Re: “Daily Prompt: Just a Dream”

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You’re having a nightmare, and have to choose between three doors. Pick one, and tell us about what you find on the other side.

Source: http://dailypost.wordpress.com/2012/12/20/daily-prompt-nightmare/

Considering this is a nightmare, I would assume that whatever is behind one of the three doors has to be something terrifying to me.

Unfortunately (and fortunately for me), I’m not really afraid of many concrete things, but one of the few things that I am afraid of is the unknown, or not knowing what is going to happen. On a related note, I’m also pretty afraid of getting lost and not knowing where I am or how to return to a familiar location.

So, the nightmare could play out in one of two ways. If it were to play with my fear of the unknown, the fact of me simply being forced to open one of the three doors without having any additional background information about what’s behind them would be a pretty scary nightmare, especially if the setting of the room containing the three doors was eerie.

If it were to play with my fear of getting lost, the three doors would lead to three additional doors. Right at this point, my first instinct would be to go back through the previous door and not go any further, but then, the door would close and lock behind me and I would be forced to continue.

 

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The World’s Best Bet

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To protect the identity of the star of this story, I am going to refer to him as the generic male name, “Bob.”

Earlier today, I found out that Bob made a bet with a few of his supervisors at work. He bet $100 that the world was going to end on December 21, 2012.

That’s actually all that needs to be said about the story – think about the possible outcomes, and laugh at Bob, realizing the reason I had to rename him to Bob was to protect him from eternal humility.

If you don’t quite get it, then I’m here to enlighten you.

If Bob loses the bet (which is most likely), he will have to pay $100.

If Bob wins the bet, the world will have ended and everyone would be dead.

Yes, Bob made a bet where it is literally impossible for him to actually win anything.

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League of Legends: Why I actually like the new Preseason 3 shop

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A lot of people have been complaining about the new Preseason 3 shop in League of Legends, claiming that it’s hard to use and impossible to find anything efficiently.

First of all, the glaring problem with the shop being difficult to navigate is just because people aren’t used to it. But, that’s not the point of this blog post – to me, regardless of how hard it is to find items in the new shop, I still actually like it. The screenshot below will explain why:

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Yes, that is the recommended items section of the shop for Zyra, my main champion.

Using some software called LoLStudio, I was able to customize all of my recommended items and categories.

There were options available for the Season 2 shop to customize the recommended items as well, but you would only be able to select six items. In the new shop, you can literally have as many recommended items as you want.

So, I went ahead and customized it so every single item I would possibly ever consider purchasing on Zyra is right at my fingertips. No matter what role I’m playing or who my opponents are, I have everything I could possibly want (literally) a single screen away.

In ranked games where victories and defeats matter, and every split second counts, I recommend using this software to set custom recommended item builds for all the champions you regularly play competitively. Not only will it save you time, but it will help you stay focused on the game rather than having to struggle through navigating an unfamiliar shop every time you return to base.

 

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Why I can’t play games from my apartment

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Last week, I posted that I was having issues with my apartment’s Internet and I wasn’t able to stream or play League of Legends.

A few people questioned the degree to which this problem was affecting me, and most people thought that I was exaggerating when I said the connection dropped every 10-15 minutes.

I decided to share a little screenshot I took while I was playing League of Legends today. It will make more sense if you’re a LoL player – pay close attention to the top-right corner where it shows my ping.

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Yes, that does, in fact, say that my ping is 10888.

That means that when I click on something, it takes almost 11 seconds for my character to respond to my input.

This is usually what happens when my Internet connection is “dropped” – it doesn’t fully disconnect, it just spikes up the ping to an abnormally high number.

This is actually worse than a regular disconnect, because with regular disconnects, the server notices that you’re gone and makes an attempt to port or walk your character back to base so you won’t die. In my situation, my character just stands there doing nothing, because for whatever reason, the server thinks I’m still connected but just experiencing high latency.

So, there is my proof that this is happening – if you look up my match history, you’ll see that I died over ten times in that particular game I played as Kayle, a majority of which were caused by these disconnects.

(Also, for the record, no, I do not usually take W first on Kayle, but I had to in that game because I needed it to get away from three enemies after getting caught in the jungle and not wanting to give away first blood. Yes, it did work, because I managed to get away with about 50 HP.)

 

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Grow a bear and become a man!

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Back on December 1, I tweeted, “Men, it is no longer November. Time to shave those rugs off your faces.”

That, of course, was a reference to no-shave November, where a bunch of strange people decide it would be a great idea to forgo an important part of personal hygiene for a duration of 30 days.

Seeing as the time period for this “event” was over, I went ahead and reminded these people to go ahead and go back to their daily routine of keeping themselves presentable to the public.

Then, all of a sudden, Ben Chow (who you might remember as being one of my buddies since high school) comes along on Twitter (for the first time in like two years, I think) and tweets at me at 3 AM, saying this:

@Parkzer Maybe you should grow a bear and become a man!

That was probably one of the most random things that had happened to be in a long time (and it doesn’t surprise me that Ben Chow was the one who said it), so I decided to post it on my website.

Apparently, if you grow a bear, you become a man. Better use high-quality potting soil and water it well so it grows to be very big.

(Yes, I know he meant to say “beard,” but I like making fun of Ben Chow.)

 

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First visible snowfall of the season

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Today was the first visible snowfall of the season.

By visible, I mean that you can actually see the snow piling up. It already snowed a little bit about a few weeks ago, but the snow was so light that it melted instantly upon touching the ground, and it only lasted for a few hours or so. Usually, it starts snowing significantly earlier in my area, but it’s extremely late this year.

Someone even already had the chance to doodle in the snow on a car out in the parking lot.

I’m not too big of a fan of snow, so I’m not really that excited. I have faint memories of playing in the snow when I was little, but even then, it was more of a hassle because I would be forced to put on my snow pants and winter coat and gloves and boots and hat just to go outside for recess, and that process would take about 15 minutes. By the time we got outside, we would only have about five minutes to play before we had to come back inside and take everything off again.

The only recent recollections I have with regards to snow are mostly frustrating, including trying to fix the snow blower so I don’t have to hand-shovel a foot’s worth of snow off the drive way, and having to walk back home in a blizzard from my office a few years ago because the buses stopped running due to severe weather.

I don’t want to end this on a morbid note, so I guess that I’m slightly okay with the fact that it’s snowing now.

But only a little.

 

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