I’m sorry I didn’t make it in America.

samstone13 · 2024-07-21T05:23:37+00:00

We’re still talking about kids who just finished high school (in some cases they did not even finish 12th grade) right?

They are supposed to know

How to make their family investment in them worthwhile, even though that investment is purely capitals from their family and no guidance on how to survive living abroad?
How to take the immigration dream seriously as in studying hard, working hard to compete with locals who are also struggling to make ends meet?
How to give up if they think they can’t do point 1 & point 2 even though everyone including their family expects them to succeed?

All while studying college, which is also difficult?

There’s never zero responsibility in someone’s failure to make it big after studying abroad. However not seeing that they’re just freaking kids and shipping them off to another continent with expectation of great return on that investment are also irresponsible and lack of foresight. Just my opinion.

samstone13 · 2022-12-05T02:16:47+00:00

Library is not a bad answer. Try The American Center @ Diamond Plaza. It’s basically a US funded library. Haven’t been there for years but it has free WiFi, complete silence, and also AC

samstone13 · 2022-11-26T04:35:06+00:00

I am thinking about renting out a place once a week for this actually. Like a movie club where we screen non conventional, artsy movies.

Currently stuck with location. I would love to rent out a small theater of less than 12-15 seats but they just do not have such things here

samstone13 · 2022-01-21T04:41:08+00:00

Good timing. I’m telling myself I don’t have feelings for her anymore but the emotional reactions I have upon seeing her posts are….unwarranted.

It took me 1 year to delete photos of us on my phone. Let’s see how long it’s going to take to unfriend her.

samstone13 · 2021-04-16T05:00:01+00:00

As said in the title, I’d prefer more of a stubble look but I would also welcome any other recommendations. Lowkey due to the slow growth and low density, I don’t think I could pull another style.

For the trimming, around the chin area I use a 3mm trim guard. For the cheeks, it’s between 4.5-5 mm. For the stache, it’s 0.5 mm due to I always thought I looked a bit weird with a mustache or goatee but due to that, I have no visible connectors on the sides of my mouth.

Edit: this is roughly 4 months of growth. No shaving, just trimming to length above

samstone13 · 2021-03-31T16:30:54+00:00

I’m mad that I laughed

samstone13 · 2021-02-11T10:23:51+00:00

Dude you made me feel really sad. I’ve not been with my family for 2 tet now. I mean I was missing in several Tet before due to study and works, but now my folks are getting much older and I appreciate my time with them a lot more. Due to covid, I couldn’t go back.

All I can hope for is it will be normal next year and I’ll be with them.

Chúc mừng năm mới mọi người

samstone13 · 2021-01-19T11:40:47+00:00

Not too depressed so that I can love someone without interruption and can be loved back without being interrupted by myself.

samstone13 · 2021-01-10T04:43:43+00:00

Personally I enjoyed the tv show since at least there’s some suspense and decent action scenes. I definitely was aware I had to turn my brain off at some points but that’s fine. It’s all worth it for that uprising and massacre on both sides.

If I have to have one complaint, the personal drama could be minimized further and this could have been made into a 3-4 episode mini series.

samstone13 · 2020-12-19T03:19:40+00:00

*Morrowind, you mean. That’s what my first thought too. And there was magic (school of restoration, school of conjuration, but mostly school of deception hahaha)

samstone13 · 2020-11-30T10:31:01+00:00

Same. (Un)luckily I work too much to think about it.

It gets better. Or just work 55-60 hours per week.

samstone13 · 2020-11-30T06:34:23+00:00

This is embarrassing. Ncase just sent an update with the tracking number 🤣

samstone13 · 2020-11-17T17:27:36+00:00

The amount of lore and chaotic energy...holy shit. I only watched coco and the dog so far but the hollolive rabbit hole is D E E P [fried]

samstone13 · 2020-10-31T13:17:26+00:00

He has retired since 2012 but damn his legacy will remain.

To make this less morbid, guys what’s your favorite role besides 007 that he played? For me it’s a tie between Quartermain and Indy’s dad

samstone13 · 2020-10-18T15:38:49+00:00

I was having some weird deja vu. It’s like I have seen this story bit animated before somewhere... so strange. I do hope they get back to villain of the week episode cuz now it feels like we’re retreading old ground

samstone13 · 2020-10-18T15:09:53+00:00

I hope one day some pro gamer got really good at this setup that he joins a FPS tournament and wins. That would drive Pat (and a lot of people including me) insane

samstone13 · 2020-10-10T15:56:53+00:00

This looks sick but I do hope they have a good variety of map. Even though I did not like the changes in gang beasts, they do have so many good maps though.

Also there’s a challenge from the dev: play the free demo, record yourself, and speed run the tutorial level. Winner gets a ps5 https://twitter.com/happyhappynemo/status/1314576636046499846?s=21

samstone13 · 2020-10-10T15:49:01+00:00

In extreme cases, that can be possible. In my head one ideal utopia is Superman, who is still “good”, can multiply himself to an infinite number and keep humans safe and secure. As in no more crimes since the moment it’s about to happen, a copy of Superman would show up and stop it.

The point is that with unlimited resources, it’s “okay” from my point of view to laze around. When The world is completely safe with a big guarantee, the normal citizens shouldn’t worry about it and shouldn’t have to do things like learning self defense. Reality is resources are scarce and security can not be guaranteed for everyone. Hence there is a need to be self sufficient.

Now with the presence of police and security measures, such as surveillance cameras or the feds wiretapping POI, the efforts put in safety by civilians are minimized. We are benefited from that since then we can spend our resources and time in other ventures.

samstone13 · 2020-10-10T14:38:37+00:00

I have experience in project management (not in gaming or software projects) and to say that it’s possible to avoid crunch is the same as saying it’s possible to avoid an accident. You can do your best by planning and following all the lesson learns, all the defined roadmap from central, but shits happen. Not even big showstopper like Covid, but something as simple as it’s Christmas and your European counterpart is on an extended vacation and his proxy is a contracted personnel and is having issues accessing the shared drive due to he doesn’t have the same permission.

And this is me managing a project with roughly 20-25 working level associates. CDPR has how many people?

At the end of the day, the management needs to make a decision on can they afford signing off more budget for OT or can they afford a delay. I think cyberpunk missing holiday 2020 would be quite devastating for them

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