So been with GF for 4 years, and i would say that for about 1 year its not been going too well (mostly since we started living together...). But its wasn't all that bad.
However 3 weeks ago i had the brillant idea to teach her call of duty 2. Since then, shes like playing this shit no-stop, going to bed at 4 am, not sleeping with me anymore, not eating much anymore, etc. Now the even more annoying thing about it is shes CONSTANTLY talking to guys on it, laughning etc, and doing god knows what with them. If i try to talk with her shes constantly interupting me to talk with them.
My first reaction was to kinda get mad at her, explaining her how this shit makes no sense. Her reaction was to change our relationship to "its complicated" on facebook, and completly stop sex, and tell me she will probably break up. When i try to say its ridiculous she destroy our relationship for a stupid game shes says game has nothing to do with it.
MY first reaction was kind of weak, telling her how much i care about her etc, asking for second chance.
Then seeing how this fails, i decided to just do the break up myself and act like i don't care (this actually confused her a bit...).
My current plan was to get myself my own place, ignore her for a full month, and then see whats up, but tbh shes so hooked on that game i'm not even sure she will miss me at all.
So just move on or what? i'm a bit frustrated cuz i actually loved her.
So I tried Dota2 for a bit. managed to put in 80 hours in 20 days while working lol.
The game is aight, players are terrible though in matchmaking so many games are just steamroll one sided or one disconnect. It crashed quite a few times for me and don't like stuff like small health bars, liked the dota ones better for last hitting.
The guides sort of take out the fun of dota. . . trying out new items now everyone has the builds right in there, it's all very aimed towards new players.
I like the commend and report systems, dota players are jerks including me but hunting for commendations teaches you manners
Anyway it was fun trying all the heroes in new graphics, but it's getting boring now so I'm uninstalling steam and going back to poker. I really don't have enough time to get to high levels where it gets fun
work
taking a 5 day break from work. There was a lot of stuff like getting paid £270 instead £750 one week, days that are wasted and I don't learn anything in the office, basically i want to do sales and this is still just surveying lofts and walls, and we have been promised a proper product for 4 months now, and this being boring with delayed payments, money taken out of our pay for no reason etc.
A bit negged out, tried playing poker on the side just got de-motivated when I had to take out 70% of my roll because didn't get paid properly. Set weekly goals with rewards for floorball equipment, reached the weekly target and then couldn't buy the stuff next week cause I didn't get paid properly. The owners are motivating us by chilling and telling us how much money they made and that we can do it too, but when your boss is lazy you will tend to do the same.
Was promised B2B product and alarms, which should be again fun though. I take selling as a sport or poker, the preparation is very much the same and it feels like performance, but I just didn't get that looking for walls and lofts that weren't insulated for free yet and then spending time on surveys and paperwork, this year feels wasted rly.
poker
well with dota there was no time, and I'm so rusty :D
I hit a downswing when I was ill, playing badly too but nothing serious. I will get back into it and start blogging again. Dota is such a poison lol.
If anyone playing NL25 -50 wants to chat pm me your skype I'll be on over the weekend
spend the last 20 days of my life one-tabling 1,50$ Hyper Turbo HU SNG on Stars and managed to play 620 of those. It has a huge rake (1,44 + 0,06). In relation the rake of the higher buy in tourneys (6,85 + 0,15) is half of that. That's really annoying and I wonder if you can beat those games (the 1,50s) at all even if you have a huge edge. What you guys think?
I think I am playing pretty good right now and can exploit my opponents pretty well, especially with valuebetting vs guys that call all types of gutshots and call down bottom pair ALWAYS. Opening any 2 vs guys that fold too much preflop, shoving draws vs guys that fold 2nd pair to a shove on flop etc... It's only standard stuff actually.
Today our teacher gave us a thinking problem seeing if anyone comes up with an answer for tomorrow. Being stupid i cant solve it, so wanting to be baller for class i wonder if someone here can solve it: on a plain paper he places 4 coins total (1) in each corner. A random person blind/feel-folded is then selected. He doesnt know how the coins are faced in the start. Each round our teacher is free to spin the paper 90/180/270/360... And so on degrees. The blindfolded person is each round free to turn as many coins as he wants, his mission to win is for all coins to face the same direction. He doesnt know how many degrees the paper is spinned each round. Q: is there a stratey for the teacher to make him never be able to win? (Is there a straytegy for the student to win, is that the same q?). Hope i explained it well enough, gl
Mattress Buying + Parrilla Buildingby RiKD, April 15
Any tips, tricks, hacks, insight, anything in regards to mattress buying?
I just find the experience pretty horrendous. There are like 10 brands, 10 different types of 10 different 10 types of 10 different types of 10 different types of 10 different types of 10 different types of 10 different types of ..........
The salespeople seem pretty lackluster although maybe not their fault since bed comfort is so damn subjective.
I like the idea of temperpedic "memory foam" but at the same time seems like it could be classic marketing mumbo jumbo in order to rape the buyer in the ass.
Everyone in the western world probably buys a bed at some point. There has got to be a way to make it suck less and actually find the right bed for the individual.
So now that I'm done complaining about beds...
For a number of reasons that I don't care to list (I already spent shit lines shit complaining) I have decided to build a motherfucking firebrick parilla grill that ate tokyo by hand. Who knows when the fuck it will come to fruition but when it does I invite any and all LP'ers to kill some choice animals (or buy some choice killed animals) and asado that bitch up proper.
If you are in the Northern Hemisphere cheers to shit hopefully blooming and being nice out.
If you are in the Southern Hemisphere cheers to that for why not.
Read through an old notebook of mine today while waiting on a car checkup. Came across a fairly interesting quetsions and possible awnsers regarding life. Thought I would share;
Point of life?
- to live/avoid death
- to experience
- to experiment
- to better the world
- to continue existance of human race
- add to collective conciousness
What is sucess?
- Aquisition of wealth
- power/influence
- harmony with the world
- to become admired/adored
- respect
Reality is...?
- A figment of Imagination
- based on your point of view
- elusive or non-existant
- what can be observed or experienced
these are from about 5-6years ago I wonder if I were to ask myself these questions again if my awnsers would change...
Just a couple of mins ago I was having a shower and caught on singing a song by Linkin Park - i haven't been listening to that band for like ages. However, the lyrics really caught my attention - I've tried so hard and got so far, in the end it doesn't even matter. That wouldn't be anything fancy, but after having a 60 hour workweek behind me, with not enough sleep and just preparing to set off to uni, I'm really asking myself - is it really worth? I know that I can't achieve anything without hard-work and that I don't want to live the life of average Joe, but well, for sure I know that I don't want to go crazy and just have a schedule like - work, 1-2 hours of free time (free I guess, but there's homework, things around the house, etc), sleep, repeat. How do you balance this?
Massive Strategy Game - basically has raped my life for the past week and a half... Also Victoria II but not the same extent.
Not sure how I missed this game but fuck it's good, would be cool to get a big LP CK2 multiplayer game going sometime :3
I'll get another Music You Should Hear blog next week - been listening to a few really cool tracks that I've liked a lot thus far.
Anyways <3 LP
ps i just found out that red green put up whole seasons online http://www.youtube.com/user/RedGreenTV?feature=watch
one of my favorite childhood memories is sneaking downstairs after bedtime and watching a few episodes of red green with my dad. Awesome Show!
"If the women don't find you handsome, they should at least find you handy."
Just won a 1$ 45 player sit n go. First prize was $12.73. It is my biggest score in a tournament to date. My previous biggest cash was 1st in the .25c 45 player for like $3.23 or something like that. $12.73 is nothing to the majority of you, but it's 1/4 of my bankroll so it means a lot to me and I just wanted to share. Maybe someone is interested.
the wealth of nations and ted talks.by Stroggoz, April 11
So an interesting coincidence came across me today
i was reading a noam chomsky excerpt which basically says the chicago school of economics ignored a huge part of adam smiths philosphy when nobel prize winner, geroge stigler wrote: selections from the wealth of nations.
'It's likely he never opened The Wealth of Nations. Just about everything he said about the book was completely false.'
'Everybody reads the first paragraph of The Wealth of Nations where he talks about how wonderful the division of labor is. But not many people get to the point hundreds of pages later, where he says that division of labor will destroy human beings and turn people into creatures as stupid and ignorant as it is possible for a human being to be.'
so i take another attempt at reading the wealth of nations. One of the most difficult books i've tried to read to be honest. I look up division of labor on wikipedia.
so i find that quote in the wealth of nations at page 410.
'The man whose whole life is spent in performing a few simple operations, of which the effects are perhaps always the same, or very nearly the same, has no occasion to exert his understanding or to exercise his invention in finding out expedients for removing difficulties which never occur. He naturally loses, therefore, the habit of such exertion, and generally becomes as stupid and ignorant as it is possible for a human creature to become. The torpor of his mind renders him not only incapable of relishing or bearing a part in any rational conversation, but of conceiving any generous, noble, or tender sentiment, and consequently of forming any just judgment concerning many even of the ordinary duties of private life... But in every improved and civilized society this is the state into which the labouring poor, that is, the great body of the people, must necessarily fall, unless government takes some pains to prevent it''
adam smith goes on to talk alot about more about this, but i don't want to quote a whole chapter. You can read this yourself.
Karl marx also has a very similar view, you can find this on page 4 of his economic and philisophical manuscript.
'The accumulation of capital increases the division of labor, and the division of labor increases the number of workers. Conversely, the number of workers increases the division of labor, just as the division of labor increases the accumulation of capital. With this division of labor on the one hand and the accumulation of capital on the other, the worker becomes ever more exclusively dependent on labor, and on a particular, very one-sided, machine-like labor at that. Just as he is thus depressed spiritually and physically to the condition of a machine''
The 2nd interesting part is that straight after i this i watch a good ted talk about motivation in work.
The last two minutes of the ted talk is the interesting thing, he doesn't really bring up that Adam Smith was as much into meaning as Karl Marx was. So this is just another very subtle example, imo at how even the most intelligent, scientific people are indoctrinated.
Im just going to delve into my own speculation now.
Our indoctrination is partly from a massive surplass of information. If we are to even try to decipher history and indoctrinated public opinion and attitudes it takes a lot of reading. Something that almost no one can do as they have too many distractions in their life already. There is also an increasing amount of concision in todays media, people have degrading concentration spans. Twitter only allows you to post 140 characters for example. it seems to me that indoctrination is just going to become more and more easy as information increases and the dehumanization of the human concentration span increases too. There is an interesting opinion written about the distintegration of humans aljazeera, which covers this a little bit. http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/2013/03/201332882423542636.html
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Anyone else having trouble logging into stars this morning?
Do I have a problem with my settings or are other ppl having problems?
My internet is obviously working (as I am on LP right now!)
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