Some sticky trap positions are really weird now, as well as fighting at certain distances and very specific locations.

Other than that it's nothing entirely different.

Despite how much people hate Granary, I don't think we're going to see it leave rotation. I'd love to see you return to koth_waste, though.

I knew Benroads when he was mid open. Now he is far better than I am; once more I am left in the dust.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kvRl0FCZi_U

Please bestow unto Wu Tang Club an adequate IM-level pocket to support their antics.

I honestly did not know this was a thing. Everyone I encounter IRL seems to be confident in their writing and descriptive skills, sadly.

That's easier said than done, paying for school is a gigantic factor now that I'm at the end of my bachelor's. If I had the chance to do it all over again I would, but I just can't get the money to start all over again right now.

I was thinking about creating a personal website, actually. I'll probably take some time during the spring break to do those tutorials for HTML/CSS on CA.

In the ballpark of about three years ago at my community college, I finally realized that after years of growing up on the computer, playing video games, and enjoying tinkering around with it, I wanted to do something directly related to computers (and realized I wasn't abysmal at math thank you Professor Re). I transferred to my current university in the hopes that I could go from CompSci to Software Engineering, but things didn't pan out for reasons that would take a long-ass time to explain clearly and properly and so here I am as an English major with one last semester before graduation. Right now my only hope is to take this to a graduate school since with that major I have no real job prospects at the bachelor's level and I don't have any connections to do something like technical writing, but I don't want to lose sight of what I really want to do and I sure as hell don't want to be sent to the pits of hell aka become a teacher who will ultimately be sent to the inner-city meat grinder at this level.

I've gotten lots of advice from lots of different people but I really don't know what to make of it; more or less I've been taking a step forward and a step back every which way. Some people have told me to learn Python because everyone needs someone who can do Python scripting at some point or another, others have told me just go through CodeAcademy for HTML/CSS and various scripting (I think Ruby and Rails are taught there with Python), still others mention Javascript, nodejs, going into high-level languages like C++, C#, regular old C, etc. The worst thing is that sometimes the people giving me advice will say "nah don't learn <X> because it'll be a waste of your time when you could learn <Y> and learn better habits at the same time" and another will say that with <X> and <Y> inverted which has left me unsure of what is the best choice that finds a middle ground for what I want to do, what is within my current capacity to learn, and what will be marketable. I guess what I'm looking for from this thread is some sort of clarity on what's feasible given what resources I have at my disposal and perhaps someone like the aforementioned Professor Re to once again illuminate my path. I can't really offer anything of monetary value in return for the latter half of my request but I've at least developed the skills of concise and expansive writing and I can help with anything concerning paper writing in exchange.

Background:
I have a very minimal understanding of what the aforementioned are, obviously know nothing about utilizing them, and the farthest I've gone with any one of them is taking an introductory Python course here at university (we learned Jython for some reason) and trying to find time to go through Zed Shaw's “Learn Python the Hard Way” between my other coursework. I was supposed to learn Javascript at my community college but too many lazy people were trying to use its ability to substitute for a math course without really understanding what they were getting into so we were taught Visual Basic instead. For Python I know babby-level stuff like defining variables and a shaky understanding of using a loop to go through a list of items but if you asked me to come up with a script on my own I'd sit there with my eyes glazing over. Most if not all things math-related take a considerably longer time for me to learn and understand than most people so I'm not exactly looking to become a researcher. I've only been to one Hackathon before with my university's computing club/society and while the people directly affiliated with the club were iffy and a grad student from the club took me and some freshman under his wing thinking he could do it all, the people who went from my university independent of the club were amazing and if I could go to one again actually being able to contribute something greater than sketchy Python, I would.

5:27 PM - Benroads: thread is trash
5:27 PM - Benroads: but notice how close mirelin is
5:27 PM - Benroads: to mrslin

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Seph wasn't Brazilian.

Fred is absolutely wonderful to play with. I don't know who else he's got cookin' for this scrim-only team but if you're simply looking to have a good time I couldn't recommend anyone better.

Our scout and roamer are parting ways from the team for personal reasons, so we're looking for two dudes to try to fill their big shoes for next season. We're specifically seeking a rare breed of player who can have a good time but know when to focus, someone open to criticism and who can return it, someone who wants to improve but won't go full adolf on the team, and hopefully someone who's much more confident in maincalling than Sert and I are. If we can't find those two additions before next season we're gonna be forced to break apart since none of us are keen on the idea of holding onto hope for getting people during that week-long pre-season crunchtime. We'd rather play with someone around the 18-2X age range so we can play at decent times for scrims and matches.

Goal: We ended the season 7-9 and we'd like to be able to say next season that at the VERY least go positive for our W/L ratio in Open.

Edit: We're looking for some more scout tryouts over roamer ones right now since we've got a lot of roamer requests
Edit 2: Filled our roamer spot, still looking for a scout
Edit 3: Thank you for all those who tried out, we're green for next season
Edit 4: Our pocket, Sert, has gone semi-MIA possibly for personal IRL reasons. He hasn't really said anything to us about it but we're conducting an emergency Pocket tryout in case Sert does not return to us.

Scout #1 - CyanSnow
Scout #2 - Rain
Pocket - [Sert]
Roamer - Fred Astaire
Medic - Dat_Indubitably
Demo - me

An adequate mentor to help us turn on our monitors would also be appreciated if we do find two dudes to fill our scout and roamer's shoes.

chill ping, chill dm

I can't recommend living in NYC myself but you might like it here. Cost of living is retarded, all of the cool places we've got in the city aren't enough to make up for it in my opinion. If you hated the rent in Hell On Earth, CA you'll hate the rent in the city. Even out on the island where I am for university renting a place per month is kinda pricey but a bit better than in the city. We've got insane nightlife and we've got the famous parks. There are often things like Shakespeare in the Park and then there are other festivals where you get to see some dank ass performances (circa 1974) and general fascinating street performers during the day. I'm not well-versed in the music scene here but I constantly get emails about high-brow Jazz performances.

Internet is hella subjective from area to area but I think we've got either Verizon or Time Warner Cable to choose from most of the time; both are pretty good in NYC considering the bullshit other people in the US put up with from the same companies. We just had the coldest February in 20 years in the state I believe and it's snowing outside RIGHT NOW as I finish this paper that's due tomorrow, but for the most part our summers are pretty reasonable. If you're CS/IT you'll have a plethora of job opportunities but if you're not either in that joint field or in business I can rent out a paddle for your climb up shit creek.

MTA.
Heh.

I use the LIRR enough to go between Long Island and Bklyn/Queens and it's great. Nothing crazy like in the subway.

danny that was awful

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Some of us didn't want to even consider the possibility of an "esport", you know. Some of us just wanted a fun pub game to play again. Some of us just wanted to have fun pugs with friends again. I never asked for TF2's development in fast forward and double intensity.

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This is the exact same kind of faulty reasoning that I was given by some dude during the Hawken alpha for the "simplification" of graphics settings where the simplification was just making everyone play at the same settings and having a dropdown menu for texture quality.