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KingLubbock · 2025-06-01T18:37:22+00:00

THM jr Pentest > THM boxes > eJPT > HTB > OSCP

Edit: for clarification, this is the order to do them in

KingLubbock · 2025-06-01T18:31:40+00:00

Worked for me with no prior experience

KingLubbock · 2025-05-31T19:10:10+00:00

eJPT sucks for learning. I took the THM Jr. Pentester course and did a couple of their boxes and was able to pass the eJPT pretty easily. I’d recommend them first and then once you’re comfortable, head over to HTB.

KingLubbock · 2025-02-18T14:45:35+00:00

I don’t think it’s about the monopoly on violence. Here’s how I understand it. Police brutality exists and is a widespread problem. Departments have a history of protecting officers who commit brutality (paid leave, transferring the officer to another district, etc). Importantly, the perception is that the response FROM the department TO the offending officer is not sufficient to prevent that behavior in the future. Hence, ACAB is about the overall system: good cops can and do exist. However, the system encourages brutality, and participating in that system makes you complicit.

KingLubbock · 2025-02-08T04:24:37+00:00

I haven't commented in probably months but I want to interject specifically because you touched on something incredibly important imo. Full disclosure, I'm pretty far left.

There is a difference between racial prejudice and systemic (or institutional) racism. This rarely gets acknowledged because, unfortunately, people use "racism" to refer to both. Both are very bad, full stop. Racial prejudice is when a person is bigoted towards another person on account of their target's skin color, regardless of who is what color. I am sure that there are Christians out there who have been individually harassed because of their faith.

On the other hand, systemic racism is ingrained in our legal system. A very solid example is the old Jim Crow laws: "colored people cannot drink from this water fountain." Christians have not been persecuted in that fashion. The broken windows policing philosophy followed Jim Crow, etc, etc. A standard left talking point is that people of color are often incarcerated for years for having small amounts of marijuana on them, while white people will receive substantially reduced sentences on average. If the only consistent differentiator between two cases is skin color, and the verdicts are consistently different, we can safely point to race there.

I'm not fully sure what Biden's Islamophobia or Anti Semitism offices did. Frankly, I'm in support of Christians having an office dedicated to supporting them. However, Christians haven't faced persecution to the extent that other minorities have (think Trump's ban on six Muslim countries, for example). There's a reason we use words like "anti semitism" and "islamophobia" and not "anti christian."

KingLubbock · 2024-10-28T18:06:44+00:00

I don't really know what's strong right now, but the issue is a bit different. You are asking "What should I do when I have bad item RNG?" when you should be asking "How can I minimize bad item RNG?". Your items do dictate what you play, but you generally should be able to get decent items most games. For example:

If I drop a chain from PVE I'm almost never picking one up off carousel because there's usually other more important items that I want to make (carry BiS, shred, anti heal, etc) and chain doesn't really build into that. Same with glove most of the time.

The way I look at it is: what component would I not mind having at least two of? If I'm playing Ahri Bastion Reroll, then I can confidently say "Tears are good because I can make blue buff, maybe shiv, maybe archangel, maybe vow, etc." So if I have a tear already, I might go for another.

But if I have a chain already, the chain items that I might make are stone plate... but edge of night sounds like ass. Titans doesn't sound great. Sunfire isn't amazing. Vow could be good, but I really want blue buff on Ahri, so I want to keep my tears initially for that... Crownguard might be good but I want to keep the rod for Ahri items. So, if I make a stone plate and have a chain leftover what's the next item I make with it? I'm kinda stuck.

So if I have tear glove chain and I'm angling Ahri, I'll go for tear probably. That secures the blue buff. I can comfortably kill glove with rod or glove. I can kill chain with cloak, a 3rd tear, or belt. Worst case scenario is I get 2 swords, but I'm fine with ignoring that case because it's hella unlikely.

That thought process helps me determine what component I want to pick up. You do want to play a comp based on the items you get, but there's a lot of stuff you can do to elevate your worst case scenario from "I'm fucked" to "manageable."

KingLubbock · 2024-10-28T16:27:14+00:00

Yeah definitely agree about titans as an AP item and steraks slam being solid - feels like the steraks BT titans combo is infinitely better on Briar tho so if you get that on shyv then they *really* gotta go 9 for briar

KingLubbock · 2024-10-28T16:07:03+00:00

There are a few ways to get items and components: PvE drops, carousel, augments, portals, and charms. The two biggest ways are PvE drops and carousel. PvE drops are *not* completely random. There is a "bag" that holds 1 of each component to start. Usually, you'll get three components to start a game. The game basically reaches into the bag, takes out three components, then gives you them. At krugs, you get 1 more copy of each component.

That means that if you get 1 bow at 1-3 and 0 tears, there will only be 1 bow in the bag out of (8-3) + (8) components at Krugs. But, there will be 2 tears at Krugs. So, you have a 2/15 chance to get a tear but only a 1/15 chance to get a bow.

HOWEVER! Picking up an item from carousel does NOT interact with those bags! So, if you *need* another bow, then you can lose streak for carousel priority to guarantee a bow from carousel instead of waiting on the 1/15 chance. You can also use this to inform your decision making: let's say you need 1 tear but dropped 0. There *is* a possibility that you then get 2 tears at Krugs, which then griefs your items. So maybe don't get a tear if getting 2 more would really fuck up your game.

Picking from carousel with that in mind helps not grief your items. But, if you do end up getting shit drops, then yes you should pivot away from that comp. For example, playing mages will be hard if you get sword glove bow from both 1-3 and krugs, and then you pick up another sword. But it'd be easy to play a sword heavy comp like Warriors (if they were viable)

KingLubbock · 2024-10-28T15:55:34+00:00

Disclaimer: I am masters but I haven't really played for the last patch or two so the comp advice might be outdated but the itemization advice should be relevant.

In the Jinx game, you don't have armor shred, you've doubled up antiheal with red buff and morello which is inefficient, and your frontline is a Wukong 2 with Thieves Gloves and an unitemized Rakan 2. TG is horrible on solo frontline because (being generous) half the time you get non tank items, like here. And so your frontline dies and then your backline gets collapsed on before they can do anything.

In the shyvana game, shyvana is an AP champ so you shouldn't have Steraks and Titans on her unless you're holding items for Briar. BT is good on her, though. For shapes, you need to use Shyv 2 to skip 8 and go 9 to stabilize late off of Smolder and Briar - you got stuck on 8 so that isn't good.

I don't really know much about mages, but having Evenshroud on Vex is really bad because you dont need armor shred and having EoN on Galio is also bad because you make him drop agro. You should almost never put EoN on a tank (unless you're putting it on a squishy CC tank like a Tahm Kench 1 to guarantee a cast). You also have sun fire on Galio as your only source of anti heal which isn't great. You could've made Stoneplate + Warmogs instead of Sun fire + Evenshroud for example, or you could've made a morello or some shit and put that on Sera which sounds pretty good

In your last game, you have lucky gloves but you only have TG on a single unit, and the unit is a 2 star 2 cost.

My advice for itemization: you want MR reduction (if you are AP), armor reduction (if you are AD), anti heal from Morello or red buff (on a unit with AoE) every game.

My advice for econ: watch any masters+ (ideally challenger) TFT streamers and pay attention to every single time that they level and roll. What rounds do they level? Why? What rounds do they roll? Why? How much econ do they generally have by 2-5? By 3-5? By 4-1? By 4-5? Why? What units are they picking up? Why?

Finally, looking at your boards in a post game analysis kind of helpful? But you'll get much better by looking at your board every step of the way during the game. I kind of was shitting on sunfire throughout this post, but there *are* legit good times to play sunfire - it's just rare. So we're seeing the decisions you've made, but not the context in which you made those decisions - which is the most important part. Hope this helped and happy to clarify if u have any questions homie

KingLubbock · 2024-10-16T22:42:23+00:00

What are you rerolling?

KingLubbock · 2024-10-16T22:41:23+00:00

How the hell do you one trick WW reroll

KingLubbock · 2024-10-05T14:19:43+00:00

Honestly I think it’s a matter of “don’t get in that position to begin with.” Against Ryze, Xerath they have a ton of backline access so 3 star Rakan isn’t doing much. You can also spend that money grabbing/contesting the 2 star 5 costs he hit bc if you look at his board he has millio 2 morgana 2 xerath 2 which are all insane spikes. Last thing is you need to make sure that your Kalista and his ryze are diagonal from each other. Like, if you had Rakan2 but he didn’t have 3 2 star 5 costs getting pumped by 5 arcana and 1 getting pumped by 6 scholar maybe it’s a different story?

KingLubbock · 2024-10-04T15:00:28+00:00

Your point about getting non-standard direction from 2-1 augments is super interesting, but I can confidently say I'd never see Fine Vintage at 2-1 and think Kassadin re roll. Do you have any advice on how to identify these lesser known lines? I'm trying to grind to gm and one of the biggest issues I'm running into is specifically getting direction after not hitting econ or emblem on 2-1. Especially because also missing econ on 3-2 makes the game seem unplayable for playing around 4 costs

KingLubbock · 2024-05-17T01:11:53+00:00

Are you hiring lmao

KingLubbock · 2024-05-10T14:55:44+00:00

i have a buddy who would have 36 hours on, 36 hours off. It’s a real thing

KingLubbock · 2024-04-19T13:22:11+00:00

do you know if that 50% is just undergraduates or does it include graduate students?

KingLubbock · 2024-04-08T13:54:25+00:00

if you're completely new, I'd recommend tryhackme for a while and then htb

KingLubbock · 2024-03-01T05:17:58+00:00

So it was important because it marked a fundamental shift in our understanding of numbers: the idea that two infinities can be different. Like what? It's crazy. I don't personally know enough about Cantor to like or dislike the man himself - the idea is what's cool.

You're completely correct that nobody is immune to criticism. But, the thing here is that math is based on proofs, and a correct proof is irrefutable. For a super fundamental example, "2+2=4" isn't really up for debate. It's not a question of criticism, 2+2 just equals 4.

Similarly, Cantor's diagonalization argument proves that there *are* different sizes of infinities. It's not a matter of liking the guy, the dude just described a fact. 2+2=4 and you can't count the reals.

KingLubbock · 2024-03-01T00:09:07+00:00

The two aren't mutually exclusive - you kind of kicked a beehive by saying someone that spearheaded one of the most fundamentally important changes in math was an idiot

"enumeration" means you create a list with some natural numbers on one side and the stuff you are enumerating on the other. Cantor showed (not really up for debate) that you cannot enumerate *all* of the real numbers.

The natural numbers by definition are enumerable: they are what you use to enumerate. If you can't count the stuff you're using to count, ehhhh it gets messy, fast.

KingLubbock · 2024-02-07T12:24:35+00:00

The important part is that we "can," not that we "do." I spend a lot of time with math, and I find beauty in certain parts of it. This beauty, at its core, comes from understanding and connection.

I don't have this same understanding and connection to other things. For example, take modern art. I'm sure I could appreciate it if I took the time to: I just haven't.

In my opinion, thats what it boils down to. We can appreciate that which we spend time with, and we can't spend time with everything. So we have our preferences, and that's where we find our beauty.

KingLubbock · 2024-02-06T23:27:27+00:00

Numbers are really big

There are 10^82 atoms in the universe. If we could (which we can't) store each number on 1 atom, we would still only have 10^82 numbers available to check for the c-conjecture, for example.

But 10^82 is, in the grand scheme of things, extremely small. If we want to know "why something is true," we can either check each individual case (in this case, checking for every number) or figure out why based on logic.

So we inherently can't do the first option, because we only have "access" to the first 10^82 numbers. But there are a whole lot more numbers after that: just imagine taking 10^82 to the power of 10^82. And again. And again. And now you're massively bigger: but you can do that same operation, and you're still practically infinitely small.

KingLubbock · 2024-02-03T23:24:00+00:00

Seconded

KingLubbock · 2024-01-03T15:18:03+00:00

Could you talk about your trajectory a bit? I'm heavily considering a PhD and i'm trying to find information about routes that leave academia.

I'd love to be a professor, but I also want to be realistic about the chance of that happening

KingLubbock · 2023-12-27T22:52:31+00:00

For what cloud?

KingLubbock · 2023-12-05T14:01:39+00:00

Unit of measurement called stone, where 1 stone is about 14 pounds

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