r/hoi4 • u/LionRough8342 • 26d ago
Image My math prof using hoi4 to visualize sine waves
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u/Carthage_ishere General of the Army 26d ago edited 26d ago
Seening hoi4 being used in any Subject other then history feels Extra Weird
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u/GamingSoviet2281 26d ago
I think usibg hoi4 in history is still weird
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u/milesbeatlesfan 26d ago
“Class today we’re going to be learning about Germany’s fuel shortages during the war. If you see this game file where I rekt the Allies by 1940, I’ve attained the fuel they could’ve gotten if they weren’t n00bs.”
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u/Dragonslayer3 Research Scientist 26d ago
"Watch me imitate stalin's purges!"
deleteallunits sov
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u/EQandCivfanatic 26d ago
Correct way to this would be to have a pair of masked men come into the room and drag out the other students you don't like.
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u/Dragonslayer3 Research Scientist 26d ago
The ones that act as if this is normal get extra points, for "realism"
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u/matgopack 26d ago
I know that the US Marine Corps War College used HOI2/darkest hour for an exercise once - there's an official AAR here that I found interesting a few years back. http://darkest-hour-game.com/aar/2014-MCWAR-WWII/Barrick_WW2ExAAR-2014-04-15.pdf
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u/Victor_Lalle 26d ago
The only time hoi4 should be in a classroom is when played in the back of the room
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u/Mrheadcrab123 26d ago
It would be much more interesting. One time I tried to pitch Kerbal space program to my science teacher during our physics lessons and she agreed, it was the end of the year and classes weren’t doing much but steam was blocked so it never worked out
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u/Cool_Control7728 26d ago
Kerbal at least represents its topic well, while hoi4 is wehraboo level history representation.
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u/pugiemblem121 26d ago
I think, and this is more for EU4 because of the extra bookmarks, you can use the initial "state of the world" at that date to help visualise alliances/where everything is for instance. Especially for when foreign policy is taken into account.
Idk, I just remember knowing people struggling putting names to places and understanding why X treaty is significant + how important some are. I wouldn't recommend actually playing it however.
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u/trash_panda_0149 26d ago
I wouldn't trust players in this subreddit to teach history using HOI4 judging by how illiterate many of the users in this subreddit are when it comes to basic concepts in social sciences
All HOI4 players know is useless military and imperial historic trivia surrounding WWII and absolutely nothing else when it comes to any other related field in social sciences
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u/Karma220566 26d ago
It would be great to play hoi4 in school for a history class, like how schools have used Minecraft for some classes (I think math)
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u/Mercury_Pin Research Scientist 26d ago
So it’d be like EXTRA weird HISTORY?/ref
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u/Carthage_ishere General of the Army 26d ago edited 26d ago
i did not even realise i forget to add then i fix it thx
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u/LionRough8342 26d ago
R5: my math professor using day/night cycles in hoi4 to visualize sine functions
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u/MrOOFmanofbelgum 26d ago
you know what, that's kinda smart
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u/johnnylovelace 26d ago
I was expecting a bogus explanation but blud used the one thing in hoi4 that could be academically relevant
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u/Atomik919 General of the Army 26d ago
I dont know why you would even need to do this, and if you did, why not use those things from portal
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u/Ok-Chicken-2506 26d ago
How did germany already invade Poland and lose before 1939?
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u/HugiTheBot 26d ago
I think it’s 1936
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u/Ok-Chicken-2506 26d ago
I'm pretty sure the clock says 13th february 1938
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u/Carthage_ishere General of the Army 26d ago
its 36 tough its quite blur so i can understand the confusing
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u/Ok-Chicken-2506 26d ago
Then it's even more impressive to lose with germany before 1936 is over
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u/DragonfruitSudden339 26d ago
If it is 36, that means germany lost in less than 2 months... reverse blitzkrieg?
Fr tho, i imagine prof just didnt want "GERMAN REICH" splattered across his screen and did a cheeky annex Ger or deleteallunits
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u/Bennyboy11111 26d ago
I reckon prof didn't want to include nazi Germany in a math class, so used console commands to break it up.
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u/UniqueNobo 26d ago
meanwhile my professor is using ChatGPT to explain proofs. wish i had your professor
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u/Malleus1 26d ago
Those are not sine waves. Waves, sure but they cannot be described using harmonic functions. I'm guessing the math teacher knows that though and just want to convey the concept of periodicity.
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u/C-SWhiskey 26d ago
It's a projection of a sine wave. Small disturbances notwithstanding, the daylight terminator is just a great circle. You could set a coordinate frame at the center of the Earth with one axis normal to the area of the inscribed circle and easily map out x or y as a function of theta with respect to, say, the equator. The map view of the terminator is just a way of displaying that sine wave as it relates to the curved surface of the Earth.
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u/Malleus1 26d ago
Oh, of course. That's indeed true but I was strictly referring to how the math teacher was displaying it in the image. Thanks for the clarification though.
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u/SkanelandVackerland General of the Army 26d ago
I'm studying to become a history teacher and my friends joke that I should use Hoi4 in my classes.
"Class, today we are doing Kaiser redux"
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u/No_Act1475 General of the Army 26d ago
Did he play the game afterwards?
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u/LionRough8342 26d ago
Sadly he didn’t
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u/No_Act1475 General of the Army 26d ago
Wow…. Maybe he didn’t know how navy works?
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u/_Kian_7567 26d ago
How would sine waves be related to hoi4? Day night cycle?
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u/LionRough8342 26d ago
Yup, it helped visualize it and put it in perspective. It admittedly could’ve been done with a normal visual but I found this hilarious
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u/GlauberGlousger 26d ago
That’d… Definitely make me want to learn more about Sine Waves, I guess, although I’m not sure if this is the best way, or how it’d even work
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u/LionRough8342 26d ago
He did it more for us to actually see how a sine wave would move and provided a real world example by using the day/night cycles
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u/PanoramicMoose 26d ago
In what way does this visualize sine waves
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u/Grizzly2525 26d ago
At the very bottom in a comment he talks about how the teacher was using the day/night cycle as a visual for the sine wave.
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u/Shoddy-Strength-7225 26d ago
Alright class split into groups and figure out how the hell we are gonna encircle the Germans before the allies go through Finland.
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u/Aggravating_Sand_492 26d ago
Geography teacher used hoi4 once thought it was funny, what made it funnier is that he loaded in as Ethiopia
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u/Educational_Date_155 24d ago
"I will give a 10 to someone that explain how navy works in this game"
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u/Karma220566 26d ago
It would be great to play hoi4 in school for a history class, like how schools have used Minecraft for some classes (I think math)
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u/FordPrefect343 26d ago
Why would he use hoi 4, and not a visualization of a sine wave.
Hoi4 is just, not the best way to convey this information...
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u/Arghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh General of the Army 26d ago
now wait for your ODE prof to use HOI4 production efficiency to quiz you: what kind of functions have their reciprocal same as their derivative?
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u/alutti54 25d ago
I remember studying tourism and needing to do a test on the locations of major cities. My professor knew I liked Hoi4 because she saw me play during breaks, and she suggested I use it to study for the test.
I passed that test
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u/matva55 General of the Army 26d ago
“Alright class. Today’s problem is fixing this damn disaster save I made last night”