- There’s a picture book of Greek myths my dad would read to me from when I was a kid. It toned down the gore and rape stuff (it was still there just implied so a kid won’t get it), and made for great listening as a kid before bed.
20 years later I’m in grad school and I meet some classicists. It seems basically every one of them had that book as a kid. Maybe I missed my calling
- The issue is it turns player wages into a zero sum game. In the NFL, quarterbacks have been taking up a bigger and bigger percentage of the cap, while players in positions that don’t last as long (due to injuries or just aging out) make less as a result. Now, on one hand, it makes sense because QBs have been more impactful to teams over the last 25 years, but at some level, you have to respect players like RBs who take more hits, have shorter careers, and more medical issues after retirement are getting shafted.
- I moved into an apartment and kept the plan the previous resident had. They also sold us the non-xfinity router they had st a discount.
My roommate and I had spotty internet at various times of day. We measured it and it was way below what our plan claimed. The previous tenants had no such issue. Comcast refused to believe the problem was on their end and claimed my router was too old. This went on until I bought a new router just to prove a point (new router did nothing).
They finally send a repair guy out. He’s there for 5 minutes before diagnosing the problem: the cables were water logged to hell and back. He fixed it in 20 minutes and was gone.
- Your personal one is the correct one from my perspective (as someone that knows a lot of math and is familiar with statistical mechanics as math and not physics). The ODEs that we get from classical mechanics are typically reversible: we can write down an ODE that does the same thing but backwards.
You cannot do that for the PDEs that arise in statistical mechanics and the result is the second law. These PDEs arise from approximating many copies of deterministic systems as continuous distributions of states. Entropy is not a concept that makes sense when discussing single trajectories of systems — only the macroscopic view of many copies of that system evolving according to the same dynamics.
- I find it interesting that you dislike the combat in the originals but like Pokemon Stadium which only features combat (and horrid mini games).
Also I’m not really sure what exploring you’d want to do in those early games. I guess if you wanted to explore, I’d be annoyed by the constant fights, but that never occurred to me. The point of leaving a town was to get into a fight for one reason or another. That style of random fights outside of towns was also a staple of a lot of top down RPGs at the time.
I haven’t played a pokemon game in 20 years, but I think you might have been barking up the wrong tree a bit. Outside of the combat, there isn’t much to do. If you don’t like the combat, then it’s just not your game.
- Lawyers do. My dad is winding down his legal career but the bulk of it was spent writing corporate loan contracts. He’d constantly have clients asking him to make “small changes” to the document that either made no sense or were, in fact, large changes that would rob him of his weekend. While his specialty was niche, it was not so niche that appeasing the client for their future business was not important. His clients drove him crazy with this stuff but at least he could bill those hours.
I know less about doctors, but they certainly have people that think they know better and question their course of treatment. Just look at the pandemic and vaccine nonsense. Doctors benefit from supply and demand (artificial or otherwise) meaning that they’re basically always booked up.
Developers have neither of those privileges unless you’re an in demand consultant.
Not all summer blockbusters are created equal.