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heyyy! I'm planning on writing something for one of the upcoming big bangs and I'm terrified. I've been writing fic for years but I'm newer to writing for stucky and I've never submitted for something like this where there's so many more established and well-known writers. Do you have any advice for participating in a big fan event for the first time?

Hiii darling! Thanks for your message! It's so exciting you're planning on participating in an upcoming big bang!! 🤗 Oohh if you've been writing fic for years then you're going to be absolutely fine, regardless of whether you've written a lot of Stucky before or not! <3 These boys practically write themselves after all! I do know exactly what you mean about feeling lost among better knows and more established writers though. I always feel like that, and definitely when I did my first few bangs.

The first Stucky fic I ever wrote was for the Hell Yeah Bottom Bucky Fest and I had no idea what to expect but it was so much fun! All the bangs have been, really, despite the fact that I always end up regretting every life decision I've ever made towards the end of the process because I can't stick to my writing schedules to save my life 😂 So I guess my biggest tip for you would be to start early, and finish the fic well before your deadline, if at all possible! Doing a bang is lots of fun, but stressing your butt off to make a deadline for something that's supposed to be a hobby is not it lol.

If this is a bang in which you're collaborating with an artist, then I'd also say make sure to establish contact with them as early as possible once you've been paired up, so you can start working out the details with plenty of time. And also - don't despair if your fic isn't picked by an artist right away! There's almost always a huge discrepancy in the number of writers and artists participating in a bang, which means often artists end up taking on more than one fic, so sometimes your fic won't get paired with an artist until the second or third round! It's happened to me a few times and it's a bit discouraging when it happens, but it always turned out alright in the end/ So yeah, don't lose hope if that happens!

Other than that: it's easy to start seeing it as a competition, but that way madness lies. There's really no telling how well any fic is going to do, and why some fics do so much better or worse than others in terms of kudos and hits. It's definitely not just down to the quality of someone's writing or art, so again, if your fic doesn't end up doing as well as you'd maybe hoped, it doesn't mean it's not good. A lot of things factor into a fic's success, and there are so many fics that are amazingly well written that don't have a fraction the kudos some pretty mediocre fics do imo! I'm sure you know this already by the way, but just as a reminder <33 Other than that I think all you need to do is have fun writing the story you want to write, and collaborating with your artist (if that's applicable)!! It's all about doing something you love, in the end ❤️

#have fun!!#stucky #minnie answers

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cindylouwho-2 · 5 years

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RECENT NEWS, RESOURCES & STUDIES, May 2019

Welcome to my latest summary of recent news, resources & studies including search, analytics, content marketing, social media & ecommerce! This covers articles I came across from May 3 to May 30, although some may be older than that.

I am out of town June 10-16, so I cannot predict when the next edition will come out, but I will do my best to make it before the June trip. I’ve recently narrowed my reading list so that I can get through it more quickly and post these more often. If you have any suggestions or comments, please let me know!

TOP NEWS & ARTICLES

If you had your entire promoted listing budget eaten up by clicks on an item with “shoe” in the searchable keywords, contact Etsy to make sure you will be refunded.

Etsy was accidentally suspending some shops for not using Etsy Payments, but they are in ineligible countries. Some but not all drop ship or use fulfillment in countries with Etsy Payments, but that doesn’t appear to explain all the errors.

Mailchimp launches a new marketing platform that integrates multiple marketing needs, not just emails. Pricing will stay the same for existing customers for the time being.

On the same topic, here is a study of various email services, and their different deliver-ability rates.

Etsy is being sued after a child dies, strangled by an amber necklace bought on Etsy. [video & article] This is getting a fair amount of media attention. Not covered in many stories is the fact that the daycare employees didn’t call 911 at first, and the day home had more infants that day than they were licensed for.

Better media attention: disappointed in the long delay for the introduction of the Harriet Tubman $20 bill in the US, an Etsy seller designed a stamp buyers can use to cover up Jackson’s face with Tubman’s. “Harriet Tubman” is a trending search on Etsy frequently since these articles, so this media coverage is really bringing traffic to the site.

Amazon is now using packing machines in a few of its warehouses that replace 12 workers each. They have other warehouse automation, too, & just started work on their hub at the Cincinnati airport. If you need any more evidence that diversification is the key to successful businesses, remember that they make the biggest chunk of their profit on their cloud services.

ETSY NEWS

This year, Etsy’s Maker Cities program (US only) has joined up with Mastercard for their grants. Applications are due July 3, and there is a webinar on June 3 with more info and instructions. [links in article]

They’s also extended their Design Awards submission deadline to June 4. Check out their FAQ if you have any questions.

Etsy released a summer update to their spring/summer trends guide, with some useful search data. Clothing shoppers are interested in vintage styles, “with Etsy searches for “70s” and “90s” up 26% and 7% year over year.” I summarized the earlier report here.

In case you missed it, Etsy released their first quarter financial report for 2019, & I summarized it in the Etsy forum.

In related news, Etsy ranks 3rd in USA Today's list of the top 20 fastest growing retailers in the world, even ahead of Amazon.

Some businesses are competing based on delivery speed, but Etsy is able to do well with much slower shipping. (That’s a nice feature in an article they didn’t write; not all good promotion is paid.)

I can’t remember if I posted this interview with Etsy chief financial officer Rachel Glaser before, so here it is again. [audio file/podcast and short text excerpt. Please note I have contacted Etsy about the photos & search comment, but they have not yet replied, other than with the usual links to Etsy’s search guide.]

Short piece on Etsy’s approach to diversity. Spoiler alert - they like it, and the article links to other materials demonstrating why this is the best approach for businesses.

SEO: GOOGLE & OTHER SEARCH ENGINES

If you want to get your website or blog material ranking faster, Moz has some tips for you. Note that the first part in particular contains advanced-level technical tips, but most of the rest is easier to grasp for non-techies. It’s worth a skim!

But don’t break Wikipedia rules to get your images on top - North Face got caught doing that, & had to apologize. But “[f]rom Leo Burnett Tailor Made's original statement, it seems the agency was anticipating such a reaction to the North Face effort all along. In stunts like these, the ensuing controversy and attention around it can be part of the overall campaign goal and strategy.”

Once your website starts getting Google traffic, it is not unusual for growth to start to slow or even stop completely, but there are things you can do to avoid that.

Despite many people insisting that longer blog posts are necessary for good Google ranking, there is no ideal length for a blog post.

Here’s a good list of free SEO tools; note that some are paid tools that have a limited free version.

Links on other high-quality websites still matter to Google. (Most of us won’t be able to do the link-building that this test did, but the test demonstrates how much the links are worth. So if you aren’t ranking, realize that other people linking to your page is probably a big factor.) Some of your pages might fit perfectly on a resource page/site, if they answer a question or uniquely fill a need. You can find link opportunities on Twitter through following certain hashtags and engaging with the users.

Google search results now include podcasts. “This feature doesn’t only search for the title or meta data of the podcasts but also can search for the audio – as Google transcribes them — directly within the podcast show itself.”

As of July 1, Google will use the mobile version of all new websites for their index, so make sure that you have a good mobile set up on any new websites (or old ones, for that matter, since most web traffic is mobile these days).

There was a possible Google search update around May 9, then May 22, and now maybe May 29th. Google updates its algorithm a lot, if you hadn’t already noticed. "To give you a sense of the scale of the changes that Google considers, in 2010 we conducted 13,311 precision evaluations to see whether proposed algorithm changes improved the quality of its search results, 8,157 side-by-side experiments where it presented two sets of search results to a panel of human testers and had the evaluators rank which set of results was better, and 2,800 click evaluations to see how a small sample of real-life Google users responded to the change.” (and some people think Etsy tests a lot LOL)

CONTENT MARKETING & SOCIAL MEDIA (includes blogging & emails)

Have popular content on one platform/site? You can repurpose it to use elsewhere, for maximum reach. It’s less work than coming up with brand new ideas all of the time!

Micro-influencers may work best for most businesses, because they can speak directly to your target market.

There are proven ways to get more social media followers; it’s not just luck.

Up-to-date infographic on the ideal sizes for social media images, by platform.

Facebook announced several upcoming plans at their annual developer conference, including a desktop redesign. Facebook has also changed the video algorithm to favour posts that people watch for longer, and to disfavour posts that are just repurposing old video.

Tweetdeck is rolling out more updates, including emojis and the ability to set up polls within the app. I use it, & I like it - I wish they had a phone app!

If you are using LinkedIn, you may be missing some great tricks to get more attention.

ONLINE ADVERTISING (SEARCH ENGINES, SOCIAL MEDIA, & OTHERS)

Here’s how you can get better results out of Microsoft ads (formerly Bing ads)

There was a bug in Google ads stats for April 30 & May 1st; they are working on fixing it.

Google advertising can be very confusing, so here as some tips on mistakes you should avoid. [video with transcript] They also recently announced some upcoming changes.

Etsy shops can only buy their own Google Shopping ads through Etsy’s program, or you can let Etsy buy them for your shop, but if you want to advertise your website, here is a great starter guide.

Chrome is giving you more control over cookies so that you can avoid more targeted ads. Some point out this is not necessarily as user-friendly as it sounds - it means Google can stop other companies from tracking their ad performance while Google has all those records through Chrome & other tools.

Facebook is also giving users more control over tracking for ads, & advertisers are not happy.

STATS, DATA, OTHER TRACKING

You are going to be surprised that Russian search engine Yandex has a really good Webmaster tools package.

ECOMMERCE NEWS, IDEAS, TRENDS

Some people are comparing Walmart’s new online wedding shop to Etsy, "with tons of personalized wedding gifts to buy on a budget.”

The coverage of Amazon’s big announcement about one-day shipping with Prime (in the US) mostly missed the fact that Amazon can already deliver to 72% of the US population in one day.

Amazon employees told some third-party sellers that religious items were banned from the site - but it wasn’t true.

Big Commerce now has a plug-in for Wordpress blogs.

As promised, Zibbet has added Etsy to its integrations, which allows you to list on Zibbet and it will automatically be added to Etsy as well. This is only going to be useful once they add other platforms (since Zibbet has no traffic), so shop around if you are interested in this sort of tool, as other companies are doing the same things. Indiemade websites completely integrate with Etsy, for example, and they have more website tools.

BUSINESS & CONSUMER STUDIES, STATS & REPORTS; SOCIOLOGY & PSYCHOLOGY, CUSTOMER SERVICE

With increased discussion of free shipping on Etsy recently, this is a good time to review some of the more recent studies & surveys on the topic. One US report from January shows that buyer expectations in this area continue to increase. Shipping cost is a big factor in purchase decisions, & shipping costs are a common reason for cart abandonment. There are a variety of ways to calculate how to offer free shipping without losing money. (Thank you to Rebecca for the last link!)

If you want more shares on social media, this study on the top 5 reasons people share things online will be useful. But Americans are now more engaged by mobile games than social media, which has implications for app development and advertising.

Googly eyes make people donate more.

Smaller online businesses tend to make very specific types of customer service mistakes that harm your ability to compete. Although there isn’t always much you can do about the fact that “37% of customers expect a response within an hour“.

Can everyone read and understand your web page? Easy-to-understand English is an important aspect of accessibility.

Help Scout produces some fabulous material on customer service; here is a great article on value propositions, with examples, and another on how to collect customer feedback, including analyzing your stats package to see where customers are having trouble with your site.

MISCELLANEOUS (including humour)

Trend alert: more professional women switching purses for backpacks.

You can now control how long Google retains data on you.

You can also join the class action against major US telecom companies that sold your location data.

Another example of a company getting people to post photos so it can develop facial recognition technology.

Some businesses are offering products & services based on your DNA & other biological markers.

Most people worldwide over the age of 15 have a cell phone, although not all are regular users.

If you are concerned about internet privacy, & hate tracking, the browser Brave may be worth a look. (I haven’t tried it yet, but it comes well-recommended from various tech people I respect.)

Burger King has trolled McDonald's in ads & social media posts for years, & it can be pretty funny. “When McDonald’s abruptly and surprisingly lost its trademark on “Big Mac” in the EU earlier this year, Burger King couldn’t help but rub some salt in the wound. BK’s Swedish operations decided to celebrate for a day by offering a menu of “Not Big Macs” such as “The Like a Big Mac, But Actually Big” and “The Big Mac-ish But Flame-Grilled of Course.”

#seo #search engine optimization #search engine marketing #etsynews #analytics #stats #social media #contentmarketing #ecommerce #smallbiz #cindylouwho2newsupdates

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lacquerware · 6 years

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Mega Man should stop presenting its flaws as indispensable features

When I was fifteen, I learned to play the song Malagueña on the piano. It was a laborious project; the culmination of nine years of piano lessons under the tutelage of Mrs. Diane Miller, and the main event for her upcoming student showcase.

This arrangement of the piece was a seven-pager, and somewhere around page four was a problem phrase I kept playing wrong, a rapid two-handed run up the keyboard with tricky fingering. I got to a point where I could play flawlessly up to that phrase, only to flub the phrase every time. Each time I flubbed it, my teacher would stop me and send me back to page 2. “You have to perfect that phrase,” she would say, “so try it again, but first play the preceding two pages, so it’s no longer fresh in your mind by the time you get to it again.” Alas, this would result in more flubs, and after three flubs in a row she would send me back to the beginning of the entire piece. “You’re still not getting it,” she’d say. “So I think we should run through the stuff you’ve already mastered one more time.” I would glance at her, trying to read her intent, and she would stare back at me, bug-eyed and malevolent.

The above story is false,because Mrs. Miller was a kind, intelligent, and non-insane person. Like all people of that description, she understood that you don’t work out a problem area by indiscriminately repeating ALL PRACTICE. When you get one problem wrong on a math quiz, you don’t review the entire textbook. You don’t work on your free throws by drilling layups and then also free throws. You can’t learn to poach an egg by toasting English fucking muffins all day. To suggest otherwise is an act of hostility.

Mega Manhas always carried this hostility. The game dishes out its challenges in neat little screen-sized units, but penalizes your failures with gratuitous setbacks, often requiring you to replay entire stages from the beginning. This makes learning inordinately tedious. You have to retread every yard for every yard gained.

I guess this is a relic of the arcade age, when games were designed with the express intent of punishing players—unless they paid up. Indeed, most of Mega Man’s NES contemporaries inherited this same feature in the form of finite lives and scarce checkpoints, but it never made much sense on home consoles. You could argue that it prolonged the lifespan of each game, but that only held true for the masochists who continued to tolerate this torturous system rather than reallocate all that wasted time to more fruitful pursuits like, I dunno, learning to play piano or poach an egg.

I’ve always liked Mega Man, but it was already starting to feel like a tired concept as early as Mega Man IV. I was about eight years old by then, and starting to catch on that they were running out of boss motifs. Pharaoh Man felt like a red flag.

Mega Man has since proliferated into a multi-faceted franchise spanning more than 120 titles and three decades (and for the record, I’ve played through almost all of them), but it’s never really dispensed with its ancient baggage. Mega Man X brought new visual flare while diversifying the core action; Mega Man Zero imbued the series canon with new consequence and cool factor; Mega Man ZX fused the classic gameplay with the Metroidvania template; but all of these spin-offs continued to punish, punish, punish, to gatekeep their content from the series’ own consumers to no certain end.

When Capcom revealed Mega Man 9, I was momentarily taken with the nostalgia of it, but quickly lost interest when I realized that Capcom had no intent of evolving the series’ concepts, even in basic quality-of-life ways. Lives and weapon energy were still pointlessly commodified, checkpoints sadistically scarce. They’d even removed what few innovations the series had seen to date, such as the slide and the charge shot. Nor did the roster of Robot Masters appear any more inspired than the cast of rejects that had turned me off five installments prior. Capcom had had seventeen years to think about it and all they’d come up with were lame analogs of pastbosses, like Tornado Man and Magma Man. It’s like they thought they hadto retread the same shit beat for beat or people would get confused. Even their ace, Splash Woman, was just another in a long line of water-themed bosses.

Mega Man 10 as a follow-up was downright depressing. Strike Man, Pump Man, and Chill Man are what you get when you realize yesterday was the deadline and all you’ve got is a pen and a cocktail napkin. I can’t fathom that a bunch of game designers sat around brainstorming ideas for Mega Man fucking 10 and someone was like, “Hmm, what about an ice-themed boss.”

Now we have Mega Man 11, the long-awaited, belligerently-demanded revival of the MM franchise after some eight years of dormancy. After playing the demo, I find myself wondering why. Why are we here? Why is Mega Man 11 Capcom’s answer after saying no to Mega Man for eight years? It’s the SAME.

Yes, it looks and sounds nicer and there’re a couple new mechanics—which are themselves comically uninspired takes on the ancient tropes of bullet time* and Devil Trigger—but I’m mystified at how unchanged the formula still is after eight years of seemingly adamant dismissal of the entire franchise, let alone the thirty-one years they could’ve been critically examining it. Do they realize that other developers have been building on this genre since the eighties?

*Weird side note: The tutorial for Mega Man’s new “Speed Gear” ability explains that the gear makes you “move so fast that everything else seems slow,” but in practice Mega Man moves just as slowly as everything else. So it’s not Mega Man who’s moving fast, it’s. . . the player?

Punishment as “Difficulty”

In the Block Man (lol) stage of the demo, there’s a section where you have to jump and slide through elaborate platforms as they scroll toward you, an insta-kill grinding device nipping at your heels all the while. The third platform has very peculiar collision detection, such that your head bonks against the empty space you’re supposed to jump through, seemingly rendering the challenge impossible. This is several screens into the stage but still prior to the first checkpoint (on Normal mode), so every time this platform killed me, I had to start the entire stage over. After about fifteen tries, I discovered that the collision doesn’t trigger if you’re holding left as you make the jump—an illogical thing to do unless you’ve died so many times you’ve run out of other ideas. By the time I cracked this idiosyncrasy, I’d already spent close to an hour replaying the preceding screens over and over for no reason. Why is this still a thing? This is punishment, not difficulty. It contributes to the challenge only in that it makes the experience less fun, “challenging” your resolve to continue playing. Think of all the origami you could be learning. All the old ladies you could be helping cross streets.

The Mega Man games are quite clever in the way they parse out the platforming and shooting in little bite-sized units. Each screen is essentially an action puzzle for you to solve. It would be so logical for each screen break to be a checkpoint, because each screen break isa checkpoint—the start of the next challenge. Games like Super Meat Boy do this, meting (meating?) out their challenges in bite-sized, infinitely repeatable increments. Nobody accuses Super Meat Boy of being too easy because it doesn’t make you repeat the shit you’ve already completed when you fail at the current task. If you wantthat kind of punishment, no one’s stopping you from resetting the game.

Mega Man 11 adds a “Casual” mode which increases the number of checkpoints, but it’s still annoying to me that the more punishing model is treated as the norm while the more logical distribution of checkpoints is treated as a concession. Soulsplayers will tell me to “git gud,” but that’s why I led with the piano analogy. I got damn good at Malagueña, and I still had time left over to do my homework and play video games.

Special Weapons

Using your Special Weapons in Mega Man games is like spending the money you might need to pay rent on stuff you could be getting for free through your well-connected friend Dave. The trial-and-error pairing of the right weapon and the right boss is such an integral part of Mega Man’s progression that any other use of anyspecial weapon becomes a high-risk gamble—unless, of course, you just Google the answers.

I understand the need to impose limits on the more powerful weapons, but games have figured out countless better ways to do this in the thirty-one years since Mega Man 1. Cool-down times. Cool-down meters. Recovery proportional to damage inflicted. Recovery proportional to damage received. Recovery by way of skillful attack, à laMetal Gear Rising. Enemy fire absorption à la Alien Soldier and Radiant Silvergun. Ranger X on the Sega Genesis had solar-powered special weapons; why not steal that idea for this game’s allegedly solar-powered protagonist?

Instead, even in its eleventh installment in two-thousand-goddamn-eighteen, Mega Man still employs an RNG-based item drop system. Replenishing your meter is as simple and menial as finding an enemy spawn point and brainlessly standing and shooting until an enemy happens to drop the energy you need. Don’t forget to cycle over to the gun you want to replenish, or else the battery is wasted, as if Mega Man just eats it by mistake.*

*Later games in the series introduced the Energy Balancer, a purchasable item which automatically refills the weapon that needs refilling even if you don’t have it selected. Why is that a thing you have to buy? Why put a fundamental improvement to the game behind a paywall, virtual or otherwise?

Meanwhile, MM11still employs the same bizarre meter continuity between deaths as past installments. Each death means repeating sections of the stage without reacquiring any previously spent meter, effectively creating a difficulty vortex—the harder this game is, the harder it gets. There was a ruthlessly capitalistic logic to this in the arcade days,but the Mega Man series has never been coin-operated (with a few obscure exceptions). It hasnevermade sense that, often, the best strategy is to voluntarily leap to your death over and over to force a Game Over, just to restart with a full weapon meter as an alternative to the tedium of refilling it manually or facing the boss without it. What is the explanation for this meter continuity in the first place? Are we supposed to think Mega Man is repeatedly exploding and materializing but he can’t materialize a few extra shots from his bubble gun while he’s at it? There’s a multi-faceted idiocy to this whole system.

Rush

Capcom ought to take a long, hard look at Rush, Mega Man’s transforming robot dog companion. It’s hard to believe the same guy who invented a fully autonomous solar-powered robot boy couldn’t design a dog-shaped spring that runs on renewable energy. Special weapons are one thing, but why does Rush have an exhaustible meter? He’s a fucking spring. It makes no sense as a narrative detail nor as an element of game design. What exactly are the designers trying to limit? Your ability to spam high jumps? The logistics of the Rush Coil already do that; you have to set him up like a lawn ornament and he peaces out after a single bound. He’s unspammable, even with a full bar. To begin with, there are rarely that many useful opportunities to use the Rush Coil within a single stage, and energy power-ups are infinite as long as you’re willing to endure the chore of finding them, so it’s not as though the game is challenging you to budget your resources—it’s just discouraging you from searching for those meaningful jump opportunities in the first place. It’s driving you to Google.

Bosses

The Robot Masters have always received special star treatment in the Mega Man games but rarely been very interesting as boss fights. You know the deal: dodge the dizzying hail of projectiles in an empty square room while desperately scrambling to land enough hits with the weakness weapon before you die. Considering all the fanfare these bosses get (mug shot, intro screen, and now reveal trailers), most of them feel kind of interchangeable. Most of them have nearly identical silhouettes and shoot functionally redundant projectiles in superficially different shapes. Every gun is a Lucky Charms marshmallow.

The boss fights actually do seem a little more interesting in Mega Man 11—Block Man in particular stands out with his mid-fight transformation into a hulking colossus. I’d hoped to see more of this in future Mega Mans—fights that evolve and really set each Robot Master apart as a distinct embodiment of its corresponding motif—so maybe they’re onto something this time. Still, it’s a little ridiculous that this game has yet another fire boss, electricity boss, cold boss, and bomb boss. Why are we still here?

Before the mob comes for me, I want to stress that there’s always been lots to love about Mega Man, and I’m glad Capcom is investing in the IP again. I just hope this is the start of a long-term effort to reevaluate and improve the series, not another short-sighted extension of a tired status quo.

#mega man 11 #mm11 #capcom #games #video games #videogames #gaming #reflections #demo #games writing #criticism #rant

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ampalayallen · 4 years

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MY ONLINE CLASS EXPERIENCE

Right from the very start, I was far from excited to attend online classes. I was even hesitant whether to have myself enrolled or not, but here I am, just few days away from finishing this final semester of my second year in college. (Finally, I can escape from all those stress and sleepless nights!)

A factor that drove me to pursue this OL class is the thought of being delayed or left behind. Majority in my batch decided to continue studying regardless of the classes being held virtually, so I thought to myself, carefully, “Papasok ba ako? Kung di kasi ako papasok, maiiwan ako.” (Should I attend school, if not, I might be left behind though). I gave it a lot of thinking, contemplating the consequences I would face in the decision I would take. After few weeks of debating with myself, asking opinion from my friends and family, I confidently took the challenge of pursuing my studies online.

First days that turn into weeks of the OL classes was just meh (A normie kind of thing). Nothing much happened. We were just there, staring on the screens of our phones and laptops, waiting for announcements and all. I was starting to think, should I drop? Should I even continue this? But I thought of the money I spent for tuition, it would be such a waste! (I do not even came from crazy rich Asian household, we just mediocre, HAHAHAH!) There were no formal classes happening yet, just casual greet and meet with the professors in charge with the subjects. By the way, I had four major subjects and two minors. One of the subjects that gave me a hard time is the Labor laws or is known in the code CAS 100. It was intense, nerve-wrecking, and head pounding, LITERALLY! I seriously experience headaches right after classes, especially when we do case digests. Minimum cases we digest were ten! Imagine! That is why I don’t plan on taking up law! I’m too lazy to read sht tons of paper with braincell-shattering words. My vocabulary’s ain’t that wide dude!

Then unto the next chapter, It took a month for us to have formal classes which I find to be wasteful. Like seriously dude, one month?! I do get that the institution was adjusting to this online class like us but, come on! They could’ve done better if they had a prepared and well calculated plan. I could say that this ol class was raw and in need of a lot of improvement not only for the management but also for the faculty.

This online class was full of challenges, more challenging than the face-to-face interaction considering this is the first time that it was held by my university. The experience was a roller coaster one. One day your chilling, laying like a burn out potato on your bed and the next thing you know, you’re already cramming, scratching your head, yawning so loud and filled with big load of pressure due to deadlines. I can’t dude, I just can’t.

Another thing that gave me headache with this online class is the discussion-less learning (This is true, I ain’t bluffing, not even one bit!). Professors just straight away give and upload modules and TADA! It felt like “hey here’s the topic for today, read it and answer the attached activity.” Yow, wtf? I do get that I’m a college stud, I can read and comprehend, but these are all fresh topics with me having a little-to-none amount of knowledge. But, because of this, I learned to feed myself with necessary information. This online class taught me to have a self-teaching for me to be able to absorb all the essential things to understand the module. It also taught me the importance of being resourceful. I can’t depend only to the things given, I had to go and surf myself out on the Internet. Additional information is always a must! (A life hack I seriously want to share and highlight, though it ain’t fresh and unique, HAHAHAHHA!)

Now that this semester is about to reach its end, I think my life is also nearing its end! Just kidding, lololol! Rating my overall experience, maybe out of 5, I’d only give it 2 stars. Like I said, since this is a first time, there are a lot of flaws visible which was experienced not only by yours truly but also majority of the student population, including the messed up class schedule, heavy demands of requirements, shockingly discussion-less learning, and so on and so forth. I believe that these issues will be addressed for a better online class experience for the university’s students for the upcoming semester.

Unfortunately for me, I decided to not have myself enrolled for the next semester and this is final. These online class experience drained all there is inside my head, my body, and my soul. CHAR! Yeah, seriously though, I’m taking a break from all of these. I was able to explain this already to my parents and they just gave me the freedom to do what I want (which I find surprising, I did not expect them to agree with my decision all of a sudden.) So for the meantime, right after I finish this sem (FEW MORE DAYS, FEW MORE HOURS AND I’M GOOD TO GO! WOOO!), my family decided to take a break from city life, especially now that the cases of COVID-19 is continuously rising up. All of us will be going home to our provincial house which is by the way located in Pugo, La Union (Oh how I miss to breath some fresh air!). We’ll be there doing some bungkal of kamote (digging of sweet potatoes) HAHAHHAHA! We’ll be there to have some soul searching (LOL), kidding! We’ll be there to relax our tired nerves and stay away from the threat brought upon by the COVID-19 virus. I’m actually excited and super duperly, looking forward dude!

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Hi Elle! Do you think Daniel has a chance to become world champion? The longer Lewis stays in F1, the smaller his chances of becoming champion is and I assume that Max and Charles will stay in F1 for a long time and I therefore see them becoming champions sooner than Daniel.

And do you think Max has a chance to catch up with Lewis' championship titles? Tbh I think Max would be happy with even one championship. I feel like at Red Bull they focus more on the constructor title than on Max’ personal titles. I see a lot of people saying that Red Bull is really dedicated to Max, but I think they are only dedicated because they know they can win the constructor title with Max, while other teams really show that they also care about their drivers too. Look at Mercedes for an example, they know they can win the next constructor title with Lewis, but they also care about the charities that Lewis supports.

A driver with more talent than Max (don’t know if that’s even possible but hey you never know) driving for Red Bull, will make Red Bull focus more on that driver than Max. And the same people that said that Red Bull is not toxic because they treat Max good will change their mind 🤷‍♂️. And I’m sure that Ziggo Sport and Max’ fan boy Tom Coronel will punch the air (here for it).

A lot of questions I know, take your time to answer. Have a relaxed - if that's possible - Sunday Elle!

hey Anon!

do I think Daniel has a chance to become world champion? hmmm, I don’t really think so. it’s dependent on three things, I think. in order for Daniel to become world champion, he’s too dependent on luck. he has to be lucky enough that Lewis retires and Mercedes will become less dominant, he has to be lucky enough that the McLaren will be a good car (which I think it will) and he has to be lucky enough that Max and Charles experience enough problems for him to score more points. and then there’s also the possibility of Lewis retiring and George taking that seat, which will probably happen. you know, sometimes drivers need a bit of luck to get a good result, but I think for Daniel there are too many (quite big) things that need to happen for him to even have a chance. I think the way Daniel driver is worthy of being a world champion, but there are too many factors out of his hand that are preventing him from getting there. so, to answer your first question; I don’t think we’ll ever see Daniel become a world champion. do I think Max has a chance to catch up with Lewis’ championship titles? not really, but mostly because there are too many drivers around the same age as him, who will also be contending for a world championship in the upcoming years. I personally think that in like, five years, the races will be a constant fight between Max, George and also Charles. they are likely staying in F1 for the same amount of time, as they’re all around the same age. not to take away from Lewis, because he is just an incredible driver and I would even argue the best ever, but he also got lucky with the fact that Mercedes has been dominant in a time where almost nobody on the grid has the same amount of experience as him.

about Red Bull choosing a driver with more talent (let me just call him by his name for a second: George. lol): I’m sure the same situation will arise; Red Bull will focus mostly on their first driver, which results in either the second driver not doing well and being dropped or leaving himself (which, the latter is the most likely scenario for Max then. I doubt he’ll be very accepting of being a second driver). Red Bull has been toxic for years, and I doubt that will change anytime soon. (and I’d love for Tom Coronel to punch the air, there would be nothing that I’d enjoy more than seeing that tbh)

unfortunately not a very relaxed Sunday for me (lots of deadlines coming up), but I still made some progress with school, so I’m satisfied for today. I hope you’re having a good day, Anon! 🧡

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