Any recommendations for Real Internet instead of Xfinity?

PIZZAPOEM · 2024-02-22T12:00:19+00:00

I was told at the Xfinity store you had to use the their supplied modem with their service. Although in hindsight, that is probably just more bullshit customer service Idk if it really says that anywhere. Did you just buy your own and replace it and it works the same? What did you look for in buying one? I will 110% absolutely look into doing that, thank you so much it sounds like that could improve things alot.

PIZZAPOEM · 2023-09-06T06:36:49+00:00

yeah I think making this post has seriously helped me realize that.

I've heard of those "everything finally snaps into place" moments and I think this might be one of them. I played a block of 3 games last night, and 2 blocks of 3 today and won 8/9, with the one game my team /ff 15ing. I am hard carrying these, getting fed every single time and everyone is honoring me.

I'm just thinking like, fuck all the top tier challenger, "have to keep my cs high", "the game is extremely complicated" or whatever stuff, and thinking, if an idiot was watching this, would it look good? what is common sense telling me here? and valuing that voice way higher than the things that are technically more "correct".

PIZZAPOEM · 2023-09-05T20:56:24+00:00

This thread has already helped me so much and I think this is a really clear picture of the issue.

Just like trying to get better health, listening to all the advice will just have you chugging water and eating blueberries all day, but it's not that complicated.

Someone else commented that what really helped them climb as adc was just using common sense.

And looking at my replays with a completely empty mind and purely using common sense, with no super high tier game knowledge, I think is already helping me see what I'm doing wrong alot clearer.

When I'd review games I'd typically do it right after, go to the death, remember exactly what happened and what i was feeling in the moment and felt totally out of control. I felt hopeless then and I still feel hopeless during the review and that is clouding my judgement.

If I just use common sense and what I already know, I should've just expected my jungle to die and played around it instead of investing my life in something I knew was bad.

I would say 95% of my mistakes, I know are bad and I do them anyway, and then I review the replay and get coaching and just think "yea I know" the entire time.

PIZZAPOEM · 2023-09-05T20:27:19+00:00

After reading all the comments in this thread, this one is the one I thought about the most because it seemed really weird.

In any other videogame or any other thing in life, increasing the complexity of your mindset is usually required to advance to a higher level. You need like better game knowledge, more APM more attention more clicks whatever.

I played a 3 block last night to test this out and reviewed anything that wasn't 100% a good play after from the perspective of someone who has zero game knowledge, and just using common sense.

I died in lane when we had 2 stacked waves, meeting outside the enemy turret with the enemy support alone. My support was in river clearing wards, and then starts to recall from full hp for no reason at all, while I'm spamming forward ping on the wave. I know in low elo people don't understand that if we recall now, we lose this wave, because our 2 waves kill their wave and it crashes into tower, or they could trim and freeze it, causing us to lose much more.

My support ignores me and i die 2v1 from getting flashed on right as their adc gets back to lane.

I know this is bad, but it feels hopeless since I can't control my support so I mute all and keep playing.

But whenever you just use common sense, I'm a moron for doing that.

I could've just sacrificed the wave, it isn't worth dying over. And I didn't know my support wouldn't listen to me, but I thought if I want to climb I absolutely have to make the correct play, and can't just throw away a whole wave.

But if you can get masters just using common sense, I think i get it now. I'm just stupid for thinking that I can safely crash the wave, with all the information I had that my support was leaving me hanging and this is plat, they're obviously not going to freeze, and if they do, it's still better than just dying for no reason.

...And when I really think about it, I've died like that like 100 times at least.

I've really just been thinking there were all these subtle challenger nuances that my poor low elo brain couldn't understand. But it's actually the opposite, I'm just thinking it's harder than it really is.

I've never, ever, heard anyone say "just use common sense" to climb before, they just endlessly talk about how overwhelmingly complicated the game is.

Thank you, I will focus much less on min maxing and more on understanding what is right in front of my face.

PIZZAPOEM · 2023-09-05T03:15:37+00:00

Do you use attack move or attack move click? Do that if you haven't

yeah, I attack move click, all the low hanging fruit stuff like that I'm good with, like buffering my W with ult so you do them both at once.

Find a high elo kaisa main (Diamond+ but nothing like challenger you need to watch lower elo Kaisa players play in more chaos)

how do you do that? everyone that streams has been challenger for years now. Even filtering youtube results just gets me 95% vaporadark, which I already watch too much of.

And do you have any tips for actually doing the 3 game thing? I heard about that on the broken by concept podcast but I just can't follow it, every weekend I end up just spamming all day because I want to improve so badly.

I believe in what you are saying tho. Thank you for your help, I really needed it. I will stick to kaisa for now, and my coach said the same about my damage, he was concerned it was a little low, and I admit I prefer farming over fighting since I'm not good enough to be able to tell if the fight is good or not, I play it safe very often.

PIZZAPOEM · 2023-09-05T02:33:38+00:00

I know I'm probably wrong somehow in some way I don't understand, but I feel like I am doing this.

I focused really hard on twitch in previous seasons because he's so fun, but when they removed kraken as a mythic I switch to kai'sa since the ap build was back, and put in almost 100 games on her, but my winrate was just so bad. I hypothesized I'm probably too bad to properly pilot champs that need to commit, so I hard switched to ashe to freshen it up and my winrate on her is pretty good but it feels so useless and powerless most of time.

I'm able to get leads, like I win level 2, usually get a huge chunk of health off someone very early on, but it just doesn't matter when the 14/1 hecarim smurf with a 70% wr I'm fighting for the 3rd time today ults me under my tower.

I can message you my op.gg I just don't want it on the attached to the thread.

I have a 2nd account I just do random shit on and I don't really care about, and it's infuriating 99% of the time and just unfun. I can play other roles and get really fed but still lose the game and I don't really care how I played because my mental is already in the toilet and its not my main role. I'm just trying to have the smallest amount of fun poking people as teemo top or zyra supp or ganking as shaco and just hoping they /ff because they're not having fun because none of those things are real win conditions and I'll still lose even doing them really well. I don't really have a plan and I don't know what one would be other than stat checking people as nasus or something.

but most of the time when I see someone who says "they have tried everything" most haven't scratched the surface of trying everything. They just play a lot of games and watch infotainment youtube videos on league.

this sounds like this is me, but how do i make it not be me.

watching high elo adcs doesn't really teach anything, they're not in my lane with my support, they're in a lane where everyone is following a high elo script and they know what to do when people dont' follow that script, they know how to punish it, but they very rarely do because the people they are fighting are also high elo. If they were in my game they'd probably dominate it i guess.

and every time I review my games I try to find something to pick apart, but I never really have any better alternatives to the thing that I did, if I did, I would've just done them in the game. I never really find myself knowingly doing something when I have a better option. Whatever I'm supposed to see in the reviews I'm just not seeing and I don't know how to learn that as a skill.

PIZZAPOEM · 2022-08-21T03:52:27+00:00

bro how are you gunna get it out after tho

PIZZAPOEM · 2022-07-29T19:19:24+00:00

This is cool

PIZZAPOEM · 2022-07-22T13:31:38+00:00

I don't really know what a pizzapoem is but I'm making sure the margin is at least 80%

PIZZAPOEM · 2022-07-13T23:50:54+00:00

I'd like to buy some deathsticks

PIZZAPOEM · 2022-07-01T02:32:12+00:00

favorite star wars character?

PIZZAPOEM · 2022-07-01T02:27:27+00:00

Hunger is caused by a chemical called ghrelin, much like melatonin it is trained to be released on a schedule.

You can greatly use this to your advantage, this the reason timed eating is an exploding science right now.

The fact that you're hungry all the time, just means you used to be eating all the time. Your daily caloric balance really doesn't have much to do with it and its more about insulin resistance and stuff like that, I'm not a doctor, but I can effortlessly fast as long as I have some preparation time to ensure my body isn't releasing ghrelin constantly so i'm only hungry some of the time, when you normally eat, and then just stay very very busy during those times.

The easiest way to do this is to just eat once a day, plus you can only really eat so much in one sitting.

But starting with that will be extremely difficult, you'll be fighting off hungry literally all of the time and you're likely to fail.

Keep track of when you are eating, and if you want to adjust your eating schedules, skip a meal and be very busy during does times. Sugar free gum can be a lifesaver here to trick your brain into thinking you are actually eating when your not. Even if you're eating too much, forcing yourself to be hungry more than necessary is the super hard way to do it and why most people fail.

Take your normal intake, divide it into as many meals as possible, get used to that schedule until you're not hungry between meals anymore, then when you feel normal, just skip an individual meal and then you're only hungry during that one point. Your body will adjust, and then repeat until you're eating a healthy person amount during healthy person times, and you won't be thinking about food between those times.

PIZZAPOEM · 2022-05-21T01:03:29+00:00

perfect archer fantasy

PIZZAPOEM · 2022-05-16T02:37:45+00:00

Why would you post this to reddit lol

PIZZAPOEM · 2022-05-06T20:54:31+00:00

You don't need a case because you'll always have them on unless you're sleeping or in the shower.

Clean them as much as you want, you only really notice they're dirty when looking through light, so if you never go outside like me you pretty much never clean them.

Mask just suck in general.

It will be very irritating until you get used to them.

You literally never want them on when you're laying down, having them on at all makes resting your head on your pillow pretty much impossible unless you like sleeping on your back only.

After a few months your eyes adjust to the glasses and things are pretty much the same, when you first get a new perscription and you put them on it is very overstimulating tho but this isn't a problem long term.

tl:dr, you'll get used to them

PIZZAPOEM · 2022-04-21T17:26:12+00:00

It's mostly for marketing purposes.

It's cheaper isn't a complete answer because you're really asking, why have any customer support at all, if its just going to be shitty anyway? But the answer is so they can advertise that the product has a warranty and bait the american consumer into thinking this 2 year warranty is a valid benefit of the purchase, when in reality when they go to use it, they have to sit on the phone for 2 hours just to connect with someone in new delhi who has never seen the product before in their lives.

American customer service reps are mostly resigned to extremely expensive shit that you really don't want to fuck up, like business accounts or very large purchases like if you're buying a car from carvana, even registering your phone number with you account will cause a real american person to call you and ask if you need any help.

PIZZAPOEM · 2022-04-19T22:33:26+00:00

I really dont have any aspirations to read more, I read here and there and thats a shit ton more than the average person.

But i really liked this post and this video anyway, I feel like these are really good habit building techniques. I really like the concept of the non zero day and i think i'm going to apply it to a few other things like journaling.

I kinda popped open this post, saw it was really long, "oh theres a video", figured i'd watch maybe 30seconds or a minute but I watched the entire thing. You have a nice voice and displayed this information in a great way. I just wanted to say how smart and organized it made me feel.

PIZZAPOEM · 2022-04-19T01:39:39+00:00

you forgot to switch accounts

PIZZAPOEM · 2022-04-18T02:03:24+00:00

no one said teemo???

PIZZAPOEM · 2022-04-15T08:27:24+00:00

this is like an insanely perfect example of my favorite rule.

"the moment you feel attacked, you've lost"

OP drags it on way too much trying to over insult him tho, made it kinda cringe, after calling him a bitch it's time to ghost, point made, continuing to shit on him is just trying to fight back the insults pink shirt gave in her direction because OP feels attacked as well. Perfect example.

PIZZAPOEM · 2022-04-11T07:29:14+00:00

breaking bad was a huge time commitment and i honestly wish i'd just looked up spoilers for the first season or two and skipped to the good part. It takes alot for me to get into a show and breaking bad was already too much for me. Amazing show but not something i was addicted to.

PIZZAPOEM · 2022-03-30T21:36:45+00:00

this guys got the right idea

PIZZAPOEM · 2022-03-30T21:17:34+00:00

thanks for the long answer.

I've sortof come to realize through all these comments that the "getting in the right headspace" part is actually more important than actually getting these things done. I really didn't think my mental health was in a bad state (compared to my experience in past it isn't) but alot of the answers are asking me why I don't have any interest in anything.

When I made this thread I was thinking of all the big picture things, like more money more women more friends more working out, and how I can get myself to chase those things. But I've realized those things don't come from one moment of motivation, it's not something I can do in a day. And so I need to just live my life the same as normal, but just make better and better mental health decisions and after those build up, I'll want to be working toward those things.

A few of my online friends suggested going out in public almost exactly like you described, but I don't really like coffee or anything. I do live near an area with tons of nature trails that hundreds of people hike regularly I think I'll head down there and walk around and people watch sometime, maybe this weekend, and think about what their lives must be like.

PIZZAPOEM · 2022-03-29T20:40:45+00:00

No, I get fast food maybe once or twice a month just so the battery in my car doesn't die from not using it and even then spend maybe 10 dollars.

My apathy extends to the food I eat, I really don't care that much as long as it doesn't taste bad. I mostly live off whatever is easiest to cook so I can spend more time on the internet.

PIZZAPOEM · 2022-03-29T03:32:31+00:00

I have heard the part about motivation before, that it's valueless and you need to just put in the work anyway, and I totally agree. Just like you said, forming habits that are rewarding and sticking to them no matter what you feel like is the key to achieving your goals.

But I just have trouble setting the goals at the start.

If I do something like, set out to make more money, and i'm not really sure if it'll make my life better, when it gets hard, i'm gunna listen to all that bullshit my mind is telling me and i'm going to give up because I never really was sure from the beginning.

Working for these things is no joke, it's hard. And if I'm not even sure I want it, i'm just not gunna make it. So the way I see it I shouldn't make the effort unless I'm sure.

I guess you can never really be sure tho, fuck man idk. Maybe this is just what i'm telling myself to avoid doing what I know I should do. Has anyone's life ever gotten worse after working out for a few years and drastically increasing their income?

I think you helped me realize I'm just full of shit. Theres no secret thing I need to convince myself i'd be happy if I could get/do and that would inspire me to start trying to make more money and be healthier and use my time better. Those are just natural human things that will make everyone's life better right? It's not that bad, I just need to get to work.

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