spiffmeister

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

Well she has full confidence of the Chancellor that I'm sure has nothing to do with the contracts for mates or the free travel.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (3 children)

I've been enjoying the AFR articles on the VC. I got out just in time I think.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 4 months ago

Honestly, reducing the teaching + publish-or-perish + the constant need to apply for grants would go a long way towards fixing the review process. Academics have to spend a lot of time doing a lot of non-academic work that peer reviewing properly sometimes gets pushed down the list of priorities.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I think the YouTuber Professor Dave just did some videos about her encouraging science denialism. The podcast Decoding the Gurus has also done an episode on her with similar commentary, "good science communicator but also encourages denialism" is the tldr.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

/j on swimming. Realistically you can get away with any skills, though I always liked pistols since you can scope/laser sight the standard pistol and run around headshotting everything.

GEP gunning everything is also hilarious.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (2 children)

The secret is to level the swimming skill exclusively.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

Because if no one reviews the articles then anyone could publish junk. In highly technical fields the only people qualified to tell if something is BS science are the experts in the field, so they review and make sure the article has some merit.

That's not to say the reviewing process is perfect, but it does at least help to filter some amount of bs.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 5 months ago

You're assuming that they scouted this and carefully planned it to ensure they wouldn't cause damage. I doubt that.

Seems like they did:

The canvas of the painting is protected with a glass screen, a factor Just Stop Oil said they had taken into account.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 6 months ago

The headline reads like an onion article.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I haven't quite finished it yet, my feeling is that it slightly overstays it's welcome.

I've also noticed that most of the time I do a thing or two in the game then realise there's not quite enough time in the loop to do another thing, but just enough time to make me want to not waste the loop, since I find starting a new loop a bit tedious.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

From memory it respawns the low level enemies constantly, since they're just ammo/health/armour pinatas. You needed to kill the big enemies to complete an arena.

Not really a fan of the design choice, but I had a decent amount of fun when I clicked with how the Devs wanted you to play.

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