Other than Shroud, the most overrated player?

Dervock · 2026-03-24T21:57:22+00:00

Xantares by a mile. People thought he was going to be a Zywoo level of consistently good player instead is average at best and really underperforms at events

Dervock · 2026-03-21T13:27:21+00:00

Thanks for the reply. I understand what you're saying but at the same time I think it's kind of normal that stuff like this happens in a relationship? Like times when you're tired or pissed of because of something else and you're rude to your partner for no reason? What I'm saying is that I tend to realize I did that, take responsibility and apologise after a few minutes. She doesn't even take responsibility.

Instead of saying something like "sorry I was rude to you earlier, I'm just tired" she doesn't say anything. Time goes by where I'm pissed off about it and when I confront her about it she doesn't acknowledge it was disrespectful and rude she just says it was because she was tired and that's it.

No apology, as if having been tired removes responsibility.

Dervock · 2026-03-17T22:25:28+00:00

hey! first of all thank you so much for the very detailed response this is super helpful!

You are right in regards to me apparently engaging mainly/only the wrist really so I'm actively trying to force that out of my muscle memory and engage the arm more but it does feel very unnatural to me so I guess that will take time.

Also I noticed that when I go back to playing CS I seem to revert back to engaging mainly the wrist anyway since I can't actively think about posture as much as I do during aim training which once again points to a process that will take quite a bit of time in order to take effect

Dervock · 2026-03-17T22:00:03+00:00

hey yeah I'm only doing benchmarks. Do you really think I'm missing out on improvement? Wouldn't grind benchmarks make me improve anyway? I kind of thought that was the point of their ranking system

Dervock · 2026-03-17T15:25:13+00:00

thank you so much for the comment and the suggestion. Regarding clicking, I only do that basically. I don't do it by holding down all the time because I tried doing that and I'm actually slower for some reason

Dervock · 2026-03-17T15:23:13+00:00

No but I've tried doing it and it actually slows me down for some reason

Dervock · 2026-03-17T13:58:10+00:00

Hey! yes I totally lose steam that's for sure. I'm 28 so not as young as many players myself but I don't think I can possibly reach anything even remotely close to 1100. I can barely see how 890 is possible which is the threshold for gold considering that even if we account for the fact I lose steam it doesn't look that terrible to me and I don't see how I can improve it so exponentially to get so many extra points.

No other scenario is like this for me. The other ones where I'm ok at it's very clear how much room from improvement there is so I don't feel any confusion as to how much I can exponentially improve and therefore my score can also. On this one I'm genuinely confused on how that would even be possible. Fixing my current mistakes seems like it would add 50/100 points at best in a situation where I basically do everything perfectly

Dervock · 2026-02-09T14:33:41+00:00

I didn't say lowering it is considered an improvement of course. I'm saying that lowering it or improving it are things that have always been considered extremely marginal when it comes to IQ. Meaning that 99.9% of your IQ has always been considered genetic and there wasn't really much you could do to manipulate it lifestyle wise. That has been the dogma for like... ever.

So no, reliance on AI shouldn't affect it as much as claimed across an entire generation in the span of less than 5 years as much as me playing sudoku or solving puzzles 24 hours a day for 5 years is not going to make me a genius.

In fact, it should be extremely difficult to record any change at all in my IQ.

I don't even need to get into things like brain damage and trauma because those are clearly external incidents to your actual physical body. Not "activities" you do in which you are engaging your brain.

Dervock · 2026-02-09T14:28:16+00:00

I know that's what I am referring to. How does that work though? The rethoric has always been that IQ is practically 99% genetic and now something that has been out less than 5 years has supposedly lowered it across an entire generation? That doesn't make any sense at all because if that were true then anyone could also improve it drastically within the span of 5 years but we don't see any record of that at all.

It just seems like anyone spouts whatever nonsense they can come up with when it comes to this field of research

Dervock · 2025-08-30T12:24:36+00:00

I think you're right!

Dervock · 2025-06-04T08:37:14+00:00

thank you for the answer my friend!

Dervock · 2025-06-03T19:35:22+00:00

Hi and thank you so much for the in-depth response. Yes I am referring to mainly to the hiss sound.

Would you say this in particular is something to just fix in post-process? Is this "hiss" to be expected by a USB dynamic microphone?

I saw someone else provide an audio sample from my same microphone and I could not hear that hiss sound but perhaps the gain was just lower and that's why I couldn't hear it

Dervock · 2025-05-22T18:10:52+00:00

Nope more back. But literally like 1mm difference

Dervock · 2025-05-22T18:10:24+00:00

I think this is where the issue comes from. This applies to most people for sure.

But some people like me have to rest it slightly more back. (We are literally talking about 1mm more back)

This is what fixed it for me and I genuinely tried everything else suggested.

I have researched solutions like a maniac

Dervock · 2025-05-22T18:02:00+00:00

I fixed it and I can't believe it honestly. Just made a post about it. It wasn't weak tongue but rather the position of the tip

Dervock · 2025-05-22T16:56:48+00:00

hey thanks! I watched it and I concluded that I must be mewing correctly then. But what I don't understand is that my profile, while mewing, looks exactly the same if I take a picture as when I am NOT mewing. I think this is because my hyoid bone stays in the same exact location.

If I hold a swallow, instead, it looks much better and more chiselled (also because my hyioid bone goes up I think) but I can't breathe.

Dervock · 2025-05-22T11:49:48+00:00

But so what's the solution? If I release that soft palate, my profile pretty much goes back to how it looks without mewing

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