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[NaturalViolence]

AnyOldName3 Wrote:He definitely isn't stupid. In exams, he seems to beat me (then again, he sees exams as an important part of becoming employable, whereas I seem to treat them as a competition), and he's planning on going to Cambridge next year. However in not-quite-exams, I win. By not-quite-exams, I mean things put on by leading organisations, such as the UK Maths Trust's UKMT Maths Challenge, or Cambridge's Cambridge Chemistry Challenge, that challenge logic and thinking skills more than remembering stuff, he has yet to beat me.

Doing well on exams is often not about being smart. It's about how much stuff you can brute force memorize and then forget in a week. In other words time management. I've met plenty of people who do fine on their exams here and are clearly batshit retarded. These students are completely incapable of answering any question that they haven't studied for an exam. Which drives me insane.

AnyOldName3 Wrote:Sometimes smart people think wrong things too.

This is true. However there is a certain point where you begin to wonder if they're really as smart as you thought they were.

[oliverfrancisco]

Dude, this will sound crazy, but it seems that 3.5-2311
had an emulating speed fix or something... I have just ran Mario Kart D.D. at almost 50 FPS (using HLE, of course) in a laptop with an APU of 1.0 GHz. It just felt like I was playing with a brand-new, totally high-clocked Haswell processor (say, 5.5 GHz).

Did anyone here noticed that?

[NaturalViolence]

3.5-2311 doesn't make any changes that would effect performance. It just removes the GLEW requirement.

[MayImilae]

SHHHHH. Neobrain might see this!

[promero14]

Quick, more Android Spam builds

[NaturalViolence]

MaJoR Wrote:Neobrain might see this!

I'm counting on it:

[AnyOldName3]

(09-10-2013, 10:19 AM)NaturalViolence Wrote:

AnyOldName3 Wrote:He definitely isn't stupid. In exams, he seems to beat me (then again, he sees exams as an important part of becoming employable, whereas I seem to treat them as a competition), and he's planning on going to Cambridge next year. However in not-quite-exams, I win. By not-quite-exams, I mean things put on by leading organisations, such as the UK Maths Trust's UKMT Maths Challenge, or Cambridge's Cambridge Chemistry Challenge, that challenge logic and thinking skills more than remembering stuff, he has yet to beat me.

Doing well on exams is often not about being smart. It's about how much stuff you can brute force memorize and then forget in a week. In other words time management. I've met plenty of people who do fine on their exams here and are clearly batshit retarded. These students are completely incapable of answering any question that they haven't studied for an exam. Which drives me insane.

Knowing a couple of people who really can only answer questions they have studied for, I can say he doesn't fit that description. He can hold his own in any debate about anything other than PC games and the hardware they require.

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AnyOldName3 Wrote:Sometimes smart people think wrong things too.

This is true. However there is a certain point where you begin to wonder if they're really as smart as you thought they were.

I think his main problem is he knows a guy with a ~£80 GPU from not so long ago who plays PC games, and is satisfied with the results. Neither of them seem to have been trained to get cross at aliasing, bad textures and meshes, or a stuttery framerate.

[LordVador]

(09-10-2013, 11:41 AM)NaturalViolence Wrote:

I've always known these guys had a good sense of humour...

[NaturalViolence]

AnyOldName3 Wrote:I think his main problem is he knows a guy with a ~£80 GPU from not so long ago who plays PC games, and is satisfied with the results. Neither of them seem to have been trained to get cross at aliasing, bad textures and meshes, or a stuttery framerate.

That doesn't really validate his comments about "the way it is meant to be played" or mods. Mods do a lot more then just enhance the graphics as you know.

[AnyOldName3]

It may just be that he's not good with arguments. Maybe because he's used to people taking his word on things.