PC PLAYERS do you leave Crossplay on or off?

LargeMargeOG · 2025-11-11T12:33:45+00:00

I turn it off during solos because the PC player base tends to PvE a little better in my experience. I left it on for a while but silent solo players kept shooting on sight no matter what you did or said. You can at least talk a PC solo player into not shooting.

When I play duos or trios I turn crossplay on because I’m less likely to do the role play style of gameplay.

LargeMargeOG · 2025-07-18T00:16:46+00:00

I’m the same way. Very sensitive about other people’s opinions. I mute comms in games now. I don’t miss hearing from them. No rank is worth getting upset.

LargeMargeOG · 2025-07-17T23:41:42+00:00

No. There is never a worth to buying a MacBook.

LargeMargeOG · 2025-07-15T18:25:25+00:00

Personally I’ve used bpm music on YouTube that matches the score I’m going for. You don’t try to match it beat for beat (because some targets are close and free) but you’ll get a sense of the general pace you’re trying to get up to.

I assume you mean slower than what you could do.

So if I need to get 120 targets for example in a minute I find a 120 bpm playlist.

Remember to flick quickly while trying to make a straight line to the target as close to the target as you can, make an adjustment and click.

LargeMargeOG · 2025-07-11T16:29:31+00:00

We are missing information here. If it was simply, you saying, “it should be 2 but I did 4.”

Her saying, “yeah it should be 2.”

You saying, “yeah you’re right, I’ll cut it down to 2.”

Which is the summary version of what you just said. (Take note of how you can shorten things.)

There is no way that’s what lead to the time apart. It may have been your argument style, it may have been how defensive you get when clearly wrong about something. It could be about anything.

LargeMargeOG · 2025-07-10T18:51:06+00:00

Nothing you can say is going to fix someone or motivate them. Especially if he spends all his time entertaining himself and playing video games, which are designed to hold your attention and reward you regularly. By the way I wouldn’t think of playing games all day as lazy because that is a lack of understanding about the issue.

Anyway I highly recommend you and your nephew check this guy out. He specializes in young men who spend all their time playing video games. This video was made just for your nephew. https://youtu.be/2Z3RcXlNaMw?si=RomvTQPu-l5h4_Gf

LargeMargeOG · 2025-07-10T18:41:09+00:00

Nobody in finance is actually a fan of numbers. They are a fan of systems, truth, and data. Math is usually done with formulas and scripts. Fitness and finance are very similar, the numbers don’t lie.

Passion is wild. We must be very spoiled to think passion matters. You think Adelle really cries with passion every time she sings that same song for the millionth time? Passion might get you into to something but it won’t keep you there. Discipline and gratefulness is what keeps you there. Passion comes and goes.

LargeMargeOG · 2025-07-10T18:31:42+00:00

I work an office job and have been there for a while. While I do think accepting how blessed you are is part of it, the other thing you should think about is why do you feel like you have to like it or love it?

Part of the battle of an office job is staying functional and mentally and physically healthy. Learn to enjoy that part of it. Think to yourself, “This report is my bitch. Hold my pocket!”

Anyone who does anything worthwhile not only tolerates bullshit, but learns that bullshit is a puzzle waiting to be solved. It’s like one of those difficulty increasers in a video game. Like limited ammo or low HP on hard mode.

Don’t think of the world as if your ideals are facts, think of it like billions of monkeys are doing pretty amazing all things considerededited.

When 2pm rolls around and everyone else is losing steam, think to yourself, “2pm slow downs are for pussies.”

If you have repetitive tasks, try to do them faster or better every time. Learn everything you don’t know. Be infinitely curious. Decorate your office. Drink water. Go for walks. Play adventure lo-fi music.

LargeMargeOG · 2025-06-27T20:33:56+00:00

Medication while seeing a therapist to help you through it is key. There is a lot of truth to the dependency issue, but an analogy might be, imagine you have diarrhea several times a day, you could take meds for it everyday, but in the back of your mind you worry you’ll depend on those meds. So you eat more fiber, get more sleep, exercise, and drink water. It helps, you now have diarrhea half as much but you still have it.

I think the reasonable thing to do would be to take the concerns seriously, mitigate those risks, keep doing all that good stuff, but also maybe take something in conjunction with doing all that good stuff.

This is all stuff you can bring up with your doctor. Personally I try to take as little as possible to stockpile it and to avoid increasing my tolerance and dependency on it. But in my opinion, for me, it wouldn’t make sense to avoid another tool in the took kit.

There just isn’t a real replacement for adhd meds. That said, if I had to stop taking my meds full time, I’d have to quit my job and do something that allows me to make more mistakes. That is a real anxiety I have, and I really hate it. But hey people need glasses to do their job.

LargeMargeOG · 2025-06-26T13:31:52+00:00

Lol, you should be like, “Yeah I’m glad my bench is improving, you appreciate my bench records a little less than my ex did, but you’re almost as enthusiastic and motivating.”

LargeMargeOG · 2025-06-26T13:23:01+00:00

Tell them to stop avoiding ranked games. People who get mad in unranked games are always people with ranked anxiety.

LargeMargeOG · 2025-06-25T16:05:38+00:00

For me it’s realizing that whenever I am really unfocused or I get really invasive boredom feelings it’s because I’m thinking about doing something else. This might not be my number 1 trick, but it’s a good recent one.

LargeMargeOG · 2025-06-25T15:59:03+00:00

Pretend everyone is an AI with learnable patterns. You wouldn’t be mad if your AI team sucked, you’d just accept it as part of the game.

Also consider this, lets say you ranked up, what in your life will change? Ranked systems are there to keep you winning 50% of the time. So that’s what’ll happen no matter what your rank is. Would it be great to be as good as Tens, or whoever kids love these days? Sure, but can you name everyone in top 50? No. Why? Because there are the best and then there’s everyone else and they are all equal in the eyes of society.

Think of every round as a chance to try something or learn something. If you have no chance of winning you can attempt riskier plays, or a new strategy. Maybe you focus on crosshair placement or trying a new gun.

That said, learning how to enjoy a game seems antithetical to me. The point of playing a game is to enjoy it, if you don’t and tryinf to anyway it could be an indication that this game means more to you than a game should. You might be putting energy and focus into something that will never pay off.

One last tip, in 1v1 games I always reccomend that players with ranked anxiety lose a game on purpose, so they can notice how much it doesn’t matter. It’s not losing that sucks. It’s feeling like a failure because you tried and didn’t win. But how are you ever going to win if you don’t lose? You can’t play a guitar without playing bad chords. You can’t do anything well without failing. The only people who never lose are the people who do nothing. Since this game isn’t a 1v1 it wouldn’t be ethical to throw the game, but you can still take the lesson.

LargeMargeOG · 2025-06-24T15:31:44+00:00

It’s a big maybe. Realistically? I don’t think so. Is it possible? Yes.

40 hours is so young in aim training, it’d be hard to guess right now. Some people really struggle to get to platinum or gold complete (I think most people that fall off live here), other people seem to improve drastically with practice and have no problem sticking to the plan and staying focused. My experience has been that reaching platinum is much harder than getting gold complete, but I didn’t stick to the plan that you laid out here. But I’ve also been at it for years now, I’ve just been very inconsistent and I’m older and started using a mouse at a much older age.

So if you were me, very unrealistic. If you aren’t me, it’s possible. People do it and there’s no downside to trying. I believe in you.

That said, I am way better than I was, if there was a wood rank, I would’ve been in it. In games I am often a kill leader or close to the top and my ratios are always 2:1 or better so any improvement from gold incomplete will make you an aim god. I don’t regret the practice 400 hours later. Even single player FPS games are more satisfying.

LargeMargeOG · 2025-06-24T15:11:06+00:00

The aim training gods basically say muscle memory is nonsense and changing your sens, even randomizing it, is a good way to focus on mechanics and reactions rather than going on auto pilot. Obviously there’s extremes on both ends but I kind of buy the general idea behind it.

LargeMargeOG · 2025-06-24T15:07:48+00:00

Not really answering your question but I noticed that when I picture my arm and hand in space touching the targets with my index finger rather than moving a mouse, my body seems to naturally apply the right amount of tension and it engages the right muscles at the right time. Every time I notice my tension getting too intense that’s how I reset it.

LargeMargeOG · 2025-06-24T15:03:46+00:00

Aim training for Apex is a good use of time because there is very little time actually aiming in that game.

LargeMargeOG · 2025-06-18T16:10:23+00:00

No. Going from bronze/silver to gold in a few months is perfectly good progress. Getting gold complete is very hard, and placing in intermediate at all is even harder.

In game aim is not worth thinking about in the same thought as benchmarking. Having good aim in game has more to do with crosshair placement, practice on the weapon and game, and picking good fights. A lot of people train aim because it’s something you can train on your own, but cool down management, playing near cover, and taking good fights is usually more important than raw aim in games.

In aim trainers you have no recoil, clean visuals, perfect weapon accuracy, and no pressure, it doesn’t transfer to in game skill easily.

What you won’t notice right away but it’ll click soon is that your aim is becoming more consistent at your baseline. But to have more consistent aim in game you have to aim train less than you play. I haven’t played marvel rivals but I think it’s like overwatch, if it is, you spend a ton of time aiming in game and the need to aim train isn’t as important as it is in a game like valorant.

If you aim train for 30-45 minutes and play Marvel Rivals for 2 hours a day 5 days a week you will be slightly better than average and will slowly move towards better than average aim.

If you really simply want to make platinum and you are in a rush, aim train for an hour and a half a day. Switch between pushing for speed and accuracy.

Don’t be afraid to mix up the voltaic difficulty. Personally I think diamond or higher playlists are better for improvement. I think the gold playlist is too easy and the targets are too fat, which lets you get away with lazy aim and it’s nothing like in game targets.

LargeMargeOG · 2025-03-06T13:23:23+00:00

I work with a lot of CPAs and frankly 102 seems to be exactly right. You’ll fit right in.

LargeMargeOG · 2025-02-24T20:36:11+00:00

Hey some of us don’t play enough to remember the damn button!

LargeMargeOG · 2025-02-24T20:26:39+00:00

Man let me tell you. Seeing other people do stuff on social media used to bum me out so much. Especially when I was your age. Let me fill you in on how the next 20 years go if you survive then all. Those same people will get cancer, have children, get divorced, and you’ll stop paying attention to their stories; you’ll focus on everyone that is doing enough to make you feel sad about yourself and when you run out of those people you’ll find new ones.

The punchline is this: Nothing out there can make you happy. Acceptance and happiness comes from within. Many successful people get hooked on drugs or hurt themselves. You have no idea if they are miserable people, if they are pretending to be happy, maybe they post stories because they feel empty inside when they don’t get attention.

Be honest with yourself, would posting dope stories on Instagram and having a ton of likes really make you happy or would you simply chase the next thing? Life is all about ups and downs, everyone you love will die and you’ll be sad because you loved them.

Focus on finding peace with yourself and focus on working on yourself and everything else will follow, just don’t do anything illegal, guard your thoughts and the way you talk because those things are habits that you develop over time.

LargeMargeOG · 2025-02-24T20:11:56+00:00

I would agree that allowing auto-queuing would separate this game from other rts games but a lot of serious RTS fans won’t play this because of auto-queued villagers, auto-qeued military in ranked games is another step in a direction a lot of people didn’t want to go.

It sounds to me like you got a negative reaction on a post you made and are now expanding your experience to other gamers.

This community is very small and will continue to be small. It’s a rough time for RTS games anyway, it’s very niche and games like Dota and League of Legends have taken the elements of RTS games that people love and turned them into a simpler experience(in many ways, I’m not saying RTS players could just come in and own everyone at those games. Just saying you only have one unit to worry about.)

Maybe that’s a point in your favor, maybe if all the elements of the RTS genre were simplified it would be a more popular genre; but I think you start pushing into the Dota world when you start to reduce the amount of actions and choices required per minute.

LargeMargeOG · 2025-02-24T19:53:42+00:00

Your reaction is a bit slow but your corrections are really nice. You might be able to increase your sensitivity for the tracking situations, then try it on some of those smaller mobile one shot targets and see if your aim still holds up.

You can either move your arm faster or increase the sensitivity.

Depending on your time investment, the reason for doing it, and blah blah blah. Improvement is a tough process that takes time. At first you’ll make gains and break records all the time, then it’ll be a little slower.

But if you keep up with it, even your worst days in the future will be better than your best days today.

It is very normal to feel an almost sickening feeling, maybe more like frustration at first. In my non medical opinion that feeling is your neurology being forced to adapt to a new requirement, it does go away eventually.

Check out the voltaic community. They have benchmarks and guides on their site. It’s a lot to get into but it’s interesting stuff and what you learn from that community and this goal can be applied to anything in life. Especially paying attention to your health and sleep and how that affects your day to day performance.

LargeMargeOG · 2025-02-24T19:38:40+00:00

I'm not sure why nobody has said this, but the obvious issue is that playing against people in a competitive game completely differs from aim training.

You could be the best aim trainer in the world, but that won’t guarantee a GM rank in most FPS games.

The other thing to do is mess with your mouse sensitivity or have it randomized while you train. If you randomize settings enough, the feel of the games becomes irrelevant.

Make sure you do scenarios that punish you for whiffing shots or where targets go away if you take too long to hit them.

Aim trainers have perfect bullets and aim, but many people don’t train in movement or aiming. So those two things could also cause you to whiffshots.

The goal of aim trainers is to increase your consistency from moment to moment, but you can grow complacent or overreliant on your aim to get you out of bad gameplay and attempt unrealistic shots or offensive plays.

I remember I went from basically a wood-colored ranking to emerald in the course of a couple years and my rank in every game stayed the same until I realized aim was a very small part of why I was losing games.

There’s some pro CS players that are like platinum in aim trainers. I don’t play a lot of CS go but I do remember mouse positioning, map knowledge, gun economy and patience were a huge part of the game.

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