Don't ever rate anything out of 5!!!!!!!!!!

[AppleQueso]

I think it's because slowslow has a subconscious fear of the occult and associates the number 5 with pentagrams.

[Dylan]

I think it's because slowslow has a subconscious fear of the occult and associates the number 5 with pentagrams.

Naw, I can tell his fear of magick is more personified in the number 11, and consequently the letter K.

[MrPopo]

Ah hah, did not know that the power rule doesn't apply with complex exponents. I knew e^i*pi as random math trivia and I've seen the Euler's formula proof of how it turns into 1. Looking it again I see how the power rule chokes and dies. You'll have to forgive my gaff; it's been several years since calculus.

Ha. No problem. I'm just part of the relatively small portion of society who actually see this stuff on a regular basis. Otherwise, I'd have never made the joke in the first place. Come to think of it, I probably shouldn't have made the joke here.

I think I just realized that my real-life associates are nerdier than my online associates. I don't know what to make of that.

I'd be curious as to what your real life associates do that puts you into contact with that kind of thing. Hell, when I took MVC and DiffEq complex exponents never really came up, aside from the aforemented e^pi*i = -1. It's one of those things that just confuses your students when they're trying to learn the general principles of the two disciplines and it defies all the existing rules they've learned.

[slowslow325]

Guys, what the heck?

Dumb rant --> Stupid Puns --> Serious Discussion of Rant --> Advanced Math --> Jokes about me

[Luke]

Guys, what the heck?

Dumb rant --> Stupid Puns --> Serious Discussion of Rant --> Advanced Math --> Jokes about me

You haven't been paying attention. It's more like:

e^pi*i = -1

Jokes about you^Stupid Puns*Discussion of Rant = Dumb Rant

I may be off a few decimals though.

[AppleQueso]

this is your fault you know look what you've done

[Snickerd00dle]

this is your fault you know look what you've done

I think there is something to learn from this though, rating systems of 5 are nothing to complain about

[slowslow325]

Rating things out of 5 is seriously dumb, I mean, it doesn't give a good answer without using decimals, and then there's no reason not to use 10.

[the7k]

Rating things out of 5 is seriously dumb, I mean, it doesn't give a good answer without using decimals, and then there's no reason not to use 10.

Rating systems of 10 are worse than rating systems of 5. All that ever gets used is 6-10, with everything below that being a failure. Do I really care if a game got a 1/10 instead of a 5/10? No, because I wouldn't touch it either way (If I put a lot of stock into the review)

And again, ratings are mostly useless anyway. A 3/5 for me might be a 5/5 for you if you'd read the actual review and form your own opinion based on what was written about the game. A dealbreaker for you is might be what makes the game a must-have for me.

[Limewater]

I'd be curious as to what your real life associates do that puts you into contact with that kind of thing.

Mostly grad students and researchers in Digital Signal Processing and Mathematics.

Back on the subject of ratings, I'll also say that I think that having ten distinct rating levels (or eleven, if you allow ratings of zero) is really pushing the limit on granularity of how well we can really evaluate these things. And The7K is right. For most reviewers who use a ten point scale, only the top half ends up being used.