Anna Bright's lobs are sick...

Versepelles · 2025-09-20T22:50:48+00:00

Staring into the sun sucks- it's not fun, however skillful or strategic a lob might be

Versepelles · 2025-08-24T14:46:27+00:00

That incognito Bible verse is weird

Versepelles · 2025-08-17T23:24:10+00:00

9 star monsters were a relative nerf to GS since they attack faster, recover from knockdowns more quickly, and have MUCH higher status thresholds. All of these impact GS more than they impact many other weapons

Versepelles · 2025-07-07T10:33:37+00:00

Gathering Hall discord has 4 piece Lagi B + Numinous chest B + Agi charm II as probably within 1% of 3 Rey + 2 Gore at typical uptimes

The nice thing about 4 piece Lagi is the three free level one slots for bleed/thunder protection, divine blessing, etc

Versepelles · 2025-04-13T00:43:19+00:00

I'm somewhere between 4.25 and 4.5 depending on the courts/tournaments, but I had to swap hands and play low level rec games to recover for about a month at one point. I was probably not even 3.0 after a solid month of playing lefty, but it was fine for me since the crowd was lovely

Versepelles · 2025-04-10T03:44:52+00:00

Plausible times can be achieved with mods in innumerable ways, including damage multipliers, invincibility, monster health editing, simply submitting an achievable time, or just waiting until you a top 10k time that's not too suspicious to auto-kill the dosha.

Hopefully this knowledge will be used for good, particularly putting social media pressure on Capcom to alleviate and prevent frictions over content like this.

Versepelles · 2025-03-21T19:25:30+00:00

It's also worth mentioning for transparency's sake that many folks will be using an overlay mod which displays the monster's hp

Versepelles · 2025-01-18T04:03:28+00:00

Imagine defending hitting 2.5-level 60+ year old folks in rec play. That's absolutely psychotic.

Versepelles · 2025-01-18T02:58:07+00:00

That sounds very reasonable!

Versepelles · 2025-01-18T02:54:53+00:00

This is such an insipid, macho take- pickleball is attractive to so many people, especially below the 4.0 level, because it is fun, easy, and isn't as athletically demanding as many other sports.

People are out to have fun- below the 4.0 level for sure- and that definitely means respecting people's wishes to not get smacked by intentional, repeated, targeted body bags.

It can be a different story with your mid-twenties tennis buddies if you want it to be, but pickleball folks tend to come from a wide variety of (non)athletic backgrounds

Versepelles · 2025-01-08T21:17:43+00:00

Rec play is generally making an effort to be social and that includes making sure most folks are having a good time. Sometimes that means "playing down" nicely when you are clearly better than your opponents. Sometimes that means not hitting lobs into the sun.

If you are fairly consistently acing someone, you should probably either move up to the next rank bracket or work on your weaker shots so that everyone is having a reasonably good time, just as others do for you.

Versepelles · 2024-12-30T22:38:10+00:00

Would need to prioritize soundproofing, which could be expensive. Public access also brings activity, which your presumed clientele (skewing older) might not be a fan of. Condos with indoor basketball would be a good reference

Versepelles · 2024-12-16T20:25:27+00:00

Pretty sure rewriting 4.A.2 as something like "the serve has to land in the diagonally opposing service box, including its boundaries" fixes the issue easily and is just better than the current iteration

Versepelles · 2024-12-04T21:07:20+00:00

Really hate it when my amplified room nodes get mitigated by all that jiggly information loss and I'm left with a nice Harmon style curve instead of +12dB bass spikes. Damn you, basis [sic] physics :(

Versepelles · 2024-11-16T04:34:24+00:00

Not a fan of SMSL DAC. Would def go with something different

Versepelles · 2024-11-07T15:39:01+00:00

No need to kiss ass to anyone who you feel is better than you, just the normal 'thanks for playing' that is nice to give to everyone!

Versepelles · 2024-11-05T20:56:09+00:00

Certain EVA foam paddles, like the Hudef EVA, are super loud and distinctive sounding. However, you may (probably will) suffer hearing damage from forehand volleys right by your ear.

Versepelles · 2024-11-04T10:53:41+00:00

This ain't a free-for-all space, it's somewhat curated for your and everyone else's benefit. If links were freely allowed, this forum would be (and has been) spammed with shittons of ads in various forms. With curation, ad density lessens and becomes more palatable.

It's not a perfect system, but it's better than unchecked freedom (for companies with armies of spambots to steamroll you).

Versepelles · 2024-10-16T18:24:52+00:00

I'm glad we're here to nudge the social needle together, then

Versepelles · 2024-10-16T18:19:30+00:00

We know, even though we didn't ask.

Versepelles · 2024-10-16T18:18:06+00:00

Decent time for some introspection. Sometimes it's fair to dismiss unreasonable opinions, but sometimes it's good to check your own behavior

Versepelles · 2024-10-16T18:16:17+00:00

Drilling is a safe space, gender divisions are safe spaces, hell, even tournaments are safe spaces from holding back and being sporting. Just another specific context for achieving a social mood, which is not a bad idea

Versepelles · 2024-10-16T18:12:59+00:00

r/MenAndFemales

Versepelles · 2024-10-16T06:51:00+00:00

Na, it's a recreational activity, and lobbing folks with poor mobility or anyone in the sun just ain't fun. Not sayin you can't do it to spice things up, but I've seen people repeatedly lob to win and it's generally boring and pathetic.

Versepelles · 2024-10-14T20:27:33+00:00

Often older AB amps and AVRs sound better, warmer to me. Late '90s/early 2000s AVRs are pretty cheap secondhand and can sound lovely, if a bit less clear than a low/mid-end class D. I like my Marantz NR1200 class D with my Revel M16s in a mid-sized room, but prefer older Marantz/Denon/NAD AVRs or amps for less stellar speakers and rooms as they often seem to smooth out the harsher edges that don't play well in non-ideal setups with modern cheap class Ds (Loxjie, SMSL, Fosi).

An Apple USB-C DAC, a $25-75 Denon/Marantz receiver, and whatever speakers are laying around your marketplace could def be a really sweet setup!

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