the time it takes to go from one match to another in esports events. i understand giving players a break between games when they have to play multiple games (best of 3/5 etc.) but really anything longer than 5 minutes is ridiculous. sometimes it goes up to an hour between games so they can do interviews and analysis and like 30 mins of break time. i just want to see high paid epic gamers play games at the highest level.
example? afaik it is somewhat reasonable if they have a schedule to follow.
Yeah it's fucking ridiculous. I pay $1400 (half my monthly income) on rent alone, plus another $250 in utilities (save for water). I got lucky in fnding my apartment, because it's at 11% below average, and I have my price locked in against rate rises. A year ago, I coul dhave gotten this 1 bedroom apartment for $1350, but at the time, I didn't need the space so I passed on it. A mistake that was.
I've been researching housing for a while, and it's not good. Since 2015, the cost of housing has risen a minimum of 219%, while rent has risen by 70%, and that's for the entire state of California. Housing is expected to peak at 580% of the 2015 price and stay there indefinantely. This means that a shitty 1.5 bed/bath house runs for $300,000 on the low end. The suberbite hell 2 bed and bath housing track houses start at "a low 350k range". So in California, if you want to buy a house, you need to make a minimum of $125,000 a year if you want to get a decent small house in suburban hell.
If you want a house not in a housing track, oh boy, get ready for prices to start at half a million dollars.
Everyone keeps citing a housing shortage for the massive increase in prices (an average of a 340% increase since 2015), yet taking a few minutes to research shows there isn't actually a housing shortage. Home buying is currently at a 4 year low and sales at a 2 year high. The housing shortage is entierly artificial due to all these restricted and controlled communities. There's 4 to 6 65+ communities around me that have plenty of available homes, but only allow the elderly (obviously), and several gated communities, which don't have overly expensive homes, but have income requirements to live in.
Then they keep building these highly concentrated homes and communites in areas which don't ahve the infrastrucutre for it. The couty is creating these highly concentrated population areas which don' thave the roads or traffic conditions to support them. Meanwhile, in the areas that can support these, they don't build there. So in another 5 years, the 15 Freeway, the 78 and the 76 will have shit tons of people living on these small areas with only a single highway or passthrough available.
In my area right now they're building 30 townhouses, and an entier 'afforable housing' project along side a road which is already overloaded by people using it as a passthrough to go from the 78 to the 15 and skip the interchange.
In short, there isn't really a housing shortage, its artificially created by regulated communities and inflated prices, and all the afordable housing projects aren't really going to be affordable, and are being built in areas that will no be able to handle increased trafic due to a lack of road infrastrucutre. Meanwhile, in areas where they can be building and could support the population groth, they aren't.
I almost want another market crash just so the pricing of housing will drop again. On my sallary right now, i could have bought a house in 2014 and 2015, but I can't today due to the growing housing bubble.
I "love" how shit like this happens on account of a shutdown but congressmen still get paid
Guess who's a climate change denier
Polish President Andrzej Duda
daylight savings needa hurry tf up and come cause im getting tired of it getting dark at 5pm
Legitimate question, but why do so many people (not everyone but over half the people I've met) instantly label you as some uneducated, illiterate, idiotic troglodyte if you say you don't really like to read books?
I can read. My reading comprehension is just fine. My vocabulary is anything but stunted. I regularly write small stories with positive response from those who read them. I read plenty in the form of various wikipedia/subject wikia articles and the like, I just don't read books. The last book I actually read end to end was Hatchet back in... Hell, I don't even remember. Either late grade school or early middle school.
They don't keep my interest and I get frustrated and fidgety if I'm sitting and not being productive with my hands. I'm assuming that's because I have rather severe ADHD, but that's simply speculation.
This doesn't make me any less intelligent, doesn't make me any less well-versed on any given thing, and it doesn't make me incapable of broader thinking. But some people are Hellbent on jumping down my fucking throat when I say that I don't particularly enjoy reading books, convinced that I am all of the above.
I guess this could also serve as a general Shit That Makes Me Mad, just when anyone gets their panties in a twist over you not having a universally common hobby.
People are different, whodathunkit!!
me in october 2018: hey university this thing doesn't work in my room, it's gonna cause something gross
university: ok thanks lad, dw, loads of people have had the same issue
me in january 2019: oh hey the university emailed me
university: why the fuck does thing in your room not work, it's caused something gross. you better fix it soon or we shall fine you
me: ex-fucking-cuse me
Are you at the University of Glasgow by any chance.
When I was there I didn't know anyone to move in with so I went into student accommodation in one of their studios and my bathroom light instantly shattered when I turned it on. I reported it and was told they'd fix it and received an apology.
They never fixed it so I just bought one of those wall-lights (I dunno what they are actually called but they are battery operated, not connected to mains supply) and the week I was due to move out I received a bill of about £60 service fee to repair the light.
I basically stopped reading books for enjoyment entirely once I started reading for university. Sucked all the enjoyment out.
That being said if you like music, How Music Works by David Byrne is an absolutely fantastic read. It's often suggested reading for a lot of music courses but even if you just have a passing interest in music I'd recommend it.
Couldn't you just forward them their own previous mail and tell them to stop fucking around?
Probably I just ended up ignoring it tbh
I blew through an entire paycheck again wtfffff
What am I spending it on??? My only extravagant items were a pair of $100 hockey skates and a like, $30 vintage projector I found at goodwill. The rest was on fucking canned and fast food.
$130 plus food should NOT set me back this much wtf
UNless you're buying dollar meals, fast food adds up quickly. it isn't cheap.
I've gone thorugh $8000 since november last year due to moving apartments, rent, having to pay insurance, christmas gifts, and a few hobby things. Food expenses still make up a good chunk of that, and my average meal cost is $4 per day, since I tend to only eat one big meal per day. Costs add up and absolutely suck. I'm going to have to be in super conservation mode for the next 3 to 4 months as to nt burn out my spending capital and maintain an even bank.
I dunno how it is in the US but in Europe fast food can actually get kinda expensive sometimes
According to Acer, me opening the back of my laptop to see why it suddenly stopped turning on is considered "drop damage" and it's going to cost four hundred dollars to fix. Fucking kill me, I've never dropped my laptop once.
Less of a shit that gets me mad and more... existential crisis.
I apologize profusely in advance for how long-winded this is, I don't expect anyone to sit through it all, but...
I don't give a shit whether or not I ever make anything of myself, and I really don't care about sharing a damn thing with the world creatively or otherwise.
I'm, at a base level, totally okay with being just a background character and doing the minimal to get through life.
I just don't like putting in effort for anything that I feel like isn't going to do anything useful for me which is... Basically everything.
Nothing in the entire universe feels like it's worth the effort required to get there, the "payout" always seems like shit for what you do to get there. No matter what it is.
Whenever you're good at something it can become a burden. People expect things from you. You get attention. Eyes that expect you to constantly improve and do better, even if you're just doing it for yourself.
I feel like I'm going through life with the mindset of a retail employee... be average, slack off some, that way you don't become burdened with high expectations... fly under the radar so you don't get more responsibilities stacked onto you.
My second greatest fear in life is that I get good at something, and it lands me in this vicious cycle of working myself til I'm tired and unable to joy leisure time, so all I'm left with is Work, Eat, Sleep, Repeat.
Outwardly I seem fine with this. But, internally, it doesn't feel right. Forcing myself to not hit my limits or improve on things because I'm afraid it might make me work harder. Am I just a lazy jackass?
I feel like I'm actively going against what most people consider our reasons for existing, to proliferate and propagate ourselves either biologically or with what we create with our minds and efforts. Making a name for ourselves, so to speak.
But I don't feel like doing that. The thought of changing the world or even becoming known outside of my close friends and family doesn't appeal to me whatsoever, in fact, it makes me feel sick to my stomach. But... I feel like this makes me a total waste of oxygen, just something to suck up resources without giving anything worthwhile back. Not to society but to the universe at large, speck of dust be damned.
I don't like my mindset, but it's what's comfortable. To attempt to fix it would only make me feel like I'm suffering or playing right into the things I fear the most.
What bothers me the most above all else is that I don't know if this is wrong, or normal. That I don't know if this makes me a moocher or just an average joe.
My real estate is having constant house viewings at my house because we are moving out in a few weeks. Its so god damn annoying because theyre super uptight about keeping the place perfect and they keep telling us the day before the viewing.
Take pictures and document that shit to protect yourself from that shithead.
Games that force you to use a flashlight in certain sections for no reason despite it being plenty bright. In fact, the flashlights tend to make it worse.
Fast food does add up quickly, fair. I only ever get it while on my work lunch, and even then it's usually just one <$6 item.
People who start an argument and then use the phrase "Why does it matter?"
My parents seem to have this idea that I want to spend like 6 years at a big university and get a big degree job...I've told them that I don't want them spend the money, nor do I wanna take pointless required classes... but they still say things like "oh well maybe you should take some online classes so you can start" but...I don't want to...
Is there something wrong with just wanting to work for a paycheck and live quietly? I don't want a big house, I don't want vacations, I don't want to start a family.... I just want a simple quiet life, man. I don't want to do anything big, I don't want to stand out. I just wanna peacefully enjoy my life with the friends and hobbies I have, and maybe someone to cuddle with.
It's not like they're being aggressive with it or pressuring me or anything, I just wish they'd lower their expectations a little bit...
Trump's screwing over so many people with the government shutdown just so he can get funding for his stupid fucking wall.
The fact that this shutdown is getting pretty damn close to surpassing the longest government shutdown in American history is pretty fucking gross.
If the government shut down goes on for too long, i think it might end up being the reason that a lot of people start trying incredibly hard to get him kick out of the position of pesident.
Waking up with a headache.
Fuck that shit, I got work and people to meet, why can't it happen afterwards so I can just take a pill and rest?
When people who have never served say "you don't seem like the type".
Thanks for the motivation..
Also of course I don't seem like the type.. yet. After getting into shape and being enlisted for sometime then by that point I can judge that, not anyone else.
I love how furious videogame subcommunities get at developers every January just for having gone on holiday
800+ for a tiny ass studio apartment literally fuck off. I hate modern expensies.
Late reply but Textra has a 10-second delay feature where you can hit cancel if you, like me, are too boneheaded to proofread.
When you go out with friends and two of them spend most of the time just making out.
Just go back to your place and fuck, jesus christ. You clearly don't care about interacting with us.
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