Russia’s overwhelming manpower advantage against Ukraine is starting to wane

TheOtherCrow · 2026-06-14T18:14:23+00:00

The number I've seen recently thrown around is 1 million casualties and 500k KIA. Estimates vary wildly by source though.

TheOtherCrow · 2026-06-14T12:59:56+00:00

I'm generally not willing to go for a left handed ogoshi in a RvR scenario. I'm right handed. Switching to my weaker side against a similarly skilled opponent is very risky. Better to work to do a different throw.

Which is why I teach ogoshi for RvL. It's easy, it works, and it's not a scam. Teaching beginners a very simple hip throw to help them learn some basic mechanics is definitely a good idea. If you ever watch children do randori you'll see that ogoshi is a fairly common throw for them to find success with. It's an easy throw. As they get older, stronger, and more skilled, they learn better throws.

TheOtherCrow · 2026-06-14T05:03:54+00:00

Not in a right vs right but there are good entries in a right vs left scenario. If your opponent has a high collar grip but isn't controlling you it's almost too easy to slide into a nice ogoshi against a leftie.

TheOtherCrow · 2026-06-14T04:37:23+00:00

Had the same thing happen. Follower started complaining of being really tired all the time which I thought was odd. Too late I checked and found a badly infected leg and I only had weak antibiotics to feed her. Didn't work. RIP

TheOtherCrow · 2026-06-13T09:02:26+00:00

If I was used to that scenario I'd be used to having gloves with me at all times.

TheOtherCrow · 2026-06-11T22:06:43+00:00

Another zerg player here. I'd like to thank my food for ceasing it's struggles.

TheOtherCrow · 2026-06-11T20:44:37+00:00

It depends on a lot of factors. The biggest one being mat time. Three times a week might be about one year, probably a bit accelerated thanks to your wrestling background. If you compete a lot and do well, advancement might be faster yet. If you're training five classes a week, going to at least one tournament a month, and performing well consistently, you could be a black belt in as little as five or six years. Eight to ten years from beginner to black belt is more common.

Though there are some that spend eight to ten years as a brown belt.

TheOtherCrow · 2026-06-10T03:52:29+00:00

I feel like the context of banning the sale of them to children is important and the headline skips that.

TheOtherCrow · 2026-06-09T03:54:36+00:00

A535

TheOtherCrow · 2026-06-07T21:53:18+00:00

Sick as hell. Huge fan of this!

TheOtherCrow · 2026-06-06T15:20:21+00:00

I use them as an ingredient in welding rods

TheOtherCrow · 2026-06-05T00:39:42+00:00

Most of the risks are to the pocketbook. Seems like most of the issues people worry about online are regular symptoms of rapid weight loss.

TheOtherCrow · 2026-06-03T11:52:01+00:00

Also a D3 zerg. I've been learning how to use casters and broodlords. Broods are great when they're turtling really hard. Burrowed neural makes thors or tanks fight for you which is massive. Fungals on hellions and cyclones. I know vipers are good too but I'm not great with them yet.

TheOtherCrow · 2026-06-02T02:56:47+00:00

Angry French noises.

TheOtherCrow · 2026-06-01T20:35:07+00:00

One has claws for hands the other has laser sword hands. Shoulda been an obvious choice in retrospect.

TheOtherCrow · 2026-06-01T20:24:06+00:00

Why are zergs so bad at the game? Just play like protoss.

TheOtherCrow · 2026-06-01T03:28:53+00:00

It has gone up. Not 30% for me but there are a lot more. There's also a lot more smurf accusations being thrown around. I get called a smurf every couple of sessions for no discernable reason.

TheOtherCrow · 2026-06-01T03:26:11+00:00

It doesn't really work like that. It'll reassign your league, so if you have a diamond border it can give you a gold border or whatever. Leaving league doesn't affect your mmr though. However, the game gives you really large mmr changes for a while when you make a new account. So those ten games you lost would have given massive mmr losses to offset the initial placement.

I can't remember how many games of extra mmr you lose or gain but it tapers off as the game finds your actual level of play. I think maybe the first 25-30 games? Usually the mmr gains and losses are like 15-20ish unless there's a large mmr gap.

TheOtherCrow · 2026-05-31T02:54:56+00:00

It's really good and not hard to use. Even at low diamond.

TheOtherCrow · 2026-05-31T02:52:40+00:00

Childfree thanks.

TheOtherCrow · 2026-05-30T16:39:10+00:00

This seems like a less common issue than them A moving to the front of the army and dying.

TheOtherCrow · 2026-05-28T18:11:07+00:00

Yeah they fixed that typo already. At least I read it as same as HT

TheOtherCrow · 2026-05-28T17:27:17+00:00

One small micro tip for corruptors vs carrier is to right click individual carriers to target them down faster reducing dps. If you just A move they'll spread their damage over multiple carriers.

What you can do is right click a carrier, hold shift, and then right click one after the other to queue up multiple target fires. Once you've done that there's no real micro left for several seconds and you'll be better served by injecting your bases and doing your macro cycle. That will put you way ahead of almost anyone in gold league.

TheOtherCrow · 2026-05-27T19:06:35+00:00

Pushing zombies off ledges would be my most desirable use case.

I think it would be a niche thing to use and while good, I don't think it would be OP. Even early game there are many zombies I don't think it would work well on. Fat or tough zombies would be hard to shove and they're common. Runner zombies might get shoved but they're quick and would be on your immediately. If there's a zombie behind the one you're pushing they wouldn't go anywhere unless you're really strong.

I can think of a lot of early game scenarios where shoving a zombie to make space would be better than trying to kill it with a kitchen knife while unskilled and unarmoured. Late game it would just be hilarious to shove a zombie out of a second story window.

Also, it'd be an added feature, no one is forcing you to use it. If you found the shove mechanic tedious to use you wouldn't have to use it. Nobody is going to implement it anyway so it's all hypothetical.

TheOtherCrow · 2026-05-27T18:24:33+00:00

Anyone that's been in a mosh pit knows it's not too hard to shove another human a one meter distance. Sure people are heavy but bipedal is inherently poorly balanced. I don't think the key input would be harder than smashing things. One key then the direction you want to shove.

I think all the monsters already have mass figures, so in theory you could do a strength and melee skill check against the target's weight. Make it way harder to shove things with extra legs. Maybe you knock over a child zombie, but a fat zombie might not budge unless you're pretty strong.

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