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Topic	I like the song Brie Larson sings.
tiornys 05/20/21 9:34:28 PM #20	I prefer Metric's version of the song, but I also really enjoy Edgar Wright's presentation around the full song.
Topic	I like the song Brie Larson sings.
tiornys 05/20/21 8:53:28 PM #6	https://youtu.be/jtrmWnFAHYE
Topic	this girl is 10/10 imo
tiornys 05/20/21 4:34:26 PM #21	No_U_L7 posted... copy and pasting the link is easier Ah, so you're the kind of engineer who thinks your time is more valuable than everyone else's time. Got it.
Topic	Female-fronted music topic
tiornys 05/14/21 11:55:29 AM #213	Youtube playlist is also current. 376 vids. https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLjUaQ7hdv4_dm4U6qn-IW7tmwUkRagYH1
Topic	I want to check out that female fronted musician topic
tiornys 05/10/21 1:49:29 PM #27	I've been compiling the vids into a YouTube playlist in case that's more convenient than Spotify for anyone. https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLjUaQ7hdv4_dm4U6qn-IW7tmwUkRagYH1 IfGodCouldDie posted... I will look into that, because it will probably help. Is it a gamefaqs setting or browser setting? I have my "Links and Media in Messages" setting for GameFAQs set on "Always show images and the first media embed" and I can open the topic on mobile with no issues. If needed you can scale back further; there are 5 options for how much to display with images and media.
Topic	Female-fronted music topic
tiornys 05/09/21 12:41:09 PM #159	Flockaveli posted... Oh man I don't think anybody has posted this classic yet. Evanescence - "Bring Me to Life" https://youtu.be/3YxaaGgTQYM Alternative/Nu Metal Seeing this, I have to post my favorite track from that album: Evanescence - "Whisper" https://youtu.be/ots1ybN3Rgw Alt/Nu Metal Youtube playlist updated through this post. 292 vids. https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLjUaQ7hdv4_dm4U6qn-IW7tmwUkRagYH1
Topic	Female-fronted music topic
tiornys 05/08/21 1:14:45 PM #113	Started pulling songs I didn't know into a playlist, and then decided I might as well go completionist. In case anyone is interested, here's a playlist of all songs in this topic. I'll update periodically as more are added: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLjUaQ7hdv4_dm4U6qn-IW7tmwUkRagYH1
Topic	Female-fronted music topic
tiornys 05/08/21 12:05:23 PM #102	I dunno if this should count, but I love it and it fits in a technical sense: Yuki Kajiura feat. Eri Itoh -- "Godsibb" https://youtu.be/VjPWTEtuv74 is "Epic boss fight track" a genre? Paramore -- "Last Hope" https://youtu.be/XoYu7K6Ywkg Alt pop/punk The Pretty Reckless -- "House on a Hill" https://youtu.be/dzuSVxuGW64 Rock Lenka -- "Trouble is a Friend" https://youtu.be/QHpvlr_kG6U Pop Elastica -- "Stutter" https://youtu.be/0ie4x8hWYYE Punk Kaskade ft. Isley -- "Disarm You" https://youtu.be/3qen7he4Y7c Electronic Dance Yeah Yeah Yeahs -- "Heads Will Roll" https://youtu.be/auzfTPp4moA Alt. pop/Punk Celia Pavey - "Red" https://youtu.be/uhQ4O4JCCaQ Folk/pop London Grammar - "Hell to the Liars" https://youtu.be/L_TXvjDE5Ec Indie pop Dodie - "Hate Myself" https://youtu.be/MTPeEuQ-9ys Folk/indie Tegan and Sarah - "I'm Not Your Hero" https://youtu.be/yDMSHgQY5rM Alt pop Emma Blackery - "Third Eye" https://youtu.be/a4qE25LgkOw Pop Metric - "Black Sheep" https://youtu.be/ArkDWrHmmXI Alt rock Tori Amos - "I Can't See New York" https://youtu.be/RntSYqMOl9Q Alt pop/rock
Topic	Okay. I need to fill in my SNES library some. RPG recs.
tiornys 05/07/21 5:53:16 PM #6	electricbugs2 posted... Theres so many good RPGs for the SNES dont recommend the poor man a torture device. Hey, I really enjoyed it. ~~I might be something of a masochist in RPGs, considering some of the crazy challenge play stuff I've done~~.
Topic	70+ covid outbreak from Church that sued over restrictions.
tiornys 05/07/21 5:50:16 PM #2
Topic	Okay. I need to fill in my SNES library some. RPG recs.
tiornys 05/07/21 5:48:47 PM #4	If you like a challenge, the NA edition of The 7th Saga is actually harder than the original release.
Topic	Besides me anyone else waitin a few months or until next year to get the vaccine
tiornys 05/06/21 3:16:05 PM #6	I got it soon after becoming eligible. I don't see any good reasons to wait once it becomes moderately convenient to get it.
Topic	Games where the majority of the female casts are better gameplay wise
tiornys 05/03/21 12:02:59 AM #28	Tyranthraxus posted... Final Fantasy 13 Lightning and Fang pretty much dominate the game. Snow and Sahz are useless. Sazh is the best combatant in chapters 9-11 and possibly through chapter 13 depending on how much you grind (more grinding = other characters catching up). Snow is one of the best support characters from chapter 10 through postgame. They're underrated because they're strengths aren't obvious to a casual player. Sazh's biggest asset besides earliest access to Haste and En-spells is his unique Blitz, which fires 7 bullets in a cone and doubles his damage output if all 7 bullets hit a target. Example boss fight that exploits this: ~~https://youtu.be/tkfSB7Uvw-c~~ Snow is just fast. For whatever reason, he's the fastest physical attacker, the fastest offensive caster, and the fastest defensive caster, and as a result he out-performs his on paper stats and abilities. He belongs in almost any optimized lategame or postgame party regardless of what you're fighting.
Topic	Games where the majority of the female casts are better gameplay wise
tiornys 05/02/21 11:19:59 PM #17	WesternMedia posted... Chess Nice.
Topic	It drives me crazy that philosophy is virtually useless
tiornys 05/02/21 11:18:44 PM #23	MedeaLysistrata posted... That's true, I guess, but also I think scientists are trained to think in this way anyway and knowing good science is the mark of a scientist, not a philosopher. I think at some level what you are saying just assumes philosophers are ideal thinkers and sorting good ideas from bad ideas isn't something every discipline does. On the contrary. I think that ideal thinking doesn't exist and that humans--even trained scientists--aren't actually all that good at sorting out good ideas from bad ones. Science is an application of certain philosophical ideas, built upon statistics and math which are also applications of philosophical ideas, built on logic which is also an application of philosophical ideas. Science is merely the outcome of the most successful methods philosophers have found to date that guard against several common pitfalls of human thinking.
Topic	It drives me crazy that philosophy is virtually useless
tiornys 05/02/21 11:00:28 PM #15	MedeaLysistrata posted... I don't think there has been a widely successful attempt at axiomatizing science by philosophy, no. Maybe in limited forms like axiomatizing mathematics. They're pretty separate and even 'natural philosophy' had a speculative element to it that is virtually nonexistent now. Whether or not science would exist without philosophy is an interesting question but I don't think it ultimately matters in the present, where we have a highly elaborate scientific enterprise. Hmm, I disagree from multiple angles. We have science because we have philosophy. We need philosophy to help us determine what is good science vs. bad science vs. pseudoscience. That's especially important in the present where our highly elaborate scientific enterprise has numerous systemic problems that are interfering with our ability to reliably conduct good science.
Topic	It drives me crazy that philosophy is virtually useless
tiornys 05/02/21 10:40:42 PM #10	MedeaLysistrata posted... I'm lamenting the ultimate fruitlessness of speculation in a naturalistic world overdetermined by science Are you claiming that science is not founded in philosophy?
Topic	Got a ticket for going 30 over.
tiornys 05/01/21 4:14:41 PM #5	kingdrake2 posted... police trying for the quota etc. Nah. 30 over you're usually going to be pulled over if spotted. Getting a ticket for 3 over only happens at quota time.
Topic	1 > 2 > 3 > 4 > 8 > 5 > 6 > 7
tiornys 04/30/21 1:19:29 AM #9	Fast and Furious?
Topic	Just how good is Magnus Carlsen?
tiornys 04/20/21 1:13:12 AM #13	Touch posted... Also I just realized Kasparov is still alive lol. Did he and Magnus ever play each other? https://youtu.be/re6B7ZALyGg
Topic	Simplify y = 6x/6x
tiornys 04/19/21 2:39:40 PM #22	Proto_Spark posted... Doesn't that still have to be from left to right though? Using your example of 57/6/32 is different whether you go left to right or 57/(6/3)2 for example. The latter would be 35/(2)2 = 35 Yes, but also no. Given the absence of parentheses, the correct way to parse 57/6/32 is as 5 7 * (1/6) * (1/3) * 2. More generally in a string of multiplication and division, each term preceded by a * is treated normally and each term preceded by a / is treated like * (1/whatever). Once correctly parsed, the evaluation can proceed in any order. Order only matters if you don't parse the division symbols as inverse multiplication. In other words, this sort of problem is a symptom of the way in which we teach subtraction and division. It's something we learn in grade school and then have to unlearn in higher math (unless you're lucky like I was, and were taught how to think about these things correctly outside of school by engineers who were friends of your parents--honestly this is probably a lot of why I was always ahead of my class in math). If we taught that subtraction is the inverse of addition up front, and that multiplication was the inverse of division up front, I think people would have an easier time with handling fractions, transitioning to algebra, etc.
Topic	Simplify y = 6x/6x
tiornys 04/19/21 2:31:42 PM #21	Garioshi posted... addition is different from subtraction though, subtraction isn't associative If you treat subtraction as adding the additive inverse, it is associative.
Topic	Simplify y = 6x/6x
tiornys 04/19/21 2:25:44 PM #17	Nah, the best way to write that would be y = x/x. The 6's cancel so there's no reason to keep them. The x's do not cancel because there actually is a meaningful difference between 1 and x/x, specifically at x = 0. This whole topic has helped me understand why I've always kind of disliked the way pemdas and similar mnemonics are taught. Specifically, the part about having to do things in order from left to right is unnecessary. More accurately, doing mixed addition and subtraction or mixed multiplication and division in order is necessary only if we treat addition as being different from subtraction and multiplication as different from division. In fact, subtraction is just addition of the additive inverse and division is just multiplication of the multiplicative inverse. To illustrate what I mean: when I look at the sum 1 + 17 - 5 - 3, my brain interprets that as 1 + 17 + (-5) + (-3), and with that interpretation it doesn't matter what order I evaluate in. (-8) + 18 is 10. 1 + 9 is 10. (-2) + 12 is 10. etc. Similarly, if I look at something like 5 * 7 / 6 / 3 * 2, the way I interpret it is 5 * 7 * (1/6) * (1/3) * 2. And again, with that interpretation I can evaluate the expression in whatever order I want, and I will get the same answer. 2 * 35 * (1/18) = 35/9. 7/3 * 5/3 = 35/9. etc.
Topic	Simplify y = 6x/6x
tiornys 04/19/21 2:10:07 PM #14	Eh, computers aren't mathematicians. So here's the thing. Multiplication is commutative, and division is just multiplication by the reciprocal. In other words, if I have a whole lot of terms that are multiplying and dividing each other then I can write that as a whole lot of terms that are multiplying each other and then I can order them however I want. This is reflexive knowledge for mathematicians, not something we would need to really think about. Barring some arcane reason, I wouldn't ever write 6/6. 6/6 is obviously 1, so I would just get rid of that term entirely. So let's use numbers that don't just conveniently go away, say 7/5. Similarly, I would never write xx to represent multiplying x by x. I would either write x^2 or xx. So, if I saw an expression written as 7x/5x, I would assume that 5x was the denominator because if the x is not* in the denominator then I would expect to see 7x^2/5--except standard fonts suck, so if I wasn't able to superscript the 2 I would actually use parentheses to avoid confusion between (7x^2)/5 and 7x^(2/5). An easier example to work with in standard fonts is 7x/5y. Again, if the y is not part of the denominator, then I would never write it this way. I would write 7xy/5. So if I see 7x/5y, my expectation is that 5y is the denominator. No parenthesis required.
Topic	Simplify y = 6x/6x
tiornys 04/19/21 1:47:01 PM #12	It may not be a rule, but keep in mind that if you try to seriously argue that 6x/6x should be treated like (6x/6)*x, no mathematician is going to take you seriously.
Topic	Simplify y = 6x/6x
tiornys 04/19/21 1:17:38 PM #9	As a mathematician -- what you're complaining about here is an artifact of standard typefonts being terrible for math. Have we formally defined this as something we would use in a textbook? Fuck no, because in a textbook I'm going to have access to some way of using a standard fraction bar instead of coopting the slash for lack of better options. If I'm writing out my math? Again, this issue doesn't arise. Even if I'm using a diagonalized fraction bar I'm going to be writing the numerator visibly above the denominator. Sort of like this, except better (and without a period to force proper alignment): `6x/` `./6x` Have mathematicians generally decided to treat terms like 6x as having implied parentheses when typing in a standard type font? Yes, because we're lazy fuckers and because it makes sense to us to treat "6x" as one term, not two. Is it some formalized mathematical convention sanctioned from the high muckety-mucks of mathematical theory? No, because any such formalizing agency doesn't give a crap about trying to do formal math within the limitations of standard type fonts.
Topic	this viral math problem is stumping Twitter. Can you solve it?
tiornys 04/19/21 4:37:10 AM #58	Smackems posted... Then why the f*** does the m come before the d in pemdas Because m stacked on top of d isn't a letter, so one of them had to come first. If you understand that multiplication and division are essentially the same thing, it's easier to remember that they're on the same operation level.
Topic	I hate every flavor of Oreos beside the original.
tiornys 04/14/21 9:25:28 PM #21	I actually prefer Oreos Thins to the original. Otherwise original or double-stuffed >> the rest.
Topic	Why do people keep saying it's '1 in a million' for J&J issues?
tiornys 04/14/21 9:24:06 PM #11	There's a good chance that we're just seeing birth control pill side effects that are popping up with unfortunate timing. But, there's also a good chance that the J&J vaccine is partly or mainly responsible for the side effects, and it would be good to have a better idea of which is the case.
Topic	Just beat Super Metroid aaaannnnnddddd I did NOT like it
tiornys 04/14/21 5:00:29 PM #40	CyricZ posted... The elevator from Brinstar to Norfair, where you have to Super Missile a rather unassuming wall so you can continue to go right through the wall dragon and enter Kraid's Lair. I'd expect most players who were experienced with Metroid/Metroid 2 to try bombing that wall, which will reveal that it needs super missiles to break through. That's how I found it.
Topic	Just beat Super Metroid aaaannnnnddddd I did NOT like it
tiornys 04/13/21 10:11:02 PM #13	Classic example of the "Seinfeld is unfunny" trope.
Topic	Games in major franchises that are rarely talked about
tiornys 04/12/21 12:05:03 AM #18	I don't hear much about Metroid 2.
Topic	Will You Ever Vote for a Republican Party Politician After Seeing Trump?
tiornys 04/11/21 4:48:53 AM #11	Not unless there's a major restructuring of the party. That's been true for me since well before Trump. The Trump era has basically killed any expectation I had of seeing that restructuring though.
Topic	CAN ANYONE help me find this one band from Japan?
tiornys 04/10/21 3:11:55 PM #20	Based on that pic, Boris looks like a possible match: https://borisheavyrocks.com/profile/ I skimmed through a few of their vids but couldn't find anything to match your description in the initial post.
Topic	Sacred Geometry General
tiornys 04/09/21 12:33:00 PM #44	So, I see a number of issues with the kind of reasoning involved here. Let me talk about a few of them. First, we have a bias towards pattern fitting. When we think we've found a pattern and go looking for examples, we're prone to shoving things that are "close enough" into that pattern even when the deviations are significant. This is one of the points of the video I linked earlier, and most of post #35 looks like this kind of reasoning to me. Another more subtle issue is a failure to understand that finding improbable coincidences is in fact highly probable. This is because the number of possible improbable coincidences is huge. With enough possibilities, even if the odds of finding any specific coincidence is low, the odds of finding at least one coincidence is high. There's a good talk along these lines starting about 41:30 in this vid: https://youtu.be/6JwEYamjXpA?t=2490 I also think we tend to view reality as being much "cleaner" in a mathematical sense than it actually is, and I suspect a large part of this is due to how we're taught about science and especially physics. Quantum physics and general relativity are a lot messier than newtonian physics.
Topic	Sacred Geometry General
tiornys 04/07/21 11:33:24 PM #28	https://youtu.be/1Jj-sJ78O6M
Topic	Anyone with two jobs ever quit one for the other?
tiornys 04/07/21 11:27:12 PM #8	For me it was easy. One of my jobs paid better, had better prospects for advancement, and had a better atmosphere overall. The only the the other job had going for it was free bowling, and once I wanted more sleep more than free bowling I quit. In your case, the main thing I haven't seen you talk about is: which job offers better prospects for leading to a similar job at another company? Loyalty is nice and all, but in today's corporate environment it's often much easier to get a significant raise at a new place than with your current employer. I'm not saying you should definitely plan to switch companies, but I am saying you should make it part of your decision process.
Topic	What RPGs or adventure games can you go straight for the final boss?
tiornys 04/02/21 7:01:48 PM #5	SaGa Frontier
Topic	How do you like your hot dogs?
tiornys 04/01/21 1:12:17 PM #22	Pitlord_Special posted... Sauerkraut and spicy brown mustard This, or relish + jalapeno instead of the sauerkraut. Alternately, sliced and pan fried in teriyaki sauce, served with rice.
Topic	Thoughts on AstraZeneca vaccine?
tiornys 03/29/21 11:02:12 PM #15	AlCalavicci posted... I don't think it's billions is it? lol Not quite, but only 1 order of magnitude off. 552 million vaccine doses have been given world wide with 122 million fully vaccinated, so ~430 million people have received at least one dose.
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