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Digital Paint Community => Other Stuff => Topic started by: Fullmetal_Steeb on September 19, 2007, 08:35:02 PM
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I've noticed that while playing with a few people who develop this game, people I would expect to be awesome at it, that they must not spend much time playing... I'll leave out names so you don't have to be embarassed at being killed multiple times by a self-admitted noob. But what's the reason for it? Is it just that you spend so much time developing that you don't practice much, or are you just logging in and playing to test a new feature, and not really paying attention when I get a headshot on you? XD
I was just wondering about that....
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People like y00tz and zorch play, but as you can see, they spend a lot of their time developing rather then playing. When they do play, it's not that they are just flat out terrible, it's probably because they're rusty or their eyes hurt from staring at GIMP for hours on end.
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Yeah, I understand that they aren't COMPLETELY terrible, but still, I would have thought they could blow me out of the water ;)
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My reason:
I have less and less time to be online in general, due to personal issues I am not willing to discuss. However, I love to play even though I am not that good.
Also, I really enjoy making something work, and I really enjoy moding. I hope to one day help Jitspoe develop this game (kinda doubt that will happen though :P). But I think I need to practice finishing projects that I start before anything (I'm getting much better).
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I know what you mean about the "finishing projects" thing. I have about 4 or 5 half-made maps sitting there that I haven't worked on in about a month (my monitor has been completely intercoursed up, and I can only see about half of it at a time because of an error message, and it's on the monitor, so I can't click off of it, and playing with the menu buttons makes it worse). Same reason I haven't played either in a long time :( But I hope to get a new monitor pretty soon here.
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Everyone plays less and less on the weekdays because of school. I don't even get to play anymore except for weekends, my schoolwork, then my job, then my homework eat up my whole day. Even now, i'm supposed to be finishing up my college algebra, yet i am lured into this conversation :P or i am a procrastinator
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Nah, it's gotta be the conversation. But think of it like this, at least if you are a procrastinator for a few hours you can think about why it is you aren't doing your h/w!
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/me remembers when the forums were dead and everyone was on irc....
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We can do both :P
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/me remembers when the forums were dead and everyone was on irc....
Probably much more fun..
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I play alot and I'm active on the forums, and im pretty ok/good at this game.
I play in loial's server, clan Ur server,GT servers, and thats about it.(I hate german servers, I get bad bad lag in them). :P
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If you have never been on IRC how can you know you are "ok/good"?
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Um. How can you judge a player by IRC participation?
This was the only q2 mod that was co-dependent on IRC for its existance.
(Granted it has outlived most mods. But thats not becuase IRC is superior....its becuase most q2 and q2 mod players, grew up. My self not included. Gee thanks Nathan.)
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I was not talking about "IRC participation".
I was just stating that if he has never been on IRC hes probably judging himself from pubs..and we all know "good" players dont pub much.
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Everyone plays less and less on the weekdays because of school. I don't even get to play anymore except for weekends, my schoolwork, then my job, then my homework eat up my whole day. Even now, i'm supposed to be finishing up my college algebra, yet i am lured into this conversation :P or i am a procrastinator
why would you add college in before algevra. You're only 14, and I highy doubt it.
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I tested out of college algebra. :D
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why would you add college in before algevra. You're only 14, and I highy doubt it.
I see you don't know what college algebra is.
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My college algebra class sucks. It's all online and I am lazy.
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Munchies, I'm 16, a junior in highschool, and 2 years ahead of my class in math. I skipped 8th grade math, then now i am skipping calculus.
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That's really odd. College algebra is usually basic algebra, and it's below analytic geometry, calculus, and the other branches of algebra (abstract, etc.). At my high school school, those who take college algebra are those who failed the main math track. Even Wikipedia agrees with me (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Algebra&oldid=159223478#Classification), and so does Google (http://www.google.com/search?q=college+algebra). Are you sure it's called that?
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mhmm, it's college algebra & trigonometry, all jumbled together. I guess i really don't skip calculus, sort of kinda do. if i were on the normal math track, i could choose between college algebra or calculus for my senior year.
after completing this class though, i will have all my credits to graduate, so next year i don't even have to take a math class.
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That's really odd. College algebra is usually basic algebra
I highly doubt that. I started taking algebra in 7th grade...
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mhmm, it's college algebra & trigonometry, all jumbled together. I guess i really don't skip calculus, sort of kinda do. if i were on the normal math track, i could choose between college algebra or calculus for my senior year.
after completing this class though, i will have all my credits to graduate, so next year i don't even have to take a math class.
That's not two years ahead. That's standard, at least so here. Specifically, here, you take most of algebra in both middle school and your sophomore year. You take geometry in your freshman year. In your junior year, you take precalculus, which is just analytic geometry, the rest of fundamental algebra, and trigonometry. Senior year is calculus usually, though some people choose to take just Advanced Placement (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Placement) statistics, and leave calculus for college. Actually, it's pretty standard across California, seeing that this is what most of the universities are used to.
I highly doubt that. I started taking algebra in 7th grade...
College algebra covers analytic geometry and trigonometry too. It's not just fundamental algebra. You can argue with me, but both Google and Wikipedia side by my stand.
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Well here our math courses go as follows. Freshman take Algebra, Sophomores take Geometry, Juniors take Algebra 2, then Seniors take College Algebra or calculus.
I took algebra in 8th grade, then geometry freshman year, then algebra 2 last year, and now i am in the college algebra course. Not every school will be the same, so don't go by the standards of where you live to compare your education to ours
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What you took coincides with what the track is here.
But anyway, schools are obviously not the same. School schools do better on tests than others. I'm not trying to say our system is any better, but the truth of the matter is, we need some standardization. Before college, none of this really matters, but once you enter the working world and college though, it will matter. If you're not as competitive, regardless of your background, you're just not going to succeed as well. I think it's good to know where everyone else is, because it helps you know what you need to do to be competitive. Schools in other countries are taking calculus many years before we do. I'm not trying to pick on your case, but for example, we're in no way better, math-wise, than those students in these other countries.
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If you have never been on IRC how can you know you are "ok/good"?
Gee looks like you are wrong, I'm on irc everyday, probably just not your channels.
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My reason:
I have less and less time to be online in general, due to personal issues I am not willing to discuss. However, I love to play even though I am not that good.
Also, I really enjoy making something work, and I really enjoy moding. I hope to one day help Jitspoe develop this game (kinda doubt that will happen though :P). But I think I need to practice finishing projects that I start before anything (I'm getting much better).
Ditto.
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College algebra covers analytic geometry and trigonometry too. It's not just fundamental algebra. You can argue with me, but both Google and Wikipedia side by my stand.
You just said you start taking algebra in middle school, then you said basic algebra (which, to my understanding would be what you take first) is college level stuff. All I'm saying is that you contradicted yourself.
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*y00tz recalls back to his HL Math, International Baccalaureate days...
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You just said you start taking algebra in middle school, then you said basic algebra (which, to my understanding would be what you take first) is college level stuff. All I'm saying is that you contradicted yourself.
I didn't, or so I didn't mean to. If you take basic algebra in college, it's called college algebra. If you take basic algebra in middle school/high school, it's called algebra. College algebra, to be specific, really equals "pre-calculus," because it covers a little more than just basic algebra. I'm not sure there are college courses that learn just basic algebra.
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Ok what is the topic again
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Ok what is the topic again
It's Fullmetal_Steeb's topic, if he wants to take it in whatever direction he wants, I'm going to have to allow.
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I'm going to have to allow.
Haha. "Mac has issued a salutation. Cancel or allow?"
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Allow... *sigh* I hate these things. lol.
Yeah, how did this topic get to algebra?
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Munchies isn't too smart, that's how :P
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:D who?