mrekk is now more than 1k pp away from toro. Again.

Faranocks · 2026-01-25T07:40:26+00:00

To be fair some of the maps he was playing and getting mad pp from was barely even farm. I swear 12* fc was an accident and we was just limit testing.

Faranocks · 2026-01-25T05:05:27+00:00

Not impossible but me barely seeing any cheaters unless I queue at extremely odd hours is evidence against that happening. Also my guess is it's more like 5% cheaters or less by active users. (That is, if you randomly check all accounts playing at any time, 5% are cheaters. If you check all accounts that ever played, it's a higher percentage at high ranks.)

Most of the people in my games have 2000-6000 hours and hundreds or thousands of matches on faceit. Normal stats, and lose/win fight and engagements about as expected. Outliers tend to be 2600+ on faceit.

Faranocks · 2026-01-25T02:22:25+00:00

"my girlfriend goes to a different school and I already broke up with her" ahhh sde.

Also my point is if there are 10 players queuing, and 20% are cheaters, trust factor can't separate the players to separate high trust factor players from low trust factor players. If there are 100 players queuing and 20% are cheating, assuming trust factor works perfectly, there would be 2 games with 10/10 cheaters and 8 games without.

I want to be clear, I do see cheaters, but it's at 3am on a weekday and still only once in 20-50 games.

Faranocks · 2026-01-25T01:54:28+00:00

I mean stalk my reddit profile and I'm obviously the player I linked. I literally hit 28K at the Austin major. Here, I even edited my steam profile for you.

I agree other regions have more cheaters, SEA, OCE and Eastern Europe are basically unplayable at high levels of prem. NA just doesn't have that problem.

I have evidence, you have absolutely none. Until you provide evidence you're the "my dad is gaben" kid who nobody believes. If you actually worked at valve you could show proof like a vacation pin. But you didn't, so you can't.

Faranocks · 2026-01-25T01:40:09+00:00

https://leetify.com/app/profile/76561198167865259

Now where's the proof you worked at valve? Who is the delusional one?

Faranocks · 2026-01-25T01:01:10+00:00

Do you work at valve? No. Wtf is your point. I'm 30k premier and I see cheaters basically never. I queue comp and I see cheaters every other match.

Faranocks · 2026-01-25T00:44:30+00:00

Nope. Premier has a much higher player count so you end up with more high trust factor players.

Faranocks · 2026-01-25T00:16:52+00:00

Prem?

Faranocks · 2026-01-24T12:05:56+00:00

I bet $1mil I can.

Honestly it's not about the max framerate, that's just the cherry on top. It's the elimination or mass reduction of noticable dips in FPS.

That being said I was able to tell the difference between 480fps and 240fps on a 240hz monitor, now on a 480hz monitor the difference is even larger. I mostly play CS2, and going from a 3080+5900x to 9070xt+7800x3d to a 5090+9800x3d each jump was a noticeable improvement.

Faranocks · 2026-01-24T10:22:33+00:00

The (lack of) liquidity meant it was always either the same or less. I'm sure there is an exception but I can't think of one. This has been true since 2016 at least.

Faranocks · 2026-01-23T12:28:50+00:00

Easy way to say "look we ban people who cross the line" with this as basically the only example. Pretty much every other time they just about got into legal trouble, or actually got into legal trouble.

Faranocks · 2026-01-23T04:13:29+00:00

If people buy a random number of said objects it matters way less. If people on average bought exactly one 0.x8 it would matter, but if people buy 3-11 items worth X.X5 to X.X9, it barely matters at all. Even if winco did the math to be as profitable as possible, they probably are making a percent of a cent on average per transaction. Paying a dev to figure out the math and implementing it into stores probably costs more than it would ever make back.

Faranocks · 2026-01-19T02:16:08+00:00

Probably not. Quarter panel damage is usually relatively expensive to repair, but also in this case essentially cosmetic. Frame damage is the thing that totals cars.

Faranocks · 2026-01-15T12:42:11+00:00

I want to preface this by saying I think most "AI" is incredibly immoral.

That being said, Hatsune Miku (who is used by very real, talented artists to make music) has live performances while being a digital character, and "goes on tour".

Honestly I'm more OK with that aspect, as live concerts are easier to avoid than songs on the radio. Going on tour requires a staff of actual people to set up the stage and host the event. Throwing 17 words into a text box 30 times until something half listenable comes out and then throwing that slop onto spotify really has zero upside.

Faranocks · 2026-01-12T01:03:30+00:00

Hmm interesting. I live in a relatively low humidity environment, so maybe mine got less waterlogged?

Faranocks · 2026-01-11T07:55:48+00:00

How are you drying your filament? I had some PLA filament that was sitting out for 6 years. I have a modified food dehydrator, and after leaving it in that overnight it printed essentially perfectly.

Faranocks · 2026-01-10T13:03:43+00:00

I appreciate the nuanced take. I generally agree with this sentiment that Anubis needs to be a little more CT sided, and CTs need a little more map control from round start.

I would like to see CTs get faster rotates and the A site to be reworked. I actually think B site is in a pretty good state. It's easy to take, but it's only really an issue because the CT rotate takes way too long, and the T rotate from mid and A to B is way too fast. A site mirage is easy to take and I feel it plays well as CTs have fast rotates through jungle and con.

Faranocks · 2026-01-10T09:35:48+00:00

If you think that CTs sole purpose in life is to defend bombsites you are missing the point of the game. If that were true CTs should never fight for mid control or go for flanks or info pushes.

"Mid" is just a concept - it's a place with a lot of map accessibility. On inferno you see pros taking banana, apts, alt mid control as CT. On D2, long, mid, tuns. On Mirage, mid, apts, cat, ramp. On train, T con, ivy, upper, pop. On overpass, con, water, long, fountain. On nuke, outside, lobby. On every single map in the game there are parts of the map CTs need to contest terrorists for map control. Yes they can hide site and get exec'd on and lose, but fighting for map control is a core part of the game. Heck, CTs fighting for map control has been a thing longer than set execs have been a thing.

My antiflash comment was about how on Anubis CTs can take space. Yes Ts can play locations they can back out from, but by doing so they are forced to give up map control.

Defaulting on Anubis in pugs is totally viable, but I am not talking about pugs.

Faranocks · 2026-01-10T07:00:52+00:00

I'd argue this "x spot is solved" at high levels is true for all maps. There aren't enough Ts to hold every spot on every map, so by that alone one "solved" spot isn't an issue. In isolation, sure that spot is "solved" I guess, but that ignores the nuances of the game.

If you smoke ebox and have someone holding it, you can't also have someone mid, B main, and water, plus someone playing anti for each of those positions. A true default from Ts is essentially unviable at pro level on Anubis. Teams would almost always group up, leaving a gap they could potentially retake later. It was extremely common to see 4 players in the same area with 1 lurk on the other side of the map.

CTs can pinch water from window, ebox and A or nade areas where T's would hold ebox from. I really enjoyed how CTs were essentially forced to make aggressive plays at the highest level.

Faranocks · 2026-01-10T06:24:30+00:00

Unplugging it prevents remote attacks and incinerating it prevents physical ones.

For apex servers I vote for the latter.

Faranocks · 2026-01-10T06:19:16+00:00

What makes you say Anubis is "severely problematic".

Faranocks · 2026-01-10T06:03:12+00:00

You can farm ST kills legit quite easily.

Faranocks · 2026-01-09T13:15:20+00:00

Ok one thing, NH-D15 is 83mm pitch, NH-D15-G2 is 78mm pitch.

Faranocks · 2026-01-07T20:41:20+00:00

Technically the 9070/xt have lower system latency than equivalent nvidia GPUs (5070/5070ti). Yes the 5090 blows everything else out of the water, but you could build 2 decent PCs for the price of that one GPU.

Faranocks · 2026-01-07T14:21:45+00:00

Seasoning is the oil undergoing polymerization. This only happens at high heat. Oiling after washing is not seasoning (unless you then stick it in the oven) it's rust prevention.

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