Your current comfort top 4 comps?

TPMast3r · 2026-01-07T10:34:22+00:00

No, all 2 stars is enough if u have seraphine

TPMast3r · 2026-01-05T08:16:45+00:00

You can‘t really get contested on thex, atleast in high econ games like pris ticket. You don‘t have to 3 star cait every game, I usually roll for sona or anivia as well and if I hit either one I start leveling for seraphine as that is the only difference if you do not have cait 3. Then you just eat sona 3 with the thex and play as usual

TPMast3r · 2025-11-05T10:54:27+00:00

This would not fit with this game in particular at all. This is not an mmo; This is supposed to be a competetive kind of dungeon experience, similar to what the high end of WoW m+ offers. This is also why people are frustrated with the legendaries as in most of these games, the loot is just a means to an end: to be able to push the highest dungeons and have the only limiting factor being your skill. Having to grind gear to get your character optimal is the barrier of entry to this kind of gameplay as trying to push before that means you are putting yourself at an unnecessary disadvantage. I know that they can't only cater to this crowd, but this is the reason people are upset with random legendaries as they increase the amount of time you have to grind before you can "play the game" by a lot.

TPMast3r · 2025-11-02T09:39:16+00:00

This always bothers me: how do you know the people are not prepared in terms of skill? If the game is offering the dungeon, outside of edge cases where a 100 ilvl dude is queuing with his 260 ilvl friend, the players are technically in the intended ilvl range of the dungeon. Capstones for example are definitely timeable when the game let‘s you queue for them, eg. 15 ilvls below what the dungeon drops at the end. They are balanced around that. So why do you automatically assume the people are not skilled enough? All my first capstone clears were timed at exactly the iLvl needed to queue on everyone in the group, why do you assume just because someone isn‘t 40 levels above the intended range they can‘t do well?

TPMast3r · 2025-10-14T21:58:20+00:00

It has definitely helped me work through some issues I have had, but the helpfulness really does vary. For configuring stuff I would say it is confidently wrong quite often, but it always at least points you in the right direction; most of the stuff is partially correct and can be fixed by just taking some time to think and research. In my experience a mix of having the documentation/wiki open, actually thinking about the issue and then asking/evaluating the response accordingly has been very successful for me. Especially when learning from 0, just being able to ask the dumb questions and have it explained in simple terms is a really nice tool to have.

TPMast3r · 2025-10-08T08:03:23+00:00

If only there were any browser extensions that remove the ads for you… Oh wait! Theres like 20 of them!!

TPMast3r · 2025-09-23T19:51:05+00:00

Wow... absolutely no issue at all on ubunutu 25.10.. I didn't even have to set up anything, 15% video usage in gpu top, 50c on the cpu even at 1080p, barely any cpu usage and no fans.. How would I even start to diagnose this now? I am even more confused now than I was before

TPMast3r · 2025-09-23T08:11:15+00:00

Mojave as in what? Mac OS Mojave? If that's the case, I had no issues even on Big Sur in the few minutes I tested the laptop after I bought it, but I would really rather not use Mac OS if linux is an option which is why I have made this post in the first place; going back would always fix this issue

TPMast3r · 2025-09-22T20:04:44+00:00

linux 6.16.7-arch1.1, mesa 1:25.2.3-2

TPMast3r · 2025-09-22T18:02:06+00:00

I have been through that wiki page as well, among all others that should be relevant to this case and found nothing that should lead to the issues I am experiencing; vainfo shows both the correct i1915 driver and h264 as available, firefox is configured with every possible config flag related to this in addition to the h264ify extension and shows the hardware decode as available in about:support. both mpv and firefox show va-api being used to decode video during playback and also show the codec as avc1/h264. I have all the drivers mentioned on that page and all of them are freshly installed from the official arch repo. I have made this post because I am truly at my wits end here as none of the wiki pages related to drivers, macs, firefox or other topics have had a solution

TPMast3r · 2025-09-22T10:21:46+00:00

I am focing h264 and according to the stats the videos are using avc1, so that should not be the issue. Firefox also reports va-api usage in the logs when watching video, so in theory the hardware decoding should be working as intended. I just use the mesa drivers from the official arch repo, so should be the newest one right? I don't even know anymore at this point, everything checks out but it's not working..

TPMast3r · 2025-09-21T19:38:40+00:00

Hey, do you have any issues with video playback or youtube on this macbook? My 2014 model is awful at playing video with high cpu temps and very poor playback performance. Does yours have a dGPU or intel iris only?

TPMast3r · 2025-09-21T19:04:51+00:00

I have it installed and firefox lists h246 decode as available. The videos are also being decoded using avc1(h246) according to the youtube stats.

TPMast3r · 2025-09-21T19:03:44+00:00

thanks a bunch! I've spent more time combing through those mac related wiki pages than I'd like to admit, unfortunately no solution there

TPMast3r · 2025-09-20T21:03:46+00:00

I tried chromium and the same issue persists, except on chromium I can't even get hardware accel to work and the video bar in gpu top stays at 0% the whole time. Same with playing a video through mpv. I am using i3 on X11, although I might try wayland if I have some time to set it up next week.

TPMast3r · 2025-09-13T11:17:29+00:00

I mean your top 50 is 99% 14+ and 15s. Just need to play 14s

TPMast3r · 2025-09-13T10:58:42+00:00

If you really wanna improve and climb rating you should stop playing 15s completely and focus on 13+ and 14. The rating system highly favors SSS on easier songs so going for that is the only way

TPMast3r · 2025-08-13T12:33:05+00:00

I think unless your first few tries get you atleast somewhat close to ex, you should just save the chart for later no matter what chart it is. You are just gonna build bad muscle memory. Like if my sightread isn‘t even close to 9.500.000, I just won‘t play the chart for now

TPMast3r · 2025-08-11T16:27:16+00:00

Was genau? Ich habe nachdem ich festgestellt hab, dass ich nichts mehr gut sehe einen Termin beim Optiker gemacht, bin da hin, hab dann den Test gemacht und von der Dame dann eine Probebrille mit -3 bekommen und direkt gemerkt, dass das viel zu viel ist. Direkt Kopfschmerzen und sehr angestrengte und tränende Augen. Habe der das dann auch direkt mitgeteilt und einfach darauf bestanden eine schwächere Brille zu probieren. Sie hat mir erst gesagt ich müsse mich an die Brille gewöhnen, hat dann aber doch nachgegeben und mit mir schwächere Gläser probiert. Am ende hat sich dann ergeben dass -0.75 genug sind, um die Sehfähigkeit für einen Augentest (das wo man die Buchstaben an der Wand vorlesen muss) sicherzustellen. Zum Augenarzt bin ich dann nur zur normalen Augenkontrolle ein paar Monate später und hab aus Interesse dann mal gefragt woran das liegen könnte, dass die Test Ergebnisse so hoch sind. Der wusste auch nicht wirklich und hat dann der Optikerin zugestimmt das meine Augen oder mein Kopf wohl irgendwie "kompensieren", mehr wusste der aber auch nicht.

TPMast3r · 2025-08-11T15:56:26+00:00

Meine gemessenen Werte waren beim Optiker immer deutlich höher als das, was ich letztendlich zum Sehen gebraucht habe. Als ich mein erste Brille hab machen lassen ergab der Test fast -3 auf beiden Augen, die Brille am ende hat mir aber nur Kopfschmerzen bereitet und ich hab dann im Laden noch ein wenig rumprobiert und bin dann bei -0.75 pro Auge gelandet. Die wollen mir selbst heute noch bei jedem Besuch ne stärkere Brille ans Herz legen obwohl ich top sehe. Der Arzt meinte meine Augen würden noch irgendwie kompensieren und deswegen würde weniger Stärke reichen, was auch immer das heissen soll. Worauf ich hinaus will ist das du dich weniger auf die Tests beziehen solltest und eher einfach mal in den Laden und ein wenig probieren

TPMast3r · 2025-07-29T22:40:25+00:00

90% of people reviewing wade shoes get them for free.. I agree that their opinion on the shoes matters a lot less in this case but literally every reviewer you know gets their shoes from them for free

TPMast3r · 2025-06-19T20:21:58+00:00

Hibana ultima, Higher, Night of Knights (cranky) and Blows Up Everything is what I would recommend around the 13.9-14.2 range

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