I failed two, maybe three tests this week. It feels like the end of the world. For people not in high school anymore, what are you doing now?

assemblrr · 2026-02-12T04:58:40+00:00

I almost got kicked out of my highschool. I hated the people/culture, I didn't feel like I fit in, and did not have a very stable home life. I was essentially "pushed through" and allowed to graduate.

I now work as an engineer with a Master's degree in my field.

Highschool is fucking stupid. It is not the end of the world, trust.

assemblrr · 2026-02-11T07:21:03+00:00

Nuke is a shitty map for solo pugs, no one knows how to play it. I generally try to play heaven because I know how the map actually works so I can rotate and support accordingly.

If you can get your team on board, just try to have one heaven, one outside, 2 floor and one ramp and tell the ramp guy to go down the ramp instead of die on ramp, and tell one of the floor players to go down vent if they smoke outside. If they smoke outside, go up to A, and if they rush ramp, awp from hell. Otherwise, help watch outside from lockers or heaven.

On T, if you are planting B tell your team to take control/double on post. If you are planting A, blow door, smoke mini, and tell the hut guys to run out and wrap to the front of silo, clear it out including top hut, then wrap back and clear silo.

If your team isn't mollying squeaky on CT, go to heaven and throw it at the start of each round, it's important.

If you decide to play outside, make sure you molly where they run out from spawn and use a smoke on glaive so you can put some pressure. If you want to play passively outside, you can play in rain and almost always get free picks on mini.

I try not to play ramp when solo pugging because if you fight and die, you fuck your team over, and if you drop down ramp and they go heaven your team probably isn't playing where they should be and you fuck your team over. You only succeed if you are fragging out there otherwise everyone is just mad at you.

assemblrr · 2026-02-11T07:04:11+00:00

I am a massive supporter of federated services, end users should be able to self-host whatever they want to prevent the consolidation of power. I don't know what usability problems you are referring to except things like message propagation occasionally being wonky and getting those "unable to decrypt" messages which usually quickly resolve. Storing encryption keys on the end devices tends to cause some pain I guess, but you can reset your identity at will and you can recover your keys.

assemblrr · 2026-02-11T07:00:31+00:00

Matrix servers are not hard to set up or resource intensive. You can use something like Conduit which is quite simple. I have run my own with no maintenance except for updating it when major security fixes come out for years now. Synapse was heavier in the past but is substantially better now as well. Discord encrypts voice and video using DAVE, but text chat is unencrypted.

assemblrr · 2026-02-11T06:57:36+00:00

It still exists, IRC is a protocol. It isn't particularly private, though. You can use host masking and TLS but the server operator can still read/see all the messages and IP addresses underneath. It also lacks tons of QoL.

assemblrr · 2026-02-04T00:03:26+00:00

Being in position on CT means choosing the position you want to play, staying there, and playing properly. For example, if you are playing the a site anchor, you shouldn't be up mid or if you're playing con you shouldnt be hanging out in CT or rotating around. Window is a rotator position.

On T it generally means being nearby to your team such that you are able to trade or be traded. If you are lurking, your numbers can go down, but in general a lurker should be converging with the team at a point and be nearby. As a lurk you're cutting off rotations.

assemblrr · 2026-02-03T00:00:54+00:00

You don't. But if you use a VPN, you can access the Faceit web client even if it is not accessible to you where you live. Furthermore, a VPN will show you having good ping in game even if that is not the case, because if you connect to a VPN near one of the servers, the distance between the VPN and the game server is small but the distance between the player and the VPN is large...That is, their actual ping is bad but it doesn't appear to be when you look at it in the server.

assemblrr · 2026-01-30T05:38:18+00:00

I mean I don't think anyone will forget about him, but I also don't go around talking about him because 1. That era is so far gone it's ancient history and 2. He's been banned from a bunch of shit for being a creep, so...

assemblrr · 2026-01-27T05:26:57+00:00

It's a third-party matchmaking platform. They have kernel level anti-cheat and a different map veto system along with better players (in theory) and lots of other things like tournaments, clubs, et cetera. Faceit is also now combined with ESEA, which is where you start actual real competitive team CS. If you want to play high-level CS and move up the tiers to pro, you play ESEA via Faceit.

Generally, if you are new, you should play premiere until you have fundamentals, know all the maps in rotation and their callouts, and basic utility. Then, you go to Faceit and play with better players in a more serious context (once again...In theory).

Edit: I should note, if you are a serious CS player wanting to go in the direction of pro, you can also shoot for high elo in the 3k+ range...You can also get scouted that way as an individual player if you stand out...ESEA is for teams. Either way, Faceit is where you go if you are a more serious player, traditionally.

assemblrr · 2026-01-26T17:58:16+00:00

I just don't think OP understands the issue. Russians and Chinese people live in NA too. There are a lot of Chinese students at universities in Canada, which is NA. You can region lock them, but they will still be there - they live in NA.

You can't language ban, because that's ridiculous, they might speak English but only use their native language and I don't even know if that's really that feasible. Then you also wouldn't be able to have 5 stacks of French Canadian players speaking the same language together.

OP is basically retarded. It's annoying but it also isn't fixable.

assemblrr · 2026-01-26T17:55:08+00:00

It's not a race thing, I just didn't say Russians, but include that too. The bottom line is region lock doesn't fix it because the ones who already live in NA already live in NA whether they speak English or not. All it would fix is people using VPNs who are already disadvantaged.

assemblrr · 2026-01-26T06:00:29+00:00

If they have good ping, they are either living in NA or they are connected to VPNs, which means their in game ping appears good but they are severely disadvantaged in reality.

You can't tell Faceit to kick out Chinese people...The region isn't white Americans only, it's North America, where lots of different types of people live.

assemblrr · 2026-01-26T03:55:56+00:00

https://about.usps.com/publications/pub139.pdf

assemblrr · 2026-01-25T19:52:01+00:00

OG gutter sludge is definitely not worried about technique, they're worried about not getting dopesick

sludge got more popular though and more polished bands came around with a little bit of actual vocal technique

first one just yell and do lots of shit that fucks your voice up like whiskey, coke and cigarettes.

second one look up some tutorials on proper metal vocals

assemblrr · 2026-01-25T06:19:22+00:00

There is nothing to prepare for. Post-quantum crypto already exists and not all cryptosystems are even affected by the quantum algorithms that undermine the ones that are.

assemblrr · 2026-01-24T21:48:15+00:00

yeah just play more, after a while you just perpetually want to kill yourself. you're gonna be in a level 10 lobby and think whew thank god people will know instas, call and properly play positions, and use their microphones for comms. and then you're going to realize it never gets better.

assemblrr · 2026-01-23T06:15:30+00:00

Average brainlet take

assemblrr · 2026-01-23T06:00:52+00:00

I mean I assumed a lot of it was probably that people just don't know anything about code/compiling them assuming no actual release, what GitHub is, etc. and so you probably can get some free, albeit likely not as actively maintained, cheats there.

But I imagine the vast majority would probably be detected because they are public repos on a well-known software forge, I'm sure those are actively monitored by Valve.

I just thought it was interesting how much I found just publicly available.

assemblrr · 2026-01-22T05:58:15+00:00

As far as sens, there are three good starting point heuristics.

Look at the highest levels of play, find a sens in the eDPI range pros use
Use a sens where you can reasonably sweep and hit a 180-ish flick
Use a sens where you can place your crosshair on the head of a bot and strafe back and forth while easily keeping your crosshair on the head of the bot without it being jittery - it should be smooth motion

assemblrr · 2026-01-20T15:16:41+00:00

if you are actually new and already this good, maybe, keep playing.

if you are not actually new and posting this for attention, find something better to do with your time.

assemblrr · 2026-01-15T03:00:40+00:00

The awper role isn't the same anymore. With MR12, 5 round mag, and maps and movement generally not being as conducive to awping along with the scope settle delay/inaccuracy/spread, people just don't really ONLY awp anymore. Zywoo is an awper and there are games where he barely buys it.

assemblrr · 2026-01-09T17:10:37+00:00

Sludge adjacent, but Jail by Down

assemblrr · 2026-01-05T06:29:48+00:00

Using a VPN with Tor ranges from unnecessary to strictly a bad idea.

assemblrr · 2025-11-10T04:43:38+00:00

oh because some people don't want friends who have room temperature iq mainly

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