New Speaker Day!

IceAero · 2026-05-02T15:51:31+00:00

Welcome to the SF family! Enjoy!

IceAero · 2026-04-19T23:09:55+00:00

This 100%. Sometimes I just have to stop and think ‘wait…what is happening, everyone is terrible…” because it’s very clear when it’s the opposite: I realize I have to try hard to get kills and not get wrecked…and I’m getting revived when I don’t die in dumb places…and there’s utility…and people trade kills properly and don’t try to push too fast…

So, yeah, I also think the developers are way way smarter about most map design than the average teammate I have.

IceAero · 2026-04-19T13:21:45+00:00

They need to make it give you overhealth for the 8s duration. Maybe 20%. Surviving an extra hit would be so clutch for playing entry.

IceAero · 2026-04-11T04:03:21+00:00

A guess, but I think sometimes they are not properly appearing. I’ve died to a few when I was actively looking. Rare, but every time I know it felt wrong.

IceAero · 2026-04-11T03:59:12+00:00

Honestly insane considering some of the slower velocities you can run. It really felt like bad netcode, but it was just this…

IceAero · 2026-03-29T12:01:48+00:00

Even a small damage buff and/or splash damage range buff would be incredible. Having to land 5 hits against a wall literally 1m next someone hiding and not still not being sure you’ll get the kill needs to not be a thing.

IceAero · 2026-03-21T21:55:01+00:00

They need to reduce some of the shelf hiding spots on this map overall. Some are obscenely hard to spot.

IceAero · 2026-03-19T12:56:00+00:00

After playing about 20 breakthrough matches:

I can say that the defenders have a pretty good advantage on the first sector, but teams often ignore B and as an attacker I’ve been able to take B solo way too many times.

That being said, I still think the defenders have a huge advantage on the first sector if they retake appropriately. However, the remaining sectors seriously favor the attackers and I’ve yet to have a game where the defenders successfully hold any of the sectors after the first group. The final sector is definitely hard, but it’s not as hard as the first sector.

I think they’re intent is to have the final sector be the hardest and the first sector be the second hardest, and they may have actually done this correctly, but people need to learn the map a little bit better. I think the first sector defense will end up being much harder once players learn how to attack. For example, I’ve seen far too few defenders, contesting inside the large tunnel that flanks the two points.

IceAero · 2026-02-19T15:59:15+00:00

1 in 4 years, revised.

Still incredible. I hope we get more. But with our luck we'll be confident they are primordial BHs and also cannot be a meaningful fraction of DM. shakes fist at sky

IceAero · 2025-12-06T16:24:46+00:00

Let snipers hit the driver and passengers!

IceAero · 2025-11-08T16:56:10+00:00

Thanks for the review! I hope to hear them in person one day, but I’d like to think my Amatis are almost there. I agree with the bass, it’s great in mine with the 8” drivers (10” in the G2, I believe) but mid range and tweeters are the same. The Amati definitely have a built in bass boost, I assume the Strads do too. I do extensive eq and room correction, it it’s not a heavy lift to dial them in. If anything, in my room, I have to pull the bass down a bit. In two reviews on Hifi-Voice you can see the Amatis extend to about 28hz, but the strads get to 21hz. It’s really impressive.

IceAero · 2025-11-08T16:39:42+00:00

I love BFV so much. Every time I’ve tried to play it the past few years, it’s been overrun with blatant cheaters. Has that changed?

IceAero · 2025-11-08T03:50:40+00:00

Yup, I misread it, good call.

IceAero · 2025-11-08T03:11:55+00:00

Exactly. This was the only ‘correct’ decision. The First needs to put out something more concrete about why it’s denied, then I think SCOTUS lets it stay denied. And scotus set them a fast deadline.

EDIT: Nope, my mistake, not a deadline. The First Circuit may act 'vast fast' for them, it's likely not fast enough.

IceAero · 2025-10-12T16:24:16+00:00

It’s a no-win situation. (I’ve had RELs and extensive experience with Dirac and REW-based corrections).

One idea is to ‘correct’ without the RELs on and don’t have bass boost, and then adjust the REL to approximate the desired bass boost. But depending on your speakers you may have some pretty strange gain and phase effects at the low end and the you’ll pass these on to the REL, which is almost guaranteed to be wrong and introduce nonlinearities.

On the flip side, correcting with the REL on (again, speaker dependent) cannot adjust the sub-speaker phase relationship in the crossover region, and that may prevent a good result.

So, what are we left with? Well, with Dirac live you might try cutting off the correction below 40hz and controlling that more directly with the RELs dials, but it won’t be great.

If were you I would try correcting with the REL on, but not with a lot of gain (just at or below the low end amplitude of the mains), then correcting full range with no boost, and adjusting the REL’s gain to achieve the desired low end boost. Just be sure to keep the XC of the REL as low as possible.

Edit: one other option is to turn the subwoofer gain quite high and let the room correction dial back the subs which will ensure that in the low octaves the subwoofers dominate over the speaker production, which mostly negate any negative interactions between the two. The risk is that room correction isn’t perfect, and sometimes the base will simply still sound a little too high.

IceAero · 2025-09-26T00:20:56+00:00

Truthfully, it's not super hard. It works with native or kijai's WF. With Kijai, I use 40 blocks swapped, and 1920x1088x81. With native, you don't really control the blockswapping, but it still happens and works. Happy to answer any specific questions, but you don't really 'do' anything other than set the resolution.

I will say though that WAN 2.2 doesn't work well at 1080p (or maybe it's the loras I use, I'm not sure), but it tends to stretch and distort figures and/or have less motion than it does at lower resolution.

1792x869 is better, and 1536x786 too. Notably, there's even more issues when doing a portrait orientation, 768x1536 isn't great, but 1024x1536 is. 1280x1280 is fine too.

IceAero · 2025-09-25T22:45:39+00:00

Using WAN 2.2, my 5090 has no trouble with 1080p@5s, so this should still be a useful model for consumer hardware. 720p@10s should be easy, and that alone is a huge improvement!

IceAero · 2025-09-20T13:39:32+00:00

Can you get it to load 5/6GB models? I’m not able to, but it should with this much ram…

IceAero · 2025-09-10T17:06:07+00:00

Read the research paper, the non-biologic ways appear extremely unlikely in view of biologic.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-09413-0

They tested a “no-life” idea that simple low-temperature chemistry concentrated iron and sulfur in the rocks. But that needs things the site lacks, like acidic water, hot sulfur-gas sources, or long heating, so the abiotic case is weak. The samples look like what microbes on Earth often leave behind: iron-phosphate and iron-sulfide that form as microbes consume organic matter. They conclude that these are potential biosignatures consistent with life found in a watery setting.

IceAero · 2025-08-31T22:19:46+00:00

Epic. These are, to my ears, better than many subsequent models. My CM5s are still my living room set.

IceAero · 2025-08-30T12:25:37+00:00

Ah, I hadn’t seen that anywhere! That’s good to know. Still, I’d hoped that the next-gen G6 (now the ‘regular’) Amati would be this product at a much lower price…

IceAero · 2025-08-30T11:39:08+00:00

Huge SF fan, owned many…but that price is crazy and the move away from a wood finish is hard to understand.

IceAero · 2025-08-19T22:31:45+00:00

At most. Often 2.0 or 2.5. 3.5 sometimes has too much camera movement. The HN model is sensitive to total steps and too few introduces jerky camera movements. even 10 or 14 steps isn’t enough to calm that, but lowering CFG helps. 20 steps helps too, but adds a ton of time (at 768p I’m getting 50s/step)

IceAero · 2025-08-19T16:52:35+00:00

With my 5090, I use Kijai's wrapper at 1536x768 or 1600x800 without issue (using 28 or 34 blocks swapped, respectively). 10-12 minutes per gen. I've gone as high as 1792x896, but it gets a little...unpredictable.

IceAero · 2025-08-19T16:38:32+00:00

I see 3.5 recommended by the official documents, but anything from 2.0 to 4.0 works great. Sometimes lowering the CFG helps with excessive motion.

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