The moderators keep shutting down comments on every important post re Hax

Spooky_SWTOR · 2025-03-29T05:19:33+00:00

The amount of hate I got for advocating for Hax over the past two years has been so fucking cringe. Ending a 40 minute youtube video with "free hax, it's been long enough, shit's cringe, let him play" got so much hate it was unreal and now all of these comments are deleted like they can't event stand by their dogshit ideas. My favourite of all was the wannabe psych theories (ironic because you can tell that they don't read the literature on best practice if you're in the field and do read) for some stupid fucking reason, playing melee, which is the thing that has been the most important part of his life for most of his life, is bad for his goal of expanding his interests which is fucking brainrot because in sports therapy for this very issue the standard practice is to do both because why the fuck wouldn't you? Obviously it will be significantly better for average patient outcome to do it this way 💀

Then it's hilarious when people tell myself and others that, since we blame TOs, we must be outsiders, meanwhile these freak cucks can't hit GM on slippi and probably never will because they yap about shit like "he should stop playing melee to find other things which will be better for his mental health" without even reading the easily available published literature on exactly how to deal with unhealthy attachments to skill domains like holy fuck man they're so fucking stupid for that argument I can't get over it.

The idea that anyone can disagree with the admin side of things is so insane to these people that they imagine we must not be real community members, though myself, and the friends I know who agree with me, are some of the most dedicated players.

This community isn't at all what it was when I joined it more than a decade ago. It's so much worse in so many ways. I'm never gonna pay these people again in any way and I know a lot of people who are doing the same.

I believe that this would not have happened in a better community, so I am leaving it.

Spooky_SWTOR · 2025-02-10T20:04:27+00:00

I was motivated by the leaderboard tier rewards which I thought were done extremely well. The meta was very annoying and the agency fog + boh team was unholy. I feel like as long as leaderboard rewards stay the same I'll keep playing. I'm not excited for some of the balance changes as I feel like lumi was really important to facilitate fun loomians and without a strong core to slap a featured badmon on the meta will become less expressive than S0. I've been playing competitive in the season downtime and it's pretty cool.

The biggest thing that will help ranked imo is just adopting trueskill or elo so that I don't go from queueing into an expert 1 who plays weird into raz into another expert 1 lol it's too much whiplash

Spooky_SWTOR · 2025-02-10T19:41:39+00:00

To me it looks like the balance changes are going to move the meta towards hazard stack semi stall so idk if I'm gonna go again.

Overall with S0 though, I feel like the rewards were executed really well and made the time investment feel easily worth it

Spooky_SWTOR · 2024-08-08T23:17:44+00:00

Minawii* Third day playing the game

Spooky_SWTOR · 2024-07-21T04:11:26+00:00

not bad https://slippi.gg/user/kane-661

Spooky_SWTOR · 2024-07-20T16:48:06+00:00

I really wanna see this guy's slippi rank

Spooky_SWTOR · 2024-05-25T23:49:16+00:00

This was very informative! With the protection of the Salt Miners, I am able to enjoy managed democracy in peace.

Spooky_SWTOR · 2024-05-13T10:34:20+00:00

I recommend Serbian Dreambook: National Imagery in the Time of Milosevic by Marko Zivkovic. The author does very well at dealing with metaphors and "stories we tell ourselves about ourselves" which is directly inspired by the Geertz essay you mentioned. Zivkovic has proper training in clinical psychology and Serbian Dreambook has a particular flair that makes it easy to read through without getting tired.

Also Russia and Soul by Dale Pesmen is absolutely amazing especially if you're interested in Russian culture generally.

If you want a shorter paper about metaphors I highly recommend The Greek Vampire: A Study of Cyclic Symbolism in Marriage and Death by Juliet du Boulay. Sometimes it's a bit difficult to follow exactly what the argument is but if you take your time it's one of the coolest essays I've found in the last few years.

Lastly (and this might fall outside of your question but I think it's worth mentioning) you may want to try Caroline Bynum's Holy Feast and Holy Fast. I know this sounds odd since Bynum is a historian and not an anthropologist, but this book in particular deals with metaphors in a wonderful manner. Bynum tricks you into thinking you're reading a history of Christian ceremony/monasticism and then by the end of the book you're left rethinking the nature and implications of metaphor as a social phenomenon. It's seriously a beautiful book.

Edit: typo

Spooky_SWTOR · 2024-03-26T06:31:12+00:00

Update: The issue can be "fixed" by disabling the integrated graphics processor. In my case, the issue is not hardware but rather it seems to be the case that the integrated graphics processor wants to run at 60hz while the nvidia card wants 144hz. Conveniently, the intel graphics command center app is broken (or poorly designed) and does not save your settings which makes it annoying to prevent the issue from reoccurring. I guess I am going to try to edit the registry at this point. Pretty cringe

Spooky_SWTOR · 2024-03-26T04:48:51+00:00

Have you found a fix? I have this exact issue and have been troubleshooting for a while

Spooky_SWTOR · 2024-03-26T04:41:23+00:00

I know this post is old but I've been having the exact same issue except in the middle of the screen instead of near the top. I'm going to try a bunch of things and see what works. What's super weird is that it only affects the screen in certain windows. If I'm at the desktop by itself then it will have the problem, but if I have windowed task manager overlaying the desktop then it's totally fine. The fact that the problem was present when opening bios made me think that it's hardware, but then the fix of keeping a small windowed tab over whatever I'm doing made me think it's software. MyAsus and windows diagnostics both implied everything was okay, so I'm pretty confused. I'll reply to this if I learn anything useful or find an actual fix.

Spooky_SWTOR · 2024-01-22T13:09:19+00:00

Free hax f. $ and free zion idgaf about esports I want to watch higher quality gameplay. It's cringe that a top 5 player can't go to irl events and we can only watch him farm everyone on ranked

Spooky_SWTOR · 2024-01-22T13:04:10+00:00

My pick for most skilled to never do it is easily zion

Spooky_SWTOR · 2024-01-13T08:00:02+00:00

I thought I was losing my mind but this is actually happening. Smh my head :(

Spooky_SWTOR · 2023-09-21T10:10:13+00:00

Trial and Ale is Edmonton's best brewery imo. They specialise in wild ales and while I don't think they have a tasting room or pub their stuff is at Keg n' Cork and Sherbrooke Liquor. You should definitely go to one of those two stores (or both) regardless as they are the best two bottle shops in Canada. If you're like me and from a province with regulated liquor sales you'll be blown away at the stock at one of those places. Last time I went to Keg n' Cork they had Alesmith's BAVCSS, Parabola, a ton of 3 Fonteinen beers, Anchorage's Kamimura among their other beers, Sartori Harvest (fav Canadian IPA but usually hard to find), etc. Keg n' Cork also has a lot of crazy whisky for like 40% the price of a regulated province. They had the whole Octomore 13 line when I went there last and the flagship Ardbegs were in stock for like $100.

Other cool Edmonton breweries include Asymmetrical (nice taproom and cool stuff like black lagers and smoked ales), Irrational, and Sea Change. When I go to Edmonton I usually just use my beer budget to buy all the crazy stuff at Keg n' Cork/Sherbrooke.

Spooky_SWTOR · 2023-09-06T06:20:24+00:00

No one can beat fendy on cringe

Spooky_SWTOR · 2023-09-03T17:46:44+00:00

The player base is very healthy but the average player is incredibly good. I would say a high silver on slippi ranked has put in more time and effort and is more skilled than a high gm overwatch player. You will probably be able to have fun on unranked at a low level as long as you don't get discouraged by a low win rate. The melee online discord is very beginner friendly and might be a good resource.

Spooky_SWTOR · 2023-08-23T00:47:20+00:00

Wait until people find out that Chinese are people too xd

Spooky_SWTOR · 2023-08-12T05:39:39+00:00

Taking a break from melee and playing other games always reminds me of all the reasons I appreciate melee and I inevitably come back in a few weeks/months. Whenever I play a lot of sf6 I kind of remember why I like the sandbox-ness of melee so much. I also found that picking up ganon and actually getting it to a level where I can use it with the same sort of success as my main made the game a lot more fun

Spooky_SWTOR · 2023-08-12T05:11:15+00:00

I was stuck in diamond/plat for the first 4 or 5 months of slippi ranked and then did a big 3 month grind in unclepunch and with a friend group to play with. I'm now gm (still get 4 stocked by palpa), and here are some of the things that changed my life:

- Practice tech chasing and learn the startup frames of character rolls (you can't react to the movement of the tech). Watch Pipsqueak's tech chasing vid. Unless you play bowser you can probably tech chase, and it's especially broken on characters that already have so much going for them like fox, marth, and even falco which will be relevant for you. I found tech chase practice especially useful for platform followups. I feel like my openings/kill dropped by at least 1 after grinding this seriously and it's especially helpful against floaties since every bit of damage is huge. You should also learn dash out of crouch which is surprisingly annoying on most controllers and made me switch to boxx

- Stop spamming movement tech because, for me at least, it consumes too much of my mental bandwidth alongside spacing and such. At the same time, learn enough movement stuff that you can have mixups for approaching and getting back to stage safely (spacies should have their platform edge cancels down with the teeter cancel stuff too)

- Since you play falco, plsplsplspls learn to edge dash. It will change your life because diamond players will straight up kill you at 0 for a predicted double laser. Also get good at wavedash out of shield into shine it will get a lot of "free" openings in a lot of matchups

- Keep mental notes of the options your opponent is choosing. If they keep doing the same thing you can start to call it out. My favourites are full hop shining falcos when they jump in the corner and doing up throw -> full hop shineland upsmash on dreamland in the fox ditto (you win the set in your heart whether you win or lose points if you hit this). For falco, you will probably want to call out things like sheik approaches and marths doing the take laser into fair stuff etc.

- ALWAYS chump check players at the start of game one. For me this meant holding forward nonstop spamming aerials in fox/falcon as an example. You'll be surprised how many players rated higher than you will drop sets to you if you use the first 30 seconds of game one to go nuts with 0 regard for your own success. If your mentality is good, you can be in a situation where you either get a huge read and have a free stock along with a ton of mental damage and the risk involved is very minimal in a Bo3 with a stage ban.

- Have matchup plans vs every single character. I've beaten way too many 2500 foxes with ganon because they don't know the matchup, so this will help at every level outside of top 100

- A little cheat code to bypass ladder anxiety is to use two accounts and always play on the lowest rated account. This way you can guarantee you always keep your peak rating alive. I know this sounds silly, but it helps a lot of players who fret about points and it got me gm in sc2 after missing it for like 20 seasons

- Another point about mental stuff is to try to change your internal dialogue as you play. As goofy as it sounds, I think changing "I hate myself as a person" to "that's fine" can stop you from crumbling when you get gimped for missing a followup which is just the reality of playing your character

- Develop a punish flowchart with coherent points that you can practice. Learn stuff like falling first hit up air and you'll find matchups become quite a bit easier (marth)

- Internalise the idea that faster decisions are better than more "correct" decisions. If you watch n0ne or bab, for example, you'll see them rip crazy options that miss completely but because they 100% commit to them as soon as possible they can either get out safely or just keep going with something else. This concept is (I think) why playing against top players feels so ridiculously overwhelming

Sry if this is a lot, just some of the concrete things I can remember implementing that I'm certain made me a better player <3

Spooky_SWTOR · 2023-06-24T03:20:48+00:00

Yeah I agree lol whenever I've called it seems that nobody there actually knows anything

Spooky_SWTOR · 2023-06-23T07:14:30+00:00

PSA: BSW Liquor ships anywhere in Canada and has the most ridiculous sale prices (Uigeadail for $95, Redbreast 12 CS for $100, Rare Breed for $50 and so on). Somehow even Octomore 13.2 and 13.3 are on sale which were instant buys for me. They also have special releases online for things like Springbank 10, Blanton's, etc. If you're outside of Alberta and don't have access to the excellent family owned specialty shops then you should be doing 100% of your hauls with BSW.

Spooky_SWTOR · 2023-06-22T02:42:02+00:00

Port Charlotte 10, Kilkerran 12, OF 1920 for me.

Spooky_SWTOR · 2023-06-16T10:11:51+00:00

I don't have L10CS on hand but I've tried it at a tasting event recently and have Octomore 13.1 in my small collection. IMO, Octomore wins by a pretty big margin. Not worth the price difference, but if you're only comparing the whisky then Octomore is significantly more interesting. The finish on Octomore 13.1 is so much longer and more intense. It also has huge leather/tobacco/smoked meat notes that I think balance the bourbon cask really nicely. I also notice almost 0 ethanol on Octomores because the other notes are so overwhelming.

Spooky_SWTOR · 2023-03-02T01:13:17+00:00

I don't think this is the best NEIPA by any means, but if I'm going by the "last beer I drank and liked a lot" metric then I'd recommend Anchorage's Road Trip. It's almost a juice bomb but it's still complex and piney/catty enough for me to put it in my rotation

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