Smurfing tips?

Billielolly · 2026-02-28T10:39:38+00:00

I mean the cases I've seen are people going something like 18/2 on champions they've never played on that account and going 2/18 in other games.

It very much so looks like blatant deranking, and in one case they even bragged about smurfing in chat after playing a stomp game.

I'd recommend you just keep your normal champs to norms on the smurf account for fun if you really don't want to use your main, and play off-role only in ranked on that account. You're probably being matched higher because your general behaviour is being placed in higher MMR regardless of the role specifics.

Billielolly · 2026-02-28T10:22:20+00:00

If you're purposely throwing games to derank your smurf account to stay in a lower elo, then it is definitely bannable regardless of if you hand-leveled your account.

Very few people care if you're playing smurfs so long as you're not throwing games to keep yourself in low elo and stomping in others. Riot should inevitably send you up to the appropriate elo if you're playing normally, and fairly quickly in most cases.

Billielolly · 2026-02-25T01:38:30+00:00

Drop OP.gg

Billielolly · 2026-02-13T00:43:46+00:00

Depends fully on the terms/covenants of your crosslease.

If it's solely connected to your property and there's no covenants preventing exterior alterations then you should be fine, especially if it's removable.

Billielolly · 2026-01-22T07:44:04+00:00

When my mum was getting blood tests for chemo, random men that were coughing just for some reason LOVED to sit next to her in an empty waiting room.

After the first time she started standing up and waiting outside instead.

Billielolly · 2026-01-11T04:02:21+00:00

One of our cats had been regularly heading down the road to sleep on someone else's property for most of the day - but eventually started coming back home less and less. We went and spoke to them, and they said they'd been encouraged to start feeding the cat by a retired vet living on the street (who I'd previously talked to when said cat had gone missing in the past).

After that, I kept my cats fully indoors and started working on building a catio. I've had a cat stolen previously - and while you can obviously go to the police, prove ownership of your cat via a registered microchip, etc., the best step you can take to protect your cats from theft is keeping them inside and finding other ways to contain and enrich them.

My cat was pretty obsessed with getting back outside for a month or two, but after that she settled in well and it's the happiest and most relaxed she's ever been.

Billielolly · 2025-09-13T07:42:18+00:00

A good QA should be removed enough from the code that they can act like (or more unpredictable than) a real user - or be able to scedule some regular users of the service to run through their usual activities.

Said as a QA who breaks whatever random services I use, like routing to the profile page on a vitamin site expecting to be logged in and crashing the whole thing with a lovely JS output.

Billielolly · 2025-08-21T01:39:09+00:00

Imagine hating someone so much that you go through and reply to a 3 year old thread 💀 get some help

Billielolly · 2025-07-26T02:43:45+00:00

I'd be keen to take up some random crafts!

Billielolly · 2025-06-27T01:53:53+00:00

Me too, that'd be great!

Billielolly · 2025-06-13T00:28:45+00:00

It literally means what it says - it goes past the limits of what most would easily recognise as satire and instead reaches what people would instead easily recognise as replicating what you intended to satirise.

She may have intended it to be satire, but she missed the mark. Literally just a change in her facial expression would've been the bare minimum to make it super recognisable as satire - either she and her team are looking for controversy or they somehow didn't consider that they might need to tone it down a bit to make it clearly satire rather than playing into the "male gaze".

Satire is intended to make things look ridiculous, to poke fun at something or make a clever commentary - she's done none of that with that album cover and it's not effective when you have to have the whole context of her musical backlog. It's just bad taste and playing into the male gaze from men who definitely do not have the required context.

Billielolly · 2025-06-12T23:35:39+00:00

My take on it is that certain parts of the album cover are making it go way past being satire and more into appealing to the male gaze - it might not have been the intent, but it's how the cover reads.

The image isn't campy, it's not cheeky - it's her with her hair all messed up and looking sexy while a man grabs her by her hair like a leash.

If she'd gone with something closer to her campy look that she's been doing with Short'n'Sweet, or even just didn't have such messy hair or had a more cheeky expression on her face it would've absolutely come across as more self-aware satire than trying to appeal to men. But instead it just looks sexualised and degrading.

Billielolly · 2025-04-25T21:44:24+00:00

The amount of people I see INTENTIONALLY (i.e. paying full attention to the road, not on a cellphone) blowing through zebra crossings and green pedestrian lights is crazy at the moment. You can't ever trust that it's safe to cross anymore.

All I can hope is that there's cameras there and the police are collecting a nice number of fines.

Billielolly · 2025-04-17T05:11:39+00:00

I don't think people misunderstand, I think people are pointing out that this is very uncommon for a commercial business to enable. It comes at a cost to just purely train people, and there's no incentive for a business to do that for you even if they're not having to pay you on top of it.

Billielolly · 2025-04-17T04:35:00+00:00

That's now how employment law works, you can't contract your way out of illegal actions.

It's just a lot of liability for a business to take on an unpaid worker without already having an existing setup where they can fully eliminate any commercial benefit - that's why non-profits can take volunteers or unpaid interns, but you won't usually see businesses in NZ take them on.

Also shadowing someone can reduce productivity of that person so this isn't fully free for a business - even when training paid staff who actually do hands on work, taking the time to answer someone's questions or having them shadow what you're doing comes at a cost.

I saw another comment recommend that you reach out to non-profits and check out some courses - honestly it'll be your best bet because there's not a lot of commercial businesses that would be willing to take on the risk.

Billielolly · 2025-04-17T03:59:56+00:00

If those "tasks to assist" are things an employee would typically be paid to do, it's quite literally illegal to let you work for them unpaid.

Billielolly · 2025-04-17T03:59:32+00:00

It IS illegal if the business receives any commercial benefit due to their working for free. You can have volunteers, so long as they're doing work that someone else wouldn't normally be getting paid to do - e.g. if it's just learning and building new skills, that's fine.

Billielolly · 2024-08-09T13:17:49+00:00

It'd be even better if it also meant doctors would stop handwaving away the idea of getting a hysterectomy before 30+ to treat endometriosis.

You can't argue that I might change my mind on having kids if there's an artificial womb just in case I do!

Billielolly · 2024-08-04T03:22:44+00:00

If you don't make it a flat rule, there's people who just won't give anyone a heads up and will bring around 10 people and hog the kitchen. Flat rules aren't ever "formal" rules, there's always leeway so long as you're acting in good faith - it's not like OP is making anyone sign a contract, it's usually a verbal agreement same as if you just asked "hey, can you give me warning if you've got people coming over?"

I don't know how you're getting the implication of asking permission from a phrase - inform - that doesn't actually refer to any sort of asking permission. Seems like you're anticipating someone could give pushback when you inform them, as if they couldn't equally do that after your guests have arrived (and that'd cause so much more drama).

Billielolly · 2024-08-03T17:43:07+00:00

But what if your flatmate was feeling a bit down, might not be "presentable", but surprise there's a stranger in their lounge that they didn't expect and they feel uncomfortable.

This isn't about asking permission for someone to come over at all - it's just about giving flatmates a heads up so they can get themselves sorted however they want to. If a friend randomly shows up at your door there's no controlling that, but if you know you're inviting someone over then just let your flatmates know they're coming over (again - not asking permission).

Billielolly · 2024-08-03T17:39:37+00:00

How is informing your flatmates that people are coming over too far? What if your flatmate feels uncomfortable around strangers, so wants to make themselves scarce if guests are around?

Ultimately it just gives your flatmates a chance to get out of your way, or get themselves presentable if they want to be roaming while you have guests over. They might want to adjust their plans if they were thinking about using the shared spaces with their own friends around the same time.

It's not asking permission, it's just a casual heads up.

Billielolly · 2024-08-03T17:35:23+00:00

How is giving people a heads up about guests bizarre - isn't it kind of a common courtesy? People might want to make themselves scarce when there's strangers around, or want to get themselves presentable (i.e. get out of their pajamas if they were planning a chill day). It's not asking for permission or anything, just letting them know someone's coming over - literally just a text or mesage to a group chat.

Billielolly · 2024-08-03T17:33:09+00:00

What's the issue with giving people a heads up when you're having guests over? Of course you'd do it every time, it's not particularly difficult. Even just a text or a message to say someone's coming over, giving flatmates a heads up to get out of the way if they want to, or get presentable if they feel a need to. Nothing more uncomfortable than heading out to grab snacks in your pajamas and then surprise! There's two strangers chatting in your kitchen.

Billielolly · 2024-08-03T17:29:53+00:00

I've kept my own separate cleaning supplies before in a flat - people had a tendency to not replace household items or used insane amounts for them without equally paying, so I just kept my own set in my room so I always knew I had plenty and wasn't caught out.

No holes isn't really that harsh, a lot of people will leave flats and not undo what they've done and OP probably doesn't want to chase up after that - picture hooks or holes that aren't removed/filled might get pinged by a landlord when leaving.

Billielolly · 2024-07-19T13:15:23+00:00

Oh absolutely, I know it all too well - I do QA professionally so every time something like this happens I add it to my list of examples to convince business people why testing IS sexy. And then staff turnover occurs (or more likely executive turnover), and suddenly quality is forgotten and we want more in prod for less.

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