Random thoughts thread

Loko wrote
malmon wrote
Loko wrote

forgot to mention i finally quit osu, i think this is going on my second week now and i've felt little to no urges to play it

honestly thank god, that game tortured me

How's your wrist?

it's not in pain for once!

That's always good to hear! ^^

Pretty amazing what people seem acceptable behavior as a human being. There's this one dude at my workplace who's colorblind, right? And every once in a while my senior co-worker teases him in a manner akin to to that of an elementary school bully. I'm talkin' mixing up colors on spreadsheets that aren't accommodating of his protanopia, or asking what color shirt he's wearing whilst clad in red or green.

Call me soft, but I'd reckon this qualifies as a dick move. Sad part is I'd lose my job if I said something, and my co-worker,

Tang wrote

i'd like to visit moscow, true story

I'D like to visit St. Petersburg

Seriously, you should all just get swords, I've been so happy and resistent to depression since I got mine :-D
Well, I do have to watch out for my wrists now.

llik3 wrote

Seriously, you should all just get swords, I've been so happy and resistent to depression since I got mine :-D
Well, I do have to watch out for my wrists now.

I'm somewhat skeptical~

llik3 wrote

Seriously, you should all just get swords, I've been so happy and resistent to depression since I got mine :-D
Well, I do have to watch out for my wrists now.

Swords sound cool but they're expensive and I'm sure I would hurt myself atempting to wield one.

llik3 wrote

Seriously, you should all just get swords, I've been so happy and resistent to depression since I got mine :-D
Well, I do have to watch out for my wrists now.

I was fairly paranoid. If I hear a sound in the middle of the night I'd immediately think it's a thief, pick up a knife and go check. I used to keep a knife on my table next to my computer all the time. I know it's extremely unlikely that anything dangerous will ever happen and there is no valid reason to be afraid of what is likely to be a cat or the wind but I couldn't feel calm. It's a strange feeling to be doing things that you are fully aware are irrational. I obtained a sword illegally and became much more calm at night. Luckily, I got better a few years later and finally sold it. Good feeling, good feeling.

Loko wrote

forgot to mention i finally quit osu, i think this is going on my second week now and i've felt little to no urges to play it

honestly thank god, that game tortured me

Nice to hear that. I understand how you feel. I used to play osu 5-8 hours a day back in 2014, I injured my right shoulder by spinning too quick on spinners and basically tensed my right arm all the time. Took almost 2 years for it to heal but I never really stopped playing. Almost got kicked out of college because I spent too much time playing osu instead of studying at one point. Fortunately, I realized I was making a huge mistake and started focusing on studying. I'll graduate in a few months. These days I only play osu a few days a month for an hour or 2 each session because I want to get in "the zone". It's like meditation and it makes me feel at ease.

It used to be that we play osu because we like music. I wonder when that changed into climbing ladder and getting pp

水面の朧月 wrote
llik3 wrote

Seriously, you should all just get swords, I've been so happy and resistent to depression since I got mine :-D
Well, I do have to watch out for my wrists now.

I was fairly paranoid. If I hear a sound in the middle of the night I'd immediately think it's a thief, pick up a knife and go check. I used to keep a knife on my table next to my computer all the time. I know it's extremely unlikely that anything dangerous will ever happen and there is no valid reason to be afraid of what is likely to be a cat or the wind but I couldn't feel calm. It's a strange feeling to be doing things that you are fully aware are irrational. I obtained a sword illegally and became much more calm at night. Luckily, I got better a few years later and finally sold it. Good feeling, good feeling.

Loko wrote

forgot to mention i finally quit osu, i think this is going on my second week now and i've felt little to no urges to play it

honestly thank god, that game tortured me

Nice to hear that. I understand how you feel. I used to play osu 5-8 hours a day back in 2014, I injured my right shoulder by spinning too quick on spinners and basically tensed my right arm all the time. Took almost 2 years for it to heal but I never really stopped playing. Almost got kicked out of college because I spent too much time playing osu instead of studying at one point. Fortunately, I realized I was making a huge mistake and started focusing on studying. I'll graduate in a few months. These days I only play osu a few days a month for an hour or 2 each session because I want to get in "the zone". It's like meditation and it makes me feel at ease.

It used to be that we play osu because we like music. I wonder when that changed into climbing ladder and getting pp

Theoretical physics, yeah, that ones sounds difficult ^_^' glad you got yourself back on track! I'm pretty much getting through my degree on limp mode
Also, welcome! (your profile sounds eerily similar to me >.>)

malmon wrote

Theoretical physics, yeah, that ones sounds difficult ^_^' glad you got yourself back on track! I'm pretty much getting through my degree on limp mode
Also, welcome! (your profile sounds eerily similar to me >.>)

I don't think it's as hard as everyone believes. I think quite a few people seem to misunderstand what you're supposed to learn when you sign up to study physics and pick the wrong field. In my first year I saw a lot of people who like black holes but hate maths. By the second year most (if not all) of them were gone. I blame popular science. They usually talk about pretty cool stuff but leaves out all of the maths. Physics is breathing and speaking maths. Now that I think about it, I actually don't know why people like physics. Personally, I like to study physics because I like to study physics. Usually, I only have to remember maybe between 5 and 20 equations each course and they are pretty easy to remember if you have some math intuition and understand the phenomenon that's expressed by those equations. Thermodynamics is an outlier with like 90 equations or something shudder. I can derive everything else from those equations (believe me, this is fun, it makes you feel smart hehe). Some might say it's a weakness since if you don't understand some of the basic thoroughly you might struggle but I think once you get into it, it becomes way easier to understand advanced(?) ideas.

I hope that in time you'll find motivation to finish your degree like a champ. Don't let a bad start ruin the whole thing. Fight on!
Thanks, I just found this forum yesterday while searching for Elona's (a game) guides and thought the name was interesting so I signed up.

Feel burned out. Thought I was resistant against stress, I guess I was wrong.

Yuu wrote

Feel burned out. Thought I was resistant against stress, I guess I was wrong.

My last run on the Spooky's HD Renovation felt like I ran a marathon being chased all over the mansion, inevitably the school ghost specimen at 1,724 rooms in her angriest form by the spider web corridors did me in, but because I am not up for the leaderboards, I took that as just pleasure for the thrill of chases. I even wrote down every single encounter I had with them by room and the number of tallies as spawns.

Loko wrote
Yuu wrote

Feel burned out. Thought I was resistant against stress, I guess I was wrong.

While some are more resistant than others, I don't believe anyone is completely impervious to stress
Make sure to take care of yourself Yuu <3

In the meanwhile KH3 is out and hopefully I have time this week to play it

I'm still coming to terms with the fact that it's out now. I got into KH around 2009 and can remember people eagerly anticipating it even then.

水面の朧月 wrote
malmon wrote

Theoretical physics, yeah, that ones sounds difficult ^_^' glad you got yourself back on track! I'm pretty much getting through my degree on limp mode
Also, welcome! (your profile sounds eerily similar to me >.>)

I don't think it's as hard as everyone believes. I think quite a few people seem to misunderstand what you're supposed to learn when you sign up to study physics and pick the wrong field. In my first year I saw a lot of people who like black holes but hate maths. By the second year most (if not all) of them were gone. I blame popular science. They usually talk about pretty cool stuff but leaves out all of the maths. Physics is breathing and speaking maths. Now that I think about it, I actually don't know why people like physics. Personally, I like to study physics because I like to study physics. Usually, I only have to remember maybe between 5 and 20 equations each course and they are pretty easy to remember if you have some math intuition and understand the phenomenon that's expressed by those equations. Thermodynamics is an outlier with like 90 equations or something shudder. I can derive everything else from those equations (believe me, this is fun, it makes you feel smart hehe). Some might say it's a weakness since if you don't understand some of the basic thoroughly you might struggle but I think once you get into it, it becomes way easier to understand advanced(?) ideas.

I hope that in time you'll find motivation to finish your degree like a champ. Don't let a bad start ruin the whole thing. Fight on!
Thanks, I just found this forum yesterday while searching for Elona's (a game) guides and thought the name was interesting so I signed up.

You're probably right. Pop science is a nice way of generally informing people who otherwise have no interest or time. But I suppose another issue with it is that it's too passive - it's easy to just take in information without having a clue as to where it came from or who's providing it.

Unfortunately my love of maths ended somewhere after sixth form - things became too abstract and arbitrary for me. Having to remember endless equations/formulae isn't something I particularly enjoy. That being said, I'm currently taking a cryptography module... I guess we'll see how that goes!

In other news, rip my 3TB HDD

malmon wrote
水面の朧月 wrote
malmon wrote

Theoretical physics, yeah, that ones sounds difficult ^_^' glad you got yourself back on track! I'm pretty much getting through my degree on limp mode
Also, welcome! (your profile sounds eerily similar to me >.>)

I don't think it's as hard as everyone believes. I think quite a few people seem to misunderstand what you're supposed to learn when you sign up to study physics and pick the wrong field. In my first year I saw a lot of people who like black holes but hate maths. By the second year most (if not all) of them were gone. I blame popular science. They usually talk about pretty cool stuff but leaves out all of the maths. Physics is breathing and speaking maths. Now that I think about it, I actually don't know why people like physics. Personally, I like to study physics because I like to study physics. Usually, I only have to remember maybe between 5 and 20 equations each course and they are pretty easy to remember if you have some math intuition and understand the phenomenon that's expressed by those equations. Thermodynamics is an outlier with like 90 equations or something shudder. I can derive everything else from those equations (believe me, this is fun, it makes you feel smart hehe). Some might say it's a weakness since if you don't understand some of the basic thoroughly you might struggle but I think once you get into it, it becomes way easier to understand advanced(?) ideas.

I hope that in time you'll find motivation to finish your degree like a champ. Don't let a bad start ruin the whole thing. Fight on!
Thanks, I just found this forum yesterday while searching for Elona's (a game) guides and thought the name was interesting so I signed up.

You're probably right. Pop science is a nice way of generally informing people who otherwise have no interest or time. But I suppose another issue with it is that it's too passive - it's easy to just take in information without having a clue as to where it came from or who's providing it.

Unfortunately my love of maths ended somewhere after sixth form - things became too abstract and arbitrary for me. Having to remember endless equations/formulae isn't something I particularly enjoy. That being said, I'm currently taking a cryptography module... I guess we'll see how that goes!

Best 'a luck with Crypto! Me, all's I was ever good at was Stats.

malmon wrote

In other news, rip my 3TB HDD

That is one hundred percent "not okay". What happened, mate? :<

Backlash wrote
malmon wrote
水面の朧月 wrote
malmon wrote

Theoretical physics, yeah, that ones sounds difficult ^_^' glad you got yourself back on track! I'm pretty much getting through my degree on limp mode
Also, welcome! (your profile sounds eerily similar to me >.>)

I don't think it's as hard as everyone believes. I think quite a few people seem to misunderstand what you're supposed to learn when you sign up to study physics and pick the wrong field. In my first year I saw a lot of people who like black holes but hate maths. By the second year most (if not all) of them were gone. I blame popular science. They usually talk about pretty cool stuff but leaves out all of the maths. Physics is breathing and speaking maths. Now that I think about it, I actually don't know why people like physics. Personally, I like to study physics because I like to study physics. Usually, I only have to remember maybe between 5 and 20 equations each course and they are pretty easy to remember if you have some math intuition and understand the phenomenon that's expressed by those equations. Thermodynamics is an outlier with like 90 equations or something shudder. I can derive everything else from those equations (believe me, this is fun, it makes you feel smart hehe). Some might say it's a weakness since if you don't understand some of the basic thoroughly you might struggle but I think once you get into it, it becomes way easier to understand advanced(?) ideas.

I hope that in time you'll find motivation to finish your degree like a champ. Don't let a bad start ruin the whole thing. Fight on!
Thanks, I just found this forum yesterday while searching for Elona's (a game) guides and thought the name was interesting so I signed up.

You're probably right. Pop science is a nice way of generally informing people who otherwise have no interest or time. But I suppose another issue with it is that it's too passive - it's easy to just take in information without having a clue as to where it came from or who's providing it.

Unfortunately my love of maths ended somewhere after sixth form - things became too abstract and arbitrary for me. Having to remember endless equations/formulae isn't something I particularly enjoy. That being said, I'm currently taking a cryptography module... I guess we'll see how that goes!

Best 'a luck with Crypto! Me, all's I was ever good at was Stats.

malmon wrote

In other news, rip my 3TB HDD

That is one hundred percent "not okay". What happened, mate? :<

Heh, well, discrete stats will be used in crypto, so perhaps it wouldn't be too bad for you :p

And I dunno~ pdflatex just stopped mid-compilation, git would hang, directory listing would take a long time. After a reboot it just showed up as a 4GB disk that couldn't be accessed.

Though I'm not too surprised - it's a model we'll known for failing early, so it's commendable that it even lasted 6 years!

Took a little while but I'm finally in the 1k post club!

malmon wrote
Backlash wrote
malmon wrote
水面の朧月 wrote

I don't think it's as hard as everyone believes. I think quite a few people seem to misunderstand what you're supposed to learn when you sign up to study physics and pick the wrong field. In my first year I saw a lot of people who like black holes but hate maths. By the second year most (if not all) of them were gone. I blame popular science. They usually talk about pretty cool stuff but leaves out all of the maths. Physics is breathing and speaking maths. Now that I think about it, I actually don't know why people like physics. Personally, I like to study physics because I like to study physics. Usually, I only have to remember maybe between 5 and 20 equations each course and they are pretty easy to remember if you have some math intuition and understand the phenomenon that's expressed by those equations. Thermodynamics is an outlier with like 90 equations or something shudder. I can derive everything else from those equations (believe me, this is fun, it makes you feel smart hehe). Some might say it's a weakness since if you don't understand some of the basic thoroughly you might struggle but I think once you get into it, it becomes way easier to understand advanced(?) ideas.

I hope that in time you'll find motivation to finish your degree like a champ. Don't let a bad start ruin the whole thing. Fight on!
Thanks, I just found this forum yesterday while searching for Elona's (a game) guides and thought the name was interesting so I signed up.

You're probably right. Pop science is a nice way of generally informing people who otherwise have no interest or time. But I suppose another issue with it is that it's too passive - it's easy to just take in information without having a clue as to where it came from or who's providing it.

Unfortunately my love of maths ended somewhere after sixth form - things became too abstract and arbitrary for me. Having to remember endless equations/formulae isn't something I particularly enjoy. That being said, I'm currently taking a cryptography module... I guess we'll see how that goes!

Best 'a luck with Crypto! Me, all's I was ever good at was Stats.

malmon wrote

In other news, rip my 3TB HDD

That is one hundred percent "not okay". What happened, mate? :<

Heh, well, discrete stats will be used in crypto, so perhaps it wouldn't be too bad for you :p

And I dunno~ pdflatex just stopped mid-compilation, git would hang, directory listing would take a long time. After a reboot it just showed up as a 4GB disk that couldn't be accessed.

Though I'm not too surprised - it's a model we'll known for failing early, so it's commendable that it even lasted 6 years!

Hope you didn't lose anything important!

All in One wrote

Took a little while but I'm finally in the 1k post club!

malmon wrote
Backlash wrote
malmon wrote

You're probably right. Pop science is a nice way of generally informing people who otherwise have no interest or time. But I suppose another issue with it is that it's too passive - it's easy to just take in information without having a clue as to where it came from or who's providing it.

Unfortunately my love of maths ended somewhere after sixth form - things became too abstract and arbitrary for me. Having to remember endless equations/formulae isn't something I particularly enjoy. That being said, I'm currently taking a cryptography module... I guess we'll see how that goes!

Best 'a luck with Crypto! Me, all's I was ever good at was Stats.

malmon wrote

In other news, rip my 3TB HDD

That is one hundred percent "not okay". What happened, mate? :<

Heh, well, discrete stats will be used in crypto, so perhaps it wouldn't be too bad for you :p

And I dunno~ pdflatex just stopped mid-compilation, git would hang, directory listing would take a long time. After a reboot it just showed up as a 4GB disk that couldn't be accessed.

Though I'm not too surprised - it's a model we'll known for failing early, so it's commendable that it even lasted 6 years!

Hope you didn't lose anything important!

The only stuff I really lost were things that are my downloads folder, and things that are stored on other media, so I'm not too bothered 🙂