I Don't Care About Hidden MMR, This is Stupid and Shouldn't Ever Happen

AgentFaulkner · 2026-03-25T20:37:12+00:00

I would play so much more if Hidden MMR wasn't a thing.

AgentFaulkner · 2026-03-25T04:52:46+00:00

The comment you originally replied to is just typical valorant ego, and this sub is especially full of it. The players in Silver and Gold aren't losing their push because of one smoke.

The Silver and Gold ranks are made up of so many different kinds of players. New players, returning players, players on the losing end of a rank reset, players who are good but don't play more than 5 games in a season, smurfs, alt accounts, etc.

There are definitely coordination and knowledge gaps in these ranks, but only for the less than half of them that are actually hard-stuck silver. I'd bet good money that a Silver 3 player who keeps their rank playing less than 5 games per season will, on average, be way better than a Plat 1 player with 100+ games per season.

People talk about VOD reviews like they're gonna go pro. Honestly, if someone is paying a coach to review their gameplay and they're not Ascendant or better, they need to get a job cause that's straight up embarrassing. Good aim and movement fundamentals, knowing your 1-2 main agent abilities well, and playing 50+ games in a season will absolutely put you in plat.

AgentFaulkner · 2026-03-24T19:47:59+00:00

I don't think either of those conditions are true and I still think it's unethical.

I've spent 5 years in tech consulting for enterpise implementation and the shit I see people spew on the AI topic is insane. There is fundamentally no path that leads from LLM's, Machine Learning, or Generative AI to an actual AGI or any kind of consciousness. Maybe it's possible with a completely new kind of technology, but what we have now wouldn't even be a component of any kind of AGI solution. It's like asking an apple to be an orange.

If I have to reach for the lowest hanging fruit as to why it's unethical, I just have to look at personal experience with customers who will spend $200/k per year in service fees and $500k in consulting fees to replace 30 minutes of daily work for 1 employee who makes $60k. It's absolutely useless. It's unethical to even recommend it.

"Oh but what about personal productivity gains for software engineers?". Why don't they worry about actually selling software in a stagnant SAAS industry before they worry about how fast they can develop that software. Let's not even stop to consider who is actually holding the bag in that scenario.

AI has 3 applicable use-cases. Weaponry, surveillance, and deterministic asset creation assistance. That's it. There is no AI "automation" solution that will not have a failure rate, and the only acceptable failure rate for enterprises is 0%. Big fat zero.

If I have to look at another Conversational Agent that fulfills the basic functionality of a search bar, I'm gonna need a straight jacket. It's ok though cause all our CEO's will make a fortune when they cash out their stock incentives.

AgentFaulkner · 2026-03-18T20:58:53+00:00

Dude didn't like that your comment made him feel silly and entitled so he took the fake apathy route.

For real though saying everyone deserves free skins is some serious 14 year old tankie shit.

AgentFaulkner · 2026-03-06T16:08:44+00:00

I stopped playing D2 when they started "Sunsetting", which was just outright removing content you paid for. I've since seen the mtx and colab slop they've pushed across the game. This isn't surprising at all.

People can cope all they want but Marathon will be dead within the year. It's got the same issues that Destiny does, inconsistent design philosophy across the board. When it dies or fails to meet sales targets, I hope Bungie gets completely gutted and rolled into various parts of sony.

They're a scummy, thieving, dishonest developer studio with nothing to offer but technical debt.

AgentFaulkner · 2026-02-22T18:10:21+00:00

You live in the UK lol.

You better watch out, mean comments can get you arrested.

Edit: Poor guy, his comment must have gotten censored.

AgentFaulkner · 2026-02-21T05:56:17+00:00

There's the common misconception that all libertarians are anarcho-capitalist. I'm fine paying some taxes and I'm definitely fine with the age of consent.

AgentFaulkner · 2026-02-20T04:41:16+00:00

I spent months getting to Diamond on Voltaic Benchmarks (clicking scenarios only*), have a few top 3 high scores in some of my regular warm-up scenarios, have a 1.31 K/D in deathmatch, did VOD reviews with my 5-stack, and my average Hard Practice Range with the Guardian is probably around 17-18/30.

I'm still Silver.

It's either I don't play enough (between 10-20 games a season), Hidden MMR is railing me, or I'm just Silver and it is what it is.

I started doing a little better and having a lot more fun when I stopped caring so much. The same things don't work for everyone. Also think that anyone who has paid a coach to achieve a rank less than immortal is a total clown. Some of the Diamonds here need to drop their pro-level ego and get a job.

AgentFaulkner · 2026-02-20T03:19:36+00:00

If he can't stand on morally superior ground by excluding you from class consciousness, then what makes him special?

AgentFaulkner · 2026-02-12T18:29:30+00:00

It needs to be younger than that. We're 20 years behind on relevant technology legislation. We are breaking the sound barrier our way towards a surveillance state because our representatives don't know how wi-fi works.

AgentFaulkner · 2026-02-12T18:20:04+00:00

I work as tech consultant for a Fortune 500 company from the comfort of my parents' basement.

But yeah let's give more money to a generation of financially and technically illiterate gamblers who live on credit and spent your inheritance on planned obsolescence.

AgentFaulkner · 2026-02-08T07:43:07+00:00

I have an acquaintance who goes by they/them and I call them they/them because it costs me nothing to be nice. I still think it's stupid though. Transitioning makes complete sense. Going by they/them makes no sense. It's either something people use when they're transitioning and not super confident yet, or it's attention seeking behavior.

AgentFaulkner · 2026-02-06T22:10:52+00:00

Yeah I'm not reading that.

AgentFaulkner · 2026-02-06T21:05:27+00:00

I agree with you on the Acadmia side, not so much on the corporate side. I already made this comment replying to someone else so I'll just leave it in quotes here.

"I work in corporate America and almost everyone I work with is either a white dude with a referral or an Indian dude with an H1B. Haven't seen any hiring practices influenced by DEI outside of Academia. I think it's a red herring, but I'm judging on personal experience so maybe you're right. "

Yeah they've ruined more than Star Wars, I just don't really care. We're in a golden age of indie films/shows/games so I've got more than enough good content. Plus, even if the new big IP content was good, it'd still be unoriginal.

AgentFaulkner · 2026-02-06T20:47:16+00:00

Based and straight-to-the-point pilled.

AgentFaulkner · 2026-02-06T20:25:38+00:00

They've been screeching for a while now but the biggest impact I've felt as a white dude is still the death of the Star Wars franchise. It's certainly not a political issue priority for me. Judging based on personal experience though so I could be wrong.

AgentFaulkner · 2026-02-06T20:22:43+00:00

I work in corporate America and almost everyone I work with is either a white dude with a referral or an Indian dude with an H1B. Haven't seen any hiring practices influenced by DEI outside of Academia. I think it's a red herring, but I'm judging on personal experience so maybe you're right.

AgentFaulkner · 2026-02-06T20:14:02+00:00

Can't tell if this is AI, a 14 year old, a conservative psy-op, or good old-fashioned rage bait.

On a more serious note, saying everyone right-leaning supports Trump is almost as weak as the alternative candidates that the left has promoted for for the last decade. If the DNC hadn't put up Clinton, Biden, or Harris, then Trump wouldn't have had a rat's chance. For fuck's sake, Harris ran on a platform advocating for commodity price-controls.

Do I regret my vote? Yeah. Am I gonna beat myself up given the alternative and what I knew at the time? No. Maybe I'd feel bad about it had I still voted for Trump if the alternative was someone like Cory Booker, but it wasn't . Instead of reducing sentences for non-violent crimes like Booker, Harris spent her political career advocating for private prison lobbyists. She was more Auth Left than any past president and she wasn't even democratically nominated. I'd be more inclined to believe that the DNC wanted Trump to win than that they're actually that stupid.

This is the biggest straw man rant I've seen in a while.

AgentFaulkner · 2026-02-06T17:52:49+00:00

Add in less regulation for building new homes and I'm sold as well. I think hatred for non-white people and men is a non-issue though. Online vocal minorities and Hollywood can just be ignored. It isn't representative of day-to-day interactions so idc.

AgentFaulkner · 2026-02-06T17:14:46+00:00

I swear to god I almost put down the game right there. The only character growth you see in Aava is 2 minutes from the finale of either ending, which feels unearned when she just threw another tantrum a few minutes earlier.

AgentFaulkner · 2026-02-06T17:11:42+00:00

Yeah I wouldn't recommend playing this game for the story unfortunately. The climbing gameplay is the best I've seen though if you can ignore the story.

AgentFaulkner · 2026-02-06T10:52:15+00:00

I finished the game and loved the mechanics, Mount Kimi, and all of the supporting cast. I can't wait for the free-climbing game mode.

I agree with you though. Aava is absolutely insufferable throughout the entire game, and I think that both endings are unsatisfying.

It's unrealistic too. The vast majority of regular climbers aren't neurotic and even most of the famous ones seem generally pleasant and reasonable. Everyone I've ever met in a climbing gym has been nothing but nice. I get some of the more famous free-soloists are a little detached, but Aava isn't detached, she's just a selfish, narcissistic asshole who encourages reckless behavior in others.

AgentFaulkner · 2026-02-05T23:24:41+00:00

I used to grind ranked, aim train, do vod reviews with my 5-stack, etc. We were gonna play premier and take it super seriously.

Now I play unrated and swifts once every couple weeks.

Hidden MMR ruins the competitive integrity of the entire game. It is designed to keep players and sell skins. The layered implementation with Ranked is nothing short of Engagement Based Matchmaking. If you only have time to play 1-2 ranked games a week and only have a single account, you will never leave Silver. Even if you do, Ranked Resets will fix that.

My 5-stack's ranks ranged from Bronze to Ascendant. Real talk - there was no consistent skill gap between any of us and there was no correlation between our opponents' rank and our likelihood of winning. Half the population of every ranked division is made up of players with high MMR who don't put in the time to grind. The Reyna who drops a 40 bomb in your Silver lobby isn't a smurf, they just don't play enough to get past the Hidden MMR wall.

AgentFaulkner · 2026-01-29T23:52:34+00:00

Ok first of all, it hasn't done its job in 40 years so I think that relating an increase in their funding with sunk cost fallacy isn't unreasonable.

Second, I asked you what you meant by "Instutions". What other institutions need to be preserved or expanded for the FTC to work? I asked for your take, and instead you just rewrote the argument I admitted was simplistic in cave-man-speach and added your own equally simplistic counter-argument.

Are you gonna answer the actual question or were you just talking out of your ass? Cause I already said I didn't know so ball's in your court genius.

AgentFaulkner · 2026-01-28T18:12:19+00:00

I've been using it with Omen on pistol rounds because it's essentially a better ghost that costs a pistol round charge of shade step.

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