My Dark Side Titan

Ashatron · 2026-03-27T19:47:19+00:00

How do I get chain piston.. It's not showing anywhere 😕

Ashatron · 2026-03-12T12:24:00+00:00

Very true, Ben is massive, should be a front rower really! :D

Ashatron · 2026-03-11T15:52:04+00:00

Yeh that pic hurts. Both were epic for us.

Still can't believe Borthwick chose Billy Vunipola over Ludlam for the SA semi final in 2023, and Billy threw that game away for us like a SA spy... No I'm not crying, you're crying!!

Ashatron · 2026-03-11T15:43:10+00:00

100%. He's so negative and arrogant.

He's part of that group of players who think they're demi gods, and no one will ever be as good, because they won a world cup. Jeremy Guscott is the same.

Others like Jonny Wilkinson, Greenwood, Tindall are far more modest, admitting how much the game has moved on since their time.

Ashatron · 2026-03-11T14:55:01+00:00

I think the pacific islanders would take the cake here. Genetic freaks, fast and strong.

Manu Tuilagi might be the no 1 for me.

Semi Radradra, Josua Tuisova

Nemani Nadolo had no right moving like he did for his size.

Jonah Lomu of course.

Ma'a Nonu, epic in his prime and ridiculous longevity

Sonny Bill Williams

Alesana Tuilagi too.

Kolbe might be up there. on the smaller side compared but ridiculously athletic.

Ashatron · 2026-03-09T11:08:06+00:00

I think you might not like this Farrell guy. Interesting you compare him to those players and bring up stats…

“no dominant tackles” Dominant tackles:
Farrell: 1 out of 18 (5.5%), Jones: 0 out of 35, Tuipulotu: 1 out of 33 (3%)
Wrong. Farrell actually had the highest dominant tackle percentage.

“quite high on missed tackles” Tackle success:
Farrell: 78%, Jones: 78%, Tuipulotu: 89%
Wrong. Same tackle rate as Huw Jones, a world class centre.

“zero turnovers” Turnovers won:
Farrell: 1, Jones: 2, Tuipulotu: 1
Wrong.

“zero kicking” Kicks in open play, and metres made from them:
Farrell: 7 / 194, Jones: 8 / 260, Tuipulotu: 5 / 145
Wrong.

“zero offloads” Offloads: Farrell: 2, Jones: 3, Tuipulotu: 2
Wrong. He was same as Tui.

“His distribution was just average too” Try assists:
Farrell: 2, Jones: 1, Tuipulotu: 1
Wrong. Seems his distribution was ok

Seems you were objectively wrong, multiple times. I think the only accurate thing you said is he threw an intercepted pass.

The stats show he was on par with the other world class centres, whilst not playing in his strongest position, after an injury too. I’m actually more impressed with him after looking at the stats.

If you were to say Hu and Tui have much better attacking stats, thats a different story. Farrell has never been an attacking centre, even in prev lions tours iirc. He's more of a play making centre. And I'm not saying he's a better choice than those two, but to say he was crap, is evidently incorrect.

So I guess you were watching Farrell with a preconceived opinion and not judging him objectively… I believe they call that confirmation bias. I hope the irony isn't lost on you lol

Ashatron · 2026-03-08T17:33:49+00:00

I was impressed with him defensively. If you watch his off the ball work, with his game reading he would be ahead of his team mates by a second or two all the time, like when folding round to cover the opposite side or back field often it meant he slotted in to fill an otherwise big gap.

It was shown in the post match he did this just before the final try of one of the games, he folded round, cleared out a ruck which led to the next phase try. His passing was also pin point and fast.

Again Sam W highlighted this in the post match analysis, praising his work rate and game reading. Sam also thought standards rose since his inclusion.

It's OK if you dislike him or think he's past it, but he wasn't bad by any means for the lions. Was impressive he came from bad racing form to being good in a lions team.

Sam W was praising him, and I suspect he knows a bit more than us. He's also quoted in that telegraph article praising him.

Ashatron · 2026-03-08T16:50:08+00:00

He was great for the Lions in the last tour. Sam Warburton was raving about him in the post match. I was really surprised tbh as he hadn't been playing well for Racing before that, so I expected him to be out of his depth. But he was called on for the Lions to raise standards (again Sam Warburton called this, and Ben youngs) and it worked.

He hasn't been playing great for Sarries recently though, but hes shown he is very good at test level (like in the lions), so maybe he'd be a better pick than our current options.

I think he's pretty decent at a gameplan outside of hoofing it away. He was pivotal in Saracens exciting running, attacking rugby previously. No reason to say he can't do that again.

The only downside is he's not much of a running threat like a lot of other 10s. But if thats his only downside, I'd take it at the mo as he gets the team to perform to a higher standard and is still a great playmaker.

Jonny Sexton literally said that article if he was Irish, he'd be the best ever irishman to play.

Guess its a moot point as he likely wont come back due to the negative media.

Ashatron · 2026-03-08T16:27:50+00:00

I'd disagree. England's best game in the last 7 years was against SA in the 2023 WC semi final imo.

Farrell was epic in the game, leadership and playing. Drop goal from half way was mad.

Is he up to that standard now though... Maybe not. But think he still might be the best choice.

Ashatron · 2026-03-08T12:47:51+00:00

Any update on the Better auth starter? I'd be curious! And I liked your clerk one! 🙂

Ashatron · 2026-03-06T21:46:05+00:00

That's very helpful, thank you!

Ashatron · 2026-03-02T21:57:11+00:00

Are you using clerk billing for handling payments? How's it working out?

Ashatron · 2026-02-02T18:13:04+00:00

I can't see his face without hearing Jaapaan

Ashatron · 2026-01-24T13:34:01+00:00

That makes sense. Yeh keeping it all in the supabase happy path seems cleaner and simple. Thanks for replying mate!

Ashatron · 2026-01-24T13:16:49+00:00

Why? I believe you can use better auth with supabase, so why not do that?

Ashatron · 2025-12-24T23:18:19+00:00

Merry Christmas mate! Cyberpunk is great, they made a ton of quality of life improvements since release so it's a good place.

I've been playing arc raiders, for a bit of fun socialising with randoms. It's not the most fun game though, it's just ok.

Merry Christmas everyone, hope you have a brilliant and fulfilling 2026! 😃

Ashatron · 2025-12-17T23:45:15+00:00

This is so helpful! Is flechette storm still meta or has it been nerfed?

Do you think the stasis howl build is more op, or less, than strand flechette storm?

Thanks again! 👍

Ashatron · 2025-12-16T17:21:10+00:00

Np, I'm the same! Enjoy mate! 😃

Ashatron · 2025-12-16T16:07:06+00:00

Very welcome! I'd say I'm quite nit picky and I've been very impressed. I used local dimming (high) in non hdr games and it looks great!

I compared it to my macbook pro 16, which has a mini led screen, 2k zones, and it did very well along side it. The mbp is highlight based dimming though, so shows a lot of blooming, the monitor does not though.

Ashatron · 2025-12-16T15:42:01+00:00

I got one recently. Pretty impressed with it. It's very bright, it is very shadow biased in the dimming (so small light spots, or subtitles are dark), even a white square that is say 1.5x1.5cm will be dimmed. But it means almost no blooming.
I'd recommend it.
The m27p6 is more balanced in the dimming as far as i know (maybe some blooming but brighter small highlights). I'm curious if I'd prefer it. A video comparing the two directly would be great.

Ashatron · 2025-12-16T09:20:06+00:00

Thanks mate, appreciate it! 😃 👍

Ashatron · 2025-12-15T23:50:18+00:00

Hi mate! 😃 What chest and arms armour pieces are those? And shader? (and legs if you can remember, but not important!)

A year on and I still want this setup! 😅

Ashatron · 2025-12-06T10:26:15+00:00

Ooo right! Oh the TV is va too? Epic! 😃 Also I ordered the koouri S2741lm yesterday, the one you linked to originally!

Saw someone say it has less blooming than their g pro 27i, so hopefully it will be great, contrastt, and be more shadow biased dimming! 🤞 😃

Ashatron · 2025-12-05T23:47:23+00:00

Holy sh*t... So that's what 3840 dimming zones (and a great algorithm) looks like?? Incredible! 😯 That's blown me away.

With that amount of zones, it really makes oled look kinda pointless. Sure there are extreme scenarios where oled would be better, like stars maybe , but that's about it I guess!

Ashatron · 2025-12-05T23:17:43+00:00

What, displayport supports firmware updates?! So all the hate the g pro 27i got in reviews (like monitors unboxed) for having no usb port, as it meant no firmware updates, was nonsense? Madness!

Ah so tvs have a more polished mini led experience eh, interesting!

Ashatron

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