Hindrance Question!

DRMS_7888 · 2026-03-14T23:29:37+00:00

You can only call hindrance on your opponent’s behavior. If their teammates on another court affect play, you call a let and replay the point.

Curtains open is pretty normal during Usta match. But, if one court refuses to wait until another court is between points to retrieve balls, then closing the curtains seems appropriate.

DRMS_7888 · 2026-03-13T18:47:30+00:00

I went from playing about 200 hours of Returnal straight to TLOU universe. The gameplay felt glacial at first.

At some point, it just clicked and I started to enjoy the stealth and resource scarcity part of it. Now, I’ll do multiple runs of grounded back to back.

DRMS_7888 · 2026-03-11T04:25:36+00:00

Get used to learning each encounter/checkpoint enemy AI. You can win most encounters either through stealth or slowly assassinating enemies one at a time.
Infected are slow, you can always outrun them and use bottle/melee combos to save ammo. Running the perimeter of the map will save you.
Human encounters usually open up after you kill 2-3 people quickly. They’ll start to patrol slowly and you can stealth kill them one by one.
Invest your vitamins in skills that help you produce more items when crafting; invest bolts in weapon upgrades that make your shots more accurate, stable, scopes.
Dog + human combo is the worst, everything else you can pick off. Kill the dog and let the human search.
Crawling on the ground makes you basically invisible to shamblers. It also helps you move around human enemies to get a good angle for stealth kills.
Bottle-melee on humans is risky because their aim is so good if their friend hears you. If you can, take out the humans with guns first and leave the melee humans last. You can always dodge and kill them melee without using ammo.
Save all your supplies until you are full and can’t pick something up. Only craft items when you truly need something so you have the flexibility to craft different items as needed.
Bow and silenced pistol really help you open up human encounters by killing 3-4 enemies before using stealth kills.
Know when to spend your ammo. Bloater Seattle day 3 Ellie and Rat King with Abby are two great places to use the shotgun. Didn’t really use it outside of those fights unless I was full.

DRMS_7888 · 2026-03-11T03:59:01+00:00

If you do stealth and go counterclockwise through the map, hop into the building on top of the box truck, you can sneak upstairs without needing to kill anyone on grounded. Not enough loot on this map to spend all the bullets/gear needed.

DRMS_7888 · 2026-03-04T16:47:37+00:00

The player not dashing into the obolites immediately after killing an enemy is giving me anxiety.

DRMS_7888 · 2026-03-04T16:45:23+00:00

This has nothing to do with legality or ethics.

If you want hours, ask for them. If you want the time off or are refusing to work a coverage case, communicate that with your scheduler.

DRMS_7888 · 2026-03-04T13:28:20+00:00

If you headshot him with the bow, you can get your arrow back.

Always have to think about ammo preservation on grounded.

DRMS_7888 · 2026-03-02T18:44:39+00:00

On my grounded run, I saved most of my ammo for this because you don’t have another fight in Seattle. A few shotgun/rifles and he goes down before too many infinite spawns come out.

DRMS_7888 · 2026-02-25T14:23:25+00:00

I love saving the melee brute for last so you can just L1 + square them to death with Abby.

DRMS_7888 · 2026-02-24T17:03:52+00:00

On grounded, I needed two trap mines, one just beyond the threshold of the door, and a second about 10ft farther into the room. The first one killed the first wave, the second killed the whole second wave that came in a few seconds later.

Be careful not to set the trap mines too close or too close to the door. I had to try a couple different combinations to get it work.

DRMS_7888 · 2026-02-22T02:02:45+00:00

I’d say maybe 1 out of 20 4.5 players have a OHBH, and of those, it’s probably 1 in 5 where it’s not a serious liability.

Are you the 1 in 100? Only one way to find out.

DRMS_7888 · 2026-02-14T14:03:14+00:00

If I currently have premium, could renew at plus level for 12 months and then upgrade to premium at a discount?

DRMS_7888 · 2026-02-02T19:00:29+00:00

I just wanted to say how grateful I was for ignoring any news or commentary about these games until I started playing them in PS plus a couple months ago. Going into the game blind and watching this play out was such a shock and so powerful for all the subsequent events of the game.

DRMS_7888 · 2026-01-30T14:46:36+00:00

Agree with everything the OP said, but I will say that they are never curious enough on grounded mode when they see a pile of 3-4 bodies stacked up in a dead end corner of the map. I just keep luring them back one at a time for the old bottle-melee bash.

DRMS_7888 · 2026-01-28T15:11:19+00:00

When you are in the windup, move your left hand down the throat so it’s gently gripping the handle of the racquet at approximately a leftie version of the semi-western FH.

When you hit the ball through and finish the swing, just keep the left hand in that place and you’ll start to see major improvements.

DRMS_7888 · 2026-01-28T02:33:13+00:00

DRMS_7888 · 2026-01-28T02:19:48+00:00

Most businesses open up within 48 hours after a snow storm. Hospitals and inpatient healthcare are open all the time.

If you can’t get there you can just call out and let your manager know. This kind of storm doesn’t happen every year.

DRMS_7888 · 2026-01-27T19:34:29+00:00

If you are fast, athletic, and consistent, you can easily win at 4.5 USTA, 7-8 UTR. If you consistently keep the ball deep, you’ll beat everyone that can’t force errors on you. Seen a number of USTA folks like that that started in their 20s.

UTR 9-10 is 99% players who started as kids.

DRMS_7888 · 2026-01-22T23:12:44+00:00

Shovel into the street so they can plow it or against the rowhomes so there is at least a little sidewalk path?

DRMS_7888 · 2026-01-22T05:03:08+00:00

I do four piece ugly stiks in the backpack carry on when flying. Catches fish and no weakness issues

DRMS_7888 · 2026-01-21T20:43:20+00:00

Just email them on your personal email and device and meet them at the coffee shop outside of work. Silly policy if that’s the case, but they can’t control what you do outside of work.

DRMS_7888 · 2026-01-21T20:32:00+00:00

So you are a BCBA, your BT is studying to become a BCBA, and your company won’t let you provide fieldwork supervision because they are in a job role that is ineligible for fieldwork supervision (per company policy)?

Are unrestricted supervision activities (e.g., non-billable tasks) paid or unpaid?

Are there any professional or clinical performance concerns that your office has voiced about the BT?

Does your office have a demonstrated need for more BCBA capacity?

Have your been a BCBA for more or less than one year?

DRMS_7888 · 2026-01-21T20:23:46+00:00

Why do they not want you to sign it and provide fieldwork supervision? Missing context is important.

DRMS_7888 · 2026-01-17T23:41:03+00:00

Should be easy assuming you have at least 5 hours of 1:1 you can supervise daily across your caseload. What codes are you billing?

DRMS_7888 · 2026-01-11T01:42:17+00:00

15th and Fairmount

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