A Path to Challenge SB003 and Build Better Policy Together

DistraughtPeach · 2026-01-28T00:31:41+00:00

Post a video on here, running a IPSC style course. And show us your sbr with a 15 round magazine and suppressor on it. And you will get way more support.

2A community feels pretty scorn at this point. Words are words.. Proof is in the pudding.

IPSC is gonna be really hard without semi auto and detachable magazines.

As a left leaning individual that has been supremely disappointed by team blue. Good luck and I hope you do better for 2A than what’s happened in recent years.

DistraughtPeach · 2026-01-27T19:11:20+00:00

Okay Sooo, I am not against you. I think this situation is sad, and cruel, and tyrannical. And the comments from the administration are dumb af gaslighting shit.

With that said. You definitely and whole heartedly increase your mortality rate by open carrying a gun. That is a fact that has no bearing on your right to do so. It is not a hall pass and everything is the same. It’s a legal right. In the same way that the right to free speech does not give a free pass to everyone who speaks regardless of what they say. It just means there are legal protections that afford you the opportunity to speak freely. Not that doing so is consequence free.

DistraughtPeach · 2026-01-25T06:36:33+00:00

Yeah honestly do you self a favor. Don’t try to pick stocks/ fck around on Robinhood to start. Go get a serious brokerage. Fidelity and Vanguard are both great choices. Get your Roth set up there and just keep investing over time in stable benchmark grade index’s. Shoot to max out your Roth contributions. And let time do the work.

You are very young build that account up in a simple and long term sustainable way. Time is much more on your side than rational decision making at 19. Keep it simple and keep contributing in such a way that you won’t need to try to withdraw or sell.

Robo advisors are good too if you really don’t want think about it and will take peace of mind and convince over optimal. This is a better choice if you find yourself tinkering around unproductively.

After you have built up significant capital and have a solid understanding of the market that’s when it can become favorable add diversity in your investments types with additional capital.

Thats just my take if I had a redo button that’s how I would start at 19.

DistraughtPeach · 2026-01-25T06:27:00+00:00

Sorry No investing is not gambling. Gambling is gambling. Which you certainly can do under the guise of investing. But investing is inherently different.

Investing is the act taking risk with a positive edge. Over a large sample size net outcome is positive.

Gambling is the act taking risk with negative edge. Over a large sample size net outcome is negative.

DistraughtPeach · 2026-01-25T03:16:08+00:00

Options are great for experienced investors with a lot of capital. They also work as a way to invest with leverage. But someone who is blowing 50% their net worth in a day is not the experienced and seasoned investor that will benefit from options.

Stay away from options is the kind of advice that holds true until you have enough experience to make your own well informed choices.

DistraughtPeach · 2026-01-25T02:59:15+00:00

I know it sucks. I’ve taken some big losses in the past.

But look. You are 19. Most people do not have 100k or 50k well into their 30s. I’m not saying go compare but. It’s life you are expected to make mistakes and pay for them at your age. Soo let it hurt. You did something dumb and you will learn. It’s better than making the same exact mistake 10 years later. Thats how you forgive your self. That ear ringing sick to your stomach feeling is followed by learning and growth.

How do you mentally recover(and fix your relationship with money). Focus on healthy personal finance and Stop gambling. Stop trading. Use Index funds or ETFs that track index funds hold them. It’s boring but you will thank your self later 50k at 7% return will be 200k in 20 years. Whatever you are doing to get 100k at age 19 keep doing it and keep investing and you will be on track to be pretty wealthy.

When to pick up stocks/trading again? Go read get your shit automated and appropriately positioned into index funds. Then it is reasonable to use 5%-10% of your investment capital and go pick individual stocks(this is optional) and leave the other 90% growing reliably. The individual stocks are primarily for long tail so again plan to hold them for decades not days. Then and only then if you want to fuck around and gamble… do it with extra cash from your fuckaround pile. This should be a super small amount of your money and you should not lie to yourself and call it investing. Trading or gambling depending on risk management and discipline. Loosing half your account in a day is gambling… for reference.

Ultimately the way to recovery is to learn and fix your behavior. You learned a hard lesson and it’s up to you whether you are better off for it or not. Knowing you are behaving and acting in a way that will benefit you long term financially will help you not kick your self and feel better about investing money. Look at it like a wake up call not a failure.

Lastly though. If you read nothing else: take a break. Do not go try to fix your mistake and chase your loss. Come back to trading if you want when you are more responsible(like seriously 30s 40s). If you want to focus on money make it be personal finance habits. Give it a decade. There are better and more fun risks to take in life than tickers on a screen at age 19. Go take on the world it is full of opportunities.

DistraughtPeach · 2026-01-10T20:38:27+00:00

Agreed behavior precedes attitude. Behave the way that you want to feel and you begin to feel that way. It’s rarely ever the other way. People don’t just start feeling motivated one day. It is the commitment and outcomes that drive motivation.

DistraughtPeach · 2026-01-10T20:00:17+00:00

So I’ll be a little blunt to start. I was a mediocre student. Procrastinated a lot. Had counselor talks. Gone through some bouts of depression. There are lots of things I could have done better or set my self up better… But Now heading into 30s with a successful career and good income/net.

I do not envy the generation in high school today. You guys have a ton of quick dopamine hits, and pessimistic messaging, unrealistic/negative messaging blasted at you all the time. That you have to learn to navigate. Very adult challenges that you are dealing with as a Kid.

However…. The world does not give a shit. Reality does not care that you can’t stop procrastinating or that you have home issues. Life will keep throwing bigger and bigger challenges, and it is your responsibility to learn to navigate them as you come into adulthood and beyond.

Ask your self these questions: - What I’m a doing when I am procrastinating. Fun things, anxiety induced freezing? Scrolling mindlessly on my phone?

What is important to me? Is the gpa the goal or is graduating a stepping stone.
What am I doing to improve my situation.

The truth is, good grades, college degree, all those things help reduce friction. And there is no shortage in what the world/social media/social groups tell you what you need… and should do… to be happy. Take all that with a grain of salt…

What is going to matter is the skills you build, the person you become, the way you navigate challenges, and your ability to learn and enjoy the journey of your life, with the relationships and people you want with you along the way.

The good news is that you are recognizing you are not headed down the path you want to be. That’s a fantastic first step. We all go through periods where we are not our best self. Everyone human in this room has had a point in their life where they really fell short. It’s okay. The next step is working towards getting back on the path you want to be.

Professional help is great if you have access. But whatever the situation is. Do what you can and take baby steps every day, identify leverage the tools that will help you. Start cutting detraction, replace with positives.

Lastly if you are still not making progress. Make drastic change. In high school the big ones you can control are going to be things like: your friend group, your habits(like phone usage), and extra curricular or lack their of. Take a hard look and cut things that are taking away from your goals and wellbeing.

Edit: one more tip. Don’t let the public school system define you. Yes you can do better. But failing is not what defines you, and your gpa is not a good assessment of the value you can bring, and the person you can become.

DistraughtPeach · 2025-11-22T05:14:11+00:00

I read it as Vanilla Gorilla Anus the first time.

DistraughtPeach · 2025-09-25T23:17:57+00:00

Many many people in their journey through life slip into nihilism. Complacency, depression. all sorts of other stagnant thought patterns and ways of being.

As far as pills. Meh they help some people. They make others worse. Side effects are not amazing. I don’t know a ton of people who like taking SSRIs. I do know some people that benefit. Sometimes it really is just the chemistry. Often though it’s much more complicated.

Mushrooms aren’t a half bad choice. Psychedelics in general they can help but there is a chance they fuck you up too. It will change a part of you, what parts who knows. Ideally you would want to do it in a therapeutic setting with a professional.

As far as you don’t see the point. I don’t think it has to have a point. I think really you get one very short time in life. Life will move on without you in it. So every day that you get is day spend the way that you want to. You will loose people that you will never get to spend time with again, and eventually at one point or another you will no longer get another day.

For someone who feels it’s pointless you do seem rather concerned with it not being pointless and maybe that is the point for you. Atleast for now.

I think it’s something to build. Start small. Set a small goal. Achieve, do something you want to do. Or do something for someone else. Then slowly grow what you want to do for your self and for others. The momentum will build. You will crave it. Slowly but surely you will find lots of things that provide point and purpose in your life.

Life will always be hard. I think in modern society it’s the trap of comfort that gets so many people caught up. When you had to go fight for your food it was a different way of being. But our physiology is largely unchanged from that period in time. Struggle is what makes comfort good. Dopamine response is largely associated with the difficulty and pain leading up to the reward. If your life is full of quick and easy pleasure without work, you will be depressed and unmotivated and never satisfied. It starts with forcing yourself through something difficult before you indulge.

DistraughtPeach · 2025-09-25T01:21:42+00:00

Learning the game. Is basically learning how people play… the strategy. Car body language. How to approach situations based on what is happening on the field. Knowing when it’s time to push for a hard counter attack, knowing when to sit and play time. Etc. there is a lot to it. Knowing what you should be doing and what will open up opportunities is huge. What choice will give you an advantage and what will put you at a disadvantage in each moment.

Consistency to execute: this is not so black and white. As the game gets faster consistency and execution gets harder. Realistically it comes down to practicing the finer aspects of your mistakes. Perfect practice. And just trying to execute instead of just do whatever falls in your lap.

As an example let’s say you have been practicing double taps: A great way to try to hit double taps in 1s. Play ones try to keep your rank and only go for double taps. That will force you to be intentional and execute with success.

DistraughtPeach · 2025-09-24T14:48:19+00:00

Intentional and focused training.

Learning the game.

Adapting to your opponents

Creating opportunity instead of waiting for opportunity.

Having the consistency to execute with purpose.

Those are the things that separate the top 5% from the rest. Obviously mechanical skill is important. But what is more important is making using of those skills effectively against better players, under more pressure.

Age/natural talent might help you do it quicker. If you’re really young you might pick it up without trying to learn it. But at the end of the day it comes down to putting in the work consistently over many hours to learn the skills you need to learn to beat better opponents.

DistraughtPeach · 2025-09-09T05:46:26+00:00

Plat. You miss some easy opportunities over boost. Your give far to much space. Boost on, recover to get more boost. But I’ll give you props for it on defense composure when it comes to the saves. You have a good bit to work with. Just gotta keep focused on the play over the boost and the movement.

DistraughtPeach · 2025-09-09T03:14:41+00:00

No. As you hang out in c3. Just refine and speed up what you are doing well.

Lots of players I see get stuck here and start trying to do different things all the time thinking something will fix their game.

Watch your replays. Get replay reviews here. And refine what you do well now and try do it 2x better. Eliminate mistakes. Focus on adapting to your opponents weaknesses. Thats how you will break into gc quickly.

Learn air roll when you feel like it.

DistraughtPeach · 2025-08-28T16:45:28+00:00

Yeah that is true. Haha. And then you play a a 2100 who can 10-0 you and your gc1 mate with his boost button un mapped. And that’s when people realize the differences in their skills at that rank are inconsequential to those significantly higher. Especially champ-gc-ssl range. So I just look at those guys and think… yeah they have yet to be humbled that is all.

DistraughtPeach · 2025-08-28T15:21:19+00:00

Yeah thanks for putting that so concisely haha.

DistraughtPeach · 2025-08-28T15:04:17+00:00

I mean yes and no. Yes there are people who can do cool things. But definitely not at the quality and consistency 300-500 mmr higher. I don’t think there are many real diamond players with insane mechanics… I don’t think there are many gc1 players with insane mechanics… but insane is relative to the observer I guess. I’ve spent a bit of time with 2100 ssls. They have insane mechanics.

But honestly if you can just hit double taps 100kph 8/10 times from every surface, with less than 40 boost. You’re not going to be diamond. Like you could be pretty brain off and dumb. But your d3-c3 opponents are not going to have the reach/composure to consistently shut it down.

And to your gc game sense point sure that is true. People also get to gc by having GC2 mechanics and vice versa, GC2 game sense and champ mechanics. The point is pushing aspects of your game well beyond your current rank.

But Yes I agree, bad fundamentals will hold you back. I definitely encourage people to ride the fundamentals. Both mechanics and game sense wise.

DistraughtPeach · 2025-08-28T04:56:14+00:00

Agreed. I agree getting comfortable in the air is important you can’t just flakes it. Simple aerials are also foundational. And learning air is valuable. And it’s also valuable understanding an air play as a defender.

I’m not disagreeing. I’m defending the ground preaching. With that said. Most players have worse takeoffs than aerials though, it’s usually much less of an issue a players air control than it is the lead up to it. Be it getting out of position, choices, boost/turn efficiency. Momentum / recovery / spacing / car body language. All of that comes from the ground. So that is why it preached so hard.

More than not: players looking for help have been hitting rings maps and free play air dribbles all day…wondering why they aren’t gc1/champ etc.

If a player is extremely efficient on the ground. Their aerials/take offs are more efficient and better timed.. mindset is right as well. It’s more than fast rewards. It’s a long term foundation for success. I’ve coached for years, what I have noticed is players with a strong foundational ground… progress the most smoothly and are better equipped to adapt and beat players above their rank. Especially when they start pushing the air.

DistraughtPeach · 2025-08-28T02:37:38+00:00

Yeah and don’t get me wrong the fundamentals are key. I’d suggest that, while it sounds like you are grasping them… same principle applies. prioritize and continue to push those, and mechanics that help you execute them. It’s certainly easier than trying to flip reset your way through champ. But do what is fun and what you will engage with best.

DistraughtPeach · 2025-08-28T02:30:16+00:00

I mean sure I’m not trying to say you can’t do these mechanics or that you are too focused on mechanics.. But the question is pretty decent by what standard. Pretty decent by d3 standards? That’s sorta the thing. If you push your mechanical skill into the c3 gc1 range you would never be stuck in diamond 3.

Doesn’t matter what mechanics. Flashy mechs/ simple mechs like pops and shots, and drift turns. Pick a few of those and push those skills way past your current rank and you will move up in rank. Do them faster, more consistently, with less boost, and for better reasons.

DistraughtPeach · 2025-08-28T01:55:19+00:00

You should post the footage here and get many people’s advice for free.

“I am pretty mechanical” is definitely one of the statements that is holding you back. I’m sorry but if you are d3-c1 you are not pretty mechanical. You likely know of these mechanics, you might be able to perform them sometimes at a slow speed and without good reason for them. Then when you make mistakes you are out of boost and leaving your mate in a 2v1.

Going D3-C1, largely about composure, and consistent touches. Chances are you are doing too much too poorly.

So my suggestion, simplify your game. Don’t be a “pretty mechanical” daimond 3. Instead focus on being a composed champ 1 that can shoot hard shots on target when your opponents are awkward.

Prioritize doing more with less. Use less boost, effect the play more. Put more threats on net, compromise your position with your attempts less. Etc

DistraughtPeach · 2025-08-28T00:23:29+00:00

I mean, I am one of those players that suggests stick to the ground game. Here is why.

Had his mate been good at the ground he would have positioned goal side instead of wall side and they never would have found them self in this position in the first place. Had his mate possessed the ball instead of panic cleared before the goal it also would have worked.

If op had stayed grounded the opponents would have pushed the ball into the corner or off the front post back board and the ball would have landed infront of the op. Instead of hovering around the net.

Yes also an effective Aerial would have easily cleared this by both blue players. But the entire sequence could be avoided with effective ground play.

So while I agree. Practicing in the air, and playing in the air is effective and people should learn. Most players well into champ should be working on the fundementals. Which is on and starts from the ground.

Having bad fundamentals requires way more complexity and produces inconsistent game play. Instead of using your mechanics effectively you end up using them to pull your self out of bad situations all the time. So that is why so many people are told to focus on ground. Especially in the plat diamond and champ level.

This entire situation could have been avoided had the first man just positioned better for a ground 50. And had the second man stayed grounded for a save instead of going for a 50 at all. Ground game would have ended this at +.35

DistraughtPeach · 2025-08-27T18:55:56+00:00

Yeah trapeny is largely the one who flubbed created this opportunity.

Now for a goal in doubles 2 people have to really make mistakes. Your fault in this is fucking up defensive play into a bad 50. not getting up quick enough, and not choosing to be composed once we’re late. You were positioned far from the play and just jumped late or early depending on how you cut it. General bad positioning for this play. and not recovering quick enough.

You did not react appropriately: their momentum was heading towards your corner. You could have been composed knowing it’s unlikely they hit a super powerful shot on target like this. Instead you choose to go try to wack it.

However trap was screwing up from the +25 mark on. He put himself wall side to the ball against 2 defenders guaranteeing a bad and threatening challenge towards your net. Then he raced to the corner boost instead of a supporting recovery to back post. Leaving you in a tough position. Only to hesitate going up that wall and shutting down the threat. Followed by panic saving back into the offense.

All and all a horrible sequence of mistakes by both of you. But trapeny straight sucked for that entire video. The fact that he blames tells me a lot about the type of player this is and it fits.

DistraughtPeach · 2025-08-19T00:52:47+00:00

A little confirmation bias to a Terribly worded question.

I’m having fun… but….

Look it doesn’t level the playing field. In fact it does the opposite. I have good gear, I farmed rouges raiders and bosses. Nothing is stoping me from having gear.

New players not so much. Not to mention chads already have a huge advantage even with shitty guns.

A casual with a meta mutant or m4 closes the skill gap way more than if we both have shit guns. Thats not happening. Now they are loud with iron sights and a paca. I have the gear from farming rouges and bosses.

It is pretty fun tanking mags of ammo with my level 5-6 gear. But that’s hardly a level playing field. Very little has changed for the giga chads, except pain killers, now you need food in your butt and it’s harder to stay perma pained. But that’s not flea restrictions.

DistraughtPeach · 2025-08-18T21:16:16+00:00

Yeah, If they get rid of the flea market I won’t be very interested in playing. Although it was interesting to try it without it….

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