Jan. 20th, 2012
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In honour of Marking Season:
Jan. 20th, 2012 10:15 am"the fact that you “don’t understand” why you didn’t earn full points for a particular question might itself help explain why you didn’t earn full points" - from Dear Student: I Don't Lie Awake At Night Thinking of Ways to Ruin Your Life
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Jan. 20th, 2012 05:22 pmI hate SpaceChem because I'm bad at it. My solutions are rarely elegant - I tend to brute-force the solutions and the results are ugly-but-functional, with worse than average use of cycles and components. I tend to do pretty well on number of reactors, but that's it.
And my problem is, I look online to see HOW people are getting such good numbers, and I HATE THEM because their solutions are so neat.
Take this dude: I was stuck managing my last connection to get the right modules on a challenge mission, so I looked to see how other people had done it.
And this guy BUILT A COMPUTER OUT OF SPACECHEM.
Top-ranked comment is 'I clicked "Like" because YouTube lacks a "My Head Just Exploded" button.' and that's just about right.
This game is awesome, and I am TERRIBLE at it.
And my problem is, I look online to see HOW people are getting such good numbers, and I HATE THEM because their solutions are so neat.
Take this dude: I was stuck managing my last connection to get the right modules on a challenge mission, so I looked to see how other people had done it.
And this guy BUILT A COMPUTER OUT OF SPACECHEM.
Top-ranked comment is 'I clicked "Like" because YouTube lacks a "My Head Just Exploded" button.' and that's just about right.
This game is awesome, and I am TERRIBLE at it.
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Jan. 20th, 2012 10:42 pmHey Leigh: Why do you bother trying to talk to Kratman? Dude is *literally* a neo-nazi. Not a "his political positions are fascist therefore" nazi, a literal no-doubt-possible argues-repeatedly-in-print-in-his-own-words nazi, claiming the Waffen SS were the only military force on earth truly capable of saving civilisation from the dirty non-white foreigners.
Dude has spent years not just as a white supremacist, but as a *literal* nazi-fetishist. Why treat him any differently than David Lane or William Pierce?
EDIT: Oh, right, I forgot he obsessively ego-googles. And has shown up here, with an impressively Kratmanlike "How dare you say I dislike minorities? Some of my best friends are minorities! You are a bad person because you are a minority and they are all bad people!" in the *very first comment*.
My "why bother engaging, he's a bigoted moron" question still stands. I've corrected the problem of his arguing the point here, because, well, "why bother engaging, he's a bigoted moron." If he'd like to correct that, he has his own website, and a publisher. He doesn't get space here, any more than David Duke does.
Dude has spent years not just as a white supremacist, but as a *literal* nazi-fetishist. Why treat him any differently than David Lane or William Pierce?
EDIT: Oh, right, I forgot he obsessively ego-googles. And has shown up here, with an impressively Kratmanlike "How dare you say I dislike minorities? Some of my best friends are minorities! You are a bad person because you are a minority and they are all bad people!" in the *very first comment*.
My "why bother engaging, he's a bigoted moron" question still stands. I've corrected the problem of his arguing the point here, because, well, "why bother engaging, he's a bigoted moron." If he'd like to correct that, he has his own website, and a publisher. He doesn't get space here, any more than David Duke does.