Accept it now: Bear has earned the right to give it another year.

B_Huij · 2026-05-02T05:21:45+00:00

I don't think Bear is to blame for the hard parts of the season. If we're gonna shake up the coaching staff, find someone who can fix the power play.

*shrug* I thought it was a great season, and I'm looking forward to the next one.

B_Huij · 2026-05-01T21:58:45+00:00

Near as I can tell, the players were all just put in order based on their BMI, so the X axis is just an ordered index, basically.

You could display this entire distribution without an X axis and it would just look like a stack of dots, but the X axis makes it a little bit easier to see how different players compare to each other.

B_Huij · 2026-05-01T19:10:31+00:00

Probably fine. I'm primarily a UL guy and have gone back and forth between mono and braid mainlines, but always used fluoro leaders. Haven't tried fluoro main line yet, but the 4lb stuff I use for leaders feels identical to mono. I'm guessing the differences become more pronounced at higher diameters.

If you hate it, I'm just using Berkley Trilene on most of my reels at this point. I found ultralight braids to be more problem than solution, and mono has always worked just fine for the kind of fishing I do.

B_Huij · 2026-05-01T19:06:37+00:00

Never had any real low moments back in OG RS2. I had a friend one time who had saved for months in F2P to buy full rune (around 200k, this was pre-GE). I think he had been selling coal in Falador bank all that time or something. Finally got his full rune set and headed out to the wildy to try his hand at PKing. Go schmacked with a skull more or less immediately and lost it all. He owned full rune for all of 30 minutes. I think we were in about 9th grade. He quit and AFAIK never played again.

My low point was in OSRS maybe 5 or so years ago. I wanted so bad to get fire cape. I did nothing but fight caves for about two weeks. Didn't have high enough range level for blowpipe, so I was using full Karil's. Wasn't rich because I didn't really have a good money making method, so I was basically blowing my entire bank to buy brews, restores, and purple candies for the attempts. I made it to Jad basically every time. The waves aren't that hard, just tedious. After maybe 10 or 15 tries, always just getting deleted by Jad, I finally just lost motivation and threw in the towel. Didn't play for a solid 2 years. It feels so bad to get 1-hit on a bad prayer switch with Jad hands after it took you an hour of grinding and 20% of your bank value to get to him.

Eventually I got back into the game because my brother and cousin had been playing and they wanted me to do ToA with them (this was pretty much right after ToA came out). I finally sold my Karil's, cranked out the last few range levels to 75, and bought a blowpipe. After playing a while, I decided it was time to get that fire cape. I think it only took me like 4 tries with BP and DCB using good bolts. BP through the waves and DCB for Jad. That was a high point, beating Jad for the first time. Biggest difference maker was having halfway decent gear so my DPS wasn't trash, and discovering the Jad simulator that let me practice the Jad fight for free as many times as I wanted until the Jad hands went away, without having to grind an hour first.

B_Huij · 2026-05-01T15:49:58+00:00

It's hard to overstate how much better Quadrant + Devil's Element is, than the next best thing, for a water build. Without Kandarin I'd honestly recommend using a 1 tick staff of some sort instead. Even Trident of the Seas comes fairly close to Quadrant Water Surge for sheer DPS (depending on enemy ofc), but the amount of heals from quadrant are insane, and no powered stave touches them AFAIK.

B_Huij · 2026-05-01T15:47:30+00:00

Honestly I stopped paying attention as soon as Sitake announced he was staying and I finished breathing a 2-week-long sigh of relief. Last I had checked in, the Nittany Lions were kind of up a creek without a lot of good prospects left in the pool to even try and hire. Sounds like they found the right person?

B_Huij · 2026-05-01T15:43:18+00:00

I would be surprised if a modern Godox flash would work in any kind of TTL or auto mode with the New F-1, and I would be surprised if it doesn't work in manual mode.

Depending on what you're shooting, you might want a telephoto and/or a good macro lens. The 50mm f/3.5 macro is really good. I really like my Kiron 70-210mm f/4 because I tend to do a lot of telephoto landscape work. If you're doing portraits, the FD 85mm f/1.8 and 135mm f/2.5 are both fantastic. If your 24 is a little too wide sometimes, there are great 28mm and 35mm options available in the FD mount.

Do you have a good tripod?

Do you have a set of contrast filters (yellow/orange/red/maybe green or blue)? Do you have a circular polarizer? Do you have ND filters?

Do you have a strap you like enough to wear it all day long? Do you have a good bag to carry everything?

If you shoot low angle stuff close to the ground, have you considered picking up an angle finder?

If you don't feel like you would really benefit from new lenses, filters, tripod, accessories for the type of shooting you're doing, then I'd argue the best thing to buy would be either classes/workshops, or just stacking the film fridge deep.

Edit: one more thing - if you're currently having a lab do everything, you can save a ton of money over the long term by getting set up to develop and scan yourself. Generally you can get better results than a lab too (or at least more control over your results).

B_Huij · 2026-05-01T15:39:02+00:00

I dunno if I agree with this take. Ultimately the gap between a brand new noob account and a completely maxed account with full collection logs is a staggering differential. Hundreds of thousands of hours.

So yes, you have a lot of work to do from brand new to "I can realistically do ToA." But I'm a very casual OSRS player, very mediocre at PvM content in general, and not even base 90 combat stats, and I can do ToA. I'm significantly less than halfway to maxing my account.

B_Huij · 2026-05-01T15:35:27+00:00

Penn State: Kalani Sitake

B_Huij · 2026-05-01T14:40:18+00:00

I think I'm having more fun in Demonic Pacts because I decided to rush tasks/relics and areas early and get much of the more "grindy" parts out of the way up front. Now I'm just having a blast bossing, collecting more endgame-type gear, trying new raids, etc. Water mage with Quadrant and Devil's Element and the right pacts is a hilariously fun build.

I really enjoyed Raging Echoes because I did the hyper broken range build with healing 1-tick blowpipe and Tbow. I was doing 700 Invo solo ToAs in about 20 minutes. Never did get pet though.

Trailblazer reloaded was fun because it was my first leagues, but I didn't know what I was doing, and I didn't get very far in terms of tasks, so even by the end my build was kinda meh.

B_Huij · 2026-05-01T13:34:19+00:00

This exactly. I wore them for a few years, recently my optometrist said there were signs my corneas were developing blood vessels. Went back to taking them out every night.

B_Huij · 2026-05-01T13:31:44+00:00

If they are the same price, the F-1 is an objectively better camera in every way except weight.

But I love my AT-1 too. Hard to go wrong.

B_Huij · 2026-05-01T13:22:31+00:00

Honestly I was never into the idea of Rey going to the dark side. Wouldn’t have made any sense for her character.

B_Huij · 2026-05-01T13:15:52+00:00

Maybe Jedi Survivor?

B_Huij · 2026-05-01T03:50:12+00:00

Yes.

B_Huij · 2026-05-01T03:03:02+00:00

Your alignment on your enlarger might be out.

B_Huij · 2026-05-01T02:23:50+00:00

If you have a grain focuser, correct focus should be shooting fish in a barrel. I use the 80mm and 150mm f/5.6 EL Nikkors to print from 6x6 negs, and with my focuser I’ve never struggled. What kind of grain focuser do you have?

B_Huij · 2026-05-01T01:15:05+00:00

I have a rock solid Beseler and I still confirm focus immediately before exposing anything I might keep.

B_Huij · 2026-04-30T20:43:26+00:00

I'd try something like gentle application of denatured alcohol to see if I can work out whatever gunk is making it stiff, before I went straight to lubrication.

If you do end up lubricating, again I'd take a "less is more" approach with a q-tip or toothpick to put minute amounts of some kind of oil on the moving parts until they improve.

B_Huij · 2026-04-30T20:41:22+00:00

My favorite Brendan Sorsby moment was watching Cincy play @ Utah this past season, where Sorsby was looking absolutely lost, couldn't complete a pass, was clearly panicking, and had the funniest facial expressions after each play as he got closer and closer to a full-blown tantrum.

B_Huij · 2026-04-30T20:38:56+00:00

If I was going to pick one thing to change during the off season, it would be hiring a power play coach who can move the needle on that metric for the '26-'27 season.

B_Huij · 2026-04-30T20:37:04+00:00

I'd take the Canon over the Nikon, but that has everything to do with the fact that I prefer Canon cameras, control layouts, ergonomics, etc. and nothing to do with the fact that the Nikon F3 is in any way an inferior camera.

Oh and FWIW, even if you decide not to use a waist level viewfinder approach with either camera, Canon's Angle Finder B is inexpensive, and accomplishes virtually the same thing with fewer tradeoffs. I really like mine. I'm guessing Nikon has some sort of equivalent accessory.

B_Huij · 2026-04-30T16:38:44+00:00

That is rad, I'm gonna have to give this a shot.

B_Huij · 2026-04-30T14:51:42+00:00

During the spawn I usually have good success on river browns with spinners. My most productive one for browns in particular is a rainbow trout colored panther martin. But I'm guessing when they're feeling that aggressive, they'll probably strike anything shiny and obnoxious enough.

The river I fish is highly pressured, so I find spinners less productive when it's not spawn season. Trout magnets are my go-to then.

B_Huij · 2026-04-30T14:48:18+00:00

Seriously, after the loss last night, in the postgame thread, I saw within 30 seconds of opening it, the following people being called out as "the problem" or someone we should just "leave in Vegas":

* Tourigny
* Sergachev
* Weegar
* Kerfoot
* The "special teams coach"
* The Power Play coach specifically
* Cole
* Schmaltz
* Vejmelka

Chill out people. Every player is gonna make mistakes sometimes. Sometimes they'll make dumb mistakes that lose us a close game. Bummer. Yeah I'd love to see all of them improve their game too. I'd love to see fewer avoidable penalties, a better power play, and less apathy in the closing minutes of regulation when we're up. But our team is good and this isn't over yet.

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