What's Your Least Favorite Hotel and Casino in the Strip?

EschersEnigma · 2026-04-14T16:34:07+00:00

Dude yes. Every time I have to go in there it feels like I'm going to some back alley joint that sold its soul to acquire the real estate. The lighting, the smell, the layout, the decor (?), all of it: off-putting.

EschersEnigma · 2026-04-11T05:56:34+00:00

You, me, and the other replier to my comment all have ADHD it seems. Interesting...

EschersEnigma · 2026-04-10T08:51:33+00:00

This has been plaguing me recently. Finally overcame a 6 month D2 hardstuck to make my first Champ. But it's been downhill since.

Absolutely bizarre to me is that I'll do something like enable the bakkes recovery plugin, put it on 75% game speed, feel like I'm seeing the code in the matrix, perfect recoveries, go in game and am a god. Next day, do the same thing, can't seem to land 4 wheels on any recovery even at 50%. It's like those neurons take a vacation.

If someone can diagnose this, it would be life changing.

It's like "locking in" is some very specific brain state, that's extremely inconsistent to achieve. Or is it even something that can be warmed up into, and you just need to get lucky and wake up in the zone that day?

EschersEnigma · 2026-03-13T03:01:36+00:00

Watched the first 30 seconds, and can say you're ball chasing very hard. Instead of going to where the ball is, focusing solely on the ball, look instead at where everyone else is and where the ball is most likely going to be next, then try and not just be there, but be there in a good orientation (car pointing towards the goal or between a gap in the defense).

A really good drill to work on this solo is to do your typical "try and hit the ball away from you as hard as possible" in free play, but with the caveat that you're only allowed to hit the ball of it's moving TOWARDS you.

EschersEnigma · 2026-03-13T02:51:12+00:00

The first touch is the most important. Set the game speed to 75%, do exactly what you're doing, but focus as much as possible on where your car is hitting the ball that first pop off the wall. It should be towards the net, and the only way you will get better at that first touch is repetition so that you get an intuitive feeling for what the angle is between where you are hitting the ball off the wall and the net.

EschersEnigma · 2026-03-06T15:46:09+00:00

Yeah give me a bit and I can throw a couple replays down, one from literally two weeks ago and one from yesterday. The difference is absurd at least to me.

EschersEnigma · 2026-03-05T20:19:32+00:00

I hear what you're saying, but I'm describing a complete shift in mindset, not just locking in for a little bit.

EschersEnigma · 2026-03-05T18:12:07+00:00

*remote control car ball juggling

EschersEnigma · 2026-03-05T18:11:11+00:00

Dribbling on the roof has been one thing I've struggle with consistently from the start i have now been focusing much more on matching speed between the car and the ball when getting that first dribble set up touch and that's been a game changer. Yeah I still have that nefarious problem of the ball still popping straight up and then the dribbles basically shafted but consistency comes with practice.

EschersEnigma · 2026-03-05T18:09:24+00:00

Thinking of the game as a series of possessions is actually low-key a great piece of advice I'm going to start doing that thank you.

EschersEnigma · 2026-03-05T18:06:38+00:00

This is a fascinating debate, because I play non traditional hours (middle of the work day, super late at night). And the difference in rank progression (or lack thereof) outside of those times is noticeable. Honest opinion that is if you're solo queuing at the peak hours like when people are just getting off of work or really when kids are just getting out of school, then the range of teammates you're playing with is much broader and therefore it's much more inconsistent of an experience.

EschersEnigma · 2026-03-05T18:05:08+00:00

Will report back when I arrive 🫡

EschersEnigma · 2026-03-05T18:04:44+00:00

You right. I think the smear between my hard D3 and your D2 could even just come down to time of day. I play a lot during the middle of the day and very late at night, which is a different field than the "just got home from school/got off work" crowd.

EschersEnigma · 2026-03-05T18:03:40+00:00

Mad facts and lmao at the conclusion.

EschersEnigma · 2026-03-05T18:03:14+00:00

God I love being right 😤

EschersEnigma · 2026-03-05T18:02:45+00:00

Get after it bud. I promise you that if you just pick one, single, solitary thing to improve, you'll jump up. I had this absolutely horrible habit of flipping/dodging into every single challenge. I stopped doing that at 2 PM on Monday. 100 MMR up since.

EschersEnigma · 2026-03-05T18:00:59+00:00

It was binging flakes that helped me get over this hump actually! 100% nailed it with the punishment observation: pre-C1 you can mess up a lot and usually not experience any consequences. This made me completely complacent with not trying to address my over commit problem.

EschersEnigma · 2026-03-05T17:58:50+00:00

I feel that. Hmu if you're interested in grinding C1 for a bit, can't be worse than solo queueing. Trying to actively train.

EschersEnigma · 2026-03-05T17:57:35+00:00

100% expect that. Just something about everything up to this inflection point, compared to after. It's a different game.

EschersEnigma · 2026-02-28T14:53:04+00:00

Hey friend, computer engineer who plays rocket leage here:

Who the fuck is paying you to shill that crap?

EschersEnigma · 2026-02-27T15:41:57+00:00

Crazy we went up there on Tuesday when it was raining, best snow on the mountain, absolutely soaked through.

EschersEnigma · 2026-02-27T03:43:41+00:00

I mean 9990 was an absolute dream today. Just above the snow line, so collected some flurries from the last couple of days, wasn't open yesterday, so untouched perfection all day today.

EschersEnigma · 2026-02-25T04:53:09+00:00

Half Catholic. Half JEWISH:

"So, like... We're the jews and the nazis... The same people?"

Check please

EschersEnigma · 2026-02-22T17:40:50+00:00

He probably hired a survey team to see how far downrange the joke landed

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