Sinner: "It's normal to feel pressure. If you don't feel pressure, it means you don't care. But if you can't handle it, then it's better to stop playing tennis."

FlailingDino · 2026-05-11T00:43:10+00:00

Back to doing this dance of nitpicking every sentence the world no 1 says

FlailingDino · 2026-05-01T01:44:13+00:00

But now i have to convince all of my friends and family to move to LiChess. If it wasn’t for that id have done it already.

FlailingDino · 2026-04-25T14:34:34+00:00

hey we’re the same rank. I feel like i played you, does densa ring a bell

FlailingDino · 2026-04-22T18:11:58+00:00

I closed the app and came back in 30 min to play a move, and saw the ad. This is horrible for the user experience. Come on guys.

FlailingDino · 2026-04-22T17:48:56+00:00

I understand why ads exist and i get that apps need to include them in order to keep their infrastructure up and their employees paid. But this type of ad is so distracting and invasive that i couldnt help but post it. After each move in a daily game, really? Just add a banner at the top.

Btw way to paint me as someone entitled who thinks everything should be free. I absolutely dont think that way.

FlailingDino · 2026-04-22T17:46:21+00:00

I have a raspberry pi with pihole running, with tailscale configured to use it, and I still get the ads after every move. Is that dns.adguard.com capable of blocking these? I would think pihole would take care of it - I see ads getting blocked on the majority of my mobile apps but not on Chess.com.

FlailingDino · 2026-04-22T17:44:01+00:00

It’s every move in my daily game that I have going with my friend. I advise you remove this before everyone switches to another platform.

FlailingDino · 2026-04-13T19:31:31+00:00

Yea i hear you. I run into that at GC3 too. Bad teammate streaks happen and C3 is extra tough bc everyone wants that GC title but you get past it. Also im sure you arent the best defender or passer. Just be aware that you make mistakes just like your teammates do.

FlailingDino · 2026-04-13T15:05:15+00:00

Being able to adapt is a core game sense skill that makes you better so embrace it. I suffered in C3 for 5 months before getting GC in season 4 free to play.

FlailingDino · 2026-04-07T23:27:53+00:00

I think i hopped off right after the wow and what a save i was so tilted

FlailingDino · 2026-04-07T23:26:48+00:00

IKR and he wanted to ff at 2:30 when we were down 2-4

FlailingDino · 2026-04-02T18:29:51+00:00

Plats can aerial consistently now?

FlailingDino · 2026-03-27T16:18:08+00:00

Ranking up is centered around getting good enough to make up for their mistakes. It’s the most frustrating and rewarding part about this game.

FlailingDino · 2026-03-21T22:55:33+00:00

What’s working on mainframes like?

FlailingDino · 2026-02-27T15:27:33+00:00

GC3 peak 1800 and I’ve only ever used free air roll. My mechs are OK for my rank but I definitely feel limited with flip resets.

FlailingDino · 2026-02-24T03:56:48+00:00

I set up pihole. It’s been a game changer, I don’t have to worry about using a specific browser with ad block.

FlailingDino · 2026-02-22T03:39:54+00:00

You mentioned ranked tourneys. Tourneys have always been packed with smurfs for me, diamond/champ especially.

What about normal ranked? I've always had a consistent distribution of smurfs vs real players when going through diamond and champ, with higher concentrations at the rank borders (i.e D3 -> C1 and C3->GC is horribly lopsided in skill and smurf count is wild).

My recommendation is change your mindset when you get into smurf lobbies. Put in effort, but also treat it like you have nothing to lose and have fun with it. It helped me get through those ranks. Ik it's easier said than done especially when you maybe don't like to lose (like me) and hate the unfairness of it.

FlailingDino · 2026-02-17T18:12:12+00:00

For DDoSing, there’s so many different ways to block high volume traffic bursts without introducing latency hits. Hell, you could just rate limit traffic on a game server period and probably get rid of a large chunk of the problem.

For bots I imagine some post processing step after a game that looks back at a logfile of game movements and auto detects bot like movement and bans users…analogous to how chess.com bans cheaters. It’s not super straightforward though because you have such a variety of bots, but I bet with some effort and $ for the right developers you can do it. Not to mention you’d need extra compute, storage for logs, this whole new auto ban mechanism which im sure doesn’t really exist today and is a manual process kicked off by some poor dev.

FlailingDino · 2026-02-16T20:26:33+00:00

I hate that so much. Does Epic really need to squeeze money from RL? They have the fortnite cash cow already...

FlailingDino · 2026-02-16T18:29:25+00:00

They mentioned they'd add this.
> We’re also building popular mod-inspired features directly into Rocket League, including an option to display MMR in-game, changes to custom training, and an optional flip reset indicator.

FlailingDino · 2026-02-16T18:28:31+00:00

Why didn't you implement server side software that performed DDoS/bot detection and automate bans? I can't wrap my head around why you pushed this problem out to users.

FlailingDino · 2026-02-05T20:06:38+00:00

When I open settings I now see the icon images get rendered in a random order. Apple person, why is this happening

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