u/0x0x0xOx

This has been happening more and more for me. Maybe I'm buying the wrong shoes? For example, my old Ferragamos and Allen Edmonds fit perfect. My recent purchases, including new ferragamos, Bridlens, and Juliettas (Thai brand), they have massive slippages. Makes it unbearable to walk.

Anything that can clinically be done about it? When I size down, I immediately run out of interior volume and toes start to get painful.

I've tried heel grips - minor improvements. I've tried tongue pads - no difference whatsoever. Any suggestions please?

I use Roger’s in Central for my 3 piece suit and shirts needs. I now have a need to mass produce (3-5 or so) suit trousers (pants only) for daily office wear in different, varied fabrics. I don’t think I want to pay ~1,800 for office pants. Wondering if anyone knows a good tailor that can produce decent looking pants with decent quality wool flannel fabric that does not cost over $1,000. Probably not. But still worth a shot? Thanks

My 5-man ARAM stack is actually decent. Well-oiled, balanced, and usually hovering around that high Gold / low Plat mode MMR. I’m not claiming to be a pro, but I’m a tank main, and can usually land a Blaze E stun 8 out of 10 times.

Then we ran into this ETC.

Every single time I’d lay the oil and go for E (and even when i wasn’t laying the oil down), he’d nullify the charge with W before I even made contact.

Every. Single. Time.

It felt like hitting an impenetrable wall; I don’t think we even peeled a single HP off their towers. We ended up dropping 3 games back-to-back against the same 3-stack + rando’s.

His response time was actually disgusting.

Is this what the Diamond/Master ceiling feels like? Did I just run into the final boss of ETC mains, or is the skill gap between Plat and the upper tiers really this suffocating?

Someone please confirm that this level of mechanical gatekeeping is normal, because that was humbling…

Enemy had Sonia and Varian so went with show of force variant of AA Alarak. Sonya thought he had me at 20% life bar but q hit and I was giving him 900 crit AA dmg at 1.6x attack speed. This build is busted on melees man. Just thought I would share that.