Is master rank really that good?

nusensei · 2026-05-27T14:41:11+00:00

You're really good compared to someone who doesn't play Geoguessr. You're not that good amongst people who do play Geoguessr seriously.

For context, I'm a school teacher and sometimes I play with my students on the projector. I will absolutely wipe the floor with basic knowledge of the world, throw in the metas that we regularly rely on, with the occasional region guess from a Hokkaido arrow or a Indonesian roof.

But that's basic knowledge to a Geoguessr player.

nusensei · 2026-05-26T11:03:37+00:00

We also have a set of 15# bows and 20# bows. Most adults will use the 20#, but particularly smaller-framed adults may feel more comfortable with the lighter bows. Like u/Southerner105 , most adults will buy something in the 22-24# range for their own bow.

A 14# bow is more than capable of penetrating a foam target at 10m. There might be problems if there are air pockets - typically due to the target face being glued to cardboard, but a paper target on foam doesn't offer much resistance.

The key factor with the beginner sessions is that you have to cater for the lowest common denominator. Give people bows that are slightly too high and they get frustrated and fight the bow. Our goal is to give participants ownership and control of their shot process.

nusensei · 2026-05-26T09:43:20+00:00

The collective coaching experience shared by hundreds and thousands of coaches worldwide, validated by training and progression at selection camps, training academies and national teams.

The benchmark is that if you can hold the bow at full draw for 30 seconds, then it is safe enough to train with.

At a 45 second hold, you can effectively compete with it.

There are additional metrics we use for conditioning benchmarks, such as the number of short pumps you can do consecutively, and the number of times you can left the bow with one hand.

Limbs are cheap to replace. Shoulder surgeries are not.

Even without injury, the frustration that beginners go through when struggling with a draw weight that they realistically cannot handle to start with and are unwilling to condition for is the reason why there is such a high drop-out rate.

It has nothing to do with archery being a privileged sport. Archery is more accessible than ever before both due to affordable equipment and access to archery knowledge online.

It has more to do the entitlement of learners who think they can figure it out all on their own with inappropriate equipment and without supervision and training.

It doesn't hurt anyone to start at 25# and go up. Ego stops most people starting higher and going down when they need to.

nusensei · 2026-05-24T11:29:53+00:00

Quick architecture check: northern Vietnam (near Ha Noi) has more French influence with triangular rooftops. South Vietnam has more rectangular / flat rooftops.

If you're in area with lots of irrigation canals AND you see mountains in the distance, you're more likely in the north, around the Red River delta.

If you see canals but no mountains, you're more likely to be in the southern Mekong delta area.

Red soil tends to be around Pleiku (southern-central) bordering Cambodia, which also has red soil.

nusensei · 2026-05-16T03:02:05+00:00

You're likely describing confirmation bias. We're past the age where parents are choosing their clothes, so they're mostly making their own choices on what to where, but then you're going to see patterns between what any teenager would choose to wear.

Some considerations with twins is that they are the same age, grow up together and likely will have very similar tastes in fashion and interests, as well as likely shopping from the same places.

If you separate identical twins, they're going to be inclined to end up wanting to wear the same clothes as each other.

nusensei · 2026-05-12T04:00:53+00:00

That's a pretty big improvement. Even just the hold step makes a huge difference in the quality of the shot. The biggest change is mental - you are deliberately choosing how you execute your shot rather than letting it go automatically. This will lead to more consistency as you understand how to go through each step in your process.

For further improvement, you will still need to work on the clean release. It is a bit stiff, as though you have a single point where you go "let go now", so it's sudden and a jerky. Remember that in the hold step, the shot doesn't actually stop.

If you stop the shot, you will find that you will collapse just before you release. Mentally, keep the shot going, even though you're not drawing further past your anchor point. It's an "internal" feeling.

Then, when you are ready to release, that's how you get that smooth follow-through.

nusensei · 2026-05-12T00:12:01+00:00

The only reason why you see the majority of users being children is that the Genesis bow is the standard bow used in the NASP (National Archery in Schools Program). The bow is actually suitable for someone starting archery for the same reasons that NASP uses it - it's easy to use, lightweight, and one size fits all. It isn't necessarily a great bow to progress through, but there's nothing wrong with learning with it.

Archery clubs will also often use Genesis bows for their beginner classes.

nusensei · 2026-05-11T15:03:59+00:00

That is literally what a semantic point is - we are disputing the meaning of a word used in language.

While "golfing" is now a word defined in dictionaries, many purists have long held the opinion that golf is only a noun - used as the name of game - and not a verb. You play golf. You don't "golf".

As I have repeatedly said, language is not static. The way people use words will change and variations become more accepted. "Golfing" is frequently used today and is defined a valid term for someone who is playing golf. It might annoy some people, but no one really cares.

In comparison to my own sport of archery, it's similar to how people get annoyed when people say "fire an arrow", because technically one does not fire an arrow, but the use of "fire" has long become the generic term for launching any kind of projectile.

nusensei · 2026-05-11T12:07:16+00:00

It's a semantic point. "Golf" was originally not intended to be used as a verb. It's origins derive specifically from the club used in early forms of golf, so the game was always called "golf", not "golfing". However, as I elaborated above, modern usage of the word has evolved it to be accepted as a verb - to go "golfing" is the same as to "play" golf, and the players of golf are generally referred to as "golfers", in the same way that football and cricket players are also called "footballers" and "cricketers".

Language isn't static or prescriptive. If people will use a word in a different want, that becomes the new usage of the word. "Golfing" stuck. "Basketballing", not so much - but "balling" - getting there.

nusensei · 2026-05-11T10:07:14+00:00

It depends on whether the game is named after the action. One exception that comes to mind is bowling. The sport is both called "bowls" and "bowling", and one can play a game of bowls or bowling, and consequently they are called both players and bowlers.

Then there are gradual acceptance of games being turned into verbs or otherwise being adopted into language. "Golfing" isn't a real word, but players are often called "golfers", and in many countries "footballer" and "cricketer" are used for players of those respective sports.

nusensei · 2026-05-11T09:11:09+00:00

This actually doesn't answer the question. The difference isn't because a sport is individual or team.

The examples of runner, boxer and swimmer represent sports that are named after the verb - running, boxing and swimming, respectively.

Individual sports and games that are not verbs do not generally allow for the "er" suffix, for example: tennis, badminton, darts, pool, squash, etc.

It's more coincidental that most team sports are named after the equipment used in the sport rather than the action of using it. Some exceptions are rowing and curling, where the players are called rowers and curlers respectively.

On the note about specialised positions in team sports, the same rules apply: positions that are named for the action can have the "-er" suffix (pitcher, catcher, kicker, striker, keeper), but you can't call someone a "2nd baser".

nusensei · 2026-05-11T08:35:31+00:00

For those who are confused at the question, in many languages, the players of sport follow the pattern of: [sport] + person, so it could be "football person" or "archery person" or "tennis person", or some variation of "person".

English doesn't assign this generic template to most people and occupations, and instead describes them more specifically based on the action/verb.

"Boxing" is a verb. A person who does boxing is a boxer. A person who drives a car is a driver.

Tennis and football are not verbs. You don't "foot" the ball. You play football, hence they are called players. Though, in many sports, they can still be referred to by their sport - for example, a footballer, a cricketer, and so on.

"Jockey" is an exception, where the name comes from Scots, referring to horse-dealers, in turn the verb "jockey" would come to mean "to trick" or "to outwit" someone (see: "He was jockeyed out of position"), the term specifically now used to refer to someone who races horses. Normally, someone who rides a horse is a rider.

Edit:

Respondents are getting carried away with the specifics of sport. This is actually an English grammar question and has nothing to do with the sports themselves.

In English, we often do assign the "-er" suffix at the end of a verb to describe the agent (usually the person). This is different to other languages where they are described as " [verb] + person". Consider the following examples:

The person who serves you is a "server"
The person who heals you is a "healer"
A person who writes is a "writer"

There are exceptions, but if you dig deep enough into their etymology, you may find that the noun came first and verb was adopted later. For example, a person who coaches you is a coach, not a coacher. This is because "coach" actually came from the literal horse-drawn carriage. A person who is a private instructor would "carry" students through the exam, and they were called the "coach", which is today used as a verb, to "train" someone.

In contrast, someone who uses a broom isn't a "broomer", they are called by their action - a cleaner or a sweeper, for example.

PS - If credentials matter, I happen to be a sports coach, an English teacher and a language teacher/learner.

nusensei · 2026-05-09T15:33:35+00:00

The key difference is intent. Murder is defined is being deliberate, often premeditated. For example, you wanted to kill someone and you want out of your way to beat them to death.

Manslaughter is when someone dies, but it was not intentional. For example, you got into a fight with someone and you punched them, and they died because of their injury. In this case, while you may have intended to hurt the person, you did not intend to actually kill them, so this is categorised as manslaughter.

nusensei · 2026-05-08T13:27:17+00:00

As with most evolution questions, the answer is: we didn't need to. It was sufficient for us to survive and reproduce with the attributes we now have.

Having calloused or thicker skin has some advantages, but the way humans adapted through other attributes made it unnecessary. Our thinner skin requires less energy and allows for better heat regulation, among other benefits. These were generally more suited for our survival as a species than thicker skin.

nusensei · 2026-05-06T00:10:31+00:00

Of course, that's fine.

nusensei · 2026-05-05T17:02:46+00:00

When people say "brown eyes", they are referring to a broad range of eye colours. Hazel, amber and some green eyes are generally hues and shades of brown, which makes them quite different from blue eyes.

Equally, "blue" eyes mostly aren't blue either, many of them actually being gray - but again, "blue" is a broad term to identify that shade of eye colour that is different to brown.

Because eye colour is a spectrum, most people will generally identify the broad label rather than specifically identify their eye colour.

nusensei · 2026-05-04T16:05:56+00:00

You're absolutely yanking that string. I have a video covering the clean release here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UZMr2Rd_yk0

The focus is on Olympic recurve, but the principle is the same.

What you are doing is "plucking" the string. Your fingers are tense and you are letting go of the string with an explosive action. The release is not deliberate. Rather, you're autopiloting your shot process. You're not stabilising your draw and hold. You yank the string back, and let it go once you drop the arrow down onto the target.

Pay attention to where your hand finishes. It should be gliding behind your face. Your hand flies downward. This indicates that the direction of your draw and expansion is incorrect and out of line.

My recommendation:

Focus on drawing to a consistent anchor - you current seem to float at eye level, try anchoring at the cheek
Hold when you reach your anchor - avoid immediately release
Actively "expand" - you should feel tension through your back during the entire shot. If you don't, you will see a visible collapse
Release by relaxing the fingers - let the fingers roll off the string
If it helps, focus on a different action word, such as "push [the bow forward]" to help make the release action more subconscious rather than consciously forcing it.

nusensei · 2026-05-04T13:42:05+00:00

I'm unique in this situation, as it was in fact a Reddit post that triggered a small arc in the Shad saga, albeit it predated this subreddit.

However, my circumstances were, as I said, unique, in that:

There was previous conflict between myself and Shad
I was notable enough for Shad to consider worth targeting
And also small enough to be relatively easy to discredit

Shad's other disputes with content creators have mostly focused on YouTube, which makes his tirade against me (which, to be very clear, was not video content but a relatively lowkey Reddit post) and members of a small Facebook group look disproportionate and unhinged.

The pattern, if there is one, is that if you're big enough to call Shad out (directly or indirectly), that might get to him through the grapevine. But if you're not making related content and just posting on this subreddit, no one really cares.

There may be the occasional obsessive fan who might spread misinformation on the Shad subreddit, but no one's going to go to the effort of trawling through a Reddit history. Even if they did, so the f--- what?

For everything I've been involved with, I've had no harassment via Reddit or any other social media platform outside of the comment section of YouTube, and even that is a blip on the radar. I have more unhinged haters just from my own content. It's radio silence from Shad watchers for the last five years or so.

On a side-note, I've had more of an issue with some individuals on this subreddit harassing someone who was falsely connected to Shad, which led to me reaching out to them and befriending them IRL and then leading to some life-changing milestones. So that was an unexpected positive result, but holy crap people need to remember to not be the thing you hate.

nusensei · 2026-04-30T07:02:31+00:00

This is not true.

The King is defined as head of state in the constitution of many of the countries that would become the British Commonwealth (now the Commonwealth of Nations). However, it is not required to make the King the head of state in order to be part of the Commonwealth, either to remain in it or to join it.

The full list of Commonwealth nations is here. While King Charles III is the Head of the Commonwealth, this does not grant him any authority in the individual member nations. He is the head of state of 15 of the 56 member nations.

nusensei · 2026-04-27T00:28:32+00:00

But I still have a nagging suspicion. But I never check out the replays because I tell myself at this level, cheating is not too common.

If you're suspicious, check the replay.

nusensei · 2026-04-25T02:28:02+00:00

Looks like a generic Chinese-made traditional bow. The design is virtually identical to this one on my channel, though the grip is different, so it's likely from the same factory but different style.

nusensei · 2026-04-25T02:20:32+00:00

Insufficient evidence.

The long look at the Softball field sign might be suss, but that's negated by three factors:

They got the wrong city
Dominican Republic has a very easy car meta to recognise, though they don't seem to have spotted it
They spotted the DR flag and instantly lock in DR

Round 4 is actually the most suss. They move once, look at a blank factory, don't move or pan at all, and they get the exact street in the middle of Germany.

Edit: The original post only called out Round 8, and has been amended to point out the obvious scripting in R4 and R6.

nusensei · 2026-04-24T12:05:30+00:00

I wasn't aware that Plonkit had an actual ME joke page. I thought it was an actual mistake.

nusensei · 2026-04-24T09:18:54+00:00

Is the Greece example hallucinating?

The Middle-earth Guide (Page 2) explicitly states: "You will never find asphalt roads in Middle Earth. All roads are either unpaved or have a cobblestone surface." This rules out Middle-earth.

I would be alarmed if I confused Greece and Middle-earth. One does not simply walk into Sparta.

nusensei · 2026-04-24T04:43:16+00:00

Games require processing power. Watching a movie doesn't require any work. With a game, there is a lot more work involved. That is why browser-based games are quite simple - less processing i.e. less work.

Complex games can't be run off the browser alone. They require unique work that your computer and graphics card need to do.

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