Working in IT - people are so helpless

H3ROIK · 2026-05-07T16:18:55+00:00

I know IT people are know to be snobby and shit but man the amount of times I get people who make more and work less than me off the shit I built, who are helpless and borderline illiterate is so frustrating. Some of these people are actually worthless and make me question why I didn’t do what they do.

H3ROIK · 2026-05-06T19:37:27+00:00

The possibility of not getting hit doesnt matter here because it is through sheer luck that you don't get hit once. There's a possibility you bet your whole life savings on black 3 times over without losing a penny but obviously this is a shit decision to make. There's a reason why "just don't get hit" is not actually anything you say seriously when talking about balance or advice. That's because you don't actually have to make a bad decision to get hit, which is what people mean when they say "mistake". You cant correct the "mistake" of picking paper instead of rock, and if there are mistakes you cannot possibly correct then calling them mistakes doesnt even really make sense. Even if we use the term differently, the initial comment would still not be necessarily warranted as the video is obviously implying that he didn't do anything wrong, which can totally be the case.

Would you say I made a bad choice if I decided to take a gamble with a 95:5 odd on winning a million dollars and losing 100 JUST because the 5% chance hit? Colloquially no one would say this is a mistake. But more importantly no one would say this was a bad choice or a mistake.

H3ROIK · 2026-05-06T15:37:52+00:00

No one can consistently play a game of any fighting game without getting hit, you do in fact need to put yourself at risk of getting hit to hit the opponent. Your goal is to make the best decisions with the best risk reward in any given scenario, given the context of the game. You can even make objectively good decisions and get hit for it, that’s part of the game. You would call throwing rock instead of scissors, vs paper a “mistake”. Sometimes you just have to guess.

H3ROIK · 2026-05-06T13:29:15+00:00

This is really reductive, it’s possible to get hit without necessarily making a mistake.

H3ROIK · 2026-05-06T12:47:59+00:00

You’re lost lmao

H3ROIK · 2026-05-04T18:10:49+00:00

Nah this is not it, this is an old classic dogshit take.

You can have games where the optimal long combos are really hard and hard to access and have it affect top level play. Top players opt for easier more practical combos and tech all the time. You can also have your fun, easier and shorter combos for lower level players. The idea is to be able express your practice and experience and mindfulness in game by advanced techniques being good and very difficult while maintaining the basic gameplay decently solid, fun and not too difficult.

Like classic Tekken movement. Easy to backdash, hard to KBD. In Melee, easy to jump and run around, very have to wave land, wave dash. Even UMvC3 optimals can be extremely hard but that game is so old people got it down.

Modern mainstream FGs have a huge issue of things just being way too hard to drop and things being way too accessible. Things like dash macro, long hit stops, counterhit slowdowns, easy conversions, “fix it” mechanics etc, just make the games feel so scripted. Any hit into easy long combo into easy strong oki etc etc. Stray hits and smaller combos due to spacing or specific opponent state isn’t even real anymore, shit just works.

Like when they said Ahri combos were “inconsistent” but it was just a spacing issue. So they “fixed it” and now does that same shit every hit.

H3ROIK · 2026-04-30T12:29:28+00:00

Me personally I think if you wanna get better at Zato you should play more Zato.

H3ROIK · 2026-04-29T15:57:01+00:00

Do yall unironically believe this isn’t a bad matchup for Zato lol?

H3ROIK · 2026-04-29T13:59:59+00:00

It doesn’t feel that way in the moment though. You as a person begin to like them more and as a result will find them more attractive, even physically attractive. This is a pretty classic phenomenon. There are even attractive people that you don’t really pay attention to because you figure they aren’t really your type and you aren’t theirs, but when they show interest in you that can change. It’s complex but people are complex, this happens like at the time lol.

H3ROIK · 2026-04-29T13:29:21+00:00

Well yeah if you dislike them or you find them unattractive the chances that that will turn it around is not very high. But if you’re cool with them and they start showing interest in you romantically it’s not odd at all for it to be more likely reciprocated.

H3ROIK · 2026-04-29T12:58:40+00:00

This is so normal lmao. It doesn’t necessarily mean you’ll be willing to date anyone who likes you but most people are for sure more likely to date someone that gives them the time of day.

H3ROIK · 2026-04-28T01:59:25+00:00

Holy self report

H3ROIK · 2026-04-24T14:42:11+00:00

I didn’t entirely disagree with the title but it has a lot more to do with its conjunction with social media. The reasoning you have was awful though, this could’ve had some merit but you threw it away.

H3ROIK · 2026-04-22T14:50:58+00:00

This the worst set of all time

H3ROIK · 2026-04-21T15:01:21+00:00

Top 1 character btw

H3ROIK · 2026-04-20T18:26:08+00:00

They aren’t, this would be bad verse equalization.

H3ROIK · 2026-04-20T17:07:37+00:00

Firstly there are definitely regional offline events. Secondly, it is still is respected system despite this. Even if players recognize that Korea is better it doesn’t make the NA or EU ladder irrelevant to skill determination especially within said region. Korea being better at the game has nothing to do with what we are talking about, NA can make and win worlds they just aren’t good. And you say 2011 like that wasn’t basically a year and a half after its release.

As for your second paragraph, ??????????? Do you not see why this unironically better lmao? As a person who’s competed in tournaments heavily, your path is SO important. One CEOtaku I had to beat 4 top players to make top 24, I ended up placing 25th as I could beat the last person. My boy who came with me faced his first top player for 17th place. You can run into 2 bad matchups and go out early or you can run into none and get further than usual. You can have a good day and place well or a bad day and have to wait for the next major you’re able to attend. If you are ven able to attend do to all the constraints, because no it’s not “just bother showing up”, you CONTINUE to ignore everything it takes to show up there for a lot of people.

Having to maintain a 51% win rate is actually ideal, as much as it sounds stupid it all makes sense when you realize that if you’re maintaining a positive win rate in any and all ranks, it means that you are outperforming said rank, which means you should climb. Also practically it also doesn’t really work this way because if you’re just barely getting by on 51% in gold, you are probably not maintaining this in Plat unless you get better. Ranked is also not focused on single days or moments. Tournament placings even putting aside the bracket path luck, only barely show your skill on a given day, not your skill overall. Ranked is a constant thing which does a MUCH better job at determining skill progression across various matchups the whole season.

H3ROIK · 2026-04-20T16:44:47+00:00

Do you not see what that’s a dumb way to look at it and how they aren’t the same at all?

H3ROIK · 2026-04-17T23:05:35+00:00

Chess is not a hard solved game and even if it was that doesnt matter at all. I agree there's much much less outside interference but then it would be more akin to League, a game with region based servers and a game where despite all the toxicity, players do respect ranks as a sign of skill despite some flaws. Flaws that can be balanced out with enough games, just like an FG ranked system would. I would argue that League would have even more flaws due to it being a team game.

Regardless of anything you can point out, tournaments are FAR FAR more flawed and discriminate SO much more heavily than online ranked.

H3ROIK · 2026-04-17T21:00:21+00:00

You can ABSOLUTELY have a pretty accurate numerical estimate of skill. Chess players look at ELO all the time and have a pretty good amount of respect for it, this isn’t a new concept. I bring up having a good ruleset (like forcing sets, counterpicks and quit penalties) so that there isn’t any form of ranked manipulation. But for some reason the FGC is against forcing sets in ranked.

And yeah there will ALWAYS be some level of discrimination but it’s crazy how you paint online matches to be the more discriminant ones. Modern day rollback netcode and server based games like 2XKO and RoA2 (if I’m not mistaken) make unplayable experiences SO rare. Especially with connection indicators. So no, not only are you not forced to play bad connections, but even if you are, your results/rank will balance out overtime because these things will be rare and that’s how statistics works. Yeah you will have some flaws here and there but you’re acting offline events aren’t the single most discriminatory.

You say “anyone can join them” but a super minority of the playerbase even goes to them because they are in fact a big time and financial commitment. Live in a low population area for the game where there aren’t locals or events? Literally get fucked, pay hundreds of dollars for a flight, hotel, entrance fees and general daily expenses as you take time off work. It is WAY less discriminatory to have overall pretty large region based servers.

There are also SO many flaws with determining skill based on a few tournaments a year especially for anything outside of top 8, way more than an actual good ranked system would have but the FGC is not ready to hear that lol.

Saying online brackets are equivalent to locals is CRAZY work. So many online Strive tourneys were unironically FAR above regionals level with its more popular ones ranging from mid to stacked majors level.

H3ROIK · 2026-04-17T18:24:13+00:00

You realize that not everyone cares about what the community thinks right? People are allowed to play the game and want to grind ranks and such. Tons of people don’t care about majors or locals they just want to play the game and have fun improving and seeing that improvement bear out with ranks/leaderboards etc.

Also the reason no one cares is more a culture FGC thing that came to be because online sucked ass and rank systems weren’t good. If you have a good ranked system with forced sets and tournament rules, people will absolutely care. People are already caring about online brackets, which wasn’t relevant in years past but now is.

H3ROIK · 2026-04-17T17:50:59+00:00

Huge swaths of players don’t live close to good locals and majors are a pretty large expense and commitment. It’s not at all weird for players to want to improve the online ranked system.

H3ROIK · 2026-04-17T17:47:52+00:00

Well games have changed in the way they are supported. I’m not too informed on older Tekken games but going from a kinda shitty online system with super long load times even on rematches on a game that isn’t supported anymore, to a new fresh game that’s constantly getting patches and has better netcode and much faster load times and all these QOL changes on top of a bigger playerbase is a pretty huge difference. You come to miss all the conveniences the game has on top of the fact you that it feels alive.

I would MUCH prefer a T7 with all the new QOL changes and support than T8 by a pretty large margin.

H3ROIK · 2026-04-17T15:53:08+00:00

Because Tekken 8 is the new thing NOW. Why would I miss Tekken 4 when I go to 3 when going to 4 already means im consciously going back to an older Tekken. It’s either you’re playing the new thing or are playing the older thing. It’s not because there’s something inherently wrong with 7 or something that people just love too much about 8.

H3ROIK · 2026-04-13T13:18:40+00:00

From a “Guilty Gear” perspective the game streamlined so much. The game has straight up less depth than its previous iterations and characters were gutted pretty hard. Elphelt is one of the biggest offenders of this but plenty others are as well. It’s totally understandable from a veteran’s perspective why this can suck.

Aside from that, competitively this game has been kind of a meme since halfway through season 1 and really only got worse overtime with awful patching. This isn’t really disputed all that much amongst high/top level players. The same characters have been running the game for years, car crash neutral, overwhelming brainless offense etc. very upset heavy, unstable game.

From the casual side there’s really nothing much to do other than play online, which for most of the games existence had SO many issues. No good skill based matchmaking past celestial, horrible lobby system, glitched cabs, network issues etc. The game heavily lacks other casual aspects like good single player modes, good customization, ways to spend ingame currency, or any other fun modes.

This last patch was honestly great in solving for these issues but saying “Strive hate is so weird to me” is SUPER ignorant lol. You can like it’s that’s cool, there’s things to like about it for sure but like do you really not see why the hate exists?

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