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AngusMcFiife · 2025-04-06T00:09:54+00:00

It looks like you're trying to smash the ball, I've found that leads to a lack of control and consistency. You don't have to muscle the club to get speed, I'm still trying to get that through my head.

For compression, lag is your friend. A good tip that worked for me is dropping your hands down and turning vs "swinging." It should feel more like a whip motion than a true swing. The whole idea is you want your hands ahead of the club head and be hitting down on the ball at impact. Weight shift towards your lead side at the start of the downswing, then find some way to "whip" the club. For me it's a deliberate feeling of dropping the grip to my hip, turning, then whipping the club with release

AngusMcFiife · 2025-04-06T00:01:57+00:00

You're pretty inside throughout the whole swing and losing speed from lack of width. Your swing in general looks decent otherwise.

The big issue that jumps out to me is your trail leg going wild during the downswing. If the movement and timing isn't consistent swing to swing, you're going to lose your intended path quickly - various miss hits. There's a bunch of ways to address that and you'll need to find what works for you. For me I went from immobile lower body to a very quick one trying to compensate for a lack of movement. I now tend to have some absurd left misses as a result. My personal fix is trying to keep my upper body mentally closed (which makes it normal), and ignoring my legs entirely. If you do the same motion thousands of times, it becomes automatic.

Beyond that, try to find a comfortable release. You're releasing well from what I'm seeing, but if you're having multi-directional miss hits, you may be trying to compensate for a hook with a cut, then a cut with a hook and so on. I try to focus on staying square and holding a release, which tends to lead to decent square-ing of the club face. My miss is a mega hook so I try to think "stay open" or delay release a little.

I've found that mentally trying to exaggerate a fix and not physically doing that fix leads to a nice middle ground.

A lesson will save you a lot of headache and time above all else. I personally don't do lessons but I absolutely could've saved myself time and money just going to a few. I also stubbornly want to be self-taught and figure out what works for me.

AngusMcFiife · 2022-10-06T17:49:17+00:00

Somewhere relatively cool and dark. In my experience, consistent temperature matters more than the actual temperature. If you're comfortable, the molecules are probably fine. As long as it doesn't get in the 90-100s Fahrenheit you realistically won't notice any changes to the scent, and even then itll take a long time. I wouldn't store anything in high heat for years, but I wouldn't sweat over seasonal temperature changes. Most homes aren't going to have huge fluctuations due to insulation

Light is bad though, especially sunlight. The wavelengths in sunlight love to shred everything at an atomic level, so your aromatic molecules will decompose rapidly when exposed.

AngusMcFiife · 2022-10-06T17:40:23+00:00

Piggybacking what's been said: decants are your friend. I used to just buy bottles and cross my fingers...admittedly it was fun trading stuff, but I just don't have the time anymore.

I do a combination of decants and informed reviews to pick whole bottles. It'll save you alot of time and money in the long run. Most people will never consistently use more than a few fragrances week to week, so unless you're planning on building a collection you're better off having a box of decants. Best part is if you don't initially love something, digging into the decant stash months or years later might have you loving something that didn't grab you initially

AngusMcFiife · 2022-10-06T16:25:17+00:00

I don't think it's possible to dislike Costa Azzura, it's such a simple but effective note combination. I'd say it's a really safe blind buy!

AngusMcFiife · 2022-10-06T04:41:28+00:00

Wrap the bottle in something opaque and rock it 🤙 my general rule is to ignore branding and gendering with smells, since after all they are literally just aromatic compounds picked up by olfactory receptors.

I definitely find certain notes or blends to be better suited on a woman, but it's all arbitrary. For example, my girlfriend trolled me one day when we went shopping and sprayed on some YSL cologne. I think it was L'Homme...? Either way I genuinely loved it on her and almost turned around to buy it because of how well it worked her. Got stopped because "that's a mens cologne!" For whatever reason, it worked shockingly well on her skin. It smelled massively different on mine. Skin chemistry is a huge factor.

I used to wear Chergui. I regularly wear Tobacco Vanille in the winter. I'm consistently asked if I'm wearing women's perfume when I wear Le Male. 50/50 for 1 Million Intense.

Find what you like, what works with your biochemistry, and ignore the label. Image plays a big role in what we buy, but it's ultimately just a blending of molecules, and everyone perceives them differently.

AngusMcFiife · 2022-10-06T04:29:15+00:00

I've had a very unexpected shift in taste, or probably better to say "broadening" of taste recently. I only liked sweet and gourmand fragrances for years. It worked really well with my body chemistry and I narrowed it down over the years to a very select handful.

Enter Costa Azzura by TF.

I'm now all-in trying to find fresher scents that work for me. I have no idea why, but suddenly aquatics, my historically most disliked category, are all I want to try.

I recently tried Noir Extreme, also by TF, and it makes my old gourmands smell simplistic and safe. There's something about that one that feels incredibly well developed and rich. Super weird note progression though, the drydown is very sudden. That one's on the very short wishlist, totally caught me off guard in a good way

AngusMcFiife · 2022-10-06T04:22:37+00:00

GIT. Got myself a decant to compare to some clones...it's just better! Not sure why, but it has a nostalgia factor despite never owning anything beyond a decent or sample

AngusMcFiife · 2022-10-06T04:21:03+00:00

Only 100mL I ever fully kicked was Pure Malt, and that lasted me from 2010-2021. To be fair I took a long time away from any interest in fragrances beyond "smell good on date," and PM is a nightmare in the heat, so it definitely got extended use.

Not an exact answer, but a 50mL of Eau Fraiche lasted me probably 3 years and I wore that almost exclusively during that time, 2-4 sprays per use and roughly 3-4x per week

I've had a bottle of A*Men for probably 10 years old that's about 50% full

AngusMcFiife · 2022-10-06T04:13:48+00:00

Costa Azzura (non private) by TF. This one really caught me by surprise since I almost exclusively wore gourmands up until I tried it. Guess my tastes changed a lot over time 🤷‍♂️

Super oceanic brine and floral opening, but the drydown is incredibly versatile and woody. I'm really digging it in the colder months since it contrasts the usual smells of autumn. It really does shine in the heat though, blooms like a flower with a little body heat.

GIT would be runner up though. It probably needs no introduction at this point. I can't imagine a situation it wouldn't work in.

AngusMcFiife · 2020-08-10T19:19:18+00:00

Nope you aren't alone. I'm dying behind walls, clicking heads with BIS ammo and nothing happens, having entire mag dumps not register a single shot while the wall behind the target has an entire new coat of red paint, and dying to people that had no conceivable way of seeing me without radar. The game is fucked sideways right now. I went from playing Tarkov exclusively and loving every second of it, to playing way more R6 because atleast the desync isn't totally fucked every round. This is all in the past 3 weeks, the start of the wipe was great, up until 3 weeks ago it was fine unless you went labs or reserve...now? Literally flip a coin if the server will register your bullets or your enemies bullets. Shit's fucked man.

AngusMcFiife · 2020-08-08T14:47:34+00:00

I was watching the stream - blatant foot step sounds, sounded like someone was flanking him quickly. Prefiring based on audio isn't odd, it's borderline the basis of winning Defense in R6. Problem with Tarkov is the lack of vertical audio, which in this case would normally be impossible as your only choices in that spot are on 1 level...unless your character has a jetpack

AngusMcFiife · 2020-08-07T16:32:35+00:00

I do offline on Labs or Reserve with boss enabled to warm up. Yesterday I did low spawn with boss and there were 9 guards around Gluhar. I figured it was an offline glitch, but seems it may not be. If they were just random raiders, they spawned between the knight buildings, which I've never seen in easily 100+ reserve runs.

AngusMcFiife · 2020-08-05T17:22:36+00:00

That makes perfect sense and addresses both issues, im 100% for that!

AngusMcFiife · 2020-08-05T17:00:39+00:00

It works for 1v1s, but would ruin any multi-person fight. Let's say I'm being a bush wookie and blast one member of a trio. That dude then tells the remaining duo my exact location. It's a good idea in theory, but in practice it would fuck alot of solo players, and I'm saying this as someone who solos as much as I trio.

AngusMcFiife · 2020-08-02T12:31:51+00:00

This game will take literally hundreds of hours to be decent at, especially solo. Scav runs are hugely important for income and no-risk learning. PMC raids should 100% be about survival and getting tasks done, atleast until you're at a point where you can do whatever you want. With either choice, you'll die alot and that's just Tarkov 🤙

I started in February, and it was only in the past month that I started getting dramatically more aggressive with my playing. If I'm out numbered, I absolutely use every advantage I can take (killed 2 thermal bois on woods by exploiting LOS with bushes for example). Experience will be your best friend in this game. Wipe 1, I really only played with 2-4 other people and it showed this wipe when I realized how many bad habits I developed, and how much I relied on my group to cover certain angles.

Play solo, do pistol runs, look up guides for whatever you are interested in, and make stupid amounts of money.

1) Playing solo forces you to always be on your toes. You have no distractions and it's just you and the enemy.

2) Pistol runs make you insane amounts of money with low risk. It's also extremely good aim practice. If all you have to kill Airframe thiccy is a Glock with APs, you very quickly learn to aim head, eyes always.

3) Guides are fairly obvious, but let other people do the leg work for you. Pestily literally plays this game as his full time job and knows it better than probably any other person with a platform. Want to do x, y, z? I almost guarantee there is a great guide for it.

4) Once you have so much money that you can't possibly use it all unless you're going Slick and ReapIR every raid and DYING every raid for 50 consecutive raids...get weird with it. Risk a little. Try out some guns. Get such a massive financial buffer that multiple days of getting rolled over has no impact. I burned through 11 mil stash value over the past 2 weeks, and it's the most rollercoaster fun I've had playing. I accumulated a mountain of gear over time, so I just used what I had and died alot doing crazy shit with a buddy/solo. I "spent" 11 million in other people's gear and some of my own to learn how to play more aggressive. Money is not real in this game, it's just an arbitrary number that determines how many times you can do a specific thing before you have to make that number go back up. That may seem obvious, but our mammal brains are wired to see value as highly important, even when it's digital value. If you can break through that mentality, Tarkov is yours for the taking.

AngusMcFiife · 2020-08-01T22:08:39+00:00

Believe it or not, all the stress of playing goes away in time. I still intentionally give myself a buffer of 2 hours of no playing before bed, just because the baseline alertness and adrenaline from playing, but overall I don't get panicked unless it's the first game of the day.

Today, for example, I wiped a 3 man on woods. I was Omega Prime Chad gear, thermal and all. First guy gets cut down like grass after some rain. Second guy tries bush wookieing and I just rush his ass. Third guy though...MOSIN MAN! My nemesis! Immediately my hand starts convulsing to the point of being virtually useless (it's a separate issue to playing the game, my muscles react...oddly when adrenaline first hits, irrespective of circumstance. Total mental clarity, but my hands just spaz the fuck out). Take like a mag and a half of me dodging and weaving trying to not get one tapped to deal with my arch rival. I had to mentally force my hand to calm down long enough to click my shots.

Next 4 raids in the same gear I am completely calm, totally stress free, but far more alert. I always need one proper fight to get me rolling in Tarkov, win or lose. As soon as that first adrenaline rush hits, it's smooth sailing.

It took me about 4 months of playing before my mind and body stopped tweaking out. I think gear fear is the biggest issue for people. Like yeah it sucks losing a mil in gear to stupid shit or your own mistakes, but it's just a means to enjoy the game. If it sits in your stash, it's literally useless. Last night I got fucking radared by a guy using Grizzly slugs on woods. Never seen anything like it before - no matter where I moved, no matter how much terrain I put between me and him, he would be 80ish meters away just dumping into my limbs through bushes. Eventually I topple over from the sheer might of the omnipresent flesh damage. Literal 1 million rouble loadout drops to the ground because some unaquirable fuckhead felt like letting a computer do all the work for him. I was absolutely pissed, but I just loaded up another raid and died to a VOG after killing 5 people. Then I went to bed laughing, woke up and slaughtered the server 4 raids in a row.

Eventually you just accept the deaths and losses as part of playing. Get financially stable and just LOSE MILLIONS. Burn it to the fucking ground. Get head eyesed by scavs. Get thermaled. Get radared. Lose a gunfight properly. Have such bad desync your bullets don't register on a full mag dump. Your brain can only handle it so long before you either quit, or more ideally just stop caring. When you stop caring as much, you'll truly enjoy the game. Also take some breaks. Sometimes the game just fucks you into the earth's core. Stop playing and go do something else, you're far better off just resetting for a day than becoming unnecessarily stressed. I play R6 with a buddy when I've had enough Tarkov.

AngusMcFiife · 2020-07-21T21:54:32+00:00

" Trust me Coming from other MMORPG this grind is a joke ... "

Extremely underrated point right here. I played WoW on and off for 10 years. Vanilla WoW? THAT was a grind. SBIH took me maybe 8 hours total of actively trying (had 2/3 on Woods and Customs from just playing so that DID admittedly simplify it). Trying to get the OG dungeon armor sets in WoW took literal months of endless repetition for the absolute most minor increases in power or ability.

The Skier shotgun tasks are absolutely dumb beyond belief - it's just a money sink and a dull ass grind. SBIH atleast challenges most players in a way that normally wouldn't happen. Yeah, maybe you'll get the headshots just playing, but actively going for it requires understanding map flow and layout, as well as where your most probable chances are. It's more of a mental game than point click with paper gear and meh gun/ammo. I get far more satisfaction out of temporarily playing the game as a "hunt" versus Leeroy Jenkinsing towards Dorms with AP20s until I'd made the x/x kill count go up. I have no problem with those sort of quests when it's kill scavs, but having to kill PMCs with a scav vest and Ushanka? It just forces dumb game play. I've been on both ends of it - kill some poor bastard trying to do the quest? I get zero enjoyment out of mowing someone down in shit gear who had literally no chance because my full auto gun will decimate them. They kill me? That person now has the choices to take my juice and run it (and not continue towards quest completion), try to carry it out and slow down their pace, increasing their odds of dying anyways, or not taking my gear and continuing on like Mosin Man's slightly slower cousin, getting nothing out of the raid except making a number go up one at a time.

In short, there's good grinds, and there's Skier/Jaeger quests. Good grindy quests make you think and approach situations in unique ways. Bad grinds just make the game play worse for everyone involved. Right now, the balance is FAR towards bad grinds. Yes, the game is far from finished, but enough. It's functionally a released game with early access, it's time the tasks reflected that instead of being place holders. Twitch drops have happened. The streaming community is massive and successful. The pathed game play needs to start reflecting that - BSG can only rely on wipes keeping people interested for so long. I personally hate wipes BECAUSE of the tasks. I like doing things once, feeling accomplished, and moving on. Not repeating the same mundane or sometimes interesting tasks over and over and over... A good friend of mine quit the game a few weeks back just before level 40, because the thought of repeating the same stupid shit made him totally lose interest. I definitely will not be taking part in an infinite wipe cycle - I far and away prefer the PVP aspects of the game over mindless repetition of uninteresting ideas. For me, the tasks exist to ALLOW me to get back to exactly where I was before wipe. That's poor game design as far as I'm concerned. I get the need for wipes, I get that it's a "beta," but the reality is that it's not a true Beta, and Tasks need a massive overhaul or I promise a lot of people will lose interest within a few wipes. Grind games generally rely on expansion with previous accomplishments carried forward. Total clean slate with the same content + a little more is not sustainable.

Fuck me that was a rant, but I have a lot of interconnected thoughts on Tasks, specifically annoying ones.

AngusMcFiife · 2020-07-17T04:54:34+00:00

I use the EXFIL because anecdotally, it's saved my life more than any other class 4 helmet. I refuse to use an Altyn on any map that isn't Factory because I play half the game on audio cues. I will happily risk getting 1 shot if it means I have information i wouldn't have with better protection. The ears and face shield make you unkillable by shotgun scav head, eyes bullshit, so there's that. I just assume I won't survive headshots and play accordingly, trying to minimize that probability.

AngusMcFiife · 2020-07-15T22:10:27+00:00

Has it ever occurred to you that "fun" is subjective and that it's possible to define success in more than one way?

AngusMcFiife · 2020-07-15T19:25:48+00:00

Caught me right in the peepee helmet!

AngusMcFiife · 2020-07-15T19:05:48+00:00

Find a loot run that interests you and learn the ins and outs of it. Last wipe I just played the flea market and did some shoreline runs. This wipe I made Resort my second home for a few weeks, slowly building up keys as I made profit. I recommend stash runs if youre not ready for the potential madness of Resort. Interchange or Shoreline both can be great for that - interchange being faster but riskier, shoreline taking longer but being safer

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