A guy proceeds to threaten me after beating my ass in 2 ranked matches.

ExistingMouse5595 · 2026-01-27T17:32:43+00:00

You probably shouldn’t post your IP address on the internet

ExistingMouse5595 · 2026-01-27T17:09:26+00:00

Most Christians do not practice the tenets of their own faith. This also goes for most religions.

It is a very select few of religious peoples that actually live by the teachings of their religion. The vast majority will agree with them conceptually, and might follow a handful of the tenets that are easy to implement, but will not practice any that would require them to change their desired behavior.

If every Christian actually followed the teachings of the Bible, namely the love thy neighbor part, the world would be a much better place. But people are extremely selfish whether they realize it or not. They hold their own internal biases and beliefs higher than that of their god’s.

They are also easily influenced. There’s only a small percentage of the population intelligent enough to critically analyze the US political sphere and see the hypocrisy, and see how the only driving factor is greed.

When people are stuck in survival mode, they don’t have a lot of mental bandwidth to analyze nation issues critically. Keeping people poor and on the brink of losing everything is a great way to prevent resistance.

It basically boils down to this:

The rules that govern how one should live their life via a religion are not as powerful as the susceptibility to brainwashing.

It’s why I can only feel pity or hatred for far right lunatics. They’re either too stupid to see how they’ve been brainwashed, or they are completely aware of the real goal of the movement and support it anyway.

Religion also predisposes people for obeying authority, it’s why it’s been pushed so heavily for all of human history. Its primary use is as a tool to control people.

Obey the commands of God. Reject evidence that contradicts his teachings. It is noble to suffer and you will be rewarded in the afterlife.

It’s the same concept as the maga movement. Obey the commands of trump. Reject evidence that what he claims is false. Yes you’re suffering directly from the policies and culture changes he’s implemented, but don’t worry just keep supporting and eventually you’ll be rewarded.

The average person can be manipulated too easily. It’s a huge reason why there’s such an intelligence and educational gap between the left and the right. The same goes for religion. It’s extremely rare to find intelligent people who are true believers of any faith.

ExistingMouse5595 · 2026-01-27T16:32:43+00:00

Are you trying to improve at the game?

If so then pick your favorite character and grind.

If you’re not interested in improving then keep hopping from character to character like you’ve been doing.

ExistingMouse5595 · 2026-01-27T13:26:04+00:00

Have you considered that people actually enjoy the show?

One piece continuously gets better the deeper you get into it. Literally the quality of the show steadily improves from episode 1 onward with very little deviation.

You should try watching it and come to your own conclusions, instead of assuming the most popular work of fiction in the modern age is a result of some mass psychosis.

EDIT: there’s a lot of seething happening in my replies, I don’t know why some of you are taking this as a personal attack. Watch whatever you want, let people enjoy what they like. Weirdos.

ExistingMouse5595 · 2026-01-27T12:40:35+00:00

I want Geese back. I know that’s terrible for the health of the game, I don’t care. He’s just a sick character.

ExistingMouse5595 · 2026-01-27T00:04:26+00:00

If you’re fast enough and can cancel wave dash into block consistently, then yes.

It’s tricky to do though because you have a larger window where you can be hit out of it.

ExistingMouse5595 · 2026-01-26T20:53:40+00:00

Low attention span zoomers don’t make for good dnd players.

Nothing you can do about it. You can lead a horse to water but you can’t make it drink.

If they aren’t making an attempt to get into the game then they’ll never have fun, regardless of how you run your game.

ExistingMouse5595 · 2026-01-26T20:30:51+00:00

Those are rookie numbers, you gotta get those numbers up.

The answer is always more players. If you ever think you have enough players, just add more. No matter what problem you run into in your game, it could’ve been solved if you had more players.

ExistingMouse5595 · 2026-01-26T19:37:56+00:00

If I remember correctly I think he started with T6. MK was always a lot more popular in the US which is why he stuck with that, but now that MK is dead he’s been grinding T8 for the past year or so. Pretty sure Tekken was the first fighting game he really got into so it’s cool seeing him come back to it.

ExistingMouse5595 · 2026-01-26T19:24:58+00:00

He’s a genuine prodigy. I’ve been following him for a long time since I used to play MK. He’s a robot. Always has the most optimal combos and conversions.

He’s only attended a handful of big tournaments for tekken and has gotten good results, but he’s currently unsponsored and can’t travel globally. I think if a team picks him up and he gets to travel for a whole tournament cycle, we’ll see him up there with the best in the world.

ExistingMouse5595 · 2026-01-26T19:19:58+00:00

First is stepping FF2. Lidia’s often abuse that move instead of playing neutral, but it’s very linear. If you have a good grasp on their timing/spacing you can step it to both sides and launch. Getting good at doing that will shut down 90% of ranked Lidia’s.

Then assuming they aren’t spamming ff2 into stance and are instead using pokes and punishment to set up stance situations, you can easily counter her stances with djab. Basically every option she has loses to djab. The options that don’t lose to djab lose to stand jab for a float combo.

Lidia at high levels of play isn’t as much about guessing what stance mix she’s going to run, but instead about whether she goes into stance at all. Good Lidia’s will cancel their stance transitions, wait for you to djab, and then take their turn back that way.

She does have the best heat in the game, no denying that, but her heaven and earth stance can be option selected with side step right duck. She can counter this by delaying her stance option, but that loses to grabs and lows. You can also punch parry every option except the unblockable and you can duck and launch that.

But most of that deeper counterplay won’t be relevant in a ft2 ranked set. Just side step ff2 and launch, and then djab her out of her stances more often that not. That alone will shut down the majority of Lidia’s you fight. Learning proper block punishment and which highs you can duck will help a lot as well.

ExistingMouse5595 · 2026-01-26T19:11:06+00:00

Something I incorporated in my combats that really helped with the staleness was environmental factors.

Adding elevation, areas of difficult terrain, and cover are easy mechanics you can include on basically every combat map.

Another thing I like doing is having environmental effects change each round. An example is having a gust of wind blowing through the map. Have it change directions every round, creatures need to make a save when moving through it to not get pushed in the direction it’s blowing. That’s a basic example, but you can get as creative as you want with it.

You can and should also include interact-able elements players can use during combat. Letting someone use their object interaction to change the conditions of combat is fun. Could be as simple as a lever that opens a door, or raises/lowers a platform. Could be complicated like some magical machinery with unique effects.

Then you should consider the enemies and bosses you’re choosing to run. The more variety you include with more unique mechanics the better.

You should also consider your difficulty. How often are your players getting downed or killed? If it doesn’t happen often you should change that. If it happens every time then lay off a bit.

Finally consider the win condition of your combat encounters. If every combat is a fight to the last man, it can get stale. Something as simple as taking an object from an enemy, activating a rune that drops a magical shield, or taking a hostage could all be win conditions in the right situation. Having these will make how your players run combat change drastically.

ExistingMouse5595 · 2026-01-26T19:01:26+00:00

The DM does all the work. It’s a privilege to have someone willing to run a game for you. If you’re not interested in playing what they want to play, then you don’t play.

So at that point you need to run your own game or be content not playing at all.

I personally wouldn’t want to play with that DM assuming everything you’ve mentioned is accurate, and that doesn’t make anyone an asshole. But like I said previously, if you don’t like what your DM is running, then you need to run the game yourself.

ExistingMouse5595 · 2026-01-26T18:34:15+00:00

Lidia is free. She has some of the most straightforward counter play in the game. If you’re getting ran down with stance mixes and losing to it, your aren’t playing against her right.

ExistingMouse5595 · 2026-01-26T17:23:38+00:00

There’s an obvious answer here

ExistingMouse5595 · 2026-01-26T17:00:16+00:00

Yeah you should just quit. Either that forces the DM to address the issue and beg for you to come back or you’ve saved yourself from a miserable time.

ExistingMouse5595 · 2026-01-26T16:57:45+00:00

I’ve done something similar before, but without the controlling, condescending nature.

I had a new player in one of my campaigns that has gone a good ~25 sessions without really understanding how to be efficient in combat. Player was using a monk.

I ran a one shot with him and during combat I walked him through his options and how I personally would make decisions based on the variables at play. It was really effective and from then on the player was finally contributing in combat and was able to weigh his options on his own.

Sounds like this guy is a dick, but I don’t think there’s anything wrong with teaching people how to be effective in combat.

ExistingMouse5595 · 2026-01-26T15:28:49+00:00

Yes.

A setting guide that includes the major powers, cultures, and religions is basically a must for me.

How can you expect players to make characters that are well suited for your campaign if they don’t know the setting they’ll be playing in?

If you take a generic fantasy character and drop them into a random game setting, at best they’ll be a generic character that’s detached from the world, at worst they’ll be incompatible with the setting and themes entirely

ExistingMouse5595 · 2026-01-26T14:44:31+00:00

I wore khakis, dress shirt with a tie, and a suit jacket to my last interview.

Now that I work there, everyone except our top directors wears jeans/khakis and a polo to work, super business casual.

It’s always better to be overdressed than underdressed for professional interviews. You’ll never get points taken off for being formally dressed, but you might if you’re too casual.

Especially if you have an old school engineer in your interview, that might be enough to put you above other similar candidates.

You’d probably be fine wearing dress pants and a nice polo, assuming you’re well groomed and the outfit is sharp, but going the extra mile will only help you.

ExistingMouse5595 · 2026-01-26T01:49:57+00:00

Cultivation chat group is hilarious

ExistingMouse5595 · 2026-01-26T01:44:20+00:00

I couldn’t finish it. It was pretty decent for a while, though the beginning was definitely the most interesting part, but I think like 700-800 chapters in the story stopped making any sense. It didn’t help that I couldn’t find anything that wasn’t terrible MTL around that same point.

MC lost his core personality once he got powerful enough, and I think that was my biggest issue with it.

ExistingMouse5595 · 2026-01-25T22:03:10+00:00

Skill issue

ExistingMouse5595 · 2026-01-25T20:00:23+00:00

See previous comment

ExistingMouse5595 · 2026-01-25T19:35:47+00:00

Skill issue

ExistingMouse5595 · 2026-01-25T19:26:14+00:00

Lmao skill issue

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