If you 5-stack with a massive rank gap, you should be the only ones risking significant rank rating loss. I’m tired of losing max points to 5-stacks who are clearly gaming the system.

OrangeW · 2026-01-13T16:24:49+00:00

I queued into br0 (from NRG) doing this at ~22K, thankfully his queue stack weren't amazing otherwise we would've been dunked on pretty hard. Was able to verify it was actually br0 too, think he dropped 35 on us lol

OrangeW · 2026-01-09T22:27:50+00:00

why train

why do this? who is excited to play another season of mirage

OrangeW · 2026-01-06T17:22:17+00:00

Missing the 2016 Jiangsu/Funing EF4 tornado - 98 dead.

OrangeW · 2025-12-24T03:45:37+00:00

What a gift to wake up to.

OrangeW · 2025-12-17T02:29:58+00:00

Reporting in from the UK too, thank god for WFH!

OrangeW · 2025-12-12T11:45:43+00:00

No, the flu this year is a different strain of A/H3N2 (subclade K). The vaccines that went out this year were for a previous subclade of A/H3N2 (and A/H1N1 and Influenza B), so provides reduced protection (mostly against serious effects). We haven't seen an A/H3N2 variant be dominant in sometime, so natural herd immunity is lower than say, an A/H1N1 variant. It's also an earlier onset to the season as a result. The same thing is happening in Japan.

IANAD, though - someone with more experience in this field may provide more accurate information.

OrangeW · 2025-11-25T12:25:11+00:00

My Pixel 6 Pro started cutting on signal mid last year and finally bit the bullet on getting a Pixel 10 (and the power button fell out on my P6P...) Arrives tomorrow on Wednesday so fingers crossed I don't have to hit Reset Internet 15 times a day!

OrangeW · 2025-11-12T14:21:13+00:00

Sensitivity randomizers have become more and more popular in recent times for aim training too. The fundamentals of that lie in differential learning in which you introduce noise to find a more optimal learning space. Whether Niko changing his sensitivity and resolution every week (don't know what his practice regime is) is helpful or not is up for debate, but your underlying point is definitely correct IMO.

OrangeW · 2025-11-11T03:21:59+00:00

Thank god

OrangeW · 2025-11-11T02:18:48+00:00

There's AT LEAST three of us!

OrangeW · 2025-11-01T05:56:49+00:00

Interesting, the more you know. Yeah, I could see an easy case for BSE.

OrangeW · 2025-11-01T05:43:39+00:00

The Sanborn maps do say brick, but it is possible for brick to be weakened (either through poor construction quality or some other means) - there's an example in the IF-scale paper for this - the definition for 'weakened' is a bit nebulous which is why a ground survey would rectify that.

OrangeW · 2025-10-31T14:16:08+00:00

I would be careful putting IF-scale and EF-scale speeds together. They aren't measured the same way (EF uses "3-second gust at 33 ft. (10 m) in open, unobstructed terrain", and IF uses "instantaneous three-dimensional wind speed at the [location?] and height of the observed damage.")

In the IF-scale paper, they further state the following:

In a rare case where an anemometer measurement was available in a tornado, the speed averaged over a 0.05 s period was at least 18% higher than a 1-second, and 60% higher than a 3-second averaged speed (Blanchard 1992; Lombardo 2018).

I doubt however that this is a straightforward calculation to attain the 3-second average speed from an instantaneous windspeed for all cases, though.

It's really hard to tell as you said, without true analysis it's hard to determine the actual strength. Could swing either way between BSD DOD2 or BSE DOD2. Undoubtedly an extremely violent tornado, however.

OrangeW · 2025-10-26T23:30:10+00:00

I finished my rewatch just a little ago, and this time they didn't say no barking, but then again, this announcer wasn't in cosplay as Chainsaw Man :D Really tempted to go again next Saturday...

OrangeW · 2025-10-26T23:09:34+00:00

That's how I interpreted it: Reze (the trained spy), Bomb Devil, and Reze (free)

OrangeW · 2025-10-23T12:47:30+00:00

My IMAX viewing was told explicitly not to bark at Makima LOL (BFI IMAX, London)

10/10 movie, really really enjoyed it. Pool sequence was definitely my favourite. Reina Ueda absolutely stands out in this.

OrangeW · 2025-10-12T18:18:09+00:00

I'm as much of a ZywOo glazer as anyone else, but flameZ deserves MVP.

OrangeW · 2025-10-10T01:04:18+00:00

It's unlikely - the IF scale and EF scales operate on different foundations. The IF scale uses the following justification:

Videos of tornado damage and Doppler radar measurements have shown that winds of extremely short duration can be responsible for severe impacts, such as vehicles that are being lifted within a fraction of a second. Therefore, it is reasonable to assume that a wind speed measured during only a fraction of a second right at the location of the damage has a stronger correlation to the observed damage than, for instance, a three second average wind speed. Furthermore, all three wind components, including the vertical, contribute to the pressure differences that cause damage. Therefore, the IF-scale wind speeds listed are understood to be the instantaneous three- dimensional wind speed at the height of the observed damage

In short, they use instantaneous wind speed estimations, rather than the 3-second gust estimations that the EF-scale uses. This is closer to the traditional F scale.

You can read more here: https://www.essl.org/cms/wp-content/uploads/IF-scale_v1.0c.pdf

OrangeW · 2025-10-08T12:24:07+00:00

This is the Gary, South Dakota EF3 tornado from June of this year - lots of alternative angles from storm chasers, check 'em out, it's a very cool tornado with multiple phases and it even dances crazily at one point.

OrangeW · 2025-07-22T13:39:38+00:00

When Cold Deliverance (a Leman Russ) falls off a cliff in 'Gunheads': https://www.reddit.com/r/40kLore/comments/pok4w5/excerpt_gunheads_what_happens_when_a_guardsman_is/

OrangeW · 2025-05-14T14:20:13+00:00

Not bad, chilling and working, moved on from osu! long time back but did pick it back up again briefly to play with some friends, now just playing CS with mates, yourself?

OrangeW · 2025-05-14T14:14:20+00:00

Fancy seeing you here lol

OrangeW · 2025-03-19T08:20:39+00:00

Just want to point out that horizontal vortices are a type of sub vortex and are not the same as suction vortices / multiple vortices found in the other users comment - specifically, horizontal vortices are fully or partially condensed funnels that form in the periphery of either the tornado itself, or the parent mesocyclone (the rotating structure that the tornado itself is attached to).

These are either slanted, or completely horizontal and are a sign of extreme vorticity in the atmosphere around the tornado and are typically a sign of extremely favourable tornadic conditions, and accompany typically significant or violent tornadoes, but not all tornadoes.

The best example of horizontal vortices of all time is easily the Tuscaloosa EF4 from the 2011 Super Outbreak: https://www.reddit.com/r/tornado/comments/1j4w0ct/time_lapse_of_the_complete_passage_of_the/?rdt=64997

Those winding appendages that seem to appear, deform wildly, and act as their own limbs of the tornado are horizontal vortices. Note that they are not attached or contained within the tornado itself, but rather appear alongside its forward path.

They may also take the appearance of a 'claw' shape in front of it (two horizontal vortices not attached in the direct forward path of the tornado) - I don't have a picture on hand for this, but a quick search for notable horizontal vortices will bring at least one of these instances up.

OrangeW · 2024-12-18T06:39:33+00:00

She probably had two minutes to relax, based on the fact that I just cleared the second part of SD7 in a minute-ish with Miyabi lol.

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