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My inner "just want to have fun" soul says Call of Duty
My inner contrarian says Battlefield

Medal of Honor's got dat epic single player doe.
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It was the moment I got to this boss fight.



... That's when I realized that Nintendo got beat at their own game.

And yes, I know I'm late to the party. It took all up until the GPD Win to make me start caring about 2D PC games.
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After a decade, Nintendo has won me back!
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I just hope I'm not in the region that has tank controls, poor translation, game(life?)-breaking glitches or a bad menu system and go about my blocky chiptune way.
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Calc 1 is tough as hell for me.

I'm also a married homeowner with two kids and a two massively demanding jobs, and I haven't yet found a professor that's not just focused on speeding through everything without making sure everyone's on the same page... if you can find a good instructor and have time to devote to it, I'd imagine it would only be moderately difficult.
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Heyyyy... if they wanna milk some P5 our way, "the few, the proud, the Xbox One RPGamers" would appreciate it.


,,,or even a Switch release. I'm really just so sick of Sony that I want any reason to sell my PS4.
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Hexagon posted...

If the service is free, which I think it will be, I don't see why not. And if they look at your performance and history you might be able to get some extra time on your examinations.

Yeah that'd be incredibly useful seeing as I never feel there's enough time in the day. Thanks, I'll try that out then.

emblem boy posted...

Make friends in the class
And ya, calc one was hard for me because of all the trig stuff. I found the other ones easier.

Also, a good sourcr I used was Paul's online math notes. Can't remember if it has calc 1 stuff, but I used it for other calc classes

Kinda got ripped away from this thread due to work, but I didn't want to go without thanking you for this. I did verify calc 1 content is there, and I'll definitely try to make use of it. Getting a study group may prove incredibly difficult with my schedule; but being that it's the most consistent suggestion here, I'll have to try that out too.
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Because Sonic 2, 3, Advance 1-3, Colors, Generations were good... and while Adventure 1/2 were a mess, they were still somehow loved too

...also while Sonic Boom on Wii U is famously hated, it's almost universally loved on 3DS. I personally think Lost World was underappreciated too.
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leverageblargh posted...

How old are you

29
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Xeno14 posted...

learn it yourself. stop depending on instructors because a number of them are crap
pick up a book or 2, and start going through the shit on your own. find places you can ask questions for help, find youtube videos for other instruction.

you have a lot more tools available now then just an instructor.

I actually learned of khan academy (of course too late for it to be useful).

C7D posted...

Calculus 1 is by far the easiest in the math sequence for an engineering major. Perhaps up your study time, increasing the number of problems you work beyond just those assigned. Most of the text books have solutions manuals. You should get one and check your work. Don't enter class without having completed your homework and checking with fellow classmates to ensure you understand. You might need to drop gaming for a while.

I think the lack of study time is what's killing me the most. I'd been batting around the decision to just take a loan in addition to grants to pay bills and whatnot and simply leave my job so I could devote more time to studying. That's the major thing screwing up my schedule... being lead they're always calling me when things go wrong, relying heavily on me and trying to have me travel for meetings or training new ITs.

Hexagon posted...

Oh, I'm so sorry to hear about your mother passing away. My condolences. In that case I don't blame you for having difficulties with your school work. Doesn't your school have a counselor or somebody that you can talk to? My university has facilities where you can get help when you are experiencing the things you're going through.

Tbh, I'm not sure... thought it was something I could just tough through. It's something I'll have to look into though because focusing gets quite a bit more difficult with calculus being associated with all that whole period of getting calls and texts while I'm in lecture hall... more or less telling me mom wasn't gonna make it.
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Hexagon posted...

I don't even know how you can fail calculus that many times.

I actually didn't fail more than once.

Had a bad instructor, dropped.
Mother died, dropped
Third time is the only time I actually went the whole way through.

The professor does an example, you do the examples at home, you get the test and do the example again with different numbers.

I probably would've done well enough to pass if it were like that... but our in-class and book examples were nowhere near as elaborate as what we were tested on :\

Muffinz0rz posted...

Protip: Unless you're going into engineering or something where calculus is necessary, don't bother.

I thought I'd mentioned this in the OP, but I am engineering school (software engineering). Programming classes are a breeze, and I'd aced every math class prior... but I haven't done well in calc thus far.
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At the rate we're going, we may find out very quickly.
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So I've taken calc a total of three times now.

The first time I dropped within a couple weeks because the instructor was a horrible, awful human being that was honestly horrid at teaching. At the very least though, that did get me in the groove of checking instructor reviews because she was hated all throughout the math dept by her fellow instructors, student aides and all, at the time I'd go to the math resource center for tutoring, just mentioning her name brought more "Dude, just drop now" and "I'm so sorry you have her"s than I could count... and I would've known that if I were privy to intructor reviews at the time because the only people passing her class were people who'd previously taken calc in high school (as I probably should have... and I didn't because computer courses counted as math credits when I was in HS).

Third time was technically the only time I actually saw it the whole way through, and it was a wreck. Learned in great detail that me having a poor grasp on the unit circle and trig identities was gonna be burn on top of burn on top of burn... and in addition to that, my job as an IT lead comes with relentless interrruptions and so much schedule eating that I didn't get ample time to study at all... and it was probably poor timing on my behalf entirely seeing as my son wasn't even a year old at the time, and he was at the height of his dependency. Growth/decay killed me. Summations were massacre. It was bad. I think the only concept I did really well in was... limits.

I skipped over the second time because I wanted to talk about it last... because in addition to not getting these concepts down, I had to drop the second time because I became severely depressed when my mother died halfway through the semester... and now there's a psychological link between calculus and my mother's death.

Whatever the case may be, I've decided to try again. While I was initially following the logic that I should see it through even if I fail, choosing to fail instead of drop took a huge toll on my GPA, and I may no longer be able to attend engineering school if I don't do well this time... I believe a huge culprit was just my studying strategy or how being an IT lead means I'm pretty much on call even when I'm off the clock... I've either lost touch with what I did to ace Trig, or it's not a good enough strategy to do well in calculus.

My soul's kinda crushed, and I'm a hop and a skip away from feeling totally defeated... like I should just walk with the three degrees I have and hope that maybe my son can run the distance when his time comes.

For the time being though, I've got just enough fight left in me to give it one last go. For those who passed calculus (especially those who had to work and/or raise kids during) what worked for you? Any good study strategies?
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Oh God... Sony people by far. Not even a contest. The notion that they think they're better than everyone else hits the nail on the head, they're the most easily triggered, their over-valuing of RPGs makes them seem really out-of-touch... and their values change at the drop of a hat.
- They don't have the strongest console? "It's about the games, babyyyy!!!"
- They have the strongest console? "Power means EVERYTHING. That's why the X1 can only run [game] at 890p while PS4 can run it at 900p!"
- Low indie appeal? "We don't want those weak ass broke ass ghetto ass flash games anyway."
- PS4 gets swamped with indies? "You know it's not all about the money, sometimes the people who care the most about gamers support the little guy too!"


Sony > PC Master Race > Nintendo

...I actually wouldn't rank the Microsoft guys on this list at all. Though I have horses in all these races, the MS community's cool as shit, helpful and generally very tolerable.
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Loved it as well... it was incredibly refreshing to see they finally got the right guy to play Spider-Man after finding mediocre and mediocre-rer.
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I always get bored at the barren desert part with the unfitting music.
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Judgmenl posted...

Metalsonic66 posted...

It's the best 2D FF game, by far, and the best plot of any FF game, period.

You mean Final Fantasy V right?

Um... V's plot is trash bruh... and this is coming from someone who liked FFV.
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Chrome's been pissing me off lately... she ain't the quick, lightweight beast she used to be even with the Great Suspender... so I've been giving Edge a shot.

Gotta say, now that Edge has extensions (more specifically, uBlock) Chrome doesn't even get touched anymore.
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lihlih posted...

I've always wanted to get into the Uncharted games(only one I played is the crappy Vita game), so that's something I should check out. Should I get 1-3 first for the PS3?

Eh... I wouldn't recommend that.

Uncharted 1-3 on PS3 had some pretty remarkably bad aiming/gunplay mechanics and other buggy annoyances... most of which were squashed with the Uncharted Collection on PS4
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lihlih posted...

What would you guys recommend if I got a PS4?

I'm gonna highly recommend King of Fighters XIV.

In all the SFV madness, an incredibly solid fighter that SNK actively cared about polishing with significant updates/upgrades flew under the radar. I'll admit I've always been biased towards KoF, but it's always been saddening that all the gamers furious over SFV didn't take a look at KoFXIV because it's incredible.

lihlih posted...

Can the PS4 play PS1 games like the PS3?

Surprisingly, no.
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Sure. They get more than their fair share of the money I actually work for and generally use it pretty poorly, why wouldn't I?
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After a decade, Nintendo has won me back!
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Go for what has the most appeal in games for you.

For me, what drew me to the Xbox One was incredibly fun & creative games like Sunset Overdrive, Killer Instinct, Quantum Break, Gears of War, Ori, most of my people being Xbox people, integration with all my other MS stuff, PlayAnywhere, OneGuide, Xbox being WAY ahead of PS4 in apps, much more advanced social/sharing/streaming features, the future-proofing of Xbox as a brand being on Windows too, BC so I can play Lost Odyssey/L4D2/other legendary 360 games and preference for the Xbox controller layout.

That said, I do have a PS4 (destiny edition that has been upgraded to 1TB)... but I prefer what I get out of the Xbox One any day of the week.
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Also, where the hell is Megaman & Bass (aka the BEST Megaman game before the X series).
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After a decade, Nintendo has won me back!
Switch FC: SW-2455-7995-2494

29... 30 in Nov
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After a decade, Nintendo has won me back!
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In all seriousness, I'm gonna need him to get over his run in with the crybully SJWs... because Bubsy 4 is happening, and we need JonTron to say something funny about it.
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FourthDimension posted...

Nah, that's just his regular upload schedule

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That's coo.


All I ever fuckin play is Streets of Rage Remake, Phantasy Star Online BB Ultima and Cave Story anyway.
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After a decade, Nintendo has won me back!
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If I want to vocally support my decision to re-buy a game I already own on PC and 3DS through a poll - I should be able to do so, dammit.
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What do I 'identify' as? Wtf... I'm black... and no part of the identity politics.
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After a decade, Nintendo has won me back!
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