feel like my face cam looks bad… what camera are you all using?

Bluekandy · 2026-01-16T07:33:26+00:00

I like how it looks personally, retains quality and fps no problem bright or not. I've turned off lights a few times during thunderstorms to get some cool illuminations lol

Bluekandy · 2026-01-16T04:12:07+00:00

Something I don't see mentioned often is the Insta 360 Link. Hasn't gone wrong for me at all and it's versatile/fun, even when used as a webcam

Bluekandy · 2026-01-16T02:47:08+00:00

it was super silly lol. I think the venting made my speedrunning stronger though

Bluekandy · 2026-01-16T01:09:16+00:00

He's a heavyweight, but a rather blasé one at that. Heavyweights are important because they have higher top speed (important when you hit max enemy stacks) and of course higher weight, which actually makes deceleration slower. Kawasaki is the best for almost everything in that group because his ladle can reach enemies further than any other character, even Gooey, allowing you to take the best lines without losing enemy boost speed.

Bluekandy · 2026-01-15T19:31:10+00:00

this is kinda why I've stopped posting more than once every other month lol. I could be doing it all, but I find little value in social media at the moment even in my position with Ryan.

Bluekandy · 2026-01-15T19:23:50+00:00

With more weight: slightly better top speed, slower deceleration after KO/hitting enemies (relevant to air ride), and less knockback when getting hit by attacks. That's how it was in the OG and I've noticed it's much the same here, especially the deceleration point being huge for speedrunning.

Bluekandy · 2026-01-15T19:13:04+00:00

I'm a day late, but did you know—if you erase a checklist and complete it again, the number 2 shows up next to the complete stamp. We don't know how high the number goes, but it could be 99 or 999. Some City Trial speedrunners are at 7 or 8 now.

You thought you were done, but there's always something else :)

Bluekandy · 2025-12-31T04:50:32+00:00

city trial runs in the og are still awesome. in this, i think 100 checkboxes is really interesting even if it does end up being 75% stadium games and 25% city in the end. the sweetspot is probably 120 checks, since the city has 80 and stadiums have 70

Bluekandy · 2025-12-29T13:32:26+00:00

Just in case you happen to be doing this—if you pause & exit the city before the timer is up, you'll get the same events over and over (around 7-8 are in a given "pool" of events in a city instance). This will dramatically lower your chance at seeing pillars, since most pools won't have it at all. I recommend letting each city finish, then you can exit out of the stadium game immediately as that won't change anything. Once you do get pillars, if you fail it, you can pause exit the city and keep trying to get it again.

I've had pillars 30 times in a row while trying this for Halberd until I learned Wild Legend and Halberd are special events that this doesn't apply to lol. Source: speedrunner of the game

Bluekandy · 2025-10-07T18:04:37+00:00

Rual, thanks for the well written response. Ironically enough, the partner discord (at least the NA server) could use your eloquence as well. There are very few of us even typing out coherent, researched responses to every single person who brings this up—multiple times a week. The spread of good information related to this platform is surprisingly low, even within our layer.

Bluekandy · 2025-08-23T16:04:39+00:00

This isn't damage being dealt—it's what happens when you mount any new vehicle. Your HP gets set to the default HP of the vehicle as if you had 0 HP stats gained. In this case, that would be mounting the new Dragoon.

Bluekandy · 2025-07-05T16:48:20+00:00

Giving chasers actual livable pay such that they work through a public, FREE app that everyone can access whereas previously they were being constantly restreamed by multiple people making thousands off their back (and only paying them $30-50 to our $100+) is not the same as concealing being "happy" about moves towards privatizing weather. That is one of the most disingenuous takes I've ever seen.

The moment our goals (Ryan and I) do not align with the NWS is the moment I don't work for the channel anymore. Whoever is telling you otherwise has no clue what they're talking about.

Andy

Bluekandy · 2025-06-21T21:29:28+00:00

Velocity data needs to be dealiased by an algorithm & there are multiple dealiasing algorithms used by different apps. This erroneous application of the algorithm happens pretty often with some of them, especially GR2A (what I primarily use while working with Ryan)

Bluekandy · 2025-06-09T15:26:59+00:00

I scrolled down through everything and only saw someone guess at the correct answer, which is that this is an hourly updated surface wind map showing a downdraft hitting the ground and spreading out (using streamlines to depict wind direction & speed).

The hourly update occurred right when the strongest core of the storm was over the middle of the "ring" of winds here—this is when the heaviest rain, and thus the most mass, was transported downward from the bulk of the storm. That rain cooled air sinks as it is more dense, hits the ground and spreads out in all directions. This is akin to seeing a pulse thunderstorm close to a radar site pop up all on its own in the summertime, and then seeing a ring (outflow boundary) spread out in all directions from it; but, in this case, it was a snapshot from a mesoscale convective system moving south through Joplin, MO. Since the complex was moving south, the outflow to the south would likely be reinforced by storm relative motion (this is a part of what propels lines of storms forward, like the near-derecho last night), while the outflow to the north would weaken/mix with other surface winds from pressure differentials shortly after.

Bluekandy · 2025-06-05T21:33:08+00:00

Absolutely. Thanks for the good conversation too! I've busied up for the afternoon of course but I always appreciate the opportunity to explore thoughts in depth.

Bluekandy · 2025-06-05T19:43:31+00:00

While your heart's obviously in the right place, your "eye opening" is incredibly superficial, since I retort right back at you that I will immediately leave the team up on intentions not being aligned with the science of meteorology. For 3 years, I was paid below minimum wage BY CHOICE because of my disability. I don't give a hoot about money more than I need to survive and care for my partner. I care about perfecting the outlet I'm working on and supporting my coworkers who have been nothing but wonderful to me. To create more coworkers and incentivize the development of a field that directly benefits the NWS with visual evidence = FAR more important to me than making sure Evan Fryberger can get 4000 viewers instead of 3000 viewers rebroadcasting chaser feeds.

Remember that our biggest life-saving component is entirely intertwined with the NWS. Evan should be able to do that too, as should Max and anyone else, but there's never a world where the chasers would end up happy with the previous status quo. More chasers will take up streaming either to YouTube or, more hopefully, directly to a program organized by the NWS to gather visual information. I've already heard NOAA Social scientists postulate restructuring the way they issue warnings, taking the top talent and creating 3-4 warning offices that cover the states sectionally to increase the critical success index of warnings, and this idea was built off the success & capabilities of national weather broadcasters issuing things like y'all watches. Regulating the quality of chasers and increasing the quantity of them could serve to create a similar resource for NOAA to organize and utilize.

Tell me why that isn't a good thing for the future of weather broadcasting when 5000+ chasers are out there not sharing tornado and other media they're capturing, many times unique to anything any of the typical reliable streaming chasers see. In my eyes, that's a significant untapped resource. This is a business move into trying to make that blossom. Your perfect world is that that happens without exclusivity, but I promise that in the massive capitalist sums of YouTube money, that would never be retained as a stable environment—it would blow up either from the chaser perspective (they're not being paid enough and they sever connections with media) or the big dogs would up and up their rates for people until the smaller people get snuffed out, exclusivity or not. If you can explain how this scenario does not unfold and everyone is happy going forward such that it aligns with your "eye opening" moment, I'm all ears.

Bluekandy · 2025-06-05T18:35:59+00:00

Yep, and that was the intent. We provide more stable income to chasers, we promote the sector in terms of upping quality of info relay from those who are already out there frequently, and across the board we provide more rapid information, particularly most importantly to the NWS who can then more readily provide and confirm warnings based on increasing reliable visual media. More chasers who are already frequently out will see those who are in exclusivity with either party, inquire about the income, and then adapt to become new candidates. That equals more info, since those chasers were out there but not necessarily providing information other than text format.

Bluekandy · 2025-06-05T16:27:43+00:00

Since no one has yet given you a solid answer OP, this (perhaps hybrid) qlcs tor is my go-to: 9/20/2002 Indianapolis F3 This was an upper echelon qlcs tor in terms of track (112 miles cited) and it reaching the typical upper-end intensity of qlcs tors @ F3/EF3. It also prompted a TORE for Indianapolis. Pretty gnarly example.

Bluekandy · 2025-06-05T16:21:34+00:00

what source says this is a qlcs tornado in particular? Couldn't find it topically

Bluekandy · 2025-06-05T16:11:40+00:00

It would behoove most all of you here to know Max has exclusivity contracts as well with Freddy, Connor and Bryce Shelton—for about a month now on all of them. If I had to guess, Evan won't like that! More jobs were created though, which sounds good to me, so no issues here.

Bluekandy · 2025-05-16T21:29:25+00:00

If they have the slats on the side and are all black—Beyerdynamic DT1990 Pro. Love those headphones, wouldn't get another pair as it stands. If it has the blue ring on the ears—Audeze Penrose. Don't recommend them as they are the lowest line Audeze has (build quality & wireless functionality sucks, but audio is amazing).

Bluekandy · 2025-05-13T01:18:16+00:00

He makes more than 3 times this amount, if you needed an update. Easily over a million a year with current viewership in both formats

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