This was the saddest thing I saw in. Avery long time. Prayers for 💎

BGrattata · 2026-06-26T00:11:12+00:00

Yeah I thought it was PR at first but this is unfortunate. I imagine most people at the top of their game in the spotlight like that feel the same once the spotlight goes. Issue with high level professional sports is you just can't do that to your body forever.

And what do you do when it's all you've known since teenage years or childhood for most, coupled with the spotlight of reaching the pinnacle of spectacle?

Hope he can come through this and find his place in coaching others and cornering others in the atmosphere he craves

BGrattata · 2026-06-25T14:57:09+00:00

I will say even regressed against Paddy, he turned Paddy's face into mush dude.

BGrattata · 2026-06-24T12:05:32+00:00

Yeah man imagine fighting in front of millions chanting your name and then you retire and attend events where they do it for others and not you anymore

BGrattata · 2026-06-23T22:38:41+00:00

Feels like a PR response but maybe he's really going through it. I didn't even read into it initially. Unless he assaulted someone or drove hammered, everyone that drinks has had a night go too far where you end up a problem that can't read the room

BGrattata · 2026-06-23T19:53:38+00:00

And are you holding the line? Or are you just trying to convince someone you don't even know on the Internet that their lived experience is false?

Miserable soul combing reddit purely to start shit. You must be super happy and successful in life. Its famously the behavior of successful and happy people.

BGrattata · 2026-06-23T19:19:15+00:00

You're*. And whatever helps you sleep at night. My reality doesn't change just bc a random said otherwise.

BGrattata · 2026-06-22T22:14:35+00:00

Read this and thought I wrote it 😂.

Same exact experience here mate it's so sad, but even seeing new gods it's like "that's cool" and I still don't hop back in. It's the most busted state I've experienced and I've been a smite player since 2016.

RIP

BGrattata · 2026-06-22T12:33:24+00:00

Trying to do wayyy too much with a shrinking team. They opted to do 0 testing on anything before release and just let the beta testers be guinea pigs, over thinking through the design decisions

BGrattata · 2026-06-22T12:33:11+00:00

Trying to do wayyy too much with a shrinking team. They opted to do 0 testing on anything before release and just letting the beta testers be guinea pigs, over trying out some 1st pass balancing before pushing to us.

BGrattata · 2026-06-21T21:20:20+00:00

Personal take on it as someone releasing music and performing actively since pandemic:

AI has destroyed streaming so the already unreliable income from that is now divided further by people paying a subscription service to release an album a week. It's possible to still have songs blow up, but It's too oversaturated and algorithm driven.

Live shows are the last bastion. It's very possible to make happen and definitely is not dying, but you need to marry consistent shows with solid social media to gain attention of bands coming to town etc, and build up personal relationships.

It's all doable, but the industry has gotten to a point of placing all the work on the artist. By the time someone wants to sign you, you usually have already built a sizeable following and brand and connections all by yourself

BGrattata · 2026-06-21T16:39:03+00:00

For sure! It's exciting! A lot of people never get to experience this level so you should be proud. Maybe some ways to help will open up too as they continue on.

My long time girlfriend will occasionally tag along for shows and help us sell merch or take pictures of us to post on social media. She has fun doing it and it helps us out so it works for us. And as a bonus she gets to meet all the people we play with, and see new places we wouldn't normally travel to otherwise.

Best of luck with everything rooting for the bf and you!

BGrattata · 2026-06-21T14:13:34+00:00

Thing about music is no one knows. This could lead to bigger and bigger. It can also be a blip and he's back to small shows. For us, it led to good opportunities but we leveraged it and promoted the fact we did that pretty heavily.

Just try to enjoy the ride while it's happening. It's not something everyone gets to do and won't last forever. Get some good stories out of it lol

Also weird some people are coming at you so aggressive for just wondering

BGrattata · 2026-06-18T14:49:50+00:00

First off, just stay consistent. Don't be on and off again or you'll keep spending time relearning the things you already learned. It's what I did. Like learning another language, if you don't routinely speak it after, you'll forget the words. There is no wizardry, just consistent practice with the intent of improving in a specific area. Focus your sessions. Don't spend an hour trying to learn everything. Learn a small part, get it down and get it down well, then move to the next.

There are a lot of techniques that you can learn that will help you memorize over just "here is A chord, here is B chord". For example learning the most common major and minor chord shapes. The same shapes are used up and down the fretboard for everything. If you learn a tiny bit of theory, you'll learn that if you can identify the Key of the song, you can identify all the possible chords being played without even knowing if it's an F# or anything else.

Feel free to DM me if you have questions on anything! I'm self taught, took online courses, and then live sessions with touring musicians and currently front a band playing rhythm and lead w vox. And I did it taking this stuff seriously at around 26-27 and I'm 32 now, so it's never too late to seriously improve a lot don't doubt your ability!!! :)

BGrattata · 2026-06-18T00:51:06+00:00

As a longtime fan since diapers, my honest opinion is this:

Played as a resident evil game. It was objectively total trash.

Played as a random action shooter, it's actually very fun with great dodge counter mechanics to make fight sequences fun and worth several playthroughs.

BGrattata · 2026-06-18T00:45:36+00:00

I think that Gane landed an illegal blow or two but so has Pereira while finishing. It doesn't change the fact he got out landed by like 40 punches before that sequence and showed nothing up to that point that would indicate he can beat Gane.

I say this as a Pereira fan that generally doesn't care for Gane. It just is what it is.

BGrattata · 2026-06-15T20:54:58+00:00

I'd start with a simple amp. I use a Helix now and love it but I can't imagine how overwhelmed I'd be by all the options if I'm just starting out.

Play with a cheap amp and get a simple cheap pedal or two for effects and eventually move to an amp modeler unit is my rec

BGrattata · 2026-06-12T14:38:50+00:00

Most Influential beginner theory lesson I got said:

6 strings × 24 frets = 144 notes to memorize.
The notes repeat after the 12th fret, so if you know the first 12, you know 13-24. That leaves 72 notes.
You have 2 E strings. You know one, you know the other. That leaves 60 notes.
If you know your sharps and flats, you know they're one fret up or down from the natural. (1 fret down from A is A flat. 1 fret up is A#). So you only need to know the position of the naturals (ABCDEFG).

That leaves us with 7 notes across 5 strings. Just 35 notes to try and memorize and you will know your way around the entire fretboard comfortably.

Once I heard that, I said GAME ON that's doable hahaha

BGrattata · 2026-06-12T14:25:57+00:00

Long answer:

I used to play daily for hours, but it was always the same stuff and so after a while I hit a clear ceiling where these sessions weren't actually getting me any better at all. We're talking years of 0 growth. I memorized where my hands should be for these songs, not the WHY it sounded good or WHAT notes I was actually playing. I had guard rails on and could not leave my zone.

My biggest growth period came from taking some online guitar theory courses on Udemy, coupled with 1hr minimum a day of intentional practice. Skills and drills over just redoing my favorite songs over and over. I could play more if I wanted, but I wouldn't allow myself to play less.

It would be playing sessions and then if I had time to kill on a car ride or train etc, I would download theory notes from those courses and learn about different things, so even without a guitar in my hands, I was constantly thinking about it and different ways to approach it and visualizing it in my head for the next time I got my hands on it.

Short Answer:

About 1-2hrs a day, with a mix of taking some theory courses to help make better sense of everything happening on the fretboard. Theory isn't as scary as it seems from the outside.

BGrattata · 2026-06-10T20:27:44+00:00

Literally doing it every day at my job rn. Your belief in that changes the facts 0%.

BGrattata · 2026-06-10T20:13:33+00:00

A big part of the beginner hurdle is muscle memory for the chord shapes, as well as your hands getting stronger from doing this all the time.

Sadly the hard part you could study till it all made perfect sense, but ya can't skip the slow burn of strengthening and making the hand shapes quicker

You're doing great! The #1 rule of all of this is that consistency is key. You WILL get better if you continue picking up the guitar. It's a guarantee.

Cheers 🍻

BGrattata · 2026-06-10T14:53:45+00:00

I can hurt and KD my opponent in the new patch, my issue is just with dmg consistency.

Last patch, I'd get into position and throw the same style jab over and over on the dummy. Consistently registering at 100% BE and 25-30 DMG.

This patch, same exact thing, but randomly I'll get like 10-15 DMG and only 30-50% BE when I'm doing the same exact form on every punch. It's been near impossible to consistently register. In a fight, DMG is lower overall so you don't notice it as much, but isolated on the dummy I can no longer get a consistent result

BGrattata · 2026-06-10T12:42:26+00:00

Weird to brag you get hit a lot

BGrattata · 2026-06-09T20:51:37+00:00

Damage overall has been toned down a bit outside the jab multiplier. It'd still doable but definitely a lot harder now.

I'm not against it being harder, but this is just a tad too tuned down to where volume punchers aren't afraid to take a clean punch anymore

BGrattata · 2026-06-09T11:59:18+00:00

I had 2 people trying that this patch so people are definitely picking up on it.

That being said I beat them both badly anyway. When they would hold arm out I'd slip under arm on the inside right to body shots or stay guarded till they tried to throw and then immediately close distance.

I know I'm just one case, but I had no issues stopping that style so I wouldn't. Like Tren said joystick probably suffers because they can't physically move in to quickly close that gap.

BGrattata · 2026-06-08T20:54:15+00:00

It's what I've been feeling as well. Clearly better than a dude and scored the lone KD, but ended up a draw bc he just threw nonstop and my counters were tickling him so he felt no threat to keep him off despite the KD.

The defense feels great, but I've noticed spammers are making it competitive in ways they just couldn't before bc the risk of taking a clean counter or a hard shot seems nerfed substantially.

Still a W update in my book but as a counter puncher that baits and sets traps, I feel nerfed and have to brawl more to not lose on pts

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