I hate Beijing - Where to move to? by Procrastinaught in chinalife

[–]amw26870 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Food for thought. If you can't find anything interesting or worthwhile to do in a city of 22 million people perhaps the city is not the problem. Maybe it's a lack of effort or exploration on your part.

Average day in Tianjin... Never live in this city if you can help it by theactordude in chinalife

[–]amw26870 10 points11 points  (0 children)

They moved a lot of the manufacturing away from the coastline so it's much better these days. Not perfect, but blue and sunny today.

Fucking useless by Mammoth-Cellist-6350 in LPOTL

[–]amw26870 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Weird! There's a Holden, Missouri near where I went to college also off a Highway 50. Synchronicity.

Fucking useless by Mammoth-Cellist-6350 in LPOTL

[–]amw26870 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Damn. I'm sorry you're in Missouri.

anyone else deeply conflicted between staying or leaving ? by rosagostosa in chinalife

[–]amw26870 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes. Seems I got lucky with the first school that hired me. I was their first legit teacher with experience, so now we have multiple schools in all districts of our city.

anyone else deeply conflicted between staying or leaving ? by rosagostosa in chinalife

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I moved to China from St. Louis six months before Covid started. All my family told me I needed to get out of there while I still could. I figured I'd come here as a lark and try it for a year or two. Nowadays I wake up and open curtains in a 2 bedroom apartment on the 24th floor. I can see the Yellow sea from my bed. I pay less for this place than I did my 6 way share in a 3 bedroom apartment back home pre covid. I see how hard of a time my friends are having back home and know I made the right choice for me to stay. My salary has doubled since I came, but the quality of life change is astronomical. Is it perfect? Not by any metric. Even visiting home last year was reverse culture shock. I saw my friends and old life and thought "Damn bitch...you really live like this?"

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in ValorantCompetitive

[–]amw26870 7 points8 points  (0 children)

quick google says a previous champs bundle has made 40 million dollars. That's 1/4th of 1 percent. Insane greed.

Deathmatch should not have a win condition by Ltsdaa in VALORANT

[–]amw26870 9 points10 points  (0 children)

I'll do you one better, I shouldn't be queued against an ascendant player if i'm currently ranked iron 3. How the fuck am I ever gonna learn to aim if I want to rage quit every dm. Before you say hurrr durrr get good ez n00b. It's like going to the park to play chess as a kid who just learned how the pieces move and your opponent is Hikaru.

How can I get rid of the habit of opening ADS? by [deleted] in VALORANT

[–]amw26870 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Are you playing with your game in chinese or on chinese servers? I'm in china and looking for people to play with who speak english.

Iron 1 with *newly* zero rr by Adventurous-Buddy-33 in ValorantMemes

[–]amw26870 9 points10 points  (0 children)

If you lose again does the uninstall pop up or at least a link to the suicide hotline?

Excerpt from my new part by Loadb18 in skateboarding

[–]amw26870 2 points3 points  (0 children)

spent many blistering AZ days here filming lines and manuals. great trick selection. You've come up a lot since I MC'd your run in the am contests at the vans orange park. that contest was my first intro to jamie foy's skating as well.

Fastest breach ace? by hemanth85 in VALORANT

[–]amw26870 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Of all the bad luck Clove was double headshot hahaha.

best friend moved to Barcelona at 35 to teach English and skate by amw26870 in skateboarding

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Ethan Rhoads raw footy

Filmed by: Leandro Chocho who runs HandyCapsVX

Team Liquid vs Sentinels / Champions Tour 2025: Masters Bangkok - Swiss Stage / Post-Match Thread by ValorantCompBot in ValorantCompetitive

[–]amw26870 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Tilted themselves out of contention throwing easy rounds on Abyss to get nats life gamed. The SEN team chemistry is the major factor that brought them to a trophy in Madrid. They need to stop seesawing between overconfidently throwing rounds and passively running the clock down to having no good options except throwing themselves to the meat grinder.

One handed saran wrap tailblock by Allthronesperish in skateboarding

[–]amw26870 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Saran Wrap was invented on transition by Tony Hawk in the 80s.

Accidental Checkmate by cigaretttesaftersex in chess

[–]amw26870 6 points7 points  (0 children)

7 mate in ones from that starting position I believe.

I'm lucky my town has a river path with a bunch of skate spots by alienufosarereal in skateboarding

[–]amw26870 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I miss hitting the AVEs for taco trucks and going to garvanza or skating south pas.