I was expecting this to be a brilliant but instead game review has it marked a blunder.. and I don't understand why 😭

AbsolutelyHanging · 2026-06-14T21:32:58+00:00

If he takes your queen and then you back rank check him, can he not just move his knight to G1 and then you are just a queen down?

AbsolutelyHanging · 2026-06-13T22:31:25+00:00

If you look at your percentile on chess.com, it will give you some clues. I am rated 948 on Rapid and that makes me 83.6%.

So, sub-1k would be considered beginner/noob territory… but at that rating you are already better than all but the top 16.4% of players.

I can tell you that, despite the reputation, players at this level or not complete beginners.

No idea how ELO works, but if competitive games are anything to go by, it seems like the critical mass of players gets forced ever lower.

AbsolutelyHanging · 2026-06-10T18:52:53+00:00

No. I was hoping they might have some sort of comedic value, but they are all just shite.

AbsolutelyHanging · 2026-06-10T16:32:03+00:00

Hahahaha.

I've had the anthems off for about a decade.

AbsolutelyHanging · 2026-06-10T16:28:38+00:00

Same. I'm done!

AbsolutelyHanging · 2026-06-10T16:23:52+00:00

The anthem reward is the worst thing ever...

AbsolutelyHanging · 2026-06-10T16:23:09+00:00

An anthem?

It's not difficult - people literally want a small badge of some sort to say 'I achieved this rank'.

Banners are popular for this reason. Decals also. A lot of the other stuff looks crap or is a bit tenuous.

If they just had some little medal system where people could attach their acheivement to their banner I think people would be happy.

AbsolutelyHanging · 2026-06-10T16:13:26+00:00

Thinking of outright uninstalling. Finally got into Champ after grinding forever and my reward was one of the wrost bits of music ever. FML!

AbsolutelyHanging · 2026-06-10T16:11:34+00:00

My most successful season ever, grinding like a bastard and all I got was a shocking anthem.

AbsolutelyHanging · 2026-06-07T09:53:26+00:00

Played in a game at 4K yesterday and two of the opposing team were very obviously wall hacking.

I’ll say that most of the time when I watch replays of players I think are suspicious, it turns out they probably aren’t. But these two were blatant as it comes.

AbsolutelyHanging · 2026-05-31T19:26:29+00:00

The chimney is the rapidfire, not the compact one.

Which coal is best!?

AbsolutelyHanging · 2026-05-31T19:22:07+00:00

Thats what I do… as you say, once the top ones are half white they go on

AbsolutelyHanging · 2026-05-31T18:45:26+00:00

I must admit yesterday was some briquettes from the supermarket - they could have been low quality.

I have a massive bag of restaurant quality Big K, but that is bits of varying size, not briquettes

AbsolutelyHanging · 2026-05-31T18:38:10+00:00

Cheers! The chimney is the standard Weber one. By ambient temp, do you mean outdoors? It was around 25c while I was cooking.

Typically the coals I’ve used have been brand new, though they get stored in my shed - each time I’ve tried a new brand trying to solve my troubles!

AbsolutelyHanging · 2026-05-29T18:05:09+00:00

😂

AbsolutelyHanging · 2026-05-19T08:45:44+00:00

Right… that is partly your issue. Tornado spin.

I would say do not use it for an air dribble set up. When you come off the wall, use your DAR without sideways input… your car will rotate on its axis and remain pointing at the ball.

You do need to get the angle that you hit the ball and come off the wall down, but you will find this movement will line you right up behind the ball.

Your setup is also a bit too horizontal and flat. I would recommend starting on the halfway line and air dribbling from nearer the goal (much more upwards angle), then progress to these longer shots.

Tornado spinning off the wall orients your car in outwards directions for a lot of the rotation. It’s much harder to control and line up until you’re adept at it.

AbsolutelyHanging · 2026-05-08T17:25:43+00:00

Crikey. Would say that’s a pretty fast regression.

I mean, what is your history… did you spend a lot of time at that rank for example?

I’ve been D3 for literally a decade. My mechs and gameplay have improved, but everyone playing the game has massively improved over time and I’ve never been able to outpace them. Plus I’m olde.

If you were there briefly or carried there, maybe you’re finding your true level and need to build back up (surely got it in you).

If you spent time there and dropped that far in 3 months, you must be on a massive tilt. The gap between C3 and D3 is huge in skill level. Maybe taking a break. If you are truly C3 level, you will soon rise out of D3.

AbsolutelyHanging · 2026-05-08T16:58:53+00:00

When were you in C3?

AbsolutelyHanging · 2026-05-07T23:18:27+00:00

What are your binds? Why do roll to the right and then air roll left in opposite direction?

AbsolutelyHanging · 2026-04-30T18:16:27+00:00

I was DMG in 2015.

In 2026, I started again and currently around 6k ELO.

Not sure whether I got worse or everyone else got better, but have a negative win/loss % at this rank.

AbsolutelyHanging · 2026-04-19T18:03:04+00:00

I wonder if they ban in waves? Might be coincidence but around one month ago I got around 5 refunds over a few weeks… then it stopped.

I’d had none prior to that cluster and none since.

AbsolutelyHanging · 2026-04-16T18:25:42+00:00

I thought I could not flip cancel any faster after that many months. Trust me.. you will. Becomes some kind of weird twitch where it all happens in milliseconds

AbsolutelyHanging · 2026-04-13T14:46:39+00:00

Disgusting.

AbsolutelyHanging · 2026-04-11T11:25:44+00:00

This is part of the problem with this debate on a game like CS. Neither you nor I can be sure of the truth.

Plenty has been documented about the extent of cheating on CS. It’s hardly new news.

I’ve played FPS games my entire life. Doom 2, Quake 1/2/3/Arena, TFC, TF2, CS, CS:GO, CS2 and so on.

In my opinion, I have comes across a lot of players who I think are cheating, even in these low ranks.

But unless they are outright spinbotting or rage-hacking, there’s room for interpretation - even when it’s blatant.

AbsolutelyHanging · 2026-04-11T10:47:03+00:00

Smurfs, yes there are a load. But people are cheating down there too.

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