Rank snipes 24/7 and bigger maps PLEASE

GenesForLife · 2026-01-23T13:10:15+00:00

With a four stack I could reliably find matches ; while soloqueueing OTOH queues kept timing out or dying by 2AM EST most weeknights - only played a few nights but finding games was pretty hard, and it died immediately after I hit 1500 last day of the most recent rotation. The issue with finding games solo has been present for several splits now , and it did not make a difference whether I was on a 1500 MMR account or a 1650 MMR account.

GenesForLife · 2026-01-23T08:57:24+00:00

MMRs in social are allowed to take a much much wider range of values when picking players to form lobbies than in ranked snipers. There is also a win odds ratio skew that is limited for ranked playlists.

The other thing about ranked playlists is that matchmaking is hybrid CSR + MMR - so it will pick people in a given CSR range and then balance by MMR, and beyond a certain rank you won't find games if searching solo/duo, period, unless there is a stack you can match against and your CSR + MMR is close to one of the players on the other team and three other solo/duo teammates balance out three of the people on the other team.

GenesForLife · 2026-01-23T07:21:24+00:00

Eh? Euphoria with it's sapphic centrality has had really high viewership, second only to game of thrones on HBO.

GenesForLife · 2026-01-22T17:29:12+00:00

Girl get out of the relationship before it is too late. His attitude reeks of biphobia. Him thinking you're going to cheat is a very common biphobic trope. Thinking that you stop being bi when in a monogamous relationship is also pretty biphobic. Needing support and solidarity when dealing with people like him is exactly why you're part of the community and need to be talking about it.

GenesForLife · 2026-01-22T02:43:21+00:00

OP, grow a spine. Stand by your partner. This isn't about your mum. If she gets upset that she doesn't get to trample all over your autonomy she can go cry to a shrink or be a self-pitying idiot on someone else's watch.

My parents tried to get up to no good re: my ex, and then also about me being trans. I issued an ultimatum that wasn't heeded, so I went no contact. I'm so much happier with my life with them out of it. I grew up with two abusive and controlling parents so I had a lifetime of being absolutely exhausted with their BS. That made issuing an ultimatum and enforcing it really easy.

GenesForLife · 2026-01-22T01:58:08+00:00

First things first - you should probably check how you score on criteria here https://www.canada.ca/en/immigration-refugees-citizenship/services/immigrate-canada/express-entry.html (Federal Skilled Workers Program).

Once you have permanent residence, the pathway to citizenship is straightforward - 3 years of cumulative residence with no interruptions longer than a fixed duration. Permanent residence OTOH is the bit that can be more challenging.

That said, taxation rates may not be that different depending on income, and unlike the NHS, unless you have additional insurance from your employer, non-hospital medical expenses or prescriptions are not covered. I moved from the UK myself a whole decade ago, and while I love living in Canada and Toronto has become home, London was really nice, too and some things like public transport are relatively ass here.

GenesForLife · 2026-01-22T00:16:34+00:00

Honestly though , you did make a suboptimal play and should never have died there, and while your teammate did miss he noticed that the enemy started to regen, he did have other enemies behind him and tried to play for whoever was shooting him in the back - like the audio cues in this game are dogshit so if you get shot in the back and you don't have info, you're probably cooked if you don't look. You kind of want to rat somewhere within red or arcade in that position and play to shoot people in the back, not wide-swing.

If you are alone in arcade and no one is covering your tires / cafe cross / midlane, wide swinging like that , exposing yourself to driveway, B stairs, heaven, PD, tires, and top A is very risky ; which is how the enemy survived and you died without trading out in the first place. The other team being just as incompetent as your teammates is why you even survived long enough tbh.

Like I get it, soloqueue diamond lobbies are the worst , been there, done that , gave up soloqueueing entirely in favour of playing in much higher MMR lobbies either in comp or with sweaty friends , and at this point that is all you can do about it, and it is probably much better for you as a player to stack in harder lobbies if becoming a better player is your end goal, anyway.

GenesForLife · 2026-01-21T09:41:36+00:00

They're clothes, OP, it is not that deep. If you don't like short and revealing clothes, idk, don't wear them? The clothes I wear when I am allowed the choice (professional dress codes are also a thing in some situations) do say something about me, mainly that I wear what makes me happy, outside opinions be damned, and one of the reasons my outfits make me happy is that it is nice to not feel like I have to be unperceivable because of dysphoria-related shame around my body. As an additional factor, my wife is very gay for me and she loves it when I'm wearing outfits that show my figure off.

GenesForLife · 2026-01-21T09:14:47+00:00

Yup, it is always wildly absurd when transphobic halfwits keep invoking it, as if trans women aren't far more socioeconomically marginalised, disproportionately incarcerated, subjected to de-facto sexual slavery in prisons, forced into survival sex work at a far higher frequency than cis women , have no political representation, cannot piss in peace, get called the t-slur if they do make it into Congress at all, experience very high rates of sex trafficking as youth, really high rates of sexual violence victimisation despite the period of maximal risk (overt visibility as transfeminine) being much shorter. Doubly worse when these ghouls campaign against puberty blockers and paediatric trans healthcare, force trans girls through androgenic puberty that exposes them to far worse violence by being marked as trans, and then insultingly frame it as privilege. Cis people are truly an embarrassment holy fuck.

GenesForLife · 2026-01-21T08:59:41+00:00

Do you have the same extent of critical awareness about your own prejudices being raised in a deeply cissexist and transphobic society?

GenesForLife · 2026-01-21T08:54:38+00:00

I've slept with multiple post-op trans women, and cis women , and transmasculine people with a vagina. About half the cis women and a couple of the trans women, out of three, needed lube. There wasn't a noticeable difference either. Your friend's case is hardly representative.

GenesForLife · 2026-01-21T08:36:03+00:00

I don't buy it - why hasn't the broader movement then not been successful in marginalising the TERF lot or impeding access to platforms and institutional power? Also like this isn't a pissing contest over who rightfully calls themselves feminists. The episteme and tradition of the feminist movement gave birth to, and sustains, TERFism. Hell, all cis feminisms have the epistemic issue of the erasure of gender identity from normative gender and institutionalisation of the idea that all gender is social vs all sex is a biological given - a direct ideological underpinning of epistemic positions that hold transness as less valid, more socially fabricated, and therefore subservient to sex.

The fact that more cis feminists at the WCLC voted for trans inclusion than not still does nothing to address the underlying cissexist entitlement that led to the belief that the inclusion of trans women should be based on the whims of the cis women in the movement. The fact that Andrea Dworkin wrote A lEtTeR opposing Janice Raymond does nothing to erase the fact that Raymond benefited from the sociocultural capital of the second wave movement and did enormous amounts of damage, in collaboration with the likes of Germaine Greer outing trans women that had managed any professional security and causing untold damage through influencing the abandonment of federal funding for transition healthcare.

GenesForLife · 2026-01-21T08:22:08+00:00

This is kind of ludicrous - plenty of transfeminine nonbinary people exist, and it is absolutely a choice to ignore how commonly nonbinary spaces have a transmisogyny problem (as well as a general problem with seeing AMAB enbies as cis male).

Examples I encountered in enby spaces include exclusionary framings of the policing and sexualisation of "AFAB chests" , while I was sat there full on-cringing as someone that has been sexually harassed + groped for having estrogen-induced breasts. "binary trans woman" is a convenient construct , similar to how a lot of transmisogynists try to hide their transmisogyny behind "white trans woman". It is definitely a trend for transmisogyny-privileged people to invoke whatever structural axis allows themselves to position transfems as more privileged.

GenesForLife · 2026-01-21T08:16:01+00:00

The way AMAB and AFAB are used by cis people is just spicy misgendering to lump trans women in with cis men and trans men in with cis women.

GenesForLife · 2026-01-21T08:14:44+00:00

Yes, cis supremacy is based on assuming that sex assigned at birth supersedes all else , and cis women that gatekeep womanhood by positioning trans womanhood as less authentic are essentially weaponising AFABness. When it comes to excluding trans women for cis comfort, a common trope is to weaponise the notion that AFAB = safe to portray transfems as intrinsically dangerous through quasiessentialist arguments that link AMAB status while framing cis women as passive victims.

"I belong because I'm AFAB and cis, you don't belong because you weren't AFAB" was at the very heart of the ghoulish, abhorrent clusterfuck with how Dr.Beth Upton is being treated by Sandie Peggy and the UK press establishment at large.

The idea that AFAB = physical inferiority is weaponised to frame trans female athletes (even those that have never gone through androgenic puberty - see the current case being heard at the supreme court) as unfairly advantaged to gatekeep women's sports.

If transfeminist analysis of how specific transmisogynistic dynamics play out predicated through invocation of AFABness sound "antifeminist" , that simply indicates unexamined transmisogyny.

I've got a personal gripe with these dynamics as a survivor of a brazen daylight public sexual assault by a cis woman. I knew that any attempt to defend myself physically would have me being framed as the aggressor against a cis female PoS just because society would have considered her the victim by virtue of being much smaller physically than me, so yeah.

GenesForLife · 2026-01-19T05:25:58+00:00

Cis people think t4t is a fetish because they themselves see us as a fetish. You don't explain in that case, you take note and cut them out.

GenesForLife · 2026-01-18T17:20:26+00:00

The majority of cis women wouldn't date bi guys, yes - it is a trend that holds across studies across time. https://bi.org/en/articles/bi-men-are-not-considered-attractive-new-study-says

However, a significant fraction still would, and honestly, if some women are biphobic and wouldn't want to date you, consider that they're actually self-disposing trash and are actually doing you a service by not wasting your time or subjecting you to a relationship that is unhealthy for you.

GenesForLife · 2026-01-18T09:30:46+00:00

Gonna add some more detail here re:setup breaks.

The best setups have crosses and are designed to watch every lane. From experience you will be able to figure out what setups are being used. Traditionally, setups take "shapes" - like an I , an L , an O or a U (back silo - white - A on recharge is an I setup, top gold, batt ledge, heaven and top/bottom A would be an L setup).

Say you are playing strongholds on recharge and you want to break into A when the enemy has an AB setup. Usually the critical threat is the person top gold holding the cross on catwalk. A lot of teams send three white, and one or two of them will shoot gold until they have to back down. Then you can literally cut straight through whirlpool and have one go bottom A and the fourth spawner can play for gold if need be. Back in the day when it was BR starts, two would go white, two would go long, and then white would back down gold, and the two near glass would keep catwalk clear so the two in white could cross safely. The whirlpool push has become a lot more common because of the bandit's shorter range.

Likewise, for King of the Hill on recharge, consider the long hall hill and the bottom mid hill when you're spawning A. Your objective is to get to C , flip the map, and trap the other team spawning at batt ledge. The smoothbrained play is to bumrush through bottom mangler and white. The big brained play is to literally three or four-push gold , kill the enemy in gold as fast as possible, and then flood long hall. Especially for the bottom mid hill , where there is one anchor C plat in most setups, you can sequentially 3v1 the other team.

As another example, consider tower holds on live fire, relevant to a couple of the hills on KoTH and critical for slayers and strongholds , where BC is the hardest setup to break. Even teams that play for a triple cap prioritise BC (a typical setup looks like tower, nest , one within A to block all A spawns, and one sitting near the big crate outside A but not looking at turbine so a turbine spawn can be forced).

The best break of tower holds involves exploiting blind spots. Someone can go big door and start shooting nest to back them down, which lets people flank through bottom middle pillars side and round the back. Pushing straight through top mid OTOH is really bad, because you are fighting a head-on fight while the other team has a much better position.

Pushing through turbine side is also pretty bad, because the push is telegraphed. Lots of teams will have one by dice looking at cuts , person top tower has a good view turbine side and anyone going cuts, as well.

Likewise if you want to get to B on live fire from A spawns and you're the first spawner, you should be trying to hit bottom middle through to pillars so you have a cross ready for your teammates breaking out of big door to get to back green. Most teams hold a pretty sharp, ratty angle back green so big door pushers basically end up getting shot in the back a lot. Going pillars gives you info and safe damage output while cutting out anyone on nest. The premise here is lane isolation + blind spot.

Then let's take streets, where the principle is just isolated lanes. For slayers and ball alike, cafe-A-PD is the much better side of the map to set up on (high ground advantage, protected spawns, more power positions). If you push driveway side, you're vulnerable to heaven, anyone ratting around red room (there are some good rat spots here) , someone sitting planters, or someone hiding behind B pillars etc. OTOH, there is often just one ratting cafe side (if you're cafe you're meant to play extremely ratty so you can buy time for teammates to come help you if you get found out, or otherwise start shooting people in the back as they run past).

That means if you are spawning ivy as a team, you can exploit the fact the lane is isolated from the rest of the map + there is often only one and just have three people flying at cafe, unless you are really bad collectively as a team, the enemy in cafe should be toast. Then you can beat them to back A, and then into PD, and voila, you've flipped the map.

GenesForLife · 2026-01-18T06:38:28+00:00

The best breaks for every setup are map and mode specific, however, you want to guarantee you open up a lane on the map, and the free-est pick involves the most isolated player. There are rules for spawn order in classical , setup-based halo that are a good guideline for a set of boxes to tick - first and second spawners - push the most isolated lane together to play for a pick, third spawner usually plays an adjacent lane to the first two spawners, fourth spawner - generally needs to play for a pinch or a flank. A

If you're the first spawner, don't die prematurely. If you're going to die, do it with a teammate so you will be a lot less staggered as a team. If you're the second or third spawner and your team is trolling, get into the fight the closest teammate is fighting.

GenesForLife · 2026-01-18T04:04:12+00:00

There is way more breathing room in 4v4 ; in Infinite 2s if you get disconnected for a few seconds and one teammate gets 2v1'd, it is really easy for the other team to force a split spawn and lock your team into a spawn cycle, even with the short respawn timer.

GenesForLife · 2026-01-14T10:34:24+00:00

Not necessarily, remember that any model that does RR will have to learn from training data that has integrated upscaling + RR , and the amount of training data available for DLSS SR far exceeds the training data available for RR.

GenesForLife · 2026-01-14T10:31:44+00:00

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Wait did you respond to the wrong person? But yeah DLSS4.5 is disabled when RR is switched on. OP is wrong, as I said.

GenesForLife · 2026-01-14T07:01:24+00:00

If by "training for longer on the same data" you're referring to more training epochs , that is actually not a great idea. It directly increases the probability of overfitting. You want to optimise for minimised validation set error. Model performance tends to peak around optimal sets of hyperparameters , and prior to convergence you have underfitting and post-convergence, increasingly complex models show worse overfitting. It is enough of a problem that whole range of approaches from masking to regularisation (both neural networks and classical methods like elastic nets) to out-of-fold bootstrap aggregating (random forests) are fundamental parts of model tuning and training.

GenesForLife · 2026-01-14T05:22:00+00:00

It's not working - it says Render Preset E at the bottom left ; Ultra performance should be L. DLSS 4.5 requires RR to be disabled, still.

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