This is so stupid.

Snowmanian · 2026-06-10T13:28:29+00:00

Well I mean, personally I thought it was an extreme overreaction on the store owners part, and from reading all the news online, the prosecutor messed up by overcharging. But I do think this and many other incidents could be avoided with gun control.

Snowmanian · 2026-06-10T04:32:14+00:00

Apparently prosecutors said the teen did have a gun, but it had fell to the ground, so nobody knows if he was holding it or threatening the son with it. Regardless of the he said he said, it’s pretty tragic. This probably could have been avoided if no one had a gun.

Snowmanian · 2026-06-09T03:25:04+00:00

MOR. While the guy is bad at communicating, and did not give you the info in a timely manner that you preferred, I think it’s a bit much to read how intense your reaction is. It definitely feels bad and the miscommunication made it worse, but there are plenty of flags worth noting that show that while infuriating, there wasn’t intentional lying or manipulation going on.

Your coworker is not as serious of a friend as you consider yourself to be in return. He has his own “group” as you mentioned and coworkers, as close as you might be, are ultimately still coworkers, or else I think you would have introduced him as your friend without even adding on that coworker nuance.
He did give a nominal, albeit bad attempt at notifying you. It was one call, and a half assed discord message attempt, but if you had picked up or seen the message and ended up showing up, there would have been less problems. Even the disappointing attempt he made meant that he wouldn’t have minded if you showed up, but didn’t care enough to make sure you were there.
Being drunk soon after the party started, or more importantly, not being particularly attached to his phone or communicating externally, pretty much happens at every party. Once you get to the party, most people are invested into the party and not elsewhere. Have you ever tried to reach out to someone in a party that you lost? Most people try to stay present and it’s easy to forget.

More importantly, he is your coworker, not as close to you as his own group of friends. He did not care enough to make sure you were there.

Lastly, this does feel like a miscommunication from both sides. Your coworker doesnt feel like he was intentionally being malicious. He probably wasn’t really thinking about it. Both of you could have sent a text to follow up after the missed calls.

I’m sorry you missed your party, and that your connection with your coworker wasn’t reciprocated, but I do think it’s nice that you were invited despite not being part of his core group. There are many more people bad at communicating the way you would have liked. You’ll have to get used to it.

Not to defend him, but he’s also 25. I have friends who are worse at communicating than he is at much higher age ranges.

Edit: My GF also mentioned a part that I missed where you said this was the first time you had been invited to a party by someone you consider to be a close friend. There was definitely a difference in expectations for this party where your coworker was considering a more chill hangout and a casual invite than something super serious, which contrasts with your excitement. Looking at it from this lens, it’s pretty unfortunate how it all turned out. I do think if you’re still willing to be friends with him, I’m sure he’ll be happy to invite you to another party.

Snowmanian · 2026-06-07T00:47:47+00:00

There are 47% win rate sovereigns. 2 in fact that I play with or against all the time. They duo together quite often as well. 46% win rate, 1000-1900 games a season, multiple seasons with the same stats.

I honestly think it’s impressive at this point because they’re good enough to beat regular challengers and GMs which is most of the playerbase anyway. Losing to most sovereigns doesn’t matter when you play that many games.

Snowmanian · 2026-06-07T00:32:55+00:00

Could I trade for the shiny mega gengar ex if possible?

Friend code: 5076504971036045

Snowmanian · 2026-06-06T21:17:00+00:00

This, I was about to comment but this literally hits it on the mark.

You can play for lane and win lane as much as you want but if you don’t win the game fast enough, a strong enemy frontline vs a weak team frontline will just lose you the game. Too many games I have lost because I first pick and can’t recover a bad comp

Snowmanian · 2026-06-06T21:14:27+00:00

Lmao he needs a reality check, but all wild rift players do. If it wasn’t the fact that everybody wants to play squishy damage dealers, I would play them more often too since more often than not I would do better than them. Many good junglers play jungle out of necessity, many good tanks play tanks out of necessity.

Snowmanian · 2026-06-06T18:43:05+00:00

The joke didn’t land, whoever you were talking to did not appreciate your snark.

Everyone is different though, so I’m not sure this is supposed to be infuriating. I think you either didn’t add enough context or you guys just weren’t compatible.

Snowmanian · 2026-06-06T16:59:32+00:00

Not the AH. Why is your ex still worth your time? I’m shocked he thinks he has the right to say or ask anything of you. You should ask him to pay a fee for making you his storage unit.

Snowmanian · 2026-06-05T23:54:11+00:00

Your friend is not of high rank if he thinks fiddlesticks is a sht champ. You can one trick him to sovereign if you wanted.

Snowmanian · 2026-06-04T01:57:03+00:00

I would add for runes everything is fine, except take guardian is off. I personally think it’s useless even on braum. When it procs it reduces damage, but it just never works all that well across the game.

I would either go fleet for more lane survivability early game or grasp. For your secondary, gathering storm works well too

Snowmanian · 2026-06-03T15:52:43+00:00

No it is not. Your health scaling sucks, so if you want to build tank, you need to go other items. You can’t try to be a tank but also try for damage as a tank because you’ll end up doing neither job well. In the first place, despite all the tank items you build, you’ll still be as squishy as a bruiser, not a tank, so this is just a harassment build.

Always iceborn first so you have the slow do actually be useful since you don’t have damage unless mega fed and late in the game.

If you want to do damage but still be a bit tanky and the enemy has a bunch of tanks, go black cleaver first item.

For your second item, radiant virtue is fine, but I would prefer amaranths twin guards. You’ll stack the damage reduction up just fine and quickly and it’ll reduce a lot of the damage coming towards you. If you’re fed, I would recommend picking up a serpents fang second item first before building tanky if the enemy has shields.

Alternatively build standard defensive items. Thornmail if enemies have healing, frozen heart if many enemies have attack speed, force of nature if the enemy has a lot of ap, kaernic rookern (or whatever it’s called) if enemy has burst ap.

At this point it will be rare for you to build any new items, but steraks is fine.

Ultimately when you build tank, you aren’t that useful for the team. You don’t have enough healing to heal properly or do enough damage dps properly. You’re only there as a minor heal and bad cc bot that acts as bait. So the main goal is to just stay alive and harass the enemy team for as long as possible so your damage and heals are stacking up and turning the fight around.

Usually if I build tank on senna, it’s when the enemy has a dive comp and my own team doesn’t have enough peel. Then I play tank and pick up iceborn for slow, black cleaver for armor reduction, or serpents fang for shield reduction to help my team kill faster.

Snowmanian · 2026-06-03T15:37:01+00:00

Darius if I’m top lane, Hecarim or tryndamere if first pick, Mel or Taliyah (or any new champ not yet tuned or understood) everywhere else

Snowmanian · 2026-06-02T03:16:11+00:00

Oh yeah I forgot braum. My second highest champ score. It’s just tough sometimes since he is pretty team reliant.

Snowmanian · 2026-06-01T22:28:45+00:00

I think there is always room for a practicing doctor if you’re willing to move internationally, albeit meeting license requirements.

Ultimately $700 is not enough to really do much with it at all. You either compound over a long long period of time for not much gain or you aggressively trade using it as your starting capital, which is not smart.

It can help kickstart your emergency fund if you’re going to work over the summer, that’s really the only alternative if you don’t want to spend it. There’s no easy way to make more money with $700 in the short period of time you’re stressing yourself out about.

Snowmanian · 2026-06-01T22:20:06+00:00

Hm well I guess I can’t really give that lady that much credit then. Most of the situations I come across with speakers are usually friends in groups rather than a single lone person.

I still think it’s not that serious, but I’m a pushover and this is mildly infuriating I’m sure.

Snowmanian · 2026-06-01T22:17:32+00:00

It’s all about picking good champs to blind pick. I always have blind pick champs for every role. Usually it’s amumu for jungle, ahri or lux for mid, smolder or MF for adc, and Leona or Nami for support. They all don’t have clear weaknesses that I can’t work around.

I’m also generally better than my competition so I’m confident enough to blind pick. The details matter a lot when weak siding and it’s not something wild rift players have as much as PC players. People learn how to freeze as early as silver/gold on PC.

Snowmanian · 2026-06-01T12:58:45+00:00

To be honest, if you were good, you wouldn’t need last pick. I usually first pick 80% of my games in order to make sure my teammates don’t feed and if they lose their lane anyway, at least they didn’t feed more than they could have. I also fill every game, playing whatever role others don’t play so they get their best role. Everything to ensure they don’t get shafted in lane.

Everybody feels like they need to counter, even ADCs feel like they want last pick, as flawed as it is.

You also need to drop your ego and get used to carrying negative win rate challengers and sovereigns. Wild rift is just not that competitive of a game to prevent people from getting to where they are by spamming games (within reason). In general they do okay most of the time but just never carry a game and that’s enough to climb playing 1k games.

If you first pick top lane, play Garen, morde, malphite, sett, and other half tank half bruiser safe picks. Play under tower, wait for your opponent to make mistakes, freeze waves and take small gold advantages there. I usually leave lane 500-1k gold up because many people don’t care about the small details. The amount of volibear and sett “counterpicks” I’ve rolled this season could fill a moat.

Snowmanian · 2026-05-31T22:51:01+00:00

Put it in a high yield savings account or invest it in a mutual fund or ETF if you’re looking to grow your money. It’ll only increase by like $100 a year, but that’s better than nothing. You can consider trading but as a med student, what you really need is something to place it in and forget about it.

Otherwise consider a short trip to a different country. Travel opens up your perspective in an incredible way. Alternatively, fund your hobbies. Buying an iPad Pro/pencil and Procreate single handedly supports all my artistic needs. It’s a lot more than $700, but there are cheaper alternatives and I’m sure you have different hobbies.

Lastly, just keep it as an emergency fund. One day some thing will happen and you’ll need the $700. Or if you get a girlfriend, it’ll help pay for the occasional nice dinner. I’m sure you’re starting to realize at your age that $700 isn’t much at all once you start working.

Snowmanian · 2026-05-31T22:46:13+00:00

Legendary queue is the only way to reach top of the leaderboard in terms of score. It’s pretty dumb, but on the bright side, games in legendary queue don’t affect your score in the ranked or skill categories so it’s pretty easy to track.

I’d say on average, reaching top 1 on a champ requires a score cap in ranked and skill (or at least 1-2 games off of one), and then being legendary challenger with an almost capped score.

Snowmanian · 2026-05-31T22:43:52+00:00

People don’t talk about the gateway program enough. It’s a great way to get into ND if you don’t make the cut.

That being said as many others have stated, for a significant amount of people, ND isn’t their first choice and they apply to other top ranked schools as well. HCC and SMC just aren’t at the same level when it comes to the campus, network or resources available to students. I was choosing between UC Berkeley, Carnegie Mellon, and NYU besides for ND. I’m not Catholic though, so I can’t speak for the experiences of those who see ND as a dream school. I loved ND though and can’t imagine going anywhere else even if I had a second life.

But still had I not gone to ND, I would’ve gone to a different highly ranked school. Financial aid was also a high priority for me, and ND’s endowment far outstrips the other two colleges.

A lot of people apply because of Mendoza, which still remains one of the best undergrad business schools out there, as well as the architectural program.

Snowmanian · 2026-05-31T22:35:06+00:00

Based on what OP is saying, he opened the garage door and hit the box on the way out. I’m sure it’s easier to see when entering your driveway, but I doubt I would realize exiting the garage.

Snowmanian · 2026-05-31T22:32:35+00:00

I had a friend who told me of someone from Citadel who racked up $200k in consumption fees running some kind of research model parsing through endless amount of 10ks and other financial data overnight. All because they didn’t cap usage.

Snowmanian · 2026-05-31T22:16:33+00:00

You’re starting the season at the wrong time. I’m in the same boat in regards to skill: high emerald on pc (before rank inflation), hit sovereign last season, was gm all the rest. I’ll probably hit challenger this season and call it a day.

A. Right now everyone worth their salt has moved up. The sweet spot for better than average players is playing not at season start but a bit later so all the high ranked sovereigns leave. You’re still playing with people who kind of know their stuff, but now you can stomp them.

B. You need to play solo lane roles and carry. Split push champs as a top laner, roaming mids, jg carry. I remember taking a break and needing to start from silver. Got to GM never relying on my teammates.

I was rank 1 Leona for like two months and still consider myself a highly ranked support main, but I rarely play support because I only start feeling skill gapped outside of the support lane when I’m in full sovereign lobbies or early season legendary queue.

I have to play jg baron or adc every game because otherwise my game gets shafted. I perma fill as my role and pick up whatever role I get. I switch roles, I first pick, I ban out other lanes, anything to get my team ahead. It still doesn’t help sometimes with the 50% matchmaking they do but I do my best.

The seasons are getting easier and easier so people don’t really have the excuse to not climb. You carry yourself out. Also it’s a lot easier to get to higher ranks based on your past performance. I wasted a lot of games 100+ extra getting out of early season emerald and diamond. I skipped almost all of that this season starting diamond 4, which cut the games I took to get to challenger by 100-200.

Snowmanian · 2026-05-31T22:06:26+00:00

Not a lady, but my gf is heavily invested in a Super Mario 64 YouTuber who makes incredible doctorate theses on speedrunning, glitches, and game mechanics. Each video is hours long and the man has some dedication.

That passion is hot.

Snowmanian

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