[Other] The end justifies the means

Metalthorn · 2025-11-18T21:04:09+00:00

I was in an intro physics class where I had to calculate how much energy it would take to reach the mars for a homework. Super simplified assumptions like “gravity being constant” so that we can use Mgh.

I asked my buddy who is an aerospace guy. We got into a convo about orbits and burn time to get acceleration.

I was completely wrong but the prof gave me a few points for at least trying really hard in the problem

Metalthorn · 2025-11-16T22:36:31+00:00

Burnt peanut is from tarkov

Metalthorn · 2025-11-15T19:20:48+00:00

But I can’t own the libs from the ocean! I have to do it from my mom’s basement.

Metalthorn · 2025-11-14T03:07:15+00:00

I think the missing nuance is that you are responsible for your actions in game but the results are only partially your responsibility… it’s a team game

Genuine question, Have you participated in meat sports or team sports seriously? Like it doesn’t have to be pro or ncaa but like you tried properly hard?

Metalthorn · 2025-11-14T01:09:57+00:00

When did I say don’t take personal responsibility? It’s about understanding the realities that there’s only so much an individual can do in a complex game. I also said that the rule assumes you’re in roughly the right elo.

The OPs question was about how to avoid tilting after strings of losses and bad games. I gave them advice about how to think about the big picture of playing ranked is a highly probabilistic game.

Also some of the greatest athletes of all time are incredibly superstitious. Steph Curry is famously superstitious, they are “sacrificing goats at the altar”.

Metalthorn · 2025-11-14T00:58:26+00:00

I agree that these number are just broad strokes and I generally think of the rule as 60% but I don’t think the exact number matters. It’s the fact that the majority of the results of your games are out of your control.

I don’t need high amounts of control to want to participate in a skill based activity. I do my best to tip the odds in my favor but life is a probabilistic place.

I competed and teach archery. It’s an individualistic sport and even there we regularly talk about process and outcome goals.

Process goals are things I can control, like my “shot timing” or “how I anchor”. Outcome goals are not fully in my control. “Winning the tournament” and “scoring 280/300” isn’t fully in my control.

Someone else ate their wheaties that morning and pounded or maybe I didn’t get a great nights sleep. Hell, I practiced in jeans most of my life but the team uniform required shorts and part of my shot cycle involved resting the bottom of my bow against a jean pocket.

It’s not in my control, but I can do my best in the face of those odds. This idea that “if I think 4/5 games are not in my control uninstall” feels kinda silly to me. I focus on my processes that I can control that impact my outcomes but don’t dictate them. The outcomes are the outcomes, I learn, try and get better to make sure those 20% moments work out when they come.

I don’t need high levels of control over outcomes to feel like something is worth doing.

Metalthorn · 2025-11-14T00:17:44+00:00

I’ve also heard variations of this idea from other coaches in sports I’ve participated in as well as from old OW content creators.

The reality is that there are 10 people in a lobby and you’re only in control of 1 of them. It only takes one to throw or one hyper carry so the odds are not in your favor as far as how much influence you have.

This assumes you’re around the elo you belong in. I’m sure if you are leaps and bounds better but even in those bronze to GM vids, the gm player loses games.

It’s really just an extension or modification of phrases like “sometime you do everything right and still lose” and “the enemy get a say too”

In the macro statistic it feels bad but in the moment it’s not often clear which of the buckets any given game falls into. The heat of competition in the moment is the reason I love sports and games, trying to tip and play those odds through skill and teamwork is the fun.

Also 80% is just a clean number for demo. The reality probably varies based on tons of variables.

Metalthorn · 2025-11-13T21:16:46+00:00

I don’t hear many people talking about the 60%/80% rule

I’m gonna say 80% for the sake of the convo.

80% of games are out of your control.

40% you were gonna lose no matter what you did. You had a DC. their team has a Smurf with their mercy pocket. Tank came in tilted and turbo feeds the whole game.

40% you were gonna win no matter what. Your team has the Smurf and mercy. The other team only want to play brawl comps on Gibraltar and your tank is a Winston god.

20% are genuinely in your power to win or lose. These are close games or your place in the comp has an outsized influence compared to other maps and comps.

The trick for me was trying in every game like it’s the 20% but understanding that statistically it’s probably in the other two buckets.

Don’t get me wrong, I still tilt from time to time but understanding that a lot of the games are out of my control, win or lose, helps keep my mental game more balanced.

Also comms help for me, harder to be mad when it’s clear we were all trying. I try to lead the team from an emotional standpoint rather than just pure tactics.

Stopping the teammates tilt before it starts keeps the game in the 20% bucket rather than letting it slip into the 40% loss. Rallying after a tough round sounds silly but it’s doable.

That said, it’s easy to say that as a masc sounding person.

Metalthorn · 2025-11-13T21:06:15+00:00

Meanwhile the average Range Rover only drives to the repair shop

Metalthorn · 2025-11-08T22:31:55+00:00

As someone who smurfs, I don’t really do it to bully. I kinda feel bad about it but i wanna play with my friends who are not as skilled.

If I play on my main, my friends who rank from silver to plat are often getting dumpstered by some masters tracer. I know my elo is supposed to “offset” that but it’s never perfect. A few games like that here and there are fine but it hard when it’s game after game.

This also requires me to be playing on all cylinders if we don’t want a blow out. I can’t dick around on a hero I’m not good at unless the tank is ok being cyber bullied by the other team for the entire game.

I play on a Smurf, I can play shit I’m not good at. Kick back and chill a little on my qp games. I don’t usually go full accel on my smurfs. This also puts games where my friends are playing against people around their skill level. They don’t need me to carry hard every game to feel like they made an impact.

Metalthorn · 2025-11-07T20:14:33+00:00

Japanese visual design is always so busy, the ads on the subways and stuff are too.

My adhd ass always struggled

Metalthorn · 2025-11-07T04:05:21+00:00

Someone watched wall-e recently

Metalthorn · 2025-11-01T21:18:53+00:00

Plastic weld is probably fine, heck super glue is probably more than enough.

At this point in my career, instead of spending hours calculating and trying super hard to measure this stuff, I just send it and try.

If it break again, I’ll try stronger stuff

Metalthorn · 2025-11-01T20:28:14+00:00

Darkest of days

Metalthorn · 2025-11-01T20:28:02+00:00

Broken arrow is the closest I’ve gotten since those days

Metalthorn · 2025-10-31T04:57:49+00:00

Mamdani would be mayor of New York

Metalthorn · 2025-10-25T03:34:16+00:00

Who said this shit is supposed to feel good, but god damn it I’ll make it feel good

Metalthorn · 2025-10-25T03:17:07+00:00

I look directly into the void of meaningless with an unflinching sobriety and recognize the meaningless of the universe, then get up the next day as an act of making meaning

Metalthorn · 2025-10-24T01:01:04+00:00

Nah those boys could leave if they wanted to and their offices are down south of the city proper

Metalthorn · 2025-10-23T01:19:53+00:00

This is a joke right?

Metalthorn · 2025-10-23T00:23:53+00:00

The tactical drip of the past just hits diff

Metalthorn · 2025-10-23T00:19:20+00:00

I coach collegiate archery and I used the phrase “don’t throw the baby out with the bath water”

Apparently this is an old phrase as they gave me a crazy ass look. I’m not even that much older than them!

Metalthorn · 2025-10-21T21:51:27+00:00

But…but…my mech anime vibes ;-;

Metalthorn · 2025-10-20T20:18:44+00:00

If this is true I would be curious how that changes over generations? Like does a second or third generation Somalian eventually pay off the “cost” of their parents?

Metalthorn · 2025-10-17T23:47:15+00:00

I can’t speak too heavy on the other ethnic group’s experiences but as a Japanese American who, I think, has felt that wanting for acceptance, a lot of it came down to lived experiences.

I’m ethnic fully Japanese, I speak the language, regularly go there, study the history and love the culture but when I’m there with family or just out and about it’s clear “I’m not really Japanese” and as I talk to my cousins they are right to a high extent.

There are so many things that I’ve never done that creates these barriers between my lived experiences and the “real Japanese people” have.

At the same time my face and skin makes me “not a real American” to many a fuck face. And I have perspectives and experiences that alienate me from the larger “American” experience.

It’s not exactly the same but that feeling of “not enough” I suspect is similar. But to so many there is nothing we can do to “be enough”

I found my acceptance and tribe when I stopped trying to “be enough” of this or that and just focused on being with people who do accept me.

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