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[#HBC | Acrostic]

Man 7-1, what was Brazil doing. I know Neymar got pulled out on a stretcher in the quarter finals game and Silva got suspended, but damn. Daaaaaaamn.

Also donator funds were refunded by Warchamp/AlphaZealot.

 

[Raziek]

D-Games, I'm having a ****ty day.

Woke up to find out the power was out and I couldn't shower. Fortunately, it came back on in time for me to not be completely late.

Went to class, struggled to crap together what I could of an assignment due at 4 PM for my Principles of Programming class. Which was incredibly stressful, mind you, as I'm probably going to fail that class. The prof is terribly unclear. His lectures are dry and lifted from the pages of the mammoth textbook, as are some of his assignments. His other assignments and tests are ridiculously difficult, and he gives us almost no indication of what to expect on them.

This is reflected in the class average, which has been in the 30-40% range on 2 of the 4 assignments so far (all of the ones handed in) and the one test, with two more to come. If there's no curving, we're nearing the point where it's mathematically impossible for me to pass, as I'm struggling to stay just below the average, as it's not my strong suit for the course material.

When you consider that this is one of my final two courses I need to complete my degree and move in with my life, this has been causing me a great deal of stress. I feel like I've just got a lump of anxiety in my chest. Hard to feel optimistic about passing with odds like that.

All that stress led to me showing up for work two hours early because I mixed up today's shift (6-11) with tomorrow's (4-10:30), so now I'm sitting in a Swiss Chalet eating some Chicken & Ribs, trying to mentally sort all this stress.

I just needed to vent a little.

 

[#HBC | Red Ryu]

If you don't wanna get hard into league, like ranked stuff, you don't need to.

It's fine as a once and a while play game, just know games can take a while sometimes.

D-Games, I'm having a ****ty day.

Woke up to find out the power was out and I couldn't shower. Fortunately, it came back on in time for me to not be completely late.

Went to class, struggled to crap together what I could of an assignment due at 4 PM for my Principles of Programming class. Which was incredibly stressful, mind you, as I'm probably going to fail that class. The prof is terribly unclear. His lectures are dry and lifted from the pages of the mammoth textbook, as are some of his assignments. His other assignments and tests are ridiculously difficult, and he gives us almost no indication of what to expect on them.

This is reflected in the class average, which has been in the 30-40% range on 2 of the 4 assignments so far (all of the ones handed in) and the one test, with two more to come. If there's no curving, we're nearing the point where it's mathematically impossible for me to pass, as I'm struggling to stay just below the average, as it's not my strong suit for the course material.

When you consider that this is one of my final two courses I need to complete my degree and move in with my life, this has been causing me a great deal of stress. I feel like I've just got a lump of anxiety in my chest. Hard to feel optimistic about passing with odds like that.

All that stress led to me showing up for work two hours early because I mixed up today's shift (6-11) with tomorrow's (4-10:30), so now I'm sitting in a Swiss Chalet eating some Chicken & Ribs, trying to mentally sort all this stress.

I just needed to vent a little.

This sounds like me and my database class from last semester. :/

I feel for ya here.

 

[#HBC | Acrostic]

D-Games, I'm having a ****ty day. Woke up to find out the power was out and I couldn't shower. Fortunately, it came back on in time for me to not be completely late.

Smelly and gross.

Went to class, struggled to crap together what I could of an assignment due at 4 PM for my Principles of Programming class. Which was incredibly stressful, mind you, as I'm probably going to fail that class. The prof is terribly unclear. His lectures are dry and lifted from the pages of the mammoth textbook, as are some of his assignments. His other assignments and tests are ridiculously difficult, and he gives us almost no indication of what to expect on them.

Computer science is one of the hardest majors you can take in the U.S. and some of the students in my intro class were way more aware of basic things than a lot of kids in my third and fourth year life science classes i.e. setting up parameters for absolute freezing to boiling, being able to know conversion formulas and being able to do mental math rapidly. Being able to quickly jump between a pseudo code oriented method of thinking, mathematical notation, and programming in java.

This is reflected in the class average, which has been in the 30-40% range on 2 of the 4 assignments so far (all of the ones handed in) and the one test, with two more to come. If there's no curving, we're nearing the point where it's mathematically impossible for me to pass, as I'm struggling to stay just below the average, as it's not my strong suit for the course material.

When you consider that this is one of my final two courses I need to complete my degree and move in with my life, this has been causing me a great deal of stress. I feel like I've just got a lump of anxiety in my chest. Hard to feel optimistic about passing with odds like that. All that stress led to me showing up for work two hours early because I mixed up today's shift (6-11) with tomorrow's (4-10:30), so now I'm sitting in a Swiss Chalet eating some Chicken & Ribs, trying to mentally sort all this stress. I just needed to vent a little.

When I was a student, I used to work around twenty to thirty hours while taking full credits so I can sympathize with the stress that comes from doing that. I would work a 12 A.M. - 8 A.M. shift and then have a lab at 10 A.M. so I would crash on the sofa for two hours and then drive like a mad man to class. Currently I'm using Google Calendar to plot out all my events and associate ring tones with them to organize myself just to make sure that I don't miss anything although my life isn't anywhere as stressful as it was when I was a student.

If you still have forty minutes or more, I'd suggest taking a nap if you think that you can trust yourself to not oversleep. I know that whenever I feel anxious about a situation I'm never productive. Therefore I always try to take a nap to crash and then launch immediately to the next task at hand. If I can't get that (usually my anxiousness is connected to how tired I am) then I usually down a large coffee and some iced tea, then I take ibuprofen around half an hour after that to avoid the rebound headache I'll get from the caffeine and sugar drop.

Also if stress is a common thing for you then I would try to stop by a free-clinic or try to borrow a free pump machine and get your blood pressure checked if it has been awhile. I know that taking certain medication can lead to weight gain which combined with a more active lifestyle and a more stressed mental state can lead to less than desirable blood pressure levels.

Good luck and stay in there. When you finish up get lots of rest or whatever gives you the greatest amount of mental comfort.

 

[#HBC | ZoZo]

add me acrostic my name = Chairs

on NA ofc

 

[#HBC | FrozeηFlame]

Welp downloading League of Legends. Don't know what I'm getting myself into.

You're getting yourself into a really neat team game with a moderately difficult tech skill learning curve, and a much steeper strategic/game knowledge learning curve.

Assuming you have no MOBA experience (i.e. you never played DOTA or DOTA style games before), if you want to become a competent player as fast as possible, do your research. The game is 99.99999% about making logical decisions based on where you stand in the game statistically. Knowing how to maximize your gold/experience intake will net you IMMEDIATE rewards are a player.

You also need to learn what all the stats do and what items excel at giving you each stat respectively. Every champion thrives off of different stats, so learning the basic positions that champions are expected to play and what stats are conducive to playing that position is incredibly important to being a competent player.

Notice how I'm using the word competent a lot. This is because literally just being competent will set you apart from the bottom tier IMMEDIATELY. It is very easy to make intuitive decisions in the game that are simply WRONG and WILL MAKE YOU MATHEMATICALLY WORSE AT THE GAME THAN EVERYONE ELSE YOU ARE PLAYING AGAINST. Knowing the right champion builds, times to attack, places to defend, and phases of the game, neutral objectives, layout of the map, etc. are all basic pieces of info that do not take that much time to learn but will net you immediate and tangible rewards.

Literally knowing basic strategy is enough to make you not a liability to your team. That's really the core of the game. Don't feed or otherwise be a liability. It's a slippery slope game so one person's awful play can literally doom your team, or at the very least, set you very, very far back.

I actually am not saying this to scare you. I am saying this because you are an intelligent person and intelligence goes a loonnnnnnnnnng way in League, so long as you understand the game's core mechanics. Basically Im trying to say that you'll get really good really fast if you just do some studying first.

Also be prepared to enter probably the most toxic community of players of all time. Unfortunately, because of the game's popularity, the fact that bad players can get the illusion that they are good just because they can beat other bad players with gimmicks, and because of the fact that its a team game so players always can find someone else to blame for their losses, you have a playerbase that is full of personalities that love nothing more than to put other players down and play the blame game. You WILL play with players who project their failures on to you. You WILL play with players who have NO IDEA what they're talking about and will tell you you did something wrong even though they're the ones who made the wrong call. You WILL play with players who don't even understand the roles that their position is supposed to fulfill, and then will blame other people on their team for not doing things that are actually not at all expected of them.

Basically you're gonna play with a **** ton of people who don't know the basics of how to play but delusionally believe they are professional tier players and everyone else is holding them back from getting there.

So yeah. tl;dr pretty solid game with with a significant but not necessarily grossly prohibitive learning curve that brings out some of the worst in human psychology. I have a lot of respect for the game but I've never been able to maintain consistent interest in playing because of how frustrating the people you have to play with can be.

 

[Raziek]

Frozen hit the nail on the head. That's one of the main reasons I no longer play it, is because I didn't like the solo queue experience, having to depend on the randoms to not suck.

Thanks for the advice, Acro. Had enough time left to nap for around an hour, feeling much more calm and relaxed.

 

[BSL]

Raz if you need a **** pic to cheer you up let me know. I can send it any time.

 

[#HBC | Kary]

Welp downloading League of Legends. Don't know what I'm getting myself into.

you can mute other players by clicking on the little speech bubble next to their name on the scoreboard

:D

 

[#HBC | FrozeηFlame]

you can mute other players by clicking on the little speech bubble next to their name on the scoreboard

:D

Muting them doesnt stop them from sitting in fountain when they throw hissy fits

muting them doesnt stop them from continuing to try to fight 1v1 top against a character that blatantly counters them even after getting killed three times

muting them doesnt stop them from assuming that only the support has to ward ever and its sacrilege to think that anyone else on the team should have to spend gold on anything other than getting a full build as soon as ****ing possible

muting them doesnt stop them from farming the jungle while the other team 5 pushes a lane and steam rolls over all your turrets, taking dragon on the way back

all muting does is save your eyes from the vitriol that they spout after they do all that and then blame you for your team losing. Still doesn't change the fact that they've just wasted 20-40 minutes of your life all while acting like a 5 year old

at least when I don't mute them I can just ridicule them, or in very, very rare circumstances somehow manage to convince them to stop doing what they're doing and actually win the game. Oh what I would give to make that happen more often.

"Reason is not automatic. Those who deny it cannot be conquered by it." ~ Ayn Rand

 

[#HBC | Mac]

ff are you an ayn randian

 

[#HBC | Acrostic]

Fun game:

 

[Handorin]

I was going to gift a month to you, but Zen decided to forgo proper channels and beat me to it. Oh well.

@ Handorin will get his, though.

People remember I exist? I haven't been on the boards in so long. At least 3 days I guess. @_@
Life's been busy lately.
But legit thanks if you do though. I wish I had the funds to donate myself like I used to.

 

[BarDulL]

Fun game:

****ing casuals

Spoiler

Spoiler

 

[#HBC | FrozeηFlame]

ff are you an ayn randian

I don't consider myself a true randian but I think her work has a lot of good insights. I think her work compliments Nietzsche well

 

[#HBC | Joker]

HBC aint nothin to **** with

HBC aint nothin to **** with

HBC aint nothin to **** with

 

[Lore]

I don't consider myself a true randian but I think her work has a lot of good insights. I think her work compliments Nietzsche well

I see her as a person who grew up in an awful place and made her personal philosophy a complete opposite to that place, even if the philosophy has issues on its own. It's all just an instinctual reaction of "that's bad, so the opposite is good!"

That kind of thinking can lead to some good insights, but it all has huge flaws.

 

[#HBC | Ryker]

So yeah. tl;dr pretty solid game with with a significant but not necessarily grossly prohibitive learning curve that brings out some of the worst in human psychology. I have a lot of respect for the game but I've never been able to maintain consistent interest in playing because of how frustrating the people you have to play with can be.

I would quit if I didn't have a consistent group to play with.

 

[#HBC | FrozeηFlame]

I see her as a person who grew up in an awful place and made her personal philosophy a complete opposite to that place, even if the philosophy has issues on its own. It's all just an instinctual reaction of "that's bad, so the opposite is good!"

That kind of thinking can lead to some good insights, but it all has huge flaws.

Oh yeah, definitely a lot of reactionary influence in her philosophy. I think a lot of her principles are strong, but the way she argues for their implementation and execution in social policy and structure can get rather extreme.

I would quit if I didn't have a consistent group to play with.

Sounds to me like I need to jam out with the HBC instead of swimmin with the sbc scrubs

I always forget how many dgamers play. I think the only one's Ive gotten to play with before are Gova and Jungle

 

[Gova]

edit: nvm, i see it but i guess you're never online lol

 

[#HBC | FrozeηFlame]

Yeah as of late I've been on very, very rarely and when I am its usually for less than 2 hours as I tend to only play 2-3 games at a time.

 

[BSL]

FF do you have skype? Add me on skype. Bradford.lavergne

 

[#HBC | FrozeηFlame]

are you Radford? just added you if so. If not add me, Im frozenflame751

 

[Dooms]

Welp downloading League of Legends. Don't know what I'm getting myself into.

Play with friends. Bonus points if they're friends that will actually help you get better at the game instead of just saying "You suck" or "you're fine" or "you're new you just need to play the game".

It's way more fun when you're playing with friends than when you're playing alone. Also (generally) takes away the ******* raging at you because of your play regardless if it is good or bad.

 

[#HBC | ZoZo]

Bonus points if they're friends that will actually help you get better at the game instead of just saying "You suck"

 

[Dooms]

Bonus points if they're friends that will actually help you get better at the game instead of just saying "You suck"

This means don't play with Xonar btw.

 

[BSL]

are you Radford? just added you if so. If not add me, Im frozenflame751

Yep that's me

 

[#HBC | Gorf]

im baaaaaaack

 

[~ Gheb ~]

im baaaaaaack

Hide yo kids
Hide yo wife

 

[#HBC | Joker]

Hide yo kids
Hide yo wife

and hide yo husbando too, cuz a hole is a hole.

 

[#HBC | Red Ryu]

V/LA gone til July 19th at midnight. Going to northern Wisconsin for yearly family trip in the woods.

@#HBC | BadWolf I'll talk to you via PM about Ryker's upcoming game

 

[#HBC | Mac]

never read any ayn rand but just know of her ideas through other ppl talking about it (aka ****ting on her). Maybe I should check out some of her stuff

kinda the same thing with Marx

 

[Dooms]

and hide yo husbando too, cuz a hole is a hole.

Not my husbando ;_;

 

[#HBC | Joker]

Not my husbando ;_;

especially your husbando

 

[Dooms]

especially your husbando

Gord please don't do this. Not my husbando. He2sugoi4u. Pls.

 

[ranmaru]

don't worry your husbando can prolly take gorf anyways

it's just if gorf wins... it's his hole he forfeits. and he'll like it.

 

[#HBC | Gorf]

is sugoi japanese for like std-ridden, cuz like i heard gay people have a lot of those or something

 

[Dooms]

is sugoi japanese for like std-ridden, cuz like i heard gay people have a lot of those or something

yes

 

[#HBC | ZoZo]

is sugoi japanese for like std-ridden, cuz like i heard gay people have a lot of those or something

wow you can speak japanese???

 

[Shun Goku Satsu Rake]

This is how i'd describe league.