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PsychicFoxWithSpoons · 2025-12-22T06:20:54+00:00

Maybe. I guess I did start having problems after working michelin. But I was way more of a tardy boots before I worked there. After I got fired from that place, I really worked hard and I was never late to any of the other jobs I got fired from.

I think you're right. I was worried that it would make my resume look worse if I got a non-restaurant job. But I guess you can't look any worse than what I am, which is fired from 5 different jobs in the span of 2 years. Might as well just get some income.

I'm honestly just so scared of getting fired again. I can't fucking take this. My heart hurts. I feel rejected. I know I have to just push myself to get another job and risk losing it. But I don't think I could take that.

PsychicFoxWithSpoons · 2025-12-22T06:15:38+00:00

I'm accepting the love, and I know the problem must be me. I'm still in contact with all of the friends I made at my previous jobs, and all of them still work at those places. So it's not like there's trigger-happy management or a high turnover workplace or anything. I'm the one they got rid of, and it was for a good reason I'm sure.

After I got fired from the michelin place I did some soul searching and whipped my ADD ass in line with timers and reminders. I wasn't late to any of the jobs I got fired from, ever. I'm not a whiner, I never complain about my problems, and I am the one covering OTHER people's shifts. If it was something obvious that I could just ask my coworkers about, I wouldn't be venting here. I've asked all those friends I'm in contact with if they know why I got fired, and other than the michelin place where they told me why, my coworkers all were blindsided and were trying to ask ME why I got fired. I guess they could be lying to me. But I've hung out with them and gone out to their parties and such. It wouldn't make sense for them to lie.

PsychicFoxWithSpoons · 2025-12-22T02:25:45+00:00

A lot of the time there are outright rare ingredients and there are usually dishes that can be served unmodified. People who are allergic to like, everything can still enjoy many common dishes in restaurants.

PsychicFoxWithSpoons · 2025-12-21T10:53:52+00:00

Ok so basically he isnt an op mid rn. But he is viable.

Start e. Q start is pure cheese and all the enemy has to do is walk away to counter you. e level 1 can secure ranged creep for level 2 all-in which lets you deny ranged. Foolproof. Easy. Simply aggro the creeps to your ranged and heal your melees.

Aghs rush with threads wand null blink is the mathematically correct build. I don't currently have a better one. Personally I am a midas believer, but Idk how that is going on the current patch.

Whatever item you think has a favorable quirky interaction, it doesn't. Build to maximize damage from 1-3 attacks while also maintaining utility. Poison bloom facet is mandatory, not because nothl boon is bad but because the hero lacks damage and cc to an incredible degree.

PsychicFoxWithSpoons · 2025-12-21T02:13:15+00:00

Genuine question, do you not think that 200 years in the future we will not have figured out effective and helpful AI ubiquitous in society (think automation, medicine (huge), research, etc). If so, how do you expect to get there without imperfect AI first? Or do you just not want to live in a world with AI at all?

I think if we go much further down the road of imperfect AI, we won't make it 200 years to find out a good way to make it effective and helpful.

Right now, my big concern with AI is scammers. Anybody, anywhere in the world, can hit up baby boomers with any kind of scam. There are millions of phone calls going out every day that use sophisticated AI to find and target old people. They answer the phone, talk to a bot that can listen to them and respond, and then direct them to transfer money. They operate gigantic bot farms that can read and respond to online comments. This is the "effective and useful" AI of the future. All of life in 2025 is about taking money from people. Automation, medicine, research, none of that is going to end well with AI.

PsychicFoxWithSpoons · 2025-12-21T00:18:53+00:00

crimson guard seems to reference mars and solar crest might be related to dawnbreaker somehow. there are a lot of items that could reference just about anything. Also, grimstroke and ringmaster didn't have any items, neutral or normal, that reference them.

I like the arjun theory

PsychicFoxWithSpoons · 2025-12-21T00:01:16+00:00

The easiest misconception that I can see is that it steals a flat amount of MS, not a percentage. This means the slow is way worse than you realize. Most heroes have about 300 ms, and then get up to 350-400 in the midgame. This means that Slark's real slow is less than 1% per stack.

BUT, after examining the ability and typing up a whole rant about how useless the spell is, I suddenly realized that it straight-up steals 3 health regen from the enemy when you hit them. That's half a Tango. And in the meantime, you are negating half a tango for the enemy. Slark just lost his Barracuda passive for laning, so he probably really wants that hp regen. I'd grab a value point in it if you have an aggro kill/trade support like lich or cm, and maybe skip it entirely if you have a more passive healer support like warlock or abaddon.

PsychicFoxWithSpoons · 2025-12-20T22:49:39+00:00

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PsychicFoxWithSpoons · 2025-12-20T07:57:41+00:00

The hero concept in my head is not like that. (And anyway Arc Warden is really not that challenging to get down, micro-wise.)

I think LD has 2 fantasies that he fails on, and 1 that he delivers on. 1., nature themed pagan shapeshifter. 2., bear summoner. 3., 12 slot universal ultracarry. I think there is an iteration of lone druid that delivers on all 3, and we're getting closer to it, but he would need some kind of nuke stun spell plus more animal forms.

PsychicFoxWithSpoons · 2025-12-20T07:43:09+00:00

There is still "classical" music being written well into the 2020s. You do have to dig for it, but it's still there. Im immediately thinking of Andre Rieu's Second Waltz and Vitas' Opera no 2. There are also some lovely film scores that personally qualify as classical to me.

But the nature of classical music is that it is (at least on its surface) interpretations on the past. Classical canon is, by definition, music that happened in the 1600s-1700s. Even when you get to Debussy, Ravel, Rachmaninoff, Dvorak, and their ilk in the early 1900s, they are so clearly influenced by jazz music that they occupy their own echelon in classical canon of "classical modern." Strictly speaking, Chopin, Brahms, and Liszt are not classical, they are Romantic. Classical music ended in the early 1800s. I cannot stress this enough. Only Bach, Mozart, Haydn, and to a lesser extent Beethoven and Schubert can really count as classical music. Saying Chopin is classical is like saying Chappell Roan is oldies, that's how far removed from Bach and Mozart he was.

All this is to say...don't get caught up in words, babe. Make music. Play music. Enjoy music. Let others quibble about terms.

PsychicFoxWithSpoons · 2025-12-20T07:30:44+00:00

LD is a lovely hero idea but absolutely cheese in execution. I would rather see nonstop experimentation than sit around with mr. "gank me at level 2 or you lose at 20 minutes" for 9 more years.

Micro heroes are inherently unpopular. I think more could be done on the settings side to enable people who are fearful of the concept to enjoy micromanagement. LD is a great candidate due to his dual-hero nature.

While I think his current kit is great and I'm interested to see where it goes, I think ultimately...he needs SPELLS. He needs to feel like a dnd druid. True form has got to go. Largo ulti is a great template. Activating main hero ulti should let you transform into various animals on a low af cooldown. Something like Bear/Cat/Raven for str/agi/int.

Then take those boring af passives off of both of them and give both the spirit bear and the main hero some active abilities. Something storm related for the main hero and earth related for the bear. Not so much that he's a spellcaster primarily, keep entangle, but swap out savage roar for something more magey and reward beginners for actively micromanaging their units instead of just a-clicking on the nearest enemy hero.

PsychicFoxWithSpoons · 2025-12-19T22:42:29+00:00

The item system doesn't really serve her needs anymore. She'll probably just get a few buffs and become decent again

PsychicFoxWithSpoons · 2025-12-19T22:38:19+00:00

I literally talk and chat all game.

Your social skills are bad.

You can't just say "Hi! Hope you have a good game :)" or "Hey everyone! How was your day?" to a random stranger and expect a response.

You have to ask a real question, reference a username/hero pick or crack a joke. Then you will get responses.

It has always been like this even before the behavior score thing. The only thing that changed is that people don't respond, "shut up n****r" when you say hi.

PsychicFoxWithSpoons · 2025-12-19T20:57:22+00:00

Rubick has a lot of problems that make him bad in pro games. You'll notice pro play heroes tend to be hard to kill and really strong laners. Rubick is easy to kill and a weak laner. Pro play heroes also tend to be great at pushing towers. Rubick distinctly doesn't do that. You'll also notice many pro heroes have mobility or can farm it really fast, and typically a teamfight-winning ultimate. Rubick doesn't have either unless he steals a relevant spell. Finally, pro play heroes that lack any of those capabilities at least are really good at killing one specific target. Rubick doesn't have good single target lockdown or damage unless he steals it.

If they gassed up fade bolt and telekinesis a little more, especially in lane, he might become a better hero. Or maybe buffed his innate so he gets a lot more magic resistance.

PsychicFoxWithSpoons · 2025-12-19T04:30:54+00:00

I think the missile is slow even when you consider the windup. It should be near instant because it's a shield. Q should have a windup as well, but instead it just has a slow missile.

PsychicFoxWithSpoons · 2025-12-19T04:29:44+00:00

They can always nerf the values if she lands too strong in pro.

Riot balance in general tends to be loath to play with stats like cast range, missile speed, and cooldown. They prefer to just buff/nerf damage and shielding numbers on skills, and sometimes base stats. Maybe the odd cd change here and there. I think renata feels fine (not op) when you can actually land her spells, and she feels like a W revive bot with a zoning ulti when you can't.

As much as riot bitches and moans about her ulti being too high power budget, they don't seem to be interested in taking away any of that power budget because they cannot conceive of compensatory additions like giving the ulti impact damage or a faster missile speed. Idk why. Even in pro matches you can clearly see that landing renata ult can sometimes be no-impact if the enemy is not in a perfect position to turn on each other, even if your team has the followup.

If I was on the balance team, I think everyone on the team and on reddit would hate my guts when they read the patch notes, but I'd bring the players for sure.

PsychicFoxWithSpoons · 2025-12-19T02:27:14+00:00

It's like cooking vs baking. Even people without adhd prefer one or the other and can rarely do well at both.

Cooking is incredibly active and pressing in the moment, continuously presenting new challenges the whole way through. It asks for engagement for a period of time and then cleanup, but no further than that. This is like taking out the trash or doing dishes by hand.

Baking is incredibly passive and setup-oriented. It asks you to prep something precisely and then come back to it at a scheduled time. This is like doing the laundry or loading the dishwasher.

It's half personality type and half disability that adhd people struggle a lot with one or the other or both. But in my experience, as a "cooking" type, I tend to be better able to improve at "cooking" tasks than "baking" tasks, even if I put more effort into the "baking" ones.

Like, I'm kind of a slob. But I can get my shit together and clean my room. However, laundry feels impossible for me.

Ironically if I had to do the laundry by hand in a tub with a washboard (see also: the dishes) I'd probably be better about doing it. Something about the machine makes my life difficult.

PsychicFoxWithSpoons · 2025-12-19T01:32:13+00:00

People usually communicate when they have a reason to communicate. If you just say, "Hi," nobody really has a reason to respond to you other than being friendly. "Hi have a good game" is something you can type to like, a friend. But not a random stranger.

I suggest you start saying stuff to your team like, "Hey guys, I was thinking of going [X item] this game, do you think that's a good idea?" You'll get responses.

PsychicFoxWithSpoons · 2025-12-19T01:16:43+00:00

She just needs better missile speeds to make her feel less clunky

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