The final project in my instrumentation class was to tune a PID controller for a hot/cold mixing valve. I (CS/ENG) was paired up with an engineering student and a lot of it was throwing parameters in, seeing if weird shit happened, and then turning down or up based on the result. I had a programming final and something else I was supposed to be studying for, so I just started doing a binary search with the knobs. We got the thing tuned relatively fast and my partner acted like I was a wizard.
If god made himself known in an undeniable way tomorrow, and if he confirmed the heaven/hell thing, I'd still choose hell. An eternity with a being that arbitrarily sends people to eternal torment, singing his praises, is my personal hell.
Yeah, I swear it's part of the culture at some places. At my first full-time job, my boss dropped the production database the week before I started. They lost at least a day of records because of it and he spent most of the first day telling me why writing sql in prod was bad.
That's the first game I bought for my GBC. I didn't have enough money for a playstation and was jealous of all my friends playing MGS. It's super well done. I just got an analog pocket and I think I'll dig MGS out again after I finish my Castlevania games.
I've met a few decent evangelical christians. A dozen at most, and I spent the first 20 years of my life surrounded by evangelicals. I think they're people that managed to be decent in spite of their faith, not because of it. That's a hard trick to pull off.
The rest are banal, neurotic messes who simultaneously believe their all powerful god controls everything and will return any day now, and also that they have to police the world on his behalf because he's not doing anything, and also that their faith makes them paragons of morality, and also that they're literal worms with no redeeming value. And that's just the congregation. The pastors.... holy shit.
Molyneux's great sin is the inability to shut the fuck up while he's ahead. lt's hard to explain how much weight this guy carried in the 90s/very early 00s but he was the guy that did Populus, Dungeon Keeper, and Syndicate. And then he just kept over-promising and fucking up for a whole decade.
If he'd kept it reasonable he might still carry some of that weight but he cannot stop promising the moon and then delivering mediocre shit. It would be like Miyamoto releasing flappy bird with NFTs instead of the next Zelda game. God he's so frustrating.
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The final project in my instrumentation class was to tune a PID controller for a hot/cold mixing valve. I (CS/ENG) was paired up with an engineering student and a lot of it was throwing parameters in, seeing if weird shit happened, and then turning down or up based on the result. I had a programming final and something else I was supposed to be studying for, so I just started doing a binary search with the knobs. We got the thing tuned relatively fast and my partner acted like I was a wizard.