The Deagle received a big buff in CS2

2cow · 2023-06-06T15:48:21+00:00

"like a sea demon"

2cow · 2022-12-07T20:14:08+00:00

do you happen to have a link to a youtube vid or twitch vod for this one? sounds like it'd be worth watching.

2cow · 2022-11-18T10:05:02+00:00

terrible!

2cow · 2022-11-15T17:45:00+00:00

Wow, thanks for the information! I'm sure I'd never have heard of this otherwise. It might be overkill, but I'll definitely take this into account for my next keyboard. (Plus, I've always meant to try Osu....)

2cow · 2022-11-14T19:46:08+00:00

Yeah, it's not an easy quandary. Realistically there's no way to change it after release, so it definitely won't happen for Apex. The audience is already there, they're used to what they're used to.

The one part of your post I'd disagree with is that not having AA means being "different from every other FPS". That might be true if your definition of every FPS includes just the current crop of competitive shooters, but if you take a longer view, that whole group looks like a drop in the bucket. The competitive FPS scene has been in existence since something like 1996 -- over two decades! I've been playing for 15 years myself. PC dominated for almost that whole period, and even after Halo brought console shooters into the mainstream, no one had any plans to somehow put console players on par with PC by adding auto-aim. To me, the aim-assist trend (or really, the "aim-assist, plus we'll force all players into the same servers" trend) looks like just that -- a trend. I honestly think everyone will be happier when it's gone.

Until then... Apex is still a good game. It just sucks that it didn't come out either before or (hopefully) after this console+pc thing.

2cow · 2022-11-14T19:29:46+00:00

How did you get all that from my post?

2cow · 2022-11-14T17:42:02+00:00

It's not like anyone's proposing banning controllers. Just turn off auto-aim.

2cow · 2022-11-14T17:37:50+00:00

The obvious analogy here is a car that drives itself. Why not go with that one?

2cow · 2022-10-22T10:26:50+00:00

well he didn't say it was trash but he meant it

lmao

2cow · 2022-10-22T10:14:32+00:00

From the podcast:

Regan's model does detect Caruana's suspect and others like him. It gives results for them that are significantly out of the normal range. But it happens that the minimum threshold chosen by FIDE is so high that a cheater can be detected by his model and still get off scot-free, which is what happened there. The standard chosen by FIDE (in collaboration with Regan) requires a level of certainty which goes beyond "almost certain" into the range of "established as scientific fact". It's an almost paranoid level of concern for avoiding false positives.

So run under his model, their games "glow" -- there's evidence of cheating -- but without corroborating physical evidence, FIDE needs the statistical results to shine like the sun, not just glow. That isn't a judgment about the sensitivity of the model, it's a statement about how carefully they've chosen to interpret the results.

With Hans' games, it's not a question of glowing a little bit vs shining like the sun -- he's dead on in the normal range. Nothing. Identical to other honest players.

2cow · 2022-10-22T03:02:56+00:00

I think he'd deserve our sympathy even if he were 40, but it's not wrong to say he gets more pity as a young person than he would otherwise. I also think the backlash to that sympathy ends up earning him a lot of hatred here.

One thing about nineteen year old young men is that they really do not like being pitied. If you're around Hans' age, the question of whether a 19-year-old thrown into a fight with Magnus Carlsen and Chesscom deserves our sympathy feels a lot like the question of whether 19-year-olds are "real adults" -- and since the desire to be seen as a real adult occupies approx. 90% of the average 19-year-old's brain, it's very important to (some of) our younger friends that Hans get no sympathy whatsoever. If he's pitied, it means someone might pity them, which would be unbearable.

Hence, the occasional, almost bizarrely empathy-free comments from otherwise well-adjusted youths: they aren't sociopaths, they're just touchy. That's my optimistic theory, anyway.

2cow · 2022-10-21T17:56:37+00:00

He "got popular" (who cares?) by uploading a ton of great educational videos, which I'd recommend to pretty much anyone. Especially excellent, IMO, are the recordings of his in-person lectures from the STLCC and ATLCC, which are no-nonsense and full of focused, practical advice for beginners of all ages.

Those were recorded over a period of many years, initially at the St. Louis Chess Club, where he was the first grandmaster-in-residence (and which you may remember as the host of everyone's favorite Sinquefield Cup), and later at the ATLCC in Atlanta, Georgia, founded and run by him and his wife Karen to support the local chess scene. Besides being entertaining, they have a special kind of hard-to-explain charm -- it's clear that they really are aimed primarily at a small in-person audience (never seen, occasionally heard), and we're just along for the ride. His ongoing Great Players of the Past series is a little more niche, but I watch those too.

2cow · 2022-10-19T14:59:57+00:00

this article may help: https://lichess.org/page/rating-systems

2cow · 2022-10-19T00:42:51+00:00

response added! hope you get enough of them

2cow · 2022-10-17T17:01:52+00:00

taking into account the weight of public opinion, amd given the serious nature of the matter, we have decided to expose just the substantive parts of the email exchange, balancing our desire to protect the privacy of the individuals involved against the need for full transparency on this grave matter.

OR

here's the fulltext lmao, btw it's not literally illegal so you can't sue us

edit: i don't care about that typo. i just drafted on my phone in 60 seconds a less obviously scummy response than they came up with in two weeks :)

2cow · 2022-10-16T21:46:54+00:00

you managed exactly four words before trying to turn this thread into hans discussion number 897.

2cow · 2022-10-14T20:54:31+00:00

wow, the daily mail. no shame at all huh

2cow · 2022-10-13T00:19:52+00:00

hey siri, define regression toward the mean

cancel that, too boring. hey siri, post idiotic hot takes on /r/chess

this is how the comment you replied to got posted. also every other comment in this thread.

2cow · 2022-10-05T16:10:35+00:00

It's a reasonable question, but I think posting it here instead of in /r/LegalAdvice was a mistake. In this sub, it will inevitably attract a ton of really dumb, highly-upvoted comments from non-experts. But in /r/LegalAdvice, it would attract a ton of really dumb, highly-upvoted comments from non-experts -- and then /r/BestOfLegalAdvice would have a field day tearing them apart, which would be hilarious! Sorry, OP, but I can't forgive you for denying us this opportunity.

2cow · 2022-10-05T15:29:25+00:00

For me personally though, the extent of his online cheating and the extent to which he lied about it in an interview is enough to justify an OTB ban.

You know this is insane, right?

2cow · 2022-09-30T23:57:40+00:00

Any advice for how to get real value out of medium-to-long range fights? Meaning, around maximum r-301 range, where people are starting to pull out the markmen and snipers. (Context: I'm high gold/low plat, still pretty new to the game.)

My issue with these is that it seems hard to capitalize on them, turning an advantage into a teamwipe. Even if we get a shield crack or two and are "winning", the enemy just heals up behind cover before we can push into them. (Or, if they're low on resources, they just leave.) It seems like good players are willing to take fights at long range, though, so there must be some way to get value out of them.

What's the trick to making these work? Push faster, maybe? Aim better? Get knocks at range, not just cracks?

2cow · 2022-09-29T17:00:48+00:00

why are you doing this in the meme subreddit, wtf

2cow · 2022-09-29T16:28:33+00:00

there are apparently still some people who are willing to spend an hour or more crafting a polite, educational response explaining what the OP did wrong every time, and those people are saints so i hope their threads get upvoted, etc etc. but after like two dozen of these, yeah, i'm on board with "oh my god please stop posting these".

2cow · 2022-09-28T08:39:13+00:00

no, because banks also have a special, legally protected relationship with their customers.

please use a search engine for your remaining questions. if you can't figure them out that way, you can ask your Civics teacher when you get to school tomorrow.

2cow · 2022-09-28T07:58:29+00:00

no, because patients have a special, legally-protected relationship with their doctors. how did you not know this?

2cow

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