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Elo hell doesn’t exist?

October 16, 2013
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Hell it does. I’ll define it in a way that denying its existence would mean that you’re totally clueless about playing League.

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Birthday rant

October 11, 2013
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I really don’t care if I lose. Well, maybe I do. Definitely not so much if it’s a good game. Define good game? Well matched, 5v5. Both teams have roughly the same kills and the difference in gold earned isn’t over 3 thousand.

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The League system hates me

September 9, 2013
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The people in #troll-base are probably getting bored of my constant complains about bronze by now. “If you can’t carry yourself out, then you don’t deserve to get out,” is my personal philosophy regarding the bottommost of tiers (and probably all the others as well). That’s a pure question of skill, however.

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Licence

August 16, 2013
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I called the driving licence center.

“Hello, I’d like to get a Japanese licence based on my Hungarian one. I have all the paperwork and translations. What are the fees?”
“2200 yen for the exam, and 1500 (or something along those lines) for car use.” (I don’t have a car, by the way.)
“I’ve been told that I don’t have to take an exam. Hungary is in the Geneva convention.”
“What country are you from?”
“Hungary.” (Duh I just said it like 2 times already.)
“Right, then you don’t have to take the exam.”
“So how much will it cost?”
“2200 yen for the exam, 1500 for car use and further 2200 if you passed the exam.” (You what mate?)

Networks

July 2, 2013
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I just got my USB wifi adapter and new mouse today, and of course my first thing was to set up network sharing. It went in a flash on Windows. I installed the wifi adapter’s drivers, and it sorted out the rest. Internet sharing was pretty much automatic.

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Chromium

July 1, 2013
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I’ve used Chromium on my linux desktop for years now without any problems. The built-in JavaScript console and other dev features make it very convenient when i suddenly decide i wanna hack some sites, and also it syncs all my bookmarks and passwords with other Chrome/Chromium browsers running on my Windows boot or by now, on my laptop.

I noted earlier how uploading a picture to twitter on Windows 8 from Chromium on my laptop freezes the whole machine for minutes, but i thought that was just because i had a 720p video, multiple browser tabs and an irc client running too (now guess what was i doing).

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Newcomer

July 1, 2013
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So in preparation for the longer periods i’ll be spending away from home during the summer (and also a “long-time investment”), i bought an ASUS X201E notebook. It’s not a powerhorse, but it’s cheap and good enough for what i need it for (translating and checking email). It arrived the other day, and i had some fun setting it up.

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The charm of code

June 20, 2013
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The past few weeks i’ve had a few chances to look at code. Snippets showing the newest cutting edge features of PHP. A fun online JavaScript console one of my twitter friends made. A multifunctional IRC bot written in Python. Some fun pieces of Ruby code. My own archives from the Java class I took last semester.

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Unity again

May 14, 2013
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Remember how I said two years ago that Ubuntu devs should first get Unity to work and then put it in a live release? Well, it all worked quite well… Until the last distro update messed things up again as usual.

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Ozzfest 2013 Japan

May 14, 2013
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It was great. (As expected.) There were awesome bands that i’d never heard about before. On the first day I was drenched in sweat (and very grateful that i had about 2000 calories for breakfast) by the fourth artist on stage, and by the end of the day i could hardly turn my head.

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