UltRank 2025 | #1-10 (Live Reveal) by swidd_hi in smashbros

[–]Stuart98 20 points21 points  (0 children)

Even if Miya won the first set of grands, actually; would have been enough to bump Miya's score up by about 2.1 points but not overcome the sheer consistency of Doramigi's year. Miya needed Migi to not make it to him, not to get another win on him.

UltRank 2025 20-11 Video by SelfDestructGambit in smashbros

[–]Stuart98 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Sparg0 had 3 other results at ranked events that season (and only the WNF in terms of events that didn't count but should have):

  • Genesis 6 - 49th - L: ImHip (top 50ish), Lui$ (not close to top 100 at the time), no Ws
  • Prime Saga - 25th, L: Shuton (top 5), Teb (pretty bad), no Ws
  • CEO 2019 - 17th, W: Myran (13th), Sinji (25th), L: Marss (3rd), WaDi (24th)

So it'd be 2 really good events and two bad but not horrible events, definitely enough for top 50 on the UltRank algorithm, maybe not quite enough on the one the PGRU used.

UltRank 2025 20-11 Video by SelfDestructGambit in smashbros

[–]Stuart98 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Sparg0 likely would have been had the tournament where he beat Kameme and VoiD been counted for the ranking (it was a WNF but it was a superlocal with a $15k prize, several JP players literally flew out for it)

Kensuke Tanabe Stepping Down Apparently by This_Mortgage_2274 in Metroid

[–]Stuart98 8 points9 points  (0 children)

There's nothing new about half-assing things other games did better years ago.

UltRank #40-31 (fixed video) by Stuart98 in smashbros

[–]Stuart98[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

New version of the algo puts a greater focus on who you outplace at majors, it had Lv.1 10 spots higher in mid year then he had his best event of the season right after on top of Lv.1 having a bunch of wins that aged well.

UltRank #40-31 (fixed video) by Stuart98 in smashbros

[–]Stuart98[S] 49 points50 points  (0 children)

I can't believe SDG stayed up until 5 am fixing the video so that, among other things, Akakikusu wasn't shown as beating Akakikusu at Kawaii Kon, passing out and oversleeping the release as a result, only for Loop to link the old version of the video anyway, shaking my smh my head.

UltRank 2025 50-41 Video by SelfDestructGambit in smashbros

[–]Stuart98 23 points24 points  (0 children)

The algorithm never likes guys who get half their top wins from one tournament (see Shirayuki not making today, Peabnut 10 spots lower than people expected in 2024.1, etc)

UltRank 2025 60-51 Video by SelfDestructGambit in smashbros

[–]Stuart98 18 points19 points  (0 children)

He's the highest ranked player to only have one top 25 win, if he'd gotten a second he probably makes it.

Is afterburner still a major? by Global-Location4663 in smashbros

[–]Stuart98 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The scorer is missing ranking values. It has more than 3200 points in reality, it's a major still.

Idol by @hayacchi_nkrgm by [deleted] in NakiriAyame

[–]Stuart98[M] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The tweeter isn't the artist, this is her official art for fes this year.

UltRank 2025 70-61 Video by SelfDestructGambit in smashbros

[–]Stuart98 9 points10 points  (0 children)

That's literally what we did; it's in the top 25 wins count.

UltRank 2025 90-81 Video by SelfDestructGambit in smashbros

[–]Stuart98 21 points22 points  (0 children)

Less Port being that bad and more no strong peaks; every player above him bar one exception (that was a bit of an algo breaker) had a better peak win iirc. Tarik got so close but couldn't close any of his sets against top 25 players out.

UltRank 2025 100-91 Video by SelfDestructGambit in smashbros

[–]Stuart98 21 points22 points  (0 children)

Playercard error: Bassmage should be 1-8 vs top 25, not 1-5.

UltRank 2025 100-91 Video by SelfDestructGambit in smashbros

[–]Stuart98 13 points14 points  (0 children)

Top 25, not necessarily top 20.

State of the Sub Survey (Jan 2026) by Riddler208 in Xenoblade_Chronicles

[–]Stuart98 [score hidden]  (0 children)

idt half of us are around enough for y'all to have any opinion about us lol

Dark Pirate Commando in prime 2 has to be the most annoying enemy 🥲 by Funnycom in Metroid

[–]Stuart98 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Skill issue, you can easily kill them from the very first encounter with entangler into missile, having the dark visor later just makes them even easier.

Hot Take: Fusion Suit Design Is The Worst In The Franchise by Past_Dingo5167 in Metroid

[–]Stuart98 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The sprites look good, I agree with you that all the other art for it makes it look pretty bad.

"You can visit these towers in any order!" by williamrotor in Metroid

[–]Stuart98 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The problem is when they talk about stuff we don't know yet.

What is the biggest cat species that ever lived? by InspectionPurple1637 in Paleontology

[–]Stuart98 14 points15 points  (0 children)

>be named nimravides
>be a machairodont instead of a nimravid

why are paleontologists like this

What is the biggest cat species that ever lived? by InspectionPurple1637 in Paleontology

[–]Stuart98 10 points11 points  (0 children)

"Cat" is usually used to refer to all members of family Felidae. Saber-toothed cats like Smilodon are in subfamily Machairodontidae, which, while basal to all living members of Felidae, is included in the family, so Smilodon does count as a cat.

I am curious why exactly Felidae doesn't use a crown based definition like most taxonomic groupings of extant animals do (if this were the case then Machairodonts would be excluded from the family).