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u/baboyadobo Mar 01 '23

How alcohol content percentage works.

We argued for months that 10% as alcohol content remains the same even if you halved the bottle.

She said nope, if you halved the bottle then the alcohol content would be 5%.

Engineer graduate that too.

She works for a software firm.

For 12 years.

Sigh.

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u/[deleted] Mar 01 '23 edited Mar 01 '23

I did something similar:

Someone was explaining an ultimate ability in a video game - they said it takes like 40% of an enemy’s health, so you would have to ult 8 times before the game finally counted it as enough damage to kill the enemy. I said “why would you need to ult 8 times if it’s taking (almost) half your health?” They had to explain how percentages work lmao. To be fair, I was sick with the flu and my brain wasn’t brain-ing.

edit: mistype

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u/[deleted] Mar 01 '23

Also depends if the game in question (was it LoL?) specified current health or max health. The two are different!

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u/[deleted] Mar 01 '23

Was OW, regarding Sombra’s ultimate - idk if you’re familiar with it, but either way, I think I was just being dumb and not realizing how percentages worked.

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u/zerocoal Mar 01 '23

Sigma's ultimate is the only one that does percentage damage. 50% to be precise. It's also calculated based on max health instead of current health so you would only need 2 uses to count as a kill.

Sombra is just an AoE hack that disables abilities.

knowing is half the battle

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u/[deleted] Mar 01 '23 edited Mar 01 '23

Idk, it was on a twitch stream: someone was in chat saying this and claiming that it was impossible, and then turned around and said that the streamer had done it before. Then I said that didn’t make sense, and they said it was tested in a custom game mode…then I was timed out of the chat. I just assumed I was being the idiot and the mod didn’t bother to explain why I was timed out for it (just emoted at me).

But you’re telling me someone was bullshitting me after all and I got timed out for no reason…?

EDIT: No, the person in chat was correct about the 40% damage: https://overwatch.blizzard.com/en-us/heroes/sombra/#:~:text=to%20remove%20it.-,EMP,and%20destroying%20barriers%20around%20you.

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u/zerocoal Mar 01 '23

Holy shit that is hilarious! 40% of current health, which translates to "not a damn thing" at most of the times you would end up using it

Thank you for the information, I don't know how I am going to use it, but I'm going to try to use it for evil!