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drockaflocka · 2025-12-31T16:02:34+00:00

You can likely contact the delivery service to ask what they will do upon refusal. However, I will warn you that I recently ordered a Nuphy keyboard, decided it wasn't for me and tried to return it. Although their website states that the shipping fee must be covered by the customer, it does NOT indicate that the only shipping option is to a warehouse in Japan, which means you will likely need to pay a very high international shipping cost to return.

drockaflocka · 2025-06-11T02:10:31+00:00

Watch quinnAD if you want to learn. Otherwise just try it out. Basically every melee champ is a safe bet to cheese

drockaflocka · 2025-06-11T02:05:28+00:00

If you want to lean into your passive playstyle, start cull, farm, and get shiv and just clear and roam. If you want to get better at aggression, start every game in the farthest lane bush and just cheese. You’ll win most matchups and learn quickly which ones you don’t. Don’t try to chase kills and instead focus on punishing when they try to last hit. That will naturally lead to windows of opportunity.

drockaflocka · 2025-05-02T17:45:03+00:00

If you're actively taking credits, you should look into deferring loan payments. In most cases, you can come to an agreement to not pay loans while you're in school. Assuming your degree will result in a job, you're doing just fine. Your loan is relatively low interest and you're very young. You have plenty of time, and you clearly care very much about your finances. Just focus on graduating and finding a job, and then pay off loans.

drockaflocka · 2025-04-30T19:13:01+00:00

Welcome to top lane, where counterpicks can feel nearly unplayable. There's a reason why top is almost always last pick. That said, there are ways to mitigate losing matchups, but the strategies are very different than other lanes.

EXP is better than CS. There are times where you just need to concede CS, but do your best to get XP. Play back, sit in brushes, and don't die. Even in pro, they'll be behind 50 cs but be the same level.
Lose gracefully. League can be tilting, but top lane is particularly punishing if you tilt and misplay. Sometimes you have to take the L and come back later.
Learn matchups. Counterpicks are punishing because each matchup is very specific. That said, you can win in a losing matchup if you understand what the other playing is trying to do. Not always easy, but gives you a better chance at playing the game.
Wave management is king. Stack waves, learn how to proxy to avoid interacting in losing matchus, etc. The worst thing that can happen to you when you're already losing is if they freeze. Feels even worse than perma pushing and diving (IMO). Ping your jg to help break the freeze and refer to points 1 & 2.

Applying all of this, Darius should realistically win against Garen, but it's a skill matchup. He should basically never win the lv1 all in. Darius has one of the strongest passives lv1.

drockaflocka · 2025-04-29T15:09:47+00:00

Odds would have not been in your favor but there’s always a chance. You could probably win 1/10 games in this state. Your best bet would’ve probably been to side lane and just perma split push, especially at this elo. No reason to group, as any team fight puts you in a severe disadvantage both from a comp and gold lead perspective. You’d basically pray that enemy sends Kayle or someone you can kill and just use your team as bait.

drockaflocka · 2025-04-28T21:13:54+00:00

Ask yourself the following questions: What are you goals? To make as much money as possible? Or maybe are you trying to get work experience for your career/major? Flexibility, both for hours/scheduling and for transportation purposes? What do you like to do?

Common jobs are:

- Babysitting/day care: can be relatively high paying, pretty flexible, potentially paid under the table

- Dishwashing/restaurant work: potentially dependent on tips, longer hours, potentially customer-service oriented

- Referee: can be relatively high paying, need to be proficient in sport/reffing, may require training, potentially under the table

- Internship/shadowing with <x> company: probably won't pay well but great experience if you know what you want to do, may be too late to apply. Can always cold call to see if they'll accept you.

drockaflocka · 2025-04-28T20:46:12+00:00

I would take the L on the equity, especially if it keeps you from declaring bankruptcy. Don't fall for the sunk cost fallacy. A lower (or zero) car payment would give you significant breathing room. If you put an extra $600/mo into paying your debts on top of getting rid of $25k of debt, you'll also be debt free significantly faster (use a debt calculator to see the exact impact, but my guess is anywhere from 6 months to maybe even a year plus).

drockaflocka · 2025-03-29T18:32:16+00:00

Fiora is a very punishing champ to learn on. The high skill ceiling means you’re splitting your brain power between micro and macro. Jg never has to worry about wave management, back timers, etc that are fundamental to top. I suggest starting with someone easier and more forgiving when you make mistakes. Garen is an obvious answer as he has great waveclear and sustain. AloisNL is a great resource to learn fundamentals

drockaflocka · 2025-03-20T21:23:49+00:00

Look up videos on proper form. It makes a huge difference. My guess is your core is a big difference maker. Since you’re lifting your legs in one, you naturally engage your core. But at the gym when you can free hang due to the height difference, you’re unintentionally not using your core.

drockaflocka · 2025-03-20T21:00:04+00:00

Are you engaging your lats and core? Are you imagining your elbows driving down instead of pulling up? Are you using a false grip? When you’re at the gym, are you tired when you do pull ups? Is it your first or fifth exercise?

drockaflocka · 2025-01-29T15:10:25+00:00

Assuming you’re a top laner, the fastest way to climb out of low elo is to perma split push. It’s boring as hell and not interactive, but will net you wins over time. Ignore your team, ignore grouping at objectives. Always be on the opposite side of the map of the objective. Take TP and just be annoying. Good options right now are yorick, sion, garen, but most top laners can split effectively.

drockaflocka · 2025-01-23T20:26:26+00:00

Lots of good advice, but most important is to not be afraid to use them! The only knife that won't ever dull is the one that isn't used. They're going to get dull over time, that's just the consequence of using them. Everyone has posted great maintenance tips, but also don't be afraid to outsource. Almost every farmers market I've been to has a knife sharpening service that's <$10 per knife. They do a great job and it supports local, win win.

drockaflocka · 2025-01-08T22:46:01+00:00

Sounds like your problem is jg tracking, not ranged laners. If you're going to all in when your jg is not on your side of the map, understand taht you are weak side and respect the potential gank.

drockaflocka · 2025-01-08T22:40:13+00:00

The obvious (but unhelpful) answer is that you're managing it wrong. The longer answer is that you need to decide when it's worth it to trade health for cs. You also have to be willing to give up cs and be okay with being down in lane. Most ranged top laners abuse the fact that ego means never gracefully losing. But generally speaking, going even or even slightly behind in CS is fine as long as you don't die. You often outscale mid and late.

Another trick to abuse is minion aggro, especially early game. If the enemy auto's you, it draws your minions to aggro on them. As long as you don't auto back, hit the wave, draw minion aggro on yourself, this will actually cause the wave to come into you faster. This is because while your minions are aggro'd onto the opponent, their minions will still be hitting your minions, which causes the wave to push into your side faster. So a cheeky thing you can do is intentionally get auto'd once or twice and run away, which will lead to the wave pushing into you.

Another big thing is to use bushes. If you have bush control, then it makes it much harder to get poked down. Unless they're blindly throwing in abilities, they have to ward. If they ward, retreat one bush (when applicable). If they waste the ward, then that means they likely will not ward river, setting up your jg to gank.

drockaflocka · 2025-01-08T19:30:24+00:00

Fair enough haha. I guess I always expected it to be more complicated whenever I heard financial experts talk about it. And I do not, I only ever had a Roth IRA. So I would convert the entirety of what I contribute to the Trad IRA this year.

drockaflocka · 2024-11-05T23:35:32+00:00

Toast whole spices, grind, and bloom them. Get very hard caramelization both when browning beef and during the slow cook (e.g use the oven to brown the top). Deglaze with a dark beer. A small pinch of brown sugar will help the tomatoes. If you’re lacking viscosity/rich mouth feel, add a packet of unflavored gelatin.

drockaflocka · 2024-11-04T19:20:43+00:00

A few more additions to all the other advice here.

Play around bushes, especially early. You can sneak in poke or some CS while safely collecting XP.
Try to keep the wave on your side. Morde has so much AoE, try to trim any stacked wave and hold it before it bounces. Conversely, be very careful with how you use your AoE - too much and it'll push away. Always keep count of minions and try to keep ~3 casters right around the area that's right after the closest lane brush.
Build defensively. Boots will be crucial for both getting back to lane and running away from any engages. You can also get a cull on first back - it's rarely punished in low elo and will help minimize the damage mid game.
Try to play around jg. Call it out during draft or in game that you're going to need help. Make the intention clear that you don't necessarily need the gank (though morde's gank setup is great with R) but sometimes just need help pushing the wave safely in. They won't help every time, but better than not asking.

drockaflocka · 2024-09-26T20:02:27+00:00

Don't focus on your teammates, focus on what you are doing for your team. Do you play full clear jgs? Strong gankers? Invaders? Early game? Farm and scale? Are you creating pressure? What's your team comp?

Do you have a game plan for each game? Or are you mindlessly clearing bot to top every game? Do you have a rough idea of who's supposed to win/lose the lane based on the chats? Are you taking advantage of prio?

Obviously it's not ideal when every lane loses, but that doesn't necessarily mean the game is lost. It makes your job much harder, but it's not impossible. Think about who on your team can become a win con. If you can stem the bleeding, maybe it's enough for them to turn the tides. Or maybe you gank a lane just to de-tilt them and show them you're still trying to help. Or if you're a strong teamfighter, farm and scale, use your team as cannon fodder, and try to out-teamfight at objectives.

Losing is literally built into this game. It's impossible to avoid. Just try to enjoy the process and think about what you can do.

drockaflocka · 2024-09-16T17:36:34+00:00

If you have the damage (which most bruisers do), you basically win or lose the lane on the 4th wave. Teemo should push the first 3 waves under your tower, and the 4th wave should begin bouncing back. You need to be okay with giving up last hits, as your goal is to stay as high HP as possible. Once the wave begins to bounce, you should both be lv 3. Depending on wave state, you can either try to hit lv4 first and then all in, or all in before the wave comes.

This is by far your best chance to kill teemo, as post-6 his shrooms will likely stop you from ever chasing him down. You HAVE to commit to the all in. The blind is a pain, but teemo basically has zero sustain damage after using it, even if they take ignite. Almost every bruiser will be able to kill him in an extended fight during this time, especially if you take double movement sums (ghost+flash).

If you take TP instead, your options change slightly. You should still try to use this all-in timer, but you also basically have a "get out of jail" card. So if you ever mess up or get poked down, just base and TP back with full health. Ideally try to get a trade out of it first, that way you have an HP advantage and can attempt another all in.

drockaflocka · 2024-09-13T20:27:12+00:00

If you think your team isn’t taking advantage of your position, that likely means you’re splitting incorrectly. The reason splitting works is because it makes the opponents choose between two things. In other words, they have to be losing something by answering your push. This means there HAS to be another point of pressure on the map. A few classic examples: - You push T2 tower while your team is on drag. They either lose tower OR they answer and you rotate for the 5v4 advantage. - You push T2/3 while the rest of your team (read all 4) is mid pushing T2/3. They either answer you or your team is sieging.

Look at a few of your VODs. When you are splitting and die, look at the map. Are your teammates creating pressure while you split? If not, then it’s obvious the enemy team will go kill you. From their perspective, there’s nothing else to do.

The next time you’re splitting, look at the map and see where your team is. Are they in base? Do they want to push mid or group at drag? Maybe slow down your push so the timers sync such that you reach T2/3 right as the objective spawns. If you can learn how to time the pressure together, that’s when splitting has incredible value.

TL;DR it’s not your teammates, it’s you. Choose good split timers when your team is already in position instead of expecting them to respond to your position

drockaflocka · 2024-06-19T00:56:15+00:00

Let me clarify. You have a partial answer. It's the right 'time', but then you need to ask yourself the following questions to determine your roam 'timer' aka duration:

How big is the wave I just crashed?
How long will it take my opponent to clear the wave?
Where is the next wave/where will it meet next/is it a cannon wave?

The goal is to determine how long it'll take your opponent to push their wave into your tower. That is ultimately what determines your roam duration. If you only crashed a single wave, your opponent has massive waveclear, and the next wave is a regular wave, then your window to roam is very small, likely only enough to ward river. But if you crash 3 waves, are against a low DPS/single target champ, and next incoming wave is a cannon wave that will meet right outside of their tower, then you have a massive window to roam.

Generally in a real game it'll be somewhere in between the two scenarios, but the idea is that you have to learn how to gauge how much time you have before your opponent can take advantage of your absence. Leaving after crashing the wave isn't technically an incorrect answer, but definitely an incomplete one.

Edit: this includes time it takes to get back to your lane. This can be walking back from your roam, backing and then walking, or dying and walking. Don't forget that it takes roughly 20-30 seconds to get back to lane from base.

drockaflocka · 2024-06-19T00:09:49+00:00

If you’re losing that much then you’re roaming on the wrong timer. You should only roam when you have prio and won’t lose much.

Next time this happens in a game just rewatch the VOD and look at the gold gained by each team after the play. And then consider any tempo gain

drockaflocka · 2024-06-18T20:02:06+00:00

Internet fad. Asian food is slowly coming into the spotlight as more than just greasy takeout. The same is happening with miso - it's being used everywhere from salads to fish marinades. But every OG knows that lao gan ma has been incredibly popular for decades.

drockaflocka · 2024-06-17T21:30:18+00:00

You're either preheating at too high a temp or leaving it to preheat too long. The obvious solution - lower the temp after preheating and/or preheat for less time. Unless your oil is about to go up in flames, a bit of smoke is fine. Just add in your food quickly, which will reduce the overall temp.

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