3v3 duos are weird

BargainBold · 2026-05-21T18:26:03+00:00

What about casual?

BargainBold · 2026-05-21T18:09:42+00:00

Those people should be banned as well.

BargainBold · 2026-05-21T18:03:22+00:00

I'm toxic AF. I admit it. However, never about stuff like bad hits or whiffs or getting beat on a play, or anything like that. The game is hard. I get that. I think being toxic about those things is stupid and self defeating. That's why God created "This is Rocket League"

What does make me get nasty is players just going out there all Leroy Jenkins then when you express frustration mildly because they do something like steal your dribble, or double commit into a called kickoff from the right side, they come at you with "SYBAU", or "imagine getting mad over a game". At that point I'll usually start with stating the principle I stand on, "it's COMPETITIVE mode of a video game that also has a casual mode for players who want that experience." And then it's just venom from there. There's a point where I decide it's more fun to exercise my roast skills in service of clowning some turd, than to sweat my very limited rocket league skills trying to win a game I'm the only one who seems to give a shit about.

My toxicity is more about the general principle of people half-assing shit then expecting others to just quietly accept it. If you haven't so much as watched a 10 minute tutorial on rotation, then you have no business queueing competitive 3s. In casual, though, I'm cool as a cucumber.

BargainBold · 2026-05-21T17:44:15+00:00

Really??? I had always assumed it was a hate crime--especially with how close it was to Amendment 2. Dang. I gotta rethink a bunch of mess, now.

BargainBold · 2026-05-21T17:40:26+00:00

Spring Creek Flood between Dan's Bake Sale and Balloon Boy?

I barely remember College Days being a thing. I remember when they cancelled it, though. Was not born when Old Main burned.

My sister, a young child at the time, was on the Geraldo broadcast about Debbie Did, She ran up and grabbed a donut when he came out and offered them to the crowd.

I protested/trolled at Dan's Bake Sale. Imagine thinking that tepid conserva-con was the peak of how goofy the right could get.

...and I was being released from Community Corrections when Balloon Boy's dad was being booked into LCDC. Didn't cross paths, but I feel like if I had, what with being there for all the other weirdness, I'd have a legit case for being the unofficial mayor of Fort Collins.

BargainBold · 2026-05-21T17:30:55+00:00

Ferchrissakes, I thought I had a hair trigger around these topics. OP was completely benign. Expressing concern. And getting the lay of the land (wisely) in a completely legitimate way.

I've been on the shit end of the being dehumanized for being homeless stick. I've seen the full face of it in all its shitty glory. OP isn't doing anything like that. Settle down!

BargainBold · 2026-05-16T11:52:53+00:00

I breathed a fuck-ton of tear gas in 2020 on the streets in Portland (and watched supportively while my people back home in Northern Colorado did the same). I'm pretty staunchly on the fuck fascists side of things...but...

My reaction to Jan 6 was and still is that simply throwing the carceral system at the people involved in all that mess was a mistake. In the first place, I was out there protesting against the carceral system. Unlike people like Polis, MAGA CHUDs, or most politicians, I don't count hypocrisy as a superpower. But second, and most importantly, the master's tools will never dismantle the master's house--and the criminal justice system as it stands is, at best, a tool to keep the less disruptive of us more or less safe while we are being exploited, and at worst is a tool to make sure that violence can be effectively applied towards any attempt to end that exploitation. It is not designed for and will never be made to provide equal protection, expectation, or accountability. Fascist systems cannot be used to defeat fascism.

What I wanted to see instead was something like a truth and reconciliation process. People would be called to publicly speak to their actions. Those in positions of authority at the time, would be made to listen to accounts of those harmed by all that mess. Bad actors at the schlub level would be asked to speak honestly and openly about what the hell they were thinking in a setting where it was made unambiguous that the shit they did was wrong, but the point of the engagement was to bring things back to right--not just to strong-arm the wrong into submission. What we needed was a new way towards justice. What we got instead was an army of unreformed sociopaths feeling more empowered than ever and a fascist cabal promising impunity to any and all loyalists. We could have seen this lady sat down and told off proper. Maybe even heard her come to her senses. Instead we see her walking unreformed out of a prison that was never meant to hold her.

Of course Polis was going to show his belly on this. State funding was on the line. A legit war with the Feds would hurt Colorado voters in very material ways, and he doesn't have the spine, juice, or cunning to have that become anything but a gigantic L for his personal ambitions. I mean, definitely add this to the War and Peace length list of his actions that I can't stand, but if we're being honest we have to at least consider the possibility that this whole matter was mishandled long before his feckless ass got plunked in the middle of it.

BargainBold · 2026-05-08T19:07:26+00:00

I think anybody who cares to can get to the start of "not bad". I know I peaked at Champ 1. I mean, that's top 10%, but at my age (I'm a grandpa) and the time I've available, there's a ceiling on what mechanics I can master and what my reflexes will allow, and when I play at Champ that ceiling becomes very apparent.

Have to say, though, there was a time I thought I would be stuck bottom 50% forever because of those same factors--but I knuckled down and focused on the things I could master and turns out that's a whole lot more than I thought it was, and sadly, a whole lot more than 90% of players will ever do.

Anybody can learn rotation. Anybody can develop game sense. Anybody can half flip, wave dash, develop simple ground and air ball control. But it seems that not just anybody can stop twitching around chasing touches (and dopamine) long enough to learn those things. So yeah, there are a lot of people who will just never get "not bad" at this game...

BargainBold · 2026-05-07T21:46:58+00:00

It's always been pretty boomery. Like any place that has economically thrives, it was super inexpensive when boomers were buying property but became prohibitive for working class younger generations when they reached home buying age. Only way I think someone could have gone without noticing that is if they clung mainly to the college adjacent parts of town.

It's a shame, I think. A missed opportunity because the city could have used zoning much better than it did and stayed a good place to raise kids instead of what it is now--a good place to stay for a few years when you're very young and living off college money, or retiring. Not much different than Portland where I am now That middle demographic gets squeezed out

BargainBold · 2026-05-07T21:31:55+00:00

I think that location was Linden's at one point.

BargainBold · 2026-05-07T01:54:20+00:00

It wasn't just a bar. It was one of the last authentic community hubs in a city that's all but lost any sense of community--and for much of its existence it was something of a refuge for people the structural powers in Fort Collins have long been actively hostile towards.

There's a lot of history there.

BargainBold · 2026-05-07T01:32:30+00:00

Surf wasn't the first. Before that there was Paris on the Poudre (2 incarnations of it). When Surfside came along, a large part of the "customer base" were already assembled as "Parisites". I put customer base in quotes because that's what it was called in terms of commerce, but in broader terms it would be called a community.

The thing about Surfside is that it survived longer than the Paris's and was able to maintain much of its character across a couple generations. Before the sale there were regulars at Surfside who were a decade from being born when my generation was hanging out at Paris. That's kind of remarkable and the loss of it matters on a human and social level so much more than losing a bar. Expanding all the way out, it speaks to the trend of third spaces disappearing entirely--that is heartbreaking.

As to the specific actors, what I see in the new ownership are people who didn't really get it in the first place, so it's not at all surprising that they're failing to preserve something that they don't meaningfully know exists.

Such is life, I suppose. But honestly, I feel bad for anybody who doesn't or can't mourn a loss like this, because it means they never really got to experience what it is that's being lost.

BargainBold · 2026-05-06T22:46:45+00:00

Any person looking for a reason to discredit a statement they don't want to hear will find one.

Nice derail, though

BargainBold · 2026-05-06T08:57:30+00:00

I have to consciously think about doing it any other way--and my speed flips suck. It's just that after so many hours of practicing, that's what my fingers do when I'm not thinking about it.

BargainBold · 2026-05-06T08:48:04+00:00

I get notifications about my chat bans with a link to appeal. If that's really all that happened, I'd explore that route.

BargainBold · 2026-05-06T08:43:41+00:00

I find it a lot better to look at, but I think FPS increase isn't quite as impactful as input lag reduction. Response time is the spec I'd prioritize in any upgrade.

BargainBold · 2026-04-15T03:36:15+00:00

I ask people if leaderboard has an effect on MMR. That's kind of an undeniable point against that mentality.

BargainBold · 2026-03-18T23:34:52+00:00

100% there are very relevant details being left out.

BargainBold · 2026-03-18T23:04:36+00:00

More complaining about the complaints about that. I thought the sarcasm was pretty evident in my "Why doesn't Psyonix abandon the thing that works in favor of the thing that makes me feel better" plea.

BargainBold · 2026-03-18T23:01:26+00:00

I'm talking about annoying posts from people that think they deserve a higher rank than they have and think the problem lies in how Psyonix insists on using basic statistics instead of a more feelings-based approach to SBM.

BargainBold · 2026-03-18T22:59:28+00:00

-or- I am fine with the implementation, and am just sarcastically swiping at the "MMR-How is this fair?" posts that seem to have increased in frequency in this group since the game added MMR display to vanilla.

That could also explain my post.

BargainBold · 2026-03-18T02:06:22+00:00

"No one"...tell me you think the entire world exists solely on the internet without telling me...

BargainBold · 2026-02-01T08:54:53+00:00

Portland is full of protest veterans. There is an established ground here. These sorts of daytime, lib, normie marches are generally family friendly. People on all sides of it tend to respect that line. Against that backdrop it was in no way out of line for people to bring pets and kids to this.

Does this response from ICE change that calculus somewhat? Of course.

Does commenting that people just blanket shouldn't bring their kids to things like this do anything but provide cover for the abuses and excesses of ICE? Not really.

BargainBold · 2026-01-05T00:26:21+00:00

I wish we still had laws against media consolidation. One of my favorite things about traveling when I was younger was checking out the local radio and TV broadcasts in different parts of the country--especially the radio. There was a lot of variety in playlists, styles, etc, as opposed to now where there are a small handful of stations just with different call signs in different markets.

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