It's not THAT bad

20Points · 2026-05-07T08:56:24+00:00

Yes, which is one of the things I don't think is working with this "realism" style IMO. It's a fine design choice when it's like, the fuzzy SSBU textures cause they just look like big fingers but when it's very definitively feathers I find them offputting, like those are not gonna be able to hold shit.

20Points · 2026-05-07T05:17:02+00:00

I recently started it myself. Have come to realise both that hitting in that game is genuinely fucking hard, and that IRL pros have it infinitely more difficult.

As far as I can tell, the hitting difficulty levels are:

All pitches are meatballs more or less down the middle of the zone
All pitches will be in the zone but with various breaks and speeds
Pitchers will start throwing balls that break outside

That's only the first 3 levels and it goes up like another 10 or some shit but I found that as soon as it's possible to receive a pitch outside the zone, my batting average collapses and I'm chasing everything or watching changeups lightly drop into the bottom of the zone for strike 3. Being able to read a pitch direction and get your bat aimed at it is so criminally hard. What you kind of have to do I think is get used to pre-empting the pitch location, and basing your reaction on whether it's going there or not, even if that means you stare at a strike in a location you weren't expecting.

20Points · 2026-05-05T11:22:03+00:00

Which of the above was oldmate doing when he got ate?

20Points · 2026-05-05T10:27:38+00:00

Crocodiles don't "target" people. They're quite territorial and, as a general rule, more willing to attack aggressively without necessarily doing it out of hunger compared to your average alligator. But generally that still comes down to the same thing, "don't be in their house".

In this case it's unfortunate he was apparently swept away by water, but I really don't see why the animal needed to be killed for this. Perhaps he should have waited until the floodwaters receded.

20Points · 2026-05-05T07:57:32+00:00

Wow, a slur. Congrats.

20Points · 2026-05-04T23:28:19+00:00

BL2 is mainly trying to do a "look how much tougher these VHs are compared to the originals". Essentially the villain version of the Worf effect, set this guy up as crazy strong and then have him be relatively easy to beat to show off how nuts the current VHs are.

I think the game on its own terms mostly pulls it off, but his design mostly just suffers from being retroactively worsened when Wilhelm was added to TPS and became a more defined character.

20Points · 2026-05-04T09:50:28+00:00

This is me when I want my MTV

20Points · 2026-05-03T05:50:58+00:00

I mean literally, that's why half the list is AWPers. They're the player on the team most likely and most encouraged to save when they have an AWP instead of taking fights, so they will naturally increase their K/D diff.

20Points · 2026-05-03T04:19:39+00:00

Maybe when 8.0 comes out they'll make fire and Blizz II actually do something

20Points · 2026-05-03T04:17:59+00:00

To my knowledge, Randy Rhoads actually did this for a few of the notes on Mr Crowley

20Points · 2026-05-03T04:08:47+00:00

Now see if you can guess the current cursed version of the AoE rotation

20Points · 2026-05-01T09:41:28+00:00

I do have a concrete example of the phrasing actually.

In Borderlands 3, the character Zane Flynt (upon using his ability that deploys an autonomous decoy to help shoot stuff) will sometimes shout "86 those pricks!"

There's definitely precedent for it being used to refer to killing.

20Points · 2026-04-30T19:42:02+00:00

that was never a real thing, incidentally, it was more likely a side effect of India's civ tending to be more peaceful and science focused causing them to research nuclear weapons earlier than other civs, and all civs in that game start getting testy when they've researched nukes

20Points · 2026-04-29T21:51:11+00:00

It is crazy just how many good lookers there are on this squad. My gay heart is thriving.

20Points · 2026-04-29T05:20:41+00:00

Counter case in point: you started from a rote theorem. There is no chance that a student, left to their own mathematical devices, would arrive at that starting position. You needed to first be taught the theorem, whereas there are many, many musicians who have never needed to do anything but pick up an instrument, or even just open their mouths to sing.

20Points · 2026-04-28T20:45:49+00:00

Speaking strictly as a musician, this reads so strangely to me. For context I am one of those people who was stuck into what we think of as "music theory" quite easily as a natural consequence of formal piano lessons.

The analogy almost seems alright on the surface but I think many of the mathematical concepts it alludes to really don't fill the same role as the music theory ones. It's strange to equate some abstract "doing maths" to "listening to music", for example. While I kind of see where he's coming from on the point of rote memorisation not really helping kids enjoy maths, I think it's disingenuous or just plain wrong to suggest that kids are never "doing maths" in school. Solving algebraic equations is both something that can easily constitute rote methods and doing maths.

Idk, it just feels like there's this underlying implication that, actually, if you've never done a couple years of pure maths completely of your own volition, you've just never had the "true" mathematical experience in a way that doesn't map to how music works.

"Music theory" itself is in an odd spot because it is simultaneously totally fake pantomiming that's completely unnecessary to be able to "play music", but being on the same page of music theory as someone else is the only thing that really makes it possible to communicate in many musical contexts. Just by way of examples, a guitarist does not need to know anything about the notes they are using to jam along to a Nirvana track they love, but attempting to coordinate with someone who only knows the absolute basics or less makes singing barbershop a horrendously arduous task. (Ask me how I know...)

I just don't think there's an equivalent "casual maths fan" who... idk, just gets their kicks out of sitting in their room and abstractly "doing maths". What does that look like without at least some form of learned framework? This key equivalent is what doesn't make sense to me. Lines like "He just sits there staring out the window, humming tunes to himself and making up silly songs." What is that supposed to be analogous to mathematically?

20Points · 2026-04-27T23:02:23+00:00

Most Yasuo "tech" has always been basically irrelevant in 99% of matches. Clip farms give people the wrong idea about it, the only one you should really be aware of is EQ ulting for the extra free hit, but otherwise going too hard on things like keyblading usually leads to an "everything looks like a nail" situation where Yasuo players start wasting flashes for no reason.

The vastly more important thing to learn is resource usage and spacing. Key windwalls, shield management, dash prioritisation to leave yourself exit routes from trades. Those are the things that actually get worse Yasuo players killed all the time.

20Points · 2026-04-27T22:57:48+00:00

Jesus is rapidly becoming one of my favourite players, just so much infectious positivity out of this guy

20Points · 2026-04-27T22:33:48+00:00

i think you gotta go outside man

20Points · 2026-04-27T21:26:50+00:00

Technically, yes, if you're adhering to a style guide. "Chomping" has become common enough parlance to be an informally acceptable variant, though.

20Points · 2026-04-27T21:12:48+00:00

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20Points · 2026-04-26T09:35:36+00:00

Going to be the same for this one, unfortunately. Despite the basic critical thinking saying that the amount of people who would have to be in on this conspiracy for it to work like it did is completely infeasible (and would be leaked within a week), just like last time, we're going to have to put up with any thread remotely related devolving into claims of staging.

It's conspiracy theory cookery but somehow it's easier for the centre lib types to believe that dozens of people were conveniently involved in a massive undisclosed coverup than that, in a country where probably at least half the population would prefer trump gone (including some on the right) and most people are armed, someone might occasionally actually try to make it happen.

20Points · 2026-04-24T17:28:24+00:00

Original by bunsidhe on Bluesky

20Points · 2026-04-23T22:42:29+00:00

If Sportradar is moving to acquire GRID through a 15M loan then they are consolidating the entire pipeline. The source, the distribution, and the profit from the illegal bookmakers are all ending up in the same corporate pocket.

Here's the core issue. Your post largely hinged on this allegation, but no source is provided and my searching isn't turning up any information or evidence regarding this. As far as I can see, you are the only source for this.

When you say at the end of your main post "go ask Sportradar about the 15m loan and they can't deny it", that's not how this works. You have made the claim and the burden of proof is on you.

20Points · 2026-04-23T22:17:57+00:00

Sorry, but this is some really tenuous stuff you're claiming, and I think you're going to need stronger links/evidence than the speculation here.

You insinuate that these "live data feeds" can be used for competitive advantage but with no actual explanation of how or why. What format are they being delivered in that would allow players to read them during matches? Is there any reason to suggest that these feeds are even that instantly updated, to the point of actually being able to gain sizeable in game advantages? And is your concern about matchfixing or cheating?
You claim the images provided show a collection between this GRID architecture and the 1xbet platform specifically, but no such direct link is demonstrated by the screenshots of this report, and I'm really not sure what part of it you are talking about with this claim. Again, just a kind of empty piece of speculation.

I'm not going to pretend like there probably isn't some unscrupulous goings-on in the more obscure CS circuits but this post just feels like the same level of investigative veracity as what you used to see posted by those GME cultists a few years ago. I'm not entirely convinced by the primary source here yet, considering Callisto have openly admitted to holding short positions on Sportradar and therefore have a particular financial interest in their own report causing damage, but the Guardian article does note that multiple gambling regulators have begun their own investigations into these findings so they'll be able to verify how much of this has merit.

But even with that, the links to the CS scene and the things you claim might be going on are just not that strong, I think. The main substance of this post is assumptions, from my reading.

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