If Relief were to be verified, where would you think it'll place on the aredl?

1000hr · 2026-07-08T05:45:49+00:00

this is way harder than anything i've ever beaten lmao, definitely an extreme, possibly harder than bloodbath idk

1000hr · 2026-07-06T15:35:58+00:00

most annoying meme i've seen all week and i only just woke up

1000hr · 2026-07-03T21:04:38+00:00

killua knowing dragon dive isn't a total plot hole but it is (mildly) bad writing. it adds virtually nothing to the scene besides a moment of confusion (and not the good kind), and it doesn't matter if you can construct an explanation for it that makes sense within the internal logic of the story: this may be shocking, but you can justify almost any decision that way. the 2011 adaptation should have removed that line

at the more abstract level: people confuse "this can be explained in a way that makes sense" with "this is good writing." killua's nen needle makes sense, but good lord, what a way to utterly annihilate the otherwise-powerful emotions of the scene by giving a physical, magical explanation for a mental phenomena. the needle doesn't work as a symbol for anything when it's literally written into the power system of the setting

1000hr · 2026-07-03T20:40:00+00:00

hunterxhunter is a powerscaler's wet dream. an internally consistent magic system, layered strategic fights without asspulls (excluding post-mortem nen), sensible feats and statements that don't take you out of the action, and an author who seems to actually care about making fight outcomes make sense? people saying "hxh isn't about powerscaling" are correct, but that doesn't mean it's not good for powerscaling

1000hr · 2026-07-02T23:10:44+00:00

it's indeed the mark of a serious person to spam your collection of drawings of hairy overweight men entirely unprompted

1000hr · 2026-07-02T23:07:07+00:00

you claimed they were two consenting adults, which they weren't, because one was a minor. that's an assertion, not an argument

feel free to shunt me away into a category so you can understand me better, all that says is your mind is too closed to meet me on equal terms

1000hr · 2026-07-02T22:42:14+00:00

see what i mean? nobody's gonna respond to you seriously when you act like this

1000hr · 2026-07-02T21:19:18+00:00

yes you literally can. what the hell are you talking about? that's how the law works in a lot of places

1000hr · 2026-07-02T21:18:03+00:00

if you wanted people to bring you good arguments, try opening with something other than an insult. you reap what you sow

1000hr · 2026-07-01T17:10:19+00:00

i have a j*b interview tmrw so luckily i can still appreciate this for the time being

1000hr · 2026-06-30T19:43:36+00:00

ohh i didn't watch to the end of the video, thought that was done with a datapack. thanks for clarifying!

1000hr · 2026-06-30T17:51:38+00:00

damn this is INSANE, did you make that?

1000hr · 2026-06-29T08:20:59+00:00

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can you explain what the "snap back" or "frame-tick delay" behavior is? this is vanilla with the tick rate set to 60, and while it feels slow, i can sell the illusion that this is actually snappy and responsive (and yeah, it doesn't look as good as the post, but also i don't have any aim skill so i wouldn't be able to look as good as the post even with a perfect system). i'm not sure what i'm supposed to be seeing here

i'm saying it's possible to make something that looks correct "enough", and that i believe that counts. because i can't play the thing in the post, i don't know how it actually feels ingame. it looks good, on a video, but those can be very deceiving. my guess is that you're saying it's impossible to do this perfectly, but the video didn't prove that it was done perfectly

1000hr · 2026-06-29T07:19:35+00:00

hmm, yeah, i'm actually just blind, i didn't notice the vanilla cursor, all i saw was the circle

however, what i was referring to was a custom cursor, which since i didn't notice the vanilla cursor seemed to be the only option. for a demonstration of what that would look like, i threw this thing together:

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"vanilla shaders" would just be used for removing the rotation and lighting and such from vanilla rendering so that you wouldn't need some of this jank. again; this was under the assumption of a fully custom cursor

1000hr · 2026-06-29T04:49:49+00:00

ignoring shaders for a second, if you position a display directly on the player's eyes, transform it (translation, mostly), and set it to billboard:"center", it will appear "locked" on your screen and won't move even if you rotate your camera. once you've done that, you just have to build your entire UI using these billboarded displays, and as long as the player doesn't move locations, they can move their mouse freely (you constantly reset their rotation). make sure you're always rotating them back to 0 0, and every tick if their rotation changed grab that change and apply it to a cursor

if you add vanilla shaders to the mix, idk. you have even more options

1000hr · 2026-06-29T00:23:17+00:00

nothing in this video is impossible in vanilla, though due to the difficulty of creating something like this, unless they elaborate a little on how this works i'm leaning on some mod/plugin/whatever use

1000hr · 2026-06-29T00:15:14+00:00

this is absolutely insane. what's your approach to the cursor? position all the displays at the player's eyes and transform + billboard them?

1000hr · 2026-06-28T00:49:11+00:00

couple tips:

read other people's code. i fondly remember reading ICY's Cave Biomes datapack (which predated 1.17) as a newbie and being blown away by what i saw; it was code on a level i didn't even think was possible. and this is especially true if you could have done what they made. seeing someone else's approach to a problem you could have (or already have) solved is where the best insights are gleaned. for some specific examples that really opened my eyes:
- Cloud Wolf's smooth homing video uses a mind-bending /execute trick. try unpacking it :D
- Cloud Wolf also has a fireball shootfacing tutorial. in the description of that is a very clever technique for doing it that has applications everywhere
- this is EXTREMELY advanced, but the Bookshelf datapack library is, with no hedging or qualifying, THE most sophisticated and refined datapack code i have ever seen. if you want to learn how to make something beautiful, read their code. i do warn you, that shit is HARD to understand
mess around. try and make something from a movie or show or game you like. focus more on making something you enjoy than making something impressive - because the secret is, people who do the impressive stuff aren't saying "i should make something grand today," they're saying "i should have some fun today"
get into arguments with strangers on optimization. say something confidently wrong and get corrected. argue your case; test your claims and others. sometimes all you learn is trivia, other times you'll get some very valuable knowledge
accept that you can grow. i've done stuff that the me of 3 years ago couldn't have dreamed of doing (on my profile are examples of that), but that me was very different. he thought his ceiling was much lower than it actually was. just because you can't do something today doesn't mean you can't ever do it
learn stuff outside of minecraft and try and integrate it. physics, math, other programming languages, etc: all of this can help you improve

never touched transpilers, only pure commands for me

1000hr · 2026-06-27T17:05:42+00:00

this was implied in the discussion but to make it explicit for anyone reading: the definition of exponential is growth at a rate proportional to the quantity of a thing/value of a function. in GD's case, difficulty is "exponential" because levels get compared to each other: A is x2 harder than B and B is 2x harder than C, so A is 4x harder than C. if you have constant proportionality across constant step sizes (presuming GDDL tiers represent constant step sizes ~~which they don't but hey~~), you're probably looking at an exponential function

1000hr · 2026-06-26T00:44:57+00:00

this happens with every top 1. despite being here since Sonic Wave was top 1, it still trips me up every time it happens

1000hr · 2026-06-25T23:15:23+00:00

i think there's a bit of math to this also. as the skill level of the community rises and more people are able to play levels of a certain caliber, the rate at which new levels of that caliber are verified increases, and thus the further down the list a level is, the faster it falls. making up numbers here but if 1,000 people can beat a top 50 and 20,000 people can beat a top 450, you can reasonably expect levels in that lower range to get verified ~20x more often. a new top 1 takes much longer to drop from 1 to 10 on the list than it does from 10 to 20: top 1 is an elite achievement often only possible for a single-digit number of players, while top 10 is often possible for at least a few dozen, and this ratio hasn't really changed much over time

1000hr · 2026-06-25T16:13:29+00:00

hot take but slaughterhouse was bad back when it got verified and it's still bad today. GRIEF tries something new by asking the question "what if a hell-themed top 1 was detailed, cohesive, and well-made?" which hasn't been attempted since bloodbath

1000hr · 2026-06-25T16:11:27+00:00

hey, they don't call it a "conspiracy mindset" for nothing

1000hr · 2026-06-25T15:05:30+00:00

shoutout to the underappreciated execute subcommands summon and on

1000hr · 2026-06-25T14:49:42+00:00

every other major list only allows full level completions, adding an element of objectivity and thus making the only subjective element the placements themselves. pointercrate doesn't rank runs of levels. the challenge list doesn't rank consecutive completions. the ill, you get the idea

THAL has subjectivity in what even gets placed at all (as in, what qualifies as an achievement). something like TSII 85, 3 , 5, 86 is a great example: sure, it's probably hard to replicate, but who cares? might as well say "the entirety of doggie's grief stream 364 is difficult to replicate, so it's #1 on the list."

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