Search results

  1. N

    Smartwatches / Fitness Trackers

    The Apple Watch allows you to dictate messages via Siri, I think Google watches have something similar so you can respond to notifications. My point was that one of the selling points of a smart watch is that it allows you to quickly answer things and get back to life, but that's it. You're not...
  2. N

    Smartwatches / Fitness Trackers

    One of the selling points for a smart watch (according to Apple, so grain of salt), is to reduce our dependence on checking our phones and bring us back into the moment. So a smart watch could be a more passive device that we don't interact with constantly compared with a smart phone which is a...
  3. N

    Smartwatches / Fitness Trackers

    One of the selling points for a smart watch (according to Apple, so grain of salt), is to reduce our dependence on checking our phones and bring us back into the moment. So a smart watch could be a more passive device that we don't interact with constantly compared with a smart phone which is a...
  4. N

    Hearthstone

    It'll be fun to Cabal Shadow Priest this card though and keep it up with heals
  5. N

    Heroes of the Storm

    His dive has a couple frames of invincibility, so it's possible to make someone wiff a stun
  6. N

    Science!! Fucking magnets, how do they work?

    Physician-scientists are a thing though. Sure, general practitioners probably don't care about research, but the specialists they send you to when you have something more complicated than the flu should totally care. Retrospective studies on what works and doesn't work is critical, from what I...
  7. N

    Heroes of the Storm

    That's definitely true, but there have been moments where I pull off that clutch Ancestral Heal / Void Prison / Devouring Maw. I once Maw'd two people to grab a late game Dragon Knight, push the core, and win a game we were behind. Chasing that feeling has been pretty addictive even though my...
  8. N

    Science!! Fucking magnets, how do they work?

    Without clicking the link, I have one word for you: Asians.
  9. N

    Science!! Fucking magnets, how do they work?

    Speed of light, magnetism is tied to electric fields, hence electromagnetism
  10. N

    Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.

    Ha "Tonight #AgentsofSHIELD is BACK. And it's our first all nude musical episode!" -Chloe Bennet on Twitter:
  11. N

    Heroes of the Storm

    Two things I didn't realize while playing ETC: 1. Rather than spamming abilities, wait for both ticks of Echo Pedal to pulse before you hit your next ability. 2. Guitar Hero resets your auto attack, so if you wait until just after ETC swings to trigger Guitar Hero / Guitar Solo (E), you'll...
  12. N

    Heroes of the Storm

    Level 35 and I've only played 3 Heroes League matches ( 1-2 record :/ ). For whatever reason, it stresses me out, when I know it's pretty much the same game just with a drafting phase. I haven't run into many ragers in QM recently though, so that helps.
  13. N

    Diablo 3 - Reaper of Souls

    I logged in at the beginning of the season and saw I was still in the clan. Feel free to boot me as I don't think I'll be playing D3 much. Xaldren#1414
  14. N

    Fresh Off the Boat

    Anecdotal of course, but I have a few asian friends on FB definitely trying to rep this show up, I think mostly just for representations sake (Modern Family, Black-ish, etc, glad to see more asian faces on TV). In the larger articles on NPR and NYT leading up to the show's release, I...
  15. N

    Parks and Rec

    Really sad to see this show go. I like how they dropped a hint that either Leslie or Ben became president at Garry's funeral (due to the secret service guys behind them), but kept it pretty ambiguous as to who was president between the two of them. Then later when they're talking about becoming...
  16. N

    Fresh Off the Boat

    Haven't watched this show, but I thought I'd weigh in considering I'm a 1st generation asian american married to another 1st gen asian american here (so our parents are FOBs). The first time I saw the trailer, I immediately identified with the main kid: growing up in the 90s, wearing gold...
  17. N

    Sleepy Hollow

    Pretty quiet here, but I thought that last night's season finale was pretty good. Really glad that they killed off Katrina. She was really getting tiresome, and I like that they just decided to kick her into the deep end with the blood magic binge. If they get renewed for a 3rd season though...
  18. N

    Heroes of the Storm

    Another vid from the finals of Khaldor's Go4Heroes tournament this past weekend with TempoStorm vs. 3DMAX. Really great and tense games.
  19. N

    Heroes of the Storm

    Been digging Fan's videos. No fluff, just talks about a build and how to execute combos while playing matches. He mostly plays assassins though. Here's his latest on Jaina.
  20. N

    Heroes of the Storm

    Illidan with symbiote and lightning shield (15% basic atk dmg) sounds incredibly scary. But throw in Tyrande for Hunter's Mark, and I can see Illidan get blown up.
  21. N

    Heroes of the Storm

    Where are you watching EU competitive games? I subbed to Solid Jake on YouTube for Barrel Boys / Tempo Storm on Kings of the Storm, so I have that end covered
  22. N

    Smartphones

    You don't have to turn on your phone or open an app though. You pull out your phone, hold it near the NFC terminal and your cards will pop up, pick one and then confirm payment with your fingerprint. It's as much hassle as taking out a card, swiping it, and signing your name
  23. N

    Smartphones

    With Apple Pay, you confirm payment using the fingerprint scanner, which seems pretty secure to me vs magnetic stripes or cards with chips. Re: fitness trackers, not going to get one, was just surprised that a phone of all things got me to appreciate tracking daily activity.
  24. N

    Grimm

    Dammit. Grimm isn't back until March 20th
  25. N

    Grimm

    They were hyping #BIESTFIGHT all week and the payoff was pretty awesome last night. So glad they did something with Juliette
  26. N

    Heroes of the Storm

    Yeah. Last night, I started tilting from the ragers and then someone from the boards invited me for a quick friendly game. It ended up being a co-op game against bots. Initially, I was like, bots, wtf? But everyone was so happy and polite and cracking jokes, it was like a whole different game.
  27. N

    Smartphones

    Got an iPhone 6 recently. Set up Apple Pay and gave it a shot last night at the grocery store. I can see the benefit in security vs magnetic stripe cards, but I still had the original card in my wallet and could have easily pulled that out instead of my phone. Once NFC payments become...
  28. N

    Heroes of the Storm

    Pretty good gameplay vid from Force. He basically takes Erik around to soak xp / push lanes while Olaf and Baleog run around doing mercs (can't do boss though). TLV don't contribute much of anything to team fights though as he picked the rez ult. Like I thought, the gameplay is pretty...
  29. N

    Heroes of the Storm

    Goddamn maintenance. I was going to play some games this morning and go in a little late due to weather, but nope, game's down
  30. N

    Science!! Fucking magnets, how do they work?

    It does, but my sim is missing a key part of your problem: steering angle vs velocity. I made the assumption that you're always moving towards where the car is pointing, which isn't strictly true. Turning the wheel turns the body of the vehicle, which imparts a force which changes your velocity...
  31. N

    Science!! Fucking magnets, how do they work?

    Because I'm a big nerd, updated my code and made a plot. Green = turning, black = straight
  32. N

    Science!! Fucking magnets, how do they work?

    Haven't quite been following this thread, but closed form solutions are generally only good if you can describe a system in one equation. For Tuco's problem, once you get the right vector to your end point, you can stop turning and then you end up with a piecewise solution. Here's how I would...
  33. N

    Weather

    No kidding. I'm tired of all the teasing. Just give us a payoff for at least one day.
  34. N

    Heroes of the Storm

    Jesus that sounds like a bitch and a half to micro and not die
  35. N

    Heroes of the Storm

    Joker Nazeebo?
  36. N

    Overwatch

    Overwatch: hands-on with Blizzards new shooter - PC Gamer There's nothing really new in this article and I'm not sure why it's popping up today, but I couldn't help but think about Heroes of the Storm, just in shooter form. Are there ults in any shooters now (I haven't really touched the...
  37. N

    Heroes of the Storm

    Really good explainer on Kerrigan
  38. N

    Hearthstone

    With the way current pricing is and the approximate 1 legendary every 20 packs rate, it's the same as your set. $70 for 60 packs should theoretically get you 3 legendaries out of 300 cards, which should let you make a lot of decks. Unless you're suggesting they make starter bundles with...
  39. N

    Hearthstone

    It's just axeman.
  40. N

    Hearthstone

    The mismatch between learning the game and wanting to make specific decks is what drives people to buy packs and subsequently lines Blizzard's pockets. It's not even something you can blame them for as it's just how CCGs work. They just (digitally) packaged it really well.