I don't want to live in a world where I have to accept the reality that you've grown up to be more retarded than you were when you raped cartoon ponies and stole air conditioners from your mother's boyfriend.
He didn't steal air conditioners, he broke them because he considered it fair punishment for his headphones breaking. I think he also smashed a flatscreen TV, stole a car, and broke a door before his asshole got broken in like a new baseball glove in prison.
It should be noted that I've upvoted every single person who's disagreed with me here, as far as I know.
That said.
In 7th grade, I took an SAT test without preparing for it at all, it was spur-of-the-moment, I knew about it about an hour ahead of time and didn't do any research or anything. I scored higher on it than the average person using it to apply for college in my area.
An IQ test has shown me to be in the 99.9th percentile for IQ. This is the highest result the test I was given reaches; anything further and they'd consider it to be within the margin of error for that test.
My mother's boyfriend of 8 years is an aerospace engineer who graduated Virginia Tech. At the age of 15, I understand physics better than him, and I owe very little of it to him, as he would rarely give me a decent explanation of anything, just tell me that my ideas were wrong and become aggravated with me for not quite understanding thermodynamics. He's not particularly successful as an engineer, but I've met lots of other engineers who aren't as good as me at physics, so I'm guessing that's not just a result of him being bad at it.
I'm also pretty good at engineering. I don't have a degree, and other than physics I don't have a better understanding of any aspect of engineering than any actual engineer, but I have lots of ingenuity for inventing new things. For example, I independently invented regenerative brakes before finding out what they were, and I was only seven or eight years old when I started inventing wireless electricity solutions (my first idea being to use a powerful infrared laser to transmit energy; admittedly not the best plan).
I have independently thought of basically every branch of philosophy I've come across. Every question of existentialism which I've seen discussed in SMBC or xkcd or Reddit or anywhere else, the thoughts haven't been new to me. Philosophy has pretty much gotten trivial for me; I've considered taking a philosophy course just to see how easy it is.
Psychology, I actually understand better than people with degrees. Unlike engineering, there's no aspect of psychology which I don't have a very good understanding of. I can debunk many of even Sigmund Freud's theories.
I'm a good enough writer that I'm writing a book and so far everybody who's read any of it has said it was really good and plausible to expect to have published. And that's not just, like, me and family members, that counts strangers on the Internet. I've heard zero negative appraisal of it so far; people have critiqued it, but not insulted it.
I don't know if that will suffice as evidence that I'm intelligent. I'm done with it, though, because I'd rather defend my maturity, since it's what you've spent the most time attacking. The following are some examples of my morals and ethical code.
I believe firmly that everybody deserves a future. If we were to capture Hitler at the end of WWII, I would be against executing him. In fact, if we had any way of rehabilitating him and knowing that he wasn't just faking it, I'd even support the concept of letting him go free. This is essentially because I think that whoever you are in the present is a separate entity from who you were in the past and who you are in the future, and while your present self should take responsibility for your past self's actions, it shouldn't be punished for them simply for the sake of punishment, especially if the present self regrets the actions of the past self and feels genuine guilt about them.
I don't believe in judgement of people based on their personal choices as long as those personal choices aren't harming others. I don't have any issue with any type of sexuality whatsoever (short of physically acting out necrophilia, pedophilia, or other acts which have a harmful affect on others - but I don't care what a person's fantasies consist of, as long as they recognize the difference between reality and fiction and can separate them). I don't have any issue with anybody over what type of music they listen to, or clothes they wear, etc. I know that's not really an impressive moral, but it's unfortunately rare; a great many people, especially those my age, are judgmental about these things.
I love everyone, even people I hate. I wish my worst enemies good fortune and happiness. Rick Perry is a vile, piece of shit human being, deserving of zero respect, but I wish for him to change for the better and live the best life possible. I wish this for everyone.
I'm pretty much a pacifist. I've taken a broken nose without fighting back or seeking retribution, because the guy stopped punching after that. The only time I'll fight back is if 1) the person attacking me shows no signs of stopping and 2) if I don't attack, I'll come out worse than the other person will if I do. In other words, if fighting someone is going to end up being more harmful to them than just letting them go will be to me, I don't fight back. I've therefore never had a reason to fight back against anyone in anything serious, because my ability to take pain has so far made it so that I'm never in a situation where I'll be worse off after a fight. If I'm not going to get any hospitalizing injuries, I really don't care.
The only exception is if someone is going after my life. Even then, I'll do the minimum amount of harm to them that I possibly can in protecting myself. If someone points a gun at me and I can get out of it without harming them, I'd prefer to do that over killing them.
I consider myself a feminist. I don't believe in enforced or uniform gender roles; they may happen naturally, but they should never be coerced into happening unnaturally. As in, the societal pressure for gender roles should really go, even if it'll turn out that the majority of relationships continue operating the same way of their own accord. I treat women with the same outlook I treat men, and never participate in the old Reddit "women are crazy" circlejerk, because there are multiple women out there and each have different personalities just like there are multiple men out there and each with different personalities. I don't think you do much of anything except scare off the awesome women out there by going on and on about the ones who aren't awesome.
That doesn't mean I look for places to victimize women, I just don't believe it's fair to make generalizations such as the one about women acting like everything's OK when it's really not (and that's a particularly harsh example, because all humans do that).
I'm kind of tired of citing these examples and I'm guessing you're getting tired of reading them, if you've even made it this far. In closing, the people who know me in real life all respect me, as do a great many people in the Reddit brony community, where I spend most of my time and where I'm pretty known for being helpful around the community. A lot of people in my segment of the community are depressed or going through hard times, and I spend a lot of time giving advice and support to people there. Yesterday someone quoted a case of me doing this in a post asking everyone what their favorite motivational/inspirational quote was, and that comment was second to the top, so I guess other people agreed (though, granted, it was a pretty low-traffic post, only about a dozen competing comments).
And, uh, I'm a pretty good moderator.
All that, and I think your behavior in this thread was totally assholish. So what do you think, now that you at least slightly know me?
Psychology, I actually understand better than people with degrees. Unlike engineering, there's no aspect of psychology which I don't have a very good understanding of. I can debunk many of even Sigmund Freud's theories.
this is honestly my favourite part, because anyone who's even taken highschool psych would know that none of Freud's theories have been taken seriously for a long time.
Being tuned for a specific purpose means you make sacrifices of things that would reduce the effectiveness for that purpose. For example a sniper round has to sacrifice the spread of a buckshot round, for the increased accuracy and range. It being a niche card for a specific purpose doesn't actually at all excuse it not having a performance upgrade to go with its price tag. There's no reason having more teraflops would make it worse at 3D modeling.
I don't know shit about graphics cards, but this firearms metaphor is fucking terrible.
Thank goodness that /u/HStark is a felon and can't legally possess guns.
Weren't you convicted of grand larceny and sentenced to curfew or something like that. At this point maybe you should be locked up, but then we would miss your drama.
Why should he? Even at the age of 15, Darqwolff understood physics a MasterCard bill better than a Virginia Tech grad. I mean, he figured out regenerative brakes compound interest and penalties all by his lonesome.
In terms of gaming the card is equal to a Titan X at the time. The real reason it is so expensive is that it has 24GB of Error-correcting code ram which is important in applications that require a lot of ram and/or places that need to be sure that a bit doesn't get flipped. Essentially science facilities and the financial companies are going to buy this card. So Nvidia jacks the price up because they know the companies can/will pay.
In terms of gaming the card is equal to a Titan X at the time. The real reason it is so expensive is that it has 24GB of Error-correcting code ram which is important in applications that require a lot of ram and/or places that need to be sure that a bit doesn't get flipped. Essentially science facilities and the financial companies are going to buy this card. So Nvidia jacks the price up because they know the companies can/will pay.
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n/a SnapshillBot 2017-05-30
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n/a wwyzzerdd 2017-05-30
/u/HStark please tell me you're just trolling.
I don't want to live in a world where I have to accept the reality that you've grown up to be more retarded than you were when you raped cartoon ponies and stole air conditioners from your mother's boyfriend.
n/a MegaSeedsInYourBum 2017-05-30
He didn't steal air conditioners, he broke them because he considered it fair punishment for his headphones breaking. I think he also smashed a flatscreen TV, stole a car, and broke a door before his asshole got broken in like a new baseball glove in prison.
n/a wwyzzerdd 2017-05-30
My humblest apologies for not having memorized The Life and Times of some stupid white kid.
n/a MegaSeedsInYourBum 2017-05-30
As you should apologize.
I only remember it because it was so over the top I thought it had to be fake but sure as shit it was real.
n/a Senator_Chickpea 2017-05-30
The Catcher in the REEEEEEEEEE
n/a MyrLeaf 2017-05-30
Gamers are the most retarded demographic around.
n/a Ardvarkeating101 2017-05-30
Someone is neglecting the true meaning of mayocide
n/a MegaSeedsInYourBum 2017-05-30
I want to say you're wrong but I can't think of a group that is worse. You might actually be right.
n/a Works_of_memercy 2017-05-30
White women tbqh.
n/a DennisRader 2017-05-30
/u/HStark, why are you the way you are? We all I think want to know that.
n/a yonicthehedgehog 2017-05-30
vaccines, son
n/a razzmataz 2017-05-30
Mom's boyfriend touched him.
n/a WithoutAComma 2017-05-30
Darqwolff really puts the "idiot" in "idiot savant." And then he takes out the "savant."
n/a Senator_Chickpea 2017-05-30
n/a Matues49 2017-05-30
It should be noted that I've upvoted every single person who's disagreed with me here, as far as I know.
That said.
In 7th grade, I took an SAT test without preparing for it at all, it was spur-of-the-moment, I knew about it about an hour ahead of time and didn't do any research or anything. I scored higher on it than the average person using it to apply for college in my area. An IQ test has shown me to be in the 99.9th percentile for IQ. This is the highest result the test I was given reaches; anything further and they'd consider it to be within the margin of error for that test. My mother's boyfriend of 8 years is an aerospace engineer who graduated Virginia Tech. At the age of 15, I understand physics better than him, and I owe very little of it to him, as he would rarely give me a decent explanation of anything, just tell me that my ideas were wrong and become aggravated with me for not quite understanding thermodynamics. He's not particularly successful as an engineer, but I've met lots of other engineers who aren't as good as me at physics, so I'm guessing that's not just a result of him being bad at it.
I'm also pretty good at engineering. I don't have a degree, and other than physics I don't have a better understanding of any aspect of engineering than any actual engineer, but I have lots of ingenuity for inventing new things. For example, I independently invented regenerative brakes before finding out what they were, and I was only seven or eight years old when I started inventing wireless electricity solutions (my first idea being to use a powerful infrared laser to transmit energy; admittedly not the best plan).
I have independently thought of basically every branch of philosophy I've come across. Every question of existentialism which I've seen discussed in SMBC or xkcd or Reddit or anywhere else, the thoughts haven't been new to me. Philosophy has pretty much gotten trivial for me; I've considered taking a philosophy course just to see how easy it is.
Psychology, I actually understand better than people with degrees. Unlike engineering, there's no aspect of psychology which I don't have a very good understanding of. I can debunk many of even Sigmund Freud's theories.
I'm a good enough writer that I'm writing a book and so far everybody who's read any of it has said it was really good and plausible to expect to have published. And that's not just, like, me and family members, that counts strangers on the Internet. I've heard zero negative appraisal of it so far; people have critiqued it, but not insulted it.
I don't know if that will suffice as evidence that I'm intelligent. I'm done with it, though, because I'd rather defend my maturity, since it's what you've spent the most time attacking. The following are some examples of my morals and ethical code.
I believe firmly that everybody deserves a future. If we were to capture Hitler at the end of WWII, I would be against executing him. In fact, if we had any way of rehabilitating him and knowing that he wasn't just faking it, I'd even support the concept of letting him go free. This is essentially because I think that whoever you are in the present is a separate entity from who you were in the past and who you are in the future, and while your present self should take responsibility for your past self's actions, it shouldn't be punished for them simply for the sake of punishment, especially if the present self regrets the actions of the past self and feels genuine guilt about them.
I don't believe in judgement of people based on their personal choices as long as those personal choices aren't harming others. I don't have any issue with any type of sexuality whatsoever (short of physically acting out necrophilia, pedophilia, or other acts which have a harmful affect on others - but I don't care what a person's fantasies consist of, as long as they recognize the difference between reality and fiction and can separate them). I don't have any issue with anybody over what type of music they listen to, or clothes they wear, etc. I know that's not really an impressive moral, but it's unfortunately rare; a great many people, especially those my age, are judgmental about these things.
I love everyone, even people I hate. I wish my worst enemies good fortune and happiness. Rick Perry is a vile, piece of shit human being, deserving of zero respect, but I wish for him to change for the better and live the best life possible. I wish this for everyone. I'm pretty much a pacifist. I've taken a broken nose without fighting back or seeking retribution, because the guy stopped punching after that. The only time I'll fight back is if 1) the person attacking me shows no signs of stopping and 2) if I don't attack, I'll come out worse than the other person will if I do. In other words, if fighting someone is going to end up being more harmful to them than just letting them go will be to me, I don't fight back. I've therefore never had a reason to fight back against anyone in anything serious, because my ability to take pain has so far made it so that I'm never in a situation where I'll be worse off after a fight. If I'm not going to get any hospitalizing injuries, I really don't care. The only exception is if someone is going after my life. Even then, I'll do the minimum amount of harm to them that I possibly can in protecting myself. If someone points a gun at me and I can get out of it without harming them, I'd prefer to do that over killing them.
I consider myself a feminist. I don't believe in enforced or uniform gender roles; they may happen naturally, but they should never be coerced into happening unnaturally. As in, the societal pressure for gender roles should really go, even if it'll turn out that the majority of relationships continue operating the same way of their own accord. I treat women with the same outlook I treat men, and never participate in the old Reddit "women are crazy" circlejerk, because there are multiple women out there and each have different personalities just like there are multiple men out there and each with different personalities. I don't think you do much of anything except scare off the awesome women out there by going on and on about the ones who aren't awesome.
That doesn't mean I look for places to victimize women, I just don't believe it's fair to make generalizations such as the one about women acting like everything's OK when it's really not (and that's a particularly harsh example, because all humans do that). I'm kind of tired of citing these examples and I'm guessing you're getting tired of reading them, if you've even made it this far. In closing, the people who know me in real life all respect me, as do a great many people in the Reddit brony community, where I spend most of my time and where I'm pretty known for being helpful around the community. A lot of people in my segment of the community are depressed or going through hard times, and I spend a lot of time giving advice and support to people there. Yesterday someone quoted a case of me doing this in a post asking everyone what their favorite motivational/inspirational quote was, and that comment was second to the top, so I guess other people agreed (though, granted, it was a pretty low-traffic post, only about a dozen competing comments).
And, uh, I'm a pretty good moderator.
All that, and I think your behavior in this thread was totally assholish. So what do you think, now that you at least slightly know me?
n/a afclu13 2017-05-30
Impressive!
But you are " too straight to understand" lilpoundcake's post. Hmm.
n/a skivian 2017-05-30
this is honestly my favourite part, because anyone who's even taken highschool psych would know that none of Freud's theories have been taken seriously for a long time.
n/a skeetsurfing1984 2017-05-30
I don't know shit about graphics cards, but this firearms metaphor is fucking terrible.
Thank goodness that /u/HStark is a felon and can't legally possess guns.
n/a HStark 2017-05-30
How was it a bad metaphor? Also I'm not a felon
n/a skeetsurfing1984 2017-05-30
I hope you kissed that public defender on the lips.
n/a mananlak 2017-05-30
Weren't you convicted of grand larceny and sentenced to curfew or something like that. At this point maybe you should be locked up, but then we would miss your drama.
n/a DannyLee90 2017-05-30
If I had to guess, it's because you're talking about guns like you're reading a stat sheet on a Call of Duty game.
n/a VAGINA_EMPEROR 2017-05-30
Did you ever pay back the guy who's fucking your mom for all the shit of his that you broke?
n/a Senator_Chickpea 2017-05-30
Why should he? Even at the age of 15, Darqwolff understood
physicsa MasterCard bill better than a Virginia Tech grad. I mean, he figured outregenerative brakescompound interest and penalties all by his lonesome.n/a 999mal 2017-05-30
In terms of gaming the card is equal to a Titan X at the time. The real reason it is so expensive is that it has 24GB of Error-correcting code ram which is important in applications that require a lot of ram and/or places that need to be sure that a bit doesn't get flipped. Essentially science facilities and the financial companies are going to buy this card. So Nvidia jacks the price up because they know the companies can/will pay.
n/a dramallllama 2017-05-30
In terms of gaming the card is equal to a Titan X at the time. The real reason it is so expensive is that it has 24GB of Error-correcting code ram which is important in applications that require a lot of ram and/or places that need to be sure that a bit doesn't get flipped. Essentially science facilities and the financial companies are going to buy this card. So Nvidia jacks the price up because they know the companies can/will pay.