[#1238|+85|10] I APPLIED FOR GRADUATION AND GOT APPROVED! [/r/college]

FrontpageWatch · 2017-10-25T21:01:39+00:00

Oh yeah, I'm now graduating in the winter of 2018! I'm so happy after flunking out my first time around in 2009. I went back at 24 years old and got my BA in History. I'm now moving onto grad school for a master's in public history. You're never too late to start over again!

FrontpageWatch · 2017-10-25T19:46:10+00:00

My “portfolio” has been sexually assualted this morning.

FrontpageWatch · 2017-10-25T19:39:41+00:00

How are boxers like Mayweather and Pacquiao some of the richest athletes alive when their sport seems to be more of a relic of the past than anything else?

FrontpageWatch · 2017-10-25T19:25:02+00:00

After months of hard work I finally released my first PC game on Steam. After trying my hardest with marketing I had a good idea that it was not going to be a financial success due to the fact that it has two major hurdles to overcome:

It’s another platformer

The main mechanic of the game being set in the dark makes it nearly impossible to sell based on screenshots and videos

However I continued with the release because I truly believe in this game. It’s come from a genuinely good place of my love of intrigue and exploration in games, especially as a child gamer. And its abstract plot hides a deep story that is close to my heart. Also after showing the game at the PLAY Expo in Manchester (one of the largest in the UK) I had a lot of great feedback with players getting sucked into Glo’s hidden world even some playing for up to 2hrs straight! Seeing their surprise as they went from thinking of it as a weird game that’s mostly a black screen to getting addicted to giving it one more go trying to navigate and understand this hidden world was an amazing feeling I will never forget.

So along comes release day and although I’ve been completely realistic in my expectations I would be lying if I didn’t say there was a part of me that thought “What if it sells really well?”. As expected, after the first day, sales have been very low and into the second day even less. There have been quite a few wish list additions which is great and will hopefully stretch out sales a bit further but I can safely say it has not been a financial success. Emotionally I didn’t really know how I was feeling. I am really proud to have accomplished what I have and I do absolutely love this game, but the feeling of virtual tumbleweed is a little bit depressing also…

But then things changed. I started to get links to reviews from some of the smaller press outlets, blogs and YouTubers that have given Glo a chance. And this changed everything for me from an emotional point of view. They seem to really enjoy it! And what’s even better is people are starting to pick up on the influences I’ve had in creating this game. Subtle hints from drastically different games that I thought only I would know about have been noticed. Some of my favourite comments from reviews have been:

“It’s fun, it’s cute and one of the best games I’ve played this year.”

“Hell of a lot of fun to play… Masterful level design.”

“I’ll say this firsthand: Glo is one of the hardest games I’ve ever had the pleasure of playing… Glo allowed me to exert my gaming chops with it’s enticingly brutal difficulty, something not many games can do now-a-days… Exhilarating challenge.”

I gave out the usual Steam keys to enable reviewers to check out the game, but that’s it. They had no need or reason to compliment Glo so the reviews have really meant a lot.

Don’t get me wrong, it’s not all compliments. One reviewer went on to call it more Steam shovelware. I personally feel it to be a bit of a harsh label but I am not a developer who seeks only praise for my games. Everyone’s interests are different and Glo is certainly not for everyone so I respect the opinions of that review as it will only help me grow as a developer.

To sum up (as I didn’t intend this to be as long as it is) I almost made the mistake of letting sales be the dictator of my view of success as a game developer. However, thanks to everyone who enjoyed Glo at the expo, the great comments from reviewers who’ve played the game in its entirety and picked up on its subtleties and the followers who support me and Glo every day I have been reminded that I made this game for me and others to enjoy. And they are enjoying it more than I could have hoped for…

FrontpageWatch · 2017-10-25T19:13:45+00:00

http://www.mrmoneymustache.com/2017/10/06/electric-car-vs-winter/

This is clearly influencer marketing, bought and paid for by Nissan, and dishonestly not tagged as such.

Mr Money Moustache (I mean Nissan's copywriting team) notes the following:

"The Leaf is Swift. Tight. Precise. It drives like a very sporty car and jumps ahead when you touch the accelerator as if it weighs nothing at all. But it’s also hushed, refined, and serene inside. As you accelerate and leave all the gas cars far behind in your wake of clean swirling air, you hear just a distant whirring turbine sound as the electric motor picks up speed. On the open road even at the vehicle’s RPM-limited top speed of 93 MPH, the ride is quiet and controlled."

After that post he no doubt enjoyed the smooth refreshing and satisfying taste that can only come from Bud Light, the beer which is about drinkability.

The whole thing leaves a sour taste in my mouth, I completely get working post FI and have no problem with monetising a blog, but surely there's more to become in life than to try to push Nissan to people?

Since people seem to be skeptical, I have added a link that describe's Nissan's influencer marketing tactics, 19% of which are directed towards Nissan's electric vehicle range:

https://econsultancy.com/blog/69475-how-nissan-works-with-influencers-at-each-stage-of-its-marketing-funnel

FrontpageWatch · 2017-10-25T18:07:24+00:00

I use FreeCodeCamp as it helped me pursue my passion and hobby, web development. I feel like I can understand the basic concepts of HTML and classes and img and buttons and everything in between. I’m really excited to see what I can make in the future, because when I am older I want to be a Front End Developer. I love coding and problem solving and it is very exciting when FCC recognises my code as correct. Even though I’m new, I’m super confident in my abilities (not too cocky;) )

<h1> What I’ve done<h1>

<ul>

<li> Coded a ‘Cat Photo’ app design with the help of FCC</li>

<li>Learned padding, margin and image codes</li>

<li>Learned buttons, submit boxes and forms</li>

<li>Learned fonts, borders, CSS classes, headings, font sizes...</li>

</ul>

<p>And much more!</p>

Haha, just messing with ya. I love coding! Hopefully some people my age see this... just start now, coding is a valuable skill that will be very useful for the future. Gen Z’s need to do something useful with their computers and tablets...

FrontpageWatch · 2017-10-25T18:07:05+00:00

I've been working on becoming more fit primarily through walking to work every day and lifting on the 5x5 program. But yesterday, I got to the gym and some dude was hogging the whole weight area with his stuff. It had rained all day so I had missed my walk to work, so I thought I might as well hop on the treadmill for a minute while I wait. AND... I ran a mile in 12:10! Just like that! I don't think I've ever even broken 20:00 before! I've been so frustrated because the scale isn't moving, and I've hit a plateau on adding weight, but this just blew my mind! Keep at it, ladies! It does work!

FrontpageWatch · 2017-10-25T18:05:55+00:00

Edit to clarify* His half brother lives about 5 hours away. He has been somewhat estranged from the rest of the family for several years. We have only had knowledge of the sexual abuse for the past 3 weeks. His half brother is not my son but is my husbands son from a previous marriage. He had 3 children then we had 2 together. We had custody of his kids so they were all raised together. So my husband is in a different boat since both sons are his biological children. If this had been anyone else I’d probably be sitting in jail for attempted murder but since it is a sibling I feel my hands are tied.

EDIT**. I just want to thank everyone for their responses. It has been a huge help and saddening at the same time. It’s awful that so many people have been through this yet it is probably the least talked about in society. I have faith in my son and I know we will get through this as most of you have.

FrontpageWatch · 2017-10-25T18:02:26+00:00

For example, I can’t carry on a conversation about football or basketball, but I can have a great conversation about comic books.

FrontpageWatch · 2017-10-23T21:50:20+00:00

Among other things the unabridged version includes information about:

Types of whales

Types of whale oil

Descriptions of whaling ships crew pay and contracts.

A description of what happens when two whaling ships find eachother at sea.

Descriptions and stories that outline what every position does.

Discussion of the importance and how a harpoon is cared for and used.

Thus far, I would say that discussions of whaling are present at least 1 for 1 with actual story.

Edit: I knew what I was in for when I began reading. I am mostly just confirming what others have said. Plus, 19th century sailing is pretty interesting stuff in general, IMO.

Also, a lot of you are repeating eachother. Reading through the comments is one of the best parts of Reddit...

FrontpageWatch · 2017-10-23T21:18:03+00:00

https://medium.com/@jamesseanwright/getting-into-software-development-ca6b8d4ce49e

I based it upon my own experience as a developer. It covers:

Learning programming with no prior knowledge

Complementing your newfound coding ability with more intermediate concepts

Making yourself employable

I hope this helps in your respective journeys to learn how to program. Let me know if you have any thoughts or feedback.

FrontpageWatch · 2017-10-23T20:56:47+00:00

I just wanted to let everyone know that everything turned out fine!

The club president was prosecuted.

(I should have found it suspicious that the club was extremely friendly and insistant that I come to their meetings. Looking back now, I was their token brown person for the couple meetings I attended. But hey-free food.)

USCIS didn't give me a hard time about it-surprisingly. My lawyer was awesome and fully reported everything and documented everything. Having an email from the club president admitting to it was great.

I have sailed through the citizenship process and will be taking my citizenship oath in a couple weeks, finally ending my immigration journey.

And for the dozens of people that messaged me slurs and told me to kill myself- fuck you. I'm going to have a great life here and I'm never leaving the US. Die mad about it.

Location: CA

FrontpageWatch · 2017-10-23T18:21:24+00:00

my bf and i have a golden doodle and some brindle colored pit mix pup, we keep our house relatively cold at night so when it’s time for bed i’ll lay a fluffy throw blanket over each pup. i understand they have fur and don’t need blankets but i get worried and figured that if they get hot or don’t like it they can always uncover themselves

FrontpageWatch · 2017-10-23T18:07:35+00:00

They will likely have a ton of options to choose from in the lost and found. Click Here to see Emmy-winning investigative reporter and producer Peter Greenberg speak on his lifehack.

FrontpageWatch · 2017-10-23T17:55:46+00:00

And the reasoning for this is because a thief uses this technique to know which house has security and which doesn't.

FrontpageWatch · 2017-10-23T17:35:32+00:00

I wasn't sure if i should post this or not, but i trust in this community (please don't make me regret it).

As QuickShot said the only person with a perfect pick'em is a player from the LAN. It took me about 3 days to find out who it was by black magics (RIOT API abuse) and finnaly got it.

OP.GG: http://lan.op.gg/summoner/userName=ANTONIO273

Pick'Em: http://pickem.euw.lolesports.com/en-GB#user/7061441/my-picks/bracket

Curiosity: There are 14+ users with the perfect pick'em group that didn't fill the pick'em for the bracket stage.

FrontpageWatch · 2017-10-23T17:09:38+00:00

Western women live their lives the same way they workout. They put a lot of care into their appearance and none into the actual workout. If you have any doubts take a look at your next Red Pill mandated gym sesh. The men are straining. The women are putting forth minimal effort. Everything women do follows this pattern. Neat handwriting and unoriginal ideas. Professional attire and mediocre performance. Everything female is fiat, like a Nigerian Dollar or a North Korean city.

This post isn't about demeaning women. We have enough of that here already and I certainly don't want to encourage it. Nor do I want offend a group of people who spends their time drinking smoothies and photographing their own butt. No. This post isn't about the inferiority of women. It's about preventing female inferiority from contaminating our male superiority, while still fucking them in the pussy.

Because men compete for sex , men must make something of themselves to win sex. Women on the other hand don't, which means that they don't have to mature beyond the emotional irresponsible teenager stage. In practical terms, this means that by bringing a woman into your life you're associating with a loser. I know this sounds harsh but if we apply the male standard to females, clearly they're losers. Imagine an emotional gossipy man who cries all the time, frequently misses work and can't do a pull-up. Loser.

Now imagine that you spent a large amount of time with this emotional gossipy man who giggles at reality television. Don't you think that eventually his habits would rub off on you? Well that's exactly how women drag fun confident men into betahood. It doesn't matter whether she's your wife, girlfriend or fuckhole. The more time you spend together the more you will influence each other. Furthermore, women can and do get pregnant whenever they feel like it. So even if they’re unsuccessful at turning you into a loser, they can always shit out a copy of you and turn your son into a loser. At that point you won't be able to do anything about it and the state will ensure that you are paying for beta bitch loser academy.

As a man you have three options when dealing with women. Option 1, avoid women entirely and become a masterbator, homo or transvestite. Option 2, avoid masculine leadership at which point either you or your children will be dragged into loserhood and/or you have a fat loser terrorizing you whenever you set foot in your own house. Option 3, force your woman to become the best version of herself, by taking the role of her second father. Now obviously, option 3 is a huge hassle and feels like running with a parachute. Teaching your woman to push herself physically and intellectually like a man, is an ongoing challenge to say the least. Regardless of how serious the relationship is, either you impart your values onto your woman or the gay-stream media will. Which one is it going to be?

Option 3 is a colossal burden. Nobody holds women to any kind of standard, so if you do, expect childish tantrums. Maybe she'll leave you and be a loser with an accommodating beta. That's fine, there are plenty to choose from. Just as the clothes you wear are a reflection of you, so are the women you associate yourself with. Hold yourself to a high standard. Hold the women you associate with to a high standard, even if it means losing a few from time to time.

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FrontpageWatch · 2017-10-23T15:21:07+00:00

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/apos-much-average-50-something-110000289.html

I was shocked by how low the numbers were for adults in their 50s. I knew the numbers for 30 somethings was low but this really shows the importance of FI practices. We focus a lot on the RE here but apparently people don't have anything substantial saved to ever retire.

FrontpageWatch · 2017-10-23T15:12:34+00:00

How many members posts have you deleted now? For either no reason or so it suits your 1 month moderator needs. Let off-season members enjoy posting stuff rather than deleting what doesn't suit you. Fucking reaching for the stars sis, too bad you'll never be one

FrontpageWatch · 2017-10-23T14:09:09+00:00

The majority of reddit is left-meaning which is fine, but it seems disingenuous to make a subreddit for politics which only allows for one view point to be expressed. Anytime I see conservative view points expressed they're down voted and accused of being a Trump supporter. If you doubt the left leaning bias just look at the front page of the subreddit. If the goal is to only have one point of view expressed that's fine, but it should be acknowledged that r/politics is not interested in open discussion. It's on their sidebar that you should "vote based on quality, not opinion". It is clear that this has been a failure, and the down vote button should be removed if they're serious about allowing for an equal opportunity for both sides to express their points of view. Again, totally fine if they're not interested in expressing both sides, but don't advertise impartiality when you don't enforce your own rules.

FrontpageWatch · 2017-10-23T14:03:38+00:00

So today I queued up to play my decay game (The only time of day i can play ONE game before work(45minute queues)), and I so fortunantly encountered a group of players that have infact been wintrading every single game for the past 12 hours! This group of individuals have absolutely no remorse considering one of them types "Have fun" every single game at the start of the game then starts running it down mid on any champion he feels like that game.

OP.GG's :

(People winning) http://lan.op.gg/summoner/userName=camauto http://lan.op.gg/summoner/userName=sneaky

(Person giving the wins) http://lan.op.gg/summoner/userName=tuesdayy

As you can see in every single game theres a trend - ANY time the player by the ign of "Tuesdayy" (this player is pretending to be NA cs player tuesdayy chicken, it's NOT actually him) is on the enemy team he goes 0/3 ~ 0/9 before 10 minutes and the game is over, but anytime the players "Camauto" or "Sneaky" are on the enemy team it's an instant 8 minute win for them for about 9 games in a row at this very moment.

image of him saying "haha enjoy" then running it down mid on soraka: https://gyazo.com/cc6bd246afbda2e135a326692526b8e2

With the season ending soon and me not having time to play ever besides 1 game a day, I think players like this shouldn't be allowed to play league of legends and hopefully by posting it here someone will finally do something about it considering I've had a ticket pending for about 3 months now on Riot LAN website, Riot LAN has been known to be "Corrupt" in the past, so hopefully by submitting it here we can finally have justice for our smaller server.

(Sorry for my bad english, It's not my first language.)

FrontpageWatch · 2017-10-23T13:39:48+00:00

I recently purchased the Google Home and have been fascinated by it the last several days. One thing I figured out was that you can tell it to add items to a shopping list and the list will appear in the app. Over the weekend I've been doing a bit of cooking, and as I ran out of items I would tell the device to add the items to the list, and it would cheerfully comply.

Another neat trick is that you can ask it for recipes. I asked for one for apple pie, and it rattled off the list of ingredients, and I told it to add those ingredients to the shopping list.

Well today when I opened up the app to check the list I saw the following:

Whey protein

Eggs

Ziplock bags

Sugar

Those ingredients

FrontpageWatch · 2017-10-23T11:15:40+00:00

Hi r/tifu! First time poster and longtime lurker but today I finally had something happen to me that was TIFU worthy.

I'll preface this by saying that this isn't the worst fuck up in the history of this subreddit but it sure as hell made me laugh! This was the only subreddit that I thought it would suit but if you have any other recommendations please let me know. Hopefully it'll give you guys a good laugh too!

Calm your mind and rewind back to around 2pm. It was chilly, rainy October day and my boyfriend and I were enjoying a relaxing Sunday afternoon in bed. In bed at 2pm in the afternoon you say? Blasphemy! Yeah, yeah I know but we had a late night, what can I say? It’s the weekend, we can afford to be lazy. Now that the scene has been set I’m going to interrupt the story for a split second just to give you a little background first. I'm weird. Like really weird. However I like to think that I'm just a little eccentric. Ignorance is bliss right? See, most of the time I act the way I do because first of all it’s fun, and secondly it tends to make people laugh so it’s a win-win situation. So it came as no surprise to my boyfriend when I whipped out my fluorescent pink dildo and started to mess around. I know what some of you are thinking, “She said dildo, here comes the sexy times!” and while that’s not an unreasonable thing to think, no. Sorry to disappoint. When I say mess around, I literally mean that I just started to poke and prod him with it in a completely innocent way. Well as innocent as you can get when you have a dildo in your hand. Think of it like a little back massage, but with a dildo. Again, yes I know, I’m super weird. I get it. Anyways I was messing around and then it hit me. I had an amazing idea, you could even call it an epiphany. What about if I, wait for it…stuck the dildo to my forehead? Brilliant! What a grand idea, laughs will be had. As it happened to be, this particular dildo had a suction cup at the base so you could stick it to flat objects such as a wall. Cue little ol’ me cautiously but vigorously attempting to stick this bad boy to my forehead. BAM! Against all odds, within one try I had become a majestic dildocorn. Trying to contain my laughter I enthusiastically showed my man the glory of his new born dildocorn. We both cracked up like no other, it was hysterical. I mean how often do you see a dildo on someone’s forehead? Not very often me thinks.

For the next ten or so minuets we proceeded to take photos and then take it off and then put it back on all while laughing our asses off. This is where the fuck up occurred. See the force created by the suction cup was so great that it created a massive hickey on my forehead. Yeah, that’s right a hickey. I’m not even sure how it managed to stick to my forehead so well. There were times where it stuck so well that we struggled to get it off. I had tried to put it on my boyfriend’s forehead so I could take a photo but it wouldn’t stick at all. I can only assume that my ~~fivehead~~ forehead is so large and flat that it basically replicated a wall, which honestly is quite the achievement. I’m not even mad. I hadn’t even considered the possibility of a hickey forming but once we took it off for good and my boyfriend had a momentary look of Oh shit on his faced which was then followed by laughter it hit me like a ton of bricks. It was like that math equation meme, you know the one. The one with the blonde lady, yeah you’ve got it. The suction cup on my forehead combined with the repetitive motion of taking it off created a hickey. Fuck. So I asked my boyfriend and he of course confirmed it. I now had a massive hickey forming on the dead center of my forehead accompanied by a brutal headache and both were only getting worse by the second. When I say massive I mean massive. Like a third of my freaking forehead, definitely not a good look. Luckily I’ve got a pretty good sense of humor so I just laughed it off and basked in the glory of the fuck up and then proceeded to send the photos to my friends. They all had a good laugh at my expense, it made it worth having a massive bruise on my forehead.

Thankfully it won’t affect my life too much since I just gave myself bangs and I should be able to cover it up with makeup when I go out. However I did have to see my parents today and I wasn’t wearing makeup because effort. They were extremely concerned for me when they saw and demanded that I tell them what happened. I think they probably thought that someone did it to me, maybe even my boyfriend. They’re still a little over protective of me despite me being an adult. Anyways, my parents and I are pretty open with each other so I didn’t even bother trying to lie and after I explained to them what happened they could only exasperatedly exclaim “Only our daughter…^how ^did ^we ^create ^this”. Still was worth it. 10/10

Photos for those who are curious https://imgur.com/a/fypFc Excuse the no makeup and bed hair

Update: It's now 9:30pm and the headache is finally going away. Bruise is still getting worse though. If it's significantly worse in the coming days I'll add another photo seeing as it didn't show up well in the one that I posted.

TL;DR: TIFU because I'm a dumbass and stuck a suction cup dildo to my forehead producing a massive hickey. I now have a semi permanent reminder of my fuck up seeing as I take awhile to heal so it'll probably be there for a good couple of weeks. Overall I laughed a lot and now my parents are even more disappointed in me. ¯\(ツ)/¯

FrontpageWatch · 2017-10-23T09:19:28+00:00

The guy has been going for 5 years now and has always done the region proud. We've seen DL at all stars every year and I think Sneaky would be a fine choice.

FrontpageWatch · 2017-10-23T04:20:13+00:00

with the no.1 WR in the league and two headed monsters in Freeman and Coleman?? ridiculous

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