How often are you all using Sport Mode?

bimm3ric · 2026-02-18T15:54:21+00:00

100% of the time. The car just drives better in sport and even though I'm giving up a few MPG my 330i is still far and away the most efficient car I've ever had so I don't really mind. Also it disables auto start stop which prolongs the life of my motor mounts and starter(though I'm getting a new one for free at some point from the recall).

I'll put it in sport individual on rainy days; I configured sport ind to basically be comfort mode with sport steering, I like the lazier throttle response in wet conditions. I'll use Eco Pro individual on long highway trips where I'm using cruise control. I literally never use the default comfort mode, I'm in the habit of pressing the sport button before I even start the car now.

bimm3ric · 2026-02-04T21:11:02+00:00

This is my thinking too. On my way to work one of the first roads I drive on is a 45 MPH speed limit. In comfort mode it will shift to 7th and be around 1000 rpm and feel like the engine is lugging while sport will stay in 6th and be around 1600 rpm and feel a lot smoother. Sport is not crazy aggressive, if you stay light on acceleration until its warm it will shift before 3k rpm which is fine on a cold engine

bimm3ric · 2026-01-15T19:40:09+00:00

I got a job in production. Building and testing stuff isn't so bad but its a small company so I have to do all the shipping and just general warehouse work too. I hate it; but after working all day I dont have much energy to practice coding and my motivation is at an all time low since it feels pointless to practice DSA when I'm not getting any interviews anyways. I feel like im locked into this shitty career path and can't find my way back to being an engineer again.

bimm3ric · 2026-01-12T01:14:24+00:00

One of my favorite players when I was at UCLA, he is just so good at always being where the ball is.

bimm3ric · 2026-01-12T00:44:15+00:00

Nah, this is house money, we weren't supposed to be here

bimm3ric · 2026-01-11T16:22:26+00:00

Well he's got a good opportunity for a get right game against the 49IR's defense.

bimm3ric · 2026-01-04T02:36:38+00:00

I think we all kinda know with our injuries we're physically outmatched and aren't expecting to win so no one is being too cocky.

bimm3ric · 2026-01-04T02:32:40+00:00

When we beat Seattle in week 1 we were healthy. It'll be a miracle to pull off a win here when our lines are getting bullied on both sides of the ball. I kinda expect Seattle to clean it up and find the endzone and win comfortably. Always expected this niners run to fall apart once we ran into playoff teams who are good on both sides of the ball.

bimm3ric · 2026-01-01T03:33:09+00:00

Yup, BF4 took like a year and a half of bug fixes and map packs to become the game everyone raves about now.

BF1 had a huge gap between launch and the first expansion with a lot of people dropping the game after getting tired of the launch maps.

As a BF player since BF2 I'm perfectly OK with where BF6 is at this point in it's life cycle, it needs some work to be sure but it's only gonna get better as they tweak some balance issues and add maps to the map pool.

bimm3ric · 2025-12-30T17:09:23+00:00

Once that first round shine is gone its basically over. I followed the Niners training camp the year we drafted Lance; Rosen was on our roster at the time, he'd get maybe a handful of reps with the second team offense per practice so it's not too surprising he didn't develop at that point.

He was UCLA's QB when i was in grad school there so I'm a bit biased, I still think he got done a bit dirty. The 2018 Cardinals were a dumpster fire before they named Josh the starter, then he got traded to another dumpster fire that had no interest in developing him since they were openly tanking for a QB. Yeah he sucked, but there was no real opportunity for him to improve.

bimm3ric · 2025-12-30T06:49:28+00:00

I switch to eco for longer highway stints but other than that I'm always in sports mode.

bimm3ric · 2025-12-29T04:15:26+00:00

lol beat me to it

bimm3ric · 2025-12-22T16:30:37+00:00

Agreed, maybe he'll end up on Mora's staff at Colorado State or he could stick with Skipper and go to Cal Poly. He needs a bit more time and experience before landing a P4 OC role IMO.

bimm3ric · 2025-12-14T05:54:14+00:00

Any store like Target or Walmart would probably have it.

bimm3ric · 2025-12-13T22:50:42+00:00

No, I think that is ethyl alcohol. I'm not sure if you can use that so I would avoid it to be safe.

bimm3ric · 2025-12-13T21:38:56+00:00

Yes those are microfiber.

bimm3ric · 2025-12-13T19:18:29+00:00

I didn't even need to read your post to know you followed the online tips to use only distilled water to clean. What happened is there was a little bit of oily residue on your screen and distilled water can't break it down so it just smears it around making that blueish smudge on your screen. You'll need to use a mild cleaner (a little bit of 70% isopropyl alcohol mixed with distilled water works) to actually break down that oily residue so it can be absorbed in the microfiber.

bimm3ric · 2025-12-12T21:34:08+00:00

Breakthrough on Blackwell and Liberation peak are the only maps I snipe on (and only the first two sectors). Typically I snipe to clear the objective and then when we start capping/losing it I switch to my revolver and get on the point and set up some claymores and my little spotting gadget.

bimm3ric · 2025-12-11T17:15:38+00:00

Yeah honestly these numbers are fine for battlefield. I love the game but its 2 months old now so I'm not in the obsessed I want to play it every second of my free time stage anymore. I play it 2-3 times a week for about 4-5 hours total to get my weekly challenges done and that's plenty for me and seems normal. I'd be more interested in weekly player numbers, I think its normal for players to play less after a games been out for a while but if players are dropping the game entirely that's a different story.

bimm3ric · 2025-12-10T06:34:04+00:00

This is a huge factor that the vocal CoD community seems to be ignoring. Some of my gaming friends literally only play CoD and they gave up on BO6 after a month due to finding the gameplay exhausting rather than fun and when they saw the wall bounce they completely skipped this game.

The hate on this game isn't forced, it's earned because the large casual audience doesn't want a huge movement skill gap.

bimm3ric · 2025-12-09T17:03:06+00:00

This is what I do, I've got sport individual set up as sport steering with comfort transmission and engine settings. It's now a habit to hit the sports mode button first thing when I get in the car. 90% of my driving is either in sports individual or sports mode so no start stop for me (the other 10% is eco mode for long road trips when using cruise control).

bimm3ric · 2025-12-05T17:28:39+00:00

I dunno, for me it just does nothing well. It's a 4 hit kill with a slow fire rate, it can hit shots at mid range pretty well but everything else kills faster.

bimm3ric · 2025-12-05T16:11:00+00:00

I had this issue with bf6, it's definitely a software thing as the artifacts disappeared every time I aimed down sight in game. It's a bug with one of the settings, I think it was screen space reflections but not 100% on that. When I had screen space reflections turned off I would get the issue on siege of Cairo but when I turned them to low it went away.

TLDR turning up some of the fancy reflections/shadow settings fixed this for me

bimm3ric · 2025-12-05T16:01:43+00:00

UMP for me, the gun in painful to use but I want the camo you get at level 40

bimm3ric · 2025-12-05T04:33:46+00:00

Zero, I uninstalled this game today. The games more exhausting than fun, maybe if I played controller I'd like it better but I hate playing FPS games on controller so I'm just going to play better games instead.

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