Maybe Aeon Disk is not the problem, maybe its a symptom of the current meta.
The Meta is currently very burst heavy, it about killing heroes before they get a chance to respond. That is why Aeon Disk is in favor, because they have to pick it up to survive.
If Aeon Disk gets nerfed and the burst meta is not toned down or pipe and other defensive items can't fit those survival gaps we are going to be in a much worse situation, it will be a shoot first or have a save kind of meta.
The next patch either needs to be small set of changes and we are going to keep what is the current style of meta for TI, or Its going to be huge with a big turn of style before TI. I just don't see the latter happening with such a short period before TI to Tune a big patch.
What are your thoughts on my analysis?
Hey everyone, I know this is kind of a weird topic, but this really started to nag at me after playing a Sephiroth online a few hours ago. I figured it'd be an interesting problem to parse, what with how Sephiroth holds his sword at a right angle as he rotates it about his shoulder. Plus it'd just be interesting to find out how big such a big move actually is.
So, me and my friend got to sketching, and came up with a pretty accurate diagram of the move's shape. After some wizardry at finding congruent angles and right triangles, we were able to find the area for such a weird shape. However, while working it through, namely when finding the area for the yellow portion, I noticed that when finding the actual disk's area (the square of the outer 5.44cm radius minus the square of the inner 1.6cm radius), I found that I just ended up using the length of the sword (5.2cm for our model). I didn't think anything of it at the time and kept on going, getting a final area of about 54.09cm^2 for our model.
On a whim though, I just plugged in the sword's radius into the area of 5/8 of a circle (the area encompassed by Sephiroth's Up-Smash) and we were both dumbfounded to find that it spat out basically the exact same thing. I went through our work, threw together a proper formula based on what we did, put it into an online calculator to get an exact area and yeah, exactly the same as (5/8)pi(5.2)^2.
All our work was literally for nothing, and that's hilarious. I figured having the radius be bent at that quirky angle to make such an odd disk would be interesting to puzzle out, and it was, but we were laughing for ages to find that out. Even now though, my mind keeps pinging back and forth between thinking it's totally intuitive and thinking that it makes no sense at all. That such a weird shape is simply equal to a circle with a radius of that bent part is just so crazy, and I wanted to share that discovery process with you all.
Plus, I also just wanted to clarify - does the radius being bent off course like that really have no effect on the area of the rotated shape? Even after extending it out with some empty space in the middle? In the example we used, Sephiroth was holding his sword at basically a perfect right angle, so would bending the sword at a different angle impact the area rotating it makes?
tl;dr - Sephiroth's sword is pretty heckin big, we did a lot more work than we needed to to find the area it covers, the disks formed by crooked radii are we
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I just remembered a story I meant to post here a while back but forgot to.
A few months back, I was working on commissioning a Laser Characterization system, and as such needed to take a bunch of really accurate measurements of the waveform response as we added each new section of cables from the wave generator to the testbench. For this, I was using a very high accuracy, but very old oscilloscope that was originally from the 80's, so a real hardware driven machine that was 5x the size of most current models. But it was also the highest fidelity unit on site, so had to be used.
The key issue with using this scope, was in order to save the waveforms and transport them to a PC to analyse, they had to be saved to a floppy disk. This in itself caused some issues as we hadn't used floppys in quite a few years so tracking one down took a while. Eventually a 1.44MB drive was found as well as a USB floppy reader. So I run the tests and save the waveforms to the floppy, then take the floppy and plug it into the PC via the USB reader and import the files to my PC to analyse. So far so good.
The real issue came then next day when I tried to boot the PC and nothing would happen. No windows boot screen, nothing coming up.... So after playing around in the bios to see if anything obvious was popping up and some googling and finding nothing, I called a colleague who actually works in the IT dept. He comes over and tries a few tricks but gets nowhere. So eventually he decides to take my workstation and disconnect it and bring it back to his own desk to try booting it there....and it starts right up immediately!
So bring it back over to my desk and plug my peripherals back in, power the system on and now its working again, how strange.
And that ladies and gents is when I happened to look down and see one of the items I had unplugged in order to hand over the PC to my colleague.....the floppy drive in the reader....And that's when I learnt that PC's still have floppy drives at the top of the boot order in BIOS and I had been trying for hours to boot windows from a 1.44MB floppy containing a few images.
In the end it took a few weeks to live that one down...
TL;DR BIOS order still prioritizes floppy drives first
Edit: Since 3 people have commented it, I have since learnt that the boot order is controlled at the BIOS stage
I have been thinking of getting a Ps5 recently and I was wondering if I should buy the digital edition or save up more for the physical edition? I currently own a Nintendo switch and I kinda want something a bit more powerful. I don’t own a PS4 so I don’t have any physical games for backwards compatibility but I was also wondering if you can download ps4 games through the store because there is some games I want to play?
Edit: I thought I should mention i‘m leaning towards the digital edition because I like things like indie games which are normally download only and I’ve been downloading most of my games recently because I prefer it. I’m mainly only buying physical games if i really want them or the limited edition like Mario 3D all stars. Also it’s cheaper.
Edit 2: I’m not going to build a pc or buy a laptop or prebuilt one. I prefer console gaming and I was thinking of getting one but there really expensive and I’m only a teenager meaning i don’t make that much money.
Edit 3 : I’m probably gonna get the Digital Version because it’s cheaper, I mainly buy digital games, I don’t like selling my games and I have never owned blu-rays and don’t plan on buying any making that part kinda useless. But I’m not fully sure on this so if you have anything you want to say please comment it!
Hopefully the final edit: I saw a comment talking about 4K TVs. I have one so yea.
more and more. I really like this game. But... Considering that I'm only on disk one, I'm sure I'll have some things to say later on.
Imagine if you could send your disk to xbox or a company they contract and an individual tests that disk and if you get approved you get sent the digital version of the game and that disk is destroyed/recycled. This would both increase revenue as another opportunity for xbox to make money on a game but it would also increase Series S upgrades, AND it would take used games off the market that would otherwise be a lost opportunity for income from Xbox AND the developers. You're used games would also hold increased value as the # of physical copies that exists would decrease with time after production stops.
I'm mad I bought mine for $15 on sale on PSN
My 14tb parity disk needs to be removed from my pool and sent back for warranty replacement.
I purchased a new 14tb drive to act as a replacement during that process.
https://wiki.unraid.net/The_parity_swap_procedure is this the best process? I feel like I should shutdown, install the new parity disk (leaving the old in place), boot unraid, add the new disk as a second parity, let the entire array update, then remove the failing parity disk.
