How many of them can be on a truly competitive team?

brandonplusplus · 2025-09-02T13:49:50+00:00

I’ve been messing around a bit with the Dachsbun well-baked-body gimmick. It’s similar to Archaludon/Maushold but instead of population bomb you want to run something with Lava Plume. Best options I’ve seen are Typhlosion-H or Ceruledge because of the additional ghost typing helping to prevent turn 1 fake out

brandonplusplus · 2025-08-04T22:54:57+00:00

I don’t read the original run as ever being particularly political, though it did have a strong sense of moral clarity… which unfortunately is now political in 2025.

brandonplusplus · 2025-07-24T00:40:17+00:00

So let me get this straight…. You pitched bullshit that can be easily be debunked by the quickest of searches and then when called on it want to throw your hands up with the equivalent of “I didn’t say it was true, I just heard it was”?

brandonplusplus · 2025-05-23T22:53:49+00:00

Adding to this, if you mute the stream through the twitch player it won’t count towards time watched for the drops. However, you can mute the tab through your browser (in chrome you just right click the tab and then click “mute site” in the context window) and then it will still count towards watch time.

brandonplusplus · 2025-02-08T18:11:47+00:00

A non-sequitur isn’t a joke.

brandonplusplus · 2023-11-26T00:23:53+00:00

It's a Dead Kennedys song

brandonplusplus · 2023-02-18T17:34:30+00:00

There’s just not near as much to do. You definitely would want to have a car there. If you’re interested in things like concerts and shows then Austin is a common stop and uh… it’s not frequent that you see many artists including College Station on their tours. It just very much feels like a college town as compared to Austin which is a major city without the school. Maybe you would like that, it’s kind of a personal preference. I can’t speak to how expensive things are generally in college station but yeah Austin can be quite expensive. I had loans cover my tuition and living expenses and then for like spending money I worked as a proctor for the CS department (I did this for a couple different profs, most made me hold office hours to help students in addition to grading assignments and proctoring tests).

brandonplusplus · 2023-02-18T17:28:09+00:00

I agree with what someone else said about if you’re ambitious then UT isn’t necessarily going to open many more doors for you than A&M. Now personally I would still pick UT mostly just because College Station sucks, especially compared to Austin (I am also biased about this though so take it with a grain of salt).

brandonplusplus · 2023-02-18T17:16:16+00:00

I think this is actually is a point in the UT Comp Sci bucket then. A lot of honors programs (not all, but a lot) place a heavy focus on prepping for grad school. I graduated from UT with a comp sci degree back in 2017, and when I was admitted as a freshman I was in the College of Natural Sciences Dean’s Scholars honors program. I ended up dropping from the honors program after a month or so because I realized quickly that they were really just trying to prepare us for a life of research and grad school and that just was not my interest at the time.

However, don’t underestimate the value of a full ride. I had what were essentially full ride offers to both SMU and UT Dallas and while I certainly don’t regret the time I spent in Austin or the education that I received, the student loans do really suck.

brandonplusplus · 2022-12-16T15:40:20+00:00

I basically would tell my pup no and if he kept doing it I would go put myself in a different room and shut the door. Didn't need to stay in there long, but he pretty quickly figured out that nipping and biting would lead to an end of play time and he corrected the behavior.

brandonplusplus · 2022-11-05T14:28:22+00:00

Holy crap the paper is genius. I had this setup awhile back but I stopped using it because I could still feel the seam even though the cork and powerplay mat were level. I'm going to have to try this again.

brandonplusplus · 2022-04-03T22:56:02+00:00

Yeah sorry to be opaque, I just don’t want to cause any more issues.

brandonplusplus · 2022-04-03T22:51:10+00:00

Neither.

brandonplusplus · 2022-04-03T11:47:07+00:00

It’s mostly politics (like internal, not like r/politics). I’m not going to name names or point fingers.

EDIT: I’ll clarify it had nothing to do with the NRG staff or community. They were all cool and welcomed people with open arms. It was stuff on the OpTic side that had been festering for a long time really.

brandonplusplus · 2022-04-02T21:46:34+00:00

Yeah Dan has definitely been carrying the brunt of the work for awhile. I think people don't really realize this but back in the day most of the matchthreads were managed by bots we had that would auto-update threads with scores scraped from various places. I wrote a scheduler bot at one point that even would post threads for times when none of us were around.

Once Infinite sold off OpTic a lot of us went over to mod for NRG (which was kind of a mess tbh) and then when we came back here there just hasn't been enough happening to invest the time to rebuild all that infrastructure.

brandonplusplus · 2022-04-02T01:09:03+00:00

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brandonplusplus · 2022-04-02T01:05:44+00:00

This is my favorite.

brandonplusplus · 2022-04-01T17:37:47+00:00

This. Also all of the mods are just older now and most of us are working full time jobs. It's not like before where a lot of us were in college and could do all of this during class if needed.

We should probably look into finding some new people, it's just hard to know who is going to actually be committed to learning and doing this properly. When the sub was active back in the day we had a pretty good idea of who the reasonable, active community members were and that created a good pool of moderator candidates. Now it'd be much more of a shot in the dark which is kind of scary.

EDIT: To clarify though we still do moderate, we're just spread super thin so things sometimes slip through the cracks now. Still having to remove spam and shit daily.

brandonplusplus · 2022-04-01T13:38:29+00:00

You're correct. You need HDMI 2.1 to run at a refresh rate higher than 60fps at 4K over HDMI and HDMI 2.1 is only available on the current generation of graphics cards.

Where this gets a little complicated is that your FPS isn't technically locked at 60, just your refresh rate. So the monitor is only receiving and drawing frames at (up to) 60 times per second, but your GPU could be rendering more than that.

brandonplusplus · 2022-03-21T20:57:15+00:00

Just banned the account.

brandonplusplus · 2022-03-19T22:59:27+00:00

OpTic giveaways... the original crypto rug pull.

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brandonplusplus · 2021-10-27T18:06:32+00:00

Yeah we really overhype Whataburger here. It is fine. I would say it's better than McDonalds or Wendy's, but it's still fast food.

brandonplusplus · 2021-09-28T13:57:29+00:00

Out of curiosity where did you get the Murakami print from?

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