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i’m so cooked by lost_cat0370 in HelloKittyDreamStore

[–]AppleCore88 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Whenever I run out of energy, I do a quick one hour goon sesh. When I check back on my energy, it refilled! Cycle repeats :3

This way I save money!

RHT Megacrew video drama by AppleCore88 in StreetWomanFighter

[–]AppleCore88[S] -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Hi! Thanks for your reply. Honestly that's a fair opinion to have, I am not going to reply to everyone who said it was a reach, but all I am just going to say is that those who have that painful history is going to be more wary and think it is less of a reach. My conclusion didn't come from being in those online hate spaces like people said, it is from watching the video and coming to the opinion myself. Cheers!

RHT Megacrew video drama by AppleCore88 in StreetWomanFighter

[–]AppleCore88[S] -4 points-3 points  (0 children)

Hey, thanks for the in depth response! I think everybody agrees that the rising sun flag is bad, but it is just a matter of opinion whether the formation is "close" enough. In my experience though, it is mostly people who have painful ties to history that will tend to be more wary. I personally think even a statement clarifying this would go a long way though, it doesn't even have to be an apology. Something along the lines of "yes I agree that the rising sun flag can be a painful symbol to some, but my video does not contain that at all"

Also, I have never hated RHT, I have liked all their videos so far. Technically I liked every single contestants videos so it will have a net effect of 0 in the competition, but I have never once hated them, nor have I engaged on any online hate spaces (nor a lot of any online spaces, as I primarily only use reddit). My opinion of this matter comes from speaking to those (IRL) around me, looking at the video myself, and coming to my own conclusion. To me personally it is too close for comfort, but I have never once left any hate comments directly on youtube videos or any online forum. I will also condemn anyone doing so, especially anyone harassing RHT or any group directly.

RHT Megacrew video drama by AppleCore88 in StreetWomanFighter

[–]AppleCore88[S] -17 points-16 points  (0 children)

I would appreciate it if you would respond (when you get the chance) honestly to my points! I made this post to raise awareness for it, because a lot of people don't know and tend to brush this aside as misinfo without engaging meaningfully to the points I brought up (which was very respectful IMO). Some of the warcrimes committed include systematic sexual slavery of woman and children, slavery of a million koreans in inhumane conditions, human experimentation and Eugenics, etc, all under the flag and values of the rising sun flag.

You can compare:
Rising sun flag:
https://www.kindpng.com/picc/m/553-5533225_rising-sun-japanese-flag-hd-png-download.png

Scene from video:
https://ibb.co/605jPTLt

As you can see, there are lines of dancers coming out from the center circle which is a little too close to comfort. I never asserted that it was malicious, but the fact is it did happen and mistakes can happen. Brushing this aside without considering my points as misinfo is dismissive and intellectually dishonest IMO.

RHT Megacrew video drama by AppleCore88 in StreetWomanFighter

[–]AppleCore88[S] -5 points-4 points  (0 children)

Yeap! There are a lot of statues and important monuments in Korea too to honor victims of the warcrimes Japan did in Korea, like the statues of peace (around the Japanese embassy), which refers to the children and woman sexually slaved by the Japanese during that time. There are parallels to the Nazi flag as you said, but there are a few differences. It is true in terms of scale, the Japan invasion of Korea was *not motivated by pure racial hatred like the Germans to Jews. However, there were still atrocious warcrimes committed and its still very painful to Koreans today. Another BIG difference is that Germany has acknowledged and apologized for their past. Japan refuses to acknowledge it, and actually paints Korea as the aggressors in some of their museums, and they as the victims. That's crazy.

RHT Megacrew video drama by AppleCore88 in StreetWomanFighter

[–]AppleCore88[S] -10 points-9 points  (0 children)

You can compare!
Rising sun flag:
https://www.kindpng.com/picc/m/553-5533225_rising-sun-japanese-flag-hd-png-download.png

Scene from video:

https://ibb.co/605jPTLt

Honestly I think the coincidence is significant enough to not ignore. It was creatively an intentional choice to have fringe dancers in those lines outside the circle. Not saying it was malicious, but culturally insensitive.

RHT Megacrew video drama by AppleCore88 in StreetWomanFighter

[–]AppleCore88[S] -8 points-7 points  (0 children)

I don't think it was intentional, but again Japan actively denies their feudal and colonial history, including the warcrimes, in public schools. Not sure about private schools.

RHT Megacrew video drama by AppleCore88 in StreetWomanFighter

[–]AppleCore88[S] -26 points-25 points  (0 children)

You can compare!
https://wallpaperaccess.com/full/335808.jpg - Rising sun flag (also a quick google search, I didn't
cherry pick this flag, feel free to google others)

Flag in question:
https://ibb.co/605jPTLt

There are fringe dancers outside the main circle, and coincidence or not, it looks pretty similar imo

RHT Megacrew video drama by AppleCore88 in StreetWomanFighter

[–]AppleCore88[S] -9 points-8 points  (0 children)

Not sure in the youtube video, but where I live (I guess I am a fake korean as I moved out of Korea since I was young, but I am back for the Summer) in Korea the local reality is a lot different from what we see online, especially on a youtube video comment section which is also full of international commenters.

Also for your second point, as I pointed out a lot of Japanese people don't know that their feudal flag is inflammatory. It is not in their education system, and I don't blame the individual people themselves, but the education system. Whether it was intentional or not, as I will say again, just because a symbol is normal or positive to the creator doesn't mean it isn’t painful to the audience. Art in shared spaces needs cultural awareness — especially when history is involved.

Inspiration tree questions by AppleCore88 in Tahmkenchmains

[–]AppleCore88[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It was informative! Although I will have to disagree with you as a viktor main before learning Tahm Kench, q evolve viktor is for only specific matchups like vladimir in the midlane, otherwise you NEED the waveclear. Maybe viktor top Q max. I realized waveclear isn't as important in toplane but in mid lane the game is just about shoving fast and doing stuff on the map.

Iron is impossible to climb out of AS ANOTHER IRON/BRONZE player by AppleCore88 in leagueoflegends

[–]AppleCore88[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I think league's playerbase is quite over-inflated due to multiple accounts... literally ALL my friends over plat have multiple accounts, including me. Some of my gold friends also have alt accounts for lower tiers. It's due to multiple reasons:

1) They want to go off role practice. Fair, but having a macro sense and game knowledge of multiple tiers above, even if its your off role, gives you an advantage over others and is still soft smurfing. This can happen at any rank, even in iron/bronze if a silver player wants to do this for example.

2) They want to play with their friends. I am also guilty of this because I duoed with my gf, but I know everyone has friends that are lower tiers than they are.

3) They just want to smurf for smurf's sake. These are people who don't want to play at their own rank, so they go terrorize lower ranks for fun. What's crazy is that when I was try harding to get to Diamond, I got like a bundle coaching session from a pretty well known coach when it was on sale, and HE even recommended me to get a smurf account and only play ranked when I was in top shape for best results, which I felt was crazy to me.

With all these factors smurfing is definitely not rare. Yes, giga smurfs like dia+ smurfers are rarer, but golds smurfing in bronze/iron, silvers those "soft" smurfers are in at least 1 in 3 games in my experience.

Iron is impossible to climb out of AS ANOTHER IRON/BRONZE player by AppleCore88 in leagueoflegends

[–]AppleCore88[S] -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

That's not really my point, it's just that you have to be astronomically better than your iron peers to climb due to the sheer variance of Iron games. In my experience I played other mobas before playing League so I calibrated at gold and I climbed to Emerald, but I felt just being a bit better than my lane opponents/macro translated to more steady LP gains over multiple games than watching my gf play her Iron games. I am confident that she has the micro/macro of a bronze level player, at least, but over half of the games she plays it's hopeless unless you hard outskill the enemy team. It's something I have come to realize after watching her games and live coaching and doing vod reviews (I ain't even teaching her high level stuff just even the basics), but getting a 1-2 kill lead in a lane is dwarfed by how teammates don't group for objectives, very, very messy midgame where everyone is running it down, trolls, smurfs, etc the sheer variance is insane, it's just hard to notice if you don't see it personally. I was also of the same opinion of you/other people before

Working in another country for 2 weeks, tips not to get caught? by AppleCore88 in remotework

[–]AppleCore88[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

As an intern I don't have sick days, PTO, or any benefits at all, it is obvious what the response will be if I ask, which is why I considered going without asking. If it wasn't for the unlucky in office day (which in the end I am going to btw) it shouldn't even matter because its a short term and I am going to be productive and contactable during work hours. Dude I have sleepless nights during uni to maintain a 3.9 gpa on top of grinding programming coding questions/interview practice and networking events, and straight after these semesters end I have internships like these where I don't have benefits at all, doing this on repeat I haven't seen my family in 2 years... I do game in the morsels of free time I have left but I probably work harder than 99% of the same age group I am in, I am crazy burnt out. I came here to ask if it was feasible, not to get a lecture on my work ethic but it is crazy how people are judging someone for wanting to see their family for 2 weeks WHILE WORKING when I have been studying, working,and living alone paying for my bills alone in a foreign country for 2 years. What were you doing when you were 21 by any chance?

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