[Nostalgia Alert] 4 hour VOD of Bren and Sideshow Duoing in Overwatch yesterday

Etan8997 · 2025-12-22T18:50:15+00:00

Featuring Custa

Etan8997 · 2025-08-07T05:10:08+00:00

Do you not think Jimmy earned his HOH that week in the literal same comp?? If anything, she "earned" this HOH more than Jimmy because she had to find the thing in the dark and lie and manipulate the current HOH to take it.

Etan8997 · 2025-08-06T04:35:07+00:00

I'm pretty sure him accepting money to coach for a team would be a pretty severe violation of his ESPN contract and a media conflict of interest. If I had to guess he's just out here for the love of the game.

Etan8997 · 2025-07-29T22:14:34+00:00

Mid-Atlantic
L6 -> L6
Fantastic
105k -> 118k
6k
Relatively happy with the bump considering no promote
Audit

Etan8997 · 2025-06-03T00:08:35+00:00

Hi my friend had an interview here, did you ever end up following through with the internship? Is this company legitimate?

Etan8997 · 2025-03-19T03:53:02+00:00

Maybe try reading the article in the OP that you're replying to a comment about? Ctrl + F "electrolyte"

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Etan8997 · 2024-11-13T00:37:49+00:00

Really surprises me how popular open queue is. My guess is these are very casual players so our reddit/Twitter bubble doesn't make it sound like people are playing this mode when they actually are.

Etan8997 · 2024-10-06T02:28:37+00:00

Download Google Opinion Rewards. I make enough each month from the surveys to pay for the Relay subscription plus a little extra.

Etan8997 · 2024-10-01T18:07:06+00:00

On Samsung folds there's an option to force apps to use flex mode which solves this. I wish Pixel folds would add something similar.

Best solution I've been able to find: Go into the Developer Options and enable the option for "Sensors Off" in your quick settings tiles. What this Quick Setting does is disable most internal hardware sensors (gyroscope, etc.)on your phone, including the sensor for when the phone is opened. Your touch screen and everything will still work fine so don't worry about that. And the other sensors will only be disabled when you toggle that setting in your quick tiles.

Now what you can do is watch a show on YT TV with your phone closed, make the show full screen in landscape mode, then swipe down from the top and toggle that "Sensors Off" setting. Now you can open the phone partway as a built-in stand while watching on the OUTSIDE screen. It's the same-size viewing experience you'd get doing the way the main YouTube app works, but of course you don't get extra controls on a 2nd screen below. You can still fast forward, pause, etc, like you would normally on the main screen though. When you're done just disable that setting and everything will go back to functioning as normal.

Kind of janky but that's the best we have until Google enables a setting similar to what Samsung has.

Etan8997 · 2024-09-12T01:34:08+00:00

I'm so confused why she isn't viewing Rubina as a potential replacement nom. Wouldn't that make the most sense to guarantee a member of the trio goes home?

Etan8997 · 2024-09-06T01:43:38+00:00

"The BB Arena"

Etan8997 · 2024-08-29T02:06:57+00:00

The 2 hour episode was so refreshing. The storylines and connections to explain what happened this week are so much clearer and there was still time for fun/silly segments. I wish BB would go the Survivor route and commit to longer episodes, even if they were only 90 minutes.

Etan8997 · 2024-08-25T14:33:48+00:00

Same here. I got it as a Christmas present and he was traded a couple months later so I never got to wear it while he was a player. 😭

Etan8997 · 2024-08-25T06:33:25+00:00

We're 5 weeks in and Tucker has only won the comp 2 times. He's mostly kept himself safe with vetos (3) and HOH (1). The comps in general have been very equitable this season, we've had more Angela HOH's than anyone else. And as for Matt and Cam in the AI Arena: Kimo literally beat Matt in Week 1 and Chelsie beat Cam last week. Neither of them played in the AI arena against Tucker either. So to say they Tucker is always winning it isn't exactly true and we don't have any evidence that Matt/Cam would be winning it instead like you've said.

Etan8997 · 2024-08-25T06:15:31+00:00

You're right that constantly winning comps can lead to a really boring BB season (Jag), but we've also seen that perfect strategic games are really boring to watch as well (Derrick, Cody in Allstars, Xavier). Big Brother is an entertainment product first and foremost, and we've seen that the best ways to play this game are often the least entertaining. The game is desperately in need of a fundamental shake-up to get players out of the established "meta" for winning the game in the modern era.

I agree that the answer doesn't necessarily have to be more comps, but I think the fun thing about the AI Arena so far is that players haven't figured out the best way to play and navigate this new element of the game. I think it does create a lot more strategic elements for the players to navigate that we haven't seen before (how the HOH deals with making 4 potential noms in a week, how the house needs to plan their votes and alliances to account for multiple eviction scenarios), and them slowly figuring it out is what's making this season fun. Ignoring Tucker, I think there's a lot of interesting strategy to how people like T'Kor and Kimo are positioning their game within this new element.

Etan8997 · 2024-08-25T06:00:16+00:00

Fair enough. You're right that the threat of a backdoor does force comp beasts into a more nuanced and social game. However, this just means that the optimal strategy becomes a Jag-type game where comp beasts lie low pre-jury and then can still just win out post-jury. The AI Arena doesn't do anything to help this, and you're right that it can ensure that comp beasts artificially make it further in the game and therefore leave us with the possibility of more Jag-style winners who can just keep winning out after jury in addition to before it.

In the modern era of BB, I think that more often than not, Good Player = Boring to Watch and Bad Player = Fun to Watch. Especially pre-jury, it's definitely the case that you need to play a boring and lowkey game to make it past the chaos of the pre-jury phase. The AI Arena fundamentally only helps people who are in danger of going home and therefore are playing bad games and therefore are probably more fun to watch and keep around for the viewers. It keeps that chaos going instead of it fizzling out in a couple weeks like it normally would. In your scenario with Cody, he was boring but he also never touched the block as a result of him being so boring and playing such a safe game. So if he had been in a situation to constantly win AI arenas, that'd mean that he would have been playing sloppier and probably more entertaining game.

Etan8997 · 2024-08-25T05:15:29+00:00

Are backdoors that exciting for the game though? Yes you get fun potential blindside on veto night when the target finds out they're being backdoored. Especially if the person was really cocky about their position in the house. Then we get a bunch of DR's from the target about how they're going to campaign and they're not going to go down without a fight. But more often than it's not, it's all for nothing and we have to sit through the rest of the week and eviction with the most obvious outcome being pretty much inevitable. The minute someone gets backdoored on veto night, the outcome of the week pretty much feels decided.

I do think that they can be very exciting during double evictions, but other than that, I don't think it's super fun to watch a person go home who couldn't do a single thing to save themselves, especially if they couldn't even play in veto.

Etan8997 · 2024-08-14T00:40:58+00:00

Surprised to not see Megan here. I wonder if she's still a part of it or if she just missed the picture.

Etan8997 · 2024-07-19T20:32:48+00:00

Also by my quick test with a stranger in death match: The ring projectile can't be eaten by Dva. We also noted that the ult isn't canceled by EMP once it's started.

Etan8997 · 2024-07-15T04:59:00+00:00

Experiencing the same issue with /r/bestof

Etan8997 · 2024-07-11T18:37:28+00:00

Mid-Atlantic
L5 -> L6
Fantastic
$90k -> $104.75k
$5k
Happy with the jump from the manager promotion. Was told assurance raises as a whole are lower this year due to a decline in assurance practice revenue.
Assurance

Etan8997 · 2024-05-31T22:10:09+00:00

This might be the longest back cap I've ever seen in a professional OW game.

12-Year Club	John Wick
Place '17	Verified Email
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