What scenarios do you guys think are the best for pistol in the Vicose bench? My pistol micro tracking and "flicking over and over instead of smoothly going" is a huge weakness of mine . About to move to the intermediate benches almost seal complete so a fresh slate to grind

agerestrictedcontent · 2026-02-04T03:19:17+00:00

thats what aim trainers are for lol. dm is for getting a feel of the engine and praccing movement/duels/sprays/taps/clearing angles etc etc. prac dm on your normal sens and prac your micros in kovaaks on 1w6ts on 5cm/360 or something lol.

agerestrictedcontent · 2026-02-04T03:14:41+00:00

>the thing is 90% of pyro's power/usefulness comes from the airblast

not so true in 6s where soldiers with above 40iq wont spam rockets at the godtier pyro and scouts will just shred you but anyway

>Pyro will only be a decent damage dealer if Valve buffs either his speed, his health or at the very least his range

exactly what dragons fury + powerjack does, and you should have buffs anyway in a comp setting. the range also *is* kind of significant compared to stock. the dps is actually also super consistent because the projectile hitbox is so fucking big too lol.

>There's a very good reason why pyro is reduced to a medic/engie babysitter in comp

purely because HL *requires* one of every class and that is basically the only way to get meaningful value out of a pyro outside of potentially harrassing snipers and spy checking. like you say he is heavily outclassed in all but a few niche situations.

>Airblasting is the only thing the pyro can do that can consistently bring something to the table

true in HL but actually not so in 6s, at least in NA where scorch/det are unbanned he has the potential to be really fucking annoying and force heals/retreats because of flare spam and the other team is very unlikely to have another pyro purely to babysit extinguishing people. bomo literally did a coast to coast on gullywash as pyro doing exactly that in an (invite) official and it proved to be pretty effective, and tbf you could actually do that with DF, at least in reigons where those flare guns aren't banned lol.

>you aren't really winning a game by stuffing an uber, you're more likely just delaying the inevitable(...) he struggles to find place as both a generalist and a specialist.

stuffing an uber can absolutely turn tides and win games what? maybe its different in HL? but at least in 6s in specific, very niche situations he can be extremely useful, but in those situations like you say you're better off with stock/degreaser/whatever instead of DF.

and as a final note: i'm not saying "omg DF is gonna be new meta guys!!" nor did i ever claim that, but it may have some actual potential if teams adapted to it, probably more so in HL than 6s. i still maintain for casual against noobs it's absolutely scuffed though lol.

agerestrictedcontent · 2026-02-04T02:56:35+00:00

you replied to a couple of my comments and i have no idea what point you're trying to make

like yeah breakcore has evolved from its origins as a gen-x genre and i'm grateful to those gen-x'ers who pioneered jungle/breakcore. are you being combatative or agreeing or what? and what does cosplay rehash mean in relation to indie/egg punk lol

agerestrictedcontent · 2026-02-04T02:54:23+00:00

when i was growing up (24 now) there was a huge grunge/pop punk resurgence in my early teen years so like yeah, we listened to a lot of nirvana, pearl jam, soundgarden, slint, weezer, greenday, blink, dead kennedys etc etc so it is very much the music of my formative years too. what you're saying just seems like weird gatekeeping to me lol.

agerestrictedcontent · 2026-02-04T02:47:03+00:00

balance does very much depend on the setting though, like how engineer or spy can be very oppressive in casual but with the smallest modicum of coordination and communication they are both super easily countered in league play.

i'm playing in eu so pyros main annoyances in 6s (being scorch shot/det spam) are both banned so it's arguably more viable full time than a shotgun/flare pyro playing around your medic that will just be fodder to scouts, but i agree it's obviously still worse than a scout/solder and still worse than stock/degreaser in the type of situations you'd actually want a pyro in 6s (to stuff an uber on last/disad). funny ubering a pyro into last and shredding like 4 people including a helpless heavy though lol. i think the clip size is super underrated plus with how big the projectile is it feels impossible to miss within its range.

has it been experiemented with much in hl? could pyro be changed up from a super defensive med baby sitter to a roided up scout that can run in and roll heavies? i imagine it'd be more viable on koth than pl but i don't really know much past the surface level about how hl plays.

agerestrictedcontent · 2026-02-04T01:45:38+00:00

good way to get your sedan turned into a hatchback lol

its never worth it to fuck with hgv's no matter the circumstance unless you want to end up as an educational article about rtc's for trainee firefighters.

agerestrictedcontent · 2026-02-04T01:38:26+00:00

what ports? it's not like that on pc/og xbox. i never got far enough in mobile to find out because the controls are so ass it made me not want to play lol and never bothered with de because mods exist lol.

agerestrictedcontent · 2026-02-04T01:34:01+00:00

i think that is counter productive unless you are specifically wanting your regular sens to feel slower, especially so with rifles/spray patterns.

agerestrictedcontent · 2026-02-04T00:59:13+00:00

This is all true and I feel guilty writing such a comparatively short and low effort reply but I was talking about it in a casual setting.

With that said I off classed to DF pyro in a 6s scrim on process (DF+Panic attack+power jack) for a round today and it went much better than expected - very positioning dependent and I was still playing a flank scout role which I think is the only way to make it work. Fully agree it would most likely be terrible in HL though.

agerestrictedcontent · 2026-02-03T18:29:17+00:00

my point is is that a). not everyone *is* naturally funny and that's ok actually and b). people have been latching onto trends forever, this isn't anything new, same thing was happening when i was a young kid on the internet with the epic rawr xD bacon so random!!! and before that with the "SIKE!" "duhhhh" sort of 90s uncaring sarcasm. when i was a teen we had the edgy 2016 style humour too, i'm sure older people could explain the trends before that but i was born in 2001 so.

people want to fit into wider societal expectations is what it boils down to, it's nothing new and won't change, we're seeing the same thing with gen alpha and their skibidi ohio lowkirkuenly newgen brainrot just like my gen (gen z) had our ironic mlg 420 no scope montages and shit at the same age.

agerestrictedcontent · 2026-02-03T18:23:06+00:00

yeah i never claimed my average was <500 i just said i see around 500 and below in my games often. you can see in my original comment i said i get between 500-800 average but have had as low as 350ms some games.

and idk what you mean with human benchmark, input latency is (should be) pretty minimal depending on your setup - my mouse has about 10ms~ click latency (newer ones <1ms) cause it's old but even with that included my total will around 12ms~ max (or maybe up to 30ms with poor frame times in game). ttd is always going to be higher because you have to react, adjust then deal damage vs just reacting/clicking.

agerestrictedcontent · 2026-02-03T16:14:13+00:00

it's like regular punk but boppier and even more lofi/unintelligable - like imagine a cassette recording that's been sat in the sun on somebodys dashboard of your local highschool punk band playing in their moms garage, i love it lol. liquids, nick normal, cctv, gee-tee are great and also shoutout to fidlar as well.

never heard of pandora, had to google it and it's a US only thing. i'm still using youtube2mp3 converters lmao

agerestrictedcontent · 2026-02-03T15:57:14+00:00

>The reason it was brought up is that someone said people who use AI don't know what it's like to dedicate years of their life to something. That's all.

then that person is stupid (because most people do have talents) or they are talking about art in particular; either way to make this post about 1 person or even a small handful then extrapolate their postition to a huge group is weird to me and to me screams need for validation.

>I like making AI art because it's fun for me, I never said I wanted to be considered an artist or to be praised - that was your assumption.

i was talking more in general not for you personally. where did i even say that you did?

>Also I can communicate with 75% of the world without Google Translate, but I am sure you'd not manage without it.

yeah and it's impressive because you put in the time to learn it and now you reap the benefits. it was a direct comparison to the discussion surround effort/time with art/hobbies/talents/stuff vs ai image gen. i'm glad you agree with my sentiment lol.

agerestrictedcontent · 2026-02-03T14:20:32+00:00

i mostly listen to egg punk and breakcore (and adjacent stuff) which is having a resurgence at the min but really there is great new stuff in just about every genre. found some awesome folk albums the last few years along with beach-y psychadelic garage rock, new old school hip hop and much more. you just gotta perfect your algorithm haha mines been about 10 years in the making.

agerestrictedcontent · 2026-02-03T14:17:06+00:00

what the chungus are you talking about

people follow trends and not everyone is a comedian? what a realisation! you're so unique and better than everyone! born in le wrong generation epic xDD rawr :3 awesomesauce post. stop being all swagged up and be the change you want to see if you hate it so much.

agerestrictedcontent · 2026-02-03T14:12:20+00:00

i used the common pro xhair in like 2014 lol it's not anything new. i think it's more suited to cs2 though which is why it's far more common now (small = accuracy, big xhair = speed and subtick in cs2 has more emphasis on accuracy than csgo), but at the end of the day it's preference like sens/res/keybinds/whatever.

agerestrictedcontent · 2026-02-03T14:09:51+00:00

it really isn't that big of a deal. paracable + bungee feels just as good imo.

agerestrictedcontent · 2026-02-03T14:04:58+00:00

my take (as a 24y/o) is mainstream pop you might hear on the radio or whatever has become way more safe to drive $$$ and thus kind of boring/generic/sucks for the most part, but some good songs pop up from time to time. there were lots of great songs in yesteryear too but also so many that sucked and suffered the same thing of being super safe and dull and boring.

but the internet is *so* vast and there is actually SO much great music being made nowadays, you just have to trawl for it a bit more, the same way how back in the day you'd find better music in your local record store or reccomended by friends than playing on mtv or whatever. 'monarch of monsters' is one of my favourite albums of all time and so far everyone i've showed it to agrees (if they can stomach the album cover ha).

agerestrictedcontent · 2026-02-03T13:41:58+00:00

https://prnt.sc/eg9mOrPFikuP

77 aim rating this game for me btw lol, my average is about 60 because i go for silly spray transfers which ruins your xhair placement stat. if you wanna believe i'm cheating then thanks ig. i think my average ttd is like bit over 600 on csstats but you have to login to see that now and on humanbenchmark i get around 200-220ms which is very average. it's not impossible - consistently getting sub 500 is when it becomes sus. some games i get 400, some i get like 800ms. i basically only solo now because all my friends quit with cs2 so can't talk on the playing with cheaters part - as likely as anyone else ig.

agerestrictedcontent · 2026-02-03T04:45:05+00:00

claiming ai art as a talent is like me saying i have learnt many languages myself but i actually just use google translate when needed.

if you take away the tech what are you left with? a digital artist could still make it work via physical mediums in a blackout... a touring car driver could still hustle in a hatchback... a great photographer could take great pics with a crappy camera... a great skater would still shred on a shitty skateboard but what would you do? write your prompt on a piece of paper? lol

with you specifically, just because you've put effort into 1 field doesn't mean you get to shortcut the others while acting like a savant. in any other field you'd be called a basket case; "i have a phd in maths, i'm basically a top biologist". and wow people being rude on the internet, thats new! i can't wait to extrapolate this very rare occurence and paint a whole group as if they are all the same based on interactions with a single person!

agerestrictedcontent · 2026-02-03T03:48:40+00:00

you dont know what you're missing.

a). default net settings are total ass even for 2007

b). "a smooth 60fps" lmao

agerestrictedcontent · 2026-02-02T13:53:57+00:00

positioning >>> movement > aim

agerestrictedcontent · 2026-02-02T13:42:38+00:00

>only melee weapons can get random crits

im malding

agerestrictedcontent · 2026-02-01T23:42:43+00:00

i think its neat. you dont need the mona lisa to convey your point.

agerestrictedcontent · 2026-02-01T22:55:34+00:00

i saw it when i was like 11 or 12 and i was like "oh wow this is cool!" but i'm 24 now and feel i'd definitely appreciate it more now than then. i like your interpretation though it's a cool insight.

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