u/manix_vii

I think I need to get more serious about this game and climbing. I've managed to luck out as literally just an OTP Zeri in both Bot and the few times I'm mid (if Galio is taken), and I need to have more variety to climb I think.

I've played since..maybe 2021-22?? Started grinding ranked consistently around '24, played about 1-2 games/day with breaks depending on life / my frustration levels of course, and I've managed to randomly get into Emerald!

I say this was a random rank up, as once I got into Plat I, I legit told myself that I couldn't get into Emerald and to just play for fun and learn Zeri even more.. I legit skipped past the promote screen tonight 'cuz I wasn't ready for it haha and it dawned on me that I need to get more serious.

Idefinitely need to expand my champ pool just a teensy bit. Zeri is my baby and I love her but there are times where I can't pick her, so I'm wondering if anyone has any advice on expanding my champ pool as an OTP Zeri, primarily for these purposes:

1. A champ that I can pick in the off chances that Zeri is picked and I need to counter her. I used to pick Ashe but I play like shit with her, I need another that clicks better. I used to play Jhin a lot but I don't think he's a good counter unless the Zeri doesn't know what she's doing or their supp ints.
2. A champ that plays similar to Zeri that I can just switch to if I'm hypothetically having a bad day on her / if she gets picked. I started w/ Kai'Sa before Zeri came out but she never "clicked" like Zeri did. I might revisit her. I also might try Yunara, I see her recommended a lot.
3. An AP pick if my team somehow doesn't choose one. Hell I might just do Brand because he's freelo, or whatever AP champ is broken in bot lane. I hate APs in botlane, this is, like, a last last resort

I'm really only thinking of adding one off main and another side if both aren't a good option, so maybe 1-2 other core ADC's and an AP pick. This is also mainly to see what other OTP Zeri's like running alongside her that meshes with her playstyle! Can't wait to see everyone's picks!

EDIT: ALSO, not sure if I should try learning a new champ with another account or just play in Draft. I'd like it if my MMR isn't affected but I'm pretty sure it is with Draft games, maybe I'm wrong.

I've heard Swiftplay is bad to play too but maybe that's just first impressions from when it was introduced.

TLDR: I moved from a very rigid schedule to a very freeing one. It's your upped my productivity but now I can't prioritize what I want to get done first. How do you find a middleground between getting things done and an open system?

Over the years, I've done my best to push forward with my goals and have gotten somewhat far basically randomly. Rigid systems like hour by hour schedules never worked or stuck. Everything I have accomplished has either come as a result of a deadline being super near and that lighting a fire under my ass, or it's a project that I get done in one sitting no matter how long it takes. Otherwise nothing gets done.

So recently I've been looking at a lot of YouTube videos on the subject (shoutout to Reid from Shameless Nerd) that were the biggest tips I think I needed.

The TLDR was to not plan your schedule to be so rigid, to leave it open and use your free time accordingly. He advised also to live by 5 rules to be more productive:

1. Make up your bed (one small good thing to start the day)
2. Do nothing (Do the task or go be bored.)
3. Plan around your laziness (track what days or hours you're high energy or low energy)
4. Make a list that's NOT a to-do list (use it as a "Get Started / First Things" list, just 5 tasks to get your main task started) (use checkboxes, apparently they feel better)
5. Eat healthier so you won't feel like shit most of the time
6. (BONUS) Also put away your damn phone, it's the most daily timesink modern society has.

So I followed this regiment to a T. Started tracking my weight and macros, reduced the lists of my top priority projects to First Things lists, made up my bed every day this past week and set it in my habit app. Anytime I have an hour or two of free time I pick one thing to work on and I work on it, either for that whole timeframe or switch midway to something else, just ANYTHING besides being bored. I still like using a schedule because it helps me know what to expect generally in my days. I setup an hourly weekly one and only put down the hours I work my non-negotiables (work hours, chores, meals, gym time) and the rest as free time. It's been really relieving actually being able to count my free time hours and know what my windows are to get shit done. But, I find I get things done, yes, but not in an order that I want...

I have multiple projects (right now 7) going on concurrently, multiple comic ideas in the works, a game concept and illustrations I want to finish at a decent pace. I've ordered them in order of importance, the most important being this 24 pager because it's a gift for a loved one, the rest can fall after.

But with this system (or lack thereof) I find I can't work on it reliably. I CAN work on it, but very sparingly, about as much if not lesser time than the other projects.

It's like in my head, rationally I know it's the most important so I need to dedicate more time to it, but for some reason my brain doesn't want to listen at all and works on the other stuff as well. Which is, better than before??? But I really want to get this comic done before the year ends and I think I can do it if I lock in, it's just hard because now instead of being so rigid and getting nothing done and feeling bad about it, not I get SOME of it done but at a very slow pace and still feeling bad about it.

Anyways, sorry for the rant. I feel that all of it's important so it's staying but please, any help would be appreciated.

Relative newcomer to the scene, just wanted to ask a question that I can't find the answer to that I wanted to pose to the community: what's your favorite time to queue up and what makes that your favorite time??

I know generally that the time to queue up against the most players will be the evenings during the weekday and all of the weekend generally. But that's just about getting matches quick, I'm thinking of quality of the matches. I'm trying to play against people who are mainly trying to improve instead of blow off some steam and I think changing the time slot of when I play might help.

Coming from team games like League, I used to track my win rates by time of day and noticed massive swings in match quality depending on when I played (mornings had fewer tilters, evenings had more griefers). This also had to do with me playing better before I went to bed vs. before going to work (overnights).

Now in SF6, I’m noticing the exact opposite.

• Morning queues feel fucking brutal. Down here in Silver, players feel much sharper and consistent that I genuinely think how am I in the same ELO. This is every game I play (SF6, GGST, Avatar, Tokon). I played against mostly high tiers like Mai's and Ryu's, it felt like every 2nd-3rd match was one of the two.
• Yet evening queues (6-8P), feels completely chaotic with rage-quitters and opponents that either are on the same level as me or are REALLY bad. But at least I played against many different characters instead of just the top tiers.

So, I wanted to see what other people think are the best times of day to hop on. What time window do you find gives you the most consistent, high quality sets, and why? I wanted to see what everyone else thinks is their favorite time to play, nothing like "play when you want to / when you can", because obviously I'll find my own time if I keep at it, but it'd be nice seeing what others think on the subject since everyone is different.

Relative newcomer to the scene, just wanted to ask a question that I can't find the answer to that I wanted to pose to the community: what's your favorite time to queue up and what makes that your favorite time??

I know generally that the time to queue up against the most players will be the evenings during the weekday and all of the weekend generally. But that's just about getting matches quick, I'm thinking of quality of the matches. I'm trying to play against people who are mainly trying to improve instead of blow off some steam and I think changing the time slot of when I play might help.

Coming from team games like League, I used to track my win rates by time of day and noticed massive swings in match quality depending on when I played (mornings had fewer tilters, evenings had more griefers). This also had to do with me playing better before I went to bed vs. before going to work (overnights).

Now in SF6 and other fighters, I’m noticing the exact opposite.

• Morning queues feel fucking brutal. Down here in Silver, players feel much sharper and consistent that I genuinely think how am I in the same ELO. This is every game I play (SF6, GGST, Avatar, Tokon). In SF6, I played against mostly high tiers like Mai's and Ryu's, it felt like every 2nd-3rd match was one of the two.
• Yet evening queues (6-8P), feels completely chaotic with rage-quitters and opponents that either are on the same level as me or are REALLY bad. But at least I played against many different characters instead of just the top tiers.

So, I wanted to see what other people think are the best times of day to hop on. What time window do you find gives you the most consistent, high quality sets, and why? I wanted to see what everyone else thinks is their favorite time to play, nothing like "play when you want to / when you can", because obviously I'll find my own time if I keep at it, but it'd be nice seeing what others think on the subject since everyone is different.

I've tried viewing a video on multiple Firefox based browsers (Fennec, Ironfox, WaterFox, basic Firefox) and all of them didn't story picture in picture as far as I've seen.

The setting is enabled in the overall app settings so it's not that.

I want to use these browsers due to them having powerful extension support, literally just having a pop up blocker is a game changer. I'd also like full sync between this browser and Zen on the desktop. But to fully replace my old browser it NEEDS PiP, otherwise I'm switching back and forth which isn't bad, but it's a hassle

I've tried viewing a video on multiple Firefox based browsers (Fennec, Ironfox, WaterFox, basic Firefox) and all of them didn't story picture in picture as far as I've seen.

The setting is enabled in the overall app settings so it's not that.

I want to use these browsers due to them having powerful extension support, literally just having a pop up blocker is a game changer. I'd also like full sync between this browser and Zen on the desktop. But to fully replace my old browser it NEEDS PiP, otherwise I'm switching back and forth which isn't bad, but it's a hassle

For reference I'm using the default Morphe patches.

Whenever I'm using data, for some reason some videos just stop loading completely. This is mainly annoying when I'm on the go just listening to music through one of my playlists. I'll be on auto play, it'll go to the next track, then be stuck loading, and the only fix is to skip to the next one. I assume this is because the ones I've listened to more it's already preloaded somehow??

Also, another annoyance is that sometimes the video will stop playing when I go back and forth from having YT up and it playing in the background. It used to switch seamlessly, now the audio will cut off and I'll have to go back and forth until it fixes itself.

I'm not sure if this is common, sometimes there's a setting that I'll have to turn off that I didn't know about or I may have to use different patches. If anyone could help me out that'd be much appreciated

How do you work on your hobbies / side hustles when off the clock? I'm trying to get into a rhythm but I still can't and I'm wondering if anyone has gone through the same thing, possibly in a creative field.

I am a comics artist and illustrator. Or, at least I want to be. I want to make character art commissions and eventually create pages for the comics industry. For this to be done, I need to make work consistently and put my art out there, but I can't seem to figure my shit out. However, these are both are difficult to get done when I am off work and I'd like to be able to push my creativity forward instead of stagnating when off the clock.

In an ideal world, I'd want to be able to go home, sleep, then wake up and create and do it all over again. But it almost never works this way. Some days after work, I'm just too tired, or I sleep too late because I have to work a different shift (9p-5a or 10p-6a are usually fine, but I dread anytime they throw 11p-7a my way).

I would like to just say screw it and make my art once I have an off day; take the full day off and just pump stuff out. But without the time limit, or the pressure of getting stuff done before a shift, I lose focus and either don't start at all, instead just doomscrolling or playing games, or I am doing things willy nilly instead of making a finished product when I have the time to do it. This is probably my ADHD talking. No, right now I can't get meds, unless anyone knows of something mystical OTC or something else that could help.

It's really frustrating because I've decided with my therapist that I need to switch between comics-mode and commission-mode every month, and working on character commissions is hard because I'm not sure how to stand out in the market just yet, and working on comic pages takes so long that I can lose interest very easily mid-way through the month. This previous month there was a deadline for a competition so this didn't happen, but I have no clue what kept me pushing even when I knew I wouldn't finish in time. I'm told I have a "style", but it's not distinct enough imo and I'm not confident enough in it yet.

I also don't even work full-time, I'm only part time (32h/week), so technically I have 3 days off, but I really don't! I work F-M overnights, hang w/ fam Tuesdays, hang w/ my GF Wednesdays, then I have time to myself either those same nights, or Thursday fully off. But I'm usually slacking off!

I'm not sure if I'm doing something wrong or just doing too much. I want to push forward while not being lazy but not burning myself out, and it's really hard figuring out the line.

How do you work on your hobbies / side hustles when off the clock? I'm trying to get into a rhythm but I still can't and I'm wondering if anyone has gone through the same thing, possibly in a creative field. The rest of the post lists stuff specific to that industry, but the cinch is how you guys work on any hobby or side hustle when you're home.

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I am a comics artist and illustrator. Or, at least I want to be. I want to make character art commissions and eventually create pages for the comics industry. For this to be done, I need to make work consistently and figure my shit out. However, these are both are difficult to get done when I am off work and I'd like to be able to push my creativity forward instead of stagnating when off the clock.

In an ideal world, I'd want to be able to go home, sleep till 2-3, then wake up and create and do it all over again. But it almost never works this way. Some days after work, I'm just too tired, or I sleep too late because I have to work a different shift (9p-5a or 10p-6a are usually fine, but I dread anytime they throw 11p-7a my way).

I would like to just say screw it and make my art once I have an off day; take the full day off and just pump stuff out. But without the time limit, or the pressure of getting stuff done before a shift, I lose focus and either don't start at all, instead just doomscrolling or playing games, or I am doing things willy nilly instead of making a finished product when I have the time to do it. This is probably my ADHD talking. No, right now I can't get meds, unless anyone knows of something mystical OTC or something else that could help.

It's really frustrating because I've decided with my therapist that I need to switch between comics-mode and commission-mode every month, and working on character commissions is hard because I'm not sure how to stand out in the market just yet, and working on comic pages takes so long that I can lose interest very easily mid-way through the month. This previous month there was a deadline for a competition so this didn't happen, but I have no clue what kept me pushing even when I knew I wouldn't finish in time. I'm told I have a "style", but it's not distinct enough imo and I'm not confident enough in it yet.

I also don't even work full-time, I'm only part time (32h/week), so technically I have 3 days off, but I really don't! I work F-M overnights, hang w/ fam Tuesdays, hang w/ my GF Wednesdays, then I have time to myself either those same nights, or Thursday fully off. But I'm usually slacking off!

I'm not sure if I'm doing something wrong or just doing too much. I want to push forward while not being lazy but not burning myself out, and it's really hard figuring out the line.