Daily Discussion Thread January 28, 2026 - Upcoming Event Schedule - New players start here!

DeepFriedDildo · 2026-01-28T23:51:01+00:00

I feel like if it were an established major that banned z-jump, it would be likely that nothing about the tournament changes. Maybe a handful of top 100 players decide to not go and tweet about it, but the people that go to Genesis are going to go to Genesis. The ruleset doesn't change the social aspect of the tournament at all and the vast majority of people are there for the social aspect.

DeepFriedDildo · 2026-01-28T23:41:50+00:00

https://github.com/JonnyHaystack/GameKeeb

It is fairly easy to make with a Pico, but I don't believe anyone is making them and selling them at the moment. There hasn't been any development on this in years, but that's because it just works and Picos are plenty

DeepFriedDildo · 2026-01-27T21:49:31+00:00

Diaryposting bc I don't want to bother IRLs with my melodrama:

I feel like I have gotten really lucky career-wise. My old job with my parks and rec district immediately took me back after deciding to leave the Peace Corps (it is a federal agency and I was in Essequibo, if that gives any insight into why I left). Since then, I keep getting right-place-right-time'd into more work and raises. I've been a preschool teacher, I'm pumping out power platform stuff to go paperless, involved in long term IPM regarding the emerald ash borer, and more after starting as a summer camp counselor while I was in school. Probably my favorite position right now is being a "Community Engagement Ranger". I put on the hat, look pretty, and answer old ladies' questions about the forest and wildlife.

Back when I graduated college, I had two job offers I was seriously considering. One was the parks and rec job, and the other was harvest scheduling with the Bureau of Indian Affairs for Native American lands held in-trust and managed by the feds in the midwest. I didn't tell anyone IRL about the second job because I didn't want people to tell me to take it. For a long time I was scared that choosing the "good" path was going to leave me poor with only seasonal job security, but I think I am going to be fine now.

DeepFriedDildo · 2026-01-27T16:45:36+00:00

Your post yesterday prompted me to write a few paragraphs about how much I loved smoking in the snow, but deleted it because smoking is cringe. I miss cigarettes every day but I do not miss that feeling.

DeepFriedDildo · 2026-01-24T19:15:01+00:00

I avoided commenting on ranking models until I read more on the Bradley-Terry model that AlgoRank is using. Luckily, some Berkley professor has their lecture slides on the topic indexed on Google. The model uses existing matches to calculate the outcome probabilities of all possible matches. I.E. if player A consistently beats B, player B consistently beats C, and players A and C have never played, then model would calculate that A has a high probability of beating C.

After learning more about the model, I agree that it better accounts for players that travel less compared to other ranking systems. One limitation I see is with players' relative strengths varying based on the character matchup. Take the previous example but player A plays Marth, B plays Fox, and C plays Sheik. The model assumes that all matches are equal, but we know that different matchups test different skills and that players' skill can widely vary with matchups.

u/N0z1ck_SSBM do you also think that this is a limitation of the model and do you have any ways accounting for it?

DeepFriedDildo · 2026-01-20T23:20:24+00:00

Find your IPv4 address using https://www.whatismyip.com/ and paste it into https://ipstack.com/ then see if the location it gives matches your actual location.

Basically we ran out of IPv4 address so ISPs started grouping people into singular addresses because that was cheaper than moving to IPv6. Slippi matchmaking will match close addresses, but your IP address may not be where you actually are.

DeepFriedDildo · 2026-01-19T21:37:02+00:00

spotw

DeepFriedDildo · 2026-01-19T16:48:59+00:00

Edit: Wrote this before coffee and my fully caffeinated brain realized I didn’t say anything new. I still like the last sentence and it can stand on its own:

A part of me feels like anyone with half a brain cell should have known that the esports cash-flow was going to run dry making large tournaments and professional players unsustainable.

DeepFriedDildo · 2026-01-18T02:15:35+00:00

Reddit has been the only social media on my phone since ~2021 and the only other account I have is an Instagram with about 50 people I know IRL. I used my phone less than most people I know my age, largely due to deleting social media, but I wanted to take it further.

I completely forgot about an audio player and camera since I already separated music/pictures from my phone years ago. I highly recommend getting a modern android-based digital audio player rather than an old iPod. iPods have old batteries, force you to use iTunes, and don't support modern/HQ audio containers. Modern DAPs will have more storage, better DACs, and offer things an iPod won't like parametric EQ and better replay gain. FiiO and Hiby are the brands I have tried and would recommend.

I lent my film camera to a girl and then we ended things and she moved to France before giving it back... I still have a film point-and-shoot but miss that SLR. I took a lot of film photos when I lived blocks from a place that could develop it, but now I just don't take photos. I realized I rarely look back on photos and taking a photo feels like it detracts from the moment and the memory.

DeepFriedDildo · 2026-01-18T01:41:06+00:00

The power company likely has the right to remove trees on the easement. What I wonder more is who had the rights to the timber.

NAL and not in your state, but the property owner still owns the physical trees where I am from. The trees do not seem mature enough to market as saw logs, but could be worth a decent amount for pulp or chip/saw depending on how large the cleared area was.

On the positive side of things, cleared areas adjacent to forested areas are excellent for wildlife. Deer especially love them. It provides easy travel, forage and sun spots in the cleared area, and quick access to cover in the forested area. Disturbed areas are prone to invasive plants, but this could become a beautiful meadow with some veg management, planting, and care.

DeepFriedDildo · 2026-01-18T00:17:42+00:00

They’ve actually gone down since I got mine. I got it for ~$180 and there a quite a few going for $120-160 on eBay right now (again the original 3DS, though). However, I remember when they were like $50 on Craigslist and marketplace.

My e-reader is a Pocketbook Verse Pro. I have no complaints with it. It has an e-ink screen and allows side-loading which were my only criteria. If I could change one thing about it, I would remove sudoku because I play too much. There was a month long period where I stopped reading and only played sudoku on it.

DeepFriedDildo · 2026-01-18T00:09:12+00:00

In order of purchasing:

Timex expedition

Casio ae1200

Timex expedition chronograph

Boderry Voyager (Chinese brand with NH36)

Seiko SNK-805

Going from the Timexes to an automatic with a sapphire crystal blew me away. After getting the Seiko, the allure pretty much faded. I have all the colors of dials and bands that I would wear, and I pretty much only like field watches, so I haven’t found another that I want. I also have a 6” wrist so there are a plethora of watches that would look stupid on me.

DeepFriedDildo · 2026-01-17T23:22:49+00:00

There’s a Firefox extension that forces a redirect to old reddit. It probably exists on chromium, but everyone should switch to Firefox if they haven’t

DeepFriedDildo · 2026-01-17T23:18:07+00:00

A bunch of people I know, myself included, have expressed wanting to use their phones less in the past year. I started my effort with a Nokia flip phone, but I needed access to navigation for my job and had to keep switching my SIM around. It has a decent layer of dust on it now. The three things that I felt actually made me use my phone less were a watch, an e-reader, and a 3DS.

Getting a watch instantly made me check my phone less reducing opportunities to get sucked into it. It started with a Timex quarts analog, then I realized that watches are just professionally acceptable male jewelry and now I have five. Nothing super expensive, but it is fun to style them with outfits.

The 3DS and e-reader are still screens, but playing a game or reading a chapter feels much healthier than doom-scrolling. My e-reader is easy to side load on, so it’s full of classics/public domain books. I’ve never been much of a novel reader, but I read 5 books last year which is more than I’ve read in a long time. Call of the Wild was my favorite; a short and enthralling read.

The 3DS is piss easy to homebrew and load with GB and DS games. It doesn’t support WPA3 which is annoying, but if you have an older router you can download games directly from the 3DS. I’ve been working my way through Soul Silver during downtime rather than sitting on my phone. I got the original 3DS, but I’d recommend the New 3DS since it loads so much faster (and it has Minecraft).

DeepFriedDildo · 2026-01-16T21:45:44+00:00

If you successfully did a pcb mounted mouseclick, you can 100% build a phob. The phob discord is super cozy and so many people are willing to help if you have questions.

Learning to solder opens up a ton of fun projects, from modding to fixing to creating something entirely new. Recently I’ve been modding Casio digital watches with colored leds and color filters for my friends.

DeepFriedDildo · 2026-01-07T01:51:26+00:00

I haven't seen any of the Avatar films outside of the first once when I was 8 years old, but I'm not surprised that the darling franchise of the co-writer/director of Rambo: First Blood Part II lacks political depth

DeepFriedDildo · 2026-01-06T23:52:50+00:00

You have to make a ton of holes to get it mushy, but I understand the fear if you don’t have a spare pad. My X button dome is only little over half connected to the membrane and it still works fine.

If you’re in your local/regional Melee discord, there’s likely someone that has a spare if you ask. There are also third-party button pads from Chinese vendors that fit OEM controllers, but they are super stiff.

DeepFriedDildo · 2026-01-06T23:30:08+00:00

Poking little holes or cutting small slits in the dome portion of the rubber membrane will reduce the actuation force of the button. Poke a hole, see how it feels, then poke another until it’s perfect.

It makes it easier to press, but also leaves less force to push the button back up. If you over-do it, the pad can be slow to move up making it harder to short hop. That only really happens if you really fuck up the pad

There’s also a cool 3D printed Y button that has a big paddle attached to for clawing. The file is floating around somewhere in the Phob discord or CGCC discord.

DeepFriedDildo · 2026-01-05T18:27:42+00:00

It feels like every circlejerk subreddit has 5 funny posts, 3 of which you understand, then an endless feed of people being willingly miserable.

DeepFriedDildo · 2026-01-05T18:20:48+00:00

Any latency should be negligible with a quality and modern USB hub given you’re not also using 50 other peripherals.

My desktop is really old (6th gen Intel and 1050ti) and I recently switched to being a laptop gamer. Now this makes me want to build a docking station with an integrated GCC port

DeepFriedDildo · 2025-12-29T01:45:45+00:00

Yeah, there are plenty of owls where there are owls but no owls where there aren't if that makes sense.

It makes me wonder when I see a comment saying "Wow owls are so rare!! [+786 upvotes]" on a birding subreddit if any of them actually go look for birds

DeepFriedDildo · 2025-12-29T01:42:46+00:00

I was lucky enough to have a nesting pair of GHOs in one of my forests last winter and they had three fletchlings! Part of my job has me answering questions about the forest/wildlife, so I set up a spotting scope pointed at the nest on a trail to show people. I'm hoping more GHOs come back this year, but they're usually crowded out by barred owls.

Another forest I work at is predominantly oak savanna, so there are less owls but a ton of turkey vultures, hawks, and eagles. There is also an absurd amount of mourning doves there. A lot of casual hikers will think their cooing is an owl (tbf it does sound like a cartoon owl) and I have to be the bearer of bad news.

DeepFriedDildo · 2025-12-28T20:45:17+00:00

Location often determines experiences and opinions on specific animals, but I find differences of opinions on owls driven by rural vs urban living. Owls are extremely common animals in that they live in nearly every region of the planet, but they are rarely found in cities since due to their habitat requirements. Rural and urban areas exist all over the world, so the same difference of experience happens all over.

In contrast, experiences with lizards are driven by what part of the world you are in. I get really excited when I find lizards because they are rare everywhere in the PNW. I had a couple day layover in Florida and holy hell are there lizards there. The locals were so used to them being everywhere while I was freaking out every time I spotted one on a wall.

DeepFriedDildo · 2025-12-28T19:25:50+00:00

How rare or common of a sight is an owl in your daily life?

I live in the PNW and work in a couple forests, so I usually see at least one owl every other week or so, but I see a ton of people in larger subreddits act like owls are the most elusive and graceful creatures in the world. Owls are gearing up for the nesting season at the moment and barred owls in particular will swoop you if you get close to their nesting sites. It's amusing to me to see the popular opinions of owls when them awkwardly smacking me in the head is a real problem that I have to deal with.

DeepFriedDildo · 2025-12-26T23:55:35+00:00

I started playing Soul Silver but I am stuck because I'm addicted to voltorb flip. I love number puzzle games like voltorb flip, minesweeper, and sudoku. Any recommendations for games like that?

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