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"I'm a maths student at university and I hate people who can't add correctly! So if I correct your calculations I apologise in advance. Also I must say it has been a long time since I found an area so mathematically ignorant. I mean gods, have you not heard of confidence intervals or discreet distributions?!?!" - Me about 17 years ago. | "I'm a maths student at university and I hate people who can't add correctly! So if I correct your calculations I apologise in advance. Also I must say it has been a long time since I found an area so mathematically ignorant. I mean gods, have you not heard of confidence intervals or discreet distributions?!?!" - Me about 17 years ago. | ||
Well, I was a bit of a prat - I ended up as uni lecturer (who just about knows the difference between discrete and discreet, and who learned that there is a label for people who can't add correctly - "university leadership"). To put it in the final record, Urban Dead is a game that played a key part in my formative years, and was one of the few things I enjoyed applying mathematics to as a student, and is the sole reason I didn't hate probability theory entirely. Now, as a teacher of other students, I often show them the game as a solid example of what can be done with a database, a lot of patience, and a boatload of creativity (it's also a nice example of a binomial distribution in action). | Well, I was a bit of a prat - I ended up as uni lecturer (who just about knows the difference between discrete and discreet, and who learned that there is a label for people who can't add correctly - "university leadership"). To put it in the final record, Urban Dead is a game that played a key part in my formative years (I actually started playing on collage in a computer lab), and was one of the few things I enjoyed applying mathematics to as a student, and is the sole reason I didn't hate probability theory entirely. I also learned how to edit wikis, which is a skill I still make use of (unbeknownst to the university leadership). | ||
Now, as a teacher of other students, I often show them the game as a solid example of what can be done with a database, a lot of patience, and a boatload of creativity (it's also a nice example of a binomial distribution in action). It'll be a shame to see it go, but I suppose all things must pass - it was joyous, and I'll miss it. | |||
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'''Final Tally''' | |||
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*[https://www.urbandead.com/profile.cgi?id=138348 Etherdrifter] - The first character I ever made for an MMORPG. He was a survivor who mostly wandered around healing and reviving folks - he did a stint in the Alner mansion (mostly getting stabbed by Alner's Ghost, but eh). Etherdrifter never actually killed another survivor; he was somewhat of a pacifist, even around death cultists. I like to think he's spending his last days huddled up in a Necrotech building, scanning for zombies, and stockpiling syringes to bring everyone he lost back. (Finished with all skills save brain rot and flesh rot) | |||
*[https://www.urbandead.com/profile.cgi?id=194366 Count Etherdrifter] - Real original right? But, sometimes you need an altar-ego to wander round and just eating the brains of the living. Favourite phrases included "Grab bag man", "Nah Ra!z", and of course "Banana Ga-", alas times have moved on from simple humour. Good times were had, brainz were eaten, alas he suffered from congenital brain damage due to the sheer volume of headshots he sustained. (Finished with all skills, because of course he had too much experience) | |||
Latest revision as of 21:15, 9 March 2025
About Me
"I'm a maths student at university and I hate people who can't add correctly! So if I correct your calculations I apologise in advance. Also I must say it has been a long time since I found an area so mathematically ignorant. I mean gods, have you not heard of confidence intervals or discreet distributions?!?!" - Me about 17 years ago.
Well, I was a bit of a prat - I ended up as uni lecturer (who just about knows the difference between discrete and discreet, and who learned that there is a label for people who can't add correctly - "university leadership"). To put it in the final record, Urban Dead is a game that played a key part in my formative years (I actually started playing on collage in a computer lab), and was one of the few things I enjoyed applying mathematics to as a student, and is the sole reason I didn't hate probability theory entirely. I also learned how to edit wikis, which is a skill I still make use of (unbeknownst to the university leadership).
Now, as a teacher of other students, I often show them the game as a solid example of what can be done with a database, a lot of patience, and a boatload of creativity (it's also a nice example of a binomial distribution in action). It'll be a shame to see it go, but I suppose all things must pass - it was joyous, and I'll miss it.
Final Tally
- Etherdrifter - The first character I ever made for an MMORPG. He was a survivor who mostly wandered around healing and reviving folks - he did a stint in the Alner mansion (mostly getting stabbed by Alner's Ghost, but eh). Etherdrifter never actually killed another survivor; he was somewhat of a pacifist, even around death cultists. I like to think he's spending his last days huddled up in a Necrotech building, scanning for zombies, and stockpiling syringes to bring everyone he lost back. (Finished with all skills save brain rot and flesh rot)
- Count Etherdrifter - Real original right? But, sometimes you need an altar-ego to wander round and just eating the brains of the living. Favourite phrases included "Grab bag man", "Nah Ra!z", and of course "Banana Ga-", alas times have moved on from simple humour. Good times were had, brainz were eaten, alas he suffered from congenital brain damage due to the sheer volume of headshots he sustained. (Finished with all skills, because of course he had too much experience)
