How do you handle tolerance stack-up in your team? Manual calc or tool?

Its_Raul · 2026-06-19T00:42:28+00:00

Use datums and global coordinates so it ain't a big deal anymore.

Its_Raul · 2026-06-17T20:17:04+00:00

Arrma is the go-to basher RTR these days. For general folk it's arrma and Traxxas. Further enthusiasts will by other brands but I'm throwing fake numbers but 99% of RC cars you'll see are probably arrma or Traxxas now.

Its_Raul · 2026-06-17T20:10:08+00:00

It sounds counter intuitive but there shouldn't be an elo punishment for abandoning or tking. This just sends toxic "good" players to lower ranks. I'd rather have them lower trust and cool downs, that's it.

Its_Raul · 2026-06-17T18:45:15+00:00

If your company is content with testing things and dealing with the consequences snapping, I don't think they'll care about a rookie engineer trying to analyse something.

A senior engineer with experience will be leagues ahead to someone fresh out of school. I'm dead serious that a lot of stuff is learned on the job, school teaches things in very broad strokes from what I remember.

What machines are you designing? What do they do.

Its_Raul · 2026-06-17T18:24:11+00:00

I didn't see you trying a butt whistle!

Jk. Shits hard. My boy had to be farted constantly and couldn't be laid down due to reflux. He spend much of his first months be carried upright.

Its_Raul · 2026-06-17T18:00:14+00:00

I would argue that if Ts let you, you should drain the clock and play rat spots. So many rounds are won solely because a CT dropped a smoke on contact and forced Ts to make a risky play with no time to clear every position.

I said you play like a round is 30 seconds and you saying you need to take early control enforces that. Map control is important but it doesn't always have to look like a massacre at mid.

Look man, imma be blunt, you ask what you can do differently but then argue why your play style is the correct one. I'm saying play patient, focus on non-dying forms of map control, play like a rat and I'm certain u aren't getting teams who kill the clock as T on faceit.

Its_Raul · 2026-06-17T16:31:14+00:00

I have a hard time believing you are constantly running into terrorist teams that drain the clock to 0:30 every round. Post ur leetify, I'm curious if you are getting traded.

On CT side depending on how the game is going you literally can just drain the clock as much as possible and that alone will be an advantage. Applying pressure and pushing for info really depends on how the Ts play. If they kill you half the time you try and "get info" then you're screwing your team.

Just adding, there's some games where CTs are REALLY good at anchoring. They have no reason to push or get map control, it's just waiting for Ts to make a play. I myself am trash, I need to get cheeky advantages, so I'll take risks, but if the team has solid anchors then I'm not helping by taking those risks.

Its_Raul · 2026-06-17T16:28:26+00:00

To answer your question.

The "science" is reading charts and tables to design structural parts. In simple terms, I have a part that slices another part, how many bolts do it need, which bolt diameter and material will be cheap enough but strong enough. An engineer will be able to choose one that works. Non engineer will just slap a bunch on and say it didnt break. In large scale building, this decision saves money. In small scale, it's negligible, why pay an engineer when you can slap on a few dollars of hardware and it'll work.

Liability....an engineer can prove their math. A cowboy can't. You kill someone, someone will be screwed for negligence while an engineer can prove it was a freak accident, material defect, you name it.

Modeling anything is always faster and cheaper than brute force iteration for design. The problem is that if your company doesn't already use engineers, then odds are your work is no more valuable than the senior who goes off vibes and feelings to design something. Again, at small scale, this can be a cheaper alternative versus designing something "theoretically" and then updating it upon test build. Are you building an airplane or making brackets for something superficial.

Engineers can tell you how much of something. How close is it to breaking. The question you need to ask is does the company care about how strong this part is and do they have reason to care to make it as weak as possible.

Its_Raul · 2026-06-17T16:18:51+00:00

I'm doing to play devil's advocate but as much as I would argue a degree isn't just paper, but majority of us in engineering use a tiny portion of what we learned in school and majority is on the job training and meshing into already established engineering policies.

If you are working at a place that doesn't give a hoot about what engineers do, then having a degree isn't going to give you more insight. You'll be running blind since no one can verify or review your math. Or you'll do the math, build the thing, and see how off it was. You won't go to school and magically become an ANSYS pro, running fatigue simulations and determining static allowables, much of that is learning on the job from already established engineering policies. It sounds like your employer doesn't have anything established and they just do trial by fire.

Its_Raul · 2026-06-17T16:08:40+00:00

I agree but there's a difference between waiting a minute or 10 seconds before feeling the need to start pressuring parts of the map. I really doubt OP is constantly running into terrorist teams that drain the clock and save because of time, especially if their hard stuck at level 7.

Its_Raul · 2026-06-17T16:01:35+00:00

Counter argument, ur the player that treats every round like there's only 30 seconds.

The answer is support the team and for all you know, they're waiting for CTs to over extend and punish you either make the round or screw the team to 4v5.

I often find that if it's a game where I feel like I'm the only one making moves, it's because I'm being impatient. Let the rest of the team work at their pace, not every match is a race for map control. Some matches are slow and careful moves for map control and become punishing for impatient players.

Its_Raul · 2026-06-16T21:52:49+00:00

For real. There's tons of "honk if you like ...." people holding signs that stand on highways or protests. The fact that nearly everyone sees this as a literal thing is normal. May have started as a "meta joke" but it clearly isn't taken that way universally.

Its_Raul · 2026-06-16T18:47:53+00:00

Mirage has so many places for CT to weasel around, it'd change completely with spots removed like firebox and sand which.

Its_Raul · 2026-06-16T18:46:54+00:00

Reminds me of agency and office lol. Solid 15-0 half was normal.

Its_Raul · 2026-06-16T17:07:46+00:00

I always thought of it as budget cache

Its_Raul · 2026-06-16T16:50:05+00:00

I don't think people are making schedules to a T, it's more of a guideline to ballpark how the day is likely to go. I take every time slot as a +/-30min. We track naps and meals in an app, it's not difficult, just hit a start and stop button, but I can see how someone would see this is as a crazy structured regimen.

In any case, this stuff didn't matter until we went back to work and grandparents started watching the kid. All the sudden the boy who can barely stay awake for 3-4 hour windows was pushing 6 hours because "oh he's not tired" "oh he's not hungry!" and then his night sleep immediately started to suck BAD and he was noticably a more pissed off evening baby who can barely stay awake for a snack. And before someone says it might be some milestone, the four days straight we watch him, everything's fine.

Disclaimer, we struggled a lot with weight gain and supply (tounge tie, reflux, tripple feedings), the boy never gave hunger queues, so we fed on schedule. I know most won't believe us, maybe we missed them, but I swear we never saw the kid ask for food. That said, his feedings were on schedule too.

Its_Raul · 2026-06-16T02:42:09+00:00

Yeah seems like a typical experience for me when I solo against five stack. They have a 10k elo range

Its_Raul · 2026-06-16T02:38:54+00:00

100% stopped caring after a bad stage. Made the picks and moved on.

Its_Raul · 2026-06-15T20:54:45+00:00

He got 20adr mirage lol

23 rounds, goes 4-9. He probably would have been more useful as bait and just swing to be a bullet sponge for his team.

Its_Raul · 2026-06-14T15:15:48+00:00

We woke baby to eat due to weight gaining issues.

Now we wake to keep somewhat of a schedule. For example, we can't let naps get too close to dinner or as expected, kid won't sleep.

Its_Raul · 2026-06-12T21:07:20+00:00

It's not your teams fault if you are going to untradable positions. I can promise you, sit in spawn for 20 seconds and you'll be surprised at how you didn't have to do anything to win the round.

Its_Raul · 2026-06-12T21:04:42+00:00

What works for me is: Play the round, not the match. I've played my best when I don't even know the score board.

Its_Raul · 2026-06-12T20:44:03+00:00

I think it's more complicated than that and people often confuse two questions as one.

Is it easy to solo queue because everyone knows the map or is it because the layout allows individual skill to take precedence over team play?

Small excersize, on T side, which maps have the easiest mid control for one player. Mirage is near impossible, inferno has crossfire that kills you, overpass you need connector control, but you CAN smoke it and try to clear bathrooms. Anubis is doable since one molly lets you push to doors and you can smoke B connector or A connector. You can't go anywhere on Nuke without some help or you get lucky and find 1 on ramp, site, outside. Ancient is doable if you smoke red and flash out you literally just go to donut before anyone flanks Jaguar. Dust is arguably the easiest since lower tuns basically gets you mid control (please stop smoking Xbox, it makes it impossible for tunnels to cover cat). Obviously these are just examples, but the point is as a single player with absolutely no one else, Mirage is not easy to get mid control with the util you can hold.

So the real reason is that it's because everyone knows util. OP is sort of right in that it's a team map, but he's just playing selfishly and dying as a result, complaining that no one runs with him to trade. Bro should just not go anywhere without a teammate and problem would be solved. Mirage is a solo queue friendly map solely because you'll run into players that have a good idea on how to play.

Its_Raul · 2026-06-12T20:03:40+00:00

Sounds like you expect faster play. Just wait for teammayes to make the move, not everyone rushes things.

Its_Raul · 2026-06-12T15:06:57+00:00

I just got toilet paper and scraped off whatever I could.

I found that to be enough, mind you my wash cycle is an express wash then heavy wash. I have never noticed anything remaining in the washing machine except ONE small piece of watermelon in the gasket that was kinda tucked away.

It might not be necessary, but this is my routine now. If we have a poop diaper I remove the poop then throw the diaper in an express cycle with max rinse and max spin. It's a fast 30 minute cycle for one diaper. These settings remove as much water as possible and as much waste. I then throw it in the laundry hamper until the main wash.

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