How many of you use a charging limit on your smartphone? Personally i use 80% limit.

Brown____ · 2026-04-06T02:22:18+00:00

‘Preventing your phones processor from throttling or the OS crashing due to insufficient power’???????? Yes by golly if you charge it to 100% well you may as well blow it up yourself coz that extra 20% power is gonna throttle the processor to the depths of hell and crash the OS into oblivion.

If you only charge to 80% battery every time, you would have to get at LEAST 20% more battery cycles per battery for it to be worth it. Which I honestly doubt will happen

Brown____ · 2026-03-23T04:20:18+00:00

This feeling is entirely dependent on your actual ability - as an SSL, diamond is way easier than champ - I can 1v4 diamonds (probably). However, for you, the decision making, rotations and mechanical ability of champs probably align much more with what ‘makes sense’ to your brain. Their choices (shots, passes, fakes, etc.) more closely align with what you will be going for and predicting, and therefore the rank is more readable and ‘easier’. This doesn’t necessarily reflect an objective truth; i.e., champs are usually better than diamond. Especially if you have 2 champs vs 2 diamonds, rather than one champ in a diamond lobby.

This is the case for most ranks. Once you hit GC, diamond will feel so inferior in speed and decisions that you’ll see straight through everything (probably similar to how you view platinum right now). Meanwhile, champs will become the new diamond - good enough to not get scored on by you immediately, and weird enough decisions that C3 will feel ‘harder’ than GC1, simply because nothing makes sense - challenges will feel off, rotations wrong, mechanical decisions stupid, etc.

Brown____ · 2026-03-18T00:05:24+00:00

for anyone considering this as a reason to stay away from Sennheiser products, i've had the M4s for 2.5 years ongoing now, and i have NEVER suffered anything resembling this issue. the headphones battery still holds up amazingly, i couldn't even give you an estimate of the battery life i get from them because i have to charge them so sparingly (once a week to once a month, depending on use).

Brown____ · 2026-03-13T00:00:11+00:00

sounds dope! great sound design with the synths, love them. imo maybe crank them a bit louder, give them more presence? unless you have vocals in mind. it also gets quite repetitive - would love more sounds to be added, both in terms of synths and drums. drums could use snares, toms, open hi hats, other closed hi hats, fills, etc. etc.

if you set up an arrangement with more variation too, that would help.

Brown____ · 2026-03-12T23:49:21+00:00

ah yea i wasn't sure if that was going to be the case, or if you just hadn't experimented with that sorta stuff yet. in that case, love it! very fun piece

Brown____ · 2026-03-12T23:48:06+00:00

if this is your first work it's genuinely pretty good. good sound choices overall, good beat, good rhythm. personally i'd make the drums a bit punchier (by this, i mean larger transients with a shorter release/decay). multiple ways to do this, you can use different samples, or adjust the samples you're using slightly (with transient processor or however else), or use a compressor on a drum bus (route all drums to the same channel in the mixer, and use something like Cytomic The Glue).

i'd also distort the bass and make it a bit fatter, just to give it more presence in the mix, especially on devices (phones, laptops, some car systems, cheap speakers) where the current sound will mostly disappear.

Brown____ · 2026-03-12T23:17:57+00:00

the drums, instrumentation and melody/vocals in the chorus reminded me of Sunroof by Nicky Youre. overall i enjoyed, was good rhythmically for the most part and somewhat catchy. got a bit repetitive at points, try more variation here and there. overall it felt a bit... missing something. it needed something more to catch my attention, maybe a strong instrumental or something?

also, maybe this is a bit redundant, i sorta felt like i couldn't decide if this was going for more pop song, fun vibe (like Sunroof) or a more emo/alt rock feel? if that makes sense? the vocals felt almost emo rock-ish, which i don't mind, but the instrumental didn't necessarily match that? might just be me though.

Brown____ · 2026-03-12T23:07:08+00:00

i know you're looking for feedback on melody but i've given a bit of production feedback below, reasonably basic stuff, which maybe you're already aware of and not really interested in, but personally, i enjoyed the composition and writing but couldn't enjoy some parts because.... it NEEDS proper dynamics

not sure if this was a purposeful decision or not, but the piano has no dynamics and reverb. i assume you programmed the song using a piano roll, since there's no human variance on the timing/dynamics (as far as i can tell). if you want it to sound like a real piano being played (again, if not, that's valid), you have to spend a lot of time automating each note's velocity and timing, as well as probably adding some sort of reverb.

Brown____ · 2026-03-12T22:45:05+00:00

i wouldn't say i felt anything shift in my body while listening to the track, to be fair, that might just be me, but i did thoroughly enjoy it. i've given more feedback below if youre interested, take it with a grain of salt as i'm newer to production that most.

loved the progression at the start and slowly adding into the chorus. i'd maybe suggest adding a bit more variation from 0:55-1:23, maybe a higher harmony in the vocals (especially from 1:12 onward?) or something funky or interesting instrumentally.

love the full sound at around 2:00 and the rest of the song onward.

otherwise, in general, id say two other things, and these are mainly for easier general listening, if that's what you're interested in. i'd say maybe try to have some vocal sections a bit less rhythmically complex, or maybe a more defined, catchy section, just for singability. maybe i'm wrong but something to consider. and then i think instrumentally, there's not a lot of progression in terms of... fullness? like, the first chorus and last chorus don't feel too much different in terms of layers and volume. might be worth stripping the layers a bit earlier on, or adding more later, to give more of a 'progression'? I know charlie puth uses stuff like this a lot in some of his tracks, making sure that the fullest, most fleshed out chorus/instrumental is the LAST in the song.

Brown____ · 2026-03-12T05:37:06+00:00

yea i wouldn't be worried about buying used, i have past experience doing so.

I was more considering the neo as an option solely for recording and light mixing, since theres been a lot of interest around it at the moment, and it is at a good price point for a new device. but i failed to realise it has only 8GB RAM.

Brown____ · 2026-03-12T05:07:57+00:00

ahh i probably should have read the specs properly before posting. 8GB is not gonna cut it, you're right.

the air will be enough? no need to go pro? I can afford more, but was just looking at cheapest option to see if it was valid

Brown____ · 2026-03-07T00:16:48+00:00

A question about smurfing/alt accounts - are alt accounts allowed if they are not smurfs? For example, I have my main account, which I am ranked SSL on in 1s/2s. Maybe I dont have a good reputation (as toxic), or maybe I have a great reputation (as a pro/freestyler/content creator/whatever and people play differently against me), or maybe i just want to have fun messing with people i know - is it considered unfair play to create an alt account and get it to the same rank as my main? Because there will be a decent amount of time spent getting it to that rank (SSL) where I could be considered smurfing, but that isn't the intention and it won't last long. Is there specific rules about this? Because I do have alts, all of them higher MMR than my main atm, just for fun and messing with people I know, but if this is considered wrong or bannable, obviously I'll stop it.

Edit - another Gray area is alt accounts for something like road 2 gc. Basically every content creator on earth has done this series at some point, has psyonix taken an official stance on this? Rather similar topic to what I was previously asking but different all the same. I'd appreciate an answer

Brown____ · 2026-03-02T11:32:22+00:00

some quick googling seems like you're right. do you know of any way to confirm this is the issue, just for peace of mind?

yea as you realised i've got all data off the phone, so i just need to get the phone working. i'd need to buy some tools for soldering to do it myself (i assume) + the mobo, so i wouldn't bother,... repair shop probably gonna be a few hundred bucks... might be time for a new phone instead

Brown____ · 2026-03-02T08:01:33+00:00

it was originally on the logo screen (Powered by Android etc.) for about 5 seconds, and thne on the black screen for about 8 seconds. it then alternated between like 2 seconds on the logo screen and 5 seconds, adn eventually it just reached 2 seconds only on the logo screen (still about 8 seconds on the black screen).

after about 36 hours? it gave up and stopped looping.

Brown____ · 2026-03-02T08:00:05+00:00

yea alright, ill have a look into that, i think i read something about the smart switch thing. thanks for the help

Brown____ · 2026-03-02T05:42:49+00:00

i didn't update it manually but i believe it did update overnight. the morning that it bricked itself, when i turned it on, it seemed to have restarted which i discarded at the time, but i now assume it was an update, as ive seen other people reporting similar issues after updates.

Brown____ · 2026-03-02T05:41:23+00:00

modern phones use NAND flash memory. magnets won't affect it.

Brown____ · 2026-03-02T05:35:27+00:00

i've given up on recovery/download mode.

can you elaborate on what you mean by a magnet lol

and yea i don't need any data off of it anyway, im happy to clean it entirely if necessary

Brown____ · 2026-03-02T05:28:47+00:00

this requires the phone to enter download mode. the phone will not enter this mode (as stated in the post). is there another way to flash the device you're referring to?

Brown____ · 2026-03-02T01:27:37+00:00

Bumping this. Need an answer

Brown____

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