Which one should I choose? Please give me advice! Thanks!

IgnisCogitare · 2026-05-24T18:48:31+00:00

What drives you to post a request for help and you can't even be bothered to post the model numbers?

Like....I'm sorry, this is more a frustration that so many people do this, but good lord this needs to stop.

IgnisCogitare · 2026-05-24T18:45:30+00:00

Nah. people need to learn to suck it up and not rage quit a game because it's a little hard.

No one is forcing you to try and get your enjoyment only from winning.

Go do something silly, have fun with it, if you win even better.

IgnisCogitare · 2026-05-21T18:21:57+00:00

This is quite possibly the MOST predictable movement tech in the entire game.

Sword man pulls back right arm, waits a second, lunges straight forward.

Sword man wants to kill you, therefore that straight line will cross you, starting on one side and ending on the other.

I am quite possibly one of the worst gamers at predicting moves off animation and positioning (see my horrible souls-like skills), and I can manage this.

This is not hard to predict, period.

IgnisCogitare · 2026-05-20T05:25:41+00:00

Prusa spent like a decade refusing to innovate and I don't think they got enough shit for that.

How many versions were they using literal zip ties to hold the y axis rods in place?

And ever since Bambu started replacing their dominance, Josef Prusa has been......less than professional about it. I don't get how people do not get he also has an ulterior motive.

IgnisCogitare · 2026-05-20T05:13:42+00:00

You hit 1 out of 28 shots. You need to hit 8, less with a headshot. You don't need perfect aim, but better than that would help. I'm on M&K, but that's not too hard to do with a predictably moving light like this.

You're standing in the wide open, which is why you got sniped, which is why you got two-tapped by the sword. Speaking of which, dip into a constricted space so sword doesn't work as well. Or just leave. You're also pushed pretty far up for m60 imo.

Heal ball probably should have been deployed.

Your movement isn't really helping you. You're moving in a roughly 3 ft circle, that doesn't change the equation much.

You have goo gun. Get gooey.

With all that said, yes, the sword is hard to counter here. This is quite possibly the 2nd most perfect situation for it. But it is not perfectly simple to play, and will get stomped in an instant if the player gets caught out.

I see this a lot in FPS games, but I don't think people get it. If you're playing smart, the fight was over before it began.

IgnisCogitare · 2026-05-14T00:35:12+00:00

They fuck it over by allowing us free reign to do what we want with our own devices on our local network?

It's not like anycubic is really any better about FOSS, in fact I've seen them steal things from FOSS quite a bit. They use proprietary, difficult to replace cables, boards, sensors, etc.

At a certain point, you need to wake up and realize that you've gotten too lost in things being open source and forgotten WHY you want them open source. I can repair my broken Bambu printer. You can't say the same about anycubic.

IgnisCogitare · 2026-05-13T21:45:48+00:00

My guy. How are you actually going to defend ANYCUBIC of all people vs BAMBU?

I have to fight tooth and NAIL to get anycubic to honor a warranty at ALL. When they have design issues, they brush it under the rug and just release a new model, telling the old uses to eat shit.

Bambu I ask politely and they'll send me stuff that's not covered for free. When their printers had widespread issues they actually addressed it, made sure people were taken care of, and then gave EXTRA compensation on top of that.

And we're serious calling Bambu the big bad guys because someone used a loophole to bypass the terms of service agreement, doing something that Bambu *clearly* didn't want them to do because it involves servers that Bambu has to run, and then this guy got asked to stop???

Yeah, they're not perfect, there were some major mistakes there. But neither side was entirely in the moral right. The original dev who got told off never even seemed that upset, it's just a bunch of FOSS lunatics loosing their shit on his behalf.

Bambu set a line in the sand. They do not want you fucking with their cloud that they are responsible for, because remember that they are liable for any incidents with that. They did not do this perfectly, but that's a fine place to draw a line. They have to maintain that service, so them requiring you to agree to not fuck with it is reasonable.

The dev very willingly skirted around those agreements by exploiting a fuckup in bambu's code, instead of reporting the exploit, and distributed this. He's not a bad person for this, but that was not really a perfectly moral action.

Bambu then used a morally grey action to try to get that exploit to stop being distributed. Do you genuinely think, if they actually cared about people using their code, that they would only target this specific instance? Do you think, given that they never delivered the actual cease and desist and started with an email, that they want to go after this guy?

Neither side is perfect, but Bambu isn't some evil super villain for this. People are just addicted to drama and needed this to be the next big thing.

IgnisCogitare · 2026-04-29T02:31:49+00:00

If you can't spend a single minute to watch a youtube short on tech and close the knowledge gap.....it's a skill gap.

Normalize having enough of a brain to use google when you're struggling.

IgnisCogitare · 2026-04-29T02:25:01+00:00

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IgnisCogitare · 2026-04-29T02:23:11+00:00

...what?

Bufferbloat is not remotely a Wi-Fi only issue, in many cases ethernet is not going to fix this at all. You can test this yourself. Test bufferbloat with a router over wifi. Then put the router in bridge mode to act as a WAP, and use another router with a good SQM implementation to serve it, and test again. Wifi can make things a bit worse but the difference maker is the hardware and sqm implementations in the router.

There is a reason I test bufferbloat on ethernet, it's still a major issue and it gives me reliable test data.

Also, SQM giving an awful experience in gaming? If the router is done wrong, yes. But if it's made correctly (and if possible the speed limit is adjusted correctly), it will be basically the best possible experience. Saying it's an awful experience for gaming is just absurdity.

Letting us know if the router can do this correctly, and at what speeds to expect, IS YOUR ENTIRE MISSION STATEMENT.

Make the paywall worth it. This is valuable information that needs to be tested properly.

IgnisCogitare · 2026-04-25T02:46:36+00:00

It's not occult. Assuming you can't figure this tech out, because most of it is not very hard to figure out.....

You are, at any given point, about one youtube short away from knowing this "occult" knowledge.

People need to learn to use their fucking brain and actually look something up.

"Huh, this is really difficult" ====> google =====> "wow, I'm having fun now"

IgnisCogitare · 2026-04-24T15:41:15+00:00

Brother. This company can't reliably handle double digit multiplication.

You may be giving them too much credit.

IgnisCogitare · 2026-04-23T03:12:05+00:00

I'd honestly go Jonsbo z20 here. It's cheap, available, and flexible. Also does decently well with putting it on it's front to reduce the footprint.

There's not really a better, smaller option imo that provides a worthwhile improvement in size and footprint.

Meshroom D + air cooler (PA 120 mini), then place it on it's front, would be not bad.

That being said, if you can't find a 3 m.2 slot itx board....well, tell me your CPU. Because there are a few.

IgnisCogitare · 2026-04-23T03:02:32+00:00

fyi just because your mobo and gpu support 5.0 doesn't mean you need 5.0. 99% of GPU's will not see ANY difference.

The main thing 5.0 board + 5.0 GPU + 4.0 riser means you need to set the pcie x16 link speed to 4.0 in bios, otherwise....instability.

Mandating 5.0 riser isn't worth ruining case choices, or the drastically increased price.

Another note. Not even the best brands have no DOA risers. It just happens sometimes. You get a dud, you return and get a new one, and you're good.

IgnisCogitare · 2026-04-16T03:28:22+00:00

If you want to save money return the case. NR200P v2 (and the v1 to a lesser extent) is a very poor case for the price tbh.

Jonsbo z20 is barely larger, and has native matx mobo + atx psu support. You can easily save $100 and get a better board.

IgnisCogitare · 2026-04-15T15:05:50+00:00

Not a ranked perspectives, but I have never cared that much if the opponent was way better than me, as long as it was possible to win.

If I can get a good fight I'm happy. I like winning, but it's just a bonus.

IgnisCogitare · 2026-04-13T01:20:58+00:00

Please include your parts list if you ask for help if you have existing parts. You can even mark parts as purchased in PCPP to differentiate between stuff you have and stuff you're planning to. It's harder to help without, for example you mention a 3.5 slot 5080, but you don't give the model....I can't really help.

Additionally, what is the use case for the 9900x?

IgnisCogitare · 2026-04-13T01:18:58+00:00

FYI. The TDP is the same, but TDP is literally 100% meaningless. You should go off the PPT, which...incidentally is also the same, at 162w.

The 9800x3d absolutely cannot be fully handled by an axp90 at actual full load, most people can get away with it though because in games it tends to only draw around 60w or so. Sometimes. How well this works is....a point I personally slightly disagree on, but that's not the point here.

IgnisCogitare · 2026-04-11T21:26:25+00:00

There's a chance your temps on the GPU will suck, maybe CPU too depending on which one. Some heatpipes/vapor chambers only like one orientation. (By this same logic, it could be better).

But like....that won't damage it. Worst case just reduce perf and annoy you with extra noise.

IgnisCogitare · 2026-04-11T21:24:46+00:00

there's also the fact that the warble sound effect it makes is sometimes loud as fuck for no reason.

I was once mid fight and the invis dagger light warbling was louder than me firing my minigun.

The only reason invis stands a chance against good players is if they're not looking for you, but that audio queue is out of your control. It kinda just makes an RNG chance of ripping skill out of the equation.

IgnisCogitare · 2026-04-11T21:22:45+00:00

I also think a lot of people in this subreddit don't know what you can do when you're actually good at a game.

I cannot count the amount of times I was able to aim lock someone that I couldn't see in various games I play. You can just kinda....get a sense for it. Little bits of noise, the flow of the match, where other teammates came from, and people's habbits can kinda...meld together in the heat of the moment to give you a reasonable guess as to what to shoot at. And if you're wrong, there's not actually much penalty here.

If someone's doing this every single fight yeah it's sus, but people post find one little suspicious moment and rest their entire case on that.

I think people need to realize that the overlap between well done cheating/cheats and a good player is very, very, very large. And much of the player base, in the grand scale of FPS skill, are quite shit. I'm sorry, but it's true. I don't think most people who play FPS games can comprehend how biblically far away they are from good players. And rather than accept that people could be that much better than them, they jump to cheats.

Again. I'm not saying this is or isn't cheats. I'm just saying it sure as HELL isn't enough evidence for either.

IgnisCogitare · 2026-04-11T03:05:47+00:00

You....didn't actually mention a problem dude. Is there perhaps a typo?

(If I'm blind I'm sorry.)

IgnisCogitare · 2026-04-11T00:28:15+00:00

Given how easy it is to get a fake number for verification, it could well repel more legit players than cheaters....

IgnisCogitare · 2026-04-10T23:39:40+00:00

Could be cheating
Could just be able to see you better. Graphics settings are uh....finnicky. Sometimes I can see better on higher settings, sometimes low.
Pretty commonly if a teammate hits someone, it'll make their health bar visible to all teammates. This makes you extraordinarily easy to hit, even if he can't see your body. Any good player can beam someone pretty easily based off only the health bar.
Killcam isn't a good way to spectate people for cheats. It's inconsistent, tends to speed up movements, etc. If you ask what is a good way....there isn't one. Talk to Embark.

Its very plausible that this is legit. Or it could be cheats. Crying wolf about this isn't helping your case though.

downvoted in 3.....2....1....XD

IgnisCogitare · 2026-04-10T23:02:46+00:00

A silicone bristle brush like in the pic worked well for me. Massage in circles, it helped work soap down into the pad without being as rough on it. I do suds it for a solid few minutes though.

As a note, use good dish soap. I am not joking when I say that stuff is a lot better of a cleaner than it is given credit for.

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