Where are all the bronze Street Fighter V players at? Keep getting crushed by Silvers T_T
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May 2016
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Posted on r/spikes: [Standard] Can anyone recommend any good Bant Company guides?
- Main deck card choices
- Good/bad matchups
- Sideboarding choices and options
- Things to watch out for
I haven’t been playing Standard since SOI came in but I just found out I’m qualified for our WMCQs so I’m planning to put together the deck (It’s the standard deck I already have most of the cards for and can buy/borrow the rest), but I won’t have too much time to playtest due to reasons, so I’m hoping to read up as much as I can in the next two weeks
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Sana may episode ng The Voice where Chiz Escudero is a judge and they wait to see how long before anyone notices he’s not Bamboo
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Someone on quora asked:
I don’t know if what I am doing and feeling is right in my relationship?
Talk to your partner about your issues and see what the two of you can do. Nothing like open communication.
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Someone on quora asked:
If you were hired by Amazon, they saw something in you that made them believe you would be a good hire. Nothing can take that away from you.
Look at your tasks and figure out what the problem is and try to correct.
Are you being given tasks for which you don’t have the necessary tools, skillset or knowledge? Raise it to your manager and ask whether you could be given additional time to learn the necessary tools first. Or whether there is supplemental training the company could provide.
One of the great things about working as a software developer is that we are always faced with new challenges in our chosen field. It’s never boring. You need to have that attitude of always being willing to step up to the challenge of new skills that need to be learned.
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Someone on quora asked:
Channel that nervousness into excitement. Imagine how it’s going to feel after the class and you’ve learned something new!
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Someone on quora asked:
Fake it ’til you make it. Don’t worry about how to be confident, just pretend that you are. Everything else follows.
Also, be more comfortable with who you are. Don’t worry too much about what other people think about you.
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I’ve watched maybe hundreds of TED talks now. I wonder how long it would take me to watch all of them. ALL OF THEM
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Nice detail and shading!
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You’re pretty good!
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I think the face looks fine. For the hands, I would guess that it starts with not getting the wrist part right (where the hand joins the arms). I try to place the back of the hand first before adding the fingers, so that I know the fingers will end up in sensible positions. Take a picture of what your own hand would look like in the given pose then use it as reference.
For proportions, I think the sketch looks mostly ok, although the legs might be a bit too short. You can try using one of those figure drawing outline thingies (I forgot the term, there was a sketchdaily for them a while back), just google “figure drawing outline”, it acts like a guide to tell you what typical body proportions should be
I’m no expert or anything, but I hope I was helpful!
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Looks great! How long ago was the original piece? Your proportions have greatly improved :D
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I couldn’t tell who it was sorry :( I always find portraits of real-life people difficult to get accurately (maybe I’ll attempt Nathan Fillion one of these days too)
Aside from the eyes, I find that the shape of the lower half of the face particularly on the left side of the image feels quite different from the original. The smile is a bit wider on the original too.
Good luck!
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Wow, that’s very detailed for something drawn on a small sticky note!
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Nice detailing, especially on the belt!
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Nice. Looks very Superman!
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Who are they?
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Nice. The detail on those snakes is great!
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Repost from EliLanger:
This is cold-blooded.
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Repost from nealobermeyer:
This headline did not mean what I first thought it meant.
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Posted on r/television: How would you rank this season’s comic book shows?
Namely Arrow, Flash, LoT, Supergirl, Agents of Shield, Gotham, Daredevil, Agent Carter, Jessica Jones
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I feel like if I was younger and more trusting of state authority, there would have been a better chance of me being in favor of the death penalty. But I’m old and wise enough to know that humans are fallible creatures, and somehow placing them in power makes them even more so, and thus we should avoid giving the state too much authority over human life. Side note: I clicked through the link and read through the comments section a bit. Big mistake, sumakit lang ulo ko sa terrible comments
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Yeah, the game didn’t make this clear really.
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Was this the last year of flashbacks? Or there should be one more, since it’s five years?
For some reason I was thinking it’s the last year of flashbacks
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Surprisingly, I rank Shield at the top of my superhero shows this season, or at least tied with Flash. Shield = best season finale
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Lol https://www.reddit.com/r/arrow so pissed off with the season finale they switched their subreddit to Daredevil
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A certain local bank’s website has an alert “Copy and paste not allowed” if you hit the Ctrl key while in any text field. So absurd
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Someone on quora asked:
You probably mean learning programming enough to work (unless you are really a fan of the theoretical applications of computer science). There are many ways to learn programming online (regardless of whether Filipino or not). A CS degree is hardly necessary. All you need is a decent computer and internet. Lots of short courses, books, tutorials available online. You just need to choose what you want to learn
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Someone on quora asked:
Is web development boring after a certain amount of time doing it?
Anything can become boring if you do it for too long and you let it. Whether you find something boring or not depends more on you as a person that the activity that you’re doing. Stamp collecting seems like the most boring hobby in the world, but there are people who have been doing it for ages.
Any kind of programming is in a class unto itself though, because technology advances so rapidly. There are always a lot of new things to learn!
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Someone on quora asked:
Are the Filipino people willing or capable of inciting a bloody, French-style revolution?
Corruption is actually on the downtrend (Why Graft Is Declining In The Notoriously Corrupt Philippines)
Traffic and internet are bad, but I don’t see how you could possibly compare that to 1789 Paris, unless may alternate timelines involved.
Dissent is at a healthy level and people are perfectly free to criticize the government and oppose their actions. There is no rampant violence on the streets on a daily basis.
We aren’t perfect, and there is a long way to go, but we are in almost no way a dystopia.
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I should be playing more games…and not just Hearthstone lol
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Reply to MagicJudges's tweet:
@MagicJudges so… free sleeves? lol
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Warcraft movie review:
- if you are not a fan of Warcraft lore, I do not recommend watching it. It’s kind of a generic fantasy movie in that case, nothing too exceptional. Pwede nang cable
- if you are a fan, go watch it. You know you want to
- costumes, cgi, fight scenes fairly good. i was worried that the cgi orcs would look weird and out of place, but I actually like how they turned out
- surprisingly faithful to the original plot of the source material
- … which leads to a piss-poor ending for anyone just wanting to watch generic fantasy movie, because of what happens to the main characters in the source material
- a lot of warcraft lore elements are introduced with minimal exposition, which would probably overwhelm a non-fan
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WTH Flash =/
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Reply to 'Everyone you know now knows your Reddit account. How does your life change?' on /r/AskReddit:
It doesn’t. I never post anything anywhere online that I wouldn’t mind people knowing about
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The answer will be different for each person. Starting a business is more stressful and has a lot of risks but is potentially more rewarding. Taking a regular job is “safer” in the traditional sense, the risk here is mostly of possible future regret - in the future you may wish you had tried out riskier things when you were young.
There are people who will argue that having a job is still a risk since you are dependent on the competence and good will of other people to earn a living, that your safe job may not actually be as safe as you imagine since you could get fired or the company could go under at any time. But truthfully, you run the same risks when running a business, except that you do more of the work yourself, so whether you are able to overcome those risks or not is more dependent on your own effort.
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Sketching.
Cooking.
Programming.
Poetry.
Foreign Languages.
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All those Transformers I used to have back in the 80s! @_@
Don’t judge me!
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Reply to alvinjtang's tweet:
@alvinjtang nanood na ko kagabi lolz
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Fine! I went ahead and watched season 6 already. Are you happy now internet? #GameofThrones
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Reply to 'Delve ability' on /r/magicTCG:
It means what the reminder text says. You can choose to cast Murderous Cut for a reduced cost (as little as one black mana!) by exiling cards from your graveyard. Each card you exile reduces the cost by (1)
Some decks will use the graveyard as a resource, so they will have cards that allow you to move cards directly from your own library to graveyard (often called “milling”). The idea is to win before running out of cards in the library, taking advantages of the additional bonuses provided by having more cards in the graveyard (for Murderous Cut, the bonus is having the choice to play it at a lower cost)
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Reply to jhaydreamer2's tweet:
@jhaydreamer2 if its a temp password for you to change on usage, that’s find. If it’s your existing pw, that’s terrible @jesterinexile
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Reply to ohhhace's tweet:
@ohhhace twitter meron din? Or via VPN lang?
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Maybe people who get angry at others not liking their work or their arguments should stay off the internet until they learn to chill
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Someone on quora asked:
Adverbs don’t work the same way in Tagalog as they do in English. Most adverbs will be a phrase combining an adjective with something else, with the exact form depending on context, usually “nang”.
For example, “deeply”’s root adjective is “deep”, which is “malalim” in Tagalog.
“He was stabbed deeply by a knife” -> “Sinaksak sya nang malalim gamit ang kutsilyo”
“I loved her deeply” -> Minahal ko sya nang malalim.
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Someone on quora asked:
What is a PHP function that can be used to store information about a user?
On the client-side, you need to use cookies.
You can set a cookie using setcookie: PHP setcookie() Function (The link also describes how to get the cookie values)
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Someone on quora asked:
Don’t worry too much about what people think about you. Other people generally think about us a lot less often than we imagine.
Be a true person. That means being open and honest and unpretentious. It also means being comfortable with yourself, flaws and all.
Be interested in other people. Genuinely interested. When you meet someone new, try to find something you find interesting about them and ask them more about it.
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Someone on quora asked:
I feel that I’m a boring person, what should I do to be less boring?
Don’t feel bad for being a quiet person. Quiet people are cool.
Don’t compare yourself to other people. Not everyone has to be the life of the party.
Instead of worrying about being a quiet person or whether other people see you as boring, ask yourself this: are you a true person?
Being a true person means that you are honest and open. It means that you are comfortable enough with yourself that you don’t mind talking about your own interests and passions when other people are interested and keeping quiet when they are not. It means not being pretentious and not changing yourself simply to become more popular or liked.
When you are a true person, you don’t have to worry about whether you are boring or interesting. Here is a truth: every person can be boring or interesting to other people, it all depends on whether those other people share the same passions or culture with you. I work in software development, so when I encounter another software developer in the wild, we can easily have good conversations even if we are strangers. Being a true person facilitates this: when people see that you are honest and open and unpretentious, those who share your interests and passions will be more likely to gravitate to you.
Aside from that, one other tip I can give you is: be interested in other people. What you think of other people matters more to them, so if you show interest in them, they are more likely to show an interest in you. This means being willing to listen to them and their stories to figure out where their interest lies, and asking them questions to make them elaborate on those interests.
Being a true person helps here too, because people can easily spot fake interest. Be genuinely interested in other people. Even if you dislike another person, try to find something about him that you find interesting and try to make him talk more about it.
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Someone on quora asked:
How do I become a kinder, selfless, generous, thoughtful person?
The fact that you recognize this as a fault is already a very good first step.
Being kinder, selfless, generous, thoughtful…these are all basically traits of empathy, which means being more attuned to the needs and feelings of other people instead of simply being absorbed in your own.
I imagine you could try one or more of the following:
- when in a conversation with someone, try to listen more to what the other person is saying instead of waiting for your turn to speak. Once the other person is done speaking, try to echo back what she is saying like “So if I understand this correctly, what you’re saying is …?” If after clarification it turns out that person has a problem, ask her what you can do to help
- after a nontrivial encounter with another person, try to take stock and ask yourself some questions: did the other person have a problem? Did I notice and acknowledge it and maybe offer some help? What seemed to be his/her state of mind?
- Try to study the body language of people you know. What do they look like when they are happy or sad or distressed or angry? Do they tend to stand or sit a particular way? Where do their arms go? Do they have any nervous tics?
Like any other skill, learning to be more empathic will take practice, so do not be disheartened if you find it difficult, just keep trying :D
