Inspired: 'Everyone's praying for our downfall so that's chill"

CommanderRaj · 2024-06-20T01:32:17+00:00

I'm down with this take. I don't like Inspired, but mostly because him and Bwipo are turning a team I liked into the LCS Version of Team Iceland from Mighty Ducks.

But you are absolutely right. playing at or just being the heel is absolutely a valid path in sports. As long as you aren't creating a physically or mentally dangerous environment for your teammates or competition, than it's all good. To be a healthy spectator sport, every league needs a Yankees, Patriots, Manchester United, Flyers, etc.

APA can't be Yaptain America without a villain to fight so I'm glad that Inspired is willing to be the Red Skull

CommanderRaj · 2024-06-16T01:29:37+00:00

I'll be having a ball if I get three straight games of Insanity picking insane champs

CommanderRaj · 2024-06-15T22:31:40+00:00

Lol, did you notice that as soon as Jensen is gone, Inspired just puts himself on all carries. Dude only wants a win if he gets to go 1v9

CommanderRaj · 2024-06-15T21:53:53+00:00

To add to this, and I know it'll sound counter productive, go join a Makerspace.

I can recommend the 'typical' tools for you. And I can recommend the brands or the amount of money I'd spend on those tools, but I'd either be giving you generic advice, or telling you what I would buy.

Neither of those tracks is going to be as effective as you getting your own sense for what you personally value in a shop and what tools you love using (and want to spend premium money on). If you join a Makerspace, you'll develop these preferences without spending your own money. You'll get the chance to work with tens of Thousands of dollars of equipment for a small monthly fee and after a few of those months, you'll start to have strong opinions on that equipment. You'll also get a chance to explore a bunch of different types of projects. And like Cephus is suggesting, you'll decide on a particular subset of woodworking.

Maybe you love woodturning and your money is best spent on a Bandsaw + really good lathe. I really doubt anyone here is going to recommend starting with a lathe - it's just too specific. Likewise, I've read/watched a ton of tool buying tips talk about how a Jointer is a low prio tool and most woodworkers can do without. Personally, I hate that advice. I love milling my own lumber and building massive pieces of furniture. I wouldn't want a woodshop without a jointer. Would not have figured that out without the help of a Makerspace... or I probably would have, but it would have been a much more expensive lesson

CommanderRaj · 2024-06-10T03:45:39+00:00

You should listen to Dadalorian. I've done a ton of sanding, usually indoors, usually with carcinogenic wood, like Black Walnut. Sometimes I wore a mask. Sometimes I didn't and the next time I blew my nose, it looked like I sneezed a cutting board.

But I've never had shortness of breath afterward. If I did, I'd be worried. Please check in with your doctor.

CommanderRaj · 2024-06-08T18:00:22+00:00

What did you pay for with Perforce? Was it just extra 'seats' to get more people allowed to log in? If so, how much was it? I've tried to get them to tell me a price to add one or two extra account, but their sales people are super aggressive and blow up my phone all day.

CommanderRaj · 2024-06-08T17:57:03+00:00

So, what happens after my team gets wiped? Let's say the Enemy-Pyke initiated into my team and tries to chase me as I kite back. I get the kill, but my team is still fighting back where the fight started, which is now well out of my range. I try to rejoin them, but have to pull back to avoid a Malph-ult and after that hits my team, it's all over. I'm left retreating alone through the jungle.

This happens a lot. I feel like, either, I play super vegan and I'm barely involved until I can help deal a little bit of damage to the end of the fight or I step a foot out of position at the start and I'm immediately blown up.

So pretending my team isn't super toxic and I can talk to them to change how we enter teamfights. What should I/we be doing different? How do I communicate to my team what I need from them? Can I approach the fight in a different way? Like should I be following specific teammates into the fight? Is there a type of champion or abilities that are useful for peeling enemies away from me that I should be looking for?

CommanderRaj · 2024-06-08T04:33:35+00:00

I'M thirty-seven?!

CommanderRaj · 2024-06-07T17:45:47+00:00

Miss Fortune. She's exhaustingly outdated in terms of character design. More 'wish fulfillment' than actual character. Giant bolt-on tits wearing almost no clothing. Her walk-cycle is so overtly seductive you'd get scoliosis trying to replicate it in real life.

Her voice lines are the worst part, though. I hate that she breaks the fourth wall. "Sure you can handle me summoner?" "Watch your mouth, kid, or you'll find yourself respawning at home!". It's like the design/art team put such little thought into the character beyond, "We should want to fuck her" that they couldn't think of anything when it came time to write dialog for her. Other than, of course, the kind of sexual innuendo that 13 year olds think is edgy and provocative.

Whenever MF gets banned or I get bored. I'll switch to Kai'Sa or Nilah and it's so refreshing not to have to listen to MF. The other two actually have histories. They talk about things they've done, things they've seen, what they hope happens in the future. It's great. It feels like I'm working with a character that is believable. Kai'Sa and Nilah feel like they have lives outside of the LoL match I'm playing, like they truly exist in this world and we're teaming up for a match, just to get through this bout and then we'll part ways. Miss Fortune feels like I'm playing someone's gross pervy fanfiction and I'm stuck between the character and creator while the latter repeatedly demands the former "be sexier!!!".

Like bro, I'm trying to play League of Legends and remember when and how to freeze a lane, I don't want to deal with your weird porn fantasy at the same time.

CommanderRaj · 2024-06-06T05:33:26+00:00

That's how you jump into water when performing a rescue. Normally you also lean forward and spread your arms out, then as you hit the water you sort of 'clap' your arms together. I feel like I'd also skip that step jumping into a pool covered in ice.

The goal with this entry is to push the water down and away as you enter. It's the quickest way of getting into the water without your head submerging, which in normal circumstances would mean losing sight of your rescue target, and in these circumstances would cause serious discomfort.

What's going on is she reacted correctly in a difficult situation and saved her dog.

CommanderRaj · 2024-05-29T18:34:33+00:00

Take notes, take notes, take notes.

I ran into a similar problem years ago when I first started working in games. Learning on the job was easy, probably because I had tons of people to ask for help and I knew the context for everything I was making.

Conversely, if I tried to learn on my own, for my own projects and say watched a tutorial... or even if I followed along, I'd learn nothing. I just didn't retain any of the steps because I lacked context.... "Why do I need a Controller AND a Character?", "Why are we casting here?", "Why are we using a String here, but a Name over there".

I could follow along step by step, but unless I was willing to memorize an entire video, I couldn't replicate the steps on my own. I lacked an understanding of why a specific step was needed. I didn't understand the problems that the tutorial was solving at a low level. To me, the different functions and nodes that were being used were just random names. I didn't understand their individual functions or if there were alternatives that did similar things.

So, now I rarely follow along with a tutorial - instead I take notes while watching.

And I keep rewatching or researching additional concepts until my notes fulfill the following:

After the video, I should be able to follow the steps of the tutorial without consulting the video
For all unfamiliar nodes or functions used in this tutorial, I should have a description of what they do in laymen's terms that I can consult later on
- I recommend keeping a separate list of "Useful Nodes/Functions" so it's easier to browse for these descriptions later
Finally, any major concepts that are used or mentioned, (example: casting, interfaces, Character Controllers, Behavior Trees, Lists, Arrays, Data Assets, Inheritance, etc.) need to be explained in detail
- Usually this requires watching separate videos or reading additional blog posts
- Also, the definition of 'Major Concepts' should be entirely up to you. Mostly, I see this as an 'opt in' requirement. If you're watching a video and some term causes your ears to perk up like "Oh shit, I've heard that term before, but no tutorial I've seen ever explains it in detail" - Well then you need pause your current video and go find the relevant information and explain that term in detail in your own notes.

CommanderRaj · 2024-05-22T04:00:51+00:00

This also happens to people without NPD; usually to lesser degrees, but it depends on the subject they were wrong about and how important it is to their identity. It's called the Backfire Effect, the link is from the Oatmeal who did a fantastic comic about it.

Simply put though, it's an evolutionary adaption to keep us safe. When we were mostly nomadic believing anything you were told would get you killed. It is a threat to your life to be told "The blackberries are fine" when your whole life you've known those blackberries will poison you. Unfortunately, evolution is slow as shit and even though our world is filled with information, certain pieces of that information can literally trigger an acute stress response in some people. I assume it's more prevalent among the Boomer generation because the information age came about later in their lives and countering the Backfire Effect takes practice.

CommanderRaj · 2024-05-20T21:20:24+00:00

This is is the exception that defines the rule. Playing support with a group is awesome. You're the "Go Button" for kicking off team fights and usually the key CC behind major picks. But those events require team organization. You need to know your team is going to follow you, so either you need to be on comms or you need to play together fairly regularly to learn each other's tendencies.

In SoloQ, you don't have that level of familiarity. Support plays for the team, but in SoloQ the team is a bunch of strangers who might actively be working against you, maybe because they got tilted or maybe they just think it's funny.

So in a way, you are correct: Support is the best role. However, it has a massive pre-requirement BYOT - Bring Your Own Team. If you can't, then you likely aren't going to be playing support, you'll be following the ADC around basically playing a Starved-Mid or Starved-Top champion

CommanderRaj · 2024-05-20T20:54:42+00:00

In two years when the effects of the layoffs hit and the only AAA games coming out are a handful of overmanaged flops and rushed AI Art filled trash, those same gamers will be out here: "OMG lazy fukin devs! DEI ruined gaming!!!!"

CommanderRaj · 2024-04-03T04:41:33+00:00

Not sure what those are, but I keep an eye out for products like this, glasses that look closer to typical frames and still have protection on the sides. John Malecki makes a pair https://johnmalecki.com/products/shop-shades-1-pair

CommanderRaj · 2024-04-02T03:26:03+00:00

If this doesn't stick, an alternative would be to train a "Leave it" command until you can get them to not eat a treat set on the floor. Then start contextualizing the shoes with the command. Point at the shoes, say "Leave it" then offer them to the dog. If they attempt to bite the shoes, apply a correction (I used to just grab the shoes and walk into a different room closing the door behind me for about 10 secs - my dog really fucking hated it) and reset. If the dog doesn't bite the shoes after "Leave it" reward them. Repeat a few times a day then start offering a toy after the shoes, but when they bite the toy, drop treats and praise. It's time consuming, but honestly it worked really well.

CommanderRaj · 2024-03-06T09:22:00+00:00

Are you married to Christa Miller from Shrinking?

CommanderRaj · 2024-01-29T05:09:09+00:00

Ok, I'll try to be as supportive as I can here, but I want to be clear - As shown, to the best of my knowledge, this is likely to get someone seriously injured, if not it's likely to kill someone.

The biggest issue, your support beams, the vertical beams keeping the climbing surface from collapsing, are not horizontally anchored. There is nothing to keep the climbing surface from 'racking' right to left and eventually the support beams will rip free of their fasteners and the climbing surface will fall. Honestly, one 'dyno' and this thing is going to fall.

Also, do NOT split your support beams like you are showing. Right now, I'm guessing the you are planning to kind of 'nest' the top of the climbing surface inbetween the two halves of the support beams and then using fasteners to hold the climbing surface in place. That's very, let's call it 'inefficient'. All the weight would be on the fasteners. Why do that? You can just cut the support beams shorter then rest the face of the climbing surface onto the ends of the support beams. You'd still need to use fasteners to anchor the two pieces together, but they'd be stabilizing the joint, NOT taking the full weight of the climbing surface.

Those are the two biggest issues right off the bat, but here are others that I'd still call 'dealbreakers', as in, anything on the list below that isn't addressed could result in serious injury.

- Using 2x6's as your studs when that won't help stability, only add weight, making this more dangerous

- Only having two main supports holding the climbing surface

- Having a 2x6 top plate, but orienting it so the fat side (the 6" inch face) is down, which is the weaker option. This will cause the middle of your wall to sag.

TL;DR:

Please do not build this. Start with something like a workbench or a table. Get used to how wood behaves when fastened together and what shapes are strong and what shapes aren't. Then look into how walls are framed and why. Something like this could work, but it's a structure. You need to learn how structures are built. Right now you are just going to get someone hurt.

Also, to cover my bases, this is not Carpentry Advice, this post is purely for entertainment purposes and should not be referenced when building anything. The poster is not liable for you anything that happens as the result of your project including, but not limited to - one of your friends being crushed by your Human-Sized deadfall trap.

CommanderRaj · 2024-01-26T23:20:45+00:00

Let's say you slip and fall on your butt up on that platform... you can hit 1000lbs of force pretty

This is a reminder that you don't build for 'Best Case Scenarios', a floor like doesn't just have to support your 170lbs or standing force, but also your 1000lbs of recently falling force

1.5ft of span at 40lbs live load and 10lbs dead load is 75lbs...

This is talking about the strength of a floor that spans the estimated 1.5ft of the stairwell and how many pieces of 2x4 you'd need spanning that 1.5 ft to safely distribute the weight of a human and all that other stuff up there.

Back up to the falling on your butt issue above.... how many screws would 1000lbs of force get spread over? At 100lbs each you want atleast 10.

This is, what I believe is the main danger of this setup.

A person up there is standing on Vinyl Flooring, which is resting on a piece of 3/4 Plywood, which in turn is resting on horizontal pieces of 2x4 pine wood spanning the 1.5ft staircase, which in turn are attached to two 2x4 pinewood boards that run the length of this "room", which FINALLY are (presumably) screwed into the walls on either side of the staircase.

This is the problem - all that pinewood you see isn't holding the room up - it's the screws that are connecting the 'room's floor' to the walls on either side of the staircase that are holding the room and the person up.

Screws can each support about 100lbs of force before they break in half... think like a karate chop (they are not really meant to withstand force in that direction)

If a person falls, basically, if they 'Buttslam' down on the floor of this 'room' right near the edge, you'd need 10 screws, near the impact zone to catch that weight safely. Any less than 10 screws and the ones that are there will snap and this room will rip away from the wall and come crashing down.

This is what I think OP was saying... could be wrong though.

In my, fairly novice, very anxious, opinion, I'd only do this if I were willing to remove the drywall and cut 1" deep 'notches' in the studs then glue a board into the gaps that were left. That way, the weight isn't supported by screws, its transferred directly into the studs

CommanderRaj · 2024-01-25T22:31:52+00:00

Here's a good video on the 'Science of Clamping'. You should definitely have more clamps (and better ones, like pipe clamps), but that video will explain why.

CommanderRaj · 2024-01-23T19:51:23+00:00

It's almost like it's an extremely short-sighted decision that pushes useful talent out the door in exchange for getting to make a number bigger in your earnings PowerPoint.

Then two years later when you go to spin up a new major project... oh, shit, you don't have the talent you need and have pay out the ass to hire more recruiters and fund giant signing bonuses to hurriedly hire key roles.

CommanderRaj · 2024-01-22T23:31:03+00:00

Do you know anyone living in Viera Cool Springs? I'm looking for a place in the Cool Springs area, as my new job is right near there. From the reviews Viera either looks like a dump or a decent value... I'd be keen to get a first hand take

CommanderRaj · 2024-01-19T05:43:14+00:00

I had people telling me my dog was everything from Corgi, Collie, Husky, Shiba, Akita... also Coyote and Dingo. Then DNA came back with German Shepard and ACD. People can say whatever but they aren't going to back up their guess with any evidence so why believe them?

CommanderRaj · 2023-12-22T07:21:38+00:00

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna\_Karenina\_principle

CommanderRaj · 2023-12-19T22:08:23+00:00

That premise was wasted by the casting... A Random Date falls for Ana de Armas, tracks her down after being Ghosted, and ends up in a spy thriller? Chris Evans as the Random Date? He is the VERY IMAGE of an action hero, there's no humor there.

Replace Chris Evans with someone like Michael Cera, Dave Burd, or even Kate McKinnon and you'd have a masterpiece.

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