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If you have the time you could mentor or join a nearby robotics team. Some of the biggest ones are the First Robotics Competition, the First Tech Challenge, and the Vex Robotics Competition, and there are many ways to find teams near you. I had the same problem- what do you do with programming skills?- and this is one of the most fun and rewarding things to do.

clique!

This song has been living rent free in my head since a certain robotics team dropped one of the hardest robot reveals I've seen: These guys are the reason I'm running for media director of my team next year.

"iOS support was discontinued in favor of Android" -First Robotics Competition World Champion team 1678, in their scouting app whitepaper Screw Apple!!

I've been getting into video editing lately, and I just finished my first project that I think came out decently: What do you guys think?

I decided to play MSFS too, and for fun tried to cold-start the F-18 (my first cold-start also) while listening to the top gun anthem. Hearing those engines spool up one by one with the music in the background... the coolness levels are life-threatening. I think maybe I should give DCS another chance- I thought it was too complex but I'm actually loving this.

I just realized that my robotics teams played not one, but TWO world champions this season. And one of them we faced in playoffs, so in a way they couldn't have won Worlds without us- if we won (although we lost by massive margins), they would've been eliminated and the world champions would've been someone else!

robotics season ended, and since i dont go to the same school as the rest of my teammates i just cant talk to my friends and stuff... i could text, but i just dont know how...

how does one make, keep, and better friendships? i struggle with all of these- if you're trying to make a friendship, you talk to someone, right? say hi? well after that what do you say? talk about the weather? well that's only gonna get you so far. you could talk about common interests, but having common interests means you both know what is to be known about the subject. and keeping/bettering friendships- how does that work? so far playing video games together is a pretty good way to keep a friendship, i've found, but what if the person doesn't play games? and how much should you text people, and what should you text them? because i don't know, i only text people when necessary for practical reasons, but i've been told that i should text more. I'd certainly like to text more, especially if it'll help friendships, but I don't know what to say, and when I have an idea, I'm too anxious to put it to any use- am I being annoying? if it's a question or advice, am I just selfishly using them as a resource and nothing more? and how much should I text? and how do I get out of what I call the "acquaintance-zone", where you've talked to someone, kinda know them, but not that well, especially if you don't get to see the person too much?

Over the course of of 6 months I have become a massive metal fan.

n68... it's been awhile since i've played!

aha! click!

Granted. It takes so many resources that your computer gets bricked. I wish for a 4 or 5 on Calc AB

10/10. The griddy cracks me up, and the lander is super cool.

"Life is short but long enough for a good life" - Someone whose quote appeared in Wheelock's Latin

guys... do you have tips on how to git gud at calculus, especially the topics in ap calc ab? Specifically, I have to generally get faster and more fluent, and before may 8. also how do you notice small mistakes, like forgetting to turn the 12 on the other side of an equation into 0 when differentiating both sides? You can double-check and stuff, but the problem is that my brain had subconciously labeled that part of the equation as "so trivial I don't have to pay attention to it" so I just skipped over it. (I think there's a name for that effect, also) Also I somehow feel like I don't have enough RAM for these problems?? Like sometimes I feel like there's too much information in the problem statement and in my head for me to store and handle at once?? Apparently it's not unheard of among people which ADHD, which I suspect I have but have not been diagnosed with- does anyone else get this feeling, and what can help with it?

WOOO!! CLICK!!!

When you mishear "great old one" as "Gradled one" in The Thing That Should Not Be

This is very much a first-world problem, but it's quite annoying that so many cool songs have, well, affectionate noises in them. I don't think it adds much to the song, but it means that I can't play them or use them in certain contexts.

crispbutanecurved

Watched Emesis Blue. Really good, extremely impressive movie. It's really amazing that the creators but managed to make it so cinematic and frightening despite it being based on the funny "I will send my condolences to your kangaroo wife" video game. I think I'll rewatch it late one of these nights for maximum scare factor.

is there a word for going forwards and backwards??? like "strafing" but going straight. the lack of one is driving me insane- i dont' want to write "going forwards and backwards" but I don't want to use a made-up word!

wait, what?! I don't remember nominating a TOTM...

Because bats use echolocation to hunt moths, some of them have evolved stealth, and others have evolved long tails that basically act the same as chaff in a fighter jet. Isn't it freaking awesome that nature basically invented radar and radar countermeasures?!

it's pretty nerdy to have that much knowledge in trucks lol anyhow, you know you're a nerd when you look up the XKCDs and SCPs corresponding to your robotics team numbers.