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January 6th, 2016

Losses

I recently had a bad game in the process of playing Malphite, and I wanted to write out my feelings about losing and having a bad game. Usually, when I have a bad game I tend to attempt to avoid League for the days aftwerwards, and this is a behavior that I would like to remove using CBT, so let’s talk about bad games and losing. Having a bad game and losing makes me feel... Read more

December 31st, 2015

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Gaming

I have recently noticed that I seem to get upset when I have a particularly bad loss while playing the game “League of Legends”. Within the LoL community, this effect is known as tilting, in which a player becomes frustrated and thier gameplay is negatively impacted due to their anger/frustration/sadness of losing.

In the past, I have used Cognitive Behavioral Therapy in order to help deal with depression and other negative thoughts. In the interest... Read more

December 1st, 2015

Ready, Set, Go

As part of day one of Devcember I decided to instead start delving into learning Go. There is a site called Starfighters that is close to being released that will host a series of development related coding challenges. Since I am relatively sure that I will need an easy way to do various HTTP requests I have decided to spend some time this month working on a library that will abstract the process of... Read more

November 30th, 2015

December Coding Challenge Pledge

I have recently been accepted into the Georgia Tech Online Masters program and have been eager to start the related coursework to obtain the degree. Coincidentally, there happens to be a challenge for the month of December at http://devember.org/ which involves spending at least one hour per day programming or learning about programming. The concept of spending a small amount of free time learning about programming sounds appealing to me since it will provide... Read more

September 12th, 2015

A Gentle Theme

A new material design utilising theme for your Jekyll blog. Built on Material Design Lite.

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There are many cool features bundled with Paper such as:

  • Full Github Pages support.
  • Responsive layout.
  • Dynamic search with jekyll-search.
  • Post tags and categories.
  • Autor Github, Twitter, bio.
  • Pagination.
  • Syntax highlighting with pygments.
  • Disqus comments.
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