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People don't even go inside anymore. When I got this job I thought it's gonna be all chill where I never have to interact with anyone at least before like 5 pm on weekdays but nah, every customer (and a bunch of other people) are all outside 24/7. Well part of it is no one has jobs anymore except poor people like us and retail workers or whatever. Everyone else (even in just regular middle class neighborhoods) is independently wealthy and never has to go to work which also surprised me but that's a separate issue.

Bc if I was rich like that I wouldn't just be sitting in my yard all the time. I at least would be inside watching Netflix or something. And that's the craziest part too is half the time I pull up on these customers they got no music, no book, no friends even, no nothing. They're just sitting there in a chair raw dogging the outdoors at 11 AM on a Tuesday. And some of them are just waiting for me but so many I swear are just out there like that for hours and hours every day.

I remember my first shift where it rained I was like "well this sucks but at least I get the whole outside to myself now. Surely they'll not just be sitting out in this". Nope. Wrong. They all just moved to sitting in the garage with the door open. Still no music or nothing. Still just raw dogging it staring out into space. Even rain can't stop them anymore even though it used to be one of the most reliable signals that all the normies are about to go inside.

Then there's the background NPCs which aren't customers and those ones have their own strange behaviors. They cut their grass like every day. And when they aren't cutting their grass they are just walking down the sidewalk. But keep in mind we are in little suburb zones which are residential only zoning. There's nothing nearby you can walk to. But still there is endless walkers but nobody knows where they are going.

I feel like we need a new meme like "touch wifi" or something bc I don't remember it being like this when I was a kid. When I would play outside in the summer pretty much no one else would be outside most of the day except other kids.

This is something that I don't understand tbh why we can't have any fun items in the game. The closest thing to a fun item is like zhonya bc its the only item thats allowed to have a really strong active. But there are so many cool things they could do for items like having an item that hard CCs enemies, or one that gives an actual dash (not a 1mm dash like protobelt), or items that let you go invis. And before you say this will be unbalanceable its not, DotA has a lot of OP item actives but they manage to balance it and it makes building in the game a lot more fun and meaningful. Instead of just thinking "which stat stick gives the best stats considering how much gold I have?" like how building normally goes in league, the items can actually really change how you play the game.

I am guessing it will either be something extremely cheesy like Nunu or Singed or just something extremely overpowered like Riven or Graves but I'm interested to see what the numbers are actually like. I've tried looking for them but can't find anything.

I can't believe I fell for the walking meme in my first 5 months doing this. Bc past two months I've been running and now the job went from being stressful to chill af. I sprint to all my stops for the first few hours or until I get tired and can get 40-50/hour done in suburbs. Then rest of the day I can just chill and relax, take both my 15 min breaks, and even take a bunch of unofficial 5 min breaks in a tote fort in the back of the van, and easily get done on time at a leisurely pace doing like 15-20/hr. Or if I want to go home early I can just keep up the pace and go home hours early. Not to mention the endorphins got me feeling euphoric through my shift, I sleep like a baby every night, and I'm starting to get in really good shape.

So I got the $1 meximelt today and tbh it is decent, but it is so small that $1 doesn't even really feel like a special deal at all. Legit just feels like the price that it should be normally. Idk why tf it would be $3 normally when cheesy double beef burrito is basically double the amount of similar ingredients for the same price. So yet another new item that doesn't shift the meta at all

I was completely miserable in my teens and then like panicking about how little time I had left to fix my life in my early 20s. I actually detached from most things fairly early on but it was a few things like the desire to have friendships and romantic relationships that was upsetting me up until I was about 25. Then it was kind of sudden but I became pretty much detached from those as well. Like the lack of them does not cause pain anymore and I feel pretty content with the things I can enjoy (solo activities and hobbies).

Of course AvPD still causes me stress but atp its like only stressing me when I'm in an active social situation. I'm no longer really being stressed or depressed by the things that it makes me lack. But like having to go to work and interact with people irl and stuff I still really hate doing bc of the constant, constant cringe. But as long as I'm alone I feel pretty good. Feels like life would be 100% chill if I didn't have to work or could like work from home 100% independently.

Any role you pick now (except jungle because the role itself is by definition cringe) there is now a cringe option that competes with the historical, non-cringe expectation, and if you don't pick the cringe yourself you will be cringed on. And this is by design. Riot could fix any of these things easily but instead have actually done things to exacerbate it (like nerfing doran's shield and second wind to make ranged top stronger) proving that they want this and so it won't change. If you aren't picking mage bot and ranged top now you are just trolling yourself for no reason. You are picking based on how you want the game to be instead of how it actually is

Such a stupid concept from the start. Let's design a step van except it runs out of gas in 5 seconds and takes hours to refill and can't be refilled at a gas station. Now we can design everything around that constraint like making the AC not work. Also lets give it flat panels so it implodes upon contact with anything, but at least it looks like a roly poly which is a critical design objective.

This is better than just having more step vans somehow. Don't ask how

I'm thinking a lot of the common knowledge on this is just based on how it works in high elo and doesn't really apply in lower elos.

Like one of the best examples to this for me is Nasus. People say he spikes hard in mid game and then starts falling off. I guess bc if you're in higher elo once ADC has 100% crit and LDR you're just going to get cc'd and they're going to one shot you before you can get on anyone. But that doesn't really happen in low elo because 1 the ADCs position very badly and 2 the supports and anyone else doesn't peel ever, they only engage. As a result it feels like the champ never falls off and just infinite scales.

An opposite example of this is ranged champs that are supposed to scale well. Like Vayne or Kayle are two big ones. They don't seem to scale that well in low elo bc its too hard to position and play mechanically well enough in 5v5s late game when a lot of things can one shot you and a lot is going on. I see a lot of Vayne's stomping lane then being useless later bc the mechanics in teamfights are too hard.

I hate this champ so much. Idk feels like if you misuse E or misplay the wave a single time you just auto die. And if you die a single time in lane then its just over you can't play the game.

And this is with no jungle interference. If jg comes once you just auto lose even if you played perfectly it feels like and now can't play the game. Atp I'm considering just starting banning it bc its way more common of a pick than most of the known ultra aids matchups.

Any tips though? Bc I don't even see people mentioning it when discussing the worst Jax matchups normally

What's crazy is if we sucked at our jobs 1% as much as the warehouse mfs do we would be fired in like 1 week max. Like imagine if we just delivered multiple packages to the wrong house every single day like how they put them in the wrong tote every single day? Wouldn't be allowed. Imagine if we walked 0.1 mph everywhere? Imagine if we just sucked at everything and didn't even do anything? Not allowed around here if you're a driver sadly

- stock cargo van, no shelves, no delivery door, not even a bathroom door

- a $10 temu android with playstation 2 loading screens every time you press something instead of a scanner

- no dolly, no bags

- no fucking anything

We're just raw dogging delivery. Imagine how much easier this job could be if we just had actual tools for it. It feels very amateurish. Like Amazon is putting no thought or care into it or something. Like nah we don't deliver enough packages to bother having a dedicated tool for it. Just use random stock vans and phones off the shelf

I was on a rural route and I pulled up to one stop and saw the little dog warning on my app (like every other house has). But I looked around and didn't see anything so I got out. Walked about 50 feet away to the door and sat the packages down and was about to take my pic then suddenly I hear a bunch of barking and I turned around and saw three huge German Shepherds around my van. They didn't notice me yet and were just barking around my van but fuck my heart was racing at that point. Bc they were big and numerous enough that they for sure could kill me.

I didn't know what to do tbh. I was lowkey panicking and thought for a min if I should sprint to my van but decided against it. Bc I'd have to run past them to get to it and thought for sure that would guarantee they chase after me and I knew I couldn't outrun them and get in the van in time.

So I decided to just walk and not turn my back to them, and call their attention before I got too close. I did that and one of them sprinted up to me barking like crazy. Now my heart rate was like 200 BPM but I just stood still and didn't take my eyes off it and it stopped when it got to me and just sniffed me and kept barking.

Then I walked backwards keeping my eyes on the dogs til I got to my van, opened the door, jumped in, and slammed that shit. Then I looked at my flex app and realized I didn't take a picture of the package. It was a picture required order too lmfao. I took a pic of the dogs. Then like 20 stops later I got charged by a different dog but it was just a run of the mill regular sized dog and only one of them so I wasn't that shook but still pissed bc of the previous experience.

Cuz why in the fuck today do I get a route where all I'm doing is going to business after business and then fuck ass high rise ap*rtments and I have 190 stops, same number as I do on a route that is mostly houses? And even tho its same number of stops its actually way more packages cuz how often ap*rtments get multi stops and businesses like to order one of everything. Gotta be overflow too no one wants to buy an envelope in the big 26. Also the higher floor an ap*rtmentoid is on the more likely that he orders an XL overflow. And of course ap*rtmentoids are special snowflakes and superior to everyone else so we can't leave their precious packages at the exterior door of the building like we do for mere lowly house plebs, that shit gotta be delivered directly to the interior room they happen to live in. Of course USPS won't do this dumb shit though. Cuz they're actually knowers. They just put all the mailboxes in one spot at the bottom and deliver everything there. Same shit in rurals they don't drive down those fuck ass driveways they put mailbox at the end and say drive your own lazy ass down here. I wish we had 1% as much aura as USPS. They don't even use license plates

I already didn't like even actual rural routes to begin with but then I got one that was like a fake rural area which combined all the negatives of rural areas and suburbs into one. Basically it's like I'm on some fucking road in the middle of nowhere yet its like an important connecting road so there's nonstop high speed traffic on it. Then on it for some inexplicable reason there's endless houses right next to each other but all with just long enough driveways that you need to pull in. Why why why the fuck would you ever choose to live here? It's an actual hellscape that you can't walk out of and have to just sit there and listen to constant traffic noise all day if you live there. But apparently that's where everyone wants to live so I'm stuck driving in these driveways then backing out into nonstop high speed traffic all day. Fuck this shit I rather go get bit by the dogs in the real rural areas

Been playing the game for almost 2 years now and I remember hearing the full clear advice all the time in the beginning and it just always produced bad results for me. I mean I was getting bad results with everything considering I was in silver but full clearing was working even worse for me compared to spam ganking.

Bc when I would full clear I would just be useless every single game. Meanwhile when I spam ganked I would be useless in a lot of games but at least useful in the few where my ganks kept working and I got super fed.

And later I realized the reason for that was my mechanics were too bad that I couldn't carry games at all unless I had a huge lead, like a full item advantage, so just coinflipping ganks over and over to try to get that was my best bet even though it wasn't consistent.

After I got better mechanically though at my champs, enough that I could start carrying fights without being insanely fed, I started being able to carry much more consistently and started climbing off full clearing. Or at least I was. I climbed til emerald and now I just been stuck in low emerald for 3 months and not sure how to get out this time

Bc previously I just worked regular jobs where I was at work Mon-Fri between 7-3 to 9-5, and I thought that's what most people did. But nah working as an Amazon driver and being out in the world durign those hours I realized no one is working. If you delivering in a suburb at 11 am on a Tuesday there's gonna be constant traffic somehow. Also every single customer is home. And delivering to a grocery store? That shit gonna be packed too. It's not just retired old people either.

And yeah I get some people work night shift or have days off other than weekends, but there's no way its most of these. Bc btw I'm delivering in a small town mostly, not that many people around to begin with. These mfs do NOT have jobs, but they all have nice cars and houses. I'm thinking like 70% of the population is independently wealthy and we are like a small underclass that thought having a job was normal.

Less against poke champs but against pretty much anything that wants to all in. Like in top lane melee vs melee matchups, or for the ranged playing against melee, it seems like always the best option. It seems like the best for pretty much any support as well. But I see top laners taking ignite more often and supports taking heal or ignite. But why? Btw even on ADC I was taking exhaust against some champs like Tristana and its just OP af. It means they can't all in you ever when its up unless they're legit like 10-0. The amount of gold value it gives you is ridiculous. But I feel like it might just be undervalued bc it doesn't provide direct visual feedback? Like ignite you see a health bar tick down, heal you say health bar go up, barrier you see a shield eat dmg, exhaust you see nothing, only a lack of what dmg would have been there.

Bc it seems so stupid to me and doesn't actually save time at all. Yes, they can save 5 mins immediately by pushing us out 5 mins earlier but that ends up wasting way more than 5 mins throughout the day when I now don't know where half my overflows are and have to waste a bunch of time climbing around through the van finding them. Easily can end up wasting 30 mins to even an hour in a day especially on heavy days when the van is completely packed. Or in other words, the days when you are most crunched on time is when it wastes the most time. Actually mind blowing

So stop acting like this remotely explains McDonald's prices. The dollar menu should be about $1.35 today, accounting for inflation. It's pure margins.