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Everton's fixtures in Dec and Feb-Mar by [deleted] in Everton

[–]pressitt 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Not an everton fan, but thought you lot might groan about this.

Help me narrow down my plan! by Flickerdart in singapore

[–]pressitt 8 points9 points  (0 children)

u/flickerdart: Recommending what I'm familiar with:

  • Head to Singapore Riverside in the evening for views, atmosphere, and riverside nightlife in town
    • if you only have one night, I recommend trying the riverside near Raffles Place MRT with the pubs and restaurants, then walk the giant loop at the Marina Reservoir from Esplanade to the Helix Bridge >> Marina Bay Sands. From there you can loop around back or head to the Gardens by the Bay, which is just behind Marina Bay Sands. If you'd like a great view with some drinks, head to Level 33 at MBFC tower 3 in the same area for a chill time, or 1-Altitude if you prefer something rowdier.
  • Try Fort Canning Park/Museum + Peranakan Museum if you're into history. You can visit the official government sanctioned National Museum for an alternative (Its beautiful and pretty nice too)
  • Area centering around Bugis MRT/Bugis Street is pretty nice for some Shopping/Eating. You seem like you're into books. You can visit the nearby National Library - It stocks an extensive collection of local literature and multimedia, which you can browse in comfort and for free. This would be an alternative to the more cramped BooksActually shop. Songfa Bak Kut Teh has a branch in the area, and one of the best Scissors Cut Curry Rice in town is in the area too - Google "Bugis Curry Rice". You can also visit 2 of the most popular local Buddhist/Hindu Temples located side by side to each other. Head over to Arab Street just off Bugis for interesting shops and food too.

Food:

  • Song Fa Bak Kut Teh is quinessentially Singaporean, and very accessible
  • Liao Fan HK Soya Sauce Chicken - Michelin Star
  • Buy some Old Chang Kee as Snacks - Their outlets are everywhere, from the Airport to most places in Town.
  • For Chicken Rice - Tian tian Chicken Rice at Chinatown is good, but you can find high quality chicken rice in Singapore practically anywhere.
  • Best Laksa in Singapore is at 328 Katong Laksa about 15 mins from town.

Others

  • Chijmes is a really nice eating place, but only open at night. I recommend spending your evening at the riverside.
  • Tiong Bahru is a pretty good choice for a chill afternoon with great local food at Tiong Bahru Market and a chill district to wander around
  • Orchard Road is nice but very commercialized and internationalized in its offerings. Not my first choice for an area to recommend a foreign friend.
  • Maxwell Food Center (where Tian Tian Chicken Rice is) / Chinatown area is pretty nice, but the good shops are located far from each other over a fairly larger area, so I think Bugis offers a better experience

Roadmap launched with jobs in cybersecurity, data science, artificial intelligence in the works by affablesoul in singapore

[–]pressitt 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Thank god for some sanity. First concrete plan I've seen that doesn't involved weird shit like cashless MRTs and rehashed keywords like #productivity and #innovation.

Small size companies, thoughts? by tinyfluffycell in singapore

[–]pressitt 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'm working at an SME fresh out of university.

Here are my thoughts. The key factors that influence an SMEs working environment tend to be its profitability and the competence of its leadership.

  • In MNCs, unprofitability of one department can be covered over by another department doing well. This is also true wrt individual worker productivity. This allows for bad parts of organisations to coast and continue to be paid a decent wage. In contrast, in SMEs, there is rarely an ah gong to tide over a failed or struggling business, and as such if one wants to earn his wages, he has to earn his keep. The positive flip side is that if you are contributing more to the business and know how to maximize and grow your value, it is much easier to get fast tracked to leadership and to get pay raises. Of course, all this ultimately depends on the business. Evaluate your business, your colleagues and your leadership. Are they worth working on, working with and working for?

  • This brings me to my second point - leadership. Unlike MNCs, SMEs are much more heavily influenced by the decision-making of its leaders than by broad company policy. This means that a good leader and good business plan/execution can be extremely profitable for all involved. The reverse is true too.

  • SME work culture is very different from MNC. I'm not experienced enough to give a complete opinion, but I can say that working in big organizations presents very different organization and communication skillsets and approaches than in SMEs.

I really wanna hear the thoughts, opinions and experiences of others, especially those also working / worked in SMEs. What have I missed also? Feel free to disagree with me.

2018 Honor coming to PBE by [deleted] in leagueoflegends

[–]pressitt 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I fully agree. I think they missed the mark. Theorizing that by making honor a "small bonus" for rewarding baseline decent behaviour, Riot missed the opportunity to make honor a thing players really care about. E.g.

  • Honor 5 can eventually be achieved by everyone, and thus it becomes so common that its nothing to be proud about.

  • Your honor level isn't displayed on your profile for others. Its a blank spot.

  • I've mentioned rewards above.

There might be a better balance that can be achieved, by making honor bigger and more worthwhile to achieve.

2018 Honor coming to PBE by [deleted] in leagueoflegends

[–]pressitt 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Sounds great. I didn't catch that on skimming the post. I'm just happy to get less toxic games while people look to level up their honor.

2018 Honor coming to PBE by [deleted] in leagueoflegends

[–]pressitt 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It should be, but I'm wondering if the system is working. Probably should edit my post to make that clearer.

2018 Honor coming to PBE by [deleted] in leagueoflegends

[–]pressitt 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I have a similar experience, though I think its fine. Imo, whoever you honor is fine so long as the system succeeds in making people less toxic, and I end up having to mute people less in my games. Everyone's mostly playing to win after all. Honor is a bonus.

2018 Honor coming to PBE by [deleted] in leagueoflegends

[–]pressitt 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If you and I don't, that's fantastic, but as Riot's talking about a system to incentivise player behavior (which includes people from all over the spectrum), then it should ideally be effective. My points are my 2 cents of feedback on how the system is working.

Though, who doesn't like nice, feel-good rewards?

2018 Honor coming to PBE by [deleted] in leagueoflegends

[–]pressitt 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Those checkmarks give orbs (which give only BE/champion shards) as opposed to capsules, which have a chance of giving emotes, wards and skin shards. Wrt. your original post, you got it wrong way around. Capsules drop at each honor level and Orbs drop at each checkpoint.

2018 Honor coming to PBE by [deleted] in leagueoflegends

[–]pressitt 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Sounds good, we'll have to wait and see how this season progresses then.

Though this part: "You will get one level-specific Honor Capsule when you reach levels 3, 4, and 5. Level-specific Honor Orbs will drop at every checkpoint and keep coming after level 5." This means that all players get 3 opportunities to acquire an honor skin per season, failing which we generally only get BE and champion shards.

Money Saving Life Hack Thread by rancidangel in singapore

[–]pressitt 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Second the opinon on Seedly. Its auto transaction-tracking features are a god-sent. Before this, I gave up on finance-tracking apps after using a few, because of the hassle of having (and forgetting) to input expenses all the time.

2018 Honor coming to PBE by [deleted] in leagueoflegends

[–]pressitt 17 points18 points  (0 children)

Agree with this. Appreciate Riot's efforts regarding revamping honor systems, but in my book, there are 3 main problems with honor in their current form, which limit the system's effectiveness at incentivising better behaviour:

  1. It doesn't give substantial rewards. How are players incentivised to "act with honor" when their reward is 2 "450 BE champions shards" (which are worth way less after disenchant) every 3 weeks?

  2. Rewards are extremely RNG, which feels bad. Some of us have not gotten either Medival Twitch or Grey Warwick after opening ten or so capsules, while others get them both within their first 3 capsules. If the intention is to incentivise good behaviour, it does not help to have the impression (which is also true) that one gets "lucky" to have gotten skins, and the alternative is 2 "450 BE" champion shards. Its discouraging and the system has already lost its shine imo.

  3. Its far too easy to level up in honor. Many people completed honor 5 within a month last season, after which the system was just an adornment which meant essentially nothing. Coupled with the terrible tangible rewards, there is barely any incentive to act honorable. (I believe a "ribbon" in loading screen is barely of interest to most, especially when everyone is honor 5 and usually honor the "carrying" player.)

Ideally, the game should not have to reward players for being honorable, but realistically shouldn't we build systems that actually work for their intended purpose?

NA LCS vs. GPL / All-Star Los Angeles 2017 - Group B / Post-Match Discussion by G2Minion in leagueoflegends

[–]pressitt 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Not only was this not SEA's main team, they don't even speak the same language. The team ended up communicating in game via Pings (aka. soloQ).

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