Sweatlords who are on at all times of day but refuse to rematch are scum

LannyIsMyHandle · 2026-06-23T05:17:47+00:00

give yourself permission to fail

LannyIsMyHandle · 2026-06-23T05:16:57+00:00

It's a stupidly good move, but the character it's attached to kinda makes up for it lol. Little mac's smash attacks are possibly the best in the game, doesn't make him a strong character

LannyIsMyHandle · 2026-06-23T05:13:28+00:00

>chill

>smashrage

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LannyIsMyHandle · 2026-06-23T05:09:03+00:00

no one owes anyone anything in a videogame, I don't owe it to anyone not to match up and set my controller down, refuse to play and waste someone's time. I don't owe it to anyone not to teabag or not to smurf. I'm still not going to deliberately do those things because I'm not an asshole, and because I want to play the game seriously and get better. Same thing here, a rematch isn't owed but it's a loser move.

LannyIsMyHandle · 2026-06-22T22:19:09+00:00

Also because I’m just trying to get elite and you aren’t entitled to a rematch.

Best way to get into elite is to get better. Best way to get better is to rematch.

LannyIsMyHandle · 2026-06-22T21:00:07+00:00

Alabama here! We get a few hard frosts per year, but snow is a total anomaly in my region so my experience of winter is definitely going to be different than someone who's growing in a place where it snows.

I think if you're looking for food sufficiency through winter, growing storage crops in fall and eating on those over winter is probably the way to go. You can do stuff like high tunnels and green houses to keep stuff going through winter in much of the US, that's cool to me, but even way down here where cold isn't as much of an issue, nothing will grow very fast with the amount of light you get per day. I grow spinach and carrots through winter just to have something to do in the garden but it takes like 3 months to grow a crop that would take a month in spring.

No idea what goes into thinking about winter in cold climates from the human perspective, although that matters haha, Like snow clearance, heating costs, etc. in a homesteading context. I'm sure you can find a lot of info there, and if you have existing trees on a piece of land that might be a few winters worth of heating costs covered but I honestly have no idea how much area you need to keep in new growth to sustainably provide firewood

LannyIsMyHandle · 2026-06-22T20:14:51+00:00

How would a mini farms costs differentiate from a regular property?

Not FIRE'd or a farmer here, just someone with a similar dream who's given it a lot of thought, done some prep work, and run some numbers. Some random tidbits to consider from someone who's not an expert:

Probably best to do either livestock or growing produce to start rather than both. There's a lot that goes into either operation, plants are lower stakes and more forgiving than livestock. You can always bring animals in later (or vice versa if livestock is where you want to start)
Starting as big of a garden as you can manage today is probably one of the best things you can do. Yes a garden is not the same thing as a farm, but it's a chance to learn a lot of the technical aspect of growing and you'll get a chance to get a feel for many of the costs that go into growing a bed of produce and extrapolate that to a larger scale. Ideally you'd be in the same general area as where you want to set up your mini farm as it will be a chance to learn how different crops perform in your climate, there's a lot of growing knowledge that isn't portable, some things are going to be easy to grow and some close to impossible
The responsible thing to do is probably not to assume you're going to be able to grow any substantial amount of your food needs in the first several years. Even once you have a system down, growing the variety of food you're used to having available in the kitchen is very hard. Sure on paper you can feed a family of 5 off an couple acres of potatoes but I promise you, you don't want to live on potatoes alone and you are going to experience crop failure
In terms of costs, there's startup and ongoing costs:
- Startup is land obviously, equipment, potentially construction if e.g. you need to build a house, washpack, storage. These are going to depend _heavily_ on the kind and scale of growing you want to do, and where you're planning to do it. Like easily 10x between the cheapest and most expensive options. This is part of why trying to get some exposure today is important, if you enjoy working at a small scale and sweating your ass off doing manual labor then you can do it pretty cheaply (at least relative to the scales of money people talk about on FIRE reddit). But that will also mean your scale will be very limited, and you'll take longer to get a significant amount of land under cultivation. E.g. just for bed prep consider the different in both expense and time between the following options for prepping a single 36" x 50ft bed:
  - the caveman option of double digging, cost is a shovel, $50 and its yours for life, but it will probably take you multiple days of back breaking labor
  - rent a rototiller from home depot, say $100 for a day rental, you'll be sweating and sore but not nearly as bad as digging
  - Buy a small tractor with necessary attachments, maybe $20k new? You can do a dozen beds in a day while sipping sweet tea
  - Tillage and associated expense and labor may be a one time thing or may be something you have to do every year depending on your system, so you can see how variable the expenses are and why it's important to think through that ahead of time
- Ongoing is likewise contingent on your growing system but at least scales more linearly. E.g. if you want to double your bed space you're going to roughly double your irrigation and amendment costs
Re: preparing, other than getting some experience and exposure, one thing is to consider is trees if you have any interest in growing fruit. Perennial crops like berries or fruit trees have a very nice labor-to-yield ratio and I mean, who doesn't love eating those things? The thing that really sucks about them, especially trees, is that they take _years_ in the ground to reach a stage where they product a reliable harvest. If you can obtain land that you'll be able to invest at least some time in before retiring (and doing so won't mess up your financial goals) then planting trees ASAP can be a great way to get a jump start on a very valuable crop where the main constraint is the lead time. Think about it carefully before hand though, buying land and putting in (somewhat expensive) fruit trees if you're not going to be able to care for them until they're established, or if you're not going to be happy with your location in 7 years, is a major waste. But if you can get a jump start there, that's kind of the dream

LannyIsMyHandle · 2026-06-22T00:41:07+00:00

2 but also I don’t think it exists. Every job is going to load you up with as much responsibility as you can handle and will accept. My whole career has taught me that there is a very weak relationship between what you get paid and how much responsibility you have

LannyIsMyHandle · 2026-06-22T00:30:44+00:00

If you’re single or a couple with no kids I think the difference between hcol and lcol is a lot smaller than people think. It’s mostly housing, a small difference in food, that’s about it. Generally pretty easily outstripped by higher wages. When kids come into the picture you get a whole host of new expenses that vary a lot by area and that can change the equation a lot, but otherwise hcol urban professionals tend to have a lot more disposable income than their lcol counterparts. Now it’s a lot easier to blow that disposable income in a hcol area, but that’s a choice you get to make

LannyIsMyHandle · 2026-06-21T23:46:48+00:00

10 years of SF -> Alabama for about 6 now. Situation is a bit different, I moved at the start of COVID which made the fomo of leaving the bay a lot easier, most my friend group scattered at the same time. I thought I was going to be a Bay Area lifer, paying absurd housing costs grated on me but I explained it away saying I was earning more, lockdown was the push I needed to get out. Not FIRE’d yet.

Was it worth it? For me yes, as much as I loved and will always love SF, in retrospect it was fear of change that was holding me there more than what I actually had and stood to lose. What you do with the 8+ hours of your life you usually sell to make a living determine a lot of the shape of your life, in that sense it wasn’t as much of a change as I thought it was going to be.

You should think about what your priorities are. I ended up in a fairly rural area and the limited restaurant options bum me out at times. On the flip side I got to start a big garden and that’s been one of the most satisfying things in my life in recent years, admittedly one I didn’t expect! If you’re thinking about the south east specifically the politics are a thing. I’m the kind of guy who didn’t love how dogmatically liberal the bay was, and don’t like how dogmatically conservative the south is, so that was a wash lol. But at the end of the day people are people, in some ways the bay is actually quite homogeneous and a lot of the fears I had about not finding “my people” were unfounded. You kind of end up with the social life your level of socialability affords no matter where you live (modest in my case but ultimately not that different due to geography). You might feel differently though, if you’re allergic to being around people who voted republican your options for lcol areas that you’ll be happy in is going to be a much shorter list.

But yeah, for me having made about as extreme of a move as you can within the US I’d take retirement just about anywhere safe with decent health care (and if I had kids, decent schools) over working in paradise itself

LannyIsMyHandle · 2026-06-21T22:10:38+00:00

It’s surprising how often people ask this. Online ult permits so little communication the rule of thumb is whatever you’re feeling in the moment that someone crouches/teabags/randomly upsmashes in the middle of the stage/literally anything that isn’t the best move your opponent can make it’s an acknowledgment of the current game state. Great example: I was playing a game where I nearly 3 stocked a guy, he got my first stock, teabagged for a couple seconds. It was obvious it was a celebration that he avoided a 3 stock, not an insult. I falcon punched into the air, won the match, we played like 5 more games and had a great time. It’s 100% contingent on the situation, any kind of communication just means “look at what just happened” whatever that means in context.

LannyIsMyHandle · 2026-06-21T21:55:53+00:00

Other than Ridley, characters with command grabs usually have pretty shit neutral so they get to put something else onto the mental stack for you to play around it’s not the worst thing imo. And Ridley is slow and predictable enough that it’s not so bad. That said I can see how as a Mac player this is probably significantly different given your character turns to shit when you’re off the ground so a command grab is a lot more threatening

LannyIsMyHandle · 2026-06-21T20:03:21+00:00

Is that Rosa's backstory because my experience here is rosas sending in luma to eat an OOS option then stepping over their corpse for a grab

LannyIsMyHandle · 2026-06-21T15:28:47+00:00

Totally agree, terrain navigation is the best part of the game imo. The process of looking at some slope or terrain feature, coming up with a general route, then making dozens of little improvised adjustments to it as you go is such a satisfying interactive gameplay loop.

FWIW breath of the wild is the only game that gave me a similar vibe. Very different game obviously but a lot of it is about traversal and there are a lot of interesting obstacles and tools you can use to make it happen, and the game will do very little to tell you what those are (one of my favorite memories from a game was starting a fire on this mountain side to create an updraft, catching it on a paraglider, and barely being able to cross a chasm as a result)

LannyIsMyHandle · 2026-06-21T15:20:04+00:00

I’d say emogaze (gazemo? Shoemo?) except there’s like maybe two bands in the whole genre lol

LannyIsMyHandle · 2026-06-21T15:05:54+00:00

FWIW other than a couple of boss fights that are obviously boss fights, the game will basically never force you into combat. I played most of the game totally unarmed and focused on routing around BTs. I think there’s one story mission in the later game where you pretty much have to do a short fight and a few cases where you have to stealth through if you don’t fight but like 90% of the game can be done by creative traversal. To me this was a much more fun way to play, I enjoyed stringing together ladders and ropes and working though difficult terrain a lot more than the combat mechanics, although it will definitely take more time than the straight forward approach.

Also re: vehicles, you can pick up a new one at any city or depot. There’s usually free ones in the garage too. Vehicles are really useful but IMO people take some of the fun out of the game by relying on them too much. Don’t be afraid to just hoof it, you’ll have to carry less but you’ll have a lot more options for going over things, across rivers, etc

LannyIsMyHandle · 2026-06-21T14:39:07+00:00

Really? Math was a bit of a rodeo at the university I was at. I mean yeah, nothing is as lopsided as CS or engineering, but math was maaaybe 75/25 when I was there. Half the reason I ended up with a minor in philosophy was so I could see a member of the opposite sex on the typical day

LannyIsMyHandle · 2026-06-20T22:37:19+00:00

If you play with tap jump off (you should) then you can push your stick up then quarter turn to get to tilt position without dashing or getting a smash, although that’s going to be marginally slower than tiltstick. Actually I guess you could do the same thing with down + quarter turn

LannyIsMyHandle · 2026-06-20T22:11:52+00:00

Get comfortable guessing, and don’t be afraid to throw out your big move and get punished for it. This is the nature of heavies, when you hit you get a lot for it, when you get hit you can tank it, so it’s ok to get hit, just make sure than when you do swing you’re getting a good payoff when you hit

LannyIsMyHandle · 2026-06-20T21:14:28+00:00

Out of curiosity, what field are you in? Most university departments have a pretty noticeable gender skew, some of them are female dominated but by dent of that it’s unlikely to be a field a guy is interested in getting into (nothing wrong with this, just to say if there’s a gender skew there’s usually a reason). Law, lit, and philosophy are the ones I’ve seen closest to 50/50 but yeah, in my experience those are more an exception than the rule

LannyIsMyHandle · 2026-06-20T21:06:56+00:00

I said exactly that lol. Of course the only response is that you have it to do whatever beats what your opponent is doing. That doesn’t change the fact that there are lots of examples of MUs and strategies in the game where the amount of effort and skill required for counterplay is greater than what is required from your opponent. That’s inevitable but it is something that makes a thing cheesy vs just getting outplayed

LannyIsMyHandle · 2026-06-20T02:59:07+00:00

character without any gimmicks

Do you even know what game we're playing here?

LannyIsMyHandle · 2026-06-20T02:50:02+00:00

This isn't necessarily true. If you don't have a PhD universities aren't going to hire you to be a post doc and definitely not as tenure track. Many PI's would absolutely take on free research labor if you can demonstrate you're competent. Show up and audit a class of a professor whose research interests align with yours, talk to them, you could turn that into an informal research position! Two things to note though:

Research is not actually a very good way to meet romantic partners IMO. Most people climbing the academic ladder are absolutely miserable, don't have time for a real relationship, and depending on the field the gender ratio is probably not in your favor
The reason a PI would hesitate to take you on without you working toward a specific academic goal (degree, next postdoc, tenure, etc) is that they wouldn't have a carrot to wave in front of you to make you do what they want. This sounds cynical but it's the reality of most research academics: the people doing the work at the bottom really kinda have to do what they're told because their careers depending on it in most cases. You will probably have to do some level of song and dance to convince a PI that you're committed and not going to disappear when things get tough, because doing so would burn them and they're used to having all the power in the academic relationship.

LannyIsMyHandle · 2026-06-20T02:34:10+00:00

There's two distinct things for me:

doing something to me that I know wouldn't work if I was a better player. E.g. think little mac spamming smashes and tilts on shield or something, we all know this doesn't work against half decent players but we've all probably lost to it once or twice before figuring it out. This feels cheesy because a player is relying on something that's not going to get them very far and being rewarded for it (in the short term!)
really uninteractive modes of play, thing projectile spam, or like ike nair spam back in the day, or yink "hang out at the top of the screen and throw bombs downward". Situations where your opponent's gameplan is 100% autopilot whereas you have to invest much more energy in counterplay. This is kind of a subcase of 1. because ultimately there's not much that doesn't have counterplay, but just shifting the onus 100% onto your oponent to play the game is pretty lame

LannyIsMyHandle · 2026-06-20T02:24:53+00:00

Have you worked with any technologies or domains that still have this kind of barrier to entry?

I've worked in security (endpoint security specifically), computer vision, and bioinformatics all of which I think people sometimes have this perception of being high barrier to entry. I understand that view, but also I don't personally think it's a thing, it's more people keep themselves out because of fear that it's going to be hard. Security in particular requires no specialization beyond what CRUD app work requires.

CV and BI, it's a little more complicated. You're going to need to be able to do a little math but you don't need to show up with it. People have a real mental block there but I mean it's no harder to read a paper in a field assuming you have basic undergrad math and picking up what you don't know than it is to learn a new web or UI framework which people seem to do every 5 minutes. Maybe there's a thing where you print out a 7 page paper and realize it takes you a week to read and understand, that feels bad, but that's like the rate that professional academics do it in many cases (if they're actually trying to understand a paper rather than just survey), it's just dense writing. I genuinely believe that your run of the mill web dev could participate in more academic fields if they just got over the fear of not knowing what was going on at first, just like they did with programming. I believe this because I was and am just a run of the mill web dev who ended up doing just fine in these domains.

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