightly slower pace.

I suppose if you want to be tricky with your wording though, it's extremely extremely unlikely that there will be 500 distinct people posting in this topic, so maybe you can just point out one person who posted twice and then claim there is no $75 to give out at all.
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*sees topic as HOT on board list*

I mean, I don't really care. Women and men can do what they want to do with each other. I feel no jealousy. I'm happy for them if they found happiness. Overall it's unremarkable to me.

(Yes, I am remarking now, but this is a remark in response to TC's question, not a remark in response to seeing such a situation.)
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People are entitled to like the food they like and dislike the food they dislike. Food is not objectively good or bad tasting. Chefs who think they make some dish that is universally good are full of themselves. People who think you should apreciate a menu item exactly as it is traditionally served are full of themselves. If I want to add a stipulation like "no caesar sauce" to my chicken ceasar soft taco, there is nothing wrong with that. If I want my steak well done, there is nothing wrong with that. If I don't want the fancy sauce that some Italian place drizzles over their fancy menu item, that's okay too. And I also don't need to attempt to pair any wines to my food in the designated way or even at all.
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When I factored my own online and off, I was in the 11-15 bracket. I wanted this poll to include both because I felt like I didn't get to be as involved as I wanted to be with some if my social groups because I'm trying to do much. I normally don't consider myself a social person, but I guess numerically in terms of the number of disjoint groups in which people recognize my username or face or name or whatever, I actually am kind of social.

I was wondering if I had more groups than most. I was wondering if other people could more easily be a full pariticipant in their communities due to having less communities to split their time among.
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Let's consider a group to be at least 4 people. So if you have a knitting club of 4 people (yourself included) that doesn't overlap with your other social groups, that counts as a social group. If you play an MMORPG with a guild that for the most part doesn't know anyone else you know, that counts as a group.

Family should count as a group too. Possibly 2 groups if your family is heavily partitioned in a way that you speak with everyone but 2 halves otherwise don't speak with or know much about each other.

Twitch livestreams can possibly count too if you see a lot of the same people each time you go to a stream.

Your co-workers count as a group too, unless you already counted them elsewhere. People from a past job with whom you keep in touch still should also be counted somewhere.

Carefully list everything out for yourself and determine the total before you vote.
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ExThaNemesis posted...

Even though Draven and Undertale did end up ruining things, the contest was still full of great matches to get excited about.

I haven't even been able to force myself to care about anything here. I get that Allen was trying for something different but... meh.

I feel you.

I appreciate his thought into the contest, but I really just don't care about it. I rarely vote in it or check the results.
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Iron-Tarkus posted...

I was dumb and accidentally voted 5 instead of 8. I remembered doing it a year early and realized after I voted that it was before high school not before middle school.

A simple math mistake. :) Anyone could have made it.

Anyway, thanks for the post. I'll keep that in mind in the results. I figure 5th and 4th were so rare I might as well not even include them (as are 11th and 12th so late I might as well not include them), but it is in part a guard against troll answers. If I offer extreme and uber-extreme options then the trolls will more likely go for the uber-extreme and therefore I may still get some decent data on the normal extreme.
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fenderbender321 posted...

I should have taken Algebra 1 when I was in 6th grade

There is 1 student at the math enrichment place where I work that I know took Algebra in 6th at his private school (he's now in Geometry in 7th).

And I think in some other parts of the world having the better math students learn Algebra in 6th grade is not unusual. But I couldn't tell you any hard facts.
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While it wouldn't completely prove it, I could show my transcript that I never took Calculus 3 as a college course. I tested out of it and took Differential Equations my first semester in Fall 2007.

I'm not sure if I still have my old notebooks with worked problems around anywhere, so idk if I can get photo evidence of them. They may be in a box somewhere.

But I really did make this topic just to hear when other people took Algebra I. Not to brag about past me (and present me sure as hell isn't anything to brag about).

(Of course I have a bad habit of derailing my own topics. Looks like I've done it here too with all my editing.)
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UnholyMudcrab posted...

DreamwaIker posted...

I then "caught up" by learning all of Calc 1, 2, and 3 by the end of February of 11th grade.

I don't believe you.

Larson 8th edition pretty shiny cover. 3 and a half notebooks full of problems worked from the books. My dad bought me the solution manuals too.

My drive to do it stemmed from placing 1st at a state math competition in Precalculus in 10th grade but then not even getting a single trophy in any event in Precalculus at the National version of the competition. I knew the national competition didn't subdivide students into Calc 1 and Calc 2+ so I would be competing against people already with a lot of experience - I wanted to step up my game to be sure I got some kind of placement in 11th, and I did.

Disclaimer: I think this particular competition (National Mu Alpha Theta) took place at the same time as MOSP many years, so it's quite possible the 40 best students in the country were taken out of the equation. Also, "national" was really only like 13 states.

Edit: Thank you, Internet, for having these posted.

2006 (11th grade):
Page 11. 3rd in Mu (Calculus) Division
http://www.mualphatheta.org/useruploads/files/conventionpastresults/fortcollinseverythingelse.pdf

Unfortunately it doesn't look like I took the Advanced Calculus (Calc 3) topic test that year, but I did take the test the next year.

2007 (12th grade):
Page 50. 4th in Advanced Calculus (Mu Division topic test)
http://www.mualphatheta.org/useruploads/files/conventionpastresults/tampatopictests.pdf
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fireball2020 posted...

Algebra II in 9th, Statistics in 10th, Pre Calc in 11th,

Would you have been allowed to double-up on Statistics and PreCalc the same year?
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darkmaian23 posted...

8th grade was the earliest it was offered at my school, and was actually considered advanced (the usual path had students taking pre-algebra in 8th grade).

I always did very well in math at school and at competitions, but subjectwise I didn't advance that quickly. I didn't know a thing about Calculus until spring of my 10th grade year, when I encountered an integral symbol on a generic math test (not one specific to a particular course) and asked my other math genius friend a year older about it.

I then "caught up" by learning all of Calc 1, 2, and 3 by the end of February of 11th grade. And then I was lazier in 12th grade.

My math learning curve is strangely shaped.
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"My options doesn't exist"

Oops. Pluralization typo.
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I personally took Algebra in 8th grade because my school didn't even offer it any earlier.

But around where I am now most students do Algebra I in 8th grade and it seems LESS rare for a student to do Algebra I in 7th grade than it was at my old school for a student to do it in 8th.

I suddenly began to wonder what year my fellow GameFAQs users took Algebra I and how they feel about when they took it. Would you like to have taken it earlier? Would you have rathered waiting an extra year to take it?

International people can feel free to post as well, but the poll options should be answered by people who took Algebra I in USA schools only.
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Where do you even find time to play games? Time just seems to disappear all around me.
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In high school and college I had an abnormally high rate of gay roommates, but none ever made moves on me. I'm not really a fan of my own appearance, so I joke to myself that they wanted to room with me because they wanted a roommate to whom they didn't have any attraction.
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pichufan2000 posted...

Studying to be a video game developer.

I am in fact studying to be a banker so oh well

You could always find a happy middle ground and handle the management of in-game currency purchased via real money.
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Then how do you have less to play with?
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FlashOfLight posted...

I have less consoles and games to play with since then >:(

Did you get rid of your old consoles? :O
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