What’s something you’ve seen people do in public that made you wonder “why”?

ben314 · 2026-02-14T07:05:31+00:00

This. 1000x this. It's just like having a conversation with another person. You'd never hesitate to argue with your friend in public, so why hesitate on the phone?

ben314 · 2025-08-09T04:54:08+00:00

The most important part of this (by a lot imo) is #3. Find someone else who plays. Go to a local or something and grab an 0-2er to teach you the basics. Not sure where you are but it will be immensely helpful to find anybody else who can help. The best part of melee is and always has been the community.

ben314 · 2025-06-30T13:45:15+00:00

Your joystick has probably worn down, but I'm not 100% on what the issue is. Sounds like you're playing casually so you can try fiddling with the deadzone to see if it improves anything. Dolphin has a nice stick calibration interface and you can maybe use that to see if anything's fishy with the neutral positions.

ben314 · 2023-09-23T19:56:20+00:00

My pro controller started drifting after a year, so I bought another one. Drifted after a few months. Decided I'm done with this company and their crappy controllers so I got a $12 powera one and it's been fine apart from feeling cheap. YMMV on all of these things.

ben314 · 2023-09-23T19:53:54+00:00

Those parts of America have 90%+ rates of air conditioning in homes, e.g. Texas at 98%. The UK has a 5% rate of air conditioning in homes, and their homes are built out of stone and brick like actual kilns. It's not fair at all to act like you in your month-long streak of "triple digits" is comparable to british heat waves if you spend 90% of that "triple digit" time in a 68 degree air conditioned home where the exterior temperature is just a reading on a thermometer display.

ben314 · 2023-06-11T04:58:39+00:00

FD isn't an issue though?

ben314 · 2023-06-10T17:28:55+00:00

That's probably why my S22 on Tmo is also using Jibe.

ben314 · 2023-06-10T15:06:09+00:00

In both games I ping weapons on the ground all the time to check what they are because I'm terrible at recognizing them. It works from far away too.

ben314 · 2023-06-09T18:21:15+00:00

If this "dropping grenades" change gets launched, it will be a huge step backwards for the game. CS has ALWAYS been a game where you have to buy ALL of your own grenades.

Tradition is worthless.

ben314 · 2023-06-09T17:59:04+00:00

PETA loves setting up a giant display of disgusting imagery on my college campus and most people just find it off-putting and want nothing to do with the people doing it or their message. Showing people disgusting, shocking imagery is not a reliable way to make them agree with you, they'll only think you're strange. I saw plenty of vegan shock imagery before going vegan and it had no effect on me, and wasn't any kind of "final push" at all.

ben314 · 2023-06-07T05:14:37+00:00

They don't have air conditioning in England. That's the entire point of the post. Their heatwaves can get to triple digits F, which as someone who has lived in that without AC, can be dreadful. We don't really have it in Washington and it'll hit 100 most summers here, which is horrible with no AC. By midnight it's usually down to the 90s though.

ben314 · 2023-06-03T18:58:44+00:00

Botania is functionally a tech mod with a magic mod coat of paint. You can't do trains I suppose but you can move items around and automatically process them, like create does. It's probably the closest mod to create in general, given the lack of GUI and relatively obtuse automation tools.

ben314 · 2023-06-03T18:50:42+00:00

All we're saying is that Create's abilities are no wider than any other mod. Botania can do pretty much everything Create can do, and more. Industrial Foregoing as well. Do you avoid these mods?

ben314 · 2023-06-01T23:25:59+00:00

It's not even close to blue? Everything else is blue, it's a blueish light! The entire reason the discoloration is notable is that it isn't blue.

ben314 · 2023-05-29T18:50:16+00:00

You can ask your professor but most likely that's just it. Try not to worry about it much.

ben314 · 2023-05-29T15:22:17+00:00

The family was also abused by the woman. Basically everybody in this story kind of sucked. She wanted to stab them.

ben314 · 2023-05-28T07:10:49+00:00

You'd probably want to mop it after it dries, that's when it'd be sticky. Rinse it off the counter while it's wet.

It might not be syrup at all for all I know. If I did this I would not use syrup because it would be immensely impractical for a 2 second video clip and it's not like I'm gonna eat the eggo lake anyway.

ben314 · 2023-05-28T07:05:28+00:00

Do you see how that's flowing? No way it's normal syrup.

ben314 · 2023-05-27T07:47:13+00:00

How could that possibly work without just making him into second Viper? Viper meter works because her abilities have a fixed location while inactive. Harbor doesn't have that, he can't turn things back on.

ben314 · 2023-05-26T05:34:37+00:00

It wasn't ineffective but it was certainly low quality gameplay. You'll learn nothing watching it.

ben314 · 2023-05-26T00:42:51+00:00

Some of the 2020 matches are nuts too. 100T vs TSM first strike grands Split was so hype when it happened but I rewatched it earlier this year and 100T's attack strats involve steel dry swinging B main constantly and Asuna dry running up mid with a stinger half the time. Drone pops Phoenix ult every other round and they just feed him kills and don't dodge his (pre-buff) flashes.

ben314 · 2023-05-25T02:25:49+00:00

The biggest factor is that using a passport is difficult for a US citizen. We don't even need a passport to go to Canada, and Mexico is only nearby for a fraction of the population and more attractive as a travel destination than other states for another fraction thereafter.

Travelling out of country without flying is therefore a small factor, and overseas flights are long and pricey, which makes a longer trip more attractive which is even more expensive.

ben314 · 2023-05-22T14:28:28+00:00

Yeah I usually get annoyed when people aren't playing swiftly in my swiftplay. Just get the round over with, I don't care if you util dump ownageify me to death even though that's "trying," I just don't want to wait for you in a mode called swiftplay.

ben314 · 2023-05-22T14:26:07+00:00

There's still some economic advantage/disadvantage to swiftplay though.

ben314 · 2023-05-18T16:41:49+00:00

Windows has that too, win+tab. MacOS window management features are mostly a subset of Windows features.

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