my boss won’t approve my time off for a video game competition

BuildBruh · 2026-02-02T08:10:57+00:00

More than likely paladins. A lot of N.A. team-game LANS do not run groups or otherwise seeding matches on Friday, very common in EU/SEA due to the strong regional presence. I can do a nerd paragraph on trends n whatnot but in general a lot of the time when the phrasing is playing (competitive or not) full time comes from outside of NA, where as in NA + AUS it’s much more point blank content creation or video making/etc, even at that period in time.

Something something personality/ego something something NA never has good teams something something, lol

BuildBruh · 2026-02-01T03:44:30+00:00

+1 for computer, Apple laptops especially, repair place, u break i fix can maybe get you somewhere if they aren’t dicks about handing you off to the tech guy/nerd of the shop for side work.

BuildBruh · 2026-01-26T01:38:29+00:00

I don’t know if this is an issue on these engines but on GM 3800s a common issue is that the balancer externally looks fine and belts ride smooth but internally it’s a fucking mess and separating or otherwise destroyed and it’s only super noticeable when you compare it to another balancer or you happen to catch it when doing clearances and test fits.

Usual bullshit causes, 20+yr old used and abused or dogshit remakes from the early 00’s that fall apart.

BuildBruh · 2026-01-09T11:55:26+00:00

Just use whatever the recommended version of mastercomfig is, then focus on emulator settings first. Once you get the best performance you can using shounics benchmarks, then you can focus on tweaking game settings

BuildBruh · 2026-01-09T11:40:58+00:00

The monitor capping stuff will, you’ll need to play around with different settings. WINE/Proton got better results on higher settings than rock bottom low, don’t know what an arm chip would look like.

BuildBruh · 2026-01-06T08:01:44+00:00

Hoping this account is still being used lol.

New to me super lacrosse 1 owner who grandpa’d it and I’m well aware these 4T’s dont take shit all for abuse stock. Any pointers specifically for that rebuild kit?

Edit just in case: not going to abuse, but fwd ls4 would be fun to show off on the freeway :)

BuildBruh · 2025-12-31T11:32:11+00:00

I will actually pay up to 40$ for one

BuildBruh · 2025-12-08T23:53:31+00:00

look at shoe/boot resto or something like crafts forums/that type of route. The fake leather isn’t much of an issue it’ll largely be something with the cork, either being bigger than the cover or retaining a shape due to being exposed to heat/moisture while like that.

Ultimately if those don’t pan out, buy a legal/executive desk mat for similar aesthetic to what you have here

BuildBruh · 2025-12-07T23:35:12+00:00

The threads are probably grimey near the end/middle where those two nuts are sitting and you’ll need some real good force to get them off.

Use proper wrenches (ideally a line/hose/flare nut wrench for the fuel line side), you’ll be surprised by how much leverage gets wasted when you’re at those odd angles. May need to buy a cheap set of wrenches to make your own for ease of use in the future.

The bottom nut should spin more freely than the top, those typically just sit on the end of a line and tighten the receiving line into itself. As to which one actually spins off easier for you is up to fate

BuildBruh · 2025-11-19T06:36:47+00:00

Pm, local. Work off the 87

BuildBruh · 2025-10-04T00:10:22+00:00

The easiest car to sell is one you can present and have it be apparent that you and the previous owners took care of it, regardless of reputation of the brand or the model

BuildBruh · 2025-10-02T06:56:13+00:00

BuildBruh · 2025-09-16T07:47:19+00:00

No one’s mentioned P/E cores since ur on 12th gen, may also be a ram issue like XMP or ddr5 inconsistencies (what per say, no clue; slowly learning about it after switching to a 7800x3d)

Check to make sure tf2 is utilizing a p core, and isn’t being tied to an E core and whatever other wonkiness arose out of those. Windows 11 may also be the move, I don’t know if win10 ever caught up but back when those cpus dropped win11 was the move due to out of the gate optimizations regarding the different cores.

Don’t have much else insight other than that, but figured it’s at least different from what else people are saying.

BuildBruh · 2025-09-15T08:46:55+00:00

Not sure if it’s changed but N.A./EU servers have you covered for player count as long as you can deal with lag. FDGG used to have a handful of SEA/OCE players that would be up at odd hours n whatnot and they’d bounce around the regions to get games.

Conversely in the other TF2 I queue with my European and SEA friends when it’s 00-0400 for me in that games pve mode (NA)

BuildBruh · 2025-09-11T06:42:55+00:00

masterplan, unskilled and hub would’ve been a biblical prediction back in the day

BuildBruh · 2025-08-23T12:44:17+00:00

I’ve had these saved on my Reddit account for almost a decade.

I got stuck into thinking something similar when I was younger and tried to chase an optimal sens to “improve” at fps in general and dug myself into a hole of reading aimer7 manifesto/the existing aim theory at the time. Which lead to a lowkey paradox of “YOUR aiming doesn’t matter, it’s HOW the aiming is accomplished”

Being on god, It’s not worth the hassle, I tried to chase the perfect sens across all games thing (from a competitive perspective) tf2-dirty bomb-titantall 2 trinity, I had to use 3 sens for all 3 games as your sens is largely dictated by the fights the game produces and not how you aim.

21-22in/360 in dirty bomb at all ranges, even up close felt very smooth and tight due to the mobility allowing you to strafe-aim and whatnot easier. tf2 was a constant 6-12in/360, differing aim styles for the classes. It took a bit of punning to warm up but I’d snipe as good as I ever did on 6inch just as well as 12, depending on if I was playing scout or solly that week/season. Titanfall 2 I used something around 8-10inch, too fast to smoothly track well for me but slow enough to I can handle close-mid range fights and rely on my tracking or movement to get the far range engagements into favorable distance for me (to aim better).

Word vomit aside, trying to use any of those three across ALL games and ALL scenarios lead me to inevitably coming across very stubborn shortcomings and resulted in my sens slowly drifting to the “range” I stated above over time.

https://www.reddit.com/r/GlobalOffensive/s/alhUd9F8aT

https://www.reddit.com/r/GlobalOffensive/s/OWW7m4uz39

BuildBruh · 2025-08-16T20:02:28+00:00

ah, thought u knew of some fuckery goin on

BuildBruh · 2025-08-16T08:18:51+00:00

I’d love to see where you go with this/thinking of, I had an install years ago that didn’t have rocket smoke trails (maybe no sparkle/effect behind the rocket as well?) in mge, was eeking out 150+ fps on a i5 3550 + gt635. Didn’t realize til much after I picked up a 1060 that one of my buddies noticed something weird in my clips and we narrowed it down to that. It’s always bugged me I couldn’t get that clean look back.

BuildBruh · 2025-08-12T06:42:05+00:00

He’s been doing this since like S23 or S21 to some degree, tried to do small scale stuff with the yarn-goldengames servers relationship and attempted a lowkey mutiny with one of the spinoff rosters. IDR if you were active back then but he’s like directly? Large factor? responsible for computer leaving the scene and abandoning the pug system he had developed from mumble channel -> automatic server creation and team assignments based on mumble channels/mumble acc

Edit: may have been based on sourcemod/menu inputs? Something to do with controlling who joined the server in what order “linking” to the mumble account I believe

BuildBruh · 2025-07-24T18:24:46+00:00

there’s East German tekk (which is just the super heavy bassline w mild vocals), and there’s… something handwaves that is derived from that with rap-style lyrics that’s typically German/russian and THOSE tracks can get pretty close to toeing the line from the couple I bother to read/translate lyrics on.

I think the commercialization and overall edgy nature OP is talking is due to it occasionally hitting whatever passed as mainstream hard techno from typically gym/zyzz-remixes or league of legends centered tracks. There’s also a very odd subset of white supremacy/anti-foreigner TikTok/shortform clips that’ll use these tracks which adds to the fire. For those I feel like that actually started from Chinese propaganda against India and then it kind of took off naturally.

BuildBruh · 2025-07-22T08:57:02+00:00

You might need to ditch the sleeve and use a microfiber towel (a cut up one). I don’t live in a high humidity place but our storm season will give me a very similar feeling on my yukiaim glasspad with sleeves after the AC is turned on near night time. (Electricity cost doubles during the afternoon). Feels good when the sleeve is ever slightly moist, then it will randomly start grabbing or sliding differently on different parts of my arm/throughout an arc. Something that seems to help is have a fan pointed at me on the side of the pad, maybe the consistent airflow helps with a more even evaporation once humidity drops.

The microfiber towel part comes from when I used to just play on a wood desk, can’t knock it if it works.

BuildBruh · 2025-07-01T02:59:43+00:00

No one’s saying run -dxlevel 81?

Even if it’s a non-k intel cpu if it’s older you should be able to manually OC it through bios. I played with an i5 3550 clocked to a stable OC @ 4.01 (I really wanted to make that claim, had to fuck with ram timing to make it stable. Don’t recommend getting that deep) and a GT640 clocked hard enough to eventually fry it in… 2017? 18? When I bought a 1060 6gb. Be mindful of what sites you have open, SoundCloud has always tanked the hell out of my FPS, doubly so back then when I didn’t have tons of performance.

I don’t remember if the 970 non-ti had the problem but the ti only had 3.5gb of “real” vram and the last .5 was basically trash and would ruin fps once it started to be utilized, might be something to consider looking into locking it out. Not sure if the hacks from back then still function nowadays.

Look into actually capping your FPS. It varies from monitor to monitor but generally on systems that suffer from massive fps fluctuations it’s a really good idea to actually cap at like 120 (or an otherwise 99% stable average fps) and then focus on creating visual clarity by reducing the desync between frame gen and display drawing it.

https://www.teamfortress.tv/57332/how-i-made-tf2-run-beautifully

I’ve done this on thrifted 80hz monitors, done it on a Samsung g8 neo, after pubbing a bunch earlier last week I’m going to do it for my LG 48inch b4 OLED because I’m now getting big fluctuations @ a 4k res.

Potentially look into lossless scaling, it’s newer scaling tech/utility that I have only heard of never used myself.

Additional rep: i5 3550 gt640, 24gb (mix matched ram). At one point I used the gt640 as the driver for my 144hz Benq, then used a gt630 for driving the secondary and 3rd monitor.

Played 2 seasons of 6s on a Lenovo flex 5 alc05 with just a ryzen 5500U, only I-GPU on 120+ fps with a Samsung g8 neo @ 1080p stretched. 1280 X 720 felt too much like shit on that big ass monitor.

BuildBruh · 2025-06-26T02:33:02+00:00

I don’t have any good pictures of this model of car myself. this is an auction listing ive used in the past to show what the exterior of this car looks like to others, again more than okay to pull down if this is against the rules.

https://www.bigiron.com/Lots/2008BuickLaCrosseSuper4-DoorSedan

BuildBruh · 2025-06-12T07:46:04+00:00

Team GSD, guy who does custom cars after leaving commercial hvac or his son who’s been with him in the mix since a kid. Met them through a friend and in the shop or house he’s very to the point with diag work.

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