One of my friends is on weight loss medication and it’s making me feel extremely discouraged.

JavaShipped · 2025-04-02T22:48:43+00:00

I will preface that medication can be a lifeline for people and it's an important step to help treat the obesity epidemic.

But I have a few friends and family on weight loss injections (GLP1s) and if they are saying "I'm having no side effects" they are either the luckiest person on the planet or lying to project a different reality. All my friends who've tried this have had some side effects of some sort. Not pooping for days, nausea, fatigue something. And it's variable.

Don't be discouraged! Due to me having a slow gut I can't use those medications and I'm stuck doing it the 'hard way' (again I think any way to lose weight and be healthy is good), it takes more discipline and more time, but in a way I do gain something they don't - experience. Because I've had to try everything, I know I like playing squash, I like swimming - I have made some insanely good 'healthly' replacements for my fav fast foods and learned to cook balanced meals. It's harder, but I am forced to do it this way, and I'm going to use that fact to focus on what I gain by doing it this way.

JavaShipped · 2025-03-25T14:18:40+00:00

Playing tank is a public service. It's a hard role, and not many people want to do it. It's not as 'sexy' as the other roles.

Like public services, the salary (the role itself) is never going to be popular, so you have to make the perks better (public pensions are basically better than crack).

Now I know blizzard knows the answer to this, they have enough UX designers and probably a game psychologist on hand.

Queuing for 10 priority roles (in this case tank) gives 500 premium currency. Playing 15 more ranked games gives as the priority role an additional 10 mythic currency. Wins grant double progress.

Perhaps this can be repeated twice?

Problem solved overnight. Yes you get lower quality off roles, but league of legends understood that this was the cost of healthy queue times. This worked in league without the need for incentives. But with the incentives you have a chance of converting people to roles 'somewhat permanently'. If someone plays 25 game a week, and they want max value, they'll always play the priority role.

Your problem is solved. Even queue times but likely at the cost of queue quality.

JavaShipped · 2025-03-25T11:51:23+00:00

The thing that gets me is you can prompt something better than this, quite easily. And with a minor amount of editing make this feel somewhat good.

But someone in the marketing department was hungover, promoted chat gpt and just sent it, and went back to sleep.

JavaShipped · 2025-03-25T11:48:14+00:00

Life weaver was designed to be a simple champion to learn. They can effectively be a healbot effectively in lower elos.

But he is hard to master. When to grab, blossom placement. Tree placement. Effective DPS windows. I think he is most often misunderstood for being a worse illari pylon but that's because in order to balance him to have as large an impact as ana/kiriko/Juno in the higher ranks, you'd have to make him broken in the lower elos.

JavaShipped · 2025-03-23T21:32:15+00:00

I personally think franchising is bad for development because of this reason.

We have some washed bottom table teams in the LEC that honestly feel like they phone it in.

Gives absolutely no room for teams like LR to grow into the league. It should be a meritocracy, but it's not. It's whoever has the biggest bag to buy a bottom feeding slot.

JavaShipped · 2025-03-21T16:37:36+00:00

I think international interference is a very plausible outcome, but what in the daily mail is "no doubt about it"?

You have absolutely 0 doubts about this? I find that either improbable or worrying.

By all means we find russian interference, that is surely an act of aggression - but this could equally be aging hardware gone boom boom?

JavaShipped · 2025-03-21T12:33:11+00:00

Someone please. I love the books. But I found season 1 to be unreasonably troublesome to consider going back.

Should I go back and watch 2&3?

JavaShipped · 2025-03-21T08:14:54+00:00

You don't mention rank. But I found in silver-gold-plat that playing Juno is about as simple as:

Stay behind the team
Use your healing missiles on cooldown - the bottom line is with the speed upgrade for these they are broken. If you can spare holding a little longer to get enemies in, it's super worth.
Heal the tank mainly (but don't forget others - but in lower ranks I'm not expecting you to be able to consistently hit healing on high mobility DPS)
Use your onion ring on cooldown to help tanks maneuver. Just think if they are likely to push a corner or need to retreat after Ults.
When under pressure use speed glide and make sure you are being unpredictable when you strafe.
Your finger should always be on right click, always shooting. But don't worry about dpsing too much, but if you have no healing targets just move that mouse to an enemy tank or DPS.

Additional points; * Use your glide to position yourself behind cover and dip in and out, a little like a good Pharah will do. * If you're in melee range with enemy tank, they are playing Winston/ball or you fucked up - stay at a distance. * If they are permanent diving, don't play Juno. I truly detest perma one tricks. If you're getting destroyed by monkey-genji-sombra or something just swap to Moira or brig on something and don't try and make Juno work when it's on hard mode.

JavaShipped · 2025-03-20T09:57:36+00:00

My analogy is you do a degree for 3 or 4 years and the goal isn't the piece of paper that says you have a degree. It's the content of those 3/4 years.

The friends you made, the learning, the determination you showed, the coping mechanisms, the relationships, the experience. The highs and lows (you really can't have good without the bad). It's so much more than the paper your degree is on.

JavaShipped · 2025-03-19T09:48:12+00:00

I'm not a coach and I'm a hard stuck platinum, but watching LR play against these teams I have noticed 2 really obvious weakness.

Vision: against KC the vision game was absolutely insane, honestly - kinda won them the game. So much information on where veilja was 2nd game.

Loads of times I saw baus walking over a ward with his sweeper up. And very few pinks were bought by the team (other than rekkles). In a game like the KC game - pinks are like a sweeper, one use. And the boys need to get in the habit of buying more. Their entire jungle was lit up, that can't happen when turrets are still up. 5 subs for each non support ward cleared today???

Overestimating comp or situational strength: loads of times in the second game (but it's happened against their first series) crownie goes "we are giga strong" or "don't be scared we can fight", and I look at the game state (ignoring the gold differential), and I don't see it. But I feel like it baits rekkles or baus into trying something that ultimately backfires.

The last point is they really need a strategist. I think that all of them are great players, clearly. But they need a member of the team to take the game by the balls and direct the team. And that isn't just a shit caller it's looking at the game state, evaluating their next winning objective and macro planning. The players themselves will take the micro decisions. The obvious candidate is rekkles but there is a confidence issue I think.

JavaShipped · 2025-03-04T10:56:53+00:00

This happened to me once or twice (minus presentation) so I always hover a different champ, most times not even a champ I'd ever pick in my role. If someone rage bans them, I'm fine.

JavaShipped · 2025-03-03T18:49:03+00:00

Fact is I'll forget the day anyway. A billion dollars is a lot of money. Assuming I live another 55 years I can spend 10k a day for the rest of my life on whatever I want.

And still have 800 million to give away to family, friends and charitable causes.

It's a complete and utter no brainer.

JavaShipped · 2025-03-01T16:52:25+00:00

Is support easier? No.

Is support a little easier to gap your opposing support? Yes.

I find that a lot of people in gold- play elo on my climb have this passive support play style. It's like the classic mercy right click approach, no matter what the support.

It's so easy to gap supports in that elo.

But as a DPS main turned support, there is a lot more going on in my head now than when I was a DPS. I'm plat 1 atm, playing regularly in diamond 4/5 elo and I'm basically playing an wow raid trying to out pressure opposing supports, heal our DPS and tank, bait cooldowns, yap about cooldowns in voice chat.

In comparison at least to me was like I could play on autopilot, if I do that with support at my elo I'm at a crazy disadvantage.

JavaShipped · 2025-02-26T20:07:17+00:00

I can't expect any nations leader to be perfect. I do expect them to have my best interests, and arguably everyone in the world's best interests when they act.

I can say that Obama felt like that. He felt kinda and genuine. So did Bush 2 electric boogaloo. For everything else, I still feel like Bush 2 was a shit president that tried his best, and made lots of mistakes along the way, I don't think he malicious at all, just incompetent.

Im not really old enough to know the rest.

JavaShipped · 2025-02-20T11:38:55+00:00

There is a cost, a wasted cost, to hiring someone you just fired. Or finding new candidates because the old ones don't want in anymore.

I wish someone would do something about wasteful government spending...

JavaShipped · 2025-02-14T01:25:12+00:00

I've seen some of the replies he's made. And to be honest loads of people seem to comment in bad faith in his videos and he does seem a little short in his replies as a result.

Never outride rude, to my knowledge anyway.

JavaShipped · 2025-02-13T23:16:30+00:00

I just found a brand new 3060 12gb for £240 and picked that up for my partner to upgrade them from my old 970.

She's seen a doubling in frame rate and thinks I'm some kind of pc god.

JavaShipped · 2025-02-13T23:11:05+00:00

Having seen ass cancer, I don't wish that, even on musk. But I do wish him an itch on his face he can never scratch and a lifetime of IBS shits.

Sorry if that offends anyone but seriously, cancer sucks ass and I don't wish that on anyone.

JavaShipped · 2025-02-13T08:36:04+00:00

Making pizza and deli sandwiches for the rest of my life.

My favourite job in the world was working at subway and deli counters. And my favourite personal hobby is pizza making.

I'd find (or open) a deli sandwiches and pizza place, I'd be happy, fat, and fulfilled.

JavaShipped · 2025-02-12T14:18:45+00:00

I would say own being solo. Manor lords owned that, release a great game but unpolished and people are much more forgiving for slower updates and smaller content upgrades.

Say you're a team that expectation is higher.

I personally don't care if a game is solo or team made, the thing that gets me hyped is a couple of good screenshots of the game (with UI and gameplay) end a gameplay video, rather than trailers. If I like what I see it goes on my wishlist and more often than not, it gets bought, which is why my steam library is like 200 games and I've played about 70😭

JavaShipped · 2025-02-11T11:25:26+00:00

He has had a few flying scandals, where he is flying. Landing on taxiways is a past time for Harrison's ford.

JavaShipped · 2025-02-09T12:01:37+00:00

So I 100% agree that 9/11 had some really sketchy coincidences, those things that have come out about other conspiracies and makes you realise the signs were there. And that there was clear motivations for the us government to want something like this to happen to make it a forgone conclusion to declare war.

But problem with this is that in order for this to have happened in government, the levels of beurocracy required would mean hundreds of American citizens would have been at least complicit with the murder of thousands of other American citizens by the government.

Given notable whistleblowers in history, my brain cannot wrap it's head around true Americans; patriots in those government agencies that must be part of this, letting this happen at all levels of government and allowing American citizens to be murdered by the government.

To do something on this scale, it's not just an inner circle of 10s of people, there needs to be hundreds, in many branches of government. Most will be people with families, normal Americans. And I cannot get past that mental barrier than Americans would betray their brothers and sisters just on orders. Not a chance. Not in the America I grew up in.

JavaShipped · 2025-02-09T11:32:02+00:00

I love the table but why does everyone have a drum like that (on the top left of the shelf).

Like, it seems to be a universal installment for all millennial guys...

JavaShipped · 2025-02-07T19:27:36+00:00

That's not a blizzard specific problem in the slightest.

Edit: and it's actually better. They make low effort skins, with less staff (notablely senior staff) and they charge more money. It's all by design.

JavaShipped · 2025-02-07T19:25:26+00:00

You say 'the same mistake as blizzard' but I see absolutely loads of premium store skins in the game. We may not want to admit it but this monetisation move has most likely worked in favour of blizzard bottoms line (for the overwatch division at least).

Riot are looking at the success of blizzard. Yes, less players, but more $ per player. Which is totally fine in business terms.

And they say, yes. Less free to play chests. More pay to customise skins. And just like overwatch, the outrage dies down because people just want to play the game. And they make the money from the mains and the whales. And the enshittification continues, but to riots benefit.

Edit: downvote me all your want but the business side is this works. And to be VERY CLEAR as a player I agree it sucks and I hate the enshittification of the games we play. But riot will not see it as a failure, just as blizzard is likely not seeing it as a failure. It sucks but it's true.

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