The Letting Off Steam Thread - Page 211

I feel like I've been in a comparable spot to you. I've been lazy for a long time, complacent enough to never push forward, and I started circling the drain. I'm on the edge as my studies are concerned, I took a long break from attending and was scared to mess up, and if I fuck it up this time I can never make it. But I've taken the first step, I've steeled my resolve and I'm back in. And I'm in this thing to win.

Take the first step forward, and it gets a lot easier to sleep at night. Hope this applies to you a little bit.

I'm drunk so whatever

I miss SCBW's MSL and OSL and the game being fun. #bringbackthekhaydarinamulet

Why did you do this to me blizz

What a time to be alive.

You've been warned.
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dump like a quarter of a cup of detergent or shampoo or something slippery in your toilet along with hot water, let it sit for like 20 minutes then flush, your toilet should be a lot harder to clog for awhile

cant guarantee this works but thats how i unclogged a toilet without a plunger, found the the method via google and its apparently worked for a lot of people

Who the fuck communicates like this? You're a clown Hider.

This is life-changing. Maybe. I'll try it out next time and see if it's life-changing then. I hope it is.

A Dark Stream of Consciousness

I've been playing a free to play MMOFPS called planetside 2 and I got really bad at it. In the game there's an ingame currency called certs and with those certs you can buy weapons. You always start with a beginner primary weapon and it's always just as good as any of the other weapons. One emphasis of ps2 is it's not pay-to-win, and aptly, any new weapons you get are "sidegrades" meant to only suit different playstyles. The beginner weapons on their own, no better or worse than ones you'd have to spend lots of cash on.

However, I kept on experiencing buyer's remorse buying some small stuff and then really regretting it. Then I think about the big cost things I could've purchased had I had the patience to save my money and not be tempted to spend my certs on the small stuff. I got in this mood that I'd be super good with so and so gun, but it was all a lie. When I bought the gun, I didn't like it so I spent 500 more certs putting a lot of add-ons and extensions to try to make it better but it was all wasted. I think I spent probably 200 certs on things I don't even use for that specific gun because I kept switching stuff out. Now I kind of wasted a whole ton of stuff and now I realize nothing matters. When I switched back to the beginner weapons, I realized I was doing way better. Big whoop.

There's also a feature called a squad which played a huge part of what I'm doing now in planetside 2. You can join a squad, usually there's 9 of them, you join the squad, you go into a voice chat, you can coordinate attacks better, etc. Well, one of those times I was in a squad I was doing some military roleplay and a guy said he was cracking up while listening to me. Then he said I should join his outfit which had only 26 members. I was recently thinking about creating an outfit, be a unique thing and all, so the timing was perfect. The man eeeelected me to platoon leader, so a leader of several squads.

I was on top of the world. I do a rallying call, make sure to preserve the lives of my troops, tell my men to regroup and hit the flank, say that a bogey is on our tail, give them codenames like Big Red, Sasquatch, Red Tail, Blueberry, Clementine, a banana, enemy spotted at the 6 O'clock I can say things like evasive maneuvers or, or, or I can say something about how vital life signs have been identified. I was thinking about learning about human anatomy and medical terms to incorporate some more scientific sounding stuff, things like how the synchograph is reversing, how the heart rate and blood pressure is dropping. or how the pronator teres or glenoid fossa have ruptured. I got those terms from a tv show.

That'd be cool, really cool. It'd be easy to use rote memory but if I just started inventing scientific terms and random things rupturing then I can really tie things together. Here's a really good phrase I read: " He's hemorrhaging through the chest plate seems." Oh yah, man, it's gonna be great, I mean, I can google and yawn

Other than planetside 2 I have also been playing some Dota 2. I've had some prior experience playing league of legends and when I got into Dota I caught on quickly. The most experience I've had with moba's however was in StarCraft 1 UMS. There was a map called Heaven's Last Stand, or maybe I'm mistaking the name for another map. You had heroes, you could pick your own spells and there were some ridiculously imbalanced hero/spell combos you could duke out. Concepts like gaining money whenever you killed off another player's hero, purchasing items, leveling up mana, hp, stats, was all included in the StarCraft 1 UMS.

An even more intense map would be "This is Anime! Fummofu" which was like moba on drugs. The map download was huge, and you could tell the creator put a lot of effort into it. Tons of anime characters were included from 20+ well known anime series, incredibly complex spell animations and just awesome music and sound bytes strung together for pure ecstatic awesomeness, all in a sc1 map. I think the most technical mechanic of playing the game was the healing ability.

The way you triggered spells was by clicking on a combination of barracks units you'd create. You could go marine+firebat+ghost+marine, etc. etc. With healing you only had to click one unit and it would restore your health to 100 percent, but the hard part was during an engagement with another player in a series of spells you might have to use the heal ability several times over in a span of thirty seconds. Certain spells had high damage outputs in a short amount of time so healing with the medics would be a matter of healing within split seconds. If you couple that with the fact the map was played on US east where lag delays were about 1.2-2 seconds, it was an impressive feat.

Anyway, got sidetracked there looking back on a terrible past. Back to dota 2. I got into Dota 2 at first because a guy I knew from StarCraft 1 played it. At some point he got bored of sc1 and we lost contact. After 2 years, he randomly logged onto StarCraft and I happened to be there. We exchanged steam addresses and that's where he introduced me to Dota 2, his now go to game. The guy I knew was always a team game player and almost always played 3v3 BGH, and now he was playing Dota 2. After my initial introduction, the time to play again took me one year before I decided to play again. I played two games, what can I say, long game. Each game averages 45 minutes and the game is kind of tiresome. Dota 2 is not my thing but I do get a strong feeling of the Sc1 UMS moba map I played. a strange feeling, so, so strange.

Yah, tough. I'm gonna learn developing, I'm gonna write about more things, things beyond things. I'll do it all I say.

Piano. Piano. The sound of a piano or a trombone. Those are the things that do something.

I've been trying to cast sc1 and I want to compose myself like Day9. There's a distinguishable level of profession, smoothness, and confidence that I too aspire to replicate and even make my own. That's what I want to do! Recently I just take all the casting jobs. I think the reality is, there's not really a great thing for casting, no one really wants to be a part of it and sometimes you'll see a shortage and lack of interest. I haven't found casting to be that interesting, and it's hard to be a really entertaining caster I guess. 4 hours of casting is draining especially when there's no salary or any sort of reward, but it's all volunteer work, that's the reward. That's the only thing to do with a reward. Today I just sped through the last two replays and I feel kind of bad about it. I said I was too busy to properly cast 'em BUT ALL I WANTED TO DO WAS PLAY PS2. GOD. And that was the end of that, and to this day I still continue to promise I'll cast things I will struggle to cast and don't want to but somehow I want to fill my time up, I want to do things. Man am I bored.

Today there was an extremely irate player, I made an honest mistake and the guy was going on and on about how I needed to show some etiquette while he was berating me. it was fine though, I guess I've let it go, I've been practicing that a lot now, letting things go, like a great weight lifted, releasing the negative feelings. That's strange, that's os strange. I may not have let it go because I'm writing about it now. Maybe this is just a form of expression. I wanted to tell someone I guess. Gosh.

I used to get them from time to time. I found out that cloves really help, you know that weird little spice that gets mixed into a lot of spiced autumnal dishes with ginger and nutmeg etc. Well the clove if you get them whole has this round little head and then a long tail. try to break the tail off without crushing the head and then place the head with the open end where the canker sore is and just let it sit for a while. It should help numb it a bit and supposedly has some anti bacterial properties that help it heal to. gl gl

what the fuck TL, what the fuck. it took me a cool ~10min to solve a 6th grade problem and all i had to do is realize that it was implied that all masculine(gender) kids would wear trousers ...

parents are selling the house i lived in for 10 years and moving an hour away... gonna be harder to visit friends and places i used to visit frequently when visiting T_T too soon

Have a presentation to do tomorrow in which I have to explain some rather complex concepts. I tried to do it tonight, my brain cannot coherently string complicated words together on the fly because I'm tired and my stomach is messy. I'll have to "do it live" tomorrow. I probably won't sleep tonight because I'm so anxious it's ridiculous. But I need to sleep if I want my brain to be at least semi-on-point....

Public speaking is horrible.

Damn, I am pretty pissed right now. Fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu

ARE YOU FUCKING DEAF YOU BITCH

Your tablet speakers are not meant to listen to music. If you want to play some music, you have to buy some proper speakers. But your fucking bullshit iPad mini speaker spews out a sound which is so bright and strident at a distance that it makes me violent. Use headphones or listen for a few minutes but if you're going to use your iPad mini speakers for hours you better ready to catch a backhand in your hearing impaired face.

I need that post count up so i can get a hydralisk icon.

Nice tip. To alleviate pain you can try gargling with salt water or listerine. It burns like a bitch while you're doing it and makes your mouth feel a little funny, but it lets you feel like a real human being for a few hours. My dentist says it basically disinfects the wound so your body stops sending those little pain alert signals.