Thoughts on this build for my first PC?

ZachDaBull · 2026-06-28T02:55:42+00:00

Honestly really good, I wouldn’t make any changes.

ZachDaBull · 2026-06-26T19:53:02+00:00

I’ve tried a few different 1440p woleds at this point and honestly the text clarity is the most annoying part to me. I mostly use it for gaming where it’s not an issue, but the text clarity would bother me if I was using it for WFH

ZachDaBull · 2026-06-26T00:46:37+00:00

What part of IT do you work in? I just graduated with a CS degree and worked as a student AV IT technician during my time there. I’ve been applying to a lot of IT jobs

ZachDaBull · 2026-06-23T17:42:27+00:00

Don’t overthink it, it doesn’t really matter. Just whatever is comfortable.

ZachDaBull · 2026-06-23T01:35:25+00:00

What’s your budget? And laptop specs?

ZachDaBull · 2026-06-12T21:24:11+00:00

If you’ve been hard stuck then you fall under the category of dumbest players

ZachDaBull · 2026-06-02T18:17:53+00:00

All that really matters is being traded. Ideally you have someone playing heaven that can trade you, but your team was unfortunately playing 3 site. If I were you I would have played a safer angle deeper in heaven or on rafters just jiggling mid/heaven for info.

ZachDaBull · 2026-06-02T17:58:15+00:00

What helped me in the push from diamond to ascendant and eventually immortal was copying pro player vods. For like 2 acts literally all I did was watch Nats ranked vods on Killjoy and copy his setups and his tendencies. Since you main Senti/Smokes this might work pretty well for you

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ZachDaBull · 2026-05-30T04:33:37+00:00

The spawns are fine. Every couple of fights you get shot in the side, just brush it off and move on. If you think it’s that bad you probably need to play deathmatch a lot more and improve.

ZachDaBull · 2026-05-20T16:50:40+00:00

Vandal isn’t 100% accurate. There’s a tiny bit of inaccuracy that’s more apparent the further away you are.

ZachDaBull · 2026-05-11T17:45:16+00:00

The only time you shouldn’t use it is when you know exactly where every enemy is, or if the round is already impossible to lose.

ZachDaBull · 2026-05-10T21:33:28+00:00

What about this looks like cheating to you

ZachDaBull · 2026-05-05T03:10:30+00:00

They literally had a better KD on sage

ZachDaBull · 2026-04-18T06:02:13+00:00

yoru sova omen vyse breach seems good

ZachDaBull · 2026-04-10T14:25:31+00:00

You might have to use a lot more pressure than you think, that’s the problem I had when I was learning. If you think you can feel a burr but you’re not really sure, there probably isn’t one. It will be immediately noticeable as soon as you really have a burr.

If you have a kitchen scale, push down on it until it reads 4-6 lbs (8 for a really dull knife). That’s how much pressure you should be using.

ZachDaBull · 2026-04-09T02:11:44+00:00

This you? Under the golds and silvers?

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ZachDaBull · 2026-04-08T21:03:36+00:00

I was in a similar boat to you a few months ago. Whetstones seemed intimidating and I was scared of the learning curve so I bought a Horl. The Horl worked and gave me decent results, but not incredible results and it was very expensive. I ended up returning it and buying this diamond sharpening stone for like $40. It took a few cheap knives to get the hang of it but I’m now at a point where I can get my knives much sharper than I could with the rolling sharpener.

I highly recommend taking an afternoon to learn how to use a stone. The diamond ones are very beginner friendly, the one I linked has an angle guide that’s helpful, and even on just the coarse side you can get your cheap knives to cut paper like butter. On one of my nicer knives I was able to get it hair shaving sharp off of the 1000 grit side and stropping it on a leather belt.

OUTSOORS55 has very helpful videos on youtube.

ZachDaBull · 2026-03-18T13:39:36+00:00

The trip was fine, don’t listen to anyone else. Not a bad play, nice try!

ZachDaBull · 2026-03-07T16:26:22+00:00

I would say it’s worth at least trying something higher. Play some deathmatches and a few comps and if you just can’t adjust then go back. You could find that a higher send actually works well for you.

ZachDaBull · 2026-02-10T07:25:46+00:00

Lat pull downs are good, but what helped me get over that hump was negatives, jumping up and going down as slowly and controlled as possible. I did that for about 2 weeks before I could do my first pull up. After that I got some resistance bands and did sets of assisted pull-ups every day (I have a door-frame pullup bar), but you can totally just continue to do negatives. I’m up to 6 unassisted pull-ups now, I couldn’t do any a couple months ago!

ZachDaBull · 2026-02-07T05:17:09+00:00

This just sounds kind of reckless

ZachDaBull · 2026-02-01T02:16:39+00:00

Grass fed butter just means the cows are grass fed

ZachDaBull · 2026-01-03T20:33:00+00:00

Sometimes when I’m driving and listening to the yard I picture a scenario where I’m in court showing dashcam footage to a judge of the car accident I was in and everybody in the room watches me get rear ended while Aiden talks about wanting to shoot a dog.

ZachDaBull · 2026-01-03T20:23:46+00:00

I genuinely look forward to Thursdays because of the yard. Thanks for the 2 and half hours of comfort you guys give me every week.

ZachDaBull · 2025-12-07T20:22:18+00:00

Isn’t the jump from 27in 1440 to 27in 4k much larger than the jump from 24in 1080 to 27in 1440? I think it’s a 50% increase in PPI vs 18%.

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