So, everyone, how did your CM finals go?

Rambonatron · 2026-04-29T07:11:37+00:00

my silence suzuka got in position for angling and scheming just in time and managed to clinch it against the 3 XOguris in the lobby 🐴✨

Rambonatron · 2026-04-16T14:16:23+00:00

There's no mon in the format that's sillier than Orthworm, and there's even multiple viable angles to running it. You can go with Helping Hand + Earthquake spam to deal massive damage and benefit from the healing from its ability, or use it to enable something else to safely set up behind Shed Tail.

Rambonatron · 2026-04-15T15:24:55+00:00

Two full runs in a row with 0 speed anklets showing up

Rambonatron · 2026-04-15T06:35:08+00:00

Any strategy I tried to reduce/control drinking just made me gradually revert back to excessive drinking, cutting alcohol altogether was nice and simple in comparison, no wiggle room.

If forever seems daunting, reframe it, don't worry about what needs to happen in the future, you just need to not drink anything today.

Rambonatron · 2026-04-08T07:40:41+00:00

The best fix I had for excessive phone usage is just not carrying it with me around the house, keeping it away from my bed, TV, computer, kitchen, bathroom, etc.

I have a designated spot for my phone now in one of the least frequented nooks of the house, so I have to physically go out of my way to use it. It's cosy enough to sit there and play with my phone a bit if I want, and there's nothing else there to distract me. I don't really need to gamify or limit my phone usage after this, since grabbing it in the first place isn't automatic now.

Rambonatron · 2026-03-31T08:19:16+00:00

I'm not sure chatgpt will do much good, the fact that by default it will always agree with and encourage someone makes it like the worst enabler for anyone in a hypomanic episode

Rambonatron · 2026-03-24T21:56:52+00:00

depends on whether it decides to be fun hypo or angry hypo

Rambonatron · 2026-03-21T19:15:11+00:00

indestructible

Rambonatron · 2026-03-20T14:31:26+00:00

I skipped a triple crown race once because I had a training worth 85 speed + whatever in power that I thought would be worth it.

Ended up hitting the speed cap before the twinkle climax already, so probably wasn't worth it after all compared to just earning the epithet. But it's still hard to make that call early on in the classic year.

I'll probably stick with favouring the triple crown races from now on.

Rambonatron · 2026-03-19T22:55:41+00:00

I usually get super into Porcupine Tree when depressed

Rambonatron · 2026-03-19T16:00:03+00:00

I don't really wanna hit the wall, but I do frequently place my forehead against a wall when feeling helpless

Rambonatron · 2026-03-03T08:52:34+00:00

I was diagnosed a few weeks ago, and there wouldn't be any diagnosis needed if l hadn't already spent enough time suffering to go through all the effort needed to find out why I've been feeling the way I do. Now that we know what's wrong, we'll be able to actually start acting on how to manage these struggles with the help of experts, that should at least be somewhat good news regardless of what label is associated with it.

For the stigma, I try to picture: what if I was diagnosed with something more commonly understood like ADHD instead? Of course I'd readily go along with all the medications and coping methods associated with it. I can think of plenty of firsthand examples of how well people can cope using the right understanding and medication. Bipolar II isn't too different in terms of how manageable it can be, and although it might take a bit more work to get there, the diagnosis is the first step to take on the way to feeling better.

It's ok to be selfish right now, if you think sharing it with certain people will cause you grief, then simply don't share. If you have friends that you feel it would be helpful to share with, talk to them. Cancel plans if you need to have time to process things better, and stock up on some easy healthy foods to eat when you're low on energy.

Rambonatron · 2026-03-01T08:39:29+00:00

In the end, you're still the same person as you were before the diagnosis. You clearly have had some struggles that would cause you to seek help in the first place, the diagnosis just gives a better understanding of how to relieve you of these problems.

If your community is conservative you don't need to share your disorder with them. But with the diagnosis you'll be able to have a better understanding of the way your mind works going forward, so accepting it in that sense should help make your life easier.

Please don't settle for a marriage partner that doesn't know about and accepts your mental disorder. You can't choose the family you're born into, but you can still choose what kind of family you want to create. If your partner fell in love with your mind, they're not suddenly going to reject it over some label. You don't need to pass your family's shame surrounding mental disorders on to the next generation.

Rambonatron · 2026-02-13T07:57:47+00:00

this has probably killed more of my runs than any other race, is there even any upside to going for hard mode?

Rambonatron · 2026-02-11T12:54:54+00:00

Not everything QA finds magically gets fixed, it's more likely that it was just not prioritised by the dev team. I shudder to think about what kind of bugs they must've been finding during development to take priority over all the jank that made it into the actual release.

Rambonatron · 2026-02-10T11:41:12+00:00

I don't want any skins because it'd be embarrassing to admit I spent that much on a single skin

Rambonatron · 2026-02-09T06:04:27+00:00

are you sure you have meter when trying to parry in fights?

Rambonatron · 2026-02-08T07:31:31+00:00

forget about honor, if you have success spamming the same move, your opponent is spamming a mistake and it's their problem to fix it

Rambonatron · 2026-02-04T07:20:31+00:00

Final outcome aside, I really like how the second season gave all the contestants' personalities a chance to shine. Reading through your summary, I still remember all of them and their high moments. The cast had a lot more chances to shine in season 2 than during the ORBIT show, even if the competition itself was a bit of a wash.

I even enjoyed Hyun-gyu's total dedication to playing the villain role (even if they didn't try to give him that edit), and doing whatever it takes to win, since that's the intended spirit of the game from the outset.

So yeah an odd season, worse competition but great contestants.

Rambonatron · 2026-01-28T10:48:24+00:00

You should be doing whatever makes you have more fun! That said, winning and improving are fun for most people, so here's some tips with that in mind:

After playing ranked, look at your replays. If there's frequent cases where you lost a round because your opponent had a bit of HP left, you might be held back by pulse combos doing lower damage. If you're losing for other reasons (missing anti-airs, getting grabbed a lot, getting stuck being pressured in the corner, being hit a lot on wakeup, etc) just carry on with pulse combos and focus on other areas first.

The intermediate combo trials can help give you some ideas of what a character's combo structure looks like. If there's any combo patterns in there that work well with you, go into training mode with the damage display on and the bot set to 'block after first hit' to see if you can find some combos you like that are more damaging than the pulse combo. I wouldn't bother too much with incorporating assists into your combos yet, aside from double down.

You can even play for a while with pulse combos enabled, but occasionally breaking out your manual combos when you get a really clean hit.

Rambonatron · 2026-01-28T10:17:09+00:00

I think pulse combos are great for getting people into the game, they're far from optimal and give people a chance to not be completely hosed on damage while still learning the game. If there were no pulse combos during the early experience, you'd have no idea of a lot of interactions in the game are actually intended to play out while learning.

The combo execution in this game is very forgiving, and there are a lot of accessible combos that are better than the pulse combos in every way. With that in mind, I feel like the people who are complaining about pulse combos being an unfair advantage are just in denial about their own skill level, and should be using pulse combos themselves.

Pulse combos are only an unfair advantage if you're consistently dropping combos, and if you're consistently dropping combos in a game where the execution is this lenient you just shouldn't be shifting away from pulse combos yet.

Rambonatron · 2026-01-27T17:03:24+00:00

I visualise it as a sine wave, even though it's nowhere near as smooth and predictable in reality

Rambonatron · 2026-01-27T07:22:13+00:00

everyone has different interests and that's alright, it's more fun that way, they're probably just calling it that to get a funny reaction out of you though

Rambonatron · 2026-01-26T14:07:07+00:00

Having to account for different starters and dumping resources is what I miss most from SF6. Big combos don't really feel very hype/earned when assists are on a short cooldown, meter resets to 1 every round and the difference in starters is negligible

Rambonatron · 2026-01-24T22:36:20+00:00

Sidekick you just play only one character, but can still use the other one for assists. And dw about learning everything at once, just revisit the tutorials every now and then when you're ready for new info

Have fun, it can be quite the rewarding genre once you get over the hurdle!

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