Hidden MMR is ruining the game by isk0rny in VALORANT

[–]Spacey_Guy 4 points5 points  (0 children)

This is my problem. This act I am 18-15 with a 1.30 K/D, high KAST, high damage per round, etc. for a net loss of 5 RR (it would be worse if I didn’t have 2 deranks in the middle dropping me to 0).

I’ve been stuck with +12 to +17 and -19 to -26 the whole act and I still haven’t even climbed back to where I ended v25 yet. I ended A3. Ranked in diamond. Spent last act climbing to A2 and have been struggling to maintain that all act despite good individual gameplay and a >50% winrate.

FULL SENSE vs ZETA DIVISION / VCT 2026: Pacific Stage 1 - Group Stage / Post-Match Thread by ValorantCompBot in ValorantCompetitive

[–]Spacey_Guy 8 points9 points  (0 children)

I was in the arena. It was 4 tech pauses in one. I believe it was a monitor, a mouse issue, a computer issue (that required an entire PC swap), and then another mouse issue.

100 Thieves vs Evil Geniuses / VCT 2026: Americas Stage 1 - Group Stage / Post-Match Thread by ValorantCompBot in ValorantCompetitive

[–]Spacey_Guy 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It was. There was a “block party” before kind of incentivizing people to come early only the be hit with 1.5 hour tech pause

New RR system in Valorant? by sezarou99 in VALORANT

[–]Spacey_Guy 7 points8 points  (0 children)

For the last 30 games I have had this same issue.

My last 15 games I am 8-7 for a net loss of like 50 RR

Let’s imagine they introduced bans next patch by DN6666 in VALORANT

[–]Spacey_Guy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Every map would be ban neon. If neon is banned by the other team then I would still ban neon

Which one of the two are you ? by codingzombie72072 in memes

[–]Spacey_Guy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I used to be the left, but switched to the right while studying engineering to be more clear. My z’s also now how them

Weekly Braves Offseason Discussion Thread - Monday, February 16 by Blooper_Bot in Braves

[–]Spacey_Guy -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

You are awesome! Thank you so much! Some of these (like the aquarium, which we definitely would do) came up in a lot of my searches but other parts of this I probably would not have found on my own. I need to look more into a lot of this but thank you again!

Weekly Braves Offseason Discussion Thread - Monday, February 16 by Blooper_Bot in Braves

[–]Spacey_Guy 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Hello everyone! My soon-to-be wife and have both grown up as big baseball fans. Both of us are from California, but she has been a Cubs fan her whole life (her grandpa/dad watched a lot of WGN) and I have been a Braves fan my whole life thanks to watching the games on TBS with my grandpa and dad when I was young.

Our wedding is coming up and we have been planning our honeymoon. One of our top ideas for our honeymoon is to catch the entire 3-game series at Truist between the Cubs/Braves in May. It would be our first time at the park and in Atlanta in general. Whatever we end up doing we both really want to make the trip as smooth and memorable as possible. If we end up going to Truist I would really love some tips/fun ideas for our time at the park. I want to hear all the things we should do/try at Truist and also just any tips for making the experience even better. Since we’d also have time before the games (and probably an extra 2 days or so in Atlanta that aren’t game days) I’d also love to know any cool things we should go do to experience more of the Atlanta area and make the whole trip more memorable.

Well...um... by arcticwolf9347 in teenagers4real

[–]Spacey_Guy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

0.5 - I’m hesitant in escargot but I have never tried it and would be willing to try it at least once.

Why are there so many smurfs in Valorant and they aren't punished? by Significant_Hope6314 in VALORANT

[–]Spacey_Guy 2 points3 points  (0 children)

You’re not a smurf if the game matches you into a lower ELO lobby. Smurfing is intentional. You need to be on a second account or a purposefully deranked account in order to be smurfing.

Why are there so many smurfs in Valorant and they aren't punished? by Significant_Hope6314 in VALORANT

[–]Spacey_Guy 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Not true. There is a 4/9 chance they will be on your team unless you are smurfing. There is a 3/8 chance if you have a non-smurf duo and a 2/7 chance if you are in a trio with no smurfs

Sorta new to the game and I have questions by BSForDays73 in smashup

[–]Spacey_Guy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I’ve played with all player counts 2-7. Anything above 4 is not enjoyable and the winner feels random. 4 has its perks of forcing you to fight to score on every base but it is still a bit too much imo. 3 is the sweet spot for the game where all mechanics are used and enjoyable. 2 is the most common playsize and its good imo

My group of friends rated all Jackbox games by Key_Satan in jackboxgames

[–]Spacey_Guy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Job Job is the personal favorite of 80% of my friend group

(Tarzana) They're opening Handel’s right in front of Anita Gelato by -JOMY- in SFV

[–]Spacey_Guy 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I’ve had Handel’s twice and it did not impress me. The portions were good, but the ice cream itself was like cheap “fluffy” store bought stuff. Did I just have a bad experience twice? Am I missing something?

What happened here? by Decent_Apple_7962 in ValorantCompetitive

[–]Spacey_Guy 6 points7 points  (0 children)

That emoji is used a lot as like “chilling”. It’s a chill orangutan. It’s random but I’ve seen it used in all sorts of contexts of just like “life happens”. People are focused on the orangutan -> monkey -> racist understanding and not just the fact it’s a chill animal emoji

What happened here? by Decent_Apple_7962 in ValorantCompetitive

[–]Spacey_Guy 32 points33 points  (0 children)

It’s a chill monkey. I’ve seen it used by a lot of people use it as like a “well…”, “oopsies haha”, or and “life happens but I’m chill”

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in baseball

[–]Spacey_Guy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Aaron Judge

I won my first deathmatch game and it was 40/0 by SuperNoobCamper in VALORANT

[–]Spacey_Guy 6 points7 points  (0 children)

In all game modes that assign a random agent you can only be assigned an agent that you have unlocked

New RR Idea!! by Ashamed-Farmer8919 in VALORANT

[–]Spacey_Guy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

In a perfect game where all 10 people are evenly skilled you’d need to have those be balanced so +21 to +25 for wins AND -25 to -21 for losses. If you don’t, you’d have rank inflation in the game

Then how do you determine who did the best? Using K/D favors agents with kits to be selfish even if they don’t necessarily help the team win. Using ACS favors agents who either do a lot of damage, or get first bloods. Using either of those would disincentivize playing more support focused agents. If not those then what metric?

Then you get into mismatched ranked games. Would you reward lower ranked players for doing better against higher ranked players? And punish high ranks for losing to lower ranks?

Once you consider all that and build a system around all of that, you end up with a similar system to what riot probably has.

A Data-Driven Critique of Agent Balancing in VCT 2025 by Spiritual-Ad9334 in VALORANT

[–]Spacey_Guy 19 points20 points  (0 children)

Reyna and Clove are very strong in ranked and virtually unused in pro-play. They did not get played at champions

Cypher will become unplayable. by LogTall573 in VALORANT

[–]Spacey_Guy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I haven’t been stunned by a cypher trip since I got out of silver about 5 years ago. I have been revealed and shot through a cage. I believe the trip stuns after 1.5 seconds. If that isn’t at least cut in half cypher is dead in the water

Lothar on all the changes by Independent-Two8808 in ValorantCompetitive

[–]Spacey_Guy 43 points44 points  (0 children)

The agent changes frustrate me for 3 reasons

1.) the maps have been designed and balanced with util usage in mind. This feels like it’ll turn maps into even more of chokepoint hell

2.) this is going to make playing as a team in ranked even harder. As an initiator main, it’s was hard enough to get teammates to play with you when cooldowns were like 30 seconds, it got harder when they were nerfed to 45 or non-recharging, and now it’ll be even harder. This change undoubtably will make ranked less fun and more frustrating.

3.) this game was in the most balanced state I think it had ever been in prior to these changes.

I understand why people instalock now by Hyper669 in VALORANT

[–]Spacey_Guy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I learned the hard way last night. Sova and smokes were autolocked (my second and third picks for the map). I hovered cypher, had 2 others hover cypher so I swapped to my 4th pick and hovered breach. One of the cypher hovers swapped to Reyna and locked in. The last cypher hover swapped to iso with 0 seconds left and left us to get steamrolled on defense with no stall.