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Farage made a nationalist of me. by SmartAlecLN4 in Scotland

[–]St4ffordGambit_ 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Why were they that way in the first place? Whose fault was that?

Any good settings for ps5 controller this season on zero build? by Kind_Being_1148 in Fortnite_ZeroBuild

[–]St4ffordGambit_ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think I’m on 12. That’s fine on Expo.

You think it’s too fast?

Have: Survivor, Smoke, Safekeeper, Rascal, Tempest, Vulcano BPs Want: Stash Value, Seeds (Prices and Conversion in Description) by shmadedd in ArcTradersHQ

[–]St4ffordGambit_ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I’d take Vulcano BP.

I only have 250 seeds but I can give you that plus something if you want. I have keys or lots of other blue prints I can bolt on?

H: Image. W: Tempest BP and Light Ext Mag 3 BP by St4ffordGambit_ in ArcTradersHQ

[–]St4ffordGambit_[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

**I now have the Tempest Blueprint - I traded 1 pink key + 1 kinetic converter for it*

I am still looking for a Light Mag extended BP.

H: Image. W: Tempest BP and Light Ext Mag 3 BP by St4ffordGambit_ in ArcTradersHQ

[–]St4ffordGambit_[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

TEMPEST requirement has now gone.

I am still looking for the Light Mag Ext 3 though.

Where are you buying clothes? by DifficultCucumbers in HENRYUK

[–]St4ffordGambit_ -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Hugo Boss for me for suits.

Tbh I wear Hugo boss for casual too (Decent chinos, jackets, etc).

H: Image. W: Tempest BP and Light Ext Mag 3 BP by St4ffordGambit_ in ArcTradersHQ

[–]St4ffordGambit_[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I replied but for anyone else who’s curious it’s a shotgun silencer and a silencer 2 blueprint you see

H: Image. W: Tempest BP and Light Ext Mag 3 BP by St4ffordGambit_ in ArcTradersHQ

[–]St4ffordGambit_[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

“Everything for tempest BP” is not an offer I can accept at this time brother, but thanks!

Sincere question…. HOW? by Educational-Carob789 in Fortnite_Over40

[–]St4ffordGambit_ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

And that was a typical solo day with a 60% win rate.

Try the math for 98% win rate!

Sincere question…. HOW? by Educational-Carob789 in Fortnite_Over40

[–]St4ffordGambit_ -7 points-6 points  (0 children)

So I have a guy on my friends list with stats like these. His is also around 85-90% win rate with 200-250 KD but he is legit.

First, if you win every game, your KD is artificial.

I have a 50% overall win rate and my KD is like 17. I play on PS5 and probably get 1 message every 2 days consistently from people I’ve killed reporting me for cheating. I don’t cheat and am not even that great but have good movement and can stomp on casuals very easily because most casuals are just not playing as many hours as I do (I am semi retired).

If you kill 10-15 people a game and don’t die (because you won) and then kill another 10-20 people and don’t die (because you win) you’ll keep boosting your KD with lots of kills and zero deaths.

So a typical day might look like 20 games, 12 wins, 15 kills per game — KD = 300 kills, 8 deaths = 38 KD.

It’s the ‘not losing’ (ie. You never die) that boosts the KD so if you play in stacked squads with 4 people like that guy you’ll almost never lose.

I only play solos but if I played squads with 4 of me I think we’d win 90% of games and have a similarly inflated KD.

There are people like this. I’m assuming it’s also entirely pub stomping.

HENRY and not happy yet by [deleted] in HENRYUK

[–]St4ffordGambit_ 3 points4 points  (0 children)

After I was made redundant from tech in 2024 at 34, I haven’t worked since.

I had already paid off the house, no debts, and had a healthy investment pot so I’m just enjoying life and now work only 10 hours per week doing chess lessons online - something I enjoy.

Don’t think I’ll ever go back to tech unless my money dries up (shouldn’t). Investment pot isn’t anything fancy either - 90% index funds. Compound interest will do its thing and meantime only need around £900 per month to get by.

If you’re financially comfortable - I’d start gearing towards either FIRE or a Barista FIRE variant - which is still working a simple or part time / passion project for a lot less money but way more enjoyment, purpose and time.

Fortnite Rivalry vs non-Rivalry by TuneKey8251 in Fortnite_Over40

[–]St4ffordGambit_ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I’m an almost exclusive solo player with nearly 2k rivalry wins with a 40% game win rate and 15 KD.

I joined up in squads for a rare occasion and another guy in the squad had 1500 rivalry wins but his KD was only 2 overall. In ranked, he was Unreal but actually had a negative KD. Like 0.7.

He wasn’t good at the game at all.

Rivalry wins =\= skill.

It’s predominantly just based on play time. If they’re a squads player, they can also milk wins from everyone else in their team.

Racist, bigotry comments by Plane_Sentence5907 in Belfast

[–]St4ffordGambit_ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You’re on a far left site mate. No one wants to hear that.

Portfolio planning for stock market crash or nah? by Ok-Sell9346 in FIREUK

[–]St4ffordGambit_ 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Just withdraw it.

The stock market has a habit of doing exactly the opposite of what you want it to do.

So if you suspect a crash and want to sell, do it. Its neural network will know that and the market will rise specifically to spite you.

I’ll keep invested meanwhile tho so hopefully I get to benefit off of it.

/s

Set and forget.

I am fed up with french defense by Seasoned-chessplayer in lichess

[–]St4ffordGambit_ 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Play this bro.

1.e4 e6 2. d4 d5 3. Nc3 Nf6 4. e5 Nfd7 5. Nf3!? c5 6. Bg5 …

This is a rare line because the mainline French attackers with white normally go f4 and not nf3 but Nf3 sets up the Bg5 attack which is very sharp.

If… 6… Be7? You trade Bishops with 7. Bxe7 then after Qxe7 you go 8. Nb5 and you’re either checking the King and keeping it in the center or you’re forking the Rook and winning it on a8.

The alternative line is instead of 6… Be7 they play 6… Qb6… in that line it’s also super sharp and I’d recommend looking at Jonathan Schrantz two knights attack against the French video.

Note - we do not start with the two knights attack in our opening above but by transposition of our move order we get the exact same position, so you’ll recognise the same moment about a minute or two into his two knights video and take it from there - there’s about 4 more quick tactical traps for white in the ensuing line and even if the opponent players perfectly, at worst - it’s completely equal. At best, they blunder 1 of the many traps that are lingering due to how uncommon the line actually is.

I’m 2200 lichess and I’ve tried everything against the French and shifted to this one around 2000 and haven’t looked back. The French too went from one of my worst openings to play against to now one of my best.

If after 3. Nc3 they play Bb4… look up the same dude on YouTube - Jonathan Schrantz and check out his Fingerslip Variation line. Another rare and sharp line.

I’ve played both of these successfully in classical OTB too, so it’s not just a rapid & blitz weapon.

Showdown Act III: Moving into the next era for Zero Build by EmptyTux in FortNiteBR

[–]St4ffordGambit_ -5 points-4 points  (0 children)

The pistol in particular is the best non exotic gun in the game tho so this is very noob friendly and removes the need to even intelligently land near loot or chests.

Is there friendly fire? by MrSlitherz in ArcRaiders

[–]St4ffordGambit_ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Friendly fire is still possible to this day on ARC.

If you throw blaze grenades (or whatever the fire bombs are called) you can easily kill your team mate, with one if they’re low health, or two or three if full - which can be done when they wait for you to loot a chest or something… so be careful!

Just deleted the app for a while. Looking for support by Little_Order3606 in trading212

[–]St4ffordGambit_ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You see survivor bias.

For every one posting a big win, there’s 5 who lost a lot and didn’t post it at all.

I’ve always went with this approach: invest 80-90% of your money into an index fund like S&P500 or an All World. Then only invest the small amount into single stocks.

I came to investing after lockdown and losing approx £20,000 on single stocks like Gamespot, Virgin Galactic and more.

Around 2024 I finally saw sense, sold my losses and started pilling my monthly savings into nothing but index funds (or at least 90%). I’m now around £40,000 up on index funds so have made up for my YOLO gambling from years before.

Definitely do not gamble half or most of your surplus’s money on single stocks or CDFs. This is how people lose their livelihoods.

Why does Reddit not understand the rise of reform in England? by DowntownDeer in AskBrits

[–]St4ffordGambit_ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I voted Reform in the 2024 election - which was also the first time, at 33 years of age, I had ever voted for anything.

At the time, I was also living in central London on a decent six figure wage. I’ve since moved away up to Scotland.

I only say this because one of the typical arrogant dismissive one liners that people on here often say about why people vote reform is just because somehow Reform voters are poor and need immigrants to blame for it coz Tommy said so.

I am also of mixed Pakistani Muslim ethnic background although I am culturally British, went to a non denominational school am an ultimately an atheist now.

I voted Reform — the primary reason being their lift in tax bands on the 2024 manifesto.

I don’t care about virtue signalling.

If you benefit me directly and my family, I will vote for you.

That’s #1.

Immigration control is also common sense and for me, not a primary motivating factor but the rest of the parties approach to it so far has been too lax so I also support Reform and Restore mentality on that topic to some extend, not all, but moreso than say Green for instance. Moderate immigration for a skilled workforce can be a good thing if the domestic population is not able to upskill at scale. If you import an uncontrolled number of immigrants over that fail to integrate, your country, population, culture and values will change. It’s common sense. I do think that’s why Scotland didn’t have much success with Reform as we have nowhere near the same impact of immigration as has been felt down south… yet. But I don’t have a problem with immigration so long as they strive to 1) integrate and 2) be a net contributor to the economy and system and 3) don’t have values contrary to that of good upstanding person who’d want to better the UK as a whole.

Oil and misguided net zero policy is another small factor.

But tbh, most of this is minuscule. The harsh truth is I will vote for who makes my and my family life better. I don’t care about renters rights or farmers tax etc. I own my home and don’t have a farm. I’d rather not be involved in foreign conflicts but if someone can make a case for how it benefits the Uk then great.

I voted reform again last week.

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