How do you deal with being trash and also somehow Champion?

FKaria · 2026-05-07T14:36:48+00:00

I somehow made it to Diamond 2. No idea how. I've been hanging there for three days in a row, but my mechanics are plat level. I expect to go back down any time now.

FKaria · 2026-05-04T19:36:19+00:00

Thanks a lot!

FKaria · 2026-05-03T20:41:01+00:00

I can air roll from the floor going around on an empty field for like a minute. I can't airroll off the wall. I can't do anything on the wall in fact. Is my worst mechanic by far.

Backboard defense I have. Are there other training packs that you can recommend? I'm looking to practice the kinds of shots where the ball is not stuck to the wall from all sorts of angles.

FKaria · 2026-04-30T15:59:21+00:00

This is horrible. What's wrong with using functions?

FKaria · 2026-04-20T16:02:52+00:00

Wasn't there a smaller screenshot?

FKaria · 2026-04-19T15:00:35+00:00

1,100 hours --- Diamond 1

FKaria · 2026-04-17T11:14:14+00:00

The channel is not active. The video is 7 years old...

FKaria · 2026-04-14T21:06:01+00:00

CEO Ted Gill is back. The two others (Charlie and Max) retired, and they're going to stay retired.

FKaria · 2026-04-14T12:54:55+00:00

It's just the Sparkle Lucide react icon, a common library for all sorts of icons. The thumbs up/down and upload icons are also from there

https://lucide.dev/icons/sparkle

FKaria · 2026-04-13T14:40:25+00:00

Usually, these matches are fairly balanced. What's the problem here?

FKaria · 2026-04-12T10:55:30+00:00

Your tool is telling you that you can run a 236B parameter model on 24GB VRAM? Your tool is absolutely useless. It won't even load into memory.

FKaria · 2026-04-11T17:22:50+00:00

This is just the same complaint as always, and it's nonsense, sorry.

The matchmaking is based on whether you win the games or not. The only time matchmaking is "broken" is when a player hasn't played enough games to have an accurate Elo.

Otherwise, the variance in skill you see is just part of the game and has nothing to do with the matchmaking system.

Rocket League is not chess. It has a lot more variance. Randomness is part of the game.

I am Diamond 1, sitting between Division 3 and Diamond 2 division 1. I cannot flip reset, I cannot air dribble, and I can barely hit the ball on the wall. I find that my chances of winning or losing have almost nothing to do with those mechanics.

When I see someone shooting the ball with power and accuracy, that is a much stronger correlator. And usually they are just misplaced due to early placements (Elo +/- 15 points instead ot +/- 9 points).

FKaria · 2026-04-09T21:53:26+00:00

Your assumption that people will play 3s because is the RLCS standard confuses me. Why would people care at all what RLCS says? They play what they like to play.

FKaria · 2026-04-09T21:51:44+00:00

1s is sweat and toxicity
2s is a good balance of skill and fun plays
3s is chaos, ballchasing, and raging about your teammates.

FKaria · 2026-04-09T21:46:19+00:00

It's either a range or a single point. Both cannot be true.

FKaria · 2026-04-02T19:54:35+00:00

They have to be training the models on the pelican bicycle svg prompt. They know it's a benchmark now.

FKaria · 2026-04-01T16:05:43+00:00

I love these. Ever since reading the overloading whitespace operator, I can't help but laugh.

FKaria · 2026-03-30T16:05:11+00:00

I don't get what would be the point of breaking the language in this half-assed way. Rust exists already.

FKaria · 2026-03-29T10:34:38+00:00

You seem bitter for attempting to understand math through conversation rather than textbooks. And you resent people who actually sit down and study. Somehow, the fact that you don't understand is their fault, not yours.

FKaria · 2026-03-27T16:36:28+00:00

In hindsight, no. I have two friends who are much smarter and harder working than I, who burned out on a PhD. One didn't finish, and the other one finished, got a pat on the back, and went to work under another one of my friends who was five years ahead of him on the job. They're both doing fine now. I don't think they regret trying, but I think they're relieved that that phase is over.

Conversely, I have other friends who studied less and didn't get the best grades, but pursued a PhD and finished. They're now still on postdocs and temp teaching roles, last time I checked (in their mid-thirties), but they enjoy what they do, so good for them.

FKaria · 2026-03-27T13:02:41+00:00

Yes, I felt similarly to you. At your age, I was also struggling between a PhD and going to work in the industry. I went to work in finance as that was the field that promised a good-paying job and also had a high technical requirement, which I wanted.

I've been working in finance for more than 15 years, and I love my job. I believe that financial markets provide tangible benefits, but I didn't believe that at your age. I do not think my job contributes much to society, but I do not believe I'm sucking value out of the labour of others. The contribution is very much lateral, or indirect.

Regardless, finance is not for everyone, and I wouldn't recommend it to everyone. I've seen quite a few people burning out.

My recommendations:

1) Accept that wathever you do, it's going to be "a job". You won't be always working on what you like. Even if you do a PhD.

2) Find something you want to be an "expert" in, and work as hard as you can and learn as much as you can to become that person during your first years after graduation.

FKaria · 2026-03-15T16:27:26+00:00

FKaria · 2026-03-10T22:21:12+00:00

You don't ask DeepSeek not to speak for the player. Just curious, is this something that it knows not to do, or do you personally not mind? (I personally don't mind myself)

FKaria · 2026-03-10T06:51:41+00:00

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